6.

The night was approaching as they traveled on the horses.

Simon was sitting in front of Yug, while Yug was encaging him with his arms.

Damian was the first one who stopped, "Duke, it's nighttime and there is a forest in front. It would be risky to go there at night with young master Simon since there are bandits."

Yug nodded, "Fine, then go and arrange for the night."

"Yes, my lord." With that, Damian went to arrange a room for the night.

While Yug got down from his horse and once again took Simon in his arms.

With the other hand, he grabbed the leash of the horse and then walked towards the side.

Yug had made sure to look as poor as he can and even made Simon dress in rags, this is the area of bandits. If the news spread that there is a noble, here then he and his son can easily become the targets of these bandits.

And Yug has to reach the temple of nirvana without gaining any attention as quietly as he can.

A few minutes later Damian came as well, and Yug followed him to the inn.

When they reached their room, Yug made Simon lay down on the shabby bed, it was definitely uncomfortable for a child-like Simon, but for now; they had to manage like this.

"Damian, bring me a towel and some clean water. Also, bring some porridge."

"Yes, my lord." With that, Damian went out.

And Yug sat beside his son, holding his hand and staring at the space.

Today his meeting with Rune was surely a pleasant surprise for him.

That same annoying personality and that same mocking habit of his.

Yug smiled gently, and very slowly as he thought about Rune.

Before Simon was born Rune and Yug had many dreams to fulfill, but after his son was born, Yug had to give up on many things.

Including his dreams, at one point he had thought that maybe Simon could fulfill his dreams for him, but after he got to know about Simon's blessing, Yug always wanted Simon to be far away from this kingdom where no one could reach him.

A few minutes later Damian came back with water and a towel and Yug wiped his son's face and hands with the towel and cold water and then he slowly fed Simon some porridge as well.

After Simon ate his food, Yug set the bowl to the side and made him drink some water, and then once again wiped his face and hands.

Meanwhile, Simon, who was in a deep sleep, was having a dream about his past life.

Flashback~

His father and he were having dinner, Yug was eating his food, and Simon was eating his food.

Yug looked rather pale and sickly and even Simon could see the slightly almost unnoticeable shaky hands of Yug.

Simin smiled and said, "Father, you look rather weak."

Yug glanced at him and said nothing, he was indeed getting weaker and weaker day by day.

At first, Yug had suspected that someone was poisoning him and he did a thorough investigation about it as well, but he couldn't find anything related to that.

So he came to the conclusion that maybe he was getting weak because he had caught some disease.

Simon smirked at his dad's conditions, what Yug didn't know was that it was his own son that was poisoning him.

Simon felt absolutely no remorse as he was seeing his father suffer in agony because Simon thought that Yug deserved this, he deserved to be tortured and a slow and painful death after what he did to his mother.

Yug separated Simon from his mother and neglected him, Simon thought that Yug just wanted to use Simon's powers and become powerful.

Simon saw how Yug kept a hand on his chest and then his stomach as he got up and suddenly vomited a lot of blood, he looked in a lot of pain as he clenched his head and slowly fell to the floor.

It hurt a lot, Yug felt as if someone was hammering nails inside his head while Simon just watched his father suffer.

"No, father no...no father..." Simon spoke in his sleep, he was crying and slowly shaking his head before he opened his eyes and woke up, "FATHER!"

He was breathing heavily and looked around frantically, Damian came running to him, "Young Lord, what's wrong?"

Simon was crying badly, "Where is my father?"

Damian gently patted his back, "Young Lord, your father has gone out for some work. He will be back soon please go back to sleep."

Simon shook his head, "No, I want to see him now."

Damian sighed, "Young Master, your father will be back soon. Please go back to sleep. When he will come, I am sure he will wake you up."

"But..."

"Young Lord please." Damian said, "Or is your head hurting again?"

"No, I am okay," he said and laid back on the bed. However, he couldn't sleep, not after the guilt and regret that were gnawing at his heart.

And making it suffocating for him to even breathe he cannot sleep well till he corrected all his wrongs.

Suddenly, the pain he had felt from his soul damage felt nothing compared to the heartache that he was experiencing.

Meanwhile, Yug was outside inspecting the area.

This was a small village, mainly inhabited by the sumedians, and judging by the condition of this town, it hasn't been well maintained.

Yug looked around and noticed the broken homes and walls, the terror of bandits was visible here.

Yug sighed. These bandits have created a lot of problems over the last few years and they have mainly targeted these small villages where the Sumedians lived.

Over the past few days, he had received many complaints about this and was also thinking about raising this issue in the imperial court, but Simon's conditions stopped him for now.

At night, this place looked barren, no child, no human was roaming the streets.

Yug suddenly felt movement in the opposite direction.

He slowly walked over there, ready to face whatever danger awaited him, he just hopes that there were not some bandits attacking at this time of night.

He had no problem, but he didn't want Simon to get in any kind of danger.

He walked towards the source of the movement but found no one there.

Suddenly, he turned around only to see someone charging at him with their sword.

Yug took out his dagger and held it against the sword, his dagger clashed against the sword before he pushed back the person, "Meridia." he said and his dagger turned into a sword,

He raised his sword and then jumped at the person who attacked him, the two swords clashed as the two people fought.

The other person looked skilled and experienced, but Yug was not weak.

Yug kicked the person who didn't seem to affect it, instead, he easily leaped in the air and attacked Yug once again.

Their swords clashed aggressively before the unknown man was able to push Yug against the wall with his sword against Yug.

As he leaned forward, Yug was about to attack, but before that, he heard the man say, "You are still so strong."

Yug paused once he heard this, and all the intention of attacking this man was gone, "I thought you went away."

Yug said and slowly raised his hand to remove the cloth that was covering the man's face, "Rune."