Chapter 25: Devils Hand (6) (1/2)
Terms used in this chapter:
Unnie – Means older sister in Korean, and is used by girls to call another girl who is older than them, or to a girl whom they admire.
Time has passed.
Just as what a person does when they wake up from a deep sleep, Jude slowly opened his eyes halfway.
A lot of things, including the ceiling, came in his blurry vision, but everything was blurred, and he couldn’t properly recognize the shapes.
“Ooouuuh.”
With a voice close to groaning, Jude closed and opened his eyes repeatedly, and the blurriness began to disappear.
“Haaa…”
A few seconds…no, maybe a dozen seconds after, Jude was finally fully awake and looked around.
He was in a well-decorated and luxurious bedroom. It was evident to him that this was the high-class accommodation that he had stayed in when they first came to Langesthei.
“Young master! Are you awake?!”
Just then, he heard Maja’s voice.
It was a voice close to a scream that was mixed with anxiety and joy.
“Maja.”
“Young master.”
In the Bayer family, Maja was often called the Ice Queen, but she often smiled in front of Jude.
But now she wasn’t just smiling.
Maia was both crying and smiling now.
“Young master.”
“I’m okay, Maja. What about you? Did you get hurt?”
Maja was like a family to Jude, but outside Count Bayer, she was only an exclusive maid in the end.
She was the only one who was uncomfortable when she was forced to attend the banquet, so Jude had sent her back earlier to their accommodation.
Of course, this was because he had predicted the attack.
“I’m all right. In the first place, I was staying in the accommodation. Rather than that, young master…ah…”
As Maja shed tears again, Jude was feeling restless and puzzled on what to do, so he awkwardly reached out his hands and hugged her.
“It’s all right. I’m safe.”
“Young master.”
After a few minutes, Maja calmed down from her crying storm, and Jude patted her back and asked.
“Maja, what about Lady Cordelia?”
“She’s all right.”
Maja wiped away her tears and took a breath as she adjusted her posture, and then spoke with a light smile.
“She overworked herself, so she’s still lying down, but she has regained her consciousness a little earlier than young master. The doctors said that she was just too tired and that there was no harm to her health.”
“Haa.”
Jude breathed a sigh of relief, and then began stretching.
He was worried about her one way or another.
“Young master, if you don’t mind, would you like to go see Lady Cordelia?”
As Maja smiled and said that, Jude immediately nodded.
“Please.”
“As you wish, young master.”
With Maja’s help, Jude got up and left the room after roughly washing and grooming himself.
Their rooms were on the same floor, so after passing the drawing room between their rooms, he was now in front of Cordelia’s bedroom.
“Lady Cordelia, Mr. Jude Bayer has come to visit.”
Count Chase’s knight was guarding Cordelia’s bedroom and greeted Jude with a very welcoming face. He immediately reported to Cordelia about Jude’s visit.
Without waiting for too long, Cordelia’s bedroom door opened wide.
“Mr. Jude Bayer.”
Dahlia, who had tear marks on her face like Maja, greeted Jude with a smile.
And in the room was Cordelia lying on a bed large enough to wrestle.
“Lady Cordelia.”
Instead of answering Jude’s call, Cordelia simply nodded once.
Her condition seemed much worse than Jude’s, as she had a pale white face and eyes that had no strength that it seemed like she’ll fall asleep anytime soon.
“Dahlia, I apologize, but may we be alone for a moment?”
“Yes, Mr. Bayer. Please take care of the lady.”
Dahlia readily accepted and left the room together with Maja after bowing to Cordelia.
After a few seconds, when the door was completely closed, Cordelia spoke.
“I think I’m going to die.”
“Yes, me too.”
Coming to the edge of the bed with a wobbly gait, Jude flopped on the chair where Dahlia had sat on earlier.
“Is your condition not good?”
“I used too much mana. My head is so heavy, and I feel like it’s going to break.”
“Oh, is it similar to a hangover?”
“A hangover?”
“Yes…oh, maybe it is?”
Cordelia awkwardly answered as she slouched her shoulders.
“I feel sick, tired and about to die.”
“Well, you really don’t look well.”
She wasn’t the Yellow Storm that would always whine and retort in front of Outboxer.
“Hey, shouldn’t you feel good though? You saw the title too, right?”
“The One Who Made the Impossible Possible?”
A smile bloomed like a flower on Cordelia’s face, who was a while ago, had tears on her face and saying that she felt so tired to death.
She felt really good that she began laughing ‘hehehe’ like a fool.
“The Legend of Heroes community would completely be turned upside down.”
“The chat window’s going to be a mess.”
“Will Hero Soft contact us?”
“Maybe?”
“It was an impossible story, but that’s why it’s pleasant we changed it.”
Cordelia took a long breath before speaking again.
“Dahlia told me that Viola and Felix are safe. And so are the twin brothers.”
Originally, they were those who would have been killed or kidnapped in the Devil’s Hand’s attack.
But they didn’t die.
They weren’t kidnapped, and they were alive.
“I feel excited for no reason.”
The title was good, and the sense of accomplishment from twisting the main scenario as intended was also good, but Cordelia was happier that she had saved many people including the children of the 12 families.
“Oh dear~ look at how nice our Yellow Storm is. I feel so proud of you.”
As Jude smiled happily and stroked Cordelia’s hair, her eyes narrowed.
“You will be killed by me. Why are you f*cking petting me?”
“This is our Yellow Storm.”
Jude replied as he smiled, feeling satisfied, before leaning on the chair’s back.
“With this, we’ve passed over a hump.”
“What should we do now?”
“Well, we’ve twisted the main scenario, but we still have to follow it.”
In Cordelia’s main scenario, she was destined to be kidnapped in the Devil’s Hand’s attack event no matter what she did.
Wasn’t her second mission to escape from her kidnapped situation?
If she successfully escapes, the survival route opens. But if she fails, she becomes a sacrifice and it would be game over.
The survival route was as follows.
“Cordelia escapes from an unknown Devil’s Hand’s branch and wanders around a deep and dark forest to escape her pursuers and monsters. She then meets the witch’s soul as if she were led by fate.”
Cordelia laughed when Jude recited the summary of the story in Legend of Heroes 2.
‘Are you for real…no, are you even a human?’