Chapter 213.2
150.2 What was half hidden (1)
The Empress set her gaze in the distance. It’s like I was in front of her, but she was putting her gaze on sothing else.
“I will not ntion the fairy tale at length. It’s going to be a long and boring story. I am not a storyteller.”
Well. I think people will beco great audiences just by looking at this Sister’s face. Because she used her eloquent beauty that catches people’s attention the more I see it. Was this what they call charisma?
“This is a story about an unknown God.”
Along with the saying that she was not good at being a storyteller, a llow voice led to the story.
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There was a wise God in this world.
God loved all creation equally and kept the world at peace with those who helped God.
Thanks to that, the world has been in balance for a long ti.
Then one day, God, who was watching the world, suddenly ran out of strength and welcod death.......
But God has so much power that God couldn’t be buried in the world God loved even after death.
The dead God got separated into fragnts.
The fragnts of God are scattered to other worlds, leaving only one fragnt in the world that God looked after. Suddenly! One day, a coveted ‘rose’ blood in the place where this single fragnt was buried.
It was a small plant that was particularly prized when God was alive. However, because this rose was born from a fragnt of God, it beca the one and only rose that has never existed in the world.
And the four beings who loved God so much cried over the death of God....... The mont they saw the fragnt of God that blood in the flower, they gave up their life, their glory and gave up their strength. They beca the sa flower.
Soone’s passionate love.
Soone’s protection and belief that they want to keep forever.
Soone’s mory of healing pain.
Soone’s...... obsession of loving intensely and leaving nothing else.
Everyone has beco a silent plant.
Was the fragnt of the dead God happy? It was unknown. The fragnt that beca the flower had no answer.
But one day, more ti passed.
Miracles happen.
The day the fragnt of God suddenly beca human.
How did the other roses change?
They beca humans as well!
And after that?
And....... There was one hidden story. There was a being who secretly loved God.
They loved, respected, and looked upon God from afar, but lacked the strength to beco anything of God’s beings.
Even after God died, it didn’t even beco a flower.
However, their love for God remained inside, so they called themselves a rose. They missed this heart day by day, and one day it turned different.
Why do I have to love so much?
That’s right, it was called ‘jealousy’.
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“...... Did the hidden being beco human in the sa way?”
After listening to the story up there, I asked a question. The Empress’s llow voice stopped. She said she wasn’t good at telling stories, and that she wouldn’t talk much. Yet I felt like I was watching a play.
“Yes.”
At the sa ti, I doubted that I had heard a well-crafted fiction. No, she said it was a fairytale. It just wasn’t like a fairy tale.
“So. Are you saying this is all true?”
“Isn’t it ridiculous?”
It felt like my head was throbbing, but I couldn’t hold my head in front of the Empress. When the Empress asked with a smile, I just kept my lips shut.
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“To be honest, I think I heard a great founding story.”
“Tell more honestly.”
“Is God the first Emperor?”
“Unfortunately, not. The Imperial Family is not the main character.”
The Empress’s voice sank a little low. I shook my head.
“Then, the last being that ca out...... Was the Imperial Family?”
“That’s right.”
There has been a lot of history since then. This was to summarize only the core.
“The days when the first roses appeared were full of war and chaos. As ti passed, the founder of the Imperial Family took over human power. They couldn’t break the blind allegiance of other roses to the Blue Rose. It is not for nothing that the rose family still honors the Blue Rose as king.”
That was plausible. I had heard of it, the roses were beings who chased after God from the beginning and abandoned everything.
“Because the founder of the Imperial Family was the most human being, he could beco the master of the Empire. The influence was limited to locking the Blue Rose in this land.
The Empress pressed her temple tightly.
“They themselves still harbors that longing for God, and they call themselves ‘the Purple Rose’.”
I felt that the Empress’s voice had changed a little while ago. I thought it was an illusion, but....... It wasn’t an illusion.
“It seems that the founder of the Imperial Family dread of eternity.”
The Empress took a deep breath. It was a breath mixed with many emotions and sorrow.
“They were in love with the Blue Rose, and then they beca mad and jealous, and they dread of wanting to take her place.”
A twisted, eccentric, crooked smile hung on her graceful face.
“Maybe this is why this power left behind by the ancestors has colored the souls of humans who have had the Purple Rose from generation to generation. Leaving not a single descendant.”
This absurd story and the story about the rose that I knew seed to make sounds as the teeth in the gears were turning.
“I called this ‘contamination’.”
The Empress slowly raised her hand. I witnessed the Empress’s fingertips trembling. An unfamiliar feeling of insecurity overtook . Why? The Empress was so kind to , I couldn’t understand what she ant. Is this the emotion Pudding felt before?
No. It was also different from that. My instincts were screaming so.
What I see now is a different being from the Empress a while ago. This was the ominous feeling I felt when I first t the Empress. Eventually, it seed that a dark, shady purple whitish seal appeared around the Empress. It wasn’t an illusion.
‘Sothing else’ is with the Empress.
The Empress had always covered one side of her face with her hair. Blow~. Even in the wind that had blown from sowhere, what had been firmly hidden was lifted by her hand and moved. The mont the scarred half of the face I had seen in the last audience was revealed, I swallowed my breath.
“I tried my best not to swallow my load.”
A face full of scars that were deeply scratched as if it had been scratched by an animal, a huge diagonal line running from the temple to the corners of the eyes and the tip of the lips.
“I only found out after ascending to the throne. As ti goes on, the load will beco more contaminating.”
“What is it?”
She smiled with this scar on her face. It was a cold smile.
“...... What exactly is that contamination?”
Her eyes revealed a deep, dark light.
“Before that, there is sothing you need to hear. In the power that I possess, there is a soul that was once a purple rose.”
“What?”
At that mont, I saw a strange blue tinged with purple eyes that I thought had been a brilliant light.
“Simply put, the souls of the previous Emperors. The souls, who have been swayed by this power and possessed by terrible jealousy, are clinging together without rest even after death.”
Her eyes rolled and turned towards . I felt a chill.
“Thanks to that, the Emperor of the Empire, can make judgnts and sches and was wiser and more sensible than anyone else,.”
She tilted her head and smiled with her beautiful face. It was srizing, as if possessing people, but with a gaze filled with madness.
“At the sa ti, it makes it easier to go crazy.”
Her long hair runs down like a curtain.
“If I hadn’t ruined my face so as not to go crazy, I would have been a mad tyrant over the Blue Rose.”
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