It was only when I stopped crying because I had no more strength left to cry that I realized that I was standing quietly on the ground.
I didn’t know how much I cried, my vision became blurry and I felt like I was dizzy.
Through the opaque vision, I saw Zeusia taking a step away from me.
Did she have the slightest conscience to kill her crying child?
no.
It wasn’t until today that I realized how cruel and inhumane she was.
Her evil deeds and her immoral deeds by Zeusia have been read many times in my letters, and i was even almost killed by her at my birth.
Funny enough, it wasn’t until today that I felt it from my core, not as a reader but as a real person.
That I could really die at the hands of that woman.
‘But I will live. I will survive by using everything I can.’
After wiping away the remaining tears and clearing my vision, I took a deep breath and looked up at Zeusia.
She had a strange expression.
Neither smiling nor crying, but feeling strangely guilty….
‘No, don’t expect that woman to act as a parent. Don’t be fooled.’
All you have to do is treat Zeusia as an emperor and not as my mother.
‘I never had parents in the first place.’
Negotiation was not difficult considering that I was the business partner’s boss.
There are only Klein, Senya, and me in this world.
I remembered the things I had to protect and wiped my wet eyes.
My vision was still blurry, but I strained my eyes as much as I could.
And then I opened my mouth in the most serious voice I could muster.
“Your Majesty.”
“……”
“I hope i can be a help to you.”
Before I knew it, I had shaken off the tears that had built up again and continued speaking even though I was crying.
“help?”
I didn’t have the energy to realize that the voice I was asking had become somewhat muddy.
I just nodded my head quickly, as if I was holding onto my last rope.
“Yes, I will protect you.”
Zeusia blinked for a moment after hearing what I said, and then laughed out loud.
“You look like you’re going to die if you hit me, so you’re going to protect me?”
I was appalled by her intimidating gaze, but I clenched my small fist and gritted my teeth and continued speaking.
“I can do it. For me……This is a special ability.”
A six-year-old child trying to speak clearly while sniffling in reaction.
“My ability to see the future. I don’t know about others, but I can clearly see the future of the Black and White Empire.”
“My future? How?”
“Dream, dream! Sometimes, whenever I dream, I see the future of an abandoned house. What the Emperor will do, the people she will meet, and….”
Instead of revealing my identity as a reader of the original work, I made a bold move by explaining why I knew the future.
“Even when and how you majesty will lose your life…..i know everything.”
Zeusia, who was looking at me with an indifferent gaze, let out an exclamation for the first time.
“It’s surprising that you know about my death and even I don’t.”
She pursed her lips, gently closed her eyes, and bowed her back.
“Tell me. When and how i will die?”
“Your Majesty…..”
Ten years from now, two years after the start of the original story, you are killed by a rebel army led by Sinope and her male protagonists.
The rebels, who wanted to execute the emperor in the most cruel way, immediately brought in talented priests from the Holy Kingdom as soon as they surrounded you.
You will be constantly murdered, deprived of even the chance to die.
Then, only when it reaches a point where it can no longer be revived with divine power will it be able to face death.
Your tattered body would not even be in perfect shape, and it couldn’t be properly cleaned up.
Above all, on the day you completely die, the entire empire, no, the entire continent will celebrate your death and hold a grand festival.
“Tell me. How will i am going to die?”
A laughter-filled urging continued, but I couldn’t take my mouth off it.
When I thought about Zeusia’s end, I felt so sick that I felt like crying.
It’s not just because this person is my biological mother.
This woman, who is still just a ruthless ruler, will end up so corrupted that she can’t be helped in 10 years……I just sympathize with her as a fellow human being.
“In a dream…..You will pass away in 10 years.”
Only a small part of her death was told, and I had to do my best not to recall the tragedy of the original story, which I had read many times.
“It’s been 10 years, it’s been farther than I thought.”
It was a tone of voice that seemed to have no regrets about life.
As if she could return to that lake at any moment and disappear.
“I will help you so that you can still be the leader of the Eastern Empire 10 years from now! I know a way. So, so that you don’t experience anything bad….”
“Hey.”
Before I knew it, Zeusia was sitting on her knees in front of me, resting her chin on her head and looking at me with eyes a little darker than mine.
“How can I believe this crude nonsense involving knowing the future in dreams?”
In fact, it is not difficult to prove that the abandoned princess knows the future.
All I have to do is show that the businesses I have pointed out are hitting the jackpot or immediately predict a drought that will hit next year.
However, the proof method took time, and Zeusia will definitely not sit back and wait for my proof.
In that case, you have no choice but to gamble.
“……Ugh, maybe it was just a dream. But the things I saw in my dream were so vivid.”
After swallowing my dry saliva, I slowly raised her hand while keeping eye contact with her.
The place where her cold, small palm touched was Zeusia’s left cheek.
When i was a newborn, i slapped her cheek with all my might.
When I touched her cheek again after 6 years, it was unexpectedly warm.
The embarrassingly soft warmth seemed to melt her frozen hands.
Instead of removing her small hand, Zeusia glared at my pursing lips with frowning eyes.
She is a provocative villain, a being who was not loved both in books and outside of books, and the woman who gave birth to me.
“…..I hate dying like this.”
It may not mean much to you, but this was my useless sincerity towards you.
“You don’t want me to die? Why?”
According to the norm, I should have smiled brightly and answered, ‘Because Your Majesty is my mother.’
The main characters in the parenting stories I read all gave warm answers that would melt the cold hearts of their parents.
No matter how unkind their parents were, they loved and cherished them for neglecting and abandoning them.
But…..i couldn’t do that.
Even if it was fake, I couldn’t say I loved you, and I still harbored resentment towards Zeusia in a corner of my heart.
“Don’t cry, let’s all go to a good place together!”
I still can’t forgive the horrible parents who tried to kill their child, perhaps because of overlapping memories from my past life.
Maybe I will never forgive you for the rest of my life.
Nevertheless……I don’t want Zeusia to die a cruel death like she did in the original.
My love and hate for her overflowed like an explosion, and I couldn’t figure out what answer to give.
As my emotions grew stronger, I ended up giving a childish answer based on my body’s age.
“I-i don’t know, I don’t know…..i hate it. I’m scared.”
Tears welled up again.
“……”
Instead of wiping away my tears, Zeusia quietly looked straight at the crying child.
Beyond my blurred vision, there wasn’t even the slightest sign of her trying to comfort me.
Her daughter, who can’t show off her charms, and my mother, who is as cold as ever.
In many ways, We are mother and daughter who couldn’t follow the cliches.
‘I ended up acting like my age again. It can’t be like this. Don’t get emotional and come to your senses, Lira. You are now at a crossroads of your life.’
If this deal was made, I would be able to spend the rest of my life in peace, and Zeusia would also avoid a terrible execution, so it was mutually beneficial.
“Well, your majesty, if you will save me….”
“Good.”
“Of course. You might find it hard to believe right away, but let me tell you a little more…Uh, what?”
“I’m going to believe your nonsense, so please shut your mouth.”
She laughed for the first time after whispering something harsh.
So, not ridiculing, just…An ordinary laugh.
“Instead, there is a condition. One, don’t cry in front of me.”
For a moment, I almost said, ‘Children my age, no, all people cry.’ But I managed to keep my tongue from dying.
“I will write this in my mind!”
Zeusia, whose eyes became softer than before at my answer, spoke once again.
“Secondly….”
• ❁ • ❁ • ❁ •By Esraa• ❁ • ❁ • ❁ •
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