CH 59

By that time the carriage had almost arrived at the imperial palace.

“Um…”

“Cookie…”

After eating their fill of snacks, Damon and Arsene took a nap in the arms of Frey and Daniel.

Frey patted the child’s back and gazed at the imperial palace outside the window.

‘Come to think of it, this birthday party is the first time Lydia and her children meet.’

According to the original story, when Damon and Arsene become young adults, they meet Lydia by chance and fall in love.

Lydia eventually remembers the two men who destroyed both her family and her home.

The main emotional line in <The Abandoned World> was that they thought of each other as enemies but did not know what to do with their attraction.

‘The development is a bit different because I remember my previous life, but they might show interest in each other.’

Frey looked at Damon sleeping, clinging to her arms like a cicada.

If the children face Lydia before the original story, and they like the child.

‘Isn’t peace surprisingly easy to keep?’

There was one thing Frey realized while teaching children in kindergarten in my previous life.

Four or five-year-old children who seemed to only know their mother and father were passionately in love.

[“Go away. I saw you giving Roha jelly.”]

[“Yuri, I’m not like that…!”]

[“The four crayons I put in my locker are all moved by today. We’re done.”]

[“What are you talking about? We’re still dating…Think again. huh?”]

Even if it sounds childish to a short tongue to adults, the children were always sincere in their liking.

Rather, it is more pure and passionate than the love of an adult who measures this and that because he only acts according to his heart.

‘Damon or Arsene might show interest in Lydia as in the original story.’

Although Lydia is the daughter of Crown Princess Tahar and Garnet, isn’t the child innocent?

Frey forgot about it for a while because of frequent death threats and even thinking about making money, but the genre of the original was also a ‘romance’ fantasy.

It was not unreasonable to wonder how the baby transcendents would react when they met each other for the first time.

maybe we don’t know

Even if it’s not like liking, do they know that each other is a transcendental person and feel something like a sense of skinship?

‘Because Lydia, who has been trained as a Transcendentalist long before Damon and Arsene, will have a different feeling.’

When Frey thought about it, there was something she was worried about.

‘If Lydia noticed something suspicious, Those kids have special abilities just like me, and let everyone know.’

“Daniel, just in case, when are you going to reveal that the children are transcendental beings?”

Frey asked so softly that the sleeping children couldn’t hear. The answer was quick because it was something he had thought about before.

“Since the situation and Prause’s position have changed now, it won’t matter if I reveal it any time. If necessary, I plan to inform my close friends.”

Things were very different now from half a year ago when rumors about Frey’s unrequited love for the grand duke had just begun to spread.

Prause properly turned his back on Tahar and other members of the aristocratic faction.

It was because he accepted the marriage to the crazy princess and even tried to protect her.

‘The Mage Tower, which is almost one body with Zelon, may be related to the Fog of Fall, so It would be wise to distance yourself from us first

More than anything, Daniel felt a sense of rejection towards the crown prince who tried to kill Grand Duchess Prause by using his hands.

It’s just that rumors have spread badly, but she’s a pretty sweet and considerate wife.

But Daniel didn’t bother to add that fact. Instead, he simply summarized his opinions.

“Since Tahar’s position as successor will be shaken, I don’t think Prause should remain neutral any longer.”

Now, it didn’t matter whether or not the rumor spread that the ‘grand duke adopted transcendental children to threaten the crown prince’.

It was because there was no reason to look good to them anyway.

Seeing Daniel’s determined attitude, Frey swallowed dryly.

‘It is clear that Tahar’s position as the successor is shaken…’

In any case, the imperial family needs a successor. However, if Tahar were to lose ground due to the Fog of Fall, there would be only one heir left in the imperial family.

‘me?’

Not anywhere else, but on the throne?

Her heart skipped a beat when Frey sorted out the assumptions that had been floating around in her head like fog.

‘It’s hard to even imagine, so I feel like my head is dazed.’

Frey deliberately shrugged her eyebrows and turned around as if nothing had happened.

” I am really sorry, you must have been exposed to them because you accepted me.”

Daniel didn’t deny it. Instead, He carefully arranged Arsene’s hair in his arms.

“It’s okay. In the first place, I did not think that the existence and identity of the children could be hidden for a long time.”

“Um, is that so?”

“But we can’t hide it forever, so we need to let those close to us know that our children are special.”

“…”

“It’s obvious that the children will suffer in many ways once they are known to be transcendental, but now that they seem to know how to use their powers, I’m less worried.”

Frey looked at him blankly.

His gaze as he caressed the sleeping Arsene was full of affection. Enough to know how much he cares for the children he’s protecting.

‘Daniel must have had a hard time since his father left the world along with his mother before he reached adulthood.’

Frey looked at him blankly and said.

“Of course, you are really strong.”

[‘Why… All the other kids had their parents come…’]

[‘It’s not fair that I’m the only one without parents. Why only me?’]

Among the memories of his previous life, Frey recalled an elementary school graduation ceremony.

Her heart aches when she thinks of the time when she was left like a loner among people laughing while exchanging bouquets of flowers.

‘Although it’s a thought I had at an immature age, I wanted everyone else to be as unhappy as I was.’

But the man in front of her was different.

He sincerely hoped that no one would go through the same pain as he did. 

It was seen that he was considerate of the children so that they would not go through the hard times of being forced to become the family head of Praus at a young age.

‘People who do business always need a good advisor like this.’

After all, it would be better to build intimacy with him step by step and stay together after the divorce.

Frey smiled and accepted the words.

“If I were the real mother of the children, I would be very grateful to Daniel.”

“…”

Daniel swallowed dryly at what she said without meaning.

children’s mother.

It was because when Frey said that, he remembered his own lies that he had forgotten for a while.

[“As you know, I already have two children out of wedlock, and there are more to come.”]

“…”

‘What was I thinking when I  lied so confidently in the first place?’

In an instant, Daniel’s mind flashed like a flash of what he was thinking right before marriage.

He hated having a married life with an immature, foolish princess.

He had to take measures to prevent others from coveting children born as transcendental beings.

That’s why the lies spread by Luke… he had two children with another woman. In addition, the absurd remark that there may be more people out of wedlock in the future.

‘What I have done?’

Daniel seemed to know a little bit about what he had done to this relationship now.

Why didn’t Frey even put himself on the list of candidates to spend the rest of her life with after her revenge success?

And…

“haha…Grand duke Prause really brought the children I had only heard about.”

Even why the emperor, who was waiting for his daughter with only his outerwear on, was staring at Daniel as if he were going to kill him.