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I felt a sense of calm enveloping my whole body.

It feels like you’re immersing your whole body in a warm bath.

No. If I had to use an analogy, it would be like…

A place she had never been to before.

It reminded me of the feeling of being in my mother’s womb.

A place where you can put aside all your worries and have peace of mind.

A cradle of the gods, where one can be protected from the cruel storms of the world.

It was at that time that the thought of wanting to stay like this forever was welling up in her head.

-“Katlena.”-

A voice ringing in her ear.

It was a familiar voice, yet at the same time, it was the voice of that person who always warmly soothed her heart.

‘mother?..’

She opened her eyes without realizing it, automatically remembering the image of the person she had thought of at the last moment.

“Ouch!”

The moment she came to her senses, a heavy breathing sound escaped from her, Katlena’s, mouth.

The afterglow of the calm feeling from just a moment ago still lingered, but now a greater sense of confusion was beginning to take hold of her.

‘What… what is it? How… how did I…’

Catlena reflexively puts her hand on the back of her neck

However, there was not even a hint of pain, let alone a wound.

As if nothing like that had ever happened in the first place.

As if everything had simply been a bad dream for a moment.

at that time..

“Are you awake, baby?”

“!..”

Katlena turned her head at the soft voice coming from beside her.

There was the face of a woman lying there, half embracing her body.

A familiar face looking at her while lying in bed.

A woman with reddish-brown hair, crimson eyes, and skin as white as jade, with a youthful and beautiful appearance who at first glance appears to be in her late twenties at most.

But Katlena also knew very well that she was much older than she looked.

It was only natural. She was the Duchess of this duchy.

The only woman Katlena can call her mother.

Because it was Mina Roseveta Dragona.

Rosetta was originally lying in bed in critical condition.

The person that Katlena wanted to see the most right before she died, but Katlena still didn’t understand the situation, so she asked in a confused voice.

“Uh..Mother..? How..I..Seriously..Could it be that my mother passed away too..?”

“Huh? What are you talking about all of a sudden? Who would die? Did you have a nightmare, honey?”

In response to Katlena’s question, she asked back with a rather worried voice.

There doesn’t seem to be any sign of pain or injury.

Judging from her attitude and atmosphere, it was clear that this was not some other world.

However, there are still other unknown points.

It was at this point that Katlena was visibly confused.

“Or maybe… what happened at the banquet yesterday? Well, your schedule was quite tight because of your father’s drinking…”

“Huh? A banquet?”

Roseveta asks with a voice full of worry and doubt.

Katlena asked this unknown question cautiously, feeling a deep sense of doubt, and her mother spoke to her with a slightly strange expression on her face.

“Yesterday was your 9th birthday, right? Your father gave you a wonderful present. Don’t you remember?”

Rosebetta speaks with a voice that is both curious and even more worried.

Katlena felt that if she spoke wrongly here, the situation would become really complicated, so she decided to recall her vague memories and try to make up her mind.

“Ah.. That.. That’s it.. Right? My father gave me a jewel brooch.. Sorry, I’m still a little tired because I’m not fully asleep..

Katlena said with a slightly anxious voice, thankfully remembering what her ninth birthday present had been.

“Hehehe. I see. But now I should wake up and get up. I might be late for dinner.”

Rosebetta reacts as if her anxiety has been relieved by her words.

Then she gave Katlena a gentle hug with a fond smile.

As always, the warmth of ‘Mother’

This had always put her mind at ease, but now, rather than calming down due to Rosebetta’s actions, her mind was in a state of turmoil, as if a storm was raging.

‘9th birthday?.. W.. No way.. Does that mean I just went back to 12 years ago?”

Unbelievable, Katlena looked at her body anxiously.

A body as light as a feather, with hands that are half the size.

And the weight of my chest, which has become excessively empty compared to the past…

‘W… This is ridiculous. You really came back? How could you do this? No, more than that. That means…’

As she began to understand the situation she was in, Katlena’s mind began to picture the crazy twists and turns her life would take from now on.

Cattlena grew up receiving special love from her parents, especially her father, who was a duke.

On the other hand, the relationship between her older sister and her father had not been good since she was a child.

To the extent that in her memory, her father never once smiled at her older sister.

In the meantime, Rosetta tried her best to reconcile the two, but despite her efforts, the relationship between the two women worsened over time due to fundamental differences in personality and various incidents.

Then, what decisively caused the rift between the two people was…

Despite the opposition of Rosebetta and the lords, her father chose to appoint himself, his youngest daughter, as his successor, leaving aside his eldest sister and his second eldest sister, who was indifferent to politics.

Katlena, who was 13 at the time, simply accepted it according to her father’s will without really knowing what it meant.

It ended up planting the seeds of disaster in her life.

The relationship between my older sister, father, and Katlena was completely torn apart because of that incident.

The emotional rift between the three people deepened to the point of no return… and eventually, after 9 years.

Their hatred reached its peak when Rosebetta, who had tried to mediate between the two women, was involved in an accident and collapsed.

And finally, with the last safety pin gone, the eldest sister, who had gathered the support of the lords, finally expressed her suppressed anger and rebelled.

The eldest sister, who has numerous achievements as a war hero and who took advantage of the golden opportunity of her father’s departure.

The eldest sister, who advanced so relentlessly, succeeded in quickly occupying the capital,

In the process, Katlena, who came face to face with her older sister at a dead end, was brutally killed by her older sister without even being able to resist.

With the person who has been by her side all along.

‘I don’t know what happened after that, but… my sister probably took over the castle and lived happily ever after after taking over the duchy. With that damn fiancé.’

Suddenly, remembering the face of that person, who now made something inside her well up just by thinking about it, Katlena began to struggle to suppress her expression.

‘Ah.. Anyway, that’s not what’s important right now..’

I don’t know how this happened, but somehow she returned to the past before the seeds of tragedy were planted.

However, if I continued to act clumsily like before, there was a high chance that I would end up with my neck cut off by my angry older sister as planned.

In some cases, it may lead to death in even more terrible pain.

‘I absolutely have to stop that. I somehow managed to survive, but I can’t let myself die at the hands of my older sister again.’

One nightmare was enough.

Moreover, unlike in the past, she was keenly aware of the consequences of trying to inherit the title with a resigned attitude through her experiences so far.

And… also about how scary her older sister is.

at that time.

As Katlena was thinking like that, Rosebeta’s voice began to ring in her ears.