TCIWTFY - Part 2 Chapter 126

"Empress, don't let anyone know."

"I don't know. Your Majesty, have I ever been in vain?"

"No..."

At the moment when Medea groaned, the next piece of mirror glittered.

"It's a trap. Your Highness, the Princess can't come to Valdina at this time. You must not go there. The border is now infested with demon beasts."

"I know. But just one thing... If Dea is coming, she will be engulfed in those beasts. I can't let her do that."

And so Peleus rode away.

Her brother is not stupid. He was sure it was a trap.

Nevertheless, he could not abandon the affection of flesh and blood until the end.

Alas. Medea covered her mouth with both hands.

Tears were streaming down her face from the shock.

At that moment, the sculpture changed again.

In the next plece.

She saw her brother stranded by a swarm of demons rushing in from the border.

Half of his body was torn off, and his clear blue eyes had long since faded.

Frozen and staring into the void.

"God, please... protect him."

And the parchment paper that he was holding outside his fallen hand...

"No!"

Medea howled as she approached Peleus.

However, her hand passed through Peleus, and she could not touch him or close her eyes.

Her brother died like this, because of her, he could not put an end to the foolish affection of flesh and blood.

It was different from what she had just heard about in the news. The shock of seeing her brother's end with her own eyes was tremendous.

"Ahh!!!"

She shouted and bent down. It was painful as if her heart was breaking.

Meanwhile, the border scenery filled with beasts like a hawk's gaze became more and more distant.

As if this is not the end. As if there is still more to show.

Her vision became blurry.

Countless stars passed by upside down. As time rewinds, everything flows backwards.

At some point, she reached the first point where it all began.

"Really, uncle? Did he really say that?"

"Jason, here. Here, there is the Philosopher's Stone. I brought it."

"Yes. The evil dragon is what you cut down."

And the past that Medea never wanted to face again unfolded before her eyes.

"Peleus, help me. The Emperor is looking at us. I can protect my children, even if it's just for a little bit..."

"Lian, go to the imperial palace. You should be by your father's side."

"Virna, take Leah and run, come on!"

Her past life, which was weak and foolish, was revealed in detail under the cold light.

Not a single piece of oblivion was allowed, and it passed before Medea's eyes.

It was suffocatingly painful, but she didn't turn away.

Her eyes were wide open despite her tear-stained vision, and her fingernails dug into the flesh silently under her sleeves.

Then...

Medeia suddenly felt that someone was watching her.

Beyond the curtain of flowing memories, there stood a man.

Jet black hair. Golden eyes that burn like the sun.

A man who is never buried in the countless stars.

"Cesare..."

Was it sighing or relief that came out?

Two eyes overlapped over the fragment of her past life.

***

"Really, uncle? Did he really say that?"

She also saw Cesare.

The moment when a little girl with innocent eyes was withered like an old tree that was gradually withering.

"Princess of Valdina, please call me Jason."

"I love you, Medea."

The moment when Jason's shallow affection for the greedy girl becomes the girl's only lifeline.

From the day she stole the national treasure of her country and fled, to the moment when Jason ascended to the throne, and all the love and sacrifice she had offered to him were trampled on.

"...That's why."

His fingernails were stuck in his fist, which he clenched quietly under his black sleeve.

In this lifetime, the cogs that didn't mesh finally came together.

Why did she want to protect her country so much? Why did she want to kill Jared?

Now he understood why she had thrown herself away without hesitation for the sake of her goal.

It was a desperate struggle not to repeat the mistakes of her previous life.

"Didn't the oracle come out again? The revelation that the mother and daughter will bring about the destruction of this country!"

In Cesare's memory of starlight, Jason and Rachel tried to take Medea's life.

"You don't know, you don't dare to cut the tough bond between us."

"Do you talk about your relationship?"

Thinking of Jason crying out in the judgment room, Cesare gritted his teeth.

Medea, standing in prison, looked like an old tree whose tears had dried up.

It was like a piece of wood that had been broken without any hope.

'Why... Are you not looking for me?'

Cesare couldn't resist the flames that erupted in his chest.

He wanted to slaughter those who made her like this.

He wanted to crush the throats of those who dared to laugh at her, and make them pay many times over for betrayal.

Where am I? Medea, why didn't you look for me?

I wouldn't have left you like this. If I were...

"Alas."

At that moment, he realized. A sharp breath escaped from between his parched lips.

"I..."

In his last life, he was unable to overcome the curse that the primordial darkness had placed on him.

He couldn't even recognize its existence, let alone the dawn drop.

In this lifetime, the antidote came to him only because of Medea's changed choice.

Cesare looked up.

The moment he noticed the green eyes looking at him through the fragments.

Without hesitation, he walked from star to star.

"Cesare..."

The moment her surprised voice called his name sweetly.

Cesare hugged her crushingly.

Like a swarm of black stars enveloping Venus, darkness drifted down silently and engulfed the two of them.

***

Medea opened her eyes.

The image of the man shimmered in front of her blurry eyes.

The man's head looked silver as the light from the lamp reflected.

"Peleus."

Medea hugged the man's neck as hard as she could. The cry that had been suppressed leaked out.

"...You can't go."

As she was gasping for breath because of the tears welling up in her eyes, a warm hand patted her on the back as if he understood.

In the embrace of her face, a faint scent of musk permeated the tip of her nose. It's not her brother.

The moment she realized it unconsciously, she took it away.

Looking up with a wary eye, there was Cesare.

It was then that she realized that what was in her fantasy was not an illusion.

"Did you see? You too... Did you see it?"

Cesare looked at Medea.

Her voice, which was always indifferent and calm, was trembling.

"... Yes."

It was as if she had been caught in a disgrace, and his eyes seemed to scratch her heart sharply.

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