Chương 323: Chapter 306. Taking Your Own Advice

" We can carry his body. By chance... Does Princs... Lady Sarah have some sheets we could wrap my Father in?"" Do you, Sarah?"" Yes, I do, here we can use this linen, I picked it up while we were sightseeing before. It makes sense to wrap him in something from Zana." After the passing of Count Fracks, we've sat for a few minutes so everyone could compose themselves. Now that we have, we're trying to figure out the best way to bring his corpse back.

Byron suggested wrapping it in cloth since we didn't have any caskets lying around. Luckily, Sarah did have some and even some from Zana, we did look around at the shops after all. I remembered she grabbed the sheets because she liked the material, maybe I should look for a replacement for it before we leave? Will I even have time? I'll try to squeeze in time when I can." Okay, I'll get to wrapping him up."" Byron, you're his son, you shouldn't have to wrap your father up.""

I know, Uncle Phil, but I feel like it's the right thing to do, could you help me instead of keeping me from doing it?" Phil seemed unsatisfied with Byron wrapping up Count Fracks's body, but he seems to want to do it. He must be thinking something along the lines of it being his "responsibly". Instead of that, it looks like all of the Counts will help wrap and carry the body. I'd help as well, but I have some other issues to deal with." Are you sure they're gone?""

Yes, Lady Cindy, they disappeared into the light coming from the sun, I can't see or hear them, I... I think they crossed over together. I know it's sad. It's your parents after all, but it's the natural order of things." Lady Cindy continued to question me about her parents being gone and I kept having to disappoint her with my answer.

The emotion in her eyes reminded me of myself, every time I'd wake up from a dream about my Parents, I'd forget what happened for the first few minutes of waking up, then I'd remember what happened. It looks like this last time was the straw that broke the camel's back, however. Her eyes gave away that a feeling of loss was eating at her now." Lady Cindy, I've lost my Parents too. When I was younger than you, they were taken from me in an accident. I wanted so badly for them to comeback. They never did.

I'm not going to pretend that the feeling of that loss ever goes away, because it won't. It's going to be there every day."" Why are you telling me this?"" Because I wanted to get to this point. Even with that hurt in me, I'm happy now. When my Parents... Passed away, it took a long time for me to realize that there were still people who cared about me. They helped pull me out of that hurt, they made me realize that I still had a life to live. You already have that around you.

From your brother to everyone else here, you also have the kids of the Sarks and Gorses, you have people that care about you and want you to be happy. I mean, look at me, I even found Love with my Wives, your parents knew you were strong, they said so themselves, they know you can pull yourself through this. They believe in you, everyone around you believes in you and so do I." Lady Cindy didn't respond with her words, she only nodded her head and moved over to the Counts and Byron to see if she could help. /Whack!

/ pain!" How nice of you to try and give a girl a push on the back when she needs it, you're not attempting to make a move on My Niece, are you, Marquess Drake?" A friendly slap on my back hit me and Lady Kina began to tease me. I first turned to Sarah and Anna whose ears seemed to have perked up from Lady Kina's words." No, I'm a Happily Married Man, I just offered her some advice since I've been where both she and Byron have been.

They're both strong, but Byron's able to center himself better, Lady Cindy needed some help with balancing."" Is that so? Do you hear that, Di?"" I did, Kina. What pretty and nice words, but I can't help but feel sorry for her." If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation." Huh? What do you mean? Lady Cindy is fine now, isn't she?"" Of course, Cin will be fine! She's Cindra's Daughter. We weren't referring to her, but who were we speaking about? I wonder? Ufufufu..."

Lady Diana and Lady Kina began to laugh for some reason. Who are they even talking about then? Grip!" Say, haven't you been spending enough time with everyone else? Isn't it about time you check in with your wives and me!"" Huh? Pri- Alice!? What's the matter? Is Sarah going through Mana Exhaustion!? I knew I should've just run to Zana!"" No, Matthew. That's not... Just come on." Pull!" Do take care, Marquess Drake. Ufufufu!""

Maybe I could believe the both of you, if you both could stop cackling when you say that!"" Oh, we're just exhausted old ladies now, no need for a Marquess to mind us!"" Hey! You almost called me Princess again!" While I was being dragged towards Sarah and Anna by Princess Alice, she seemed to realize that I almost slipped up and called her "Princess Alice" again. Great, now she's angry again... What to do..."" Now, now, Alle.

Calm down now, you can't expect him to call you by name at every opportunity, there is Decorum to follow at times. But I suppose you would want a reward, don't you? After all, your contribution to the fight was eliminating his armor and sword after all. Have you thought about what you want as a reward?"" But I wouldn't have been able to do that without the help of both of you... Also, Matthew saved me from his clutches to begin with. Do you really think I deserve a reward for that?" Lighten...

I felt Princess Alice's grip untighten around my wrist. It looks like she really isn't sure about how helpful she was. I decided to add my own 2 cents to the conversation." Alice, you landed the decisive blow in my opinion, the only reason I was able to cut him in half with that flame sword was because you destroyed his armor and sword, without them, he couldn't really defend himself.

besides, during a war, the person who strikes the killing blow is usually given a reward, but that doesn't mean they were the most helpful on the battlefield, in my opinion that goes to either you or Anna."" Oh, so I didn't do much?" Sarah moved closer to me in an attempt to tease me." I didn't say that, I think that we'd be tied for 2nd place in terms of most important. Hell, you were actually able to go toe-to-toe with him, weren't you? I had to keep making openings for an attack to slip through...

I've been thinking about this whole affair, and I can't help but think I haven't done enough with my training."" What are you talking about, Darling? You've been busy running Paradise, starting Roseland Products up and testing out each product. It's not like you've been slacking off!" Anna took issue with my feelings on the matter." Even with that, I should've been able to do more. If I learned a bit more about my abilities, I might've been able to-"" To do what, My Love?

Stop Count Fracks from committing blood sacrifices? or stopping the God Of The Blackwoods from taking over his mind before that? Or his body after Anna landed the killing blow in that basement? While wanting to grow stronger is perfectly fine, My Love, the idea that you haven't done enough is ridiculous and if anyone says something different, then I'll personally deal with them!" Sarah also wasn't too happy with my thoughts.

Princess Alice wasn't too far behind what they were thinking as well, I could tell from her eyes. But looking at all of the devastation that's happened to Zana because of the God Of The Blackwood's powers... I just don't feel like we really "won" this time." You're blaming yourself for something that a Mad God did, Matthew. You shouldn't, do you think Anna should blame herself for not being able to kill him with the mana from her Goddesses?"" What? No... I mean she's still learni-"" Exactly my point!"

Princess Alice's tail and ears shot up as she nearly screamed her point. Her red eyes were nearly glaring a hole into me. Now she truly did follow Sarah and Anna's lead as they were both looking at... No... They were glaring at me as well. I put my hands up in surrender. Grip! Grip! Tug! In response, Sarah and Anna grabbed my hands tightly and Princess Alice grabbed onto my shirt." Don't devalue yourself like that again.

Otherwise, you make light of us and the people you've helped that know just how much you've done for us in the fight, do you understand?"" Okay, okay. You win."" Good." Maybe I was thinking too negatively about the whole thing? In the end, I need to grow stronger, not because of this incident, but because I have People I want to protect. The words I meant as advice for Lady Cindy seemed to apply to me as well.""

I'd hate to interrupt the lovey dovey moment you 4 are having, but they're leaving with the body towards the town..." And before I could even take a deep breath after making that connection in my head, Victor interrupted me with some important information." Wait! Lovey dovey!? Princess Alice isn't Married to me or anything, Victor! Hey! Wait! Don't leave without us!"" What? Gods you're blind! You know that!? I feel bad fo-"" Now, now, Vic. Let him figure it out on his own.

We just need to follow him for now so we can say our words to Victoria and Kim."" If he's like this the entire time, I'm not sure about leaving them to him..."" Well, we don't have much of a choice, besides, he's not a "bad guy" like you said... He's just dense." The Ghosts behind us started to chat as we quickly walked to catch up with the Count families that were heading back to Zana.

For some reason, Princess Alice seemed to be feeling down about something, Sarah and Anna began to speak to her and cheer her up, but something about the way she was looking at me as they spoke made me uncomfortable....