The Low-Ranking Civil Servant Wants to Achieve Success - Chapter 120

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Chapter 120
My head spun dizzily. Which meant….
‘Could I possibly be… the Tower Master’s granddaughter?’
The Tower Master must have known everything all along.
On that day when he made me Minister of Education, during our conversation.
[Creating a new scroll… People outside the Magic Tower don’t understand magic well enough to realize it, but this is something only adults can do. And normally, you’d need to spend more than five years in the Magic Tower, refining your magical power to its purest form! But you said you created one when you were eight years old! You’ve never even been to the Magic Tower! You wouldn’t have lied! Even you can see how strange that is!]
Back then, I lacked the enthusiasm to think deeply about how strange I was. At that time, I hadn’t completely overcome my chronic apathy.
[Do you have any other special abilities? Even if you do, just say you don’t in front of others. And try not to mention that you’ve been able to create scrolls since childhood.]
The Tower Master had continued to emphasize it.
Not to let anyone discover my uniqueness.
‘He must have suspected I was an experiment.’
I couldn’t fully understand my mother’s circumstances. Why she was chased by loan sharks, why she abandoned us.
But I could form rough hypotheses about myself.
‘My mother underwent an experiment by the Gaejofa Faction. While pregnant with me, an experiment to become proficient in magic.’
But that ability came to me, the fetus, not to my mother. That’s why I handled scrolls so extraordinarily well from childhood.
‘But… recently, it seems my mother underwent another experiment.’
An experiment to learn the future in the form of a novel….
According to what Kiaros discovered through the magical beast he secured, even if my mother underwent the experiment, the effects manifest in me.
‘That’s how I came to know the original story. No, not the original story….’
I swallowed hard.
‘The new future that changed because of the Gaejofa Faction’s assassination attempt.’
The Gaejofa Faction read the future once and predicted Kiaros’s second dark period. And they planned his assassination to coincide with that time.
Through another experiment, I came to know that future which had changed in that way.
“…Minister? Minister?”
I snapped back to attention, startled, and lifted my head from organizing my thoughts.
Kibon stood nearby with a worried expression. I quickly leaned back.
“Are you alright?”
“Ah….”
“Why haven’t you been listening to anything since earlier….”
“Ah, s-sorry.”
I immediately lowered my head.
I couldn’t bring myself to meet Kibon’s eyes.
“Sorry. I’m actually a bit shocked.”
Then Kibon slowly nodded, contrary to my expectations.
“I understand.”
“Huh? What do you understand?”
“About the Crown Prince, Your Highness.”
“Huh? What about the Crown Prince?”
“After all the time we’ve spent acting together, to suddenly say you didn’t actually trust him must be shocking. Even if you said it was fine, you can still be shocked.”
He seemed to have completely misunderstood, but I couldn’t point it out.
I nodded with a dazed expression.
“Oh, I see… Well, yes. That makes sense.”
Kibon then smiled with a somewhat melancholic face and spoke.
“Actually, there’s more I could say… but the Crown Prince will tell you that himself later.”
“Oh, okay.”
“Aren’t you curious?”
“Oh, okay.”
I was naturally someone who lacked curiosity, but right now I simply didn’t have the mental capacity to wonder about anything else.
Kibon let out a small laugh at my response.
“Well, that’s just like the Minister of Education.”
I nodded. After exchanging a few more words, I couldn’t remember what we’d actually said.
It seemed I’d only repeated responses like “Oh, okay.”
After that meaningless conversation dragged on, Kibon spoke slowly.
“By the way, why did you call for me in the first place….”
Now that he mentioned it, I had originally summoned Kibon for a reason.
But for now, that wasn’t the issue.
The truth I’d suddenly learned was shocking, and I needed time to process it.
“Ah… come to think of it, it’s nothing important. Never mind. Just go.”
I waved my hand and forced a smile.
“Are you sure? You don’t look well….”
His perceptiveness was uncanny. If I claimed “I’m fine,” it would only look more suspicious.
I made up an excuse on the spot.
“It’s because of the Crown Prince. Yes, that’s it. I’m shocked.”
“…I see. So it’s all because of the Crown Prince.”
“Exactly.”
And the moment Kibon closed the door with a dejected expression and left.
“Ah… what do I do….”
I collapsed where I stood, pressing my forehead with my hand.
“I was an experimental subject of the Gaejo Faction….”
The magical abilities I’d thought I was born with were never mine. They were the result of experiments.
The visions of the future that appeared like miracles one day weren’t because I was special either. They too were connected to the Gaejo Faction.
I didn’t know what my mother was doing in the Gaejo Faction, but I was being continuously experimented on against my will.
“Ah….”
I buried my face in both hands.
I could understand why the Tower Master—my maternal grandfather—hadn’t told me this. The shock was simply too great.
The thought that experimental results could manifest in my body at any time, regardless of my will, was too horrifying.
The Tower Master knew all of this, yet still worried about me as his granddaughter and sent me letters and scrolls.
[Don’t think of it only in a negative light. For someone, it was a desperately desired power. It’s a dangerous power, but perhaps if it were you, it would be acceptable to obtain it.]
I muttered with tears welling up in my eyes.
“How could I not think badly of it….”
This was beyond my control.
‘And if Kiaros finds out about this fact….’
Cold sweat trickled down my back.
I already knew what Kiaros thought about the test subjects.
[What happened to those monsters then?]
[I killed them. They’re beings that exist outside the world’s truth. The risk of leaving them as they are is too great.]
He would kill me.
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After leaving Namia’s room and returning to my own.
Kiaros immediately asked his Aide.
“What about Victor Awin and Anastasia Kayen?”
“Victor Awin is living his daily life as usual and hasn’t received any other contact. Anastasia Kayen has been announced to be unconscious after an attack.”
I had entrusted all Imperial Palace affairs to the Emperor.
Meanwhile, pursuing the Gaejo Faction was entirely my responsibility. I had no choice but to entrust only the Minister of Education’s interrogation to the Emperor.
Therefore, I remained busy.
“By the way, that… did the A and B matter go well?”
“I’m not sure.”
Kiaros lowered his eyes.
I had deliberately spoken in a way that blurred the boundary between Kibon and Kiaros….
No matter how Namia accepts it, now it’s at the level where I just need to say ‘Kibon is Kiaros’….
Her reaction just now wasn’t as good as I expected. My heart felt heavy.
At the same time, I became certain.
Despite everything, I wanted to be honest with her.
‘The Kiaros assassination operation is cancelled.’
Thus I let go of the idea of living as Kibon for the rest of my life. In the end, this was the right direction.
‘Once I wrap up the High Priest’s matter tomorrow, I’ll tell her everything.’
That would also mean revealing what my special ability is.
To be honest, I was afraid. She would likely respond with vacant eyes, saying ‘I see. I understand. I got it.’ so formally. Just like before.
What frightened me most was that I couldn’t even receive her blame.
But.
‘That chair.’
The chair Namia had asked Kibon to visit once more.
That old, unremarkable chair—I didn’t even know if it was still in the Imperial Palace—but I decided I would confess there.
That I am Kibon, and also Kiaros.
The reason I’m telling you all of this is because I like you so very much.
If I confess so sincerely, pouring out my earnest heart….
‘Perhaps I’ll be rejected?’
At any rate, that’s what the expert’s opinion suggested.

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