The Low-Ranking Civil Servant Wants to Achieve Success - Chapter 164

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Chapter 164
“What are you!”
Mother rose to her feet while shrieking indignantly.
“How dare you lay hands on me! Are you out of your mind? Do you know who I am? Do you!”
“These are the hands of the Empress herself, you uncultured swine who never learned basic manners at the dinner table!”
But before Mother could fully rise, the Empress brought her hand down across her back once more.
“Ugh, you shameless wretch! Not only deficient, but utterly despicable!”
The Empress then grabbed Mother by the scruff of her neck and hurled her into the prison cell where Father was being held.
I rushed after her and re-entered the cell myself.
At the same moment, another person inside the cell caught Mother in his arms.
“Araaaaaaan!”
It was Grandfather. He caught Mother as she collapsed and shook her gently.
“Aran, is it really you? Hmm? Is it really Aran? But why have you aged so much!”
Of course—it had been twenty-three years.
But why was Grandfather here?
As I stood dazed, watching them, someone’s arm wrapped around my shoulders. It was Father.
“Namia….”
Were those two adult men who had been entering through the corridor earlier Grandfather and Father?
I looked up at Father and asked.
“Did you hear everything?”
“Yes.”
Father let out a heavy sigh and spoke.
“That’s why your grandfather is acting like that right now….”
It meant everyone had heard what Mother said.
I wiped away my frustrated tears with a sniff.
‘Thank goodness. I don’t have to explain anything.’
Truly, the situation was so immature that even if I had desperately tried to demonstrate it, I would have heard, “Namia, aren’t you exaggerating a bit?”
In the meantime, Mother had gotten to her feet with Grandfather’s support and was shouting.
“Father! That woman hit me! She hit me! Father, punish her!”
“Aran, my dear…. Please, just be quiet for a moment. All right?”
Watching this, the Empress clicked her tongue.
“It seems your daughter doesn’t realize how greatly she has erred. To think the Tower Master would show such firmness toward his own child.”
Goodness. “Please, just be quiet for a moment” counts as firmness?
Of course, Mother appeared utterly shocked as well.
“Father? Did you just tell me to be quiet? You saw it yourself! That woman hit me!”
It was then, as Mother was screaming at Grandfather and throwing a tantrum.
Following the path Mother had come, a crowd of people rushed in—the Red Knight Order with Kiaros at their head. And beside him was Jayden.
The prison was too narrow for the other knights to enter, so only Jayden and Kiaros could make their way inside.
“Jayden!”
The Empress waved her hand cheerfully. Jayden then came running, cradling an adorable White Dog….
‘Huh?’
The white dog nestled in Jayden’s arms looked remarkably familiar. Despite its diminutive size, that dog was unmistakably….
“Woof woof woof!”
The white dog sprang from Jayden’s embrace and bounded toward me, tail wagging furiously.
There was no room for doubt anymore. It was Kibon (dog form).
“Kibon? Is it really you, Kibon? How is this possible? How?”
As I scooped Kibon into my arms and whispered frantically, Kiaros, who had drawn near, answered.
“Yes, um, yes, that dog.”
Now that I thought about it, Kiaros had never actually called Kibon (dog form) by name.
Kibon (dog form) was equally distant with Kiaros.
Father adored Kibon (dog form) so much that whenever he did, Kibon would flash a triumphant expression at Kiaros—having quickly noticed that Father was avoiding him.
“Kibon has… returned?”
“Yes. He’s back to his original form.”
“What?”
“Jayden can do it.”
Kiaros smiled softly.
“He can nullify all the experiments.”
I stared at Kiaros in a daze. The reality of it hadn’t quite sunk in.
“So you’re saying… the Young Prince can sever the connection between me and my mother?”
“Not exactly. A more precise explanation would be that Jayden’s Dragon-kin healing ability can nullify artificial experiments. The Gaejofa Faction’s experiments were designed based on Dragon-kin fundamentals in the first place.”
“I see….”
Joy began to bloom slowly within me.
I had thought confining Mother was the best option.
According to Kiaros, all the experimental results manifested in my body could be completely reversed. That meant I, Namia Loapi, could return to being human in my original form.
‘Of course, Kiaros appearing like this means even Biberus has been captured.’
Now that the Gaejofa Faction had been eradicated, Mother would never undergo experiments behind my back again.
Mother had been completely apprehended as well.
And yet, this was the best ending I could have imagined.
‘It means I’ll never have to be enslaved to anyone for the rest of my life.’
Even if—though it shouldn’t happen—Mother escaped and this happened again, I could always return to being myself.
“I wasn’t saying anything because I wasn’t certain. I didn’t want to give you false hope only to disappoint you greatly.”
Kiaros spoke tenderly.
A brief silence fell between us.
Father, who had been flattened against the floor the moment he saw Kiaros, cautiously lifted his head.
“Namia, are you all right? Why aren’t you saying anything? Hmm?”
Father asked worriedly, desperately avoiding looking toward Kiaros. I answered in a daze.
“Oh, I was just listening to something… but the sound of it was so wonderful….”
“Hmm? What sound?”
“The sound of me becoming the Crown Princess….”
At my earnest reply, Kiaros let out a deflating laugh, a soft puff of amusement escaping him.
I looked up at Kiaros and spoke.
“According to Mother, even if the experiment to foresee the future hadn’t taken place, I would have naturally become the Crown Prince’s betrothed.”
“Hmm?”
“Perhaps… we would have grown closer in a different way, but it seems I was destined to become the Crown Prince’s betrothed regardless.”
“I see.”
Kiaros gazed at me intently and smiled softly.
“Well, before all of this happened, I would have met you in the Scroll Management Department Office and gotten thoroughly scolded.”
“Woof woof!”
Father, still lying down, tilted his head. He muttered to himself, “Scolded… and then what comes next?”
“And you would mercilessly cut off my authority, putting me in quite the predicament.”
At these words, Father furrowed his brow once more. He continued his muttering, “A predicament? What exactly is his taste in this? Is it really okay to allow this?” without forgetting to voice his confusion.
In any case, Kiaros brushed my hair aside as he spoke.
“Right now, in this situation, we need to decide whether to nullify all of your abilities created by the experiment or not. Since it seems Aran won’t undergo any more experiments going forward anyway.”
According to Mother, my ability to use scrolls so impossibly well was a result of the experiment.
In other words, in a situation where I didn’t need to worry about the future.
Whether to maintain the current experimental results or not was now something to consider. After all, I had become a mage more formidable than even the Tower Master.
“In any case, you do love scrolls.”
Kiaros spoke softly.
“That’s why you endured even in that wretched department.”
That was true. I did love scrolls.
So when Kiaros thanked me after I saved him, that was the most moving moment.
[I too found it to be an opportunity to see scrolls anew.]
[Thank you so much for speaking of scrolls in that way.]
There was no doubt that Kiaros remembered that conversation as well.
“To reiterate, Jayden’s ability isn’t about severing connections—it’s about nullifying experimental results. If Jayden nullifies your experimental results, you might never be able to use scrolls again.”
That was true.
Because magical talent is something you’re born with, and originally, I might not have had any talent at all.
It was natural that I wouldn’t be able to cast such tremendous magic as I do now, and I might not even be able to create a single small luminescent scroll. But.
“It should be nullified.”
I answered without hesitation.
“If I live enjoying these unnatural experimental results, how could I ever confidently tell anyone else not to undergo experiments?”
I had already decided my own position as the Crown Prince’s betrothed.

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