episode_0110

Exactly four days have passed since I fell into the dream.

No, it would be absurd to say it was four days.

This is because if you sleep for one day, a year passes by here.

… It was like that.

This dream was not a dream with a goal to be achieved.

It was just a dream of looking at a landscape that changes with the passage of time.

In other words, it is a third type of illusion that has no way to clear it quickly.

I wasn’t particularly anxious about it.

Fortunately, the time spent in dreams did not affect reality.

Four days passed and a total of four years were skipped.

Nevertheless, the deadline indicated by the interface remains the same.

Deltan then looked at Island Street.

Perhaps the starting point was set, but when the day started, I returned to the place where I first met Leah Levadein.

The Levadein Dukes recognized her as someone who returned every year to report, and because of that, the Deltans did not find it difficult to observe Agnes closely.

“Deltain!”

That’s why the duke’s family comes out to meet us in this way.

When I turned my head to hear a distant sound, what caught my eye was Agnes, now 9 years old.

She was made… So, he had been coming to meet me in person since the day before yesterday.

It seemed like there was some kind of intimacy.

“What, Delta people are still the same?”

Agnes approached and spoke with a strangely disappointed look.

Deltan chuckled.

“You have grown up.”

This was probably what I wanted to hear.

Agnes was a child who was anxious to show off that she had grown a little taller every year when we met.

A smile appeared on Agnes’ face.

Agnes nodded her head sharply and then spoke in a tone full of pride.

“Now it’s up to the delta waist!”

Agnes placed her hand on the top of her head and moved her arms, maintaining that level.

My hand touched exactly the center of the solar plexus and navel.

It seems like he grew up with a lot of hard work.

“Umm… Still, I thought I could grow to the solar plexus.”

“It’s because I have long legs. Don’t be heartbroken.”

“Wow, bad luck.”

“What should I do if it’s true?”

Deltan shrugged.

Meanwhile, Leah Levadein appeared belatedly.

He was pulling a courtesy carriage.

“It’s been a while?”

“You’re a little older.”

“I have to say that I have become more mature. I’m still twenty-seven.”

“I’m glad I got married early. Otherwise, I would have become an old maid who missed her marriage.”

“You’re spewing out abusive language.”

Rhea Levadeine laughed.

He didn’t seem to be in a bad mood.

“Let’s get on for now. Because my husband is waiting.”

“Excuse me.”

After getting into the carriage, Agnes, who followed me, sat down next to me and asked.

“Are you only going to stay for one day this time?”

“uh.”

“Can’t there be more?”

“Do you think I’m free like you?”

“If I’m busy, I’ll ask my dad. Especially so you can play with me one more day!”

“They say you should use power when you grow up.”

Perfect!

Deltan fed chestnuts to Agnes’ forehead.

Agnes closed her eyes tightly and rubbed her forehead, then glared at Deltan with innocent eyes.

“Violent.”

“You did something worthy. You.”

“If you finger a girl, you won’t be popular for the rest of your life, right?”

“Oh, I’m sorry, but the woman who asked me to please let her hold my hand just once had to wait in line to cross the entire system.”

“You?”

“Uh, I.”

Agnes flinched.

Her face, which was still full of breast meat, frowned in dissatisfaction.

“No.”

“That’s right.”

“Deltain is not popular. There is no one to take me. It will be like that for the rest of my life.”

“Indeed.”

I don’t know how much Agnes was raised, but as the years went by, she became more indifferent.

After 11 more years, she becomes that sly woman.

Deltans greatly realized the need for home education.

“… Delta people are not popular.”

“You thought so.”

“That’s how it should be… .”

Leah Levadein chuckled at the muttered words.

The Deltans also knew what Agnes meant.

Now 9 years old, Agnes has not said that she would marry her father since she was 7 years old.

Instead, he started saying, ‘Even when I grow up, if Deltan doesn’t get married, I will take him in and live with him.’

The duke’s eyes stung considerably, but as a Deltan, it was nothing to worry about.

Whatever it is, this is history that will never actually happen.

“Deltan is an unpopular, ugly guy. If you live in a fantasy, you will miss out on marriage. Only then will I become precious. At that time, you would cry and beg and beg me to marry you?”

Agnes cursed.

There was a strange sense of déjà vu in it, and Deltan realized that she had been a child who fantasized about being clingy to a man since she was young.

Doesn’t the repertoire change significantly?

Deltan chuckled.

“Tell me again when you grow up.”

“Stop both.”

Leah Levadein stepped forward.

I followed her fingertips and before I knew it, I was at the Duke’s house.

At the entrance was Duke Levadein with a sullen expression.

The Duke said as he got out of the carriage.

“I see you came.”

“Yes, I’m here.”

“I don’t know how much my daughter found. Nice to see you here.”

It was a tone that was not welcoming at all.

Deltan said with a small smile.

“Thank you for your support this year as well.”

“Eat it.”

“Deltain! Here!”

Agnes couldn’t stand it any longer and rushed at her.

Deltan looked in the direction she was leading.

It was a rose garden.

“Go.”

Rhea Levadeine said as she calmed down the trembling Duke.

Deltan followed Agnes.

“A new rose has grown here! Isn’t it pretty?”

Did you want to show that?

Deltan looked at the rose in the direction Agnes was pointing.

It certainly looked fresher and more colorful than other roses.

“Okay.”

“There’s more than this! Come here!”

Agnes led the Deltans throughout.

Deltan followed her wishes.

While doing so, one thing came to mind.

‘It’s perfect.’

I think Agnes’s childhood was truly like paradise for her.

Loving parents, a wealthy environment, and a beautiful garden that makes her happy.

Deltan overlapped this scene with his own past that Agnes had occasionally told him about.

Her longing finally began to be engraved in the hearts of Deltans in concrete form.

“Deltain?”

Agnes added strength to her joined hands.

It was as if he didn’t want to pay attention to something else.

The child’s fledgling affection felt unfamiliar and different from that of an adult.

“Yes, it’s a rose.”

“He alone is white. I brought it in as a new one because my mom didn’t think the red one was good, but it doesn’t seem to be growing well.”

Hearing the worried voice, Deltan stared at the white rose.

I am withering alone.

Just-

Deltan snapped his fingers.

A wave of blue mana rose.

As it gently wrapped around the white rose, the rose came to life.

“Wow… !”

Agnes opened her bunny eyes.

The cheeks turned bright red.

“Magic!”

“Why are you talking like you’re meeting someone for the first time?”

She was already shown to be able to use magic when she was 6 years old.

However, every time she used magic, she reacted with shock as if it was something new.

Whether it was intentional or not, it feels good.

Deltan looked at Agnes with sparkling eyes for a moment, then looked away.

“Princess.”

Meanwhile, the head deacon appeared.

He was someone who didn’t exist in the mansion during the time Deltan remembered, so it felt awkward to look at him like this.

“The meal is ready. Please eat inside.”

“Yes!”

Agnes said and held Deltan’s hand firmly.

“Let’s go!”

Deltan walked after her.

Nothing much happened after that.

Had a meal with the duke’s family.

Agnes joined in to show off what she had learned over the past year.

Then, the next year, I heard that she would also learn dancing, and Agnes chose Deltan as her first opponent.

So night came.

“Are you really going right away?”

Agnes asked regretfully.

Deltan nodded.

Deltan was about to say something with his sullen face, but he kept his mouth shut.

“Take care.”

Leah Levadein smiles.

Deltan looked at her for a moment.

‘This dream is a memory of that woman.’

What it shows is her childhood.

A piece of time that she sometimes ignored and one day hinted at.

Deltan already knew how this dream would end.

-The Duchess passed away around her 10th birthday.

As I once heard, the next day, the next year, would be the end of this dream.

Death of Leah Levadein.

The day that Agnes’ perfect childhood came to an end.

Deltans will now see that moment with their own eyes.

“… Next year.”

“Yes?”

“See you next year.”

When he said that, Leah Levadein laughed.

“Yes. See you next year.”

At that moment, Deltan’s vision went black.

*

The streets of the system have returned.

Although nothing had changed overall, the stalls here and there looked slightly different, as if reminding us that a year had passed.

Deltan looked at the people coming and going.

I spent some time like that, but no one approached me or a voice called out.

He didn’t come out to meet me.

Should I go in person?

That thought had just occurred to me.

“Are you a Delta person?”

Someone called the Deltans.

Deltan raised his head.

There was a face that Deltans knew.

Originally, he was a man who served as the head butler of the duke’s residence in the world.

“You are correct. Could you please follow me?”

The head deacon bowed his head deeply.

Deltan got into his carriage without saying a word.

Suddenly, the carriage departed.

Looking out the window, Deltan fell into thought.

His thoughts were mainly about the sense of disparity that arose when comparing the circumstances of the Duke’s residence as he originally knew them with what he actually saw.

One cannot help but feel puzzled.

‘Leah Levadein was healthy. At least if my diagnosis isn’t wrong.’

Just yesterday, last year’s Leah Levadein had not the slightest hint of illness in her eyes.

The same thing happened when I tried to pour mana into her body out of curiosity.

It’s so perfectly fine.

That means there wasn’t even the slightest sign of illness.

However, it is said that Leah Levadein died suddenly from illness.

That wasn’t all.

The same goes for Agnes.

Just words that don’t specify a time.

Agnes Levadeine was sickly from birth.

It was a rumor that was spread throughout the islands, and the Deltans thought it was true.

But lo and behold.

Agnes Levadein is very healthy.

The more time I spent holding her hand, the more I was able to feel it more clearly.

Of course, there was growth retardation due to lack of physical strength and a heart defect, but the diagnosis was that, unlike 20-year-old Agnes, it did not interfere with daily life.

The most important thing was that.

‘There is no magic flower.’

Until the age of 9, Agnes had no magic power.

Then there is a question.

Where does magic come from?

What started her illness?

Why did Rhea Levadein have to die?

The answer began to emerge in clear form.

After arriving at the Duke’s residence, Deltan walked along with the head butler.

Without meeting Agnes, I headed straight to a certain room.

Knock, the butler knocked on the door and the door soon opened.

“… Ah.”

It was there.

One patient was as dry as a dead tree.

“You’re here.”

The smiling woman has cherry-colored eyes.

This is Rhea Levadein.

and.

‘… also.’

Demonic fire was in her.