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[Episode 95] – Snow White’s Story (1)

“So, listen quietly. “This is an opportunity I’m giving you.”

Hearing Snow White’s cold voice, I had no choice but to swallow my saliva and nod. Snow White frowned as if she was annoyed just thinking about it, and soon began to tell her story out loud.

“…Initially-”

*

At first, I thought it was just a dream.

When I woke up, opened my eyes, and woke up, I was back when I was five years old. Can you believe it? I was just before turning seven, but when I woke up, I turned back to five.

I didn’t know what to do in a situation that I had only seen in novels. However, the confusion only lasted for a moment. This situation wasn’t as bad as I thought. Because my first life was at odds with other people.

So I believed that this time, my relationship with others would definitely improve. No, I decided to do that. Of course, I also had a really, really bad relationship with the second queen, Vivian.

Doesn’t it look really innocent and stupid?

In my second life, I started by saying hello to as many people as possible. To the maids passing by, to the nobles, to the ministers, and to my father, His Majesty.

All I did was say hello to people regularly, but my reputation with those around me was completely different from my first life. I became friends with the maids and ministers. I also visited my father and studied.

I was really happy back then. Because it’s completely different from my first life. Everyone liked me except one person. Yes, except for the second queen Vivian. But, I didn’t give up, did I?

“Wow, Her Royal Highness… the weather is nice today… this is a gift from me…!”

“……”

Every time I went to see Vivian, I brought at least one flower. But even if I approached her like that, Vivian hated me. Even when I said hello, he always looked down coldly, clicked his tongue, or ignored me.

I was young at the time and just thought I did something wrong. Vivian hates me because I did something wrong. That’s what I thought. I was a stupid child who didn’t know how to blame others.

Still, I really didn’t give up. This time, my goal was to really get to know everyone. However, the distance between me and Vivian did not narrow at all, and time passed just before I turned seven.

This time, I ‘reverted’ to being four years old.

‘why?’

This time, just before I turned seven, I woke up and had a ‘regression’. Why on earth? The question did not disappear from my mind. Because I really don’t know the reason for this regression. furthermore…

‘It was my birthday a few days later…’

I was sad that I had to regress again without being able to make it past my seventh birthday. This time, I made an appointment with my father and the ministers. This birthday will be really special. It will be a day I will remember for the rest of my life.

But, in the end, I regressed. ‘No matter what I do, won’t I be able to live past the age of seven?’ The moment I thought this, I really felt like I was trapped in a maze with no exit.

Still, I didn’t give up on my third life. This time, I started investigating in earnest to find out why children regress at the age of seven. I tried to find out the conditions for regression.

I read books and gathered rumors. Of course, it didn’t help at all. Even if I read the book, I couldn’t find out anything about regression, and even if there was, it was a story that only appeared in novels.

Realizing that I couldn’t find out from books, I started looking for commonalities between my first life and my second life. Suddenly, the thought occurred to me, ‘Have I fulfilled some condition by mistake?’

But, even after thinking about it for years, I couldn’t figure out anything. Time passed in vain, and in the end, I ended up just before I turned seven, just like my last life.

That day, I thought, ‘If I wake up, won’t I go back again?’ I couldn’t sleep comfortably due to anxiety. Perhaps because others felt sorry for me, a maid came up to me.

The child was named Ellie, who was one of Vivian’s maids. It was the face I saw every time I went to see Vivian, so it stayed in my memory. Ellie came up to me and asked.

‘Princess, can’t you sleep?’

I was so tired that I couldn’t even answer straight and just nodded. Then, Ellie said she would make me some tea to help me sleep and looked at me with a really kind smile.

So I took the tea that Ellie had brewed and looked down at the teacup blankly. The moment I put it to my mouth without any suspicion, something popped into my head.

In the first life and in the second life.

I remember drinking ‘tea’ from someone the night before I returned. Really, it was a memory that came to mind by chance. When that memory came to mind, a small doubt rose in my mind.

‘…Ellie, since I’m done, would you like to drink it?’

‘Yes, yes…? How dare I take the princess’s car…’

‘Because that’s okay.’

I hoped those suspicions weren’t true. I wanted to believe that my exhausted brain was thinking evil thoughts. If what’s in this teacup is really poison…

‘Drink it quickly.’

Because Ellie won’t drink it and will just throw it away.

Ellie’s face began to turn pale as she took the teacup I held out to her. I shook my hand so much that the teacup in my hand trembled, and then I made a sobbing sound in my throat as if I was nauseated.

Ellie, who reacted that way for a while, eventually.

‘…I will drink it gratefully.’

He drank the tea from his cup and smiled while looking at me. A normal, gentle smile as if there were no problems.

Then, Ellie bowed her head to me and went back to her room as if nothing had happened. I was glad to see that Ellie had no problem drinking tea and let out a sigh of relief.

What Ellie gave me wasn’t poison. He said I was worried for no reason, so he felt relieved and went to sleep in bed. Please, I pray that it doesn’t come back again when I wake up.

The next morning, fortunately, I did not ‘regress’.

Ellie was found dead in her room.

Ellie’s cause of death was ‘poison’.

And the poison was found in the ‘teacup’ that Ellie gave me. Do you know how I felt when I found out that Eli died from the poison in that teacup?

Rather than being shocked that the condition for return was ‘death’, it was painful to know that Ellie died with just my words. I know Ellie tried to kill me. And, the fact that he committed suicide after failing.

But even so, when I was young, the fact that someone died through words that came out of my mouth was more unbearably painful than almost dying myself. Because I was suffering so much, a thought like this suddenly occurred to me?

‘I’d rather go back again.’

If we go back again, we can create a future where Ellie won’t die and a future where I won’t die either. Isn’t it funny? I tried so hard to escape regression, but I also knew that the condition for regression was death.

I wanted to go back again.

Time passed in such agony that I did not return until my seventh birthday. That time was proof that both the first and second lives died from poison.

So, my seventh birthday finally arrived, and just as my father and the ministers said, it was such a beautiful day that it will remain in my memory for the rest of my life.

I was able to free myself from guilt and be happy, even if only for a moment.

I danced with my father and with ministers. That moment when I felt a little happy and hoped that days like this would continue in the future.

‘princess. ‘There you are.’

Vivian came to me as I was walking alone in the hallway. Seeing Vivian smiling at me for the first time, I smiled brightly and approached her. Still, did you come to congratulate me on my birthday? With a pure heart.

‘Her Majesty Queen Vivian!’

When I approached Vivian with a bright smile, she just smiled and looked down at me. To be honest, I quite liked Vivian up to that point. why? Can’t you believe I liked Vivian?

The reason I liked Vivian is… First of all, she’s a beautiful person, right? And, even though she is not my biological mother, Vivian is my mother. That’s why I did it like that. I missed my mother and really wanted to become close to my stepmother, Vivian.

Really, I hoped so by then.

The moment I approached Vivian and raised my head, Vivian gave me a strong shove on the shoulder. So strong that your body flies. And, of course, the place I flew to was a steep staircase.

…After that, I honestly don’t remember much. All I remember is the sound of my bones breaking and the pain I felt as I fell down the stairs. However, there is only one thing I remember clearly.

The look on Vivian’s face when she pushed me down the stairs. I still remember the expression on Vivian’s face as she pushed my shoulder, frowning as if she had just seen something disgusting.

The moment I closed my eyes in pain and opened them again.

I’m five years old again.

The moment I came back, I felt my neck being broken and screamed in pain. I was out of my mind. I couldn’t bear it without going crazy at that moment.

That’s right, isn’t it? Because it was the moment when it was proven that death is a condition for return, and the moment when I learned about the culprit who had been killing me until now.

‘Why on earth? Why are you trying to kill me? ‘I liked you that much?’

This is the story of my fourth life.

*

“……”

The whole time I was listening to Snow White’s story, I couldn’t take my eyes off the red thread on my wrist. At first, it was just to watch Snow White lie, but the more I listened, the more I wanted this red thread to break.

However, the red thread connecting me and Snow White had no intention of breaking at all. The red thread tied around my wrist told me that Snow White’s story was true and not a lie.

As I pursed my lips, not knowing what to say, Snow White smiled and looked at me. Snow White’s eyes were slightly red, as if she had cried a little while talking.

“I guess that’s why I’m more angry with you. “Even if you are different from the Vivian I knew, you were still ‘Vivian’.”

“……”

“Because you, who hated me to the point of killing me, are now raising ‘me’ with love. “I have never received such affection from you.”

Snow White smiled bitterly and continued. He said that his story was not over yet and continued the story once again. this time…

It was Aurora’s story.

*

After my fourth life, it was a fight with Vivian. I tried to live by avoiding Vivian, who was trying to kill me. However, it wasn’t quite easy.

If the poison didn’t work, I could push him down the stairs like last time, or set a fire in my room and lock the door from the outside. They even let an assassin into the royal castle. I guess he hated me enough to do that.

Fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh. I die and return, die and return, and as I return so many times, I learn something. The first thing I learned…

First of all, the regression times were all different. Sometimes I went back to when I was five, sometimes I went back to when I was four, and even if I went back to the same age, the time and date were different each time. It must have been the twelfth time.

The time period that returned to the regression was-

‘cadet?’

When I was one year old.

When I returned to being a baby who could barely babble, I felt absolutely miserable. The shame of not being able to do anything and showing all the embarrassing places to the maids was as painful as dying and returning.

As I, now a baby, was wasting time on the bed, I heard a story about the maids making jokes.

‘How is Her Majesty Queen Aurora’s physical condition?’

‘The fortress looks pretty good these days. ‘Take your medicine regularly.’

‘If you’re feeling better, I’d like you to come see the princess…’

The moment I heard the name Aurora, I felt my heart sink. When I was young, I heard that my mother, who died after giving birth to me, is still alive.

‘My mother in this time period is alive!’

It was the moment when another goal arose in this regression. My father said that I heard that my mother passed away because she was weakened by an illness.

So, I set a goal to use this regression to save my mother. Because Vivian will never love me. So, if I save my mother, she will definitely love me.

I believed it so foolishly.