Overpowered Archmage Doesn’t Hide His Talent chapter 169

169 – Not a blessing, but a curse – 2

The severed head rolls off.

Aurora closed her eyes tightly. It was hardly a scene she could observe with her sober mind.

But it was already too late. The scenes that have been stuck in her mind come to mind clearly when she closes her eyes.

Relatives in the scene show no mercy. Holding her dagger in reverse, she drove the blade into Aurora’s body until it stopped convulsing.

“Aurora?”

The voice of reality pulls the girl out of her thoughts.

Her aunt urged Aurora once again.

“Look at our faces. Can you see the future?”

“Yes, yes?”

“There is a rumor that you can see the future. If you see it, I hope you can tell us a little about our future.”

The faces of her aunt and her uncle showed no signs of concern. There is only an expression that seems to cover the truth.

“… I don’t know.”

Aurora tried hard to pretend to be calm.

“I don’t see anything like the future. Really.”

The aunt and her uncle looked at each other for a moment.

Her own life and death were changing every second, so Aurora was silent as cold sweat broke out on her back.

After her hellish time, her aunt broke her silence.

“I see.”

Her uncle and aunt quickly nodded. Time and time again the girl was relieved that her life had been spared.

“Have a good day. Aurora.”

After her uncle and aunt left.

Aurora hurriedly ran to her parents and told her the truth. Of course, they didn’t believe her daughter.

“What are you talking about?”

“What… ?”

However, Aurora couldn’t overcome her urgency, and her investigation began, and all of her relatives were rounded up. It was thanks to the remaining evidence of her treason.

“Aurora has benefited from her.”

“I almost got into trouble.”

Aurora was finally able to escape her inner chambers.

After that, the environment around her changed.

Spending time with her parents, luxurious refreshments, and a variety of clothes that she may never wear in her lifetime….

The girl was happy. She wanted to be like this all her life.

But that was an illusion.

“Yes… ?”

“Come on. Aurora. Just do it as usual.”

Her parents ordered her to look at the bureaucrats around her one day. People called it ‘judgment’.

“Aurora. Is there anyone among them who does not agree with the wishes of the imperial family? Let me know if you have.”

Father sitting on the throne, soldiers lined up. The dragged officials were trembling in the middle.

“….”

No matter how young she was, she understood at least that her official’s life depended on her words.

Unfortunately, however, her girl couldn’t have her own will. Examining the paper in her hand was the only thing she could do.

“Bar…. He is a traitor.”

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It was written on the paper in her hand. She was already nothing more than a tool for her rule.

“I knew it would be like this. Bring it out right now!”

“No! It’s unfair. Really regretful…. Whoops!”

She could not meet the eyes of the officials who were being dragged out. It was natural. In fact, there was no rebellion in their future.

Nevertheless, I believed that it was right to act like this.

As long as she is now, she will be loved, she will be able to become a lovely daughter, it must be so….

Cheung-Grang-!

One day, Aurora dropped her teacup. Because she saw an unbelievable future.

“Why… ?”

The girl muttered in a hollow voice.

A dark space, her father’s screams, a mother staring at herself with contemptuous eyes…. That was the whole point of a glimpse of the future.

Kung—!

At the same time, her soldiers stormed into Aurora’s inner chambers. Her strong hand grips the girl’s slender hand.

“Aurora.”

My father appeared among the soldiers. She was Aurora and she didn’t even know what to ask. In the end, she had to mumble something barely.

“What is this… ?”

“The Empire has finally reached peace. So from now on, I want to focus on your treatment.”

“Chi, treatment?”

“Yes. In the meantime, she had been negligent as her parents to bear the weight of the emperor. I think now is the time to pay attention to you.”

“I, I am fine! It’s perfectly fine!”

But no matter how much she persuaded her, it was useless. Her father only returned the same answer to her Aurora.

She tried to explain at first. She tried to make it understandable somehow. Although she tried to somehow explain that she was fine and that she was in for him.

“….”

The moment I met my father’s eyes, my thoughts were erased.

A cold gaze. What was contained in his eyes was no longer the gaze of her daughter.

Aurora’s breathing began to quicken.

No matter what part of her Emperor’s future she tried to peek, there was no scene where she considered herself as her daughter.

“There is nothing to worry about. If your condition improves, you can join us anytime. You will be alone until your mind is clear.”

“… Is it because you are afraid?”

Aurora asked in her hollow voice.

Only then did the emperor’s face show embarrassment.

“What?”

“There have been a lot of questions about Obama lately. Were you afraid of that? Do you think I will say something bad about Obama?”

In the politics of terror, there will always be backlash and doubts. Aurora seemed to understand why her father was referring to the word ‘cure’.

Treatment is just an excuse. He just wants to keep himself underground.

“Look at this. You’re talking nonsense again.”

“What was I?”

Aurora’s voice trembled slightly.

“I would do anything to be loved, but you’re locking me up just because you’re insecure? You don’t trust me as much as a thread. What the hell have I been!”

“Shut up!”

The emperor yelled.

It wasn’t the way she treated her daughter anymore. Yes, she had already encountered this expression of Aurora. It was the expression her father made whenever he disposed of innocent bureaucrats.

“Kuh….”

Aurora was dumbfounded, so she burst out laughing.

“You say that you are not willing to throw it away and look at the progress, considering your lineage, but how can you say such an immature thing! You stupid and pathetic thing!”

Each word turns into a dagger and stabs in the heart.

Each time it became an arrow for her father, but he also put an arrow through Aurora’s heart.

“The reason why the eldest lost his emotions and why the youngest fell is all because of your eyes and mouth! Did you think I didn’t know!”

The soldiers grabbed Aurora’s arms with strong hands. The little girl’s body was suspended in the air.

“Kick…. Ha ha ha….”

Aurora continued to laugh.

I seemed to know for sure now.

The moment she was born with abilities that no one else had, she already had it. Her exchange of emotions was just an illusion.

“hahahaha, hahahaha….”

Her outer shell of affection was no longer needed. Emotions other than anger only make people weak.

“hahahahaha, hahahahaha—!”

I was laughing at myself.

She couldn’t stand the ugliness of herself, who had been turned into a mere tool. She longed for the unattainable, and she was no different than her pathetic dreamer.

“See you in 8 years. Obama.”

After she said that, she ended up in a dark basement.

Exactly 8 years.

It was the period the girl spent in her basement.

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Currently, Lacheln Hill.

“Yes. There is such a story.”

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Late at night, when the stars twinkle in the sky, we sit around a campfire. I didn’t fall asleep for the sake of vigilance, so it naturally became like this.

Trixie, who had been listening quietly, asked.

“How did you get out of the basement?”

“That….”

Yusia slowly began to explain.

“Because the empress died suddenly and the emperor was also brain dead.”

“I know that, but isn’t the first princess first?”

“Just think that there is no first princess.”

Scarlett, who was leaning against the tree trunk, intervened.

“Her first princess has no emotions. She is an ambiguous existence even to be called a human in the first place.”

“Yes. It is as Scarlet-sama said.”

Yusia nodded her head.

“All of her relatives were purged and died, and even the third princess was a vegetable…. She only had Princess Aurora as her enemy.”

Trixie still seemed to have questions.

“There must have been a lot of opposition even after coming to the ground.”

“That’s what broke them all.”

“Broken?”

“Yes. Princess Aurora says she came up as a completely different person. It was because he eliminated all political enemies and kept only loyalists by his side, establishing a position that no one could deny.”

“Eight years…. Is it worth it?”

Trixie nods her head and continues her words.

“By the way, where did you get all that information?”

“You mean me?”

Yoo Shia spoke her words awkwardly.

“Isn’t a preliminary investigation essential? I was looking for a few things to commemorate my participation in the Sujeopje. They said it was a very recent release….”

“Hmm.”

Fortunately, Trixie didn’t ask any further.

I closed the book I was reading at the time. He was sitting in a chair in front of the campfire.

“That sounds like an ordinary story.”

Being exceptional is inherently accompanied by loneliness.

Aurora wasn’t even special in a particular field, she had the ability to see the future. The amount of loneliness she had to deal with must have been great.

I did not have empathy and compassion. However, she had a little idea of how she was feeling.

A life of darkness longs for the dawn.

Again, it was just an ordinary story to me.

I calmly gave the following instructions.

“You guys get some sleep. Boundaries alone.”

However, neither Trixie nor Yusia did not immediately follow those words. Instead, he just looked worried.

“Sir Plann, what about our butterflies?”

Yoo Shia looked at me worriedly.

It wasn’t that I couldn’t understand the young concern on her face. They encountered as many as 8 dawning butterflies today, and they missed every single one.

But.

“It’s going well.”

I only answered like this.

“Starting tomorrow, don’t hide your presence. Rather, I will drive out all the butterflies from Lacheln Hill.”

“Yes?”

“That is the way to catch butterflies. Please don’t ask the rest.”

There is a clear connection between the dawning butterfly and the previous world. Perhaps, it means that my fall into this world may not have been a mere bizarre phenomenon.

This will require further investigation.

But the most important thing right now is….

I raised my head and stared at the barrier.

That barrier seemed to be much softer than before.

“Don’t worry about surviving tomorrow.”

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Early morning.

Aurora lifted her sweaty body from her bed. I run my arm over her forehead and it’s staggering. Even if she got caught in the rain, she could hardly believe it.

“Whoa….”

Panting breath is not noble. She calmly chose to breathe first.

I had a childhood dream.

I couldn’t even tell if it was daytime or darkness outside, there was no sound, I was always lost in my thoughts, and I had to sleep and eat when the food came in.

“Ha….”

Aurora laughed at herself.

“Are you still afraid of that time….”

Being able to see the future was a curse.

The impressions of those who encountered aurora as children were not very different. She was afraid of Aurora for fear of revealing something of her own, and each time she turned into anger.

But now it’s different.

Everyone was afraid of Aurora, bowed down to her, and was loyal to her, even for her honor and power.

“No.”

Can’t we say ‘everyone’ yet? It was because he was active with both eyes open as if there were exceptions.

Plan.

When she thought of her man who was not afraid of her aurora, she felt a strange feeling in her head. It was an instinctive defense mechanism.

I will never go back to the old days.

Wasn’t it dark and cold?

Even her own blood, born of her own blood, threw Aurora away. If she believes in humans, that’s it. If power was given, it was only fate to dominate others.

So.

“Ban.”

Aurora muttered in a low tone. After a while, her escort knight angled her and arrived in front of her.

“Is the hand-joining system still in progress?”

“Yes. Everyone is eagerly chasing the dawning butterfly.”

“You will not be able to catch it. In the first place, the Dawn Butterfly is just an excuse to call everyone together.”

No matter how good it was, it was meaningless if it did not submit to Aurora. It was Aurora’s path to break and tame the unbreakable.

Only then will you survive.

Aurora slowly raised her head.

“There must be two barriers now.”

“Yes. There is a barrier that blocks blood ghosts, and there is a boundary that serves as the boundary line for hand-holding.”

“Remove the barrier that blocks the ghost.”

There was silence for a while.

“Anyway…. Are you saying to remove it?”

“Yes.”

She had no intention of catching the Dawn Butterfly from the beginning.

If you subdue those who do not break, that would be Aurora’s own ‘dawn butterfly’.

Aurora’s eyes flashed.