TCIWTFY - Part 2 Chapter 94

"...Where would Her Highness the Princess be now?

Several days have passed since she disappeared. Her subordinate, Neril, has also disappeared without a trace. Even the Agemas have yet to find any clues.

"I hope you go somewhere no one can chase you, but at the same time, I hope you go far enough for me to find you."

D'Angel let out a hollow laugh as he realized that his words were contradictory.

The vast continent. Where on earth did Her Highness the Princess go?

"Sir D'Angel."

At that moment, a quiet voice rang out in the room where only D'Angel was present.

"Kensington? How are you here... No, shouldn't you be with Her Highness right now?"

D'Angel looked surprised as Kensington, who had disappeared with Medea, came out through the secret passage in the room.

"I'll stay here. If things continue like this, it'll only end up holding Her Highness back, and someone else will have to report the situation."

"You live in hiding in a villa like this without anyone knowing?"

D'Angel swallowed a laugh and grabbed him as if he was holding onto a rope.

"Kensington. Do you know where Her Highness has gone?"

After Medea left, he remained in Valdina to observe Emperor Peleus.

The Emperor of Baldina was a brother who loved his sister so much that he was willing to go to war with Katzen for her sake.

But Kensington didn't entirely trust him.

Hadn't he seen Perdiccas II trying to kill his own children and his loyal subjects who had been with him his entire life?

The true feelings of Emperors can not be known from their outward appearances.

Kensington actually thought that after Medea left, Peleus would be in trouble and send D'Angel to capture Medea.

But, the reason for sending D'Angel is.

'To protect Her Highness and to help Her Highness escape eternally.'

Kensington was finally able to relax as he watched his most outstanding confidant leave and his subject bid a lifelong farewell just as he had been commanded.

"Yes, I know."

He smiled faintly.

"If you go now, you will be able to see her before they reach the canyon.

***

At that moment, there was someone else heading towards the dragon's nest.

"Hurry up, we have to get there as fast as possible. Hurry up, hurry up!"

The man who spurred his horse roughly was Jason.

When Medea and her party set sail on a ship that departed from the Strait of El Amuz.

Jason and his men were running towards the pasture.

Moving inland, they were now passing through the Desert of Bones, tracing the exact same route the expedition had taken in their past lives.

"Your Highness, why are you moving so hastily? You have only just emerged from the abyss, and yet you are not resting."

Several horses fell over from exhaustion, but Jason did not stop.

"Not this way. We will cross the Fields of the Dead and the Desert of Bones."

Jason's eyes, as he gave orders, looked like those of a madman gone mad or a wise man who had realized the truth.

As they left Katzen's borders, Jason's orders became more and more confusing.

He told them to cross the lake on flat ground and then suddenly told them to cover their ears.

All who followed Jason were puzzled by his command.

However.

"Ahhh! It's a demon! It's a demon!"

"Your Highness...How did you know there would be waves there?"

Jason began to display brilliant wit in every dangerous situation, as if he had already known what was going to happen.

It was from then on that his men began to absolutely accept Jason's orders.

"Your Highness, how did you know that a swarm of iron scorpions would arrive soon?"

"The cave beasts' weakness is fire!"

"I saw it in my dream."

Jason gave a vague answer.

As if he had neither the desire nor the time to explain in detail.

"Isn't this a revelation?! It means that Your Highness is truly the chosen one of God and the master of this land!"

Their lord knew all the secrets and information the continent held.

As his position and lineage grew, his vast experience and strategies grew, and his subordinates' respect for him grew.

It was as if he had turned into a completely different person overnight.

"You really seem like a different person after going to the abyss."

"What a painful place. You are completely awakened."

His subordinates speculated that his painful experience in the abyss had completely transformed him.

The truth was different.

Some time ago, Jason awakened to his past life.

It was in the abyss that he fully recalled his memories of his past life.

The abyss was as terrible as its reputation suggests.

There was complete darkness for several days, with nothing to be heard or seen.

Amid this cruel and endless suffering, Jason screamed for his life.

But the abyss swallowed up all screams and groans, and the only thing he could hear was his own sobs.

When he slowly goes crazy like that...

Everything was erased and became quiet, as if there was no self.

Death seemed near.

At that moment, everything fell apart, the colors became tangled, and it flashed like the sun.

And the present and the past were mixed together.

"Ugh!"

Finally, Jason awakened to his past life.

He felt his face. His cheeks were soaking wet.

The tears that flowed unceasingly during awakening, were they regrets from the past or joys from the future?

He couldn't be sure of that, but this much was certain.

Jason Castullo.

He was the warrior who defeated the evil dragon and the future Emperor of the Katzen Empire.

His ambition was not in vain.

It was something that actually happened. That's why he couldn't let it go.

But the joy was short-lived, as Jason realized one thing.

The fact that his past life was so different from his present life.

His uncle Perdiccas II, who had pushed him so hard, and his first son Cesare were both alive and well in this life.

All of these things pointed to one answer.

"Medea, you were first. You already knew."

"I don't know, maybe there was some bad relationship from a past life."

Medea's words and actions, which had been incomprehensible and resentful, were now completely understandable.

It was because Medea, his first wife whom he had betrayed and ultimately destroyed along with their children, remembered her past life that she was so hostile to him.

"... I must get Medea back."

Jason, who had awakened to his previous life, immediately realized.

The reason why he is in such a miserable state now, so different from hia past life, is because Medea is no longer by his side.

After becoming Emperor, he tried hard to erase and deny it, but he knew his deepest inner self.

All his glory would have been impossible if it had not been for his wife, Medea.

"And everything needs to be put back in its place."

Jason muttered.

The frustration and depression that had long plagued Jason were no longer visible in his appearance.

Rather, it felt as if he was feeling the energy of a resurrected god.

When he came out of the abyss, he had changed a lot from before he entered.

In his past life, no matter how much he benefited from his wife, he was also an Emperor who had been on an expedition and ruled an empire for a long time.

So, its weight and age were bound to be different from the weak and frail archers of the past.

"Your Highness! An oracle has been Issued to the Holy Land!"

At that time, news of the oracle reached Katzen.

Jason was startled, and for a moment, like his wife, he was puzzled.

'Why oracle now?'

Even the content of the oracle was something he had never expected.

'Sacrifice Medea to the dragon? The first oracle was supposed to be an order for Rachel and I to get married?'

But the worries didn't last long.

Oracle and awakening.

Jaskn gained the strength to push forward again amidst the new changes that were brought about.

"...I must defeat the evil dragon. And save Medea."

The expedition was able to kill the evil dragon, thanks to Medea's invention of a way to do so.

Jason was the one who witnessed it most closely.

By saving her from death as a sacrifice, he will be able to gain Medea's forgiveness and wash away the mistakes of his past life.

"If I defeat the evil dragon, I can restore the situation I was pushed out of."

A warrior who defeated the evil dragon that even the Holy Nation could not easily touch.

By regaining his reputation, he will be able to stand up to the First Prince, Cesare.

"Cesare, how on earth did you survive?"

Jason couldn't understand why a guy who should have died early in his last life was still running wild.

But...

"Cesare, this world is no longer yours."

Jason wasn't afraid anymore.

He is not the weak and shabby Jason Castullo of old.

Grand Duke Jason may have found the First Prince burdensome, but Emperor Jason, who had been through all kinds of hardships, was different.

To him, the variable called Cesare was nothing more than a terminal illness that had died early.

"...I will definitely deal with the evil dragon with my own hands."

Jason's eyes flashed.

It was a depth unlike any before, a depth that was not easily gauged.

"Medea and me. For the two of us."

An obvious yet extremely one-sided suggestion resonated through the darkness.

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