I’m Here to End This Fight - Chapter 411



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Episode 411. Redner (2)

Yuri nodded inwardly at the title of maternal uncle.

‘I was just hoping.’

A man who introduced himself as Leo Redner.

He was, of course, John’s nephew.

In order to lead the Redner family, he must have inherited his mother’s surname, which showed that he was a direct descendant of the family.

“Who are you and why do you have my uncle’s sword?”

Yuri, who had been blankly staring for a moment, opened her mouth to Rio’s question that seemed to be urging her.

“The one who witnessed the end of Johann Redner.”

“… … ?!”

Rio’s eyes widened.

He asked in a trembling voice.

“Are you saying that your maternal uncle… passed away?”

“About half a year ago.”

Rio stood there dumbfounded, speechless at the unexpected story.

He said, looking over the group of Yuri.

“You didn’t just come to see Lady May.”

“I originally planned to come to the Redner household to return the sword. It wasn’t May Winchester who called me.”

“…okay.”

Rio smiled bitterly, then sighed.

“I know you must be tired, but could you spare a moment of your time? There is someone I would like you to meet.”

For a moment, I had doubts about the word ‘bun’.

“Yeah.”

Yuri nodded absentmindedly.

“You guys are resting. I’ll be back in a bit.”

“okay.”

Friends who had read the mood nodded and saw Yuri off.

Yuri left the annex after chasing Rio.

“I’m sorry. You need to rest.”

“Don’t worry about it. So where are you going now?”

“I’m on my way to see my mother.”

“Are you the inspiration’s younger brother?”

“I guess you were close with your maternal uncle?”

“what…….”

Yuri scratched the back of her head awkwardly at Rio’s eye smile.

In the meantime, the two were able to arrive in front of a door.

dripping-.

“Mother, it’s Rio.”

Rio knocked lightly on the door.

“Come in.”

A thin, feeble voice was heard from beyond the door.

After receiving permission from the owner of the room, Rio opened the door.

Yuri’s eyebrows hardened slightly at the smell that came with it.

‘Medicinal scent.’

The smell that permeated the room was the strong, pungent smell of medicine.

But what made Yuri hesitate more than anything was another smell mixed in with the incense.

‘…death.’

The smell of death that cannot be hidden even by strong medicine.

The smell of someone near death lingered in the room.

And at the source of the fragrance, there lived an old woman.

“Are you here?”

On the bed by the window where warm sunlight streams in.

The gentle-looking old woman smiled at Rio and Yuri.

“What a handsome young man you are. Judging by the atmosphere, it seems like you didn’t bring him here just to be a mother’s companion… … .”

The smile on her lips was shattered by the story of her son.

“…I am the one who brought news about my maternal uncle.”

As he said this, Rio placed the sword on his mother’s lap.

A spatula-.

“This is… … .”

Wrinkled fingers swept the sword.

“… It’s my brother’s sword.”

The old woman immediately recognized the sword’s identity.

Also, it seemed that he had noticed why the sword had returned without an owner.

No, she had already guessed.

I’m talking about John’s last words.

Her gaze, which had been staring at the sword for a while, slowly turned to the glass.

“My name is Elena Redner.”

Gray eyes like John’s.

However, unlike the always cold Johan, Yuri was entranced by the warmth in her eyes.

“Yuri… This is Holland.”

“Yes, Yuri-kun… Can you tell this old man how you came to have this sword?”

“… … .”

Yuri paused for a moment at the gentle, soft, yet strangely irresistible gaze.

Then he sighed and opened his mouth.

“I think this is going to be a long story… Is that okay?”

“I’m just an old man whose only thing to do is sit in bed and look out the window. That’s okay.”

As Elena smiled and nodded, Yuri brought a nearby chair and sat down next to her bed.

‘Then… where should I start telling this?’

I had those worries for a while.

‘Let’s start from the beginning.’

Is it really necessary to shorten the story?

If you want to make him understand the relationship between you and John, it would be better to talk about it from the beginning.

“It must have been about 6 or 7 years ago. The first time I met that old man… … .”

Yuri, who had been so lucky, began to tell the story.

The relationship with Yohan began when I was fifteen, in a land far north.

***

After Yuri left, the Sowol mercenary group remained in the annex.

After rolling around for a while, they looked toward the door and opened their mouths.

“Yuri, you’re late!”

“Yeah, it’s late?”

“It’s definitely taking longer than I thought.”

“When will you come?”

“hungry.”

At first glance, his tone seemed worried, but there was not a single bit of genuine concern in it.

And yet the reason they are desperately waiting for Yuri is… … .

“Yuri, when are you coming… I’m hungry… … .”

“Yuri has to come before we go eat.”

“How about we just go together?”

“I wholeheartedly agree with Gunther.”

“hungry!”

It was more out of hunger than for the captain’s comfort.

***

“… That’s how I came to bring that sword.”

Yuri’s story, which was quite long, has come to an end.

“okay…….”

The old woman stroked the sword with sad eyes.

“A while ago… someone left a bag full of all sorts of elixirs and potions by my bedside.”

Then Elena took out a small box from one of the tables and showed it to me.

Yuri’s eyes flinched when she saw this.

‘That’s?’

The elixir storage box that Elena showed me.

Yuri recognized it immediately.

‘That was it?’

That’s it.

To explain in a little more detail, it was the elixir of the cradle obtained when raiding the ‘Treasure House of the Wonjuhoe’.

‘You asked for your share, and now you gave it to me?’

The old woman smiled faintly as Yuri seemed to have figured out the identity of the elixir.

“I guess this is something you know?”

“Well… I guess I don’t know.”

Her gentle smile turned bitter at Yuri’s answer.

“So the one who came that time was… my brother.”

This soon turned into sadness.

“If you were going to leave like that… If you knew it was the end… You should have at least shown your face before you left.”

Knock- knock-.

“Truly… truly you were a bad person.”

Clear tears fell from the wrinkled back of his hand that was tightly gripping the sword.

The old woman’s small shoulders shook slightly.

Rio and Yuri waited calmly until her trembling subsided.

How much time has passed since then?

“If he was that inspiration, he would have left without showing his face on purpose.”

Elena and Rio looked at Yuri as a soft voice spread throughout the room.

Yuri opened her mouth indifferently at the two people’s questioning gazes.

“No one’s personality is worse than that of a mother… No, she’s selfish, stubborn, and proud. That’s probably why she did that.”

“…Why?”

“Because he didn’t want his family, and no one else, to remember him as the last person they would see him as, to be old and frail.”

Yuri smiled slightly and met Elena’s gray eyes.

“Perhaps the last image in his younger sister’s memory… was of himself as a strong and wonderful person.”

The moment I met Yuri’s golden eyes as she spoke.

“… … ?!”

Elena had a vision of John’s figure overlapping Yuri’s.

The one I loved so much.

It was something to be proud of.

This is the appearance of John, who was more devoted than anyone else.

“… … .”

Elena, who had been staring at the glass silently, asked with a smile.

“It seems like you were quite close with your older brother.”

“We weren’t that close, we were just fighting a lot. So I’m asking… Are you really that old man’s younger brother?”

“Why? Don’t we look so alike?”

“At this point, isn’t it true that the younger sibling was born with the same personality that the old man left in his mother’s womb?”

“Hahaha. That’s a funny expression.”

Elena smiled at Yuri’s story.

She looked out the window and was startled.

“Oh! It’s already this late. I’m sorry I took up so much of your time, Dad.”

“Yes, Mother.”

“Quickly bring the guests in, and make sure to give them a meal!”

“Of course!”

Seeing his mother smiling brightly, who had been smiling brightly for a while, Rio also smiled brightly.

And then, just as I was about to guide Yuri out of the room.

“Can you come again and tell me a story?”

Yuri turned her head slightly and answered the voice that stopped her steps.

“I’ll stop by often.”

Yuri gave a quick eye contact and left the room, following Rio.

Elena smiled and watched the door close until it closed.

***

“thank you.”

As they were walking out of Elena’s bedroom, Yuri blinked at Rio’s sudden remark.

“What?”

“It was great that you brought my uncle’s sword from so far away… It’s been a long time since I’ve seen my mother smile like that.”

“… … .”

“So I can only be grateful.”

Yuri, who was listening to Rio’s story, suddenly asked a question.

“Don’t you hate it?”

“Huh? You hate me?”

“Yohan, the inspirational one. Don’t you hate the head of the family who abandoned his family and lived for his own purposes?”

Rio smiled broadly at Yuri’s question.

“I grew up hearing countless stories about my maternal uncle from my mother.”

The Innocent Johann Redner.

He was the pride of the Redner family, the pride of his mother, and a hero to Leo during his childhood.

“Although I haven’t met him in person that many times, I wanted to be like my uncle someday. But I didn’t have the same talent as him.”

If, as Yuri expressed, John left his humanity in his mother’s womb.

In terms of talent, Elena’s talent in martial arts was so poor that it seemed as if she had borrowed from her younger sibling who would be born in the future.

And Rio, who resembled his mother just like that, also had no talent for using his body.

“I changed my mind because I knew I couldn’t be like the person I admired. If my uncle would raise Redner’s name outside, I would make sure to keep that name clean.”

Rio snickered.

“My uncle didn’t abandon his family. He wandered the world and lived fiercely, and thanks to him, I also had a dream. So how could I hate him?”

“No… my common sense is collapsing.”

“yes?”

“I thought all people with the name Redner were like Johann Inspiration Tank… … .”

Elena too, and Rio too.

How can these people be related to that fucking old lady?

This was something that truly defied common sense for Yuri.

Rio burst out laughing at Yuri’s reaction.

His smiling expression suddenly hardened.

“that…….”

He opened his mouth as if he had made up his mind after hesitating for a while.

“Isn’t Yuri your uncle’s disciple?”

“He’s not my disciple, he’s just someone I’m connected to through business.”

“Ah… I, I see.”

Although Yuri denied it, Leo, after hearing the story about John that he had told, was convinced that Yuri was his uncle’s disciple.

‘Otherwise, he wouldn’t have shown you his last moments to the Yuri Army.’

But since the person in question denied it, nothing more was said about it.

“Even if it is a relationship formed through trade, wouldn’t the transport and navigation be transferred?”

“Well, that’s true.”

When Yuri nodded, a flash of light flashed across Rio’s eyes.

“I’m embarrassed to say this, but with my talents, I wasn’t even able to properly master the family’s magic.”

Rio has also mastered thunderclouds, but his level is truly insignificant.

Fortunately, though, his only daughter had some talent.

however.

“That kid has no interest in magic.”

No matter how hard Rio tried, his daughter showed no interest in martial arts.

The problem is that the Redner family’s direct line is now the only ones left.

If my daughter doesn’t learn magic, the magic of the Redner family may die out.

Simply passing down a secret book containing the magic techniques to future generations and teaching them directly and passing them on were completely different things.

“So, that’s what I mean… … .”

Rio gave his opinion carefully.

“Can you look after our daughter for a bit, Yuri?”

“Me?”

“I have already taught her everything I can teach her. So, from now on, my daughter will have to learn on her own by watching Thundercloud’s secretary… Since she is not very interested in magic… … .”

“Are you asking me to teach that kid how to use the thundercloud?”

“I’m embarrassed to say this… but that’s true.”

A member of the Redner family learns thundercloud from an outsider.

At that fact, Rio couldn’t help but smile awkwardly.

But apart from that, he was desperate.

The name of Redner, who has been cultivating himself throughout his life.

Because it was his dream to pass it on intact to future generations.

The moment I met Rio’s earnest gaze.

[I’m not asking for any grand help. I’m just asking that you take care of the family to the extent of your ability if you see any problems.]

Suddenly, John’s request flashed through Yuri’s mind.

Yuri clicked her tongue inwardly at this.

‘Tsk.’

A sigh came out of him.

“Rice… please give me something delicious.”

Rio’s expression brightened immediately at Yuri’s story.

“Oh, of course!”