“Cheshire…”
Enoch eventually couldn’t find a word to soothe the child, and just hugged him.
He also became afraid when he saw the child crying.
To face the truth.
What could it have been that his daughter said that made Chesire, who was so emotionally insensitive, break down like this?
“I don’t want to kill her…”
“….”
“I promised… Please…”
It makes his heart sink.
What does it mean to not want to kill his daughter?
He didn’t want to know.
****
After barely calming down, Enoch took Cheshire to his room and hesitated for a long time before going to his office.
A letter written by Lilith.
It took him a very long time to open it after turning it upside down.
Will I be able to read this and not break down?
Can it be okay?
‘Like a fool.’
Enoch sneered and turned the letter over.
Hi, Dad! By the time you are reading this letter, I will probably not be there, right?
The letter broke Enoch down from the first line.
Next he was confused.
‘What is this…’
Even though he never told her.
Lilith was looking at everything, just like a God.
The blade that Enoch is currently sharpening and forging.
Everything he prepares for the rebellion.
“How….”
His own struggles, along with the Emperor’s plan to fight back each and every one of them.
‘Are you seeing the future?’
Because it’s Primera?
No, if that were possible, there would have been no chance of winning the battle against the emperor from the beginning.
Enoch slowly realized.
The child, the child is—.
1789, policy of extermination of powerless people.
If you made it this far, success! ㅠㅠ Dad, thank you for your hard work.
But this won’t end even if we capture His Majesty… It’s me who kills people ㅠㅠ
It’s not about seeing the future, it’s about remembering all the time that has already disappeared.
Like Oscar the regressor,
It was a tragedy itself.
All of the previous lives.
I feel so sorry for innocent people.
It would be so painful for me to have to kill people. So…
Don’t hesitate. I’m begging you.
As soon as possible… Save a lot of people.
He was out of breath. Enoch squeezed his collar with startled eyes.
Right now at this moment. Everything was running towards the end in the same way as the time had disappeared.
The child is safe by his side.
Except for that fact.
“Why….”
Why is it you?
Why, even though you knew everything.
“Let’s not run away and return to the Capital. Return to the Knights.”
“And I also want to follow my dad and go to the Capital.”
Was she trying to come back here?
She could have pretended not to know and run away.
She would have wanted to do that.
“Ha, haha…”
Enoch laughed helplessly.
Finally, peace. A happy ending for everyone. A normal country…
The daughter thought her father had to hold a sword for that.
Even though she knew she was in danger and might die.
“Haha…”
Enoch continued to mock himself with blurred vision.
A child, a young and delicate child who is okay with being selfish.
It was Enoch himself who taught that, not anyone else.
“I, I to you…”
The tragedy he had only vaguely guessed was much more cruel and shocking than he imagined.
What if he failed?
No, would anything have been different if he hadn’t even tried?
A struggle for a petty cause.
The daughter was dying to stop her father from struggling.
“I don’t want to kill her…”
With the hands of Chesire, whom he taught, with a sword forged for a greater cause.
He even took his daughter’s life.
“A, argh…”
He couldn’t breathe. His hands touched his stuffy chest.
I see.
That’s what it was.
Because of her stupid father who didn’t even know what was important.
“Don’t go to war like this, father. Why do you listen to His Majesty’s words so clearly? Do you really think this is right?”
When he was a young boy.
Then Nordic said.
“You too will understand me someday.”
Enoch’s mother died in war.
Emperor’s orders. It was a battlefield where people were sent to die.
It was after that.
Just like Enoch, Nordic, who only spoke politely in front of the emperor, obediently held up his sword.
“There will come a time… when your beliefs will kill you.”
Yeah, father.
Everything his father said was correct.
To me, my daughter, who is like my life…
“Haa, ugh.”
Tears welled up in his bloodshot, swollen eyes. His hands continued to wander over his throbbing chest.
“Ah! Argh!”
Puk, puk. A painful punch. There was a red bruise on his chest.
It was me who killed you.
Dad’s beliefs killed you.
“Heuk…”
It’s painful.
It’s so painful.
To imagine the tragedy that his poor daughter would have endured alone…
It’s too much.
* * *
‘What is this?’
I definitely said goodnight to my dad and fell asleep.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I found myself standing in an unfamiliar place.
‘Eung. It’s Axion, right?’
Armed Axion and knights were seen.
I ran quickly.
“Uncleeee!”
I called him happily, but he didn’t respond.
Ignoring? No.
It felt like he couldn’t see me.
“Uncle…?”
I found a child holding Axion’s hand.
That was me!
This is what it looked like a few months ago.
When I lived in Xenon.
I was wearing an old dress, and my eyes were red, probably from crying.
‘Oh, this is a dream!’
That’s what I thought.
A strange feeling of floating, and even a sense of foreignness as I look at myself.
‘Wow, is this like a lucid dream?’
It was amazing. A dream that you dream while knowing that it is a dream.
As I was following the paladins heading somewhere, I stopped.
‘Wait. This…’
The moment I realized.
My heart was racing.
‘It seems like a part of the original story that I don’t know?’
I was kidnapped.
In order to get my dad back, the emperor ordered the Paladin.
Axion had no choice.
Now that I know the original story, I was able to quietly stick by my father’s side and return to the capital.
‘It probably wasn’t originally. I would have been kidnapped like that.’
As if the prediction were correct, the place where Axion and the Paladin arrived was a training center.
I saw my pale-faced mother there.
“…Were they really still in Xenon?”
“Yeah.”
Mother bit her lip.
“Stupidly, why…”
Although she revealed their location, she hoped that her father wouldn’t be staying in Xenon the whole time.
“Stupidly?”
I was startled.
The look on Axion’s face when he looks at my mother is so scary.
“Enoch, why did that smart brat do such a stupid thing?”
“….”
“Because he didn’t give birth alone. He probably thought her mother had the right to know where her daughter was.”
Axion gritted his teeth and added.
“Could he have imagined? His location has long since been told by the person he trusted.”
Mother avoided Axion’s eyes without answering.
She felt uncomfortable.
‘Phew, I knew everything, so why am I depressed again? Come to your senses.’
I clapped my cheeks.
My mother retired after giving birth to my stepbrother, Kyle.
Then, after only two years of running away, my father’s location had already entered the emperor’s ear.
Even though the emperor knew where we were hiding, he didn’t look for me until I was seven years old.
The reason is, well.
It’s obvious. Because I have to become very precious to my dad. This creates time for bonding with the baby.
The more I think about it, the more the emperor is like a real devil.
“…I’m sorry, Axion. But I’m glad you’re safe and sound. You must have had a hard time dealing with him.”
“It was easy.”
Axion was sarcastic.
“Because I had his child. He was afraid that the child might get hurt, so the great guy couldn’t do anything like an idiot. It was really funny.”
“….”
“He will be coming to the Capital now. Everything is now according to His Majesty’s wishes.”
“…I’m sorry.”
Mother was so speechless that she couldn’t even look at me. Unlike my mother, my eyes were constantly focused on her.
“I’m so sorry. I have nothing to say. I know how close you were to Enoch… A betrayal, I know it must have been heavy.”
“Wait, wait. Excuse me?”
Then Philip intervened, sweating nervously over the orange hair.
“I was just going to listen, but you’re talking really weird.”
The mood maker of the Paladin.
Uncle Philip who was a smiling statue.
But it is very cold now.
“Don’t you know how many times the commander ignored His Majesty’s orders? Don’t you know that after dragging on, we were forced to go because all of our knights would die?”
“Ah.”
“But what? Betrayal? Is this a betrayal by the commander? Yes?”
“Stop it.”
Axion stopped Philip, who was excited.
My mother apologized immediately.
“I’m sorry. I… I was so out of my mind. I made a slip of the tongue.”
The trembling mother and the angry Axion and Philip.
It was really hard to see it all.
‘Axion… He didn’t follow the emperor’s orders right away…’
I didn’t know because they didn’t tell me.
Other than Dad and Oscar, there is no one with great power who would dare disobey the orders of the Primera Emperor.
However, Axion seems to have held out until the very end.
“I have nothing more to say to you. Open the core, get a rank, and it’s over, right? The child will never see your face again.”
Axion held my hand and tried to enter the training center building.
“A, are you my mother?”
I, who was just watching, shook off Axion’s hand and clung to my mother.
“Mother… are you my mother?”
“….”
My mother was puzzled.
Axion and the Paladin uncles all stopped and watched me.
“M, mom… I, I’m scared. T, that uncle is like… Whaaa…!”
“Baby, don’t cry. It’s alright. It’s alright.”
My mother comforted me by holding me because I was scared of Axion and the uncles.
‘Ah, the kid is the worst.’
I burst out laughing as I watched it.
In the original, I was at the mental age of a 7-year-old who knew nothing.
Maybe that’s why I didn’t notice anything.
Unlike big and scary knights, a woman who looks small and sweet, and the mother who I saw for the first time
I cried and hung on.
As if my mother could be my salvation.
‘Stupid.’
Inevitably, it was my mother who took me to the training center.
‘Ahh! Don’t go!’
That place is a pit of hell!
I reached for the back of my mother who hugged me, but it was meaningless.
‘This is really the worst!’
I didn’t want to see any more, but the moment I was about to follow.
I was taken out of my dream right away, as if someone had rescued me from drowning.
* * *
“Whoa!”
When I woke up from a dream and opened my eyes, the sunlight was strong.
It’s morning.
My first thought was that lucid dreaming is amazing.
Even if I wished to know the original story that I didn’t know, it was beyond my ability.
‘Why did I have this dream? Can I have another dream?’
I wanted to see more, but at the same time, when I thought I couldn’t watch it anymore, it just stopped.
The cutting is unusual.
With that thought in mind, I suddenly got up.
“Eung?”
My dad was next to me.
For some reason, he put a chair next to the bed and lay down in an uncomfortable position.
“Daddy, what are you doing! When did you get here?”
Dad suddenly raised his upper body at the sound of my voice.
“No, why didn’t you change your clothes again? It’s so uncomfortable… Whaa!”
I was shocked to see my Dad’s face.
What is this?
What could it be?
W, why…
Why are the handsome protagonist’s eyes like that?
“Princess. Did you sleep well?”
A cracked voice.
Dad forced his eyes, which were swollen like a puffer fish’s stomach, to look up.
“D, dad, why… just who…”
“Mmhm.”
“The one that turns Dad into a frog!!!”
“Cheshire…”
Enoch eventually couldn’t find a word to soothe the child, and just hugged him.
He also became afraid when he saw the child crying.
To face the truth.
What could it have been that his daughter said that made Chesire, who was so emotionally insensitive, break down like this?
“I don’t want to kill her…”
“….”
“I promised… Please…”
It makes his heart sink.
What does it mean to not want to kill his daughter?
He didn’t want to know.
****
After barely calming down, Enoch took Cheshire to his room and hesitated for a long time before going to his office.
A letter written by Lilith.
It took him a very long time to open it after turning it upside down.
Will I be able to read this and not break down?
Can it be okay?
‘Like a fool.’
Enoch sneered and turned the letter over.
Hi, Dad! By the time you are reading this letter, I will probably not be there, right?
The letter broke Enoch down from the first line.
Next he was confused.
‘What is this…’
Even though he never told her.
Lilith was looking at everything, just like a God.
The blade that Enoch is currently sharpening and forging.
Everything he prepares for the rebellion.
“How….”
His own struggles, along with the Emperor’s plan to fight back each and every one of them.
‘Are you seeing the future?’
Because it’s Primera?
No, if that were possible, there would have been no chance of winning the battle against the emperor from the beginning.
Enoch slowly realized.
The child, the child is—.
1789, policy of extermination of powerless people.
If you made it this far, success! ㅠㅠ Dad, thank you for your hard work.
But this won’t end even if we capture His Majesty… It’s me who kills people ㅠㅠ
It’s not about seeing the future, it’s about remembering all the time that has already disappeared.
Like Oscar the regressor,
It was a tragedy itself.
All of the previous lives.
I feel so sorry for innocent people.
It would be so painful for me to have to kill people. So…
Don’t hesitate. I’m begging you.
As soon as possible… Save a lot of people.
He was out of breath. Enoch squeezed his collar with startled eyes.
Right now at this moment. Everything was running towards the end in the same way as the time had disappeared.
The child is safe by his side.
Except for that fact.
“Why….”
Why is it you?
Why, even though you knew everything.
“Let’s not run away and return to the Capital. Return to the Knights.”
“And I also want to follow my dad and go to the Capital.”
Was she trying to come back here?
She could have pretended not to know and run away.
She would have wanted to do that.
“Ha, haha…”
Enoch laughed helplessly.
Finally, peace. A happy ending for everyone. A normal country…
The daughter thought her father had to hold a sword for that.
Even though she knew she was in danger and might die.
“Haha…”
Enoch continued to mock himself with blurred vision.
A child, a young and delicate child who is okay with being selfish.
It was Enoch himself who taught that, not anyone else.
“I, I to you…”
The tragedy he had only vaguely guessed was much more cruel and shocking than he imagined.
What if he failed?
No, would anything have been different if he hadn’t even tried?
A struggle for a petty cause.
The daughter was dying to stop her father from struggling.
“I don’t want to kill her…”
With the hands of Chesire, whom he taught, with a sword forged for a greater cause.
He even took his daughter’s life.
“A, argh…”
He couldn’t breathe. His hands touched his stuffy chest.
I see.
That’s what it was.
Because of her stupid father who didn’t even know what was important.
“Don’t go to war like this, father. Why do you listen to His Majesty’s words so clearly? Do you really think this is right?”
When he was a young boy.
Then Nordic said.
“You too will understand me someday.”
Enoch’s mother died in war.
Emperor’s orders. It was a battlefield where people were sent to die.
It was after that.
Just like Enoch, Nordic, who only spoke politely in front of the emperor, obediently held up his sword.
“There will come a time… when your beliefs will kill you.”
Yeah, father.
Everything his father said was correct.
To me, my daughter, who is like my life…
“Haa, ugh.”
Tears welled up in his bloodshot, swollen eyes. His hands continued to wander over his throbbing chest.
“Ah! Argh!”
Puk, puk. A painful punch. There was a red bruise on his chest.
It was me who killed you.
Dad’s beliefs killed you.
“Heuk…”
It’s painful.
It’s so painful.
To imagine the tragedy that his poor daughter would have endured alone…
It’s too much.
* * *
‘What is this?’
I definitely said goodnight to my dad and fell asleep.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I found myself standing in an unfamiliar place.
‘Eung. It’s Axion, right?’
Armed Axion and knights were seen.
I ran quickly.
“Uncleeee!”
I called him happily, but he didn’t respond.
Ignoring? No.
It felt like he couldn’t see me.
“Uncle…?”
I found a child holding Axion’s hand.
That was me!
This is what it looked like a few months ago.
When I lived in Xenon.
I was wearing an old dress, and my eyes were red, probably from crying.
‘Oh, this is a dream!’
That’s what I thought.
A strange feeling of floating, and even a sense of foreignness as I look at myself.
‘Wow, is this like a lucid dream?’
It was amazing. A dream that you dream while knowing that it is a dream.
As I was following the paladins heading somewhere, I stopped.
‘Wait. This…’
The moment I realized.
My heart was racing.
‘It seems like a part of the original story that I don’t know?’
I was kidnapped.
In order to get my dad back, the emperor ordered the Paladin.
Axion had no choice.
Now that I know the original story, I was able to quietly stick by my father’s side and return to the capital.
‘It probably wasn’t originally. I would have been kidnapped like that.’
As if the prediction were correct, the place where Axion and the Paladin arrived was a training center.
I saw my pale-faced mother there.
“…Were they really still in Xenon?”
“Yeah.”
Mother bit her lip.
“Stupidly, why…”
Although she revealed their location, she hoped that her father wouldn’t be staying in Xenon the whole time.
“Stupidly?”
I was startled.
The look on Axion’s face when he looks at my mother is so scary.
“Enoch, why did that smart brat do such a stupid thing?”
“….”
“Because he didn’t give birth alone. He probably thought her mother had the right to know where her daughter was.”
Axion gritted his teeth and added.
“Could he have imagined? His location has long since been told by the person he trusted.”
Mother avoided Axion’s eyes without answering.
She felt uncomfortable.
‘Phew, I knew everything, so why am I depressed again? Come to your senses.’
I clapped my cheeks.
My mother retired after giving birth to my stepbrother, Kyle.
Then, after only two years of running away, my father’s location had already entered the emperor’s ear.
Even though the emperor knew where we were hiding, he didn’t look for me until I was seven years old.
The reason is, well.
It’s obvious. Because I have to become very precious to my dad. This creates time for bonding with the baby.
The more I think about it, the more the emperor is like a real devil.
“…I’m sorry, Axion. But I’m glad you’re safe and sound. You must have had a hard time dealing with him.”
“It was easy.”
Axion was sarcastic.
“Because I had his child. He was afraid that the child might get hurt, so the great guy couldn’t do anything like an idiot. It was really funny.”
“….”
“He will be coming to the Capital now. Everything is now according to His Majesty’s wishes.”
“…I’m sorry.”
Mother was so speechless that she couldn’t even look at me. Unlike my mother, my eyes were constantly focused on her.
“I’m so sorry. I have nothing to say. I know how close you were to Enoch… A betrayal, I know it must have been heavy.”
“Wait, wait. Excuse me?”
Then Philip intervened, sweating nervously over the orange hair.
“I was just going to listen, but you’re talking really weird.”
The mood maker of the Paladin.
Uncle Philip who was a smiling statue.
But it is very cold now.
“Don’t you know how many times the commander ignored His Majesty’s orders? Don’t you know that after dragging on, we were forced to go because all of our knights would die?”
“Ah.”
“But what? Betrayal? Is this a betrayal by the commander? Yes?”
“Stop it.”
Axion stopped Philip, who was excited.
My mother apologized immediately.
“I’m sorry. I… I was so out of my mind. I made a slip of the tongue.”
The trembling mother and the angry Axion and Philip.
It was really hard to see it all.
‘Axion… He didn’t follow the emperor’s orders right away…’
I didn’t know because they didn’t tell me.
Other than Dad and Oscar, there is no one with great power who would dare disobey the orders of the Primera Emperor.
However, Axion seems to have held out until the very end.
“I have nothing more to say to you. Open the core, get a rank, and it’s over, right? The child will never see your face again.”
Axion held my hand and tried to enter the training center building.
“A, are you my mother?”
I, who was just watching, shook off Axion’s hand and clung to my mother.
“Mother… are you my mother?”
“….”
My mother was puzzled.
Axion and the Paladin uncles all stopped and watched me.
“M, mom… I, I’m scared. T, that uncle is like… Whaaa…!”
“Baby, don’t cry. It’s alright. It’s alright.”
My mother comforted me by holding me because I was scared of Axion and the uncles.
‘Ah, the kid is the worst.’
I burst out laughing as I watched it.
In the original, I was at the mental age of a 7-year-old who knew nothing.
Maybe that’s why I didn’t notice anything.
Unlike big and scary knights, a woman who looks small and sweet, and the mother who I saw for the first time
I cried and hung on.
As if my mother could be my salvation.
‘Stupid.’
Inevitably, it was my mother who took me to the training center.
‘Ahh! Don’t go!’
That place is a pit of hell!
I reached for the back of my mother who hugged me, but it was meaningless.
‘This is really the worst!’
I didn’t want to see any more, but the moment I was about to follow.
I was taken out of my dream right away, as if someone had rescued me from drowning.
* * *
“Whoa!”
When I woke up from a dream and opened my eyes, the sunlight was strong.
It’s morning.
My first thought was that lucid dreaming is amazing.
Even if I wished to know the original story that I didn’t know, it was beyond my ability.
‘Why did I have this dream? Can I have another dream?’
I wanted to see more, but at the same time, when I thought I couldn’t watch it anymore, it just stopped.
The cutting is unusual.
With that thought in mind, I suddenly got up.
“Eung?”
My dad was next to me.
For some reason, he put a chair next to the bed and lay down in an uncomfortable position.
“Daddy, what are you doing! When did you get here?”
Dad suddenly raised his upper body at the sound of my voice.
“No, why didn’t you change your clothes again? It’s so uncomfortable… Whaa!”
I was shocked to see my Dad’s face.
What is this?
What could it be?
W, why…
Why are the handsome protagonist’s eyes like that?
“Princess. Did you sleep well?”
A cracked voice.
Dad forced his eyes, which were swollen like a puffer fish’s stomach, to look up.
“D, dad, why… just who…”
“Mmhm.”
“The one that turns Dad into a frog!!!”
