[God's law was forgotten in a very ancient time. is it so. No one remembers it anymore, but it definitely exists.]
"Uh, uh, how...?"
He put his hand on Isabella's forehead without saying anything in response to my impatience-filled words.
[First, we need to look at the summoner's memories.]
With those words, my mind began to feel like it was going to explode.
Eventually, my body became lighter, as if I was in a dream, and was dragged somewhere.
***
One cold winter day, young Isabella was heading somewhere while holding her mother's hand.
'Mom, my feet hurt so much.'
Her mother gave no response to the child's whining.
She just muttered with a blue face.
'I have to go. We have to run away quickly. Go to a place where no one is...'
How many nights did you spend in a place without a proper roof?
At night, they warmed their eyes by the fire, and when the sun rose, they walked again.
Some days they rode a horse or sat on a wagon, but most of the time they had to walk and walk until their feet swollen.
Shortly after arriving in the unfamiliar duchy, her mother died, leaving little Isabella behind.
'Oh my God, poor you.'
It was Veronica Valentin, Duchess of the Principality, who found Isabella crying and clutching her mother's corpse.
Poorly, she guessed she was left alone without her mother.
Did she feel pity for a girl of the same age as her son?
Veronica took Isabella as her adopted daughter and raised her as if she were her own child.
Isabella grew up as the daughter of a wealthy Duchess.
As a beautiful and cheerful noblewoman who is nobler than anyone else. The only thing that bothered her was the demons of the past that visited her every night.
'Chase the woman! Don't miss it!'
In her dreams, Isabella desperately tried to run away with her mother but woke up the moment her pursuers reached her.
After waking up from a dream covered in cold sweat, curiosity arose. Why on earth did they have to run away?
Why can't she see her father?
However, she could not tell Veronica, who cared for her, about her longing for her family before she even met her.
Eventually, Isabella secretly visited her mother's grave and took out her belongings.
Inside the small box, there was only a brooch that gave off a brilliant blue light and an old diary.
The first sentence of the diary, which she opened as if fascinated, was very disorganized as if it represented her mother's confused feelings.
[Everything is wrong. He shouldn't have done this to me.]
The back page was tattered as if it had been erased and written over and over again.
Letters were added on top of erased letters, and traces of eraser were added again on top of the added letters.
It wasn't until the next page that the writing became legible again.
[Isabella. My poor daughter. What should I do? And my poor son who was taken away from me without even getting a name.
You will grow up thinking of a strange woman as your mother, not even knowing the face of the mother who gave birth to you.]
Son? I had a younger brother?
Isabella froze after learning an unexpected fact.
'Who on earth is 'he'? What on earth are we running from?'
She recalled vague memories of her father.
The strong arms that hugged her as she ran and the friendly face that burst into laughter.
Is the 'he' in the diary the father? Did her mother run away from her father and come here?
'Please, Rainier. I want to know news about my father.'
Rainier, Duchess Veronica's son, and her childhood friend, was willing to grant her request.
Although there weren't many clues, luckily there was someone who recognized the blue brooch.
'Count Brium? It was an heirloom from the Count's family?'
'It's not just that.'
The news she learned from the information guild, after spending a lot of money, was all shocking.
[ Baron Harper and his wife, who were coming to inherit the throne of Count Brium, are attacked by thieves!
Count Brium, who had no heir, decided to adopt Baron Harper, who was only a collateral relative at the time and called them to the imperial capital.
However, what awaited them on their journey was unexpectedly a group of thieves.
Due to this attack, Baron Harper at the time lost his wife and daughter, barely survived with his infant son, and arrived at the Count of Brium.]
So did the vicious hand that was chasing her and her mother belong to a thief?
Why did the surviving mother leave the empire and come to the principality instead of contacting her father?
She recalled the first sentence in her diary.
'Everything was wrong. He shouldn't have done this to me.'
Who is 'he'?
As she flipped through the newsletter, a blue brooch with a familiar pattern caught her eye.
As a result of this incident, it was reported that the brooch, an heirloom gifted to Baron Harper at the time, also disappeared. The Count said he was willing to pay any amount of money to get this brooch back.
In her hand was a 'Blue Arla' made of blue coral. Her identity, her forgotten past, and even other living family members she didn't know existed. Isabella's heart was beating rapidly.
'Ranie, help me. I need to see my father.'
'Isabella...'
She had to know the truth. She was concerned about her vague memories and her mother, who only left questionable words.
Rainier, unable to break Isabella's will, gave her his escort, Hugh.
'He will escort you to Count Brium's house safely.'
Isabella, who had left to see her father with a warning to be careful, met me crying in front of the temple she had happened to visit. Now I think I know why she reached out to me.
It reminded her of her mother's death, which I had to let go of without even being able to use it. And in my house, she could finally see clearly who her mother was running from.
'There's no need to leave behind unnecessary witnesses, right? All we need is a woman who knows where things are.'
There was only one person in the empire who knew that she had a 'brooch'.
Her father received Isabella's letter. Count Brium.
'Why do you...me...'
Emotions filled with regret and resentment ran through my mind as I was peeking into Isabella's memories.
Tears, whether from her emotions or mine, wet my cheeks.
***
[It's pitiful.]
After the scene before my eyes disappeared like a haze, a being in the shape of Oliver appeared before my eyes again.
Isabella's cold appearance came into view.
I slowly turned around and glanced at the men who still had grim faces.
"These are people hired by Count Brium."
The being only smiled softly and did not give an answer.
"Count Brium did not want his daughter to return alive. He only wanted back the brooch, which was an 'heirloom'."
'My father, that person...'
Isabella's voice, so thin it seemed like it would break, hovered in the air like an illusion.
I barely got my emotions together and asked.
"You said earlier that there was a way for me to survive. Is It related to Isabella's memories?"
[Recall the most powerful memory the summoner left behind.]
If it's the most intense emotion...
[The father who drove her to death pays the 'proper price' for his sin.]
The child's eyes were beautifully curved like a bow.
[You can fulfill the wish of the summoner, Isabella.]
With those words, the blue brooch in my hand seemed to glow, and an unknown pattern appeared in the air.
[If you fulfill the 'divine vengeance' you have sworn according to God's law, you can contract with me to grant one wish.]
"Revenge?"
I was at a loss for words at this extremely shocking story.
God's Law. Divine Vengeance. There is one wish that can be obtained accordingly.
It felt like I was dreaming.
[If you accept, your deadline is only one year. In the meantime, you must become 'Isabella' and drive the person you seek revenge into irreversible despair and destruction.]
I? Could I really do that?
While I was hesitating, I saw the hand of the being standing in front of me become transparent.
As I looked at the other person who was slowly becoming transparent. I stuttered and opened my mouth.
"Become Isabella? I?"
Memories of what I had read about her swirled in my head, giving me a headache.
Become Isabella, who lived a completely different life than mine, and seek revenge on her father?
Can I do that?
"What if I can't complete the given task during the suspended time?"
[The price that must be paid by a being who postpones time according to the law is death.]
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