The World Mistakes Me for Terminally Ill - Chapter 83

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The World Thinks I’m Terminally Ill Episode 083

Before participating in the masquerade ball, I first headed to the East to create the persona of a ‘widowed mother with a child.’

Since I had to travel from the Northern Region to the East, then again to the West, I had no choice but to hurry.

The East is a place so closely connected to the sea that most of its major cities are trading ports. Naturally, there were many travelers who had come from foreign countries.

The character I would be playing this time was also a ‘traveler who came to revisit a place filled with memories, together with the child she raised alone after her husband’s death.’

“For that, I need to see what the child looks like first.”

After arriving in the East and renting a luxury inn, I summoned Kaiseus.

Kaiseus whistled and avoided my gaze.

“Kai, you promised.”

[Grrrr, fine…]

Eventually, Kaiseus did a forward roll.

Then.

Flash-!

Along with a pure white light, a seven-year-old boy appeared before my eyes.

Just as he had described, with jet-black hair and brilliant pomegranate-colored eyes-

“Do I look really weird?”

He was a beautiful boy.

I stared at Kaiseus in a daze.

“Gold-gold human! I asked if I look weird!”

Kaiseus, his cheeks flushed with embarrassment, grabbed my sleeve tightly and looked up at me.

As if entranced, I firmly grabbed one of Kaiseus’s cheeks.

Then.

Squishy.

“Perfect.”

“Huh?”

“This touch, this texture.”

“Aren’t touch and texture the same thing?”

Since I decided to call Kaiseus by his nickname ‘Kai’ when he’s in human form, let me refer to him as Kai.

Kai spoke with a pouty expression.

He was cute in his dragon form, but he was incredibly adorable as a human boy too.

I fondled Kai’s squishy cheeks with plenty of personal interest.

‘But he seems to resemble someone.’

After I kept calling him cute, Kai got sulky saying ‘I’m not cute, I’m cool!’ and I stared at him while thinking.

So if I cut those large, clear eyes that were so childlike in half, slim down those squishy cheeks, and sharpen that round jawline until it looked sharp enough to cut…

‘Father?’

Just kidding, but he does seem to resemble Shubel a bit. It’s probably just a coincidence though.

I coaxed and soothed the sulking Kai while giving him instructions.

“But Kai, you can’t call me ‘gold-gold human’ in front of people. You understand, right?”

“Then what should I call you?”

“You have to call me mom.”

Kai fidgeted as if flustered.

“I’m not mentally prepared for that yet…”

“It’s just acting anyway, what’s there to prepare for mentally.”

“…Hmph. Gold-gold human is stupid.”

Kai got sulky again. The heart of a seven-year-old is truly incomprehensible.

In the end, I couldn’t get a definitive answer, so I decided to go with the concept of a very shy child and began my disguise in earnest.

It’s a disguise, not just dressing up, because I need to match the character I’ve created from head to toe.

This is to completely block any possibility of being discovered as ‘Elisia.’

Since it’s a widow concept, I wore a black dress to match. As a point, I added a red flower called a ‘funeral flower.’ I also added long mesh gloves and a black veil.

What I wanted was the image of a ‘mourner.’ Extreme stillness, composure, and melancholy.

Each of these small props was very important because they create the image.

‘Finally, if I prepare a self-defense weapon, it’ll be complete.’

“How is it?”

After finishing my disguise and turning to Kai, he said in a daze.

“You look like a completely different person.”

“That’s what I wanted. Success.”

Using a magic tool, I even dyed my hair a silver color close to white, so my image was completely different from usual.

At this level, unless someone was a serious delusional person, they wouldn’t even come up with the ‘El’ from Elisia.

‘Though it was a semi-forced choice because that guy Erban didn’t think about his own hair and cross-dressed as usual.’

Thus, the character I would disguise as, ‘Ophelia,’ was completed.

I didn’t set a surname separately. Acting should be bold, but if the scope is too wide, it becomes unmanageable.

It’s human psychology to find it strange when everything fits together too perfectly with cause and effect.

I needed to create appropriate gaps so the other party could fill them with their own imagination and misunderstand.

‘By the way, the name was taken from a celebrity of my previous generation and the most famous great actress.’

Though forgotten now, it’s a name that inevitably comes to mind when thinking of the West.

“I don’t want to wear this.”

“Now, now, daddy passed away, won’t you do one last act of filial piety?”

“What does filial piety have to do with a bow tie!”

“Children originally show filial piety through cuteness.”

Kai got sulky again because of the bow tie. He’s really cute, I tell you.

After finishing all preparations, just when we needed to depart for the West, Erban arrived.

“Why are you so late? Shubel is fine, right?”

“Master, I ran all the way here with difficulty. Won’t you tell me I did well?”

Erban grumbled that he felt hurt.

Why are there so many dog-like—in the truly honest sense—men these days.

I had no choice but to pamper Erban until he was satisfied before I could hear the answer.

“Big brother is fine. He’s not coming out because he’s catching some rare monster called Snow Fairy or something.”

Snow Fairy?

I couldn’t help but feel absurd, but decided to think it was fine since he was safe.

After finishing his message delivery, Erban discovered Kai and made a fuss.

“Wow, what a really cute baby young master-“

“I’m not a baby!”

Kai, who was already irritated, immediately growled.

Erban laughed “Ahaha!”

“Anyway, if you’re done preparing, let’s hurry and depart. Master, you’re going to deliberately expose our route, right?”

“Yeah, that way it’ll be easier to escape suspicion even if we’re investigated later.”

“Good. I’ll hide in the surrounding shadows as we discussed beforehand. If you need to call me, send the hand signal we agreed on.”

Erban disappeared.

We disguised ourselves as a ‘widowed mother with child’ party and left traces in the East.

We deliberately wandered around large shopping districts to expose ourselves before heading to the train station.

Oh, you’re wondering how we can take the train without identification since we have fake identities?

“Your train ticket has been confirmed. We hope you have a pleasant journey.”

You didn’t forget that I’m an investor in the Train Guild, did you? Getting tickets under a different name isn’t difficult.

‘A dark mage.’

The vision of the White Forest showing that the future is proceeding according to the original story’s flow, and the appearance of a new mastermind not seen in the original.

I felt as if the world’s fate was swirling and taking me to an unknown future.

Indeed, what is Kaiseus’s true identity, and what did Shubel see in me?

‘Can I change the future?’

While I was lost in thought for a moment, I saw Erban, who was riding on the train roof, hanging upside down from the window to startle Kai.

“Whoa! It’s a monster!”

“Waaah! I hate shiny humans!”

I chuckled softly.

‘Right, this kind of thing doesn’t suit me.’

Whatever happens, I’ll give it my all and face it head-on. And I’ll create the ending I want.

Because the pages of my life are written by none other than myself.

“Erban, stop bothering Kai.”

“Ah, looking at this young master keeps reminding me of someone. That person seemed like they wouldn’t bleed a drop even if stabbed, but this one’s all soft and squishy. Makes me want to mess with him.”

“Eeek, I’m not squishy!”

The bustling noise of train travel that I felt after so long erased the summer silence.

Thanks to that, I was able to completely forget the chill I had felt earlier.

And finally.

“Welcome! We welcome you to Beatrice, the heart of the West!”

We arrived at the location where the mysterious masquerade ball would be held.

The Beatrice Duchy.

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