I Don’t Trust My Twin Sister

“I will twist the past and finally take control of my destiny. I will gain the power to rule over everyone on this earth and enjoy eternal life…”

Beralt spoke softly in response to the voice of Deoreden, who was pounding the altar with his palm.

“Is the legend true?”

“That remains to be seen.”

Deoreden turned his head and looked at Theses. Theses looked at us with great interest, and then smiled softly when attention turned to herself.

“Do you believe in the legend, Your Highness the Crown Prince?”

“It is faith…”

His eyes gazed at Theses, then slightly rolled to look at Fervi next to him. She smiled leisurely, looking at her brother. Deoreden’s eyes narrowed.

“I thought it was strange,” she said. “I thought it was really strange that you were born to a concubine of an ordinary noble family, and although you killed members of the same royal family with your own hands, you lived freely without anyone’s interference and without any pressure. I tried to understand everything simply by saying that the emperor looked down on you, but when I think about it, it was nonsense.”

“But wasn’t she a lovely little sister in her own way?”

“She’s a lovely little sister…”

Deoreden, who mumbled a few times as if savoring the words, opened his mouth, looking at Theses and Fervi in ​​turns with a cold expression.

“Who else in the imperial family is a priest of the Priteritum?”

“There’s no need to lie, Brother, as you can see, I’m alone.”

“Do you think I’ll believe that?”

“What will you do if you don’t believe it? Oh, of course, all the people who work in my palace are hired and raised by the Praiteri Tomb. It would be meaningless to name all the noble priests. There are only a very small number of priests in the Priteritum. Thousands. From a year ago until now, and always in the future.”

“Haha… they’re disgusting people.”

Well, it doesn’t matter. He clicked his tongue lowly. Theses’ eyes swiveled as if in response. The moment Deoreden and Theses’ gazes met, Deoreden’s greedy mouth put its own greed on its tongue.

“Show me the past.”

“The past?”

“It’s a myth of succession.”

Theses smiled faintly with a low ‘ah’ sound at his firm voice. The strangely shining eyes looked quite dangerous. Whether he knew it or not, the crown prince gave strength to his demands.

“Show me a past that can change my current position. And let me change it.”

“Hmm, what is your current position?”

In response to Theses’ question, Theoreden turned his waist and looked at me. When I asked him with his eyes why he was looking at me, his mouth slowly opened.

“It’s the worst. I’m hearing that the Senate has abandoned me and is trying to use the name of the imperial family to frame an innocent person. Moreover, someone in power is very cleverly making all kinds of threats to me. How dare the crown prince. “

His eyes were cold. I knew right away who the crown prince was talking about. I thought that he was secretly doing these things behind my back, telling me not to worry about him, or that he was being too quiet, but I had no idea that he was putting pressure on the Crown Prince through the Senate. This was because Ian and I handled different areas.

“So show me the past.”

“What will you do if I show you?”

“As the crown prince of this empire, I will regain my authority and dignity. And then…”

The corner of Deoreden’s mouth went up. He frowned at the disgusting sneer. I felt like bugs were crawling on my body as they looked me up and down. He continued speaking while biting his lip.

“The owner of the Berdian household will either collapse from the shock of losing half of himself or go crazy and pull out his sword. Then I will have a good excuse, so I have no regrets. And I can deal with the poor family that was a thorn in my eye. .”

“…That’s obscene.”

“I am honored to be able to say those words to the Crown Prince, Lady Lawrence, as this will be the last time.”

Theses looked at Theoreden, who was laughing. The Crown Prince smiled and met Theses’s eyes again. His firm voice rang out. “Show me. Show me before my eyes the tradition handed down from the emperor! This will make me the only ruler of the empire and the founder of a powerful imperial family.

“Deoreden!”

The greedy eyes shined with a determined light. He glared at Deoreden’s face and then turned his head to look at Theses. Theses just then glanced at me, rolled his eyes, and smiled slightly.

What does that smile mean? Theses turned his gaze back to Deoreden.

“You can’t do that.”

“…what?”

Theses shook her head at him as he opened his mouth in a helpless manner.

“I said I couldn’t do that.”

“What are you doing now? Hey, do you think I’m joking? Are you saying such nonsense after knowing who the person in front of you is?”

Theses grinned. On the contrary, the crown prince’s face was wrinkled. Theses looked at Deoreden blankly and shook his head again.

“We have already sacrificed and worked hard for the empire. It makes no sense to do more here. Balance exists to maintain balance.”

“Such nonsense…”

Fervi, who was listening to the two people talking next to him, tilted his head. As if she didn’t understand, she looked up at her crown prince slantingly and asked her question.

“We are already making a lot of sacrifices for the empire and this land?”

“Shut up! This is not a story for you who tarnished your noble blood in the name of serving the imperial family and the empire. That can be called a joke.”

“You’re joking. That’s too much.”

She walked slowly. Fervi stepped forward with the sound of shoe footsteps and looked at the crown prince with a bright expression on his face.

“Don’t you know that it is all thanks to us that the imperial family has ruled this land until now?”

She circled around Deoreden, with her in the middle. Deoreden stared at the altar quietly, as if trying to keep his composure, but Fervi giggled as if making fun of him.

“Why do you think you became the crown prince? Because you were great? Or because you were the legitimate child? No! That’s not it. It’s simply because you were the stupidest and easiest to handle.”

“Such insolence…!”

“Everyone, from the current emperor to the past emperors. They have all enjoyed the power under our feet. Rich, wealthy, meaningless people… Such people are the imperials. They are bound to be strong when he gets to that position, so you need people who hold two swords.”

Berdian, Safeldrick, as she spoke briefly, her eyes looked at me slightly. There seemed to be no malice in her grinning face. She even looked very kind, as if she was wearing a mask.

“But you are a stupid, dull, and useless person, but you are strangely greedy. You got this from somewhere, and you gathered nobles to strengthen the imperial power, and in the meantime, you made a strange man your servant and established a family on this land that we did not choose. You dreamed of a cheeky future where you would become a guardian.”

Due to the continued provocation, a curse soon burst out of Deoreden’s mouth, and he thought that Fervi, who was close by, would hit his head and fall, but contrary to his expectations, a man who came out of nowhere and hit his arm. His appearance was surprising, but Fervi’s relaxed face, as if he knew it, was even more surprising.

“You haven’t changed from the past to the present.”

“…Ugh.”

“The passage of time is finite. And we have a mission to use that time to protect countless lives.”

Unknown expressions and words. It was difficult to figure out exactly what it meant. I just watched the current situation.

“Of course, we cannot carelessly go in and out of the past or look into the future, so we have a duty to control that. No matter what anyone says, what the Praeteritum pursues is balance. From that perspective, the current empire is ideal. Appropriate distribution of power. And the distribution of power makes the entire continent stable, as it has been for hundreds of years.”

I grinned. Fervi, smiling at her, this time took a step towards Beralt and me. As soon as she approached, she gently released my hand that was tightly held by Beralt’s hand. Massaging her throbbing wrist with her other hand, Fervi took a step back and caught up with me, giving me a sad look.

“He is a spoiled man. He inflicts such violence on a vulnerable woman.”

“What?”

Beralt laughed and turned his body. Fervi walked up to him and moved the long, thin fingers that had been caressing my wrist up his chin and neck. Beralt looked down at her, her face rigid.

“That’s why you’re not loved. You have to get rid of the illusion that all women are yours just because they’re rich and powerful.”

Fervi, giggling, returned to Theses’ side. She sorted out the situation in an instant, and after Theses had lowly praised Pervi, she again opened her mouth to the Crown Prince Deoreden.

“The Church of Jesus is not a group of wizards who grant people’s wishes. Only a select few can travel in and out of the past. If you enjoy the stable life you have now, you will soon become emperor and enjoy a peaceful reign.”

“That’s not even funny.”

The crown prince briefly interrupted his words. Theses’ eyes rolled around. The crown prince glared at him. As you can see, he stares with torn eyes and mouths roughly, 

“A stable life? Is the life of an emperor who watches over the nobles a stable life? Then I ask you the opposite. What was the reason you came to me that day and first extended your hand to help me?”

Theses looked at him quietly and sighed.

“I think I just delivered a letter and didn’t extend my hand. And to be more precise, I only asked you to introduce me to Lady Ajstain.”

When he asked me to introduce him, I tilted my head diagonally. Theses glanced at me and smiled softly. During their first meeting with him, Theses showed no action and immediately disappeared. But I had business to attend to.

“In return, I think I provided very useful information to His Highness the Crown Prince. But that alone doesn’t make him think that we’re in the same boat, right?”

Theses’s calm face seemed to move slightly, but then he smiled coldly. His eyes were sharp.

“I have never once trusted the imperial family. People are like that, if you give them a sword, they want to swing it, and if you give them power, they want to trample on someone at all costs. Why should I trust those who hold the most power?”

“…Theses!”

“We are priests who serve the gods, people who maintain the balance of this land by receiving revelations from all the gods who control the past, future, and present. There is no need for us to listen to you.”

Theses leisurely passed by Theoreden and approached me. I looked up at him awkwardly, feeling strangely as if he was coming to see me one by one. Theses looked down at me, his expression softened, and he smiled slightly and bent his back slightly.

“…?!”

Then he showed a shocking behavior while everyone looked on.

“The only one who can give orders is the God who corrects the will of the council, and the one who can open his will with his own will…”

Once again his head rose and he looked up at me. His mouth opened slightly. Theses looked at me with a reverential look and calmly opened his mouth.

“He is our only high priest.”

 

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