Chapter 41 – 4. At the Mouth of Despair (1)
There is neither light nor darkness.
Such is the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness. Like an unobserved particle, it has only uncertainty as its significance. Contradictory images that nothing and nothing exist, in that world, I recalled memories that did not exist in my memory.
– Don’t forget, Jungwoo.
It must have been a world with no background until just a moment ago.
The moment Victoria’s voice was heard, this place became the Campania Partenope, and it became her bedroom with me.
– You are now a member of this proud family.
From the window through which the warm morning sun penetrated through to the portrait of the couple hanging on the wall, it was the same. It was a very strange thing. No matter how clearly you remember it, as long as it’s people who recognize it, there must be some things you’ve forgotten.
There was nothing like that in this world. It was like replaying recorded moments like a digital video.
― If something goes wrong with me in the future, remember this memory.
I reached out to my wife, who was putting her hair up in front of the dressing table. Dressing her long, black hair in a beautiful bun, she approached me with a smile. Then, I was embraced by Seo Jeong-woo from the past, who passed by my body and rubbed his messy eyes.
– Are you my princess? It’s still a dreamland.
Victoria Bernhard was truly the woman I loved. That’s why I couldn’t bear the moment when this lovely elf was hugged by another man. I couldn’t bear the moment when the milky white eyes filled with affection turned toward another man.
― Hehe, the time seems oddly left?
Even though that man was his past self.
― Do you want to eat a former princess like in a lewd novel on the street?
Coquettish laughter filled the room. I watched my wife get caught up with her past self. Seo Jung-woo, immersed in the role of a man of low status, attacked Victoria, who was pretending to reject me, with a tone that would only be used in a royal palace.
Have you ever had anything like this?
I was dizzy as if I couldn’t remember. You could call it a sense of deja vu. As a married couple, we touched each other almost every day. The time we spent together wasn’t that long, but it was hard to know when this happened.
– Dad, I’m hungry…….
Cecilia opened the door and came in. The couple, who had been rolling around under the blanket, were startled and put on their clothes. I belatedly soothed the child whining that he was hungry, and left the room with regret behind him. Let’s do the unfinished work at night.
―Okay, would you like Dad to use some strength?
Our family was prosperous. Thanks to that, I was able to devote most of my time to parenting. Of course, in the remaining time, we also shared love physically and mentally. The housework was shared, but the meals were mine, and Che Chilié loved the food of her hometown.
Pan-fried potato pancakes and sprinkled with a little salt made them taste so much better than that.
― My princess, wait a little bit!
The past me heads to the kitchen. Quite unfamiliar memories suddenly surface in my head.
What food were you planning to make that day?
It was a chicken dish topped with spices. He was going to serve him steamed chicken or white soup, but when his wife said he wanted to eat meat without broth, he changed it to grilled chicken.
Yes, it was.
I remember now. Victoria and Cecilia couldn’t eat the food I cooked until the end. The two of them who said they would water the flower beds while making food didn’t come back for a long time.
Due to some unexpected visitors.
– Beatrix?
I was about to say that the cooking was done with my apron on, but I hesitated. Victoria let Cecchilie inside, and she looked at me and confronted Beatrix.
―Poor woman, if you truly love my husband, you will suffer.
– What did you say?
―I feel the pain of being hated for the rest of my life by the person I love and reflect on it.
―Is the sound of her taking someone else’s fiancée a curse like that?
– That’s my husband! Not your fiancé!
It put the Queen on the cheek, which no one would have thought of. But he was soon overpowered. In the meantime, thirteen men who followed the Führer took Chechilier hostage and even annihilated the Campania National Gendarmerie after receiving her belated report.
– Kill it
Excessive bleeding and drug effects disturb the nervous system. It was only luck that suppressed memories surfaced. I shuddered at the fact that the memories I should have kept now surfaced on the surface.
―Don’t you want to save the child?
Someone throws a dagger In the past I picked it up.
Someone catches Victoria. In the past, I was hesitant.
Then someone else tries to kill Cecilie. In the past, I had no choice but to do that.
― Sir Adler, we have retrieved all the items you mentioned.
– Are you sure you handled it?
– Of course. This ends the legend of the Old Kingdom.
Memories flooding in like a tidal wave wet the dry brain cells. Somewhere in the senses of ecstasy and thrill, the forcibly separated personalities begin to be reassembled.
Just a little more, just a little more…….
Comes to mind Memories that dried up as if they never existed.
It is realized. Overcoming the years of forgetting who you really were.
― Iron Cross, I will tell you.
– Heil Adler!
– Reduce this city to ashes.
Campania Partenope burns. I hugged the flesh of Cecilie, who had been horribly trampled and died. And it was hot. I saw the capital of a nation that prospered in its place turned to ashes and dust.
The promise was not kept.
Beatrix left. All that was left were thirteen special muster targets. The so-called Iron Cross, a group of the strongest competing for the Thirteenth Seat in Bernhardt.
―I swear, Beatrix!
When I came back to Brullin, I was alone.
My beloved wife is dead. My daughter, who seemed like it wouldn’t hurt to put it in her eyes, did the same.
Leona Schultz, who helped her in exile, did not even know if she was alive or dead. She was abandoned with her limbs severed, only she could hear with her ears.
What on earth do I have left?
“Jeong Woo!”
Dizzy.
“Jeong Woo!”
I want to rest now.
“We are almost there!”
I want to quietly close my eyes, but someone keeps calling me anxiously.
“Be patient a little longer!”
Want to ignore But the voice is so painful that I can’t bear it.
“…….”
My nose is stuffy Is it the cool mint scent?
His relatively intact sense of smell smelled the sweaty woman’s shirt intact. This spicy, acrid body odor belongs to mint, Elisabeth Mittemeyer. She gets out of her car and heads for her residence across her vast garden.
“Jungwoo, everyone is here!”
I gradually came to my senses. She still couldn’t lift a hand from her body, but she still managed to get out of the tidal wave of her memories that seemed to drown her.
“Because Miss Schneider said she’d go first and get a doctor…… !”
Elizabeth, who was breathing heavily, paused. Sitting on her back, I was puzzled when I realized the incident. Although I couldn’t recognize it because my body wasn’t listening, I had a hunch that something serious had happened.
“Ah, Your Excellency Adler.”
And that intuition soon became a reality.
“…….”
It seemed that Beatrix, who was supposed to be on the battlefield, had returned home for some reason. Elizabeth stomped her foot. I don’t dare to stand in front of the great President, but since my situation is so competitive, it seemed that I couldn’t even do this or that.
“Bring him in.”
Accreditation has fallen Elizabeth hurriedly took me to the front door. She then followed her orders to put me on her floor.
Dump.
My body stretched helplessly on the wide floor in front of the front door. Even my optic nerve was paralyzed, so I, who had been relying only on my hearing, heard the sound of magic manifesting. Soon after, I forgot the pain from the warm sensation covering my whole body, and after that, I could feel my restored body like a lie.
The energy of the drug that caused the dizziness is gone.
Crushed bones return to their original places, and the severed parts sprout out of thin air.
A light flashed in front of him, and his vision followed suit.
“Wake up.”
As if I had turned back time, I touched the floor with my newly sprouted hand. Forgetting the blood loss and drug-induced anemia, he got back to his feet in full health. Looking at the alluring face of the Führer with eyes that had been blinded just a moment ago, I couldn’t help but admire.
“How…….”
It was a miracle. I could only say that. It must have been some kind of magic, but there was no way to guess. This is because the magic that exists in this world is not all-powerful. Most of the time it’s just a more convenient use of what science can do.
But what does all this mean?
It is truly God’s realm. Beatrix saved my body, which was no better than a corpse. The ruptured left eye was restored intact, and the tattered cheek and burns all over the body were also regenerated like Hans.
“Explain.”
The queen was brainwashed. His husky voice was even lower than usual. Normally, I would have trembled in fear and told my truth. However, having recovered my suppressed spirit and sealed memories, I was filled with hatred.
“Something like that happened.”
So I responded with a willfully defiant attitude. Fortunately, he tried to cover up the incident so that Adele would not be harmed. In addition, she had the idea of trying to find out why she was waiting in this place, somewhere on the Eastern Front, in Chernysk.
“How did you know you came back?”
Whoops! My face turned
“Explain.”
It was Beatrix. It was the queen’s work. The woman who seldom slapped me, slaps me again today for some reason.
“…… No.”
I resisted, spatting the blood in my mouth on the floor. Then Beatrix frowned and grabbed my collar. He was baptized with merciless slapping as it was.
Whoops!
It was a different level of listening. Every time he was hit, his neck was broken, so he turned around in a hurry.
Whoops!
His skin was bruised and swollen. The cornea was crushed by the wind pressure, and the nose bone was broken by the impact.
Whoops!
I didn’t mean to, but I couldn’t even lose my mind. Beatrix restored my body with the magic that healed me again when I was about to pass out. He slapped him until he said what he wanted.
Whoops!
“You are really cheeky.”
Whoops!
“I don’t even know the subject.”
Whoops!
“It’s even annoying.”
It was a more painful punishment than flogging. Every moment the desire to surrender and to beg for mercy flourished. Even so, Beatrix was dissatisfied with the day she held on firmly. As I tried to take off the gloves he was wearing, I threw myself for a moment.
“Kuheugh, cool…….”
Rolling on the floor, I vomited handfuls of blood and stood up. It was only a few cheek hits, but I felt the pain on a different level from the injuries I suffered in Saxony. It was to the point where I couldn’t bear to moan unsightly even when I found the employees standing around me like a folding screen.
“Wake up.”
Puck! Beatrix, who had kicked me in the stomach with her shoe, gave a low command. However, still unable to overcome the previous pain, I crawled across the floor with only bloody saliva dripping down my face.
“Explain.”
She kicked me again as I trampled her on her face. Even then, he laughed at my rebellious look, and pressed his neck. I made it impossible to die with magic and gave it strength to crush it.
“Kreuk, kreuk, kreuk…….”
My whole body shook. Now I couldn’t beg even if I wanted to make a mistake. It was the beginning of a violation that straddled the border between life and death.
“Stop it, Your Excellency!”
It was then. Elisabeth, who had been biting her lips in the distance, shouted.
“Mitemeyer.”
“Don’t bully Jungwoo any more…… !”
Beatrix twitched her eyebrows. I tried to dissuade her, but she pushed my body away with her telekinesis and then walked towards her.
“At most, I was labeled as a bodyguard, but I couldn’t even do my job.”
Elizabeth, who had been standing there all the time, closed her eyes. She must have known that it was an act of suicide herself, but she couldn’t bear to look at it. After a conflict, she took a stance. She warned as if she would draw the sword from her waist at any moment.
“This is the last one. I will not sit idly by on this ideal, no matter how much you say!”
Before long, she opened her eyes and took her sword. She seemed to cut off the ends of her queen’s hair as it was, and then drove her without a chance to breathe. For a brief moment, it looked as if she would gain the upper hand against the terrifying Beatrix.
It was an illusion.
“If I hadn’t gone with a weapon in hand, I would have taken the normalcy into account.”
She subdued her blade, which flashed like a flash of light, and raised her cheek.
“The bitch who even took my favorite sword made the owner go to that point.”
Whoops! Elizabeth was upset.
“Now, even challenge me.”
Beatrix, who had knocked her over 2m tall with ease, let out in her cold voice.
“Wake up.”
As she approached the unconscious woman, she was stunned.
“Beatrix, stop it…… !”
Belatedly, I stretched out my hand to appease the queen’s wrath. Then, before my hand could reach her, she shook off her eyes and shed her eyes. She warned her with a vignette.
“Get out.”
Powerless, but compelled to follow. It was a really angry voice and eyes. It was anger that would burn uncontrollably if he intervened clumsily. Even as I, who had been watching her for a long time, it was an expression I had only seen in Parthenope.
“Wake up.”
Elizabeth raised her body.
“Pick up your sword.”
I hesitated for a moment, overcome by fear.
“I will kill you if you don’t.”
But soon, with her trembling hand, she drew her sword again.
“If you want to live, fight.”
She was the one who consistently overpowered Hans. Considering the werewolf, who remained intact even after being pierced through the heart, and her ability to see through it and show her mercy, she thought that even Beatrix would not be able to fight with her bare fists.
Whoops!
It was a stupid idea. Elisabeth, who had been helpless by her holding her sword, rolled on the floor once again from Beatrix’s hand-slashing blade. With just two slaps, her lips parted and her cheeks bruised.
“Kuh…….”
“Wake up.”
Elizabeth rose again. She took her stance this time as well and swung her sword. It was a speed that I could not match with my own eyes, but it was funny to Beatrix. It was an attack that couldn’t even brush her hair.
Whoops!
A terrifying sound of blows echoed through her room. Elizabeth lost her sword and went round. I opened my mouth thinking that I had to prevent this situation somehow. However, because Beatrix was emitting vicious blood from her whole body, she was unable to utter a word.
“Wake up.”
Elizabeth raised her body.
Whoops!
And fell to the floor
“Wake up.”
Elizabeth raised her body.
Whoops!
And fell to the floor
“Wake up.”
Elizabeth raised her body.
Whoops!
And she fell to the floor again.
“Wake up.”
It was repeated over and over again. At first, it was just that the skin was cracked and the skin was swollen. Later, though, it wasn’t enough that it was covered in blood, and even her cheekbones were exposed. It made her pretty face stagger so ugly.
Nonetheless, Elizabeth stubbornly continued to stand up like a tumbler. I watched her wrathfully with her fists clenched, then shook her head and gave her a silent signal.
She couldn’t stand it any longer.
“…… Beatrix!”
Knowing that this was a pointless thing that would only make her angry, she couldn’t let go of the woman who had been approaching her endlessly, so she left. So she blocked the Queen’s way.
“Let go of Elizabeth.”
“Why are you interfering with what I hired to train you?”
“You’d better hit me.”
“Noisy. It’s coming. A guy who can’t even take care of himself properly talks about anything.”
Beatrix beats Elizabeth. Annoyedly stomping on her when she couldn’t get up, causing her other employees standing around to spit and insult her.
It was terrible. That each of those who were so kind used different swear words.
Everyone despised and insulted the fallen Elizabeth. Even that Helga reluctantly talked about rags and whatnot. Each of them said it to live, and I also knew it wasn’t my intention.
“Stop it, everyone!”
“If you’re going to keep talking like that, I’ll kill this.”
“Why is this…… !”
It was hard to bear.
“That way you won’t come back hurt again.”
Indeed.
