
"Dad!"
I deliberately ran to my father pretending to be very happy. I held out my hand and took her hand,
“I really miss you.”
She looked at him seriously.I was surprised that my hand was unconsciously tightened by the cold stare.
I smiled brightly at my father, trying to calm down.
'Don't get caught. I can't lose my family.'
"I'm hungry. The doctor said I should eat healthy food during recovery so I only eat oatmeal every day. The food is not sweet or salty so it does not taste good—“
"Report teleportation."
"Huh?"
"Medicine ageless."
“……!”
Everyone knows I developed this device with the help of Veronica, but it's not a cure for youth.
The development and distribution of the drug has nothing to do with "Lady Dubbled"
"The mercenary union's hope."
He even mentioned something that I hid very well. As I lowered my head while trembling, I could still feel her sharp gaze.
"When are you going to tell me the whole story?"
“H, how.....”.
“I hope you tell me everything”
“…….”
Dad looked at me without faltering.
"I, I mean, I ......"
“I hope that's no excuse either.”
I close my eyes tight.
I know it. It was almost impossible to fool Duke Dubbled.
"But I want to be a child in front of my father."
It's not hard to admit that I made poison, but the problem is after that. If he asks why, I have nothing to say.
Even if I knew that Marquis Nodelli was the main cause behind the attack, I also cannot say that my goal was suwon, which Marquis Nodelli planned to obtain. Saying that is like revealing that I have gone back to the past three times.
"My family will be disappointed."
He might be scared.
They'll be scared.
He may not consider me family anymore.
For five years, I cheated on my family who really loved me. Pretending to be an ordinary child and knowing nothing, even though I had won their hearts, I had lied to them.
Of course, it was all for Dubbled, but that alone could not be easily forgiven for cheating the family for five years.
What would everyone think if they found out that the child they adopted as a favor was not actually a child, and that the goal was to survive under Dubbled's power?
"I can't forgive myself either."
Even if my family forgives me, our relationship will change.
I may not be able to maintain a peaceful and harmonious family like before.
'If I lose my family again .......'
“I'm disappointed in you, Leblaine. I'm sorry the last 10 years thought of you as my son.”
“I really think of you as family. We are sisters, I believe we can count on each other. ......Please go, Leblaine. I don't want to see you now.”
I suddenly remembered something that Duke Amity and Mina said in my first life.
At that time, I was accused of wrongfully poisoning, but this time there was nothing wrong to accuse. But it is true that I deceived my family with intent.
“I must look really stupid in your eyes. It's macabre. You're a creepy kid, Blaine.”
The incident when I revealed my identity to the boy, who was the only one I could call a friend all my life, flashed through my mind.
My father leaned deeply on the backrest and crossed his legs slowly.
“Leblaine.”
“…….”
"Leblaine Dubbled."
"I'm sorry."
“…….”
I cried and rubbed my hands in despair.
“I'm sorry, Duke. Ii'm sorry. Don't hate me.”
Dad lifted himself up when he saw me kneeling and crying.
“I didn't mean to ruin Dubbled. I just, just, want to live. I don't want to be a victim anymore. Ii'm sorry. I'm sorry."
My vision blurred with tears. But I did not take my eyes off my father who was walking towards me.
"Please forgive me. Don't throw me.....!”
“......Blaine.”
"I was wrong. I'll do better. I can do it well. I mean, I mean ……. ”
“Leblaine!!”
I only realized when I heard a very angry scream. When I blinked, tears fell and my vision became clear.
Dad frowned. So hurtful.
“Do not make me sad again.”
My father hugged me as I lowered my desperate hand.
My trembling body touched the warmth of the person I loved the most. I held my father's waist tight and shouted loudly.
I could die a few more times.
It's okay if my body is broken and my soul is torn apart.
'I want to be Leblaine Risette Dubbled for a long time.'
***
Henry turned to Isaac, frowning with his ears against the wall.
“Stop messing around.”
“Why silence? Are you crying again?”
Johann grabbed Isaac at the back of his neck and threw him into a chair.
The three brothers had been eavesdropping on the story since the beginning of the conversation between Leblaine and Theodore.
He noticed that something was wrong with Leblaine from the start. Moreover, Johann, who was with him there, was convinced that the butterfly that appeared at the right time, was actually created by Leblaine with holy power.
Above all, the father, who had greatly indulged him, had never visited him when he was hospitalized in the Imperial Palace.
Leblaine is back today, so it's not hard to guess that the two will talk.
That's why the three of them wandered in the room next to Theodore's office.
“So what is it. Why should the child eat poison?”
When Isaac asked hastily, Henry frowned and kicked his butt.
"ah! What's why?"
"Foolish man."
Unlike Isaac, Henry and Johann were aware.
Leblaine was hiding something big that they didn't know about.
So they have confidence that they will not be surprised however absurd the secret may be
“I've been dead three times, and I'm living my fourth life. I am not the true child of destiny, and after the true child of destiny comes, I will be sacrificed.”
'What?!'
Henry's eyes became bigger. Johann also hardened and looked towards the office.
'No way.'
That's not true.
That's not possible.
Living again is impossible.
Johann also grasped the armrest of the sofa with a confused face.
Is he making fun of us?
"Ah."
Isaac nodded with a relaxed face.
“That's why he's so mature.”
"What?"
“When we were kids. She's a four-year-old baby but she says something very mature......she also eats carrots.”.
Henry frowned as Isaac nodded, "So that's how it is."
“Do you say you believe that? It was stupid and....”.
"That's what the boy said."
“…….”
“Are you stupid? Since the child is our little sister, even if she is lying, we must believe her.”
Henry and Johann looked at Isaac with their eyes wide open.
Soon Johann laughed out loud, and Henry smiled.
That's when the conversation started again in Theodore's office.
Although the father had no resemblance to Isaac, but the way they handled their loved ones was exactly the same.
"All right."
He just answered calmly.
“I tried hard because I didn't want to be a victim, but I always die. When I lived as Lady Amity and Lady Vallua ... in my life as Lady Amity, I died as a victim, and when I was Lady Vallua, I was beaten to death. Maybe in this place-."
"What?"
"Huh?"
"What do you mean you were beaten to death?"
“Duke Vallua harassed me.....oh, but it's okay. I've ruined their families in this life.”
As LeBlaine spoke innocently, Theodore's office fell silent for a moment. Johann suddenly asked,
"Where was William Vallua's body buried?"
"Members of his body should be torn to shreds and turned into powder."
Johann's boxing tightened.
Henry glanced to the side.
Isaac, who everyone else thought was going berserk, was silent for some reason. Instead, he held his chin as if he was anxious, and narrowed his forehead.
"What's wrong?"
When Henry asked, Isaac asked with a serious face.
“...Is the child older than me because he has lived three times?”
"What?"
Isaac asked with a pouting voice.
“So now I should call her big sister, not bocil?”
Henry looked at Isaac as if he was looking at a worm on the side of the road.