Chapter 234
There was a young girl with black bandages wrapped around her eyes. Yet the being dwelling within that girl’s body was anything but a child. The sister of the Immortal, and the mother of Saxon.
“Lady Persephone.”
“You’ve come all the way up here after all.”
“I have no desire to engage in pointless conflict with you. Withdraw.”
At those words, Persephone quietly burst into laughter.
“Why did you spare my son?”
“I did not come here to exterminate the shadows. I came only to prove my worthiness as the sovereign you must serve. I have no intention of showing mercy, but neither do I intend to commit atrocities.”
“What will you accomplish once you seize the throne of the Shadow Empire and claim that kingship?”
“I shall do what must be done.”
Persephone did not answer.
─ Step aside, my beloved sister.
At that very moment, a voice spoke.
“Brother.”
Persephone hesitated for a moment, but her hesitation was brief.
“Go.”
Persephone said after a silence.
“As you say, the qualification of a king is one granted only to those who possess the qualification of a king.”
Persephone withdrew, and Dale stepped forward.
The one who claims the throne as the progenitor of the blood flowing through his veins, another shadow monarch.
To challenge the immortal Frederick.
A young boy stood there. And when he unwrapped the black bandage covering his eye, nothing but empty darkness was revealed.
“We have been waiting, youngest child of Saxony.”
