Juan recalled Hela telling him that she once had a son, but that he was killed on the battlefield by an arrow. Juan regretted not listening to her story properly. He had a feeling that he didn’t focus on her story properly because he assumed that Hela had married another man.

But the truth was that Hela had been pregnant with Gerard’s child even before she married another man.

‘She must have hurried to get married again to trick everyone.’

It was highly likely that the man who married Hela had known the truth, since Gerard’s relationship with Hela was quite famous in the East. Thanks to Hela’s trick, Gerard’s son was able to survive even after the assassination of the emperor. But Hela’s son was killed by an arrow shot by the rebels.

‘No, was he really dead?’

Juan couldn’t tell if her story had been a trick from the beginning or not. It was clear what would have happened if the empire ever found out that Gerard’s son was still alive, since Gerard’s son would definitely resemble his father as he grew older.

“What is your name?” Juan asked.

“My name is Haild Henna, Your Majesty.”

‘Henna… I guess he had no choice but to follow Hela’s last name.’

While it was the custom of the empire for sons to follow the family name of their father and daughters to follow the family name of their mother, it was not a hard tradition that had to be followed. Juan understood that Haild couldn’t use Gain as his last name, since he had to hide the fact that he was Gerard’s son. Juan wondered if...