Chapter 219
Moonlight filtered softly into the office.
Colonel Edmund Bwindol sat at his desk and turned the pages of a book he had never gotten around to reading.
[ My childhood was spent alongside Edmund...... The countless hours we spent crossing swords and sweating together became a precious foundation upon which I built my dignity as a knight...... ]
Chapter one of Maximilian's autobiography. Edmund read down the lines as though tracing each one with his fingertip, and a small smile spread across his lips.
"I owe you as much."
He murmured it bitterly.
The dream of becoming a knight of the Empire. For long years, Edmund, being of mixed blood, had forced himself to deny that dream and live as though it had never existed. Watching Maximilian soar to dizzying heights as a knight filled him with genuine pride, yet at the same time it was an almost unbearable pain.
......Thud.
He closed the book. Quietly rose to his feet. He had not made it past chapter one.