Chapter 204

"However, it is true that we haven't seen each other for a long time. Sister Margaret, I didn't expect you to be in Saint Laurent City. We haven't seen each other for eight years. What have you been doing during this time?"

"..." Margaret was silent for a while, and then showed a polite smile.

"Sorry, Giovanni, I don't want to tell others about my experiences in the past few years. Can you understand me?"

"Ah, of course." Giovanni nodded after hearing this, and then looked at Lucius sitting beside him.

"Lucius, can I sit next to you?"

"Well, of course." Lucius also nodded.

When two old acquaintances meet, Lucius will certainly not hinder the meeting of others.

The following banquet changed from a date between Lucius and Margaret to a reunion between Giovanni and Margaret. The two talked about many topics, but those involving their experiences in the past few years Margaret always kept her mouth shut.

After the duchess's adultery with an outsider was revealed, Giovanni's biological mother's lover was directly executed by Leopold, Duke of Naples. His biological mother, the duchess, also chose to marry her after receiving the news of her lover's death. The lover went to death together, and Leopold kept busy outside. For a moment, only Giovanni was left in the originally lively family, and the scenes of talking and laughing with his mother and sister Margaret no longer reappeared.

Now seeing Margaret again, Giovanni seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw. After the dinner, everyone stood at the door and prepared to say goodbye. Lucius was about to send Margaret home. At this moment, Giovanni Ni looked at Margaret and asked:

"Sister Margaret, can you go back with me? I will plead with my father. Please come back home. It's really hard for me to live without you."

Margaret's face was touched when she heard Giovanni's words, but she still shook her head.

"Giovanni, Lord Leopold will not allow me to go back, and...I..."

She raised her head and glanced at Lucius, saying nothing.

Margaret is twenty-two years old this year. She was only fourteen when she left the Duke's house. At that time, her biological father was forced to die, and her biological mother also chose to die in love. She was helpless, and the most valuable thing in her body was actually The Duke's maid uniform.

In desperation, she could only sell her maid uniform, change into a pair of coarse linen clothes, walk on the street, and make a home with the homeless.

When she was away from home, the entire city of Romulus knew that she was an illegitimate daughter and a bastard. They all ridiculed, beat and scolded her. That period was almost the darkest period in her life.

In the city of Romulus, people might not say anything when they see a tramp, but when they see Margaret, they will definitely spit and then walk away in disgust.

In desperation, she had no choice but to go north to work.

She had worked as a nanny for others and as a volunteer in a church school. Because of her excellent reputation, the priest even proposed that she be baptized as a nun, but she refused. She felt that for someone with an unclean status like her, Not suitable for church membership.

Until four years ago, she saved enough money to open a bakery in the lower town of Saint Laurent. She originally thought she could continue to operate it steadily like this, but in the end she spent her time alone honestly. Throughout my life, I never thought about the outcome.

To the point where he was entangled by local gangsters.

At the critical moment, Lucius appeared and saved her.

At that time, Lucius had just arrived in Saint Laurent City. He had been defrauded of all his money and had no place to eat. He was too proud to talk to his family.

So, Margaret proposed to let Lucius help in her shop and she would be responsible for his food and accommodation, and the two got connected.

It wasn't until one summer passed and the admission season began that Margaret learned that Lucius was a student of Imperial College and that he came from a family of military officers.

However, Lucius didn't care about the difference in status between the two, and still often visited her after school, and the two developed a mutual affection for each other.

Should Margaret go back at this time?

Go back to your sad place? That place where there is no one around, just loneliness?

Margaret just couldn't do it.

So Margaret finally spoke:

"Giovanni, you are an adult now. I believe you can overcome the difficulties. I have come through this alone for so many years, right?"

"But..." Giovanni looked at Margaret in confusion.

"Sister Margaret, you and I have known each other since we were children. After so many years of friendship, can we finally be inferior to this person?" Giovanni pointed at Lucius.

"He is just the son of a military attaché. I am the son of a Duke, the future Duke. I have always treated you, Sister Margaret, as a family member. Are you so cruel and cruel to leave me alone?!"

"I'm sorry...Giovanni, please think of me sometimes..." Margaret pleaded helplessly after hearing what Giovanni said.

"Think about it, what does that place in Naples mean to me? I...I really can't go back there...Giovanni, just think it's for my sister, don't force me …”

Lucius watched the conversation between the two and silently guarded Margaret.

At this time, Giovanni also knew that no matter how much he tried to persuade him, it would be useless.

He lowered his head, looking lost.

"That is to say, as long as my father is gone and I become a duke, sister Margaret, you can come back, right?"

he muttered.

Margaret looked at his appearance and couldn't help feeling worried.

"Giovanni, don't do anything stupid, okay?"

However, Giovanni didn't listen at all, he just turned and left silently.

Three months later, Lucius successfully graduated with first place in Imperial College and served in the military.

Another half month passed, and Duke Leopold of Napoli "died peacefully" in his sleep. Giovanni succeeded Leopold and became the youngest Duke of Napoli in the millennium.

When Giovanni returned to Saint Laurent with the good news that Margaret finally didn't have to worry about being scolded when she returned, Margaret's bakery had closed its door.

At the door of the store, there are roses sent by countless people.

In the distance, church bells rang. He went straight to the church and saw a scene he would never forget.

Under the auspices of the priest, the wedding of Lucius and Margaret was held smoothly, and the two embraced each other.

Giovanni looked at everything in front of him in disbelief. Everything he had done before seemed to be in vain.

In the end, just like he said goodbye to Margaret last time, he walked back silently this time.

…

It had been less than half an hour since the war spread to the Duke's mansion, and Giovanni could even clearly hear the shouts of killing in the distance.

He closed his pocket watch, came to the stairs, and climbed up.

With every step he took, he seemed to be able to see all the things that happened in the Duke's Mansion.

"Master, please stop spanking the child. It's all my fault. Please stop spanking the child!"

At the corner of the stairs, a woman was holding a girl in her arms, with her back facing an angry middle-aged man. The man was like a monster, whipping the woman's back with his belt, leaving bright red scars on it.

A little boy was holding the man's hand from behind, but it was all in vain. The man pushed him to the stairs, and the back of his head touched the steps, bleeding a lot.

"Giovanni!" The woman made a heartbreaking voice, but it was eventually covered up by the man's angry shouting.

"I told you to find outsiders! You ****! You'd better die!"

Following the stairs, he came to the second floor. In the office at the top of the stairs, he stopped for a long time.

here

It used to be my father's bedroom, but after his death, it was converted into an office.

In the room, a middle-aged man was lying on the bed, his eyes bloodshot, looking at the young man sitting next to him in disbelief.

"Giovanni! How dare you do this... ugh!"

The man covered his neck, then rolled his eyes and died in pain.

The young man came out of the door.

"Raven, I'll leave the funeral to you."

"I see."

He took another step, this time reaching the third floor.

"Duke, we did find Lady Margaret who was pregnant, but..."

"But what?"

"She had already died in childbirth, and the child... was missing."

"What!?"

Compared with the disappearance of the child, the most sad thing for Giovanni at the time was Margaret who died in childbirth.

As soon as his eyes changed, he came to the top floor.

"Your Majesty, according to intelligence, we only found this boy near the carriage where Lady Margaret's body was found..."

"Look at him, he looks so much like me." Giovanni took the child, lifted him up, and showed a rare smile. "Let's see. I will adopt this child and name him Donnie. However, I have to arrange a mother for him, otherwise it will be easy to follow the facts."

He lifted the child above his head, and as the sun shone down, the child smiled, and so did he.

Giovanni stood still again, and this time he actually reached the top floor.

However, the city of Romulus is no longer the city in his memory.

At this moment, the city of Romulus is left with only decay and death.

Next to him, standing was Margaret, who was wearing a white dress stained with blood.

"Giovanni, is it worth what you are doing now?" Margaret turned her head and looked at Giovanni.

Half of her cheeks were also stained with blood.

"Whether it's for me or for your ambition, everything you do is too much, isn't it?"

"..." Giovanni fell silent. Only in front of Margaret would his conscience suffer.

"I don't regret meeting you when I was a child." Margaret said this and jumped down from the roof.

"No! Margaret!" Seeing this, Giovanni quickly stretched out his hand, but found nothing.

Just like before.

When he came to his senses again, he had already seen enemy troops on the street in the distance, only five hundred meters away.

Giovanni sighed helplessly, then snapped his fingers, and a ball of fire appeared in his hands.

"Maybe it's exactly what you said." He sighed helplessly.

Then, the flames fell to the ground on the first floor, and the fire spread from the first floor, burning Giovanni's memory to ashes layer by layer.

Giovanni stood on the balcony of the top floor, feeling the wind gradually getting warmer. He opened his arms and closed his eyes.

He only brought endless disasters to the empire. He could not even be called a hero. In the history books of the future, there would only be endless criticism of him.

Of course, he knew that he was a loser, but he was not sad about those things.

From beginning to end, there was only one thing that was always lingering in his heart and could not be forgotten for a long time.

And now, this thing will also be burned to ashes with his body and dissipated in the sky with a fire.

Chapter 126: Really Failed

In the city of Romulus, the coalition forces were fighting with the last army of the Duke of Naples.

Most of the Naples army had surrendered, and only Giovanni's dead soldiers and personal soldiers were still resisting. They were guarding the streets near the Duke's Palace, waiting for Giovanni's final order.

Before the final order came, their only task was to defend this place.

Litt led an army to fight on the front line of the battlefield. She already knew everything, and knew that the death of her biological mother and the various tragedies that happened to her afterwards were all caused by Giovanni.

Now, whether it was for herself, her father, or her adoptive parents who were assassinated because of her, she would kill her enemies with her own hands.

Just as Lit knocked down a soldier blocking the way in front of him, a figure suddenly rushed out from the enemy crowd, so fast that Lit almost couldn't react.

She quickly held the sword in front of her, but

even so, she was still repelled by the enemy for several steps. She rolled back a circle before releasing the force.

Then, she raised her head and looked at the person who came.

"Lit..."

Standing in front of Lit was Donnie, who had framed her in the Imperial Academy before.

Donnie at this moment had changed drastically from the last time Lit met.

Lit vaguely remembered that Donnie was a magician before, but now, his muscles were extremely exaggerated, and his body was swollen a whole circle because of the exaggerated muscles, so that the head that did not grow bigger looked extremely inconsistent on this body.

The speed and strength of his sprint just now also proved that his fighting style was not that of a mage, but that he had transformed into a warrior who fought with brute force.

At this moment, he seemed to have completely lost his mind, panting and looking at Lit in front of him.