297 – Two Sisters’ Choice
As we led Juliet’s hand out of the basement, bright sunlight shone on us.
“Now, wait a minute. “Where are you going?”
“To make everything right.”
If we continue like this for 5 more years, the original story will begin. If everything goes according to the original plan, all the hardships so far may be rewarded.
But is the future we have secured really the best? Is it really right to ignore the present with the excuse of doing it for the future?
That’s not true. In the end, no one knows what the future will be like. What is important is the happiness of today, not the tomorrow that may come.
Destiny is not about planning, but about pioneering.
Why are you making a fuss now when you can just hold on for another 5 years?
That’s ridiculous. No one can guarantee whether I will be alive five years from now.
Everyone, including the Goddess, said that the wheel of fate could never be reversed, and that only I, who possessed the possibility of uncertainty in this world, could break fate.
However, the very attitude of complying with fate may make fate even more solid.
Because I too have lived like a slave bound by fate, obsessed with the idea that I must keep the plan I made for myself.
“Cough…!!”
As I was walking down the street, I stumbled and coughed violently, and black blood came out.
Juliet, who checked my condition, was surprised and helped me up.
“What! Where are you going with your body like that? “Go back now!!”
“No. “Staying locked in the basement like this would be the same as true death to me.”
I barely regained my true freedom. I learned how to walk on my own without being bound by fate.
If I stay in that dark basement again, avoid sunlight, and chew evening primroses, it would be possible to survive until the original.
What is the meaning of living like that? A miserable life that only vaguely dreams of the future and ignores the suffering of precious people is undesirable.
I will save myself. I will strive for everyone to experience perfect happiness right now.
I will rob you of your destiny. As the phantom thief Raven.
I stood there for a moment and waited until the seizure subsided. Seeing Juliet looking at me with concern, I strengthened my resolve once again and slowly took a step towards her.
“No, I want you to tell me exactly where you’re going instead of trying to explain it with plausible words!”
“221 Baker Street, London.”
“Eh… Hmm, it’s closer than I thought…?”
It’s just as they say. Getting to your destination is easier than you think. The hardest thing is when you first make the decision to go out. If you follow your destination step by step, you will eventually reach your ultimate destination.
It only took 5 minutes. Even though it was such a short distance, I felt stupid, wondering why I hadn’t stopped by before.
I stood in front of a familiar door and took a moment to compose myself. And when we knocked on the door, the owner who was inside immediately appeared in front of us.
“Who are you…?”
The girl, who had been alert to the visit of her unfamiliar guests, soon saw the face of Juliet next to me and froze with her mouth open in a daze.
Yes, it has to be that way. It’s natural to be surprised to see someone who looks exactly like you standing face to face.
It was the same for Juliet. Without even knowing why, she followed me, and suddenly, before she could prepare herself, she was reunited with her twin brother. She didn’t know what to do, and she was just watching me.
I, who was standing in the middle of them, opened my mouth.
“I’d like to go inside and talk for a moment, is that okay?”
Sharon seemed to have finally realized the identity of the strange man wrapped around her bandages, and looked at me endlessly with her eyes growing more and more astonished.
“···Dad?”
No matter how many times I heard it, it was a very strange title.
An equal rival, a precious friend, a romantic partner…
Our relationship, which used to fluctuate depending on the time zone, has now become that of father and daughter. Of course, we are not biological family members who share the same bloodline, but I gave birth and raised her of my own will, so I could not say that Sharon was not my daughter.
So I nodded. When I calmly agreed, Sharon just glared at me without saying anything, even though she looked like she was about to burst into tears.
After a while, the girl lowered her head, sighed, and opened her mouth.
“Come in first. ···Both.”
What I want to ask about is probably Taesan. But it’s so sudden that you probably don’t even know what to ask first. Juliet also quietly followed behind me, sparing a word for a similar reason. There was a suffocating silence between us.
After sitting in the living room of the house I had longed for, some time passed before the silence was finally broken.
Sharon was the first to open her mouth.
“Where have you been all this time? Why are you wearing a bandage? And next to him… “Who is he?”
“I’ll explain everything. So please listen until the conversation is over. “I hope you can ask questions later.”
Even though Sharon looked frustrated, she nodded her head.
Thanking her for her patience, I started talking step by step so that they could understand as much as possible.
A long time ago, the meeting of two goddesses who came down to earth driven by curiosity and an immature boy who lived in a rural village.
At first, the two people listened indifferently, wondering if this was some kind of old story, but as the story progressed, their reactions changed drastically.
The struggle to twist fate began with the decisions of two goddesses.
The process of planning the future and the past by taking over the will of the sleeping boy after he woke up.
Naturally, the two girls could not accept the story right away.
In fact, it was not unreasonable for even me, who personally explained it, to feel unrealistic, like a jumbled dream.
“You want me to believe such absurd nonsense…?”
“Didn’t you become seriously ill and mentally deranged?”
I smiled bitterly at Sharon and Juliet’s reactions.
Perhaps I am acting too hastily. Rather than revealing this truth all at once, it may have been a reasonable option to take time to understand it little by little.
But in the end, it is not much different from my existing way of looking at the future, not the present.
If you speak slowly, what is the deadline?
Who will compensate for the days when these girls fell victim to my plan without knowing anything?
If you realize that the way you have been doing it so far is wrong, you must change immediately.
That is the only way to atone for the irreparable mistakes of the past.
“I know it’s hard to understand. But if you get your memories back, you too will realize everything.”
“Regaining my memories… Are you really talking about the memory of the goddess that your father told you about?”
Juliet frowned at Sharon’s words and did not hide her displeasure.
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“You seem to be completely mistaken, but no matter what you say, I am not a goddess whose name I do not know. “I’m just Juliet, and I don’t want to know about my past life, which I’m not sure about.”
“Me too. Even if, by chance, everything my father said was true… I don’t want to be mixed up with someone else by being injected with that goddess’s memories. “At that moment, the original Sharon will disappear.”
I nodded. Their argument was an irrefutable argument.
Of course, the origins of the two girls are goddesses, so strictly speaking, it is safe to say that they are goddesses who have just lost their memories.
Perhaps, if they regain their memories as goddesses, they might treat the very fact that they said this as a dark story.
But that is only a future assumption that may never happen. Sharon and Juliet, who live in the present, decided that they were different from goddesses.
In that case, it is right to give priority to present thoughts over the past or the future that has not yet arrived.
In the first place, I had no intention of giving them back their memories of when they were goddesses unless they asked first.
You must recognize that the girls in front of you and the goddesses in your memories are separate beings. Only then will everyone be able to find true happiness.
That wasn’t the memory I told them I would get back.
“I’m trying to bring back memories of when we became friends in the future, in a different world line than now.”
“You’re saying you’ll become friends with Dad…?”
“Strictly speaking, it’s hard to say it’s me. “At that time, I had no idea about the existence of Franken.”
Sharon looked at me with a complex expression upon hearing her words about becoming friends with me.
On the other hand, Juliet, although less than before, was still giving her a disapproving look that hit her right on the head.
“Isn’t it the same thing in the end? “It’s just a difference between the past and the future, but the moment I read that memory, I can’t help but have an effect on myself.”
“That is correct. I’m just suggesting an easy way to understand what I’m talking about. It is your choice and freedom not to recall memories or believe my stories. “You just have to choose the path you want.”
After listening to me, the two girls remained silent for a moment and made a surprisingly simple choice.
“I will take it. “Because I want to fully understand why my dad left me.”
“I’m curious too. “I wish I could understand what a sad story it was and why I had to be abandoned in an orphanage.”
Then it has been decided. Without hesitation, I lifted the seal on their core, the bead of divinity.