- Episode 7
Finally, Anton saved Adelheid.
Instead, she said he would receive the price of her life in the death of her already-dead brother.
She willingly plunged the sword into the chest of her dead brother. There was no time to think. That is how she lived.
She died again while being dragged away for offending Anton.
Adelheid opened her eyes again immediately after her brother's death, prayed, and lived.
This time, while being dragged away, she did not displease the King.
She arrived in Genomes and died again for offending Anton.
Adelheid opened her eyes again immediately after her brother's death, prayed, and lived.
When I arrived at Genomes this time, he did not offend the king.
After Anton kicked Adelheid into Mont Palace, he handed her a mysterious vial of medicine.
'Um... Your Majesty, what is this?'
'It is medicine that causes infertility. Take it consistently. Right in front of me.'
'Infertility...?'
'My dear, I do not like it when something I cherish takes a sincere heart toward someone other than myself. Whatever that may be.'
Even after that, she often died. Endlessly repenting it.
The time she lived grew longer and longer. She came to know Anton better.
How to avoid offending them, what kind of appearance they like, what kind of tone of voice they like, what kind of behavior they like...
Because of this, Anton cared quite a bit for Adelheid.
Even if he didn't love it, it was at least that much.
Adelheid was young and beautiful; she understood Anton's heart well, and she got it right. There was no reason not to spare her.
However, Anton hated boring women.
He also disliked pure and innocent women.
After some time had passed, he killed Adelheid, saying it wasn't fun.
She opened my eyes next to her dead brother's body.
She begged, laughed, and flattered others to survive like a dog.
Not boring, and not too pure and innocent...
Adelheid stared blankly at the guard firmly standing at the door.
Her head wasn't working well.
She snapped off flower stems one by one while thinking, thinking, and thinking. Then she found a way.
Adelheid, who was always making him laugh, would flirt with Anton in a way that didn’t make her feel like a simplicity, and he found it quite amusing.
He took pleasure in punishing the guards who had defected to her.
Even if they didn't fall for her, he found fault and punished them.
So many guards left the palace in disgrace.
Then Dominic Legenon came as an escort.
Anton secretly hoped that Adelheid would charm the stoic and rigid Dominic.
However, Dominic's only feeling toward Adelheid was hatred.
That feeling doesn't change over time.
Adelheid, who was stuck inside the palace and unaware of the outside world, only found out after quite some time had passed that he was a slayer who had killed a dragon.
She was excited.
He can kill the dragon. The dragon. The dragon.
She can end this damn blessing bestowed by the dragon. She can end this curse.
Adelheid tried to ask Dominic about the story, but he, whose hatred had deepened since the beginning, wouldn't even acknowledge her.
In the end, time just slipped away helplessly without hearing a single proper answer.
Then one day Anton killed Adelheid, and Dominic was standing at the door when she died.
Adelheid thought Dominic's blank expression was more cruel than Anton's sword.
She opened her eyes next to her dead brother's body.
She survived like a dog again.
This time she had to listen.
How the dragon was killed. How it can be killed.
Adelheid couldn't remember how she treated people other than Anton, so she still didn't know why Dominic hated her.
They might have known a long time ago, but not anymore.
Still, since they were meeting for the first time in this life, she thought she would be able to hear it.
“Knight.”
If it doesn't work in this life, then in the next life.
If the next life didn't work out, there was the life after that.
If you change little by little and achieve things little by little, someday.
Someday. Won't it happen someday?
“Can I come in?”
“...Who are you?”
“I am the owner of the palace.”
Someday.
It seemed so incredibly far off that she couldn't even bring herself to think about it.
She didn't want to think about how many more times she would have to repeat it.
First of all, she simply smiled familiarly at the man in front of her.
***
"We don't know when the King will arrive, yet everyone seems so at ease."
A heavy silence descended.
Adelheid, seeing the ladies-in-waiting with their mouths tightly shut, their joyful chatter gone, gave a cold command.
"Everyone, please go inside."
As she turned her head after watching the maids hurrying away, she met Dominic's eyes.
He was looking at Adelheid as if he could not understand her.
She laughed out of habit, but her mood was at rock bottom.
"...Do not engage them. I think I told you a while ago...... Captain Legenon, you are my bodyguard."
The ladies-in-waiting never spoke to Adelheid.
Anton ordered that.
He made Adelheid hang herself, isolating her just enough.
The ladies-in-waiting monitored Adelheid's every move and immediately reported anything that might displease Anton.
It wasn't entirely the maids' fault, but she couldn't help feeling resentful.
Dominic was talking to the ladies-in-waiting; Adelheid was afraid that he might accidentally spill something.
Because it would definitely reach Anton's ears.
He was a man who would willingly kill Adelheid at any time, for any reason.
"I am Your Highness's bodyguard, not Your Highness's property."
"I never said you were my property. Aren't all the guards supposed to protect me?"
"Are you saying that I should protect Your Highness from Your Highness's ladies-in-waiting?"
"It is an order. Do not speak to anyone in this palace except me."
She couldn't explain this. She didn't want to explain it either.
It had been quite a while since she had forgotten the feeling of misery, but at times like this, she would feel so bleak that she would feel a tightness in her stomach.
“...I don’t understand, but."
"There is no need to understand. Did you come to Mont Palace because you understood the King's command? No, you didn't. It is the same thing. Obey my command even if you do not understand it."
"...All right."
She was so excited.
It shouldn't have been like this.
Lately, unlike before, her patience kept running out.
Adelheid quickly relaxed her stiff face, apologized softly, and sat on a nearby rock.
The palace gate came into view. She asked him.
“...Will the King come today? It has been quite a while since he arrived.”
"He must be busy. It hasn't been long since the war ended."
He didn't want him to come.
"Then... shall we not visit for the time being?"
“I don’t know.”
"I wonder if he has another woman?"
However, he had to come. There could not be any other woman besides Adelheid.
Because Anton will kill her immediately if he loses interest in her.
The firmly closed door seemed to weigh down even her heart.
When will I be able to open this door and go kill the dragon?
She attempted to escape a few times in her previous lives, but the end was always death.
Just the thought of it felt like falling off a cliff.
"...What is the order the Captain received from the King?"
“It means guarding the door.”
" I mean preventing anyone from leaving and no one from entering, except for the King."
"..."
"No outsiders are allowed in here. Captain, you only need to keep an eye on the insiders."
"..."
"There is a fairly spacious library inside. If you enjoy reading, feel free to use it as much as you like. The palace itself is locked at night, so there is no need to guard the gate."
Feeling Dominic's gaze, Adelheid thought.
Does he still hate me?
Does he still feel offended by me? Even now, when Anton kills me, will he stand there with an utterly expressionless face?
Of course, that didn't happen.
It was something that never happened in this life.
After death, everything that existed before death ceases to exist.
In this life, Anton has not yet killed Adelheid, Adelheid has not yet died, and Dominic has not yet looked at Adelheid's death in that way, with that face, with that gaze.
With such an innocent face.
" It's a boring place here."
However, Adelheid hated everything that didn't happen.
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