How to Raise a Victim
Chapter 1: Prologue
Nigel had been in love with Inas for a long time. It was a terrible love that had been around for so long that it was impossible to know when it started.
Inas Edenbach was a boy with a genius talent for swordsmanship, as were the rumors heard from the days when he was still a child in the royal capital. He won the swordsmanship contest held in the eastern part of the kingdom with a single damaged sword, and also won against the challengers who came afterwards without difficulty.
Unfortunately, the life of the genius boy did not go smoothly. Inas’ father was a nobleman in name only, a baron with a complete decline in his career. The man was the kind of trash who spent time with alcohol and gambling, but he thought that it would be beneficial to raise and sell out the young Inas to other families, and each time he took notice of the money among the great nobles. Most of the money was spent on the gambling table.
Inas’ mother was sick because of her husband and eventually died. Even after his wife died, the man still wouldn’t wake up. He got drunk and rioted even at his wife’s funeral, and was given the ugly end of slipping on a bridge.
When both of his parents died and he took on their debt, Inas was only 16 years old.
If he had been an ordinary sixteen-year-old boy, he would have gone down the wrong path. But Inas had a talent for swordsmanship. The adults who had noticed Inas earlier reached out to him as if they had been waiting. Inas sold himself to anyone who would pay the highest price.
The person who paid the highest price to Inas was Nigel’s father Luther, the Duke of Magnus, who commanded the northern part of the kingdom. The contract signed by Inas as a condition for paying off all his immense debts was virtually a slave contract to devote his life to the duke.
The reason Luther brought Inas was none other than his son, Nigel. From generation to generation, the Duke of Magnus formed his own knights and went to battle against the north. However, Nigel, the duke’s only successor, was so weak that he could not ride a horse, let alone learn to wield a sword. No matter how sickly he was, he couldn’t abandon his duties, so the duke needed a faithful dog to go to war and give his life instead of his son Nigel. That was the purpose of Inas, which Luther planned and signed.
Nigel felt his father’s method was terrible. Buying someone with money to stay with him for life, and nobody else. It couldn’t be done, and he didn’t want it to.
He didn’t know how his father brought Inas, but Nigel had no intention of getting close to the boy. Nigel said he didn’t like it, but his father didn’t budge. Nigel wasn’t the type of person who would give up just because his father didn’t listen to him. Nigel was going to cancel the contract somehow and send the boy back.
Until he first saw Inas.
A swordsmanship genius, with his parents dead, the boy ended up owing more in return for forgiving his debts. From the clues he got, Nigel thought Inas would be a big, sloppy man. However, contrary to Nigel’s expectations, Inas Edenbach was a cool, but surprisingly handsome boy. He was 16, closer to a boy than a young man, but he was still tall enough for the young Nigel to look up. As soon as the boy made eye contact, the boy greeted him with a little awkward but friendly smile.
“Hello, young master.”
“…”
“Please take good care of me. My name is Inas Edenbach.”
Inas’ voice was different from Nigel’s imagination. Like a vibrating machine, a harsh voice scratched Nigel’s ears and wrapped around his body. As soon as he heard Inas’ voice, Nigel was shocked.
Nigel didn’t say anything, so Inas got flustered. As Luther noticed from the side, Inas knelt in front of Nigel. He looked handsome even from a higher place, but looking closer, he was even more handsome. Nigel looked at Inas as if possessed.
“Nigel-nim1.”
“…”
“Even if you don’t like me, I will devote my whole life to you… I will try to be an knight that Nigel-nim likes.”
It wasn’t that he didn’t like him. Rather, it was a problem because he liked him too much. ‘I like you. I really like this. I like it so much that my chest is weird.’ Nigel couldn’t honestly explain the feelings that came to his mind. Instead, he ran away without looking back.
Behind him, Luther cried out, asking what kind of pathetic thing he was doing. Nigel ignored it, ran into his room, and hid in his blanket. Normally, his body was always cold like an ice cube, but his cheeks were burning so hot that day he didn’t know if it would cool down.
That night, Inas appeared in Nigel’s dream.
In the dream, Inas came to Nigel with a smile and knelt in front of him. The man was compliant, as if he would accept whatever Nigel did. Nigel kissed Inas passionately. When he woke up, his underwear was all dirty. It was the first wet dream he had in his life.
For the first time in his life, while dreaming, Nigel suffered a sense of self-destruction. During their first meeting, Nigel fell in love with Inas. It was ridiculous. Nigel had to marry and succeed the inheritance left to him, but instead, he fell in love with a man. A man who his father had bought like a slave. It would be a bad relationship for both Nigel and Inas.
Nigel pledged to free him once more. He was not going to see Inas again.
The Dukedom of Magnus had always been infested with monsters, and the battle continued without rest. In the battle that took place every few years, even the most seasoned knight would die in the midst of pain. No matter how much Inas was a genius, it was difficult for a boy who had not yet received knighthood to survive.
“It’s not that I don’t like him. Just leave it as it is. I can endure it.”
“Nigel. To be the Duke of Magnus, you must be willing to join hands with people you don’t like.”
Nigel’s thoughts were invisible to his father. He couldn’t reveal the truth, so Nigel simply nodded.
Inas, who became Nigel’s knight, always followed Nigel without knowing what his owner was thinking. The boy who, at first, had only acted friendly out of obligation, slowly opened his heart as he learned more about Nigel. Inas, who knelt in front of a child four years younger than he was because of debts and contracts, gradually became trustworthy.
When he came to his senses, Nigel, who had become a duke, and Inas, the knight who supported him, had an inseparable relationship. In public, as well as in private.
“Nigel-nim is my benefactor.”
When Inas talked softly like a dog who listens, Nigel had to do everything he could to keep his heart still. He didn’t want to show his love. Because Inas was too much of an ideal knight to destroy the perfect relationship they had now. Inas, who didn’t know Nigel’s heart, was always loyal to Nigel.
Right now, this moment.
Until Inas puts a blade through Nigel’s heart.
“Ina…s?
The sword that Nigel had given to Inas was creating a big hole in his chest by Inas’ own hands. Like a lie, the blood poured out, but strangely it didn’t hurt. Perhaps because the pain was all paralyzed, it was as if everything wasn’t real, as if it was just a bad nightmare.
Was this a nightmare? With a weak expectation based on escape from reality, Nigel alternately looked at Inas’ face, to his own chest that was pierced with a sword. Inas acted so at-ease that it was unbelievable that he was the same man who put the blade in the chest of the master he had been serving.
“Nigel.”
Inas called Nigel by his name. The times he called him ‘Nigel-nim’ was like a lie, and the current title was natural. As if he had said it thousands, tens of thousands of times… Nigel’s lips struggled to move. It didn’t hurt, but no voice came out because of his pierced chest.
“It’s okay, Nigel. See you again.”
Talking unknown words, Inas pulled his sword roughly. Nigel’s body, which had lost balance, fell weakly like a doll with its cottons bursting and only its cloth left behind.
Before falling completely to the floor, Inas hugged Nigel’s waist. Nigel gathered his last remaining power and looked back at Inas. The feelings in Inas’ dark eyes were a deep affection he had never seen, and Nigel started to doubt even as he was dying.
“Why…”
Why did you kill me with those eyes?
Instead of answering, Inas kissed Nigel. He rubbed the blood-soaked lips unilaterally. It was a short but very shocking first kiss. Nigel tried to push Inas away but failed. He couldn’t get out of Inas’ arms.
And as it was, Nigel’s world became dark at once.
T/N:
1 I could have changed the “-nim” to something like young master, but it doesn’t seem fitting as Inas would continue to use the honorific even when Nigel inherited the duchy. I also can’t take it off completely since it shows the way Inas would switch between treating Nigel respectfully to casually. Feel free to give suggestion for a good replacement of “-nim” for adult Nigel ^^
Inas Edenbach was a boy with a genius talent for swordsmanship, as were the rumors heard from the days when he was still a child in the royal capital. He won the swordsmanship contest held in the eastern part of the kingdom with a single damaged sword, and also won against the challengers who came afterwards without difficulty.
Unfortunately, the life of the genius boy did not go smoothly. Inas’ father was a nobleman in name only, a baron with a complete decline in his career. The man was the kind of trash who spent time with alcohol and gambling, but he thought that it would be beneficial to raise and sell out the young Inas to other families, and each time he took notice of the money among the great nobles. Most of the money was spent on the gambling table.
Inas’ mother was sick because of her husband and eventually died. Even after his wife died, the man still wouldn’t wake up. He got drunk and rioted even at his wife’s funeral, and was given the ugly end of slipping on a bridge.
When both of his parents died and he took on their debt, Inas was only 16 years old.
If he had been an ordinary sixteen-year-old boy, he would have gone down the wrong path. But Inas had a talent for swordsmanship. The adults who had noticed Inas earlier reached out to him as if they had been waiting. Inas sold himself to anyone who would pay the highest price.
The person who paid the highest price to Inas was Nigel’s father Luther, the Duke of Magnus, who commanded the northern part of the kingdom. The contract signed by Inas as a condition for paying off all his immense debts was virtually a slave contract to devote his life to the duke.
The reason Luther brought Inas was none other than his son, Nigel. From generation to generation, the Duke of Magnus formed his own knights and went to battle against the north. However, Nigel, the duke’s only successor, was so weak that he could not ride a horse, let alone learn to wield a sword. No matter how sickly he was, he couldn’t abandon his duties, so the duke needed a faithful dog to go to war and give his life instead of his son Nigel. That was the purpose of Inas, which Luther planned and signed.
Nigel felt his father’s method was terrible. Buying someone with money to stay with him for life, and nobody else. It couldn’t be done, and he didn’t want it to.
He didn’t know how his father brought Inas, but Nigel had no intention of getting close to the boy. Nigel said he didn’t like it, but his father didn’t budge. Nigel wasn’t the type of person who would give up just because his father didn’t listen to him. Nigel was going to cancel the contract somehow and send the boy back.
Until he first saw Inas.
A swordsmanship genius, with his parents dead, the boy ended up owing more in return for forgiving his debts. From the clues he got, Nigel thought Inas would be a big, sloppy man. However, contrary to Nigel’s expectations, Inas Edenbach was a cool, but surprisingly handsome boy. He was 16, closer to a boy than a young man, but he was still tall enough for the young Nigel to look up. As soon as the boy made eye contact, the boy greeted him with a little awkward but friendly smile.
“Hello, young master.”
“…”
“Please take good care of me. My name is Inas Edenbach.”
Inas’ voice was different from Nigel’s imagination. Like a vibrating machine, a harsh voice scratched Nigel’s ears and wrapped around his body. As soon as he heard Inas’ voice, Nigel was shocked.
Nigel didn’t say anything, so Inas got flustered. As Luther noticed from the side, Inas knelt in front of Nigel. He looked handsome even from a higher place, but looking closer, he was even more handsome. Nigel looked at Inas as if possessed.
“Nigel-nim1.”
“…”
“Even if you don’t like me, I will devote my whole life to you… I will try to be an knight that Nigel-nim likes.”
It wasn’t that he didn’t like him. Rather, it was a problem because he liked him too much. ‘I like you. I really like this. I like it so much that my chest is weird.’ Nigel couldn’t honestly explain the feelings that came to his mind. Instead, he ran away without looking back.
Behind him, Luther cried out, asking what kind of pathetic thing he was doing. Nigel ignored it, ran into his room, and hid in his blanket. Normally, his body was always cold like an ice cube, but his cheeks were burning so hot that day he didn’t know if it would cool down.
That night, Inas appeared in Nigel’s dream.
In the dream, Inas came to Nigel with a smile and knelt in front of him. The man was compliant, as if he would accept whatever Nigel did. Nigel kissed Inas passionately. When he woke up, his underwear was all dirty. It was the first wet dream he had in his life.
For the first time in his life, while dreaming, Nigel suffered a sense of self-destruction. During their first meeting, Nigel fell in love with Inas. It was ridiculous. Nigel had to marry and succeed the inheritance left to him, but instead, he fell in love with a man. A man who his father had bought like a slave. It would be a bad relationship for both Nigel and Inas.
Nigel pledged to free him once more. He was not going to see Inas again.
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But that afternoon, he had to withdraw his decision because of his father, who said, “If you don’t like it, I will send him to the front lines of Intusnica.”The Dukedom of Magnus had always been infested with monsters, and the battle continued without rest. In the battle that took place every few years, even the most seasoned knight would die in the midst of pain. No matter how much Inas was a genius, it was difficult for a boy who had not yet received knighthood to survive.
“It’s not that I don’t like him. Just leave it as it is. I can endure it.”
“Nigel. To be the Duke of Magnus, you must be willing to join hands with people you don’t like.”
Nigel’s thoughts were invisible to his father. He couldn’t reveal the truth, so Nigel simply nodded.
Inas, who became Nigel’s knight, always followed Nigel without knowing what his owner was thinking. The boy who, at first, had only acted friendly out of obligation, slowly opened his heart as he learned more about Nigel. Inas, who knelt in front of a child four years younger than he was because of debts and contracts, gradually became trustworthy.
When he came to his senses, Nigel, who had become a duke, and Inas, the knight who supported him, had an inseparable relationship. In public, as well as in private.
“Nigel-nim is my benefactor.”
When Inas talked softly like a dog who listens, Nigel had to do everything he could to keep his heart still. He didn’t want to show his love. Because Inas was too much of an ideal knight to destroy the perfect relationship they had now. Inas, who didn’t know Nigel’s heart, was always loyal to Nigel.
Right now, this moment.
Until Inas puts a blade through Nigel’s heart.
“Ina…s?
The sword that Nigel had given to Inas was creating a big hole in his chest by Inas’ own hands. Like a lie, the blood poured out, but strangely it didn’t hurt. Perhaps because the pain was all paralyzed, it was as if everything wasn’t real, as if it was just a bad nightmare.
Was this a nightmare? With a weak expectation based on escape from reality, Nigel alternately looked at Inas’ face, to his own chest that was pierced with a sword. Inas acted so at-ease that it was unbelievable that he was the same man who put the blade in the chest of the master he had been serving.
“Nigel.”
Inas called Nigel by his name. The times he called him ‘Nigel-nim’ was like a lie, and the current title was natural. As if he had said it thousands, tens of thousands of times… Nigel’s lips struggled to move. It didn’t hurt, but no voice came out because of his pierced chest.
“It’s okay, Nigel. See you again.”
Talking unknown words, Inas pulled his sword roughly. Nigel’s body, which had lost balance, fell weakly like a doll with its cottons bursting and only its cloth left behind.
Before falling completely to the floor, Inas hugged Nigel’s waist. Nigel gathered his last remaining power and looked back at Inas. The feelings in Inas’ dark eyes were a deep affection he had never seen, and Nigel started to doubt even as he was dying.
“Why…”
Why did you kill me with those eyes?
Instead of answering, Inas kissed Nigel. He rubbed the blood-soaked lips unilaterally. It was a short but very shocking first kiss. Nigel tried to push Inas away but failed. He couldn’t get out of Inas’ arms.
And as it was, Nigel’s world became dark at once.
T/N:
1 I could have changed the “-nim” to something like young master, but it doesn’t seem fitting as Inas would continue to use the honorific even when Nigel inherited the duchy. I also can’t take it off completely since it shows the way Inas would switch between treating Nigel respectfully to casually. Feel free to give suggestion for a good replacement of “-nim” for adult Nigel ^^
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