My Dear Duke(BL)
Chapter 177: Relieved...

Chapter 177: Relieved...

"...You are lying."

Felix said, not looking at Karl anymore. Honestly, Felix was very shocked.

"I think you already understand things. I am not lying."

Karl said, his tone filled with guilt.

’Anne...is his guardian spirit?’

Felix couldn’t believe it. But...at the same time, like Karl said, things seem to make sense.

A guardian spirit is someone that is assigned to protect that person who they are bonded to.

Every royal family member has their own guardian spirit.

Their guardian spirit will be born after them one day and they are fated to meet their owner one day, connect and understand the purpose of their birth which was just to protect their master with their life, with the powers they were gifted for the sake of it.

So...fate brought Karl to meet Anne, his fated guardian...

No way this is happening...

His daughter is born for the sake of Karl.

It doesn’t feel good to know his daughter will have to one day die for Karl...Even though he never wants Karl to face any incident like that either...

He was lost.

"You know she didn’t get her powers from her parents. And, she is special. You can easily tell it. She is mature, understanding and intelligent than a normal child her age."

Karl explained and eventually, Felix hesitantly accepted the reality as he stopped Karl from talking more for a moment.

"Felix, I know you don’t like that she had such a responsibility. But you can rest assured. I...broke our bond."

Karl said and Felix shot him a shocked glare.

"You are not serious, are you? You can’t do that!"

"I did it."

"You know how dangerous it is to let go of your guardian!"

"I can protect myself. I don’t need any guardians. But I still have one though. Little Anne found me another one who willingly accepted me as her owner."

Karl explained immediately and Felix was now lost about what he was suppose to feel.

"Haa...I don’t know what to tell you. First of all, let’s start from the beginning. I want to know...did you give Anne permission to have another owner, apart from you?"

"...You already seem to have figured it out."

Karl said and Felix couldn’t help but grunt and sigh.

"Ha...no wonder she was aware of everything going on with me. She killed those counts because she bonded herself to me and assigned herself to do her duty-"

Guardian spirits...can be really ruthless. They are just to do their duty and if they were to go mad or find their master is hurt, they could kill that person or people with no second thought and as she or he could.

"Karl...she hid such a big thing from me. Are You crazy?! Why did you even let her have another master in the first place?!"

Felix rubbed his forehead and asked.

"She wanted to. She....took revenge for me too. Actually...she didn’t tell me she found out about your and her real blood relationship. She kept it to herself and took revenge on those she figured out were a threat to you....

Felix, I really didn’t know your past was that bad to the point she would go that mad and be so cruel... And, I promised her I wouldn’t intervene between you and her regarding this matter. So I couldn’t tell you either.."

"Then why are you intervening now? Because you and she have no bond?"

"...I broke it myself. She didn’t want to. But I realised I gave her too much privilege and...I did make a mistake by letting her have control over you when I heard what happened...I am really sorry for that incident too. It’s all my fault. I know."

"What are you talking about? What incident?"

"The last incident....You didn’t hallucinate or anything like you thought. Anne erased your memories when she realised you wanted an explanation. She didn’t want you to know she is your guardian...who you aren’t even supposed to have in the first place... She didn’t want to let go of you. She wanted to protect you. She knew you would ask her to break the bond if you were to know which led her to go extreme.... But after things went down, she said she realised she was selfish and wanted to end it all. "

Karl said and after a long silence from Felix’s end, he finally spoke up.

"So...she is not guardian to anyone now?"

"No...She confessed her regrets and I suggested she...give up her powers. She must have been really guilty. She actually accepted that she went too far and agreed to let me break the bond. You know... if I break the bond, she won’t have powers anymore. She will forget everything related to her guardian duty. That’s why I said. She is indeed normal now. And she doesn’t have any memory of anything she did to our enemies or to you...or me. She is just your daughter now. And, a sister or a daughter to me."

"So you mean this just ends everything?"

"Maybe...If you can also ignore the things she did, things will be just peaceful."

"Haa... Does Lucas know this?"

"...No. he is going to be mad at me when he finds this out. I don’t want to tell him. He is merciless...you know-."

Karl mumbled.

"I can be merciless too bastard. I am mad too."

"I know...I am sorry. But Lucas is...you know..."

"Whatever! Tell me this too. You said she erased my memories. Then everything I saw were things that actually happened?"

"Yeah."

"...Then...how did Asher forget about those too?"

"She said she wanted to clear things up. So she erased his memories too and also the maid’s who was involved."

"Haa...So what do you want me to do now?"

Felix glared at Karl and asked with a poker face.

"Maybe you shouldn’t ask me this...since I am somewhat responsible for all the things that happened. But...if you can let go of the past...things will be easier. Anne now doesn’t know anything about your past or her killing anyone."

"Let go? Now that she forgot everything, I have to let go? But I can’t forget everything like she did. It all feels horrible."

"I am sorry. I know."

"Haa...do you have anything else to confess?"

"...Well...nothing else. But if related to this...Anne asked me to give her permission to be a guardian to Asher too."

"What did you do?"

"I couldn’t do anything because Anne caused a big mess and things escalated to this."

"So...who is your new guardian now? Is everything settled?"

"Yeah, Anne’s powers were given to her. She will be replacing Anne from now on. Anne is now completely free."

"...Do you want me to be happy?"

"...You can feel anything you want. Please don’t hate me."

"I don’t hate you. But I can’t help but believe you are the dumbest idiot I have seen. Ugh! Why let things-ugh- forget it...."

"...Then...are you willing to completely just put it in the past? Now you have something new to think about, right? Things will be the happiest for you."

"...Mmm. I didn’t expect it to be this kind of a thing. She made me believe I am crazy too. I feel like she escaped from the problems too easily."

"Maybe that’s also my fault. Tsk! I was indeed dumb. Maybe I should have talked to you earlier."

"...It’s okay. I will just put it behind. But I hope there won’t be any secrets like this."

"Definitely. I learnt my lesson."

When the conversation ended, Felix didn’t hang out more and came back.

But he was very bothered.

Especially...

Why is he feeling this way?

Isn’t this wrong?

’I don’t feel angry about knowing everything. I...am relieved...Very relieved...’

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