Gaiden 4

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Ramun's shape became clearer. A golden halo was staring straight at the crying Astina.

A shadow had formed on Ramun. Astina stared blankly at it.

'You have found a perfect image for me.

In the meantime, I couldn't talk to you because your mind was not intact.

Because you killed the man who made a pact with my shadow. I have now regained the shadows and become one. Tell me Now I can give you everything.'

Okay. That was the turning point of everything.

*​ *​ *​

My dreams about my previous life were always mixed up. The dream of the day I killed Lucerne. After that, he hid in the tower and saw the past about Lucerne and Elisha.

She shook off Nora's disapproval and became Malak.

Astina seeps back into the eastern tower and sees her memories of Lucerne and Elisha for days. It was an ability that the Shadow was able to use after retrieving Ramun.

And the last memory she saw of her was her memory before Elisha died. She drank her poison for too long, and Elisha was a body that she couldn't live long in the first place.

She was dying slowly after suffering from madness for the last part of her life.

And Lucerne was watching her.

'Elisha.'

Lucerne said.

'I should have realized sooner that all those moments of meeting you were meaningful.'

Lucerne was brushing Elisha's forehead as she lay on the bed. She was smiling faintly. Blinked her eyes. Addicted to it, she had now lost her words.

'The day you slipped into the fountain of the duchy. Actually, I didn't want to tease you. No. On the one hand, that feeling was true. Not your body I should have admitted that I was interested in the very existence of you.'

'I shouldn't have thought about the aftermath. The day I gave you gold coins. I should have taken you that day. I shouldn't have left you on the road. I just noticed stupidly I can admit it now. That I really loved you.'

'The day you buried the gold coin while crying in the rain. I should have approached you that day. I'm not going to steal you. I had to save you even then.'

Lucerne said.

'But I didn't do anything. Because I was mad for revenge. I couldn't have given it up. But I am all of those moments.'

'I loved you.'

Lucerne said.

'I should have known that sooner.'

*​ *​ *​

Malak cried. But she was comforted.

She was conceived out of love.

Ramun revealed all of her past to Malak. From the abuse her biological mother suffered, to the fact that she is Lucerne's biological daughter.

She had the love she deserved in it, and it was all she deserved.

But too many things were twisted. Because so many things went wrong. She didn't do anything

Will change have to change My sins…….

The Shadow of Lucerne was more specialized in protecting the contractor than other monster gods. So, Lucerne had more than human resilience and physical abilities.

Lucerne knew she had been poisoned by her poison from the time she was in her womb. Being a contracted monster, he was strong against poison and was able to neutralize most poisons on his own. A time when Ramun's hand was out of reach.

From the time he was a very weak being, he had no way to resist the poison that permeated through his mother's body. The ancient poison was like a curse.

The poison never goes away and remains in the human body. Sometimes, like a disease, it even affected the children born to the poisoned tooth. Since her mother, Elisha, was poisoned, Astina had poison in her body since birth.

'Knowing that I am Elisha's daughter……. So you saved me That's why he gave me a shadow.'

Her Lucerne bears a striking resemblance to hers. Revenge on the Cartier family. After that, Lucerne had no reason to be alive anymore. As if she now lost the meaning of her life.

'This is great-grandfather. It's your revenge.'

When Astina was very young, her face looked very much like Lucerne.

Her great-grandfather couldn't have known that. Brainwashing her own daughter into a well-forged sword and slashing her Lucerne with it.

And she even ruined Lucerne's daughter, Astina's life. That was the picture of revenge that my great-grandfather had drawn. Realizing that, she only laughed.

'Besides, you know I've been poisoned since I was born. It's because I've been showing symptoms since I was little.'

But she made no effort to cure the poison. She even drugged her to brainwash her.

'Lucerne wasn't tricked by me.'

Malak would have been obvious from the start. Because Malak wasn't sane. All of her acting would have been clumsy. Those stupid actions Lucerne, just. She was tricked

*​ *​ *​

her body was shaking. Astina slowly opened her eyes.

“Ires?”

“Where are you going to sleep? I thought he passed out because he suddenly disappeared in the middle of the night.”

“……. How did you know?”

Astina's older brother. Her Ires used to find her in awe of her on days when she escaped her nightmares and entered her tower to the east of her. And she would carry her sleeping Astina on her back and return to her house.

“That is great. Pick up the lamp. I thought I was going to die from a sore arm.”

Said Ires. She passed the small lamp that was hanging from a string on one of her arms.

Fearing that his brother would wake up, Ires couldn't even walk hard. I was afraid that the hanging lamp would hit Astina or make a noise.

“I slept so deeply I couldn't wake you.”

Astina lifted the lamp over her shoulder. Before she knew it, the light beneath her brother's feet, which had become reassured, shone brightly.

“It's all here.”

Ires put Astina down. Astina hesitated and stood on her floor.

“Astina!”

From a distance, Elisha was hurriedly walking in her nightgown and gown. There was Lucerne, who stopped and supported Elisha. Behind them, a brightly lit mansion could be seen.

“Where have you been, my dear? Is it the east tower again?”

Elisha looked around Astina and said.

“I'm sorry. Just……. It's because I can't sleep.”

Seeing her Elisha groping her own face, Astina cut her words short.

When she only stood in front of Elisha, Astina was so nice but didn't know what to do. Astina sometimes recalled Elisha's numerous letters she had read in her previous life. Sick and loved Her unconditional love still reached Astina.

“I'd rather come to your mother's room, huh?”

“If I did, my father wouldn't leave me alone.”

Astina said, ignoring the tip of her throbbing nose for nothing.

“Oh, that's right.”

Ires nodded his head.

“Be quite. Yres.”

Lucerne said. Ires stuck out his tongue. Lucerne held Ires' head with her big hand. Ires pretended to be sick, then smiled.

“Astina, let's go.”

“Yes.”

Ires took Astina to Dadok's castle. Lucerne is coming.

“I will take Astina, so you take your mother to her room.”

“Yes, Father.”

Ires nodded his head.

“Astina.”

She saw Lucerne. Unlike during the day, the eyes were slightly intimidated.

“I know what you know. So don't worry about anything. Didn't you say It is only natural that her parents love their children. No matter what kind of child you are.”

“I……. What sins have you committed?”

Astina said in a trembling voice.

“There is no sin that parents cannot forgive their children. It's stupid. Malak, you and I are the same.”

Astina suddenly burst into tears. She held back and nodded her head.

“Let's decorate the eastern tower as your playroom. That would be better Play with a doll there and calmly accept the past.”

“I can't tell if it's friendly or bad taste.”

“Explain yourself.”

Lucerne said coldly. But Astina's heartbeat was slowly dying.

'Sometimes parents seem omnipotent. Father knows nothing.'

But she knows Astina. It's from her previous life……. That even Lucerne has imperfect parts.

'Jealousy is a monster that distorts reason and blinds people.'

Because that Lucerne loves her crazy woman.

Maddened by the fact that Elisha was Jacob's lover. She was so unreasonable…….

'That wasn't even true.'

She didn't know the obvious answer. A very easy answer that even my great-grandfather knew later.

Lucerne did not know that her Luka, Malak, and Astina were her own daughters.

Although Astina earned her quiet sense of triumph into her. It was a very small emotion compared to affection.

“I'll do better.”

Astina said.

“So that her mother doesn't get hurt. You are a sensitive person. My father is also very careful.”

A few years ago. For Elisha being from 'her contract wife'. In other words, there was a group of high society ladies who openly mocked Elisha because she was married to Lucerne for her status.

Lucerne retaliated within days by exposing the family's weakness on the front page of her newspaper. And she said that was the beginning. What followed was extraordinary, and Astina stuck out her tongue at her father's overprotectiveness.

“I want to protect her mother too.”

Lucerne laughed briefly.

“You are still young. Astina. You don't know Elisha well. I'm trying to make sure she doesn't make her way out. If that woman steps in, something bigger will happen. That's why I'm overprotective of Elisha.”

“…….”

From Astina's point of view, Elisha was a flawless and tender person. Astina tilted her head, unable to understand the meaning of her words.