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Roderick sincerely apologized to the child. Even the word dad was sincere only now. Roderick felt all the misfortune that happened to Elodie was his fault. They say parents feel like everything that happens to their children is their own fault. "Dad is, Dad is really sorry." He had somehow become like that. However, no matter how much he wanted to adopt her as his child, as long as the dead's command dominated him, he couldn't do so. At the end of winter, when he was waiting for the day to…-
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"Elodie has a dad." "That's nice." Roderick's mouth turned bitter as he had to silently listen to the two children's conversation. "But Elodie doesn't have a mom." "Is that why you don't have many toys?" It wasn't because she didn't have a mom, but because they didn't have a home that he couldn't buy her many toys. The child, who had misunderstood the reason, felt sorry and tried to share his toys with Elodie. "Eric has a kind heart." When he praised him, the child laughed sheepishly…
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However, the traces ended on the road. It was because of the dry ground. "Elodie!" It was while he was calling the child's name and looking up and down the road. Small footsteps running up from below began to be heard. At the familiar sound, Roderick felt relieved. "Dad!" "Elodie, I told you to wait here, where did you go?" He scolded her as if she were really his own child. His heart had sunk as if he had really lost his own child. As the time he had raised her alone approached nearly…
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Where is my child? While holding someone else's child in his arms to soothe her and imagining where his own child, whose face, name, and gender he didn't know, might be now and who might be holding and soothing her, it felt like cold winter rain was falling in his chest. Then eventually, like a ditch overflowing, intense emotions would surge and try to swallow him. No. Losing Erica and our child isn't entirely their fault either. Let's not resent. Let's not resent. Roderick recited like a spell…
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"I still can't believe it." Because Erica's belly was swollen, he couldn't embrace her with their entire bodies fitting together without any gaps like before, which was disappointing yet also simply wonderful. If what had come between Erica and him was the fruit of love, this wasn't an obstacle blocking each other but a bond connecting them. Roderick slid his hand that had been caressing her back downward. The moment he stroked her bulging belly, he felt something tapping his palm. Could it…
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For Winterborn, freedom was only given when they could no longer hold a sword or ride a horse due to old age. There had never been a case of giving freedom to a Winterborn who was young and in their prime. It was such an unprecedented promise. However, this unprecedented promise was never kept. Soon after, the king was defeated in yet another battle and lost his life. "His Majesty left this behind." A knight who had barely escaped from that battlefield searched for the escort and came to deliver…
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He also hadn't understood until now the reason they harbored baseless expectations that they might escape the predetermined misfortune of that love's end. However, now that he had achieved love with Erica, he felt he could understand a little. Erica, you liked me too. Just having Erica's heart made Roderick feel like he had everything in the world. After succeeding in winning Erica's heart, which had seemed like the most difficult thing in the world to him, he even vaguely felt baseless confidence…
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"Right now." "......What?" Bewilderment spread across Erica's face, but it was only for an instant. Countless emotions followed after. Erica soon gathered the expression where emotions had passed by in succession and smiled. It was a smile with more force than usual. "Right, this is correct. Good. And in the new place......" Erica offered various words of encouragement and farewell, but they didn't reach Roderick's ears. He was only looking at Erica's face with desperate eyes. I don't want…
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"Didn't you know that a Winterborn who disobeys royal orders and runs away dies?" Grandma Greta asked while listening to his mother's story. "We knew it was a foolish thing to do too. But that was the right thing for us." They ran away knowing full well they would die because of the child already conceived. The love that began knowing only destruction and tragedy awaited had no limits in its recklessness. Though they tried to hide it, during the journey to the neighboring country, a family maid…
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Then would she know what this is too? "Ugh......" The chest pain that had briefly stopped returned again. Along with the voice telling him to be loyal to the royal family. Like a seizure. Not long after he had endured the pain while stiffening like a stone statue once more, rain began to fall outside the chapel. Drip. Drip. Drip. He couldn't help but know as rainwater leaked through the chapel's old roof and soaked his body. However, Roderick couldn't avoid the rain. It was because his limbs…
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