Resetting Lady - Chapter 219

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The room she was staying in was the deceased crown princess’s chamber. No matter how much he intended to make her his concubine, it certainly wasn’t a wise choice to have a mistress use such a room. He must have deliberately given her this room. To show the king and Louis that she wasn’t just a simple concubine. To make them uncomfortable.

And the other nobles and commoners would surely condemn Karen as a temptress for shamelessly using the crown princess’s room. But if she was going to be criticized anyway, she wished she could at least enjoy more luxury. Karen grumbled and closed her eyes.

If she were to properly play the role of a tyrant’s concubine, she would at least cause some trouble, but being a fake concubine, she felt self-conscious about doing anything. This was fake, that was fake. They gave her plenty of jewelry as luxury, but without attendants to help her, she couldn’t even wear them, so it couldn’t really be called luxury.

“I hate being alone…”

When alone, she only had bad thoughts. It was her old habit. She would become absorbed in her own world again. She had spent a hundred years like that.

How much longer would she have to spend? A thousand years? Ten thousand years? A hundred million years? Karen curled up her body and hugged her stomach. How much more time must we spend before we can reach death?

Please have mercy on me. Please let me cut off this tenacious life.

But prayers don’t reach. This fate doesn’t change. God imposed fate on women, but it wasn’t God who attached the unremovable fire to it…

She closes her eyes.

Tears have dried up and won’t come out. Only long sighs emerge. She must think other thoughts, other thoughts…

Then she fell into a deep sleep.

Knock knock.

“…Come in. You’re too late.”

Karen slightly opened her eyes and spoke in a resentful voice. Her voice was slightly hoarse from sleep.

The maids seemed to have finally arrived. How long had she been waiting, and they only came now? She wanted to quickly wash the powder off her face with washing water and take off the clothes that were pressing against her body like armor.

Knock, knock.

Was the door locked? Or couldn’t they hear?

She barely lifted her heavy body and headed toward the door. But when she reached out her hand, Karen realized she couldn’t sense any presence outside the door. There was no one outside the door.

Knock knock knock knock.

The knocking sound was coming from the glass window right next to her, not from the door.

“What, what… Lord Raymond?”

Karen was about to scream in surprise for a moment, then realized the silhouette was someone she knew well and clutched her chest.

“Why are you there? No, I can guess why you’re there, but oh, so suddenly…!”

Her voice grew louder in confusion from the shock. Raymond stopped knocking with an embarrassed expression. Then he whispered near the window.

“Karen, please open the door… No, I’ll just open it myself.”

“Don’t break it!”

“Shh, shh.”

Click. Karen opened the door with the transparent glass window on the balcony. She was about to step out immediately but stopped.

“Wait…”

The surroundings were quiet. Karen looked around briefly and stepped onto the balcony. A light drizzle was falling.

Raymond’s hair was slightly wet.

“Your hair is wet.”

“Yes, thanks to that there are no watchers. The fires are also dimmed… Where is Prince Guiz?”

“In his room. Fires?”

“There was such an incident. Does Prince Guiz ever visit you at night?”

Raymond paused for a moment, then shrugged as if it was nothing and changed the subject.

“Not so far. There should be time until morning. But we should be careful just in case.”

“Understood. Any injuries?”

“None.”

After hearing that answer, Raymond pulled Karen into a tight embrace.

Karen also wrapped her arms around Raymond’s waist. Embracing his solid, large body somehow made her want to cry. She knew he would come. She knew they would meet. She knew he would definitely come to get her. In this lifetime too. My knight. Mine alone.

“Karen, wait…”

Raymond’s hair was wet and sticking to his forehead. Perhaps uncomfortable from being wet in the rain, he removed the eyepatch that had been covering one eye. The scar crossing his eye was revealed. He stuffed the eyepatch he had been holding into his pocket.

Karen stroked around Raymond’s eye as she spoke. The scar was raised, but being on a handsome face, it had its own wild charm. Surely he would be handsome even when old.

“The wound is lasting longer than expected.”

“But it’s much better now.”

“What about your vision?”

“I can see.”

“…You said there would be no problems.”

“Well, slightly… But it’s not a big problem.”

Even though they hadn’t been apart for long, it strangely felt like they were meeting after a very long time. Raymond looked down at Karen with his blurred eye and smiled.

“Haven’t you hurt or killed anyone?”

“…I told you your jokes aren’t funny.”

Just when she was trying to be moved. Karen was about to pinch him but thought it wouldn’t hurt because of his clothes, so she stepped on his foot instead. But he just ignored it as if it wasn’t even ticklish. Raymond murmured while embracing Karen again.

“If you get executed again this time, I was thinking I’d be too upset to come watch.”

“No, you should at least do the executioner’s job out of affection, what are you saying? Anyway, this time you weren’t too late.”

“That’s fortunate.”

She should be moved and give praise, but perhaps because this meeting was too expected, her fatigue wouldn’t fade. Karen asked while still holding Raymond. Strangely, she continued to feel weak.

This time too. Was it because she knew the reason? Her mind thought she should do her best, but resignation kept weighing down her body.

“Did you come to get me?”

“Yes. Prince Louis has assigned some of the servants other tasks. I know a way to escape. If we just run away like this, this life will end safely. Let’s go home. Nothing good will come from being entangled with Guiz.”

So that was why there was no one around her. Prince Louis seemed to care for Raymond quite a bit. Raymond separated from Karen and grabbed the railing. He looked back at Karen and said.

“Karen, grab my neck. We must escape before the shift change.”

“Now?”

“Yes.”

Raymond answered again. But Karen shook her head.

“Prince Guiz has declared he will make me his mistress. My face is already known to all the nobles, and even if there are no servants nearby right now, it’s impossible to escape without being seen by anyone.”

“We can go.”

“And Father and the Verdick family would be finished.”

“Why does Verdick Evans… come up?”

“Isn’t it my friend’s family? Don’t you also feel that this lifetime has been somewhat different?”

“…”

Raymond didn’t answer that question.

Karen smiled bitterly at his silence. The method Raymond was thinking of was obvious. Kill everyone and run away with her – that would be the method he’d think of.

But in this life, that wasn’t possible. She didn’t want to do that. How hard had she worked to get this far? This was the world outside books she had found after a hundred years – how could she choose such an easy method?

“Prince Guiz ordered me to kill Prince Louis.”

Raymond’s body stiffened. Karen felt his condition in her arms and thought ‘as expected.’

“Of course I have no reason to kill him… The important thing is… as you said, if we do nothing and just run away, Prince Louis will die this time too. Are you satisfied with that? Are you okay with that?”

“Karen, I…”

Karen covered Raymond’s mouth.

‘It has nothing to do with me.’

She didn’t want to hear such an answer. She didn’t want to hear such lies. That couldn’t be true. Living thinking of only one person was essentially a life of giving up everything.

It was the same as her own obsession with only pleasure and amusement.

“Lord Raymond, maybe it really has nothing to do with us. As you said. Like when you told me not to worry about Isella. We’re detached from time, and this time might just repeat again anyway.”

Because nothing matters except us two.

“You told me there was no future where Prince Louis becomes king. So it couldn’t be helped… What about now? Really?”

“Even now… I don’t think… he will live.”

“But you don’t want him to die.”

“Karen, I really… if I just have you, nothing else matters.”

“Then will you kill Prince Louis yourself?”

“Karen, I…”

Raymond gritted his teeth.

Karen continued speaking.

“In this life, let’s try to create a more constructive life, let’s try harder – you agreed to that.”

“I didn’t agree.”

“But you said you’d follow along.”

Not just the two of them, but toward the world, toward society, toward a broader world with family and friends, for flow rather than stagnation.

“I’m pregnant.”

What she had wanted so much.

Her own end. Now a new end with Raymond. A new life they would create together.

But Raymond’s face didn’t look particularly joyful.

Ah, I see. He knows too. He also knows the truth….

Karen felt like crying a little. She looked up at his face from Raymond’s embrace, then lowered her head again and asked.

“Did you hear it from Isella? Did Sion tell you?”

“I heard it directly from both of them.”

“Lord Raymond, I’m happy that Isella came all this way for me. And I want to see Prince Louis alive and placing the crown on his head. I hope the boy who had feelings for you survives. I want to see that boy who was nearly killed by his own father beside me become king.”

The sound of rain grew louder. Karen felt rather fortunate that her face was wet with rain.

“Until now… it has never happened before.”

Just like how Isella had come to her for the first time. She wanted to hope for such miraculous things. She wanted to wish for a better world. She wanted to hope for a world where good is repaid with good, and evil with evil.

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