I knew that my own father was a subservient and timid person.
However, I also know there is no way it could be made known.
Although he became a lord at a young age, my father’s job was a doormat, even in his son’s eyes he was a coward, he was dull.
Even as a vassal he was degraded by Grandfather, saying [If only you were like Paul...] His decisions as lord, in Grandfather's eyes, were all unsatisfactory.
When I was home, I witnessed this many times.
My father would be troubled by his father, and I would suffer as a result.
Now, such a father is about to be executed in front of me.
It’s inception, but father reaps what he sowed.
The promise with Sword King Ghyslaine is also involved.
I would be lying if I said there was no possibility father was involved in the execution of Sauros Boreas Greyrat.
Father’s and Sauros’s relationship was bad.
Or rather, I would say grandfather and Sauros had a good relationship.
The Head of Boreas House and the previous Head of Notus House were like brothers.
But Sauros did not like Philemon.
Before he became lord, Sauros did not hesitate to insult father.
Even after becoming lord, Sauros sent complaints and bad-mouthed him at every opportunity.
So, when Sauros was in trouble...
I do not think it strange at all if my father had his hand in Sauros’s execution.
If it was father, he would do it.
Well, although I was upset when I heard it, that was due to Hitogami’s lie.
When I see father’s face after eight years...
He looked much older than the father I remembered, the father that I met for the first time in eight years looked small.
"......"
Suddenly, I remembered when I had wanted to talk man-to-man with father.
I was young, I had a lot to talk about with my father.
In retrospect, it seemed father favored my eldest brother.
As the second son, I have come to terms with this.
My father would not discuss important matters with me; but, when we did talk, he never held any bad intentions towards me.
I did not know anything, and my father told me as much, but he helped me find my own answers.
Although he told me [Think on your own], he still helped show me the way.
He is still my father.
My father is rarely right.
He's clumsy and always makes mistakes in his decisions.
But that father was always working hard for Ariel.
Since we were ambushed as we departed for Asura Kingdom, I have been struggling with that father as an enemy.
Why did that father act so selfishly?
Although I refer to him as selfish, father was serving as the family head, so he had a duty to protect the house.
After Ariel escaped from Asura, father was forced between a rock and a hard place trying to protect the house by aligning with Grabell.
He even sent his soldiers to that ambush in order to protect the house.
Father was desperate to gain Grabell's trust.
"Ariel-sama, please listen to my request."
"What is it, Luke?"
"Will you please forgive my father?"