Chapter 19
Translator: wuttisyun
His body shivered slightly as the wind blew. The tip of his nose was becoming frigid. At the mont where everything around us was preparing for the oncoming night, this was the only place that seed to have escaped from this natural progression.
“Your Majesty.”
The slender girl, who looked like she could be knocked down just by a hit, bowed her head and said confidently.
“My apologies.”
The boundaries between children and adults began to blur as the girl seed more mature than childish based on her actions.
Castor, who had been blankly staring into space, slowly lowered his gaze and stared at the girl.
What’s this? The Crown Prince was just about to ask but all he could see was her back.
Her golden hair fluttered busily behind the shawl over her head. Seeing the sight, Castor frowned. The yellow looked faded like that of old wheat grains.
Where had he seen that before? He could see the grim terror and fear that slightly shone through the girl’s eyes.
“She ran away.”
Hernandez mumbled next to him.
Certainly, compared to her gait before, she was walking away much faster now. She looked like a furry two-legged creature. That’s what he felt when he saw the disappearing girl.
“This is my first ti seeing a maid with a dress like that. Aren’t I right?”
“Ah.”
Castor replied softly.
What Hernandez ant was that what she was wearing resembled that of the casual clothes knights often wore.
“She must have recognised . She must have noticed from your hair colour.”
“I see.”
Even though there was no one else around, they maintained their dignified posture as they stood. For this reason, even if so were to not recognise their faces, they were instinctively aware of who they were and would lower their heads.
‘I hadn’t tried to hide my presence so I thought she would have avoided us.’
In essence, a quick wit is a virtue that subordinates should possess. Sothing akin to that of an herbivore’s senses. They could not conceal that they were nobility from their steps so knights would have lowered their heads and made way imdiately while maids and servants would have purposefully taken another way before they would et.
Maids who could sense them and fear them will have no issues.
‘You’ve grown a lot.’
However, Hernandez knew that the girl was not a maid.
‘But I’m sure the girl addressed him as ‘Your Majesty’ though?’
He tilted his head as he mulled it over. Then how did she recognise Castor?
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“Ha. Ha…”
The breath that I could not take a while ago finally burst out of . From the field where she t the Crown Prince, I had already run quite a long way without stopping. I straightened my bent back and clasped my mouth with my hands and I took in a quick breath.
“The stars that saved …”
After saying that line, I was out of breath again.
Let’s squat. It beca easier to breathe once I sat down. Resentnt ca shortly after. I an, this makes no sense. Isn’t this so kind of violation? How could I et the final boss when I was only in stage 1? I rubbed my eyes which were welling up with tears as I reflected on my situation.
Damn right. If you were going to send to die, you should have at least given a hint so I could escape.
Or at least give so ti to level up. Couldn’t I have been given a safety net before being pushed into this?
As if I had been watching a horror movie, goosebumps exploded across my body.
Did God find this funny? When I was struggling to live sohow with the least amount of favour given to and then suddenly dropped next to one of the main characters?
I could only admire my misfortune as it all ca crashing down on during my last struggle.
Unlike my muddled head, my body just followed my instinct.
“Where is this place? Was this the place the map was pointing to?”
Fortunately, I think I managed to escape but then cos the next problem.
Don’t tell , they managed to rember my face, did they?
Ah. At such tis, I was proud of my hair colour but there was still so part of that was anxious. I could not completely erase my nervousness. I raised my hand and patted my cheek.
“Did my cheek give it away… No, maybe it was my eyes.”
I shook my head. It was now more important for to head back first.
With the sudden appearance of the final boss, I felt like fainting after running away but I had to keep my eyes open to the reality I was currently facing.
… It would most probably be the 4th Prince who will call for next, right?
“Looks like this place is the one shown on the map.”
Even amid this chaos, I managed to find the place the map was pointing to which had strange towers of rocks. Furthermore, it was a dead end. It felt like all I did so far was just futile and for vain.
‘I wanted to get to the Palace I lived in, not so ruins of dolns and moai statues.’
What’s more.
“The sun is setting.’
If I don’t manage to head back before evening, the Palace will be sent into a frenzy.
First, I investigated the towers of rocks. There must be a reason why he sent here unless the 4th Prince really wanted to screw up. After staring at them for a while, I rubbed my face.
‘Amor, were you really trying to screw up?’
I was afraid that my brother was trying to get in trouble. But there was really nothing to it. Nothing but these damned towers of rocks.
‘I ate it up like a dumbass*. Fuck.’
*T/N: as in she just blindly did what he said
I stared at the monunts which were dizzyingly tall. The rocks were engraved with a lot of unknown letters. I suddenly recalled the day when I had to stay up all night long fixing a PPT* as if I was decoding so expert’s cryptogram.
*T/N: presentation slides
Be it a cryptogram or so kind of stele, all I know that it’s sothing that is going to royally screw over.
“Looks like it’s the Forbidden Forest.”
It was clear that the forest I could see from a distance was the Forbidden Forest where only the Emperor and his official heir had access to. There was a rumour surrounding the forest that anyone who was not recognised by the Emperor will find themselves lost forever once they were thrown inside. Because of that, even commoners did not dare to co near the forest. That’s why it was never popular.
“Sohow the directions he gave are weird.”
I crumpled down to a sitting position as I gazed upon the forest in vain.
“I have no idea if he wants to go in there and go missing or not.”
Co to think of it, what have I done today? Nothing really worked out for .
“All I’ve gained is a tiny piece of information…”
As I stared at the clouds flying by, I suddenly looked back at the rock.
“I’ve seen sothing similar in a history book a long ti ago.”
It was of the tombstone of the Great King Gwanggaeto[1]. The large stone stele with smaller stones surrounding it, acting like a fence, reminded of the ruins from long ago. After taking a quick look, I realised that the language that was engraved on the towering rock was the language of the Gods.
‘It looks sothing like the Quran.’
I blankly read the mysterious language out loud.
“I am… clouds? No, from the wind to beco a human being… from the sky… be free.”
Since it was an ancient language, the sentence structures were terrible. Usually, the main characters in the novel would get an unexpected talent as a gift but I won’t bother to complain anymore why God would not even give a basic language patch.
“Hm. It sounds like sothing a grand finding from an archaeological site will sound like.”
The level of eloquence was too high for a re 13 year old to understand.
‘It gets easier to read nearing the end.’
I scanned it with my eyes before they stopped at the last inscription. Fortunately, the level of difficulty of the last 2 sentences was now the sa as the books I usually read.
“[Ride the wind and co to .]” I murmured.
“[Bring the spring breeze from the west to grow these seeds. Give the power of the God who loves Man.]”
Thinking that there was no way for to get back to my Palace on ti, I just read the entire thing.
“[Zephyrus]”*
*T/N: It would have taken so long to scan through the list of nas of Greek gods but lucky for , I read pjo AHAH
At that mont, the moss lifted and the dense vines moved as if they were alive.
“What is this?!”
I was surprised and jumped up. A bunch of lights began to gather at the spot I was standing in. The letters engraved on the rock began to shine brightly.
Pak!
Just then, it started shining as bright as the sun as the dazzling light blinded .
“W-what the hell is this?!”
The bright light alone was surprising enough but a gale started blowing as well out of nowhere.
When I opened my eyes, the wind has now grown to be as strong as a typhoon began swirling while being dyed in a translucent green colour.
Was my body shaking? Or was it the ground? It seed as if the Earth’s axis itself was shaking.
There was a tingling sensation in my eyes. My eyes were looking at the wind as if I had gained another sensory organ. I was already given all the information I needed for this strange situation. The small circle within the big one and the two diagonally placed triangles. I’ve seen it before. It was the first symbol of the Gods we learned in theology classes. It was the pattern Gods used before writing magic spells.
As soon as the figure began to approach , the light started bursting into an explosion. A strange feeling ca over . No, it was as if I knew instinctively that I had to think of where I wanted to go. I accurately thought of Terena Palace.
The mont my feet were lifted from the ground, my body was whisked away.
“… Uh. My head.”
When I opened my eyes after I had closed them in that strange forest, my surroundings began to fill with a savoury fragrance.
“Where is this?”
I slowly raised my head to witness a ridiculous scene.
“… This is crazy.”
I slowly turned my head to find the sa stele. My gaze rose to sothing above it. I rubbed my eyes. It was the sa stele as I saw near Amor’s Palace but it was of a completely different colour.
“… Oh my god.”
I could see a familiar roof in a distance.
“It’s the Terena Palace!”
The stele in front of was clearly the sa shape as the one near the 4th Prince’s Palace but it was of a duller colour. My head was spinning. Was this what they called teleportation? That’s right, I just teleported.
“This stele lets you teleport?”
After I got up and walked a little, I managed to regain my bearings. This white wall was that of my Palace. I was at the back of Terena Palace. If my shaking eyes could make sound, they would have made the most ear crushing sound. And at the back of the Palace…
“It’s connected to the Forbidden Forest.”
After following the wall for a while, I realised that it stopped right in front of the gates that marked the beginning of the forest.
… So this really is Terena Palace. It really was. I looked down and started getting tipsy from happiness.
The huge fence that separated the Palace from the forest could be crossed quite easily. I still rember crawling through a hole in the fence countless tis before and shaking my hair wet from the forest dew.
When I looked back again, I couldn’t see the stele. But I’m sure it was still there, just covered by the thick trees and comparatively short grasses.
That startled . Does this even make any sense? I was a modern woman in my previous life. The person that believed so much in reason and rationality was screaming.
‘Ppirong—’
I raised my head in response to the clear sound. I noticed a small bird looking down at from a tall tree. As if it had been watching everything so far. But that’s not possible. That would be too much. I laughed at the thought.
‘Ppirororong—’
I covered my eyes with my hands to completely block the bird in my field of sight. It was making nervous.
When I got back, my nanny and the head maid went ballistic. I thought I had been gone for only half a day but it seed like Anna and my maids didn’t manage to seal their lips about it. They gave up chiding after noticing that I returned looking very tired. I decided to deal with my nanny first since she was easier.
“Nanny, I’m hungry. What’s for dinner?”
The head maid seed to have a lot to say but she held back and withdrew just like that. It looks like she decided to pretend not to know anything.
“Don’t scold Anna. Please? I still have many things I want to talk to her about…”
Those who were good and kind at heart could not dish out their grievances at anymore. My nanny who glanced at and noticed the tears in my eyes said, “My poor Princess. I didn’t know you wanted a friend this badly…” before ending the issue.
But Anna who knew so of the truth looked at strangely. But even she sneaked up to and whispered, “I’m glad you ca back safely.”
I felt terribly fatigued. I sat on one of the sofas before taking off the bandage on my cheek before pressing down on my scar. I wanted to lie down on my bed right away but I still had a lot of things I needed to think about. I got up again and staggered towards my desk before sitting down.
“Hannah, could you get a cup of tea?”
It seems like the fragrant scent of the forest was still emanating from my hair.
In our Theology textbooks, [Zephyrus] was the na of the God of the West Wind and he was only one of the many Gods of Wind.
I felt that my reasoning that had been free of all superstition, religion and all other beliefs was slowly falling apart.
‘Wow, I really am in a fantasy. So, does that an my life is now a suspenseful adventure?’
A smile leaked out of . There’s a stele that I could use to teleport at the back of my Palace! I had been living in such an enviable world. I an, I hadn’t even noticed that I had been living while surrounded by such a great fantasy. Hahaha. Was it because the life I had been living in the past 6 years had been too quiet? A dejected laugh burst out from . Because I have still yet to adapt to God’s power and everything else.
Actually, my reincarnation, this novel world and the diary that could foretell the future? Everything I had experienced so far had been equally amazing and insane. These were all fantasies. In the end, I felt a little better after treating them all the sa.
Yeah, from now on, let’s just treat everything like it was bullshit!
When I opened my diary again, my calm heart disappeared just as it ca.
T/N: The Gwanggaeto stele looks like this supload.wikidia/wikipedia/de/0/05/Gwanggaeto-Stele_1915.jpg for any of you curious
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