Dad laughed helplessly while looking at me in shock.
“What is it! Who did it! Tell me quickly! Who hit Dad?”
“No, it’s not like that.”
Then, while holding me in his arms, he got up and was silent for a while.
What the hell is going on?
I felt like he was crying just looking at it, but I couldn’t figure out the reason.
“…Princess.”
“Eung.”
Dad’s breathing became heavy.
“D, dad? What’s wrong…”
Was it not enough for him to cry in secret until his eyes were swollen like frogs?
“Princess. Dad is…”
“….”
Dad put his face around my neck and sobbed pitifully.
“Dad is sorry.”
“About what? Eung?”
“I’m really, really sorry. Dad… for not being able to keep my promise. For not being able to protect the princess…”
“….”
“Princess had a hard time alone, and I didn’t know anything… Princess was waiting for me, but I couldn’t go get you…”
My heart dropped.
I dimly realized what my Dad was saying.
No one knows, no one should know.
A tragedy that didn’t happen this time.
However, a tragedy may occur in the future.
An apology to myself from the original story.
‘What is it? How did you know?’
I froze in bewilderment.
“This time, Dad, you know.”
“D, dad…”
Dad lifted his buried face and made eye contact with me.
Even with a crying face, he forcibly raises the corners of his mouth. The expression made me sadder.
“I will protect you, my daughter, no matter what.”
“….”
“You will never feel lonely or in pain… Our princess will never suffer alone.”
Dad hugged me tight again.
All the emotions my Dad was feeling right now were conveyed to me through his trembling arms.
Dad held me for a long time and repeated the same thing.
“Dad is sorry… I’m really really sorry…”
***
I expected it, but still.
As soon as my Dad went to wash up, I opened the package in the closet and felt frustrated.
The letter was nowhere to be found.
“Is this for real?”
I didn’t want to break the mentality of the main character who was about to do something big, so I tried to reveal my secret at the right time.
Did I just write my identity in the letter?
With a feeling of emptiness, I remembered from time to time what I had written in the letter.
…I will be hidden in the tower. The silver spire of the Emperor’s Palace…
For ten years…
The abilities the crown prince uses are all my life force…
Policy of extermination of powerless people. But this won’t end even if we capture His Majesty… It’s me who kills people.
“Wow, wait a minute.”
I grabbed my hair in shock.
In addition, future events were listed in great detail so that Dad could handle it quickly.
What did Dad think when he saw it?
‘Probably because he knows that Oscar has returned…’
He would have guessed it similarly.
He would think that this is my second time in life, and that I have even experienced that tragedy myself.
‘But it’s not.’
It was a disaster.
Should I tell my Dad the truth later because he will be so heartbroken?
Actually, I lived on Earth in the 21st century and was reincarnated in a book I read there?
So, don’t worry, because I haven’t really experienced this tragedy?
‘Eung, he can’t believe it.’
He might think that I’m making up strange lies because I’m afraid of worrying my Dad.
“No! But why did Dad suddenly organize the closet…!”
As I was getting angry, someone came to mind like a bolt of lightning.
Cheshire.
‘No way? Cheshire said it?’
That’s right, no matter how buff Dad is as the main character.
There’s no way that he suddenly found my letter as if excited and thought, ‘Ah! For some reason, I feel like opening the closet?’
‘I can smell it!’
It’s the smell of betrayal!
Cheshire you fool, mongrel, sea cucumber, sea anemone!
I left the room right away.
I will wash, eat, get dressed and go to Cheshire’s house and argue.
“Huh?”
But before I had to go far, Cheshire came out of the room right next to mine.
“What are you! Why are you here?”
And I realized before I heard the answer.
So he said it yesterday.
He came all the way to my house and told my dad himself.
“Y, you…”
“I’m sorry.”
I got excited and pointed at Cheshire, but he apologized plainly.
“What?”
“I’m sorry.”
The anger level dropped like it had been poured with cold water.
Cheshire just stands there like he won’t care if I swear at him or hit him.
The will to fight that was never there before is disappearing.
“Why did you do that…”
I asked droopingly.
“I thought Uncle should know. There’s nothing I can do on my own.”
“I didn’t ask you to do anything! I just, I just…!”
“Lilith.”
Cheshire called me quietly.
Why? Even though his eyes were the same as usual, I had an odd feeling that they were different.
“There’s a favor you asked me in the letter.”
“….”
“I’m sorry, but I can’t listen to you.”
Favor, favor.
What kind of favor?
When I start killing people, don’t hesitate. Because by then it was already too late.
Please save people as quickly as possible. Please, I’m begging you.
Everyone is someone’s precious family and friends. It would be so pitiful if someone died without doing anything wrong.
While I was thinking about it, Cheshire approached me and said,
“I won’t let that happen, I won’t fail.”
“….”
“But even if I fail, I won’t be able to grant your request. No, I won’t.”
“Cheshire… What do you mean by that? Do you want to just watch innocent people die pitifully?”
“Then I.”
Cheshire’s voice sank.
“Don’t you feel sorry for me?”
“What?”
“You said that everyone is someone’s precious family and friends. Then about me. What do I have? What about my family and my friends?”
Cheshire, pursed his lips, trembled as he looked at me in a daze.
“You said let’s be friends. Family, you said you’d do it.”
“Ah. Cheshire…”
“I said I didn’t need it. I told you not to be nice to me.”
“….”
“But you, you did it all.”
His eyes were watery as he looked at me, as if he was resenting me.
“And then… How can I, you…”
“….”
“How can you ask such a favor?”
“C, Cheshire. It’s not like that, I…”
“O, oh. Kids.”
Then my Dad suddenly came up the stairs.
“Don’t fight.”
Dad was dressed in outdoor clothes.
The swollen eyes had settled down before I knew it.
And—.
“No, why did you call me in the morning?”
Axion followed up.
He was surprised to see Cheshire.
“What are you? Why are you here?”
“Axion.”
Dad held Axion’s arm tightly as he looked puzzled.
“I have to go to the imperial palace now.”
“What? Why? Did His Majesty call you again?”
Dad nodded.
‘He called Dad? Oh, now that you’ve created a fake revelation, are you calling him to go to war?’
I swallowed a sigh inside.
“I’ll be right back, so take care of the kid in the meantime.”
“….?”
Axion blinked his eyes.
“What? Did I hear it wrong?”
“No, you heard it right.”
“…Is there anyone at home?”
Axion was confused.
But I could see why he called Dad early in the morning.
‘Phew, as expected, my Dad’s mentality is completely gone.’
He’s afraid.
To leave me alone.
‘I didn’t want you to know because I was afraid this would happen.’
Even though I’ll be staying in a safe house, he’ll always have bad imaginations about me, which will bother my Dad.
From now on, my Dad will try to protect me unnecessarily.
“There is. There is my father, servants, there is everything…”
“But what!”
Dad laughed and tapped Axion on the shoulder.
“It’s because I want to let you know the joy of parenting.”
“Ah.”
Axion’s mouth slowly opened.
“…This madman.”
***
The Emperor, Nicholas’ Office.
There were two people, the emperor and the high priest.
High Priest, Timothy Hartmann.
He is a seventy-eight years old priest.
There is only one thing for him who has lost his overflowing divine power, youthful stamina, and noble faith.
There was something that was still alive and well.
It was greed.
“Thank you, Your Majesty, for caring so much about an insignificant old man.”
Timothy bowed his head toward Nicholas, who was busily scribbling his pen.
A revelation from God that encourages continental unification.
It was a lie made up according to the emperor’s will.
However, who can prove this revelation to be false?
“Even thanks.”
“No. I should thank you.”
The status of Timothy, a high priest who couldn’t hear the voice of God that even young priests could hear, had fallen to the point of fall.
However, this time, by publicizing the fake revelation ordered by the emperor, his reputation immediately rose.
“I would be embarrassed if you thanked me so much. I also planned this because I have something to gain. We should help each other.”
“I hope it works out very well.”
Timothy asked anxiously.
“No matter how much Sir Enoch says, he won’t ignore God’s revelation in the current atmosphere of the capital, will he?”
“It won’t be easy.”
Nicholas clicked his tongue.
“Isn’t he a man who is not afraid of an emperor who is no better than a God? But what would be scary about the revelation of God without a shape?”
“Yes? So you’re saying that Lord Enoch won’t just prepare for war?”
“I guess so. But the reason I planned this was to kill Enoch’s spirit.”
Nicholas added with a sigh.
“If all the people of the empire throw stones at my tenuous beliefs, he might slowly change their minds.”
“…I see.”
Timothy looked at the uncharacteristically passive Nicholas and thought of Enoch.
Enoch Rubinstein.
A person who cannot be wielded carelessly even by the almighty Primera.
The emperor always wanted to have Enoch but was also afraid.
Even so—.
Is there really no way?
“That, Your Majesty. Doesn’t Sir Enoch have a daughter?”
Timothy said cautiously.
“Why don’t you use it?”
“….”
Nicholas, who had been writing with his pen on his papers for a while, thought over his words and chuckled.
“What, how?”
“….”
“You want me to kidnap her? Are you openly saying that all the aristocrats should turn their backs on me?”’
“Ah, no. Of course not. That’s not it, Your Majesty is almighty, so you can use your power….”
Nicholas raised his head nervously.
“Should I hide the child? Or should I tell him to obey my words? Who else but me, the Primera, can do whatever I want with my powers like that?”
Nicholas was annoyed.
“The leader of an empire who wants to control the father by taking his daughter hostage in order to start a war. It must be a very good prey for luxuryists.”
“No, Your Majesty. I….”
Timothy broke into a cold sweat.
But Nicholas didn’t stop talking.
He was already furious whenever he thought of Lilith.
“I guess you’ve become dull because you’re stuck in a temple. High Priest, how can I take Enoch’s daughter hostage while he doesn’t know that I used my power? If that could happen, wouldn’t I have tried it earlier? Huh?”
“….”
“Enoch might already want to kill me if he gets the chance. Should I give him a reason to take up the sword with my own hands?”
If it was easy, there was no need to create a holy beast situation.
It was a plan to put Lilith in danger within the legal limits permitted by the emperor’s power.
“Your Majesty, please calm down. I didn’t say that without thinking.”
Timothy, wiping away his cold sweat, comforted the excited Nicholas and added,
“There’s a way to make things happen without them knowing it’s Your Majesty’s ability. A way for Sir Enoch to come to Your Majesty on his own and beg for his daughter’s life.”
“What?”
“The child is capable with a holy power, right?”
At Timothy’s question, Nicholas’s eyes widened.
Because he immediately realized what he was trying to say.
Dad laughed helplessly while looking at me in shock.
“What is it! Who did it! Tell me quickly! Who hit Dad?”
“No, it’s not like that.”
Then, while holding me in his arms, he got up and was silent for a while.
What the hell is going on?
I felt like he was crying just looking at it, but I couldn’t figure out the reason.
“…Princess.”
“Eung.”
Dad’s breathing became heavy.
“D, dad? What’s wrong…”
Was it not enough for him to cry in secret until his eyes were swollen like frogs?
“Princess. Dad is…”
“….”
Dad put his face around my neck and sobbed pitifully.
“Dad is sorry.”
“About what? Eung?”
“I’m really, really sorry. Dad… for not being able to keep my promise. For not being able to protect the princess…”
“….”
“Princess had a hard time alone, and I didn’t know anything… Princess was waiting for me, but I couldn’t go get you…”
My heart dropped.
I dimly realized what my Dad was saying.
No one knows, no one should know.
A tragedy that didn’t happen this time.
However, a tragedy may occur in the future.
An apology to myself from the original story.
‘What is it? How did you know?’
I froze in bewilderment.
“This time, Dad, you know.”
“D, dad…”
Dad lifted his buried face and made eye contact with me.
Even with a crying face, he forcibly raises the corners of his mouth. The expression made me sadder.
“I will protect you, my daughter, no matter what.”
“….”
“You will never feel lonely or in pain… Our princess will never suffer alone.”
Dad hugged me tight again.
All the emotions my Dad was feeling right now were conveyed to me through his trembling arms.
Dad held me for a long time and repeated the same thing.
“Dad is sorry… I’m really really sorry…”
***
I expected it, but still.
As soon as my Dad went to wash up, I opened the package in the closet and felt frustrated.
The letter was nowhere to be found.
“Is this for real?”
I didn’t want to break the mentality of the main character who was about to do something big, so I tried to reveal my secret at the right time.
Did I just write my identity in the letter?
With a feeling of emptiness, I remembered from time to time what I had written in the letter.
…I will be hidden in the tower. The silver spire of the Emperor’s Palace…
For ten years…
The abilities the crown prince uses are all my life force…
Policy of extermination of powerless people. But this won’t end even if we capture His Majesty… It’s me who kills people.
“Wow, wait a minute.”
I grabbed my hair in shock.
In addition, future events were listed in great detail so that Dad could handle it quickly.
What did Dad think when he saw it?
‘Probably because he knows that Oscar has returned…’
He would have guessed it similarly.
He would think that this is my second time in life, and that I have even experienced that tragedy myself.
‘But it’s not.’
It was a disaster.
Should I tell my Dad the truth later because he will be so heartbroken?
Actually, I lived on Earth in the 21st century and was reincarnated in a book I read there?
So, don’t worry, because I haven’t really experienced this tragedy?
‘Eung, he can’t believe it.’
He might think that I’m making up strange lies because I’m afraid of worrying my Dad.
“No! But why did Dad suddenly organize the closet…!”
As I was getting angry, someone came to mind like a bolt of lightning.
Cheshire.
‘No way? Cheshire said it?’
That’s right, no matter how buff Dad is as the main character.
There’s no way that he suddenly found my letter as if excited and thought, ‘Ah! For some reason, I feel like opening the closet?’
‘I can smell it!’
It’s the smell of betrayal!
Cheshire you fool, mongrel, sea cucumber, sea anemone!
I left the room right away.
I will wash, eat, get dressed and go to Cheshire’s house and argue.
“Huh?”
But before I had to go far, Cheshire came out of the room right next to mine.
“What are you! Why are you here?”
And I realized before I heard the answer.
So he said it yesterday.
He came all the way to my house and told my dad himself.
“Y, you…”
“I’m sorry.”
I got excited and pointed at Cheshire, but he apologized plainly.
“What?”
“I’m sorry.”
The anger level dropped like it had been poured with cold water.
Cheshire just stands there like he won’t care if I swear at him or hit him.
The will to fight that was never there before is disappearing.
“Why did you do that…”
I asked droopingly.
“I thought Uncle should know. There’s nothing I can do on my own.”
“I didn’t ask you to do anything! I just, I just…!”
“Lilith.”
Cheshire called me quietly.
Why? Even though his eyes were the same as usual, I had an odd feeling that they were different.
“There’s a favor you asked me in the letter.”
“….”
“I’m sorry, but I can’t listen to you.”
Favor, favor.
What kind of favor?
When I start killing people, don’t hesitate. Because by then it was already too late.
Please save people as quickly as possible. Please, I’m begging you.
Everyone is someone’s precious family and friends. It would be so pitiful if someone died without doing anything wrong.
While I was thinking about it, Cheshire approached me and said,
“I won’t let that happen, I won’t fail.”
“….”
“But even if I fail, I won’t be able to grant your request. No, I won’t.”
“Cheshire… What do you mean by that? Do you want to just watch innocent people die pitifully?”
“Then I.”
Cheshire’s voice sank.
“Don’t you feel sorry for me?”
“What?”
“You said that everyone is someone’s precious family and friends. Then about me. What do I have? What about my family and my friends?”
Cheshire, pursed his lips, trembled as he looked at me in a daze.
“You said let’s be friends. Family, you said you’d do it.”
“Ah. Cheshire…”
“I said I didn’t need it. I told you not to be nice to me.”
“….”
“But you, you did it all.”
His eyes were watery as he looked at me, as if he was resenting me.
“And then… How can I, you…”
“….”
“How can you ask such a favor?”
“C, Cheshire. It’s not like that, I…”
“O, oh. Kids.”
Then my Dad suddenly came up the stairs.
“Don’t fight.”
Dad was dressed in outdoor clothes.
The swollen eyes had settled down before I knew it.
And—.
“No, why did you call me in the morning?”
Axion followed up.
He was surprised to see Cheshire.
“What are you? Why are you here?”
“Axion.”
Dad held Axion’s arm tightly as he looked puzzled.
“I have to go to the imperial palace now.”
“What? Why? Did His Majesty call you again?”
Dad nodded.
‘He called Dad? Oh, now that you’ve created a fake revelation, are you calling him to go to war?’
I swallowed a sigh inside.
“I’ll be right back, so take care of the kid in the meantime.”
“….?”
Axion blinked his eyes.
“What? Did I hear it wrong?”
“No, you heard it right.”
“…Is there anyone at home?”
Axion was confused.
But I could see why he called Dad early in the morning.
‘Phew, as expected, my Dad’s mentality is completely gone.’
He’s afraid.
To leave me alone.
‘I didn’t want you to know because I was afraid this would happen.’
Even though I’ll be staying in a safe house, he’ll always have bad imaginations about me, which will bother my Dad.
From now on, my Dad will try to protect me unnecessarily.
“There is. There is my father, servants, there is everything…”
“But what!”
Dad laughed and tapped Axion on the shoulder.
“It’s because I want to let you know the joy of parenting.”
“Ah.”
Axion’s mouth slowly opened.
“…This madman.”
***
The Emperor, Nicholas’ Office.
There were two people, the emperor and the high priest.
High Priest, Timothy Hartmann.
He is a seventy-eight years old priest.
There is only one thing for him who has lost his overflowing divine power, youthful stamina, and noble faith.
There was something that was still alive and well.
It was greed.
“Thank you, Your Majesty, for caring so much about an insignificant old man.”
Timothy bowed his head toward Nicholas, who was busily scribbling his pen.
A revelation from God that encourages continental unification.
It was a lie made up according to the emperor’s will.
However, who can prove this revelation to be false?
“Even thanks.”
“No. I should thank you.”
The status of Timothy, a high priest who couldn’t hear the voice of God that even young priests could hear, had fallen to the point of fall.
However, this time, by publicizing the fake revelation ordered by the emperor, his reputation immediately rose.
“I would be embarrassed if you thanked me so much. I also planned this because I have something to gain. We should help each other.”
“I hope it works out very well.”
Timothy asked anxiously.
“No matter how much Sir Enoch says, he won’t ignore God’s revelation in the current atmosphere of the capital, will he?”
“It won’t be easy.”
Nicholas clicked his tongue.
“Isn’t he a man who is not afraid of an emperor who is no better than a God? But what would be scary about the revelation of God without a shape?”
“Yes? So you’re saying that Lord Enoch won’t just prepare for war?”
“I guess so. But the reason I planned this was to kill Enoch’s spirit.”
Nicholas added with a sigh.
“If all the people of the empire throw stones at my tenuous beliefs, he might slowly change their minds.”
“…I see.”
Timothy looked at the uncharacteristically passive Nicholas and thought of Enoch.
Enoch Rubinstein.
A person who cannot be wielded carelessly even by the almighty Primera.
The emperor always wanted to have Enoch but was also afraid.
Even so—.
Is there really no way?
“That, Your Majesty. Doesn’t Sir Enoch have a daughter?”
Timothy said cautiously.
“Why don’t you use it?”
“….”
Nicholas, who had been writing with his pen on his papers for a while, thought over his words and chuckled.
“What, how?”
“….”
“You want me to kidnap her? Are you openly saying that all the aristocrats should turn their backs on me?”’
“Ah, no. Of course not. That’s not it, Your Majesty is almighty, so you can use your power….”
Nicholas raised his head nervously.
“Should I hide the child? Or should I tell him to obey my words? Who else but me, the Primera, can do whatever I want with my powers like that?”
Nicholas was annoyed.
“The leader of an empire who wants to control the father by taking his daughter hostage in order to start a war. It must be a very good prey for luxuryists.”
“No, Your Majesty. I….”
Timothy broke into a cold sweat.
But Nicholas didn’t stop talking.
He was already furious whenever he thought of Lilith.
“I guess you’ve become dull because you’re stuck in a temple. High Priest, how can I take Enoch’s daughter hostage while he doesn’t know that I used my power? If that could happen, wouldn’t I have tried it earlier? Huh?”
“….”
“Enoch might already want to kill me if he gets the chance. Should I give him a reason to take up the sword with my own hands?”
If it was easy, there was no need to create a holy beast situation.
It was a plan to put Lilith in danger within the legal limits permitted by the emperor’s power.
“Your Majesty, please calm down. I didn’t say that without thinking.”
Timothy, wiping away his cold sweat, comforted the excited Nicholas and added,
“There’s a way to make things happen without them knowing it’s Your Majesty’s ability. A way for Sir Enoch to come to Your Majesty on his own and beg for his daughter’s life.”
“What?”
“The child is capable with a holy power, right?”
At Timothy’s question, Nicholas’s eyes widened.
Because he immediately realized what he was trying to say.
