Adopting the Male Protagonist Changed the Genre - Chapter 182

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Chapter 182

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As breath filled my lungs, the gears of thought began to turn fiercely.

When consciousness returned, only one thing came to mind.

What must I do to prevent humanity’s destruction?

Opening my eyes while thinking only of that, I saw my younger brother’s face looking down at me with worry.

Poor thing. He had rejected fate so much, yet how heartbroken he must have been to stab me in the back as the prophecy foretold.

I reached out my aged hand toward my younger brother.

“Lady Blanche.”

“…”

“Are you alright? You don’t look well.”

I froze in place.

The King’s personality that had covered me like a transparent membrane was stripped away by Cheri’s single remark.

The King’s death and tragedy. Regret for the past life. Anger at powerlessness.

All of it became sharp memories that clawed through my mind in chaos.

As if revealing that pain, a single tear rolled down my cheek. I couldn’t tell if it was mine or the King’s.

Cheri, who noticed my tear, froze completely and knelt on one knee before me.

“Command me anything. If the Marquess’s Daughter would stop her tears, I will do anything.”

Seeing him at a loss over my single tear made me feel the reality I stood upon.

I lightly wiped away the tear and made an excuse while still holding Cheri’s hand.

“It’s just that the sunlight is too bright. But Cheri.”

“Yes.”

“Is the reason the Royal Family is hostile toward House Baluashten because your ancestor killed the First King?”

The history books state that the First King met his end by his son who couldn’t bear to watch his father’s tyranny.

A noble rebellion with justification.

But the truth I saw was different.

“Yes, the founder of my house was a traitor who assassinated the King. Though he pledged loyalty by offering the sword stained with the First King’s blood to the young Prince, the fact that he was a treasonous criminal remains unchanged.”

Without showing any sign of wondering how I came to know that secret, Cheri continued.

“Therefore, House Baluashten vowed never to set foot on the Royal Capital’s land without the Royal Family’s permission, to prove our loyalty.”

Now I understood why the weak-hearted King was particularly sharp toward the North.

It wasn’t just their overwhelming military power he feared. He was afraid history would repeat itself.

I firmly grasped Cheri’s hands with both of mine and pondered for a moment.

Each time I blinked, the future of destruction the First King had seen flickered like a dim lightbulb.

Since it was such a distant future, the First King didn’t know why the kingdom would fall and the continent would become desolate.

He only knew that demonic beasts would cover the continent again.

However, now that the foretold disaster was only six years away, someone who could see what the First King couldn’t had appeared.

‘In the end, I can’t avoid getting involved with Giuseppe.’

Swallowing a sigh, I faced Cheri.

I needed a place to evacuate Leo in case things went wrong. There would be no safer place than the North.

‘Besides, I want to open up and tell Cheri my honest feelings without hiding anything.’

I carefully opened my mouth.

“I have something to tell you. It will be a story you might find hard to believe.”

From the Star of the Hero to the fact that I was someone not bound by the fate decreed by the gods.

I worried how much he could believe my words when I couldn’t present a single piece of evidence.

“You don’t need to worry about that. For me, not believing the Marquess’s Daughter’s words would be more difficult.”

At his firm answer that made my worries seem pointless, I burst into laughter like a sigh.

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Unlike Belinda’s, the First King’s memories had holes here and there like worm-eaten wood, with parts I couldn’t make out.

Perhaps it was because the memory fragments were damaged. Seven hundred years was that long a time.

First, let me organize the information I obtained:

1. The First King used his power of foresight to read of the disaster that would destroy humanity 700 years later.

2. The First King dabbled in black magic to prevent humanity’s destruction.

3. The black magic the First King completed by sacrificing half the kingdom’s people was…

I paused while organizing up to that point.

The black magic circle the First King completed remained dimly in my mind, but the problem was I lacked the knowledge to interpret it.

However, there wasn’t no way to guess what kind of magic it was.

“Thanks to this, I’ve prepared an unprecedented hero who will stop the disaster and someone to raise him.”

“If you knew who the future hero I’ve chosen is, you’d probably be shocked.”

He told his younger brother several times.

That he had chosen a hero to stop the disaster and prepared someone to raise that hero.

Then…

3. The black magic the First King completed by sacrificing half the kingdom’s people was to raise a hero through 【Heartthrob Hero Maker】 who would stop the disaster.

‘This makes sense when I think about it this way.’

That the game’s name happened to be ‘Hero’ Maker.

That traces of the First King’s black magic remained in me.

Finally, it also explains why Giuseppe, who possessed the power of foresight, showed no particular reaction to the ‘Star of the Hero’ mark.

Because the Star of the Hero was something the First King created in the first place.

Just as he was chosen by fate to become a hero king, this time he became fate itself to prevent destruction.

However, there were a few points this hypothesis couldn’t explain.

Why was ‘I’ specifically chosen as the person to raise the hero?

If he had chosen someone from this world from the beginning, like the Sword Saint or Mikhail, as the hero’s guardian, they could have received quality education from an early age.

‘To go through the inefficient trouble of summoning someone from outside this world with black magic…’

When I thought that far, Giuseppe’s words suddenly struck me like lightning.

“Sometimes, it’s said that those who are not bound by the fate decreed by the gods are born into this world. Since they can defy fate, they are free from all constraints and can know future events or even destroy fate.”

“Marquess Blanche, do you perhaps have memories of a different world from this one, or know of such a place?”

One not bound by fate decreed by the gods.

In other words, someone like me who doesn’t belong to this world.

‘That was it. To stop the disaster, he needed not only a hero like the First King, but also someone who could change the world’s fate!’

Though I still wonder why I possessed Belinda’s body instead of Ophelia’s like in 【HeroMe】, understanding the First King’s plan made what I needed to do clear.

Strike while the iron is hot – I immediately went to the temple and boldly spoke.

“I am the very person His Eminence the Cardinal has been looking for.”

Giuseppe looked at me for a long while with a somewhat tired expression, then tilted the teacup in front of him.

A familiar scent wafted from the steaming tea.

Could that possibly be the one I enjoy drinking…?

Clink.

Giuseppe, who elegantly placed the teacup on the saucer, calmly nodded.

“I see.”

A short remark as if asking, “So what are you going to do about it?”

I skillfully hid my anxiety and assumed composure as I waited for his words.

This was inevitably a battle I had to enter at a disadvantage.

Because when he had asked if I had memories of another world, I had denied it.

So rather than making excuses about various circumstances, I had decided it would be better to come forward boldly.

‘I can’t read him at all.’

I stared intently at that face with its faint smile, trying to find even a fragment of emotion, but gained nothing.

Soon his well-defined lips parted.

“So, what do you want that brings you back here? I distinctly remember you saying that day would be the last time you’d want to get disgustingly entangled with me.”

Geez, how embarrassing of him to recite my final words without missing a single syllable.

I cleared my throat to change the atmosphere, then spoke directly.

“I’ve been hiding it all along, but I have memories of another world. I glimpsed that world through dreams.”

I glossed over it, saying I had recalled memories of living in another world through dreams, completely omitting the stories about the First King, black magic, and 【Hirome】.

“But what I recalled wasn’t just memories of another world. I was also able to know at least part of this world’s future.”

“An interesting story indeed.”

Giuseppe smiled as if finally intrigued, but I didn’t trust that smile.

After all, hadn’t he said it himself? That those who defy fate ordained by God also know of future events.

So perhaps Giuseppe thought I was lying.

But the moment I spoke my next words, the smile disappeared from his lips.

“This continent seems to fall into great danger. By none other than Demonic Beasts.”

Looking directly into his golden eyes that seemed to shine with divine light, I smiled triumphantly.

Of course I didn’t know the reason why the continent would fall into danger. After all, I had only just learned about the disaster six years from now.

But Giuseppe didn’t know that fact. So this was like a game of Old Maid.

I would probe Giuseppe while hiding my joker and extract information about the future.

Giuseppe was an unreadable opponent, but fortunately, I had never lost a single game since becoming Belinda.

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