[Tl: Alaith ] 

Bill exclaimed in bewilderment.

“You, you?”

It was because Arthur didn’t stutter.

However, He seemed to have been mistaken.

“…What’s wrong?”

The ‘Mute Confucius’ stuttered again.

Bill’s face twisted in anger, embarrassment and other emotions.

To be insulted like this by a “mute” whom he had come to harass and relieve stress?

That’s when he raised his hand in anger.

Seeing this the ‘mute Confucius’ laughed and held up something.

“…?”

Bill’s eyes widened as he held his breath.

The object in‘Mute Confucius’ hand was a human eyeball.

“Uh…?”

The speechless Bill touched his right eye.

But, he couldn’t feel the touch in his right eye which he should have felt.

Stunned by this, Bill opens his mouth.

‘Ah, No way!’

Bill was about to let out a belated scream.

But Arthur moved first.

Arthur took off the shirt he was wearing and shoved it into Bill’s mouth as he tried to scream.

“Ugggg!”

Bill tried to struggle, but it was to no avail.

Somehow, Arthur’s body was as heavy as a rock.

More than his three year older self could have handled.

Meanwhile, Arthur curled his fist and slapped Bill on the right cheek with all his might.

SMACK!

A clear sound resounded, but Arthur tilted his head.

‘I’m weak, so my strike isn’t accurate.’

‘I guess it’s because I am not in a perfect shape.’

So he forcibly removed the necklace from Bill’s neck and wrapped it around his right hand.

‘If there is a pivot point, the lack of strength will be filled to a certain extent’

With that thought, he started pounding with his fist again.

Then, a clearer sound than before rang out.

SMACK!

SMACK!

SMACK!

Bill struggled, but still his body didn’t move.

Not even a scream came out.

In the midst of all the pounding he received, his eyes were filled with tears of terror.

But these tears only further stimulated Arthur’s violence.

SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!

The pounding got even stronger.

Because of that, the bridge of his nose sank and his two front teeth fell out on the floor.

Not to mention the blood pouring out.

“Uggfffff”

Finally, the quick-witted Bill stopped crying and started begging.

His hideously contorted face was pitiful to watch, but Arthur shook his head.

“Are you begging me to stop now?”

‘When you were picking on my past self, you never stopped punching me no matter how much I begged.’

‘No way… A human can’t do that. At least if he has a conscience.’

So, dismissing it as an illusion, Arthur started pounding again.

SMACK!

In the end, the punching stopped only after Bill passed out.

Arthur, who slapped the fainted Bill on the cheek for one last time, breathed heavily.

“I am out of shape. I can’t believe that I’m this out of breath.”

With these words, Arthur wiped his sweaty bangs and looked away.

He looked at Bill, whose face had been horribly disfigured by the previous pounding.

After watching the scene for a while, Arthur muttered with a serious expression.

“It seems like my sanity has definitely returned to normal… If you look at the fact that I didn’t kill him, but just gouged out his eyes.”

If he had been his old self, he would have killed Bill by now.

But now, he only gouged out his eyeball.

The difference was larger than he thought.

‘If I had killed him, I wouldn’t have been able to clean up the mess, but since I didn’t kill him, it’s possible, right?’

He Let go of his anger and started taking care of the aftermath.

Considering the past, this was a huge improvement.

“Now that I’m back to my senses, things have become this easy?”

Arthur Said that and looked away.

Then he saw Bill’s eyeball rolling on the floor.

Arthur picked up the eyeball and lifted the fainted Bill’s eyelid and forcibly inserted it.

“…!”

Bill’s body trembled as if he was in pain even though he had fainted.

Arthur checked the eye and muttered to himself.

“I’m sure this isn’t enough to clean up the mess, is it?”

So, it was time to find a way to make the fight look a little more amicable.

Suddenly, a question crossed his mind.

‘Come to think of it… is my bloodline ability back?’

Arthur thought while stroking his chin.

Bavaria’s hidden bloodline ability.

An abnormal ability that can usurp the abilities of other bloodlines.

He hadn’t checked to see if the blessed ability that had once allowed him to achieve half of his revenge had returned.

‘I am not exactly sure… The best way to see if I can use my powers is by taking other bloodlines’ abilities.’

Coincidentally, Bill, who had just fallen, happened to possess bloodline ability.

‘The Dormund family was famous for producing outstanding elementalists, weren’t they?‘

With that thought, Arthur raised the corner of his mouth.

After that, he moved his body and put Bill’s blood which was flowing out, into his palm.

After gathering about a handful, he gulped down the accumulated blood.

“…!”

He felt dizzy at the fishy taste going down his oesophagus.

However, Arthur overcame it and quietly and closed his eyes.

At that moment, the Bavarian bloodline ability awoke and began violently consuming Dormund’s blood.

‘Oh… The lineage ability is awake.’

 With that murmur, Arthur opens his eyes again.

Then, a spirit that had not been visible before was seen hiding behind a flower pot by the window.

“hello?”

[…]

“My name is Arthur. What is your name?”

The spirit did not answer the question.

Usually, when you see a spirit, you can talk to it, but it was strange.

‘Is something wrong?‘

Arthur, who had been stroking his chin, immediately shrugged.

‘It doesn’t matter… The important thing is that the Bavarian lineage ability is awake. And at this point, Bill Dormund’s bloodline ability, elemental magic, was stolen.’ 

And elemental magic showed an excellent effect on healing.

It was because the water spirit’s healing technique possessed a superior healing power than that of the priest of the temple.

‘Maybe I can now completely cure my current broken condition.’

“Wow, Now that I’m back to my senses things are working out so smoothly?”

Arthur nodded and stood on the front of the mirror.

‘All that’s left is to clean up the mess. But that is not a problem.’

After staring at himself in the mirror for a moment, Arthur clenched his fists.

And hit his right cheek.

SMACK!

There was a dull thud and a trickle of blood flowed out.

Arthur patted his face and muttered.

“Um… To make it look like an even fight I should hit more, I guess?”

* * *

“Bill!!!”

An unexpected incident occurred in the peaceful Bavarian family.

“Master!”

At the centre of it were the ‘mute’ Arthur Bavaria of the Bavarian family and the third son of the Dormund family.

“What the hell is this… .”

Mrs. Kana Dormund, who came running as soon as she heard about the incident that had occurred, was speechless as she looked at the horrors in the room.

There was blood everywhere.

The pure white marble was stained with blood to the point that it was impossible to distinguish whose blood it was.

And on that marble surface, her son was lying down with froth coming out of his mouth.

“Aaaaaang!”

Arthur Bayern was bursting into tears beside him!

The angry Kana Dormund cried out..

“What’s going on, Confucius!”

“Aaaaaang!”

“What’s going on?!!!”

However, like Bill, Arthur, who was covered in blood all over his body, could not explain the case as she wanted.

He just kept crying.

At last, Kana, unable to contain her anger, picked herself up and approached Arthur.

Then the current owner of the Duchy of Bavaria burst into the room.

“Arthur?”

“Mother!”

At the appearance of Yonel Bayern, Kana Dormund hesitated and stepped back.

“My son. What’s going on!? And What’s wrong with your face?”

“That, that… .”

Arthur finally answered Yonel’s appearance.

“-My brother hit me….”

Of course, the answer was difficult to understand because of the stretched pronunciation.

But Yonel managed to understand what he was saying and asked a question.

“Did Lord Bill Dormund hit you?”

“Yeah… .”

“Why did you hit him? Did he hit you first?”

“Yeah. Then ah… I couldn’t stand it, so I hit him too.”

Everyone in the room grasped the truth of the incident and looked at the fainted Bill.

… He hit my son?

Yonel Bayern murmured, and at that Kana Dormund flinched.

But she soon came back to her senses and shouted.

“Your Excellency, The Duke, this is not a simple fight!”

Bill was Dormund’s youngest child, and Kana Dormund was quite partial to him.

It was because he was lagging behind his other siblings and always getting criticised because of that .

So it was only natural for her to get angry when she found him fainted and bleeding.

However, her energy quickly faded at the angry voice of Yonel Bavaria, who was usually gentle.

“So tell me what it is then? If it’s not just a fight !?”

“That, that… .”

“So do you mean to tell me that my son and Bill were in a life-or-death duel?”

“Your Excellency!”

“Don’t raise your voice. You’re frightening my son.”

Kana Dormund flinches, and finally lowered her head..

A dying duke is a duke nonetheless.

In front of the owner of the duchy, Kana Dormund was just a wife of an ordinary count.

“Sebastian. Take Lord Bill to the doctor.”

“Yes Master.”

“And Lady Kana, have a word with me later.”

Having organised the situation in a flash, Yonel Bavarian turned away, her expression softened only after everyone else had left the room.

“My dear son. Did you really fight with Bill?”

Arthur stopped crying and nodded at the question.

“Yes.”

“Why did you two fight?”

“He  hit me… .”

Yonel nodded.

“Is that true?”

“Yes.”

“…….”

Yonel was silent for a moment. Arthur felt a twinge of guilt.

Before he’d returned to the past, at this point in time, he would have been nothing more than Yonel’s frail son.

‘If someone’s personality changed so drastically overnight to the point that they gouge out someone else’s eyeballs, then it wouldn’t be surprising to think that  it was strange.’

But the words that came out of her mouth were unexpected.

“Well done. My boy. Yes… it’s better to hit than to get beaten.”

“…?”

“Now I see that you’ve got some nerve, you won fighting against your brother who is three years older than you.”

Arthur’s eyes widened for a moment at Yonel’s unexpected response, but then he burst into laughter.

“Hehe….”

“I think you will become a good knight when you grow up, my son.”

Arthur smiled at his mother’s encouragement.

Yonel also smiled brightly at the innocent laugh.

“Get treatment in your room. And Tell me if you don’t feel well.”

“Where are you going, mother?”

“I am going to meet Lord Bill and tell him not to approach my son again.”

Arthur nodded, and Yonel switched places with the doctor’s who had entered the room.

Afterward, as the doctor’s tended to his self-inflicted wounds, he thought to himself..

‘It ended well. Hmm… there are days when this prejudice comes in handy.’

If Arthur had not been prejudiced for having such a disability, they would never have let it go like this.

No matter how hard you hit yourself in the face, Bill’s condition wasn’t good to leave it at that.

However, the story is different if the one who made Bill’s condition like that is the one who is called ‘mute’.

Even though he is the only heir to the duke’s family, he is looked upon with pity because of his stuttering.

To be beaten like that is to become something worse than a mute.

Due to the nature of aristocrats who care about their reputation, this would not turn out to be a big deal.

After organising his thoughts, Arthur groaned at the pain in his throbbing cheek.

He had spilled blood to make this incident look like nothing more than a fistfight between two boys, and in that process, he had apparently torn the inside of his mouth.

“Does it hurt that much, Master?”

“…It hurts a little.”

“Oh no. You’ve torn the inside of your mouth, let’s take a look.”

“Aaaaaah.”

The doctor who had been examining Arthur’s mouth complimented him.

“But Master. You’re so small, and yet you fought with Master Bill and won.”

Arthur laughed.

“I’m strong.”

“That’s right, now I see that you’re much stronger than Master Bill, and Master Bill will never enter your room again!”

The doctors besides him nodded.

“This fight……. I don’t mean to compliment, but a man has to be strong, right?

“Yes, you’re right, indeed!”

Arthur nodded at the doctor’s words.

“That’s why I gouged  his eyeballs.”

“…You gouged out what?”

“..his eyeball!”

The other doctors shook their heads.

Arthur Bavaria was saying something intensely, but his stuttered pronunciation made it difficult to understand what he meant.

However they didn’t think deeply about it.

Arthur Bavaria would sometimes say things that they couldn’t understand.

So, as usual, they nodded and focused on healing the wounds.

Kana Dormund’s scream echoed throughout the entire mansion.

“Bellll—!!! Eyes, eyes, why is your eye falling out…!”

Stunned, the doctors stared at the door.

Then one of the doctors turned around without realising it.

“Hehe!”

There he saw Arthur, smiling innocently.

As he stared, he remembered Arthur’s words from earlier.

‘Earlier ,You don’t mean the… the eyeball, did you?’

After much deliberation, he burst out in laughter.

‘What kind of person in the world would gouge out someone’s eyeballs and laugh so innocently?’

‘If there is such a person, he or she must truly be a madman.’

And Arthur Bavaria was not a madman.

‘He is a fool, but he is the kindest aristocrat in the world.’

He was the only heir to the House of Bavaria.

Arthur Bavaria.

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