Resetting Lady - Chapter 213

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Karen initially thought she had to hide the fact that she was pregnant. She believed that if Prince Guiz found out about her pregnancy, he might cut open her belly to look inside. He was certainly the type of person who would do such a thing.

“I’ve been curious about what’s inside people since I was young. Everyone looked different on the outside, but when you opened them up, the insides were all the same… I enjoyed seeing that.”

But she soon realized.

Prince Guiz was the kind of person who would want to cut open her belly even if she wasn’t pregnant. Prince Guiz placed his hand on Karen’s shoulder and whispered.

“But I think your insides would be beautiful too.”

“Don’t you think the outside is fine as well?”

“Of course the outside is fine too. But that’s only temporary. Beautiful things are bound to wither quickly. That’s why I like preserving them… by gradually replacing parts and such. But when you do that, they spoil quickly again.”

“That’s unfortunate. Then what do you think about taking me as your concubine as I mentioned earlier, rather than as a hostage who screams? If you keep adorning me, my decent appearance will last much longer.”

Karen was willing to use her body in any way if it meant she could survive.

Using what her mother had used still felt repulsive and nauseating, but now wasn’t the time to be picky about such things. Karen had to survive no matter what, whether she became a concubine or a pet. She didn’t want to waste this life where she had successfully become pregnant after a hundred years.

“I want to become the only person who can understand Your Highness.”

But Prince Guiz smiled as if tearing his lips and narrowed his eyes. It was a smile that said he could see right through her.

“Child, I haven’t had any expectations of anyone since Catherine left. You’re not Catherine, you’re just a byproduct she left behind.”

“How could I not love you, whom Catherine left for me?”

Since the process was different, the same answer as before wouldn’t come.

She had to admit that Prince Guiz was different from that time. Karen being here now was due to an accidental incident, so it was different from when she was 117 years old and Guiz had intentionally drawn her in.

“For taxidermy, it’s best to cleanly cut off the breath first and then work on it.”

“…”

How could she avoid the death that faced her? How could she please Prince Guiz?

Last time, Prince Guiz had approached her first. He had investigated Karen’s background in detail and even discovered that Karen was connected to murder. And he thought only Karen could understand him, so he demanded that she understand him.

But not in this life. Karen hadn’t been involved in any murders yet, and she didn’t know what he thought of her either.

Moreover, since she was kidnapped along with Isella, Prince Guiz would think Karen was scheming to survive no matter what she said.

And that was correct.

“Have you given up?”

“No.”

Karen said while looking up at Prince Guiz.

But she had memories. She had knowledge. During the accumulated years, she had heard and experienced things. She wasn’t a seventeen-year-old who had just come up to the capital, but someone who had pondered the circumstances of this time period, this era, in social circles over a hundred times.

“Your Highness, aren’t you curious about why Mother left?”

“As I said before…”

“Because she couldn’t bear Your Highness’s child.”

Bang!

Prince Guiz grabbed Karen’s head and slammed it against the floor. Her head felt dizzy. Karen opened her mouth in shock. Rather than pain, she was dazed by the sudden impact.

Prince Guiz pressed Karen’s head against the floor and growled. The leisurely attitude from just moments before was nowhere to be found.

“…You certainly know how to run your mouth entertainingly. I’ll start by cutting off that tongue of yours.”

“Did I say something wrong? Ah, my head hurts, so please don’t do that, Your Highness. There’s no rush for torture.”

“Shut up.”

His hand grabbed her hair again and lifted her into the air. Karen tried not to grimace and attempted to speak as boldly as possible.

“Mother spoke of living again, but Your Highness didn’t believe her.”

“I wonder if you’ll also claim to be older than you look.”

Prince Guiz had definitely said that to Karen before. Catherine must have told him about living again or about people who had more experience than they appeared to have. But judging by his tone, he didn’t believe it.

Catherine knew that too. She had tried to choose him even considering that. But she couldn’t.

During the time when only Raymond and Karen existed at the manor, Raymond had pondered Karen’s words and said this.

“The saying that you’d be freed if you bore a child… That’s why she didn’t choose Prince Guize.”

“What? Oh, don’t move. I’m still drawing.”

Raymond frowned as he listened to Karen’s words. Karen was sitting and concentrating on the canvas when Raymond moved, so she spoke urgently. She couldn’t draw properly if the model moved. Raymond slightly brushed away the hair poking his eyes and said while avoiding Karen’s glaring look.

“I’m talking about Catherine, your mother.”

“Yes… Mother didn’t choose Prince Guiz because there were many problems with him, right? A serial killer and a pervert… Being the mistress of such a person would hurt one’s pride.”

And his hair was thinning with age too. Karen looked at Raymond’s abundant hair and briefly worried if his hair would thin when he aged, but she felt relieved remembering the abundant hair of his ancestors hanging in rows at the manor. Hair becomes vital when you age.

“It’s probably a more desperate and direct reason than such things.”

“Do you know more about Mother?”

“No, I’m not talking about her, but about the Prince. It’s a rumor, but… he’s someone who cannot sire children.”

But he can get it up. Karen frowned and thought of his somewhat withered lower parts.

“Then… Crown Prince Louis is…?”

“He’s not Guiz’s son.”

Karen thought of the King who was said to dote on Louis. Indeed, so that was why. Karen understood.

“What a useless rod… I mean, person he was.”

“That’s right.”

If that was the case.

Karen thought of Crown Prince Louis, who was said to be his son. It was a moment when she understood why he hated and was jealous of his own son so much, and even stabbed him to death in the end.

Louis was not Guiz’s son but his younger brother. One that the King had intentionally created and disguised as his son.

That man was unnecessary for Mother. A man who couldn’t meet even the minimum conditions. A man who couldn’t give her a child. Gold, silver, and treasures were meaningless, and power was meaningless too. Because he couldn’t gift Catherine with death.

His vulgar tastes would have been a secondary issue for Mother.

“Your Highness.”

How could such a worthless man.

“Mother loved Prince Guiz.”

Catherine had definitely written “Guiz, that bastard, die” repeatedly in her diary. Would such a Catherine have loved Guiz? It didn’t seem likely. It didn’t seem like there could exist a person who could love someone like Guiz. Not if they were sane.

But now she could put any lie in her mouth. If she could live by saying what he wanted to hear, she could make up dozens of things.

“But Your Highness didn’t believe Mother, and since you couldn’t give her a child to end her life of living again, she had no choice but to leave… Why wouldn’t she tell Your Highness?”

Because there was no need to say it.

“Mother didn’t want Your Highness to be hurt either.”

Guiz’s hand that had been grabbing and shaking her hair stopped. He seemed somewhat confused. This was the beginning.

“Your Highness, Mother lived again and I live again too. Since we come back to life even after dying, we’re not afraid of death.”

“…Then it would be fine if you died once more. As a reward for spinning an interesting tale, I’ll decorate your corpse with jewels and hang it up.”

“Even though Your Highness’s child is in this belly?”

“…What?”

Karen said while looking down at her belly.

“Wait a few months. It doesn’t show yet, but a child who looks exactly like Your Highness will be born from here. Because I was intimate with Your Highness in my previous life.”

“…Oh, this is rich. I don’t really like crazy women like you.”

“Don’t you believe me?”

“What fool would believe that?”

Prince Guiz was laughing with an incredulous expression.

“Didn’t you just say so yourself? That’s right, I don’t have the ability to impregnate anyone. Louis isn’t my child. And Catherine left me for that reason too? Ah, fine. Let’s say that’s true. Then why are you saying you’re carrying my child? It doesn’t make sense, and I’ve never put my thing between your legs!”

“You did it before. Having a child is difficult, but it’s not entirely impossible. It’s different from twenty years ago. Medical technology has advanced.”

Steadily, slowly. Keep talking continuously. Karen licked her front teeth with her tongue. If she licked her lips, it would be too obvious that she was lying.

“Why wouldn’t I be afraid coming here like this?”

“Ha…”

“I’m not afraid of death because I’ll come back to life. I’m not afraid of this place either because I’ve been here many times. And I’m not afraid of Your Highness either.”

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