The World Mistakes Me for Terminally Ill - Chapter 5

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The World Thinks I’m Terminally Ill Episode 005

Day by day, the Grand Duke’s Castle was changing.

“Aren’t the new clothes we received so pretty? They said this is the uniform.”

“Right. Wearing similar clothes like this makes me feel like I’ve become part of Lunein too.”

“It makes me want to work even harder.”

The servants smiled more often.

“Butler, the Main Hall decoration is complete. …Butler?”

“Ah, sorry. For a moment… I felt like I was experiencing again that majesty I felt when I first came to the Grand Duke’s Castle following my father.”

Someone who recalled old memories was moved.

“Has the gardener arrived?”

“Yes, Bella. It seems they’re currently estimating the garden. Shall I call them over?”

“No, I should go myself. We must respect the expert’s domain.”

And at the center of that change, there was always one person.

Hair that sparkled like golden thread. Eyes red like freshly squeezed pomegranate juice.

The one who always led countless people around like followers.

Elisia Lunein.

“Let’s change this curtain to something else. When sunlight shines from the east, the color will change depending on the lighting, but it won’t harmonize with the surroundings.”

“Yes, Bella. We’ll do that.”

“Child, let’s stop there and have lunch.”

“Ah, Mother. Has it already gotten to be that time?”

People listened intently, afraid to miss a single word from her.

The meticulous butler respectfully served the young mistress, and the Duchess, who had been like the north wind of snowy mountains, now naturally looked after her daughter-in-law.

Those who experienced Elisia transformed into her followers as if it were a natural law of the world.

Shubel watched this scene with a peculiar look in his eyes.

‘Like the sun.’

When Elisia passed by, people turned to look at her as if enchanted.

She was that confident, capable, and charming. So much so that even he unconsciously thought she was ‘intense.’

Each time, he recalled the name of that unfamiliar emotion he felt, such as wanting to crush those who looked at her – that universal emotion.

‘Displeasure.’

He smiled without realizing it.

“…? Shubel?”

“May I join you for the meal as well, my lady?”

To Shubel, Elisia was an unexplored existence.

Someone who couldn’t be defined.

He had never seen anyone like Elisia in the world, felt curious, and now wondered.

What are you-

“Why would you ask such a thing? Just come along.”

What exactly makes you so different? Why do you alone shine like this?

“Yes, my lady.”

‘Is your blood red too?’

It was when Shubel smiled brightly at Elisia’s permission.

“…My lady?”

Elisia hesitated.

“My lady? What’s wrong?”

She blinked slowly.

And.

Retch-

She vomited up a handful of red blood.

“Kyaaah! Bella!”

“My child!”

A moment as if time had stopped.

After a brief silence, people’s screams burst out like fireworks.

To Shubel, all of it felt unreal.

Elisia’s delicate body swayed as if about to collapse. He instinctively caught her.

Thud.

‘Too light.’

The body he caught was too light. As if it would scatter like snowflakes at any moment.

Shubel called to her with a trembling voice.

“…My lady.”

Every time Elisia breathed with difficulty, drops of blood fell to the floor.

Weakening breath.

Weakening heartbeat.

She was moving away.

She was… being erased.

Shubel’s eyes shook violently.

“Quickly call a priest! Quickly!”

“Where on earth is the doctor!”

He could hear shouting and sobbing around him, but it all sank into muffled silence.

All of this was unreal. His world had always been close to unreal, but now it was even more so.

Shubel blinked with an unreal expression.

His mother angrily searching for a priest and doctor, the panicked servants, the luxurious scenery of the Grand Duke’s Castle that Elisia had changed.

Everything-

Was black and white.

His eyes couldn’t hold the colors of the world.

He was a monster.

‘A world without color.’

The yellow of warm sunlight, the blue of the sky so blue it hurt the eyes, the light green of vast meadows, the deep blue of the expansive sea, and even the red of blood flowing in pain. Shubel knew none of it.

Perhaps because he was a monster who only saw achromatic colors, Shubel had a narrow range of emotions from birth.

Both for himself and in understanding others.

He could hide his bored face under a plausible exterior, but that was all.

It was on a day when he could no longer bear the daily boredom.

‘I’ll propose a contract. A contract where neither side needs to be servile, where both sides can benefit.’

He met a woman with the most brilliant colors in the world.

‘Let’s get married.’

Shubel caressed that woman’s cheek with trembling hands.

“Elisia.”

Gorgeous blonde hair, vivid red eyes. One who shone and was beautiful like the sun.

His gaze was drawn from the beginning. It had to be.

The brilliance of colors he saw for the first time in his life was enough to make him a blind man.

Elisia was the essence of the only color Shubel could see.

If she disappeared from the world, his world would sink into darkness again.

Along with that realization, despair overwhelmed him.

“It’s the doctor! Where is the patient?!”

A crowd of people rushed in.

But nothing could be captured in his eyes.

Shubel held the only one with color in the middle of a play where gray dolls moved.

Transparent tears that held no color fell from his eyes, wetting Elisia’s blood-stained lips.

He finally answered one curiosity.

‘…Red.’

Elisia’s blood was red.

That drove him mad.

The woman said.

‘Make a deal with me.’

‘….’

‘Like our first transaction. I’ll give you what you want. So grant me what I desire.’

The man asked with an extremely handsome but expressionless face.

‘What is it?’

He was a being born perfect.

He was perfect because he had no flaws, and those flaws included ‘humanity’ as well.

A being stripped of something that should rightfully be possessed as a human.

His emotions wore away day by day. The more they did, the higher he ascended to sublime heights.

It was extremely rare for him to show any reaction.

The woman’s red lips drew a vivid arc.

‘Avenge our ■■.’

Whoooosh-

That voice was drowned out by the sound of the pure white sea of trees crying out.

‘A dream…?’

I opened my eyes with a throbbing headache.

They were definitely faces I knew. The man was Shubel, and the woman was…

“…Me?”

It was me. Elisia Seton. Or Elisia Lunein.

But I had no such memory.

‘If it’s revenge… is this from the original story?’

Since the original ‘me’ was an extra who died quickly, this was probably just a random dream, but strangely I had an intuition that this dream contained very important content.

I recalled the parts where the character ‘Elisia’ was mentioned in the original work.

But as expected, no such content existed.

“What is this.”

In frustration, I habitually felt for my left ring finger. I could see the ‘covenant ring’ I received from Shubel.

This ring was an item that the Lunein Duke from 100 years ago supposedly shared when he ended the Northern Region’s Thousand-Year War and made a contract with a dragon, and it was also my wedding ring.

‘Ah, come to think of it-‘

I recalled the voice that rang out majestically before I coughed up blood.

[Pay the price.]

It was definitely the same voice I heard on my wedding day.

Right after hearing that voice, I suddenly coughed up blood.

Even though I had coughed up blood and fainted, my body didn’t even hurt.

‘If anything, I feel somewhat lighter?’

I fiddled with the ring.

If I had just gained knowledge of the future, I would have said ‘Thank you. No refunds possible’ and lived pretending not to know.

‘But coughing up blood is different.’

With suspicious eyes, I held the ring up to the light seeping through the window.

Since I recalled the original story right after receiving the wedding ring, I had once asked Shubel about the ring, wondering if I could learn something about this situation.

‘Shubel, does this ring perhaps have some special blessing on it?’

‘The ring? It is a family heirloom, but….’

Since it was considered a symbol of the end of the ‘Thousand-Year War,’ it was worthy of being a Duchy House heirloom.

【The Thousand-Year War】

It was a war that lasted for a long time between humans and monsters over territory, beginning simultaneously with the start of the continent’s history.

Beyond the Northern Tundra where blizzard storms blow year-round, the ruler of the White Forest called the end of the world.

The Demon Dragon, Kaiseus.

When humans established nations and built civilizations, Kaiseus began sending out armies of monsters.

The reason was unknown.

Humans took up weapons to survive, and at their forefront was the Lunein Duke from a thousand years ago.

The war that began this way continued for as long as a thousand years.

‘I don’t know about blessings, but….’

‘But?’

‘There could be a curse.’

When I was startled and tried to remove the ring, Shubel chuckled softly and added that it was a joke.

Honestly, I almost hit him.

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