My Desertion Would Be Faster Than Heros' Obsession-Chapter 62Vol 2. .2
After learning about Aquila’s plan, Winter couldn’t hide his shock.
“To think you’d resort to such a misguided method...”
The look in Winter’s eyes as he stared at Aquila was now filled with killing intent.
“Dark magic is a practice banned by the Empire. The side effects of using it don’t just affect individuals—they bring harm to the entire nation. And yet, you still intend to use it?”
“I don’t care about any of that as long as I have Salvia.”
Even in front of his senior, Winter, Aquila made no effort to hide his hostility.
It had always been this way between them.
Ever since they possessed opposing aura attributes, there had been an underlying sense of unease between them. But that discomfort reached its peak when they both came to desire the same thing.
Aquila thought Winter’s apparent lack of desperation for Salvia was laughable.
Winter condemned Aquila’s willingness to use any means necessary.
Now, with both of them poised to draw their swords, Ishina—who had been watching with an amused smile—stepped between them.
“Really, what’s with both of you...?”
She gave Aquila a look that told him to back down, then grabbed Winter’s arm to hold him back.
And in that moment, as Winter’s gaze shifted toward Ishina—
“Lord Winter, someone who values principles so much... Are you planning a rebellion?”
“...What?”
For a moment, Winter stopped breathing.
That wasn’t the reaction of someone who had just heard a completely baseless accusation.
No, his reaction was closer to that of someone whose weak spot had been struck dead-on.
As Winter remained silent, Ishina pressed further, as if cornering him.
“What’s wrong? Did you think I wouldn’t find out?”
“How did you...”
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“The duchy where Dalin worked is a crucial passage leading to the imperial palace. You kept questioning Dalin about the structure of the ducal estate, and the letters you receive from outside contain maps of the palace, do they not?”
Winter no longer asked how she had learned of this.
At this point, denying it was meaningless.
“So, are you really planning to overthrow this nation, Lord Winter?”
“Yes.”
Winter stepped forward, his gaze fixed on Aquila and Ishina.
“I have every route mapped out in my mind. There’s a real chance to strike down the Emperor.”
No matter how much he loved Salvia, Winter could never condone using dark magic to bring her back.
He had always lived by what was right, staying true to his principles.
‘Besides, we don’t even know if Salvia would be satisfied with the body she was given. None of us know her will.’
But if among the principles he had followed, there existed one that had °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° been flawed from the start—if avenging the root cause of Salvia’s death meant overturning this entire nation—
Wouldn’t that be something worth doing?
“I don’t wish to bring Salvia back. I’ll cut off the Emperor’s head and die alongside him.” ƒreewebɳovel.com
If Salvia were alive, she would have agreed with him.
Winter had always been seen as different from the other hetero sapiens.
For example, unlike the rest, he had never harbored resentment toward the Imperial Family. On the contrary, as a loyal subject of the Adolph Empire, he had maintained absolute allegiance to the Emperor.
No matter how unfairly the Imperial Family had treated hetero sapiens, Winter had never questioned it. He had simply carried out his duties without complaint.
So in the past, the idea of rebellion had been something unimaginable for him.
But now—
‘The law that killed Salvia, the nation that killed Salvia... They were all wrong.’
What Aquila and Ishina hadn’t realized was that Winter no longer followed the same principles as before.
Perhaps it had started when he wept over Altair’s death, a death Salvia had been unable to prevent.
Or maybe even earlier, in the moment when he wrote a clumsy love letter, his handwriting uneven.
From the very beginning, Salvia might have been the principle he had chosen to follow.
