Chapter 12

The Feast of Pietra, decades after it was forbidden to celebrate. The last dinner to commemorate that was… at the imperial palace… Ah, that day, I met again after many years… and fell in love with him. After all, that night I had made love to him. Our love started like that, but it was actually the beginning of a curse. Why do I have to come to heaven and repeat that moment of the day? However, to say that this place is heaven, there are no angels in sight, and Lariesa’s movements are always too agile… but I can feel the taste on my tongue.

Even the tactile sensation of Elonzo, who until then still lies on my knee and has no intention of moving, is as vivid as before. At that moment, I remembered the last wish I cried out. Did my life come back to how it was before it became miserable?

“That nanny… did you say that today is Pietra’s day? So how old am I?”

“Oh my gosh, Lady. You don’t even have a fever, why do you keep doing that? Did you sleep less? I think I should get some coffee from the kitchen. Are you kidding me?”

“No kidding. Please tell me how old I am and what day it is today.”

“Oh, my lady. The young lady has come of age this year, and today is the day she is going to the long- awaited banquet held at the imperial palace.”

According to Larriesa, I returned to the year I came of age. Back through those awful decades of life. Long before my delphinia and delphines were born.

Ah, to get a chance to turn everything around.

“Irene! My dear daughter, you overslept and just woke up!”

My whole body trembled and I was about to get soaked in deep emotions, when the door opened silently, and my most beautiful and elegant mother, Countess Del Thierry, came over to the bed and hugged me. Despite being innocent, she was accused of being the wife of a traitor and suffered a brutal death.

After that, I thought it was rather fortunate that she passed away without seeing the tragedies that befall me one after another, but I missed her so much. Alas, mother.

“No, my dear, Irenye, why were you crying? Lariesa, what happened to our Irene?”

Lariesa was even more flustered by her bewildered mother and looked back at my forehead and was worried, but I cried and cried and cried. Next to me, Elonzo was busy licking my tears, but no one could stop the welling up tears.

“I had the saddest and most terrifying nightmare in the world. I don’t want to do it again.”

After crying for a long time, I finally answered that.

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Even though I managed to calm myself down with the warmth of their warm embrace as I was  alternately embraced by my mother and Larissa… I cried and cried sadly for a while until my body was drained of energy due to mixed feelings.

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