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    Chapter.36 Hibiren Flowers and Concert


    Great City’s Lord’s Castle.


    Verna was ying the Legana in the concert hall at the top. Legana is a keyboard instrument that can be considered the organ of this world.


    On the Earth where El lived, a keyboard instrument called the organ was yed long before the piano appeared.


    There is a simr instrument in this world, and its name is Legana.


    Legana means a lot to Berna. It was her only dream while she was trapped.


    After being forced to marry, the only thing she requested from Count Gray was this instrument.


    His own mother, who died screaming, was a legana that his mother often yed. The image was so strongly imprinted in young Verna’s brain that she longed for this instrument.


    Afterwards, Legana became, in a sense, the medium through which Verna fell in love with Count Gray.


    This legana is installed in the hall at the top of the castle. The ceiling of the hall, which draws a round arch, has a spire when viewed from the outside.


    Inside the tall spire. The structure was built to make the instrument sound better.


    It was also a design that contained the affection of the Gray boy’s father, the Earl of Gray. This concert hall was a gift from Count Gray for Berna.


    Therefore, Verna also had a very strong attachment to this concert hall.


    Verna’s hand moves.


    The movements of the fingers were very passionate and very fast. Even at a nce, it is clear that he uses a considerable level of ying technique.


    So the melody that flows is also beautiful.


    The Gray boy was listening nkly to the performance in the background, and then pped as soon as Verna’s fingers stopped.


    The Gray boy also likes to listen to Verna’s performance.


    When she was young, Verna often yed the legana with the Gray boy sitting next to her.


    Beads of sweat were hanging on Verna’s forehead, and the boy took out a handkerchief and held it out. And then he let out an exmation.


    “Mom, it seems like your skills are getting better. “I have never heard a performance like this even in the capital.”


    “Why are you so embarrassed? “It’s not that great.”


    “Oh no. “Is it true?”


    The more the Gray boy praised, the more Berna’s face darkened. And then, with a gloomy look on his face, he quietly shook his head at the boy.


    “it is not so. “I think my ying skills are really poor.”


    Now Verna is by no means shaking from humility. What can I do by showing off my son’s humility?


    The nuances in her voice werepletely sincere. In other words, Verna actually thinks that way.


    Thanks to this, the Gray boy frowned slightly without Verna knowing.


    I tried to change that thought somehow, but it was no use. The Gray boy felt very sorry for that.


    Of course, I know the reason.


    A concert is held once a year in the capital. It is on apletely different scale from the concerts held in the estate.


    Also, although the name is a concert, in reality it is like apetition topete against one another. No, it’s clearly apetition.


    Apetition is held where numerous nobles, including the emperor, participate and y the legana, and it is called the Imperial Concert.


    The legana was an instrument of great significance and poprity in the world.


    It is an instrument so deeply rooted in aristocratic society that all nobles learn this legana from birth.


    Therefore, this concert was the biggest event taking ce in the empire.


    It is argepetition with such a long tradition.


    However, Verna could not learn Legana, which all nobles must learn.


    The reason is, of course, because Count Dedran imprisoned his daughter without treating her like a human being.


    Count Dedran had not invested much in his chess pieces.


    It started btedly with the help of Count Gray.


    Although she learned itte, she learned it quickly, so when Count Gray was still healthy, Verna once participated in this very concert with the Count.


    But the results were disastrous.


    A whoppingst ce.


    Verna has never yed the legana in front of Count Gray since then. She thought that her husband’s reputation had been lost because of her poor skills.


    The trauma continued even after her husband fell into a vegetative state and copsed. You can y it alone. And he can y in front of the Gray boy who has been taking care of him since he was young.


    But especially I can’t do it in front of my husband.


    As my skills improve, I will be able to hit it. You can show yourself that you have grown by ying music in the ears of your fallen husband.


    I practiced like crazy with that in mind, but the results were always the same.


    I couldn’t press the keys on the Legana next to my husband. This is Count Gray, who liked his ying more than anyone else. So, there was a time when I thought that if I yed music, it wouldn’t be like a lie.


    The more I did it, the more I couldn’t hit it.


    People who don’t know it might dismiss it as just music.


    Verna believed that music was the crystallization of love that connected her and her husband, so she was stubborn that she could never let it go.


    I want to somehow y in front of my husband.


    I don’t really want it to happen. I just wanted to show my growth.


    If people listened to my performance and liked it, even if it was in my heart or deep in my soul while I was down, that would have been enough.


    The problem is that you can’t hit it at all.


    For Verna, it was nothing short of a burden on her heart. This is trauma.


    Even if I want to hit it, I can’t.


    The events of that day are reyed. The face of her husband who loved her performance. When I reyed the events of that day when my face was painted, I felt nauseous instead of ying.


    Verna was a very pure person.


    My childhood was spent trapped. Even after marrying into the Gray family, she rarely left the lord’s castle.


    Because she was her father’s scarecrow, she was unable to learn anything about aristocratic society that she had to learn as a child.


    Because of Count Dedran’s thoughts and ambition that if he learned how to think, he would learn and be smarter, he would rebel against him one day, and he could not learn anything other than writing.


    Therefore, I did not know that the Imperial Concert was not simply a ce to purely evaluate skills.


    He didn’t know the real reason why he had no choice but to be inst ce. And Count Gray couldn’t exin it.


    After that, he fell after being tricked by Count Dedran.


    Verna was unable to escape the trauma because the person who was supposed to resolve it had fallen.


    In fact, Count Gray, who knew the true nature of the concert, had no intention of sending Verna to the concert.


    That also happened due to Count Dedran’s trick. An inevitable choice.


    Therefore, no one could know whether Berna was truly worthy ofst ce or not.


    The Gray boy believed that this incident was the cause of Verna’s trauma.


    Therefore, I thought that the only way to recover from that was to participate in the concert again and make good grades, so I tried to persuade Verna.


    “Mom, that was then, and now it’s different because you’ve already been practicing for a few years. You can get enough recognition. “I think it’s possible to win!”


    “No way… doesn’t exist.”


    “It could be so. Since this kind of trauma urred at that concert, wouldn’t the best way to stop the pain be to go to the concert again? “I think that if you get good grades, you will naturally forget those memories and be able to confidently y to your father.”


    “that… .”


    Verna pursed her lips at the Gray boy’s words. right. That was certain. She wanted to be heard.


    Right now.


    Every time I hear her y, I think of my husband’s always smiling face.


    Even now, while I was just lying down, I was obsessed with the delusion that my husband wouldugh if I told him how to y, so I don’t know how much I tried to y Legana next to my husband.


    But the results were all failures. She was the kind of woman who took care of her like that and taught her what joy in life is, but she could only end upst.


    My hands were shaking and I couldn’t move.


    “I’m fine when I’m practicing… why… why… .”


    “So let’s go out again. Even if youe inst ce, it’s still the same, and if you get a different result, you cane back with confidence!”


    “but… .”


    “In the meantime, I misunderstood my mother and couldn’t do anything about it because of my family’s circumstances, but it’s different now, right? Now I think it’s okay to go out again. Count Dedran is no more!”


    “… … .”


    Verna’s eyes wavered at the Gray boy’s words.


    That made sense.


    If I get different results and can show that I have grown, I will be able to confidently y legana in front of my husband.


    Verna clenched her fists.


    And then he held the boy’s hand. It didn’t take long for me to nod quietly.


    But if there is a problem.


    The Gray boy is also just a political prospect who is starting to grow little by little.


    He is still too young to understand the huge whirlwind of imperial politics.


    Therefore, the Gray boy had no idea that the political threads of the concert were intertwined.


    ***


    Imperial Capital.


    Delian, one of the four dukes, was looking at the concert participation list.


    Delian is a member of the royal family. Among the royal family, he was the owner of the Delian family, which produced the most emperors in the empire.


    He was also an unlucky man whose line of session to the throne was very far apart because thest emperor was born from a coteral line rather than a direct lineage.


    A man who could have ascended to the throne if he had been born 100 years earlier.


    But he still has enough power as is. He is the owner of the Delian duchy, which produced as many as 13 emperors.


    Therefore, he had the greatest power among the four dukes.


    And in his heart, he had an ambition to produce another emperor from the Delian duchy.


    Of course, that ambition does not mean rebellion. Rather, there was a regr method.


    Because the next emperor who ascends the throne does not necessarily have to be the current crown prince.


    The duke’s mansion. In the study, Delian opened his mouth, handing the list he was reading to his hand, Count Michel.


    “Look about halfway down that page there.


    “Are you talking about the middle?”


    Hearing the Duke’s words, Count Michel began to quickly look through the list.


    I chant middle, middle, middle in my heart.


    And then I read the middle name. The name written there was Verna Gray.


    “Do you mean Verna Great?”


    When Count Michel carefully checked, Duke Delian waved his hand to indicate that he had guessed it right.


    “okay. She was the daughter of that bastard, Count Dedran. “It’s dirty.”