Category: The Duke Who Returned Wants to Live a Quiet Life

The sword in its sheath let out a quiet whine. Ayr gently stroked the sword a few times. This was a place he would be visiting every day anyway. Moreover, there were probably only a handful of people on the continent who could wield this sword other than himself, so there was no need to…

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 (2) ㅤ My first lesson from Master wasn’t swordsmanship or aura manipulation, it was how to hammer. The Gerkinde Barony, as known throughout the Martyn Kingdom, is a house of blacksmiths, not knights, mages, or administrative personnel. ㅤ It may seem incompatible for a blacksmith and an aristocratic house to mix, but the…

Darkness had settled around unknowingly. ㅤ Ayr stood as he had at the beginning, staring at the graves and tombstones. However, his eyes were not looking ahead, but into the past. ㅤ The last time he had seen his master had been just before he left for the Demon Realm gate, and his master had…

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 (1) ㅤ 𝘚𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩━ ㅤ Ayr slowly lowered himself into the water, wisps of steam rising. The warmth of the water slowly enveloped his body. He wanted to close his eyes but he didn’t. A faint scent emanated from the wooden bathtub, as if it was made from basswood.   ㅤ The bathwater maintained its…

Before going to where his master laid in rest, Ayr decided to wash up first. Thanks to spending so much time in the Demon Realm, he had gotten used to not bathing. ㅤ The Demon Realm was a place where the stagnant water was more dangerous and dirtier than the rain that fell from the…

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 (3) ㅤ When he opened the Demon Realm gate and came out, he found himself at the end of the Western Continent. It had taken him a year to get here thanks to that. He could have gotten here sooner, but he wasn’t in a hurry. He had spent his life on the…

Ayr, the man, had been feeling his emotions surge ever since he arrived at the gate of Gerkinde’s territory. ㅤ During the countless hours he spent in the Demon Realm, he and his men gradually killed their emotions. At some point, their emotions, like those of the desert, cracked and became invisible, drifting apart from…

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 (2) ㅤ Pow! ㅤ The moment he opened his eyes, Krimson, who had been behind him, brushed past Fiden’s shoulder and walked forward. Fiden tried to stop him, but it was already too late to catch up with him walking forward without hesitation. ㅤ “What is the so-called captain of the guards doing…

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 (𝟏) The Baron Gerkindey is considered the weakest on the continent, even in the Kingdom of Martyn, which is insignificant.  Fortunately, the territory they own is located in the south of the East Continent and has developed fertile farmlands and a small mine, which I guess is lucky. However, pathetically, those too had…

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 “Damn it!” The sky was certainly cloudless not long ago. But it started to pour with rain along with some claps of thunder. 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘩𝘩𝘩𝘩𝘩━ The warm, sticky rainwater ran down his face. He raised an arm to wipe away the rain, but the black water just smeared across the leather guard on his forearm. …