I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 73
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<Chapter 73>
Her blue eyes, which had been flinching, widened.
The child who had been nervously fidgeting with her fingers glanced sideways at Casselik.
“Actually, that’s… Yes, you’re right. But I was going to tell Father too! …I’ve been hiding it on purpose until now.”
“Why?”
“…”
“Why, why did you hide it until now? If I had known you were a Time Ability User, I… wouldn’t have needed to divorce Mother, and the situation wouldn’t have come to this point…”
It was when Casselik, who had been habitually pouring out resentment again, flinched and closed his mouth.
Rie spoke firmly.
“Rie doesn’t need a father like this.”
Thump.
At those words, his turbulent heart sank.
“If I become a Time Ability User, I can live with Mother at the Duke’s Castle, but. Rie can only be loved by Father if she becomes a Time Ability User.”
Sharp words poured mercilessly from the child’s small mouth.
“I didn’t like that, so I ran away. I wanted to be happy with just Mother and me.”
Casselik unconsciously shook his head.
“…No, no. I…”
But the child wasn’t finished speaking.
“But Rie read the Notebook.”
His brow furrowed at the sudden word.
At a time like this, the only ‘Notebook’ Rie could be talking about was that one.
“You mean the Notebook I wrote before my Regression?”
“Yes. So, Rie knows. That Father originally cherished Rie and loved Mother. But Rie still remembers.”
“…”
“How Father lived with Aunt Serena before coming back. And how Mother went to Heaven too.”
“Heaven…?”
“But I wanted to tell you. Thank you for saving me. Then goodbye.”
Bow.
While Casselik was dazed by the incomprehensible words.
The child who had recited everything in succession bowed her head so deeply that the top of her head was visible.
And she turned back time to before the horse got excited.
She, who had been looking at street snacks as before, was startled to see Rie who suddenly appeared.
“Oh my, Rie. Were you… here? What are you doing alone?”
“I wanted to see Mother, so I came to get you. Uncle Ethan is over there too, so let’s go together!”
“Really? How thoughtful of you.”
The mother and daughter moved away, and other people immediately rushed into the empty space.
The world began to move again.
Bump.
“S-Sorry!”
Someone walking quickly bumped into Casselik’s shoulder, who was still standing still, and apologized, but he didn’t respond.
The child’s words were still tangled like thread in his head.
‘And how Mother went to Heaven too.’
What on earth did that mean?
That’s when it happened.
“Caw, caw, caw-!”
A black crow appeared in the burning red sky.
Drop.
The crow dropped something as if pitying the solitary Casselik and disappeared again.
On the ground was his old leather Notebook.
“…Your Excellency, are you alright?”
When Bellik, who had been watching him from afar, hurriedly approached, he nodded and picked up the Notebook.
“Let’s go back.”
“Pardon?”
“Let’s return to the Duke’s Castle.”
“Ah, yes, yes!”
During the Carriage ride, he silently read through the Notebook.
His past self had truly done many Regressions.
Because of the war. Because of Emilia.
Because he wanted to become a man worthy of Emilia.
Because he didn’t want to lose Emilia and Rie.
However, because he always lost them.
Casselik finally began to understand what Rie had said.
“…It was all my fault.”
The voice confessing his wrongdoing was as low as crawling on the ground.
However.
Even though he had read the Notebook, the man who had desperately loved Emilia, written within it, was no longer there.
Because he had only read the pre-Regression situation as text, the direct emotions didn’t reach him.
But now that he knew the reason for Regression, it needed to be corrected.
The problem was that there were still new pages remaining.
That part was something even Rie and Kami hadn’t been able to read.
‘…I even had a contract marriage to protect Emilia and succeeded in hiding my origins, so why did I Regress again?’
He was afraid to read further, but he swallowed hard and turned to the next page.
* * *
[Everything became okay.
I told Emilia it was a contract marriage to eliminate her expectations, then divorced safely.
However, due to the rules of the Theodore Ducal House, I must produce a Time Ability User, so marriage to another woman is inevitable.
Since I’ll marry on the condition of only having children anyway, once a new Time Ability User is born, I want to go find Emilia again.
Of course, that won’t be possible.
Then at least I want to hope she’s doing well and occasionally hear news about her.
That’s what I thought, but trouble arose.
They said she developed amnesia due to the stress from divorcing me.
Now she doesn’t know who I am.
It’s better this way. Emilia was too good a woman for me.
It’s enough for me alone to suffer, so I hoped she would lose her memories and live a new life.
Until she died, that is.
After experiencing amnesia, her physical condition rapidly deteriorated and she collapsed from an unknown cause.
I can’t believe it. I’m now on my way to her Funeral Hall.
Perhaps I’ll have to Regress once more.
But how do I prevent her death?]
* * *
At that moment, Marquis Philip read and reread the Letter from Emilia.
[To Marquis Philip.
I’m so grateful that you cherish Rie so much that I don’t know what to do with myself. Rie and I are free next weekend. We’ll see you at the Restaurant soon.]
It was a simple Letter without even common decorative sentences, but it seemed like her scent wafted from the paper.
“…Emilia has been hurt by someone once, so let’s take it slow. Philip.”
He muttered as if hypnotizing himself.
This was the first time he had asked Emilia to meet without any particular reason.
And she accepted immediately.
He rejoiced and was also proud of having solved the problem of marriage proposals flooding toward her.
He had investigated and filtered out the Noble Houses trying to send marriage proposals, sending a brief Letter to each of them.
[Emilia accepted my date proposal. As a side note, I intend to consider anyone who sends her marriage proposals in the future as my rival.]
The suitors fell silent as mice at his single letter.
Now all that remained was to slowly approach Emilia.
That’s when it happened.
His assistant approached and handed him a test report.
“Marquis. The drug detected in Ella matches the drug found in the orphanage child.”
“I thought as much.”
“And there’s something from House Theodore. They say a drug was found in Duchess Serena’s bedroom.”
“A drug?”
“Yes. The drug was heavily diluted in water, making it difficult to test, but the results show it’s identical to the drug components found in Ella and the orphanage child.”
Upon hearing this, Philip shot up from his seat.
“It’s over.”
There was no need to deliberate any further.
Serena had murdered Ella and the orphanage child using drugs to perform forbidden dark magic.
But wouldn’t it be even better if they could secure a witness while they were at it?
“Let’s go to Marquis Mersilla House.”
He immediately headed to Marquis Mersilla House.
* * *
These days, Marquis Mersilla House was as quiet as a tomb.
The fact that there was a criminal within the family—someone who had used forbidden magic—was fatal.
After Serena’s incident broke, no one in high society invited Mersilla anywhere.
When they occasionally went downtown, even commoners would glare at them.
Eventually, the Marquis’s wife chose to seclude herself.
But Cedric couldn’t just stay still like his mother.
He still believed his sister had fallen into a trap and searched everywhere, asking around to somehow save her.
“Having lost Ella in prison, I can’t lose Serena too… I have to do something.”
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