I Regressed to My Ruined Family – 3

 #I returned, and my family was ruined (3)

The servants stared wide-eyed at the grand duke.

To send a healthy adult flying across the room with just one blow! It was a sight that only an exceptional knight who could freely control mana could achieve.

It was impossible that this was the crown prince who had been in a coma for ten years after experiencing mana overload.

While those around him were in shock,

Ethan began to take steps toward Hans.

“Ugh, ugh! Don’t come!”

Hans looked at the servants desperately, as if asking for help.

However, no one responded to his gaze. Everyone began to quietly avert their eyes.

Even the servants who had always been friendly with him and joked around with him were no exception.

“You… bastards!”

How well they had treated him until now!

How could no one help him?

Hans trembled.

Before he knew it, the shadow of the Grand Duke completely enveloped him.

Ethan stretched out his hand, grabbed Hans by the collar, and lifted him up.

“I am a member of the nobility! Even if you are the Grand Duke…”

“Grand Duke?”

Smack!

Hans’ cheek burned. It felt as if his mouth had been torn open.

He hurriedly corrected himself.

“Even if you are the Grand Duke! You can’t just lay your hands on me like that!”

As Hans spat out the words, he locked eyes with the Grand Duke.

Ethan’s black pupils.

They looked as dark as the bottomless pit. Hans’ spine shivered involuntarily.

“What kind of eyes are those…?”

Even the highwaymen who committed murder as easily as eating a meal on the road would not dare to show such a terrifying gaze.

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Trembling, he hurriedly looked down at the ground and shouted.

“Your Highness! Please stop! If you do this to me now, do you think I will just stay in the Karagas family?”

“The Karagas family?”

Ethan asked back with an expressionless face and then laughed softly.

Then he began to slap Hans’ cheeks alternately.

Smack! Smack!

He must have been hit about five times.

Hans’s yellow teeth fell out of his mouth and rolled on the floor.

It was so painful and harsh. Tears welled up in his eyes.

Hans looked at the Grand Duke in panic. He saw him raise his hand again.

The fear he had learned filled his mind.

“Oh no! Prince! Why are you doing this? Please say something!”

At those words, Ethan glanced somewhere. Hans quickly turned his head in that direction.

Ethan was looking at the dining room.

“…!”

Now he began to understand why he was being beaten.

His sister had been busy since early morning, but the servants were fooling around, so of course she would be angry.

Right now, his top priority was to get rid of the cause of the beating.

Hans saw where the dining room was and shouted urgently.

“What are you doing? You bastards! Hurry up and help the Grand Princess!”

The head servant was screaming, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. His appearance was enough to instill fear in the servants.

Some of the maids were walking toward the kitchen.

“They seem to be taking their time.”

Zzaaah!

Degurr.

With a cool sound, another tooth rolled toward the floor. Hans, with tears in his eyes, looked at the maids.

“Don’t walk! Run!”

Hearing screams like cries, the maids began to move their feet quickly.

Only then was Hans’s neck released.

Ethan patted Hans’s shoulders, which had collapsed onto the floor, and whispered quietly.

“Hey.”

“Yes!”

“Do well.”

Hans trembled as he stared intently at the pupils of his eyes.

It was too emotionless to be the voice of someone who had just pulled out three teeth.

“He’s crazy.”

He really is crazy.

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What’s worse, he had no way to punish the grand duke, who had turned into a madman overnight.

Even though he bore the name of the 10th branch of the royal family, he didn’t seem to care at all.

The moment when his sweet job turned into hell in an instant.

“Yes, yes.”

Finally, the prince began to walk back toward the dining hall.

Hans sighed inwardly and diligently picked up the teeth that had been pulled out.

His empty gums ached even more than before.

“Damn him!”

Seeing his tooth lying on the floor, belated anger rose in his heart.

Ethan Ardan.

Ten years ago, a mana explosion completely destroyed his mana hole, leaving him half crippled.

His emaciated appearance made him look so frail that he seemed unable to break even a simple tree branch.

How could he be beaten so badly by such a guy?

The name of his tenth cousin, Karagas, naturally came to mind.

The first thing to do was to report what had happened today.

Hans recalled what had just happened.

The moment he was grabbed by the collar, his body was thrown high into the air.

It was a strength that could never have come from the thin body of the Grand Duke.

“Mana.”

He had definitely used mana.

If the Grand Duke found out that he had not only opened his eyes but also started using mana, there would surely be some reaction from the Nam family.

But first…

“The priority is to avoid being picked on by that madman.”

Hans’ eyes lit up, and he called one of his servants.

“Clean the entire mansion today. Don’t leave a speck of dust. From now on, have the maids prepare all the meals. The same goes for laundry and cleaning.”

“…Yes?”

“Yes? Are you crazy?”

Bang!

Hans kicked the servant’s shin hard. The servant rolled on the floor, kicked by the boot.

The servants’ eyes turned toward Hans.

“What are you looking at! Get back to work! If a single drop of water touches the Grand Duchess’s hands, you’ll all die!”

At his harsh words, the servants scattered like cockroaches throughout the annex.

Seeing this, Hans entered the room assigned to him.

He took out a piece of paper.

He began to write, pressing down hard on his aching gums.

Dear Baron Helmut.

Drip. Drip.

“Huh…”

Hot tears fell onto the letter.

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After taking care of the servant.

Ethan returned to his room after eating breakfast and looked at his hands.

His thin wrists were trembling. He had been lying in bed for ten years.

Perhaps because of that, even just slapping someone’s cheek caused muscle pain to rush through his body.

“My body has weakened a lot.”

His strength, endurance, and reflexes. Compared to his previous life, everything was severely lacking.

When he hit the butler.

If he hadn’t gathered the mana in the air into his hands, he wouldn’t have been able to knock the guy down, let alone humiliate him.

Ethan silently stared at his hands and recalled what Elena had said to him.

“Arrogant bastards.”

The Ardan family.

It was a prestigious family that had been passed down from countless ancestors, and it was the family Ethan had spent his entire life in.

He had always been proud of his bloodline and had strived to fulfill his duties since becoming the head of the family.

In his previous life, he had sacrificed his life to stop the Dragon Lord, all for the sake of protecting his family.

And now, a mere collateral relative?

“You dare touch what is mine?”

And you, a worthless piece of trash with no right to even be here?

Judging by the attitude of the baron’s servant today, it was easy to imagine how arrogant the collateral branches would be. How arrogant must they be to speak so boldly to him, even though they were servants?

Ethan thought of the ten collateral branches.

“The Council of Elders, was it?”

A pack of wolves trying to take what was his. From now on, he would make sure they knew who was the master.

If necessary, he would cut off all their heads.

“First, I need to check my physical condition.”

Ethan sat cross-legged and began to observe his body.

The first place he looked was the area around his abdomen, where his mana hole was located.

“As I expected. The mana hole has burst open in all directions. It was a mana explosion.”

Now he understood why he couldn’t feel any mana in his body.

Since the hole that collected mana had been completely destroyed, it would be strange if he could feel any mana at all.

That was why mana overload was called a curse. It was impossible for someone with average talent to sense a mana hole that had been shattered into pieces.

However, Ethan was not a knight with average talent.

He was one of the continent’s greatest geniuses.

That was one of the phrases used to describe him.

“The pieces of the hole spread out better than I expected. This is actually good.”

Arms, legs, wrists, ankles, waist, fingers, neck, etc.

The fragments of the burst mana hole were embedded in every corner of his body.

Instead of one large mana hole, hundreds of small mana holes had been created.

On top of that, his physical performance…

“Not bad for someone who’s been lying down for ten years.”

First of all, the blood vessels spread throughout his body were quite large for his size.

Large blood vessels meant that he could move a lot of mana at once.

This was a big advantage.

His blood vessels had hardly grown since he was a child.

However, perhaps because he had been lying down for ten years, his blood vessels were large but quite weak.

“There’s a lot of impurities too.”

This was something he would have to correct gradually as he continued his training.

As he accumulated mana, he would be able to cleanse and strengthen his blood vessels.

“I’ll start with resonance.”

Resonance.

It was the process of vibrating the mana hole to match the wavelength of the mana in the air, and then pulling the matched mana into the hole.

Only after filling the hole with mana could he completely control it.

He concentrated his mind.

The first part to resonate was his wrist, which he used to hold the sword.

The mana holes embedded in both wrists trembled. Soon, mana began to be sucked in like a tidal wave through the vibrating mana holes.

After stimulating the mana holes in his wrists all morning, Ethan finished his lunch and headed for the courtyard.

It was to build muscle on his emaciated body.

Physical training.

This was the most basic of basics.

In his current physical condition, his top priority was to steadily gather mana, eat well, and build muscle.

With small sandbags tied to his body, he began with martial arts and continued with all kinds of strength training.

The servants who glanced at him as they passed by the courtyard in between training sessions were amazed.

From lunch until dinner, the Grand Prince continued his training without a moment’s rest.

“How can he train like that with such a skinny body…?”

To exaggerate a little, he looked like he would fly away with just a gust of wind.

And he was training with sandbags attached to his body?

He was a relentless individual.

When they recalled how he had slapped the chamberlain across the face that morning, they couldn’t help but tremble.

With such a relentless individual awake, they would never be able to return to their comfortable lives.

The servants were working late into the night with grim expressions on their faces.

Someone was running toward the hill where the villa was located.

It was a familiar figure to the servants. He was a member of the vigilante group in the village below.

He was also a soldier who came running every day looking for the grand princess, saying that the youngest prince was causing trouble at a bar.

“Ugh! Ugh!”

Ethan, who was practicing in the courtyard, turned his gaze toward the sound of heavy breathing.

A boy who looked to be in his late teens was breathing heavily.

He wore a leather armor with a simple emblem.

He also carried a long spear.

No matter how Ethan looked at him, he was definitely not a farmer.

Ethan asked him a question.

“Who are you?”

“Huff. It’s because Lord Myers caused trouble at the tavern again…! But who are you? You look like someone I’ve never seen before…”

Trouble?

Ethan tilted his head in confusion.