episode_0263

The woman in front of me.

Silver hair that is slightly brighter than Dania’s older sister’s, but for some reason the color has faded a bit.

When I saw her, my breathing stopped. Athena quietly watched me like that.

‘No. Come on, Hera.’

Never show that you are flustered.

“Who is this person?”

“……”

Lily looks at me with eyes that I can’t quite read.

When I looked into her eyes, an inexplicable eerieness spread through my skin.

Athena studied my face for a while, then slowly approached me with a faint smile.

“The person you knew before you lost your memory.”

I listened to Athena and reached out to Lily.

“Ah..hello?”

“….”

Lily didn’t say anything in response and just stared straight into my eyes. Her eyes didn’t blink even once.

Her eyes seemed to pierce right through me, and I felt as if I was stripped naked.

“Excuse me?”

When I called again, only then did Lily look at me properly.

She took my outstretched hand and shook it up and down.

But even while waving her hand, Lily just looked into my eyes without saying anything.

I opened my mouth to introduce myself in the heavy silence that was unbearable.

“My name is…he-”

“Hera Unnie. Beautiful jet-black hair, brighter red eyes than ruby, 171.5cm tall, habit of walking with her left foot first, left corner of her mouth goes up more when she smiles, stutters once when she’s embarrassed, sleeps a lot, tongue longer than average, huge hips that don’t match her slim waist, perfect chest with addictive small belly fat, right eyebrow is slightly darker, face blushes often, likes meat over vegetables and doesn’t prefer seafood, prefers clothes that are comfortable to wear, prefers dark colors, surprisingly likes active exercise despite her introverted personality, can’t keep her hands still when lying and can’t make eye contact, altruistic personality, habit of raising the pitch of her words and sweeping her side hair behind her ear, other foot-…”

“Huh…?”

Lily’s words passed by so quickly that I couldn’t even properly understand what I had just heard.

Once again, an inexplicable goosebumps ran through my whole body.

While I was lost in thought as Lily’s words passed by countless times, Lily continued talking while looking at me with even more sunken eyes than before.

“You promised to come find me, and I haven’t heard from you in three years. I finally found you, but you pretended not to know me even when you saw my face. You promised to spend the rest of your life with me, but you were sleeping in bed with another woman. I thought you were dead, but you were alive. But I didn’t look for you. Why?

“Okay..wait a minute..”

My breathing started to become rapid in the suffocating atmosphere.

“Why? Why pretend to be dead? Why run away again? Why? Why?”

“Sleep..”

“Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? ”

“Lily.”

When Sister Dania put her hand on Lily’s shoulder, Lily stopped talking and looked at me quietly.

And then.

“I’m sorry, sis. I’m just too happy to see you.”

He looked at me with a shallow smile.

I couldn’t get used to her bizarre appearance.

He was definitely a lovely younger sibling. He was a child who spoke sharply, but had a warm heart.

Why did it change like this?

‘…Could it really be because I left?’

..I thought it would hurt a little..but I never imagined it would get to this extent.

Did I… ruin Lily?

While I was panicking at the sudden feeling of guilt.

Lily looked up at me, taking my hand in hers.

“I heard the whole story, sis. You lost your memory?”

“That…yes..”

I answered Lily in a daze.

Then Lily raised the corners of her lips even higher, hugged me gently, and spoke to me.

“It’s okay, sis.”

please.

Like prey wrapped around a snake and unable to move.

I couldn’t move an inch while being held by Lily.

..perhaps.

Maybe I’ve made an irreversible choice.

Was it a wrong decision to leave them?

The unbearable karma that comes belatedly.

I secretly grabbed the letter I had hidden in my bosom.

*

Lily.

She is the first character from the original work that I met after being reincarnated into this world. She is someone I feel like family to the point where I think of her as my own younger sister.

But after she confessed to me, I realized that Lily’s feelings for me were absolutely not normal.

He always tried to stick by my side and was always overly sensitive about me.

Yeah, Lily has always been seriously obsessed with me.

So when I met her again.

When Lily looked at me with dead eyes.

I instinctively felt fear and a threat to my safety.

But contrary to my expectations, Lily never came to see me once during the time we lived together in the mansion.

“….That’s weird.”

Late at night. I muttered while lying in bed.

If it was the Lily personality I knew, she should be clinging to me by now.

But not only that… he’s not even showing his nose.

Of course, I’m not doing this because I’m upset.

Rather, I was a little relieved about the current situation.

The closer she gets to me, the heavier my heart becomes.

However, I am just confused by such an unexpected situation.

Lily, who has been doing nothing.

But for some reason I felt like she was waiting for something.

“…I have chills.”

I calmed my trembling body and locked the door.

Then he sat down on the bookshelf and took out a new sheet of stationery from inside the drawer.

“..I should write Lily’s too.”

Now that we’ve met face to face… I’ll tell Lily everything about me.

If Lily reads this letter, won’t she understand my feelings?

I continued writing like that for a long time.

After writing the last sentence, I carefully placed the letter in an envelope and carefully placed it in the same place where the other two hidden letters were.

As I carefully opened the door, I came face to face with Alina, who was still guarding my door today.

She nodded to me and spoke to me with complicated eyes.

“You will be leaving tomorrow, Miss.”

“….Yeah.”

I also gave my answer with complicated feelings.

Tomorrow morning.

I will sneak out of this mansion while everyone is deeply asleep.

He left behind a letter explaining the reason for his departure and asking people not to come back.

“Are you ready to talk?”

“Yes. I have the fastest horse in the mansion resting. I have also spoken to the guards that day in advance. ”

“Yeah..Thank you, Alina.”

“Yes. Then sleep well, Miss.”

Alina steps aside with a polite greeting.

After confirming that she had left the room, I immediately laid my exhausted body down on the bed.

– Hey. Are you sure you’re okay?

And then.

A voice coming from within.

I let out a short sigh and answered.

“..It’s not okay. But there’s nothing I can do about it.”

‘I have a feeling something’s going to happen.’

The owner of the voice is a fragment of the demon.

Before I regained my memories, I promised to revive the fragments of the demon god. In return, I was given back my previous memories.

I felt a strong sense of repulsion at the idea that the power of the demon that had been inside him was the demon’s power, but after listening to the story, he said that he was just a piece of the demon’s power at one time, and that he was completely unrelated to his current main body.

Although it was uncomfortable, I had made a promise, so I accepted the fragment of the demon god into my heart, and as I was reluctant to call it a demon god, I gave the fragment the name Shin-ah.

Shin-ah was asleep in my heart most of the time, but sometimes when she woke up, she would talk to me like this.

– Well, don’t worry too much. You have the power I gave you.

“..The power of the demon?”

– Hehe, that’s right! Even if your legs get cut off, or your stomach gets a hole, or even your head gets cut off, you’ll be fine. Don’t worry too much.

…That’s why I didn’t really want that kind of ability.

It’s an ability that makes you frown just hearing it.

“…Go to sleep.”

But I didn’t have time to worry about that, so I buried my face in my pillow and tried to sleep.

Thinking that it was my last night at the mansion… I had a hard time falling asleep. But after having a meaningless conversation with Shin-ah, I soon found myself closing my eyes.

That’s how I spent my last night at the mansion.

The next morning dawned bright.

*

If you were to ask anyone to name the most prestigious place in the vast empire after the Imperial Palace, this would be the place everyone would point to.

Daesinjeon.

In the prayer room of the saint located in the main shrine.

Iris stared at the stone statue in front of her with her eyes wide open.

“Again…a trust?”

An oracle that comes down once a year or not.

The oracle was a voice of the goddess that came down only when there was something of great importance to the world.

And that trust had already been handed down about two months ago.

A short statement that Hera is alive.

But it was a trust more powerful than ever.

‘But… another oracle came down?’

Iris knelt down in prayer before the glowing stone statue.

“I am listening, Goddess of Life..Please give me your noble words.”

Let’s open our ears and listen.

A faint voice began to leak out from the stone statue shaped like a goddess.

‘Save my… daughter…’

“…Huh?”

A noble voice heard from the stone statue.

But the voice had a very urgent tone.

‘..I wonder if the demon has come back to life?’

Iris felt deeply uneasy about the current situation, as the goddess had never raised her voice in such an urgent manner.

When she put her ear close to the statue, Iris could hear the goddess’s words clearly.

“Run to Athena’s mansion right now! As soon as possible!”

“Yes…?!”

Athena’s mansion?

Could it be that some kind of attack is about to take place?

“Can you explain it a little more specifically, Goddess?”

– My daughter will be ruined. She will be ruined..!

“If you call me daughter.

– Hera is in danger, Saintess. Run now!

Iris didn’t say anything. She got up and ran towards the door.

Hera is in danger.

Those words, without any explanation, were enough to move Iris’s body.