CH 115

It rained lightly.

The gloomy sky was getting darker and darker.

She looked around her surroundings.

Various people were seen.

Some people opened their umbrellas they had brought, and others hurriedly covered their faces with raindrops falling from the sky. 

Some of them stepped on shallow puddles of water and skimmed past her.

It was in the memory of the past, but it was full of reality because the surroundings were crowded.

Among them, her younger self had just come out of the bakery with her brother.

– It looks delicious.

– Be patient. Let’s go home and eat.

Her smiling older brother looked very tired.

His cheeks were thin, and his eyes were dark and cloudy.

His lips were also dry. 

It was something she had never seen before in her memory. The only thing she could see in her eyes was his hum.

– Wait. 

Her brother, who stopped her younger self from jumping, quickly covered his nose.

It looked like his nose was bleeding. 

– Oppa, are you sick?

– No, do you want to wait here for a second? I’ll get some tissues.

Yeah. Her younger self, who had been waiting when her brother didn’t come after five minutes, swung a bag of bread to appease her boredom.

– Waaaa! 

Then, there was a cry coming from the side.

A child was playing with the ball, and the ball rolled over to the road. 

Her younger self quickly ran to pick it up and give it to the child as soon as the blue light turned on.

What about it makes her smile?

She had no choice but to watch this, which made her heart feel heavy.

She knew what would happen to her soon, so she seemed even angrier.

At the time, she wondered if she could use her magic to stop that accident from happening.

Suddenly, the background turned gray, and she felt like she was being pushed away from the memories of her past.

It seemed to warn her not to intervene.

Anxiety and fear flooded in.

It was a completely different feeling than seeing it through Raunel’s eyes.

She’d rather put her hands over her ears and close her eyes, but.

– Huh? 

She turned her attention to the voice she heard.

Her younger self was on the verge of being hit by a black car.

‘Avoid, please. Avoid it!’

– Huh??

Even when she saw the car, she didn’t try to avoid it. Instead, her younger self stretched out her fingers.

– Hey, that person—.

She also looked in the direction she was pointing.

Suddenly, her whole body felt stiff.

There must be some kind of tint in this luxury sedan. 

It would have been impossible to see the inside, but the situation behind the driver’s seat caught her eye.

A man threatened a young boy who seemed to be a foreigner.

The boy resisted with all his might.

However, it was not enough. The man soon pushed the boy into a corner.

Then, she stops seeing her younger self. 

With her eyes wide open, she tried to reach her hand toward the driver’s seat. 

Come to think of it; the driver was also in a strange condition.

His eyes were half closed.

It’s dangerous! Get out of the way!

The boy shouted at her younger self, but she couldn’t hear him because the sound couldn’t get out of the car. 

On the other hand, it came to her mind for some reason.

Even in a life-threatening scenario, the boy tried his best not to be swept away by her younger self, but the fight didn’t last long.

The boy, who was strangled by a weight difference, slowly died.

– Your Hyung-nim said that if you die, he will ensure that my family does well.

– U, ughh!!

– Who told you to be born the son of a concubine? You should have kept living like an idiot. Why are you running into it! Even my hands got dirty because of you! Just die. Your little sister will be waiting up there by now!

The man with his eyes wide open was going crazy from guilt.

The boy hit the driver’s seat with his hand even though he was weak.

– Avoid…it.

The last effort ended with that.

The boy’s arm, whose eyes were turned upside down, fell.

The driver’s head also fell.

At the same time, a car came running over her younger self. 

Bang! 

It was her brother who was hit by a car, not her.

Her younger self, who had fallen on the floor, was confused for a while and then got up.

– O, Oppa…

There was a lot of blood around her brother.

Her younger self was getting more and more out of breath.

– U, uh…O, Oppa…

Slowly, tears started to come.

The tears that had been falling one or two drops at a time suddenly poured down.

– You’re crying again. 

With a heavy breath, her brother raised his hand.

– You know, remember what I said? You didn’t forget, did you?

However, her brother’s hand could not wipe away her younger self’s tears.

She also cried as she saw him fall down helplessly.

She met her brother’s eyes for a moment.

There’s no way he could see her. But it looks like he is looking and talking to her. 

– If you don’t forget, tell me. You, who you are—.

The question was directed at her, but her younger self answered it.

– Hik…uh… S, Serdel… Robbesta. S, Serdel Robbesta. What my brother whispered to me… I will never forget it. I, I’m Serdel Robbesta; I’m not an orphan. I, I have a family… So please don’t die… Please… Don’t die… 

– Don’t forget it. Who you are… this time… never… never forget it…  Even in this twisted… world, the end has come…

A faint line was drawn at the corner of her brother’s lips.

– Now… I can’t save you anymore… So, don’t get lost. Serdel. 

Whoosh! 

The moment the name ‘Serdel’ came out of her brother’s mouth, his appearance began to change.

Not the boy she knew, but the Countess she saw in the portrait.

She couldn’t believe it. 

‘H, huh…?’

Serdel is her, and she is Serdel.

Her head was spinning because of a conclusion she had never thought of.

‘No way. There’s no way!’

Cartal is her real father. 

Addis and Redan are her real sister and brother. 

If so, what is the life she has experienced in modern times?

What else is the virtual world that she believed to be the world in the game! 

It took her a while to get away from the truth, which hit her hard.

The dead brother— no, several scenes overlapped over the Countess.

A carriage was coming into the Count’s house.

Inside the coffin, they pulled out the damaged— Mother.

And as expected, the ban in her thoughts broke as the doors to the memories that were buried deep in the abyss were wide open.

Memories that weren’t clear came back to her.

“Ssh, Serdel. Your ability is a secret between us. Okay? You can’t tell anyone.”

It was the first time she started having a prophetic dream.

The Countess— no, her mother told her not to tell anyone from the start. 

She shouldn’t tell anyone. 

She knew nothing and only enjoyed having secrets with her mother.

Then her mother died, and she blamed herself for the shock.

“I, I’m sorry… I didn’t tell you, father. I, It’s all my fault. It’s all my fault that my mother died.”

She felt like tearing her hair in front of Cartal. But he didn’t resent her like herself. 

Instead, he hugged her and cried.

Holding onto his broken little daughter, he cried more sadly than anyone else.

Just in case something goes wrong with her. 

There were times when he came back in the morning when she cried for a long time.

Then, he asked the former Lord of Wizard Tower to seal Serdel’s memory.

In front of Cartal, she lost her memories one by one.

Even though he was in such a bad situation, when she thought about his eyes at that time, it felt like his heart was being torn apart.

‘Ah—’

In the end, Serdel sank.

It was painful.

Even though the raging was so strong, it was hard for her to endure it alone.

– Lady. 

It was then. 

She raised her head to a familiar voice.

Something passed over the boy’s body, who had died in the car that hit her brother, and immediately approached her.

It was Blenn. 

His eyes were full of confusion as he realized the previous life he had never known.

Tears streamed down his tired face.

– Lady—.

Boiling on one knee in front of Serdel, he reached out carefully.

They were both in a state of souls, so she thought he would pass, but to her surprise, his thumb touched her cheeks.

– Are… Are you okay? 

He was worried about Serdel.

– No, it’s not okay. It hurts too much. How about you? Are you okay?

– I’m— as long as Lady is all right, that’s fine.

The tears didn’t stop running.

Blenn hugged Serdel.

At that moment, the curtains fell over the unfolding memories, and the surrounding darkened.

How long has she been trapped in a quiet space?

She was brought to her senses with the lost sense of reality.

“You’re awake.”

The Lord of the Wizard Tower approaches her. 

One of his hands still held Raunel’s eyes.

The memories stored inside were regenerated again. The boy hit by a car on her behalf was no longer seen as an older brother.

He seemed to have guessed the meaning of Serdel’s tears.

“I see, as expected.”

The face of the Lord of the Wizard Tower darkened.