The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 247

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Part 2, Chapter 94

“…I wonder where Her Highness the Princess might be right now.”

He spread out a map of the continent.

Several days had already passed since Medeia disappeared.

Neryl and her other subordinates had also vanished without a trace. Even the Agema had not yet found any clues.

“I hope she went somewhere no one could follow, but at the same time, I wish she only went far enough that I could still find Her Highness.”

Even as he spoke, Diangel let out a hollow laugh, realizing his words were contradictory.

The vast continental map. Where on earth could Her Highness the Princess have headed?

“Lord Diangel.”

At that moment, a quiet voice echoed in the room where only Diangel was present.

“Kensington? How are you here… No, shouldn’t you be with Her Highness the Princess right now?”

Diangel’s eyes widened in surprise as Kensington, who had disappeared along with Medeia, emerged through a secret passage in the room.

“I remained here. In this state, I would only hold back Her Highness, and someone needed to stay to report on the situation.”

“While hiding in the palace like this, unknown to anyone?”

Diangel swallowed a hollow laugh, then grabbed her like a drowning man clutching at a rope.

“Kensington. Do you know where Her Highness went?”

After Medeia left, she had remained in Valdina to observe Emperor Peleus.

Valdina’s emperor was clearly a brother who cherished his sister so much that he would not hesitate to go to war with Kazen for her sake.

However, Kensington did not trust him completely.

Hadn’t she seen Perdickas II, who tried to kill even his own son and lifelong loyal retainers?

The true hearts of those who are emperors cannot be known from the surface.

Kensington had actually expected that once Medeia left, Peleus would find himself in a difficult situation and order Diangel to bring Medeia back.

But instead, the reason for sending Diangel was,

‘To protect Her Highness and help her escape forever.’

Seeing him send away his most capable aide, and watching the loyal retainer bid a lifelong farewell exactly as ordered, Kensington was finally able to feel at ease.

“Yes. I know.”

She smiled gently.

“If you leave now, you should be able to meet her before she reaches the gorge.”

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At that same time, there was another person heading toward the evil dragon’s lair.

“Hurry, we must arrive as quickly as possible. Hyah, hyah!”

The man roughly spurring his horse was Jason.

While Medeia’s party was sailing on a ship that had departed from the Elamouz Strait.

Jason and his subordinates were racing toward the grasslands.

Moving inland and currently crossing the Desert of Bones, they were following exactly the same route the expedition had taken in their past life.

“Your Highness, moving so urgently like this. You haven’t rested at all since leaving the abyss not long ago…”

Several horses had collapsed from excessive fatigue, but Jason did not stop.

“Not this way. We will cross the Field of the Dead and the Desert of Bones.”

Jason’s eyes as he gave orders seemed both like those of a mad lunatic and a sage who had realized the truth.

As they left Kazen’s borders, Jason’s commands became even more puzzling.

He told them to cross a lake instead of taking the plains, and suddenly ordered them to cover their ears.

All those following Jason were bewildered by his commands.

However.

“Ahhh! It’s a Masu, a Masu has appeared!”

“Your Lordship. How did you know a wave would occur there?”

Jason began displaying brilliant wit in every dangerous situation. As if he were someone who knew everything that would happen.

It was from then that his subordinates began to absolutely accept Jason’s commands.

“Your Grace the Duke. How did you know? That a swarm of iron scorpions would soon attack?”

“And that the weakness of the cave beasts was fire!”

“…I saw it in a dream.”

Jason brushed it off vaguely.

As if he had neither the desire nor the leisure to explain in detail.

“Isn’t it a revelation?! It must mean that Your Highness is truly the chosen master of this land, blessed by the gods!”

Their lord knew intimately all the secrets and information that the continental lands possessed.

With his position and bloodline combined with vast experience and strategy, his subordinates’ respect grew ever greater.

It was as if he had become a completely different person overnight.

“You seem like a completely different person since returning from the abyss.”

“What a painful place it must be. You’ve completely awakened.”

His subordinates speculated that the agonizing experience in the abyss had completely transformed him.

But the truth was different.

Recently, Jason had awakened to his past life.

He had completely recalled his past life memories while in the abyss.

The abyss was as terrible as its evil reputation suggested.

Complete darkness where nothing could be heard and nothing could be seen continued for days.

In that cruel and endless agony, Jason screamed to survive.

However, the abyss swallowed all screams and groans in darkness, and all he could hear was his own sobbing.

As he slowly went mad like that.

Everything was erased like nothingness and became quiet.

Death seemed to be approaching.

At that moment, everything collapsed and colors tangled as it flashed like the sun.

And the present and past became mixed.

“Ahhhhhhh!”

Finally, Jason awakened to his past life.

He felt his face. His cheeks were soaked wet.

Were the tears that flowed unceasingly during his awakening regret for the past, or ecstasy for the future?

He couldn’t be certain of that, but this was definite.

Jason Castulo.

I was the hero who slayed the evil dragon, and the future Emperor of the Kazen Empire.

His ambition had not been in vain.

It had actually been achieved. That’s why he couldn’t let it go.

But his elation was brief, as Jason realized one fact.

The fact that his past life had become far too different from now.

His uncle Perdickas II, who had pushed him so hard, and 1st Prince Chezare were both still alive and well in this life.

All of these things pointed to one answer.

“Medeia, you were… first. You… already knew.”

“I don’t know, perhaps there was some evil connection from a past life.”

He could now fully understand Medeia’s words and actions that had been incomprehensible and only resentful.

Because his first wife Medeia, whom he had betrayed and ultimately eliminated along with their children, remembered their past life, that’s why she had been so hostile toward him.

“…I must get Medeia back.”

Jason, who had awakened to his past life, immediately realized.

His current miserable situation, so different from his past life, was because Medeia was not by his side.

Though he had tried to erase and deny it after becoming emperor, his deepest inner self knew.

That without his wife, Medeia, all his glory would have been impossible.

“And I must put everything back in its place.”

Jason muttered.

The frustration and depression that had long plagued Jason could no longer be found in his appearance.

Rather, it seemed as if he radiated an energy like that of a resurrected god.

He who emerged from the abyss had changed greatly from before he entered.

In his past life, no matter how much he had benefited from his wife’s help, he too had joined the expedition and had been an emperor who ruled an empire for a long time.

So that weight and experience had to be different from the weak and frail duke he had been before.

“Your Grace! An oracle has been delivered to the Holy Kingdom!”

At that moment, news of the oracle reached Kazen.

Jason was startled. And just like his wife had been, he felt momentarily puzzled.

‘Why would an oracle come now?’

Even the content of the oracle was something he had never anticipated.

‘Offering Medeia as a sacrifice to the evil dragon? The first oracle should have been commanding my sacred marriage to Rachel, shouldn’t it?’

However, his contemplation didn’t last long.

The oracle and his awakening.

Among these newly given changes, he found the strength to surge forward once again.

“…I must defeat the evil dragon myself. And save Medeia.”

Thanks to Medeia devising a method to kill the evil dragon, the expedition was able to slay it.

Jason was the very person who had witnessed this most closely.

By saving her from death when she was to be offered as a sacrifice, he could earn Medeia’s forgiveness and wash away the sins of his past life as well.

“If I defeat the evil dragon, I can restore this situation where I’ve been pushed aside.”

A hero who slayed the evil dragon that even the Holy Kingdom couldn’t easily handle.

He could reclaim that reputation and stand against First Prince Chezare.

“Chezare, just how did you survive?”

He couldn’t understand why someone who should have died early from a terminal illness in his past life was still thriving until now.

But…

“Chezare, this won’t be your world anymore.”

He was no longer afraid.

He was not the weak and pathetic Jason Castulo of before.

While the First Prince might have been too much for Duke Jason to handle, Emperor Jason, who had experienced all trials and tribulations, was different.

To him, the variable called Chezare was nothing more than a terminally ill patient who died early acting up.

“…I will definitely handle the evil dragon with my own hands.”

Jason’s eyes flashed.

It was a depth different from before, deep and unfathomable.

“Medeia, and me. For both of us.”

A clear, yet utterly one-sided proposal echoed through the darkness.

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