Chapter: 688

Why didn’t he take it? Because he has a big grudge?

Still, it would have been better to receive compensation.

For Ecklen, it must have been like wasting two years of his life unfairly……

He must have been angry that he was disgracefully kicked out, even though it wasn’t his fault.

However, the Marquis gave the young lieutenant a chance to explain and investigate the case, so it could be said that he did enough.

He continued to investigate two years later and eventually uncovered the truth of the case.

Does he still hold a grudge?

Astelle immediately found the answer in her grandfather’s next words.

Why did Ecklen, who was unfairly kicked out, refuse to be compensated?

The Marquis, who was the knight commander at the time, did everything he could to reveal the injustice of his lieutenant. So why is he still uncomfortable with him?

“Your mother got married while he was away.”

The Marquis said with a long sigh.

“I didn’t know they were so close. I think they were closer than I thought.”

Since there was a difference in status, even if it was a relationship similar to that of a lover, it was impossible to reveal it.

“But my mother accepted my father’s proposal.”

If the two had a relationship that was deep enough to promise a future, the relationship wouldn’t have been broken by that.

‘Perhaps my mother liked my father more than the faraway Ecklen.’

Of course, it’s a little surprising that her mother liked her father so much, but in her mother’s eyes, he may have looked great……

‘Hm……’

It was hard to believe, but Astelle herself didn’t really know her mother.

“I didn’t and still don’t like your father, but she insisted to marry him.”

Astelle understood her maternal grandfather’s heart.

It seems that he felt like he had forced the two of them apart.

“Count Ecklen didn’t seem to have any regrets. Wouldn’t it be better to brush off the past at this point?”

The Marquis did not answer.