204 Reminiscing 2. (1/2)

”It turned out that I was too late to stop those men. I could not find any traces of them. So all I could do was to put my hopes in our men,” Raymond sighed again.

”Two weeks later, I got the report that there were some traces of battle towards the Silverbird Kingdom. None of those men who had gone chasing after Sylvia ever came back. So we wasted no time and sped towards the Silverbird Kingdom. When we got there... things were different.”

Ozul noticed the complicated emotions of the two brothers.

”We found out that our men were successful. They had killed off those assailants... but also died in the same battle. Meanwhile, Syliva... she was missing. There were no traces of her.”

”Later, we found her. However, it was too late,” the two brothers sighed simultaneously.

”Sylvia had lost her memories and completely forgotten about everything. She only remembered her name—that too a little distorted as she would introduce herself as Sylvia Ashfall instead of Ashin,”

Ozul had thought that their feelings couldn't get any more depressing, but it turned out that he had underestimated the love for their youngest sibling.

”Sylvia forgot about us. She had even married that yellow-haired dumb f*ck!” Alver cursed Edward. But he shut up when he remembered that the son of that 'yellow-haired dumb f*ck' was sitting in front of him.

”Continue,” Ozul himself had a grudge with that person, so he did not care whatever names he was called.

Raymond and Alver were not aware of everything that had happened on the day of his birth. They just assumed that he was most probably abandoned by that sick person and had to live by himself. They had yet to figure out what had happened with his limbs. One could not simply miss those metallic hands.

Shifting his eyes from those prosthetic hands, Raymond continued, ”We met up with her, but she refused to listen to any reason. She said that she was in love and had a family.”

”The memory loss was most probably because of some head injury. Couldn't you forcefully take her back and heal her? Surely the Ashin family could afford some expensive herbs.” Ozul asked. This was the first time that he had asked any question because it was an obvious choice of action. But from his tone and what had happened till now, Ozul figured that it wasn't the case.

The two had troubled faces because of his question.

After a while, Alver replied, ”We could not do it. We could not take away her happiness.”

”She also smiled when we were together... but that laughter was totally different. She was free. Our little sister had grown up, and she was happy... we couldn't take it away from her.”

Ozul noticed that Alver's eyes were dampening.

No one would ever believe that these two depressed brothers in this room were Rank-9 Mages that could flatten hundred of thousands just on a whim.

Although Ozul disagreed with what they had done, he understood their reasons. If it was up to him, he would have still healed her. Then leaving it up to her to decide what she wanted.

”Our long-term stay in the Silverbird Kingdom would have alerted everyone and caused another huge battle to break out, so we came back and stationed a couple of men to always watch over Sylvia. They regularly sent us reports, whether anything happened or not.”

”Alver here had also decided to visit the day after we received the news that it was time for her delivery. However, when he reached there... it was too late,” Raymond felt as if something was stuck in his throat as he narrated everything.

A few moments of silence reigned in the room before Raymond looked up, straight in Ozul's eyes with conviction, ”We would have never thought that you were alive! It's our fault that we did not investigate anything... you can punish us however you like!” Even Alver joined in with a nod full of determination to make it up to their nephew.

”...”

Ozul was suddenly taken off guard. One moment these overpowered uncles of his were depressed, and the next moment they were ready to go through any punishment as an apology.

”It's fine. I don't care about it,” Ozul was truthful with his words. He frankly did not believe that it was any of their faults.

Except for the person who had labeled him as the Devil's spawn the moment he was born, there was no one that he would blame for his missing hands.

'We live in a world where strength is everything. I did not have any strength to protect myself, and so I had to go through everything,' Ozul knew in his heart, ”If I start to blame each of my misfortunes on others, nothing will come out of it.”

His words caused Raymond and Alver to look at him in surprise. They knew that he was also a Rank-9 Mage for some extraordinary reasons; his mentality was even more refined.

But they could not deny his words since that was the true hard fact of reality. Things would happen to you, and you can't just start cursing at everyone who was involved and ask for compensation. You would have to take everything yourself; with your own strength.

Even when Ozul did not give them any punishment, he had some other plans in his mind, 'Now it will be much easier for me to get any help from them.'