Chapter 12

Episode 12: Retrogradation of Time

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“Poor Chloe, how big the shock must have been…….”

Kailos muttered, looking down at his palm. His hand, which had lost its place to go, trembled while he was clenching and unclenching his fists repeatedly

“I made you like this. You’re so precious…… ….”

Yes, you’re the one who broke me down, the b*stard that took away Estelle. While saying these words, you should return Estelle to me, at least the body of my poor child. (T/N: Chloe still doesn’t know she has travelled back in time)

He muttered with a self-deprecating tone, and rubbed his face with his palms with a piercing sigh. Then his eyes drooped and he smiled faintly at me.

“Let’s quit now.”

He only spoke more and more incomprehensible words.

Let’s quit? What?

“Yes, I think I can really quit now. You and me.”

Kailos, who kneeled carefully in front of my bed, reached out to me once again. This time, he grabbed

my hand that didn’t flinch, clenched it tightly, and whispered.

“It hurts so much.”

What kind of trick is this? Wanting to know what was going inside his mind, I stared at him in the face for a moment, but he just had a faint voice.

Eventually, after giving up reading his thoughts, opened my mouth first.

“Uncle.”

My voice was still hoarse. How much more time will it take for me to regain my original voice?

It was the first time I called him after I woke up. Kailos approached me closely with a look as if to tell him anything.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

The sharp words flowed out unintentionally. At the same time, he held my hand and put a lot of strength into it. I was going to tell him to let go while frowning.

“I’m saying that you don’t have to try to seduce the Emperor anymore.”

For a moment, I couldn’t understand what I heard, so only my eyes were blinking.

“I really didn’t know Chloe. I really….”

He stopped talking, with his teeth clenched for a while, then he continued with a shaky voice.

“I really didn’t know a night with the Emperor would destroy you this much.”

“What?”

The more I talked with Kailos, the more I felt like! became a fool. The ‘Emperor’ he is referring to, seemed to be his already dead brother.

At that moment, I had a ridiculous thought. I shook my head to both sides and tried to organize my thoughts.

At that time, someone came inside with a small knock. As soon as I checked the face of the person who came in, my face quickly froze pale.

I can’t believe it, how can this person…….

Erikson, the old butler of Ludwig’s Castle, the last time I saw him was the cold winter when I had suffered badly after spending a night with Kailos’ brother.

He was hiding it from others, but he was struggling due to his long-standing illness, and eventually he couldn’t overcome the cold winter and died.

“Master, Marquis of Rosaline is waiting for you.”

Kailos’ expression hardened at the words of the butler Erikson.

“I think I told her to leave now.”

“She said she won’t go back until she sees you, master. She has been sensitive because she hasn’t met you since the end of the New Year’s festival.”

“She is a woman with whom I can’t communicate, tell her to go back. I’m very busy right now.”

The voice was full of irritation, but I was more distracted by the reality that couldn’t have happened, more than the fact that Kailos was annoyed with her.

Because the dead are alive right now, and the person who should stay in the Imperial Palace is staying in the Duchy. In addition, the former emperor became ‘His Highness’, and the woman who was the empress became ‘Marquis Young Lady’

And I?

A belated feeling of dread overtook me. Just once, there was a time when my physical condition was creaking and I was very sick.

On New Year’s Eve, his younger brother who was the Emperor, Marquis Rosaline…..

Yes, it was the day after I spent the night with his brother for Kailos. Now I was in a state of suffering just like then.

One difference was that Kailos, who did not visit me that time to avoid going against Marquis Rosaline, is now in front of me.

I couldn’t calm down my confused mind.

So, I didn’t fall sick after eating her poison?

No, wasn’t I dead in the first place?

What about my experiences?

Sleeping with the Emperor according to Kailos’ order and not my will. I was criticized for being the Emperor’s mistress, and Estelle…… My small and precious Estelle……

Is it a nightmare that I suffered due to the painful fever? Is it a fantasy that didn’t happen and wouldn’t happen?

No way! Estelle, when I think of my poor child, my heart hurts as if it got torn, but all this couldn’t be

false.

Standing up, I shook off Kailos’ hand and ran to the bathroom, Kailos’ voice chased me. Standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom, I looked at myself with a devastated face.

The scar had disappeared. The hideous and vivid scar, that the man I loved gave on my neck, had disappeared.

“What’s wrong with you, Chloe?”

Kailos, who followed with a pale face, hugged me in his arms. I once loved him so much, but now only unpleasant palpitations remain and I felt a creepy feeling under his grip.

Such a clear sense could not have been a dream. It couldn’t have been a fantasy.

Yes, this is retrograde.

The time turned back

When I realized that I had returned back to the past, my mind went cold. The situation that I didn’t understand belatedly made sense.

One death, and one return.

I, who died after eating the poison given by that woman, somehow returned to the past before death, To be precise, the day after spending one night at the New Year’s with Emperor Raymond.

‘Why now?’

It was not a question that could be answered by thinking about it. I was still confused, but little by little I started to take the situation rationally.

I wasn’t foolish enough to bring out the ridiculous story that I came back in time.

Instead, I decided to take time to observe the surroundings, this is because I have not yet fully accepted the current situation. I had to think about how I behaved in the past for a long time.

“You should go to Marquis Rosaline,” I told Kailos, who is still hugging me.

It was something I would have said at that time, but his eyebrows twitched in displeasure.

“You’re so sick, why should I go to her?”

“The Marquis will be upset to know that you are with

me.”

“Is that important now?”

Obviously, the place I returned to was in a time which I had already experienced, but my current situation was a little different from what I remembered.

“Chloe, you may not know, but you were very sick last night. I thought you were going to die.”

“And I don’t think your current condition is very good either.”

First of all, the eyes, looking only at me and worrying…

Annoying.

“The Marquis is a necessary person for you, Uncle.”

“Not as much as you.”

“I’m only a bit sick, but I didn’t die.”

“Stop.”

A soft but firm voice blocked my words.

“Don’t bother with Marquis Rosaline.”

Kailos wrapped his hands around my face and made eye contact.

“My pretty Chloe, please don’t think about things that hurt your head and prioritize your recovery.”

It was such a sweet voice that I wondered if all the times I went through were false. His thumb gently pressed down on my pale cracked lower lip. It was a signal between him and me whenever we kissed.

When he was slowly approaching me, I saw the traces of sexual love on his body. It was the proof that he was with that woman while I spent the night with the Emperor

To be honest, when I spent my first time with the Emperor, I was sick to the point of death. My body and mind ached, but what hurt the most was the appearance of him rejoicing without knowing that was sick.

I stepped back, pushing Kailos’ chest with both hands.

“Chloe?”

Kailos looked at me with a puzzled look. What he just saw was a very different appearance from what I did in the past.

But I couldn’t accept him trying to kiss me with another woman’s traces on his body. Just thinking about it made me sick.

“I’m sorry, but…….”

Iglanced at the back of his neck, blurring my words. Recognizing the situation belatedly, Kailos hardened his face and pulled his collar. However, no matter how much the collar was pulled, the red marks on the back of his neck could not be hidden.

“I’m sorry.”

“….. b*stard.”

“Chloe?”

Damn, my inner feelings came out of my mouth without realizing.

“What did you just say?”

“Looks like bullsh*t came out. I was very ill, and my mind was confused.”

I smiled and rectified the situation.

“……You seem very confused. What did I say? It hurt a lot, didn’t it?”

“Uncle, you’re right. I think I need more stability.”

So I want you to get lost.

“So, please let me rest alone, you can meet Marquis Rosaline. In the meantime, I’ll be recovering my mind and body.”

“I don’t want to leave you alone, but if you really want to.”

Kailos nodded with a very disappointing look.

T/N: the satisfaction of reading the swear words towards Kailos hehe, and more joyful if it’s the Fl who is giving it

Comments from Korean readers:

What’s wrong with you, Kailos? You can’t open your eyes like that.

Did Kylos make up his mind? You don’t regret it or regret it, do you? Let’s not do that. You just look like a son of a b*tch.

But hey, I’m so excited.. he regrets and regrets, and the readers also say that he should regret like this? It would be better if you regret it enough and then bow down to the female lead.. Suck the rag, b*stard