Chapter 82.2

Before I knew it, my father approached us… and the Emperor reached out to me, who had been rolled up in a swaddling cloth.

“Stop it!”

My mother tried to stop, but her actions were stopped by the knights who followed him.

“Stay still. I’m not doing anything. I’m just trying to see how much she looks like you.”

Then I saw him. My father, who had always smiled at me in my memories, looked down at me as if I were someone else. There was a clear feeling in his gaze; ‘I want to kill you’ kind of look.

For a moment, I felt like I was suffocating, and tears came out little by little.

“Wow… Are you going to cry? This is why I hate babies.”

“Let go of me now!”

“Well anyway, Adele, my patience isn’t that long. That was the end of the day for me to decide until I leave tomorrow.”

As if he had said everything he had to say, the Emperor, who I believed was my father, went out like that. Her body, who had been protecting me all the time, trembled slightly.

“Baby… Baby… are you okay…?”

As if she was more worried about me than about herself, my mother hurriedly made eye contact with me. I saw tears forming in my mother’s large eyes.

I wanted to say I was okay and if my mother was okay, but I couldn’t speak from the child’s mouth.

Instead, I reached out and touched my mom.

“Are you consoling me?”

“Waa… Mama…”

Don’t cry, Mom. Don’t cry. I won’t be sad if you’re not my mom. Don’t cry over this.

“Thank you, thank you… my precious daughter… I’ll protect you somehow. I mean.. I mean, stay with your mom forever?”

“Waa…”

I looked at my mother with sad eyes and smiled because that was all I could do.

And again, as if time had passed, the world was dark, and my mother and I were in the room with Ellinson and my twin.

“Ellin, it’s tomorrow. I’m moving tomorrow.”

“Adele… is it really all right? I’m still not sure if this is the right choice.”

“Actually, it could be a cruel choice. But I think we’re right about this. I chose to let even one person live… this is the right thing to do.”

“…I guess so.”

She looked at the twins with somehow bright eyes, alternating between the two.

At that moment, my mother put her hand on the twins’ heads at the same time.

“That’s all I can do because my powers aren’t that strong. It’s just spiritual magic, but it’s not perfect.”

“Magic…”

“Yes, it can only be used with people you’ve been in direct contact with, and the downside is that you have to keep repeating the word to continue… If I don’t try to break it, it will never break.”

The twin and I looked at my mother at the same time. Maybe she felt it, but she looked at both of us at the same time with a friendly face.

“From now on, my child’s name is Bebe. I’ll call her Bebe every minute of the day and put magic in her name.”

“Bebe…”

“Bebe… Put my magic in that name. May there be no memories of each other, and when you remember each other again, may you meet each other… and may this memory be distorted as it is just a moment of two mothers trying to protect you… Let’s put it into magic.”

My forehead got warm. Maybe he felt it, but the twin brother’s eyes shook a little.

“Please… both of you must survive and meet.”

That was the last time. As soon as my twin brother and I opened our mouths to talk at the same time, our eyes finally opened.

It was reality now.

Before suddenly returning to being a baby, it was the Grand Duke’s room.

I waited as soon as I felt a sense of reality.

Tears flowered profusely from my eyes.

The Grand Duke held my body.

“Bebe! Are you okay?”

When I opened my eyes, I cried, and the Grand Duke’s face turned pale.

His face was unusually warm. It was sad that the fact that my father, who was always friendly in my memory, was not true.

I was sad I couldn’t remember the end of my mother, Ellinson, who really gave birth to me.

I was just so sad at this moment.

“I-I… Dad… I… My mom… My mom…”

“You don’t have to tell me, Bebe. It’s okay. It’s all right. Don’t cry. I’m here.”

My dad, who was curious about Ellinson for a while until now, was busy trying to appease me.

“No, I have to tell you… you know… the twin over there… my brother and I… our mother is… actually the Grand Duchess.”

“…Huh?”