If…I didn’t die at that ti, what would happen?
What kind of life I would be leading?
Guess I won’t ever find out about that…
Those were the thoughts I had whenever I saw my past acquaintances and whenever I was mulling over my past life.
It was really such a pity that I couldn’t find out how my future as Reinst would be.
But never have I thought that I would learn about it in this way.
In what way, if you might ask?
Even I wasn’t sure. This was like a dream, yet it felt so real.
A dream…
Right, I gotta open my eyes.
I had to open my eyes and get rid of this bad dream…!
For so reason, my eyelids felt so heavy as I slowly opened them.
And what greeted was an unfamiliar scenery.
The first thing that ca to my view was the top of the canopy, before I saw the high and unfamiliar ceiling. The light that ca from the chandelier almost blinded .
Wait, canopy, high ceiling, and chandelier?
Where the heck am I right now?
As confusion took over my mind, soone quickly ca beside .
“Reinst-sama, you’ve woken up!”
Nn? This line seems familiar...
A foreboding sensation washed over my body. I was sohow terrified of such a line…
For you see, nothing good ca following that line.
“…How long have I been asleep?” I asked as I positioned myself on the bed so I was sitting instead of lying down.
Great, I’m still Reinst. I didn’t wake up as Lyra. Just great…What happened to again now?
“You have been asleep for three days.”
Oh, just three days. Nothing bad. But what the hell happened to that I ended up sleeping for three days?
I touched my head in confusion.
“Your Highness…!”
Huh, what, the prince is here? Why? How?
Please, give a break. My thought process couldn’t be stimulated like this. I couldn’t make sense of what was happening…!!
“Is sothing the matter, your Highness?”
…Huh?
I shifted my hand away from my head as I slowly turned at the source of voice in horror.
Much to my horror, the said maid was looking at with a concerned face.
“What did you just say?” I asked with a shaking voice.
“Your Highness, what’s the matter?” The maid asked….
“What did you just address ?” I asked again, still in denial.
“Your Highness, my queen, what’s the matter?” The maid was looking really concerned now.
Cold sweat broke out from my body.
Did they really address as ‘your highness’ and ‘my queen’?
Does that an…
“Bring a mirror!” I said with a sense of urgency.
Though the maid didn’t understand why, she still quickly handed a small mirror.
I trembled as I grabbed the small mirror in my hands. Taking a deep breath, I opened my eyes and looked at what was reflected in the mirror and…
My hands dropped the small mirror to the bed.
What was reflected there wasn’t my own face I was familiar with—neither as Reinst nor Lyra.
The face I saw was that of a noble lady. My facial features were more refined than what I last rembered it. My brown hair was still short, and my amber eyes were still the sa…
Sure, I was still Reinst, but what was reflected there was a face of soone old—I reckon I was in my late twenties or early thirty…?
This…wasn’t a simple ‘sleeping for three days’! Even if I really slept for three days as Reinst, I would still be fourteen years old! Yet, when I opened my eyes, I seed to have beco twice my age that I last rembered?! This didn’t make any sense!!
“Milady, what’s the matter?” The unfamiliar maid asked again.
“…I…,” I turned to look at her, uncertainty in my heart.
Should I suck it up and pretend everything’s alright or should I just say that…I don’t rember anything? That will cause an uproar, surely…
“…?”
As the maid looked at again, I beca certain of what I should do.
“What year is it?” I asked.
“It’s Year 980, your Majesty.”
“………………………………..”
I did a ntal count right away.
Year 980… I—Lyra was born in year 970. And as for —as for Reinst…I would be thirty years old this year.
“I am the queen?” I asked for a confirmation.
“Your highness, what are you talking about, of course…,” the maid started to beco frightened.
“…Sorry, to be honest, I have no recollection of anything that’s happened after I turn fourteen,” I decided to cut the chase and explain right away.
“What?! How can that be…!” The maid was blown away.
“Sorry, but that’s the truth.”
“…I have to report this to his Highness…,” The maid muttered.
I nodded.
Yes, yes, that’s probably for the best. Report this to Titus…
Wait, that ans Titus and I were married…?
AAAAAHHHH WHAT KIND OF A NIGHTMARE IS THISSSSS?!
I thought that my ‘nightmare’ when I woke up as Reinst again was already bad enough, but now this was taking it to a whole new level!!
My last recollection was my lantation of how the future had changed with the nonexistence of Shaula. And how…Luca and Leticia would never co to this world.
This future…is wrong. No matter what.
Unacceptable…
As my surrounding turned chaotic, with the maid coming in and out and there was also a doctor who arrived to take a look at …
Suddenly, a person bolted to my side.
“Mother!”
A clear alto voice resounded so pleasantly to my ears as I felt a small figure hugging .
I was shaken to the core when this all happened. Ti seed to have slowed down the mont this figure appeared.
After he buried himself in my arms for a while, he let go of and only then could I see him clearly.
He seed to be around ten years old—the age Luca and I—Lyra should be if we were there.
Green eyes just like Titus-sama and…Luca and Leticia.
However, his hair was short brown. Just like my hair.
Looking at his concerned face, it was obvious that he was…No way…My and Titus’ son…?!
Though I wanted to deny it, an unknown feeling welled up in my heart when I saw him. This was a kind of feeling I could never describe.
“Trevant-sama! Please wait for a little bit, the queen is still being examined!” A maid said.
“…Trevant…,” I muttered his na before saying, “It’s fine, let him be.”
“But, milady…,” the maid hesitated.
At that ti, it escaped my mind that he shouldn’t be here to listen to how his mother didn’t rember anything in the past sixteen years. His concerned face was engraved deep in my mind and I sohow felt like I shouldn’t chase him away. No, I couldn’t bring the heart to do so.
“She seems to be fine aside from the minor injuries she suffered. But her Highness, are you sure you don’t rember…?” The doctor cautiously asked .
“No, doctor, I can’t rember anything…”
“Mother, what do you an?”
Trevant seed to be a sharp one as he imdiately could tell that sothing was off.
“Trevant-sama, please step outside for a while. We will explain to you later,” a maid said as she wanted to usher Trevant out.
“No! I’m not a child anymore. Mother’s injuries were partly caused by , so I am soone who should know what’s going on!”
Eh? What do you an by that? What happened to …to this body before all this?
“Prince Trevant, but that is—” The maid wasn’t finished talking when another voice cut her off.
“What’s the matter?”
This ti, it was a familiar low voice.
Sure enough, when I turned around, I saw the familiar adult figure of Titus.
He was more or less the sa with the adult Titus I ca to know, although there was so slight differences I couldn’t really tell.
“Your Majesty! This--,” the maid stuttered.
“Father! You’ve co! Mother has awakened!” Trevant reached out to Titus happily.
Yep, it just confird that he was indeed my and Titus’ son.
Now, this is awkward…
I could never view Titus as my suitor after what I experienced as Lyra. But now I was thrown into this position? Just what kind of madness was this???
“You’ve awakened. Are you alright?” Titus sat down next to and asked.
“…More or less.”
The words that I wanted to say didn’t co out.
I am not the Reinst you know.
“Your Majesty, Reinst-sama just said that she…,” the maid stuttered as she looked at and then at Trevant in hesitation.
“I don’t rember anything past the age of 14,” I decided to take her job of explaining.
“Eh?” Titus and Trevant both said at the sa ti.
I turned to look at Titus first. His face clearly showed that he didn’t believe what he just heard. anwhile, when I turned at Trevant with a heavy heart, I saw that he was in a deeper disbelief than his father.
“Mother, past the age of 14…Does that an you don’t rember …?” He asked with a horrified expression.
I didn’t have the heart to answer him truthfully, but this kid was a sharp one, he definitely won’t buy my lies. I could only nod, and then I saw his look of despair that broke my heart.
“…Fourteen…You don’t rember anything about our engagent at all, then?” Titus quickly deduced.
I nodded again.
"...This is indeed troubleso," Titus sighed as he touched his forehead.
“…Can you explain to first about what happened to ?” I asked.
“It’s a long story…In short, you were injured in a battle and were asleep for three days,” Titus seed to be thinking on how he should tell the whole chronology.
“You were injured protecting , Mother…It’s my fault…,” Trevant said with a trembling voice.
“No, while I don’t rember anything, I’m sure it’s not your fault,” I said before he could dive into a self-bla session.
“Mother…,” Trevant turned to look at as he seed to be holding back his tears.
“…Sorry, I don’t know what happened to , too,” I smiled bitterly.
“It’s okay. I will have to fill in the hole in your mories, but it’s already late at night and you just recovered. What about calling it a day for now and I will set aside so ti to talk with you tomorrow?” Titus asked.
“Sure…Sorry for the trouble.”
“Well, what can we do about it? It’s not your fault too,” Titus reassured .
After that, Titus took Trevant who was reluctant to part with . Based on this alone, I could sense that Trevant and I—and this Reinst was pretty close. That was good.
They returned to their respective room, leaving in my own bedroom. I was glad with this arrangent. I was totally nervous and wondering about how I should act should Titus and I were sleeping in the sa room...So, I was really, really saved by this arrangent.
Which made think. What about Titus and Shaula in the ‘real world’?
Yes—I refused to think that this was the reality. Let think that I was only dreaming here, and I had to find a way out of this bad dream and back to my reality as Lyra.
Anyway, I wonder if Titus and Shaula had this arrangent, or were they sleeping in the sa room because they were married for love?
My—Reinst’s parents had this sa arrangent—husband and wife sleeping in their own rooms. anwhile, Lyra’s parents were sleeping in the sa room. That was why I was wondering and putting a significance to a re sleeping arrangent.
If my hypothesis was true, then it was most likely I—I ant, Reinst and Titus were married due to the arrangents and there were no romantic feelings between them. But from the looks of it, they were living quite harmoniously, which was a good thing.
As for my relationship with Trevant…It seed to be good…
Ah, there is no use pondering over things.
Titus said he would fill the blanks for tomorrow, so I could ask him bluntly there.
…And I definitely would have to talk with Trevant as well.
…I gotta hurry and find a way to be back as Lyra, but…should I also explore this ‘future’ I never saw as I was given the chance to do so, sohow?
‘Make the most of the day’ they said.
And although there were lots of confusion here, I knew I had to take one step at a ti and do it slowly.
That’s right.
Everything is going to be alright, Lyra. Do your best, !
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