chapter 211
Episode 211 – Forgiveness Is Not Easy
It wasn’t that long ago that Alberto decided to meet Anna and Seluna.
Even if he didn’t show it outwardly, there was some anger towards Anna and Seluna inside him.
No matter how strong your mental power was, it took time to face the person who tried to kill you.
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Alberto was a man of great mental power who rose to the level of a sword master at a young age.
However, that did not mean that Alberto was ‘a person who offers unconditional forgiveness.’
The mental strength he possessed meant that he could be momentarily shaken by any difficult task, but eventually overcome it.
In other words, it was not the kind of mentality that optimistically thinks that no matter what happens, everything will be fine.
A man named Alberto Salihar Meydern was a man who was thorough in philanthropy.
He was a person who repaid the kindness to those who helped him and punished those who harmed him multiple times.
More than hundreds of people died in his hands like that.
Of course, most of the people who died at his hands were highwaymen and bandits who tried to rob him, and the rest were usually people who tried to cause Alberto’s downfall by picking a fight or framing him.
However, to the person who helped him, he used his reputation, status, and ability to help that person as much as he could.
Thanks to his help, the number of merchants, merchants, and passers-by who survived was quite large.
When he helped people in crisis, he usually hid his identity, so those people did not know that it was Alberto who saved them.
People who received help from Alberto only knew him as a suspicious-looking good man who was good at using a sword.
In this way, Alberto was a person who had thorough benefactor relationships.
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Anna Lyudmila Semiltern.
And Seluna Emeraldia.
Of these two people, Anna was the only one who had any positive aspects left in Alberto’s memories of him.
For Alberto, Anna was a point of contact between an instructor and a student.
So he knew that she was serious about her sword, and her anger towards Anna tended to subside relatively quickly.
Since she was someone who rose to that position with the sword, she thought it was natural that she didn’t know much about anything else than the sword.
Right away, Alberto knew very well how his father his, the current Count Meydern, lived.
His father, who trained only with the sword his whole life, lived a prosperous life, being treated as a noble nobleman based on his sword skills alone.
Although Count Meydern was a bit lacking in political ability, Alberto’s mother, who was a wizard, made up for it well.
Of course, not everyone found a good companion like Count Meydern.
In severe cases, he was often sucked out to the bone by his wife’s family and then abandoned.
In such cases, it was often the case that the man was a commoner, and it rarely happened if the man was a nobleman.
However, Count Meydern was living well because he met his wife and his well.
“Alberto. Listen carefully. You should never become someone who is good at swordsmanship like your father. I want to jump into whatever field I have talent in, develop my abilities, and learn a lot about how to deal with people.”
“Why?”
“Well, if you live like your father… You might not starve to death somewhere, but at least it will be difficult to be treated like a human being. “You shouldn’t do that.”
Through his mother’s advice, Alberto learned that it is dangerous to know one thing well and not know much about others.
So he was able to see her father in Anna, and he knew that Anna was only good at her swordsmanship and not much else, so he would be willing if she apologized to him for her mistakes and tried to correct them. I was willing to forgive her.
Just because a person did something wrong, doesn’t that mean they have to live buried in that mistake forever?
It was for this reason that Alberto forgave Helen.
He wasn’t trying to kill himself, he was trying to help himself.
Moreover, Alberto was able to forgive her without hesitation because he believed that she had suffered in her own way and was paying for her sins.
Alberto tried to understand Anna’s hostility towards him along those lines.
However, this was only possible because Alberto knew that’Anna Lyudmila Semil Terne is a person who is crazy about her sword.’
There weren’t many people like the Marquis of Sebatia who were good at swordsmanship and had the ability to handle administrative affairs as well.
In order to become a knight, you literally had to eat only food and study martial arts, strategy, and tactics.
As a result, the only people I usually met around me were people who dreamed of becoming knights, so of course I didn’t know much about how to determine a person’s personality.
It was for this reason that Anna fell for Seluna’s words.
In this world, a knight is ‘a person who is good at fighting, but lacking in other aspects.’
In that respect, Anna had a certain level of administrative ability, so she was suitable as a knight of the Imperial Knights, but when she came to being a person, she had some shortcomings.
However, he was ready to forgive Anna because at least he had heard from Nina that Alberto knew what he had done and tried to ask for her forgiveness.
However, Seluna Emeraldia was someone Alberto could not easily forgive.
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One of the biggest reasons why Alberto was attacked in the unexplored area was because of Seluna Emeraldia’s prejudice and unfounded confidence.
After hearing her whole story from Anna, she labeled Alberto as a suspicious person.
From the perspective of a third party unrelated to the incident, it was possible to say that.
However, at that time, she was on her way to help the investigation team of the Bregern Empire, an ally of the Kingdom of Alberium.
So her remarks she were tantamount to representing the Kingdom of Alberium.
She did not think that her remarks would be regarded as those of the entire kingdom of Alberium, and she spoke freely.
Moreover, even though the accident that occurred around Alberto was just a coincidence, she made people believe that Alberto had planned the whole accident.
After hearing her her words her her her, doubt began to grow in Anna’s heart her her her, and as a result, a catastrophe occurred in the unexplored area.
That’s why Alberto couldn’t forgive Seluna.
If nothing else, it was because the incident that could have been quietly buried and moved on became bigger because of Seluna’s cubic nature
This applied not only to Alberto but also to Antonio, the emperor of the Bregerne Empire.
Immediately after Antonio learned that this division was caused by the cubic spirit of an elf named Seluna Emeraldia, he sent a strong protest to the Kingdom of Alberium through official diplomatic lines.
The Kingdom of Alberium was at a loss due to the strong protests of the Bregern Empire, but was able to understand the truth through a letter sent by Antonio.
Accordingly, Lumio, the queen of the Kingdom of Alberium, asked her her World Tree, and the World Tree told her the whole truth.
Accordingly, the Alberium Kingdom was able to end the incident by expelling Seluna, who not only caused enormous damage to the key figures of the allies, but also caused damage to the Kingdom of Alberium and all the elves.
Of course, Seluna had to go through a very difficult time after being exiled, and she managed to ask for forgiveness from Alberto, but before that, she was caught by Alberto’s lover, Nina, and became her slave.
The reason Nina made her her Seluna her her her slave her her her was also to leave her her disposal her her her her to Alberto.
This was because slaves were basically treated as property of their owners.
Because they were treated as the owner’s property, not as people, the slaves of those in power were in a position where others could not treat them carelessly.
This was because touching the slave of a powerful person meant challenging the authority and reputation of that powerful person.
Therefore, slaves were treated as their master’s property, and the right to life and death also belonged to the master.
In other words, the life and death of Seluna Emeraldia depended on her her owner her her her, Nina, and the person who would decide Nina’s actions her her her was Nina’s lover her her her , Alberto.
“Long time no see. Lord Seluna Emeraldia?”
“Ah, Mr. Alberto…”
That’s why Seluna’s pupils, facing Alberto, were shaking more severely than ever.