I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 270

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The moment Ortel Kiris saved Lute Sieri and died in his place.

Even in the agony of her entire body crumbling, she felt joy.

Now it’s all over.

Now I won’t have to suffer anymore.

The mistakes I made, and the guilt from them, will all disappear with my death.

Now I too can experience happiness in the peaceful world of death, free from pain and suffering.

As she wished, she took her first rest since birth in the comfortable nothingness of death.

She thought she could enjoy this peace forever.

“….”

When she opened her eyes again, she was in a run-down orphanage.

And she had become a child again.

Whether her parents had abandoned her, or would never come back for her – none of that mattered at all.

‘Why on earth!’

She had never once wanted something like reincarnation.

She just wanted to turn to dust, so why was she breathing and alive again?

‘Is it because I haven’t fully atoned for the sins I committed in the past?’

Then how long do I have to live like this?

Even breathing was painful, so she spent her days alone in corners at the orphanage, never talking to anyone.

That this place was a completely different world from where she had lived before, that it was a world without the ‘evil’ that had driven her to death – none of that mattered to her in the slightest.

She simply spent time endlessly thinking, ‘Should I die again? But there’s no guarantee I won’t come back to life even if I die this time.’

The orphanage teachers looked at her with concern, but even that didn’t register in her eyes.

The broken clock began moving again because of a very trivial incident.

Thud!

“Ah!”

It was when she was, as always, just breathing under a blanket in the corner.

A young girl tripped over her body.

“What? I wondered why there was a blanket piled up here, but there was a person. Hey, are you alive?”

The child who pulled off the blanket looked at her with a surprised face.

The bright-looking child had remarkably clear pronunciation despite being only five years old.

“…Wrong. I think she’s dead.”

When she showed no reaction, the girl let out a sigh.

Right, I’m already dead, so hurry up and leave.

It was the moment she was about to pull the blanket back over herself.

“If she’s dead, I just need to bring her back to life.”

“Eek!”

Suddenly the girl lifted her up, blanket and all, and slung her over her shoulder.

“What, what, what….”

At this point, she couldn’t help but react.

She struggled with a flustered face, but the girl spoke in an even more bewildered voice.

“Hey, are you really human? Why are you so light? Whoa! Now that I look, your arms and legs are like twigs! You’re really going to die at this rate! Let’s hurry outside!”

Even though she was light, with the blanket’s weight it should have been heavy, but the child ran somewhere carrying her as if it was nothing.

She was flustered by the sudden situation. Her view kept changing through the blanket.

“Oh my, Siwon!”

“Cha Siwon! Where are you going!”

“To the playground!”

The girl named Cha Siwon left the building, leaving behind the surprised teachers’ calls.

And she set her down in the spot with the best sunlight.

She never imagined she’d be carried out on the shoulder of a girl who was clearly only five years old, not even an adult.

She stared blankly at the child through her disheveled hair.

“Wow, look at that face. Is this a person or a skeleton?”

The girl, Cha Siwon, clicked her tongue while tidying her hair.

“I heard there was a kid who hasn’t been eating properly or talking since entering the orphanage. That’s you, isn’t it.”

“…Mind your own business.”

When she frowned because the chattering voice was annoying, Cha Siwon asked nonchalantly.

“Do you want to die?”

“….”

She never expected to hear such words from a mere five-year-old child.

Even the orphanage teachers hadn’t asked so directly.

“No, don’t die.”

Cha Siwon’s face twisted fiercely.

Just when she thought it might be empty words.

“If you die at the orphanage, our funding will decrease. Plus, adults will come around suspecting the orphanage did something bad. I don’t want that, so don’t die and live even if you have to force yourself.”

“What, what?”

“Now, take off the blanket too. People need to see sunlight.”

Cha Siwon forcibly removed the blanket.

Her words and actions were completely unpredictable, leaving her bewildered.

“What business is it of yours what I do.”

Annoyed, she tried to pull the blanket back, but Cha Siwon held onto it and she failed.

How could a five-year-old have such strength?

Even though she was weak from not eating, that kid was way too strong.

“I told you. I can’t stand to see our funding decrease because of you. In a world where we live together, we shouldn’t cause trouble for each other.”

Is this kid really five years old?

Did she live once and get reincarnated like me?

How can she speak so well?

“The funding keeps decreasing anyway and the director and teachers are all struggling, so we can’t help but at least not interfere. So don’t die.”

Cha Siwon threw the removed blanket far away and swept back her disheveled hair.

After examining her forcibly exposed face thoroughly, she soon smiled brightly.

“Wow, looking at you again, you’re incredibly pretty.”

Pretty, my foot.

She hadn’t seen sunlight, eaten properly, or slept well, so she looked terrible.

But Cha Siwon kept exclaiming as if she was seeing the prettiest thing in the world.

“You’re so pretty that it would be too wasteful to die without seeing what you’d look like as an adult. So let’s live a bit longer. At least until we leave the orphanage.”

Should she admire the effort to somehow prevent her from dying at the orphanage?

Or should she lament such mature remarks? She had no idea.

“Of course, I’m not just telling you to live. I’ll stay by your side until then.”

“Ha, who are you to do that.”

“I said it’s a world where we live together. It’ll be more fun to have a friend than to be alone.”

A friend?

She became even more incredulous.

She had never had a single friend in her life.

Not in her previous life, not in this life.

But the first person to offer to be her friend was none other than a five-year-old kid.

“I’m Cha Siwon. What’s your name?”

I don’t have one, something like that.

She knew those parent-like beings had given her a name when they abandoned her, but she didn’t want to use such a name and had erased it from memory.

But she also didn’t want to live with the name Ortel Kiris, which didn’t fit in this world that was completely different from where she had lived.

No, even if she could use that name, she didn’t want to.

Because Ortel Kiris was already dead.

“Why should I tell you?”

But hiding such inner thoughts, she spoke curtly.

Of course, Cha Siwon wasn’t intimidated by something like that.

“Then I’ll call you Pretty!”

“….”

Damn it! What the hell is this old-young brat!

“Pretty, please take care of me from now on.”

Taking her speechless bewilderment as a sign of agreement, he grabbed her hand and shook it.

It was a forced handshake.

“Don’t worry. If you live frantically, a lot of time will pass before you know it!”

Live frantically? Why was he saying such ominous things?

She wanted to ask, but didn’t want to get more involved, so she just kept her mouth shut.

But starting the very next day, she regretted not asking properly back then.

“Let’s get up!”

“Let’s see some sunlight!”

“Let’s eat!”

“Let’s exercise!”

Cha Siwon would come looking for her whenever he had a chance and forcibly drag her out from under the covers.

It would be fortunate if he just pulled her out.

He demanded all sorts of things and urged her to do them together.

He was annoyingly strong, so in her emaciated state, there was no way she could avoid him.

Eventually forced to move around, she felt defeated.

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