“Now, this is the child who will be with you from today.”
She was a pretty child like a doll, even though her whole body was covered in dirt and she had scattered hair.
“Hello you too.”
When the director, a large middle-aged man, shrugged in fear, a child sniffed his nose and greeted him in a loud voice.
“Ah, Unong… I am Dana!”
After greeting, the child raised his plump arms and waved his hand like a maple leaf, unlike other children in the nursery school. It was the exact same situation as his past memories without any error.
‘Am I dreaming?’
No, it’s not a dream. She shook her head inwardly as she stared at his eyes with his mouth open. Didn’t she feel that it was not a dream while struggling with hunger all day today! She thought frozen in the undeniable reality.
‘…Is it today?’
The first day after her death in the Elad duchy was the day Diana, the youngest princess of the Elad duchy, entered Tesar Nursery School. In the first place, she has a hard time accepting the fact that she has returned to her childhood, but she was completely panicked because she had Diana right in front of her. It was time to close her eyes tightly and try to somehow understand this situation.
“Huh, huh.”
At the sound of a small cry, she opened her eyes and lowered her head slightly. Immediately, her gaze met the clear blue eyes of the child holding her sleeve.
“ah…”
It took a while for her to be taken aback as she looked at her eyes that were wet with tears. Involuntarily, she stared blankly into the child’s eyes. Then, naturally, she thought of a man with the same color as those eyes and an ice-cold wall.
And she even thought in the moment when she was about to die.
* * *
The day before, the headquarters of the information guild ‘Terenchium’. Breathing heavily, she climbed several steps at once and opened the huge door that had been closed. And she stopped, froze.
‘What, what!’
The guild officers who were sitting around the round table turned their heads and stared at her as if they were all working together. She realized why everyone was gathering for a meeting.
‘Soon I¡it will be the day the full moon rises.’
At this time of year, the guild’s executives, including the Master, were particularly busy, and they were away for a while. For her, who was not close to her colleagues except for the executives, it was also a period where she was like a remote island.
“Lia, didn’t you see the sign at the door?”
Then the Master asked. Unlike the elderly executives, he looked only twenty-six, sitting at the head of the table.
‘I don’t know exactly how old he is.’
Her boss was this mysterious man who was the head of an information guild that collected all kinds of information, but who did not know anything about it. The Master sighed as he carelessly brushed up his flowing black hair.
“I told you to check that first when I enter my room.”
“Sorry, I was in a hurry and forgot.”
When she answered shyly, avoiding the master’s red eyes, he smiled and shook his head. Then the officers around them rushed at them like crazy.
“Master, are you laughing? It goes over it every time, and Leah can’t change her habit.”
“Yes. Besides, you put up a sign on the door because of Leah. Wouldn’t it be nice to teach them to just knock?”
“It’s knocking and nabbing, and in the first place, someone burst open the master’s room and came in. I thought for a moment that this was Lia’s room.”
“You’re right. Master, you are too soft on Leah.”
The officers complained with a very mischievous expression, but it was all a joke to her.
‘What’s wrong with Murugi? Master ignores me!’
It was when she was grumbling inside.
“Everyone be quiet.”
Her eyes widened at the sudden reaction of the master. Why did he want to take her side?
“If you teach such manners, is Lia a child who will listen to you?”
“…”
She was an idiot for expecting it. From the master to the executives, the group was treating her like an idiot.
‘Do you still think I’m a 10-year-old roaming the streets?’
Even after seeing this, her face, which she was proud of as the most capable talent in this guild, frowned. Besides, one of her best skills was ‘hide the presence’, but learning to ‘knock’ when entering a room! That was almost insulting. Actually, it was because she was in a hurry even now, but she couldn’t forget knocking once she made up her mind.
‘Other information guilds are still anxious because they can’t scout me…’
As she held out his mouth and became fat, the master beckoned and asked as if to come closer.
“So what happened?”
The other executives also turned their heads to say, “Let’s see where we’re going.”
Only then did she remember the business that brought her to visit Master’s room.
“A mission, a mission! I mean, I haven’t received any requests for over a week already.”
“Has it already happened?”
Seeing the slow-talking master made her feel feverish for no reason. Someone was eager to become an informant recognized by everyone, not a top-notch informant as soon as possible.
“Master!”
She yelled out loud, but Master smiled and raised his hand to lightly pat her swollen cheek. It was a time when she was about to be hurt by the way children were treated like a habit.
“Okay. I’ll give you a mission too, finish it until I get back. Can you do it?”
“Really?”
She asked back with no self-respect.
“Are you really going to give me a proper mission this time?”
No missions like finding out what color handkerchief Nick likes at the butcher’s shop, from Susan the bakery!
“It’s a proper mission…”
Master looked at her with a strange face, then slowly lowered his hand and nodded his head.
“Wow, Master is the best! You are the most handsome in the world!”
Excited, she quickly raised her thumb and praised the master as the executives had taught her. Then, the master burst into laughter as if it was absurd, and the executives also twitched their lips while holding back their laughter. She just worked hard as she learned, but the reaction was very strange.
‘But it seems that Master’s hand tried to touch my neck a moment ago… Is it an illusion?’
It was when she was shaking her head.
“Go back. I will assign and deliver your mission soon.”
At Master’s words, she completely forgot what she was thinking a moment ago and nodded happily. And that was in less than a few hours.
“…where? The Duke of Elad?”
She blinked and looked at Jade.
“Did Master really entrust me with the mission to infiltrate the Elad duchy?”
As if she hadn’t heard it wrong, Jade, who was in the middle of giving notes about today’s mission, shrugged her shoulders.
“That’s right. You performed well on the mission you infiltrated as a maid not too long ago. So, I think you gave it to me again this time.”
“But then! I couldn’t help it because I was the only woman among the first-class agents.”
The Elad duke’s family was the most strictly guarded among all the aristocratic families in the empire. Since it was as difficult to access as the imperial family, entrusting me with an infiltration mission also meant that the Master acknowledged her. However, she was more surprised at Jade’s docile attitude, who had been sarcastic and putting her down every time, than the joy of finally being entrusted with an important mission.
Then, Jade said something more.
“Actually, there is not a single one of us who doesn’t know that you are the most talented.”
“…what?”
“We all know. It’s just that we didn’t acknowledge it because we were jealous because you were being favored by Master.”
Her mouth fell open at Jade’s words. The praise he gave me was very bewildering. To be honest, she was so happy that she wanted to dance. But she pretended to be calm and responded calmly.
“It’s because I’m not being favored.”
Normally, she would have reacted sharply to this intrusive sound, but the words came out softly, perhaps because she was in a good mood. Even if she tried to hold it back, she felt like her laughter would leak out without her knowledge.
It was then.
“By the way, didn’t you say you knew someone in the Elad duchy?”
“…what? My, when did I?”
“I do not remember? The day you drank for the first time when you became an adult, you said something at the nursery school when you were young.”
‘Omg. Did I say that when I was drunk?’
Embarrassed, she narrowed her eyes. There was a time when, under the pretext of congratulating her on turning 18 this year, the executives prepared a place to bring her and her colleagues closer. All of them were forced to come to the orders of the executives, and the embarrassing and awkward mind was ahead. To cover it up, she drank from the glass in front of her fearlessly.
She didn’t remember anything after that, so when she heard it, the master who came late said that he took her to the dorm while arranging the seats.
‘I’m sure Master said I was sleeping peacefully!’
She didn’t know that she would talk about her past, so her face turned blue.
“Chwi, what can’t you say when you’re drunk? There’s no way I could have a relationship with such a great aristocrat!”
She stood up, raising her voice as if everything was a bluff. She didn’t see it because he left so quickly.
Jade’s fishy smile.
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I was really disappointed when the previous translation team dropped it.
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