Chapter 226
[ To Sir Knight Maximilian Ebenholtz ]
Forgive my presumption, but I dare to send this letter.
My name is Nico Beber, and I live on the outskirts of Imperial Central. I am a lowly subject who has read the Sir Knight's autobiography, Moonlight Below, more times than I can count.
I engraved every one of the Sir Knight's sentences on my heart, and when I finally reached Dr. Johann Georg's "A Thousand-Year Empire," my eyes opened at last.
Before the truth the Sir Knight revealed, I finally understood why I was born, what my purpose had been.
I am a pure Aran. A worthless man with nothing to his name but that one bloodline. Father and mother, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, and further back still, unbroken and unclouded by even a single drop, flowing down from the central highlands. That alone is my one pride, and......
......My father died because of Izenheim.
It was debt. A debt that never shrank no matter how much was repaid. My father never escaped that swamp of usury in the end.
I knew nothing back then. I only thought my father had been weak, that our family had been unlucky.