Chapter 101
Translator: wuttisyun
“It’s alright.”
I pulled his hand back. Just like the pear blossoms that were about to bloom, he smiled as bright as those white flowers. Even though his hand was dirty and disgusting, I needed to survive without a hitch.
“It’s alright, brother.”
His touch was instinctively gentle. The only way I could survive the cruel tyrant would be to act like an idiot by speaking stupid words and acting foolishly over a long period of ti.
I wanted to return to my palace without a hitch.
“You just tried to protect , didn’t you?”
It was not until I thoughtlessly brought his hand to my cheek that I realised that he had a strange expression on his face. At that mont, I froze along with him.
The tyrant in front of was as stiff as a fiddle. For the first ti, I saw him wavering.
“… Right.”
His fingers moved slowly. His touch tickled across my cheek. His movents were so subtle and so slow.
“Haha.”
In an instant, the tyrant grabbed my hand.
“Aren’t you afraid of ?”
“… I-if I had been, I wouldn’t have grabbed your hand.”
He smiled casually making wonder if he could ever smile like that before.
“What sweet words, Ashley.”
I did not know what kind of expressions he was wearing. How should I act to help myself now?
Seeing him lt like that made waver. He then slowly shifted my gaze. I unknowingly followed his gaze before screaming inside. I was still holding my diary.
“This?”
“T-that’s my diary!”
No. Do not pick it up. No!
But the cries I had within did not reach my mouth as my diary fell helplessly into Castor’s hands. And then, he finally flipped my diary open.
The diary was then illuminated by an intense purple light.
Chiik. Crash!
With a small groan, he recoiled from the light and dropped the book. I was pretty sure I heard sothing like lightning. (1)
“Brother!”
The purple light which was as brilliant as a violet’s wrapped all over the diary before disappeared.
I blinked at what happened before slowly picking up my diary. Strangely, nothing happened when I grabbed it.
Did the diary have so owner recognition function? Was it locked? But that did not happen when Hannah touched it,
‘Don’t tell , it reacts to templars?’
The light had dimd but when I looked a bit closer, I could barely see a faint coat of light. Just then, Castor wrapped his injured hand with his other before looking down at the diary coolly.
The heat filled pleasure engulfed .
“… A-are you alright? Brother?”
“Of course.”
His hands did not look alright at all. The hand that grabbed the diary was a ss. But when I dropped my gaze to his wound, his wound slowly began to heal as light flashed from his pupils.
“Ashley, I’ll show you rcy and tell you.”
He slowly clenched his once injured hands before stretching them out and clenching them again. He looked back at .
“That’s an artifact.”
“An artifact?”
“That’s right. Objects that have god’s powers imbued within it.”
The way he arrogantly looked down was distinctively elegant and listless at the sa ti.
“That item is closely related to the ‘Templar of Chaos’. It will never be good for you if you have it for too long.”
The templar of chaos? As I stared at Castor who rarely gave advice, I felt a sudden rattling sensation.
Obviously, that was the term Castor spat out when he ca to my palace and stated my sins.
“As the body representing the Empire, I shall now condemn you for your cris. Your sin of interacting with the Templar of Chaos which had been deed forbidden.” (2)
So that was an actual cri? My birth mother had left things that could be seen as treacherous too carelessly. I an, it was too easy for to find it. At that mont, I got goosebumps.
“I-I-Is it dangerous? It’s just my diary…”
He smiled softly.
“Is it really a simple diary?”
“…..”
As if he was prophesying, his slow, listless yet sure voice had penetrated my ears.
“Where did you find this?”
“M-my mother’s room…”
Castor had the ability to seduce people and pry the truth out of them. Until I beca immune to his powers, he would continue to detect my lies. It was not until my last 10 regressions did I beco immune to his powers. It was a splendid skill I obtained from dying so many tis.
“Ashley, you don’t have to be scared. I won’t kill you for the sins of the past.”
His rapturous voice that entered my ears managed to guess what I was thinking.
“… Really?”
I stared at him blankly as if he had just dealt a blow on my face. His voice as he said he would not kill was low.
“Alright.”
The moonlight streaming faintly through the leaves shone on his brilliant golden eyes. Even in such dim light, I could tell I was encountering a beauty I would never be able to otherwise unless I was eting a god themself.
I whispered lowly as my voice muffled.
“T-then why, two years ago,… did you try to kill ?”
He took Soricks hostage and tried to kill .
“Oh that, did Hernan not explain to you?”
Under the moonlight, he leaned his head forward before looking at with the most captivating smile.
“I wasn’t trying to kill you.”
Even with the sa face he had two years ago, he had beco an even more inscrutable human being.
“…..”
“If you had been surprised, then alright. I’ll apologise.”
I was so angry. Were apologies this easy to him? Did he not think much about how he tried to kill ? How funny. So, this was how much my death affected him. I was left in pain. Whenever I t him in my vicious nightmares, I could feel the pain from back then twisting , squeezing and digging into like a skewer.
“His Highness’ sword had no intentions of killing.”
I did not know back then, I thought if he pointed his sword at , he wanted to kill . Or at least, he was threatening with that level of intensity.
I would wake up sobbing every ti I saw my maids drenched in blood in my nightmares. I was sorry for being unable to protect them. I was sorry for letting them die. I had sobbed for a long ti, holding my eyes that could not shed tears. It remained my bittermost regret that such sweet people was to die in my hands.
Even if I were to survive day by day, I feared that it would be useless if I had to face Castor one day. That was sothing I gave up first. But there were people who continued to watch over as I broke and people who tried to keep intact.
“I swore with that guy,. That I’ll protect you.”
At every mont of my life, I was rely a little boat drifting in the rcy of the sea and winds. I was a powerless ship, without a hitch or a sail, being eaten with the anxiety of not knowing when I might flip over.
But those people still loved and sacrificed themselves to protect until this very mont.
So that was why they reached out to and rescued .
I was no longer confused. I did not have to suffer anymore.
I did not do anything wrong.
It took too long for to realise this.
“Brother.”
I held his hand to my cheek before smiling brighter and more hopefully.
“Rebecca told . Rember, you took off my bandage today. I heard it was because you were protecting ? So that the rest of the nobles could not say anything back to . I didn’t know anything back then.”
“The Da of Aventa?”
“Yes.”
I subtly interrupted him before smiling gently. I was hoping he would answer this question honestly.
“Seriously, was brother protecting ?”
“What do you want to say?”
Castor stared at with subtle emotions.
“I want sincerity.”
“Sincerity?”
“Brother’s sincerity.”
HIs firm jaw faced the sky before slowly lowering to face .
“My true feelings that even the emperor has not even heard.”
His black strands of hair fell over his forehead. HIs eyes were scattering brilliant golden colours as a gold haze lingered around his face. His weird yet familiar powers wrapped around like a rope.
His sensual yet rciless eyes. The future tyrant. He smiled slowly.
“How funny. If I said I did that to protect you, will you believe ?”
As soon as we made eye contact, emotions that were surprisingly yet suffocatingly sweet were pouring into . I should not be swept along.
All these impossible feelings I was experiencing were all a result of his powers. I persevered under his gaze and expression, enduring the brainwashing he was forcing upon .
Eventually, he blinked his eyes before smiling broadly that held no suspicions at all.
“I like you, brother.”
I held his hand before whispering softly.
“I’m on brother’s side so of course you would be on my side as well.”
His beast-like eyes scanned from place to place trying to catch my innermost feelings. He raised his eyebrows. The emotions within grew stronger until staring at his golden eyes hurt and as the golden haze continued to swirl. I could hear soone sing-songing. He seed to be treating like a child as he tried to threaten like a loan shark by imbuing with these emotions.
“Do you really think that?”
Castor slowly shifted his gaze before staring back at .
“Why are you asking when this is obvious?”
“Ha. Hahaha. Hahaha.”
Castor burst into laughter.
“If that’s really true.”
He erased his expression for a mont.
“You’re the first person who still wants to be on my side after understanding .”
He whispered seductively as he rounded his eyes. I tilted my head before staring at him like so child. As if I did not know the reason why he was laughing.
Objectively, his face and voice were both qualified to star in romance dramas. If he were to whisper ‘I love you’ in such a languid voice, who could resist? But I was not asking to shoot a drama with this tyrant.
In reality, he was a brutal tyrant living in my world and not so male lead in a romance drama. He was like a lawyer sent to save the 2nd generation chaebol from a lawsuit after he slapped soone. I wanted to thrust a dagger containing all my determination and pure resentnt for killing j.
I wanted him to be as unhappy as I was.
“Brother… you must be an outcast.”
I laid my eyes on him as if I felt sorry for him before smiling at him pitifully as I made eye contact with him.
“You must have been lonely, brother.”
I managed to pull off this abominable performance as I whispered in his arms like a little bird.
“Brother, I’ll always be on your side.”
“…..”
Castor looked at before flashing a smile that reminded of the moon. His large hand lifted my chin. I stared back obediently with a gentle expression.
“You’ll regret it though?”
Was he going to make sick and tired of him?
“How could I?”
I wanted him to die and suffer as much as I did.
I flashed a broad smile as I stared at him.
“I an what I said without a shred of a lie.”
T/N:
(1): HAHA I think they ant thunder here but I stuck to the raws
(2): Take note! This will be my new translation for the line
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