The Youngest Hides a Lot - Chapter 312

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Side Story, Chapter 38
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!”
“Why, why are you hitting me?”
“Such a thing exists!”
Rubian pummeled Leviathan’s forearm with rapid strikes before hastily preparing to complete the Time Warp.
‘Ah, wait. Before that….’
Rubian whispered softly into Kalid’s ear.
Leviathan was curious, but this was a secret from her troublemaking father.
‘I’ll send Father first, and then I….’
There was one last thing I needed to do.
The Time Warp, which I had thought would be simple, proved far more grueling than expected.
It wasn’t merely due to the warp error caused by Rosetta’s false diary.
It was because witnessing her past from beside her had been far sadder than I anticipated. Fortunately, that past was resolving in a positive direction, but….
In truth, Rosetta’s life was only just beginning.
‘When I leave this place, it ends for me.’
But Mother, who will remain here….
Rubian gazed toward the distant place where Rosetta should be.
After all, the time in this place and the time in reality operate at different rates.
So even if I spent another ten minutes here, the arrival time would differ by only a few seconds—Leviathan would never notice.
“Father! Let’s hurry back. Right now!”
At those words, Leviathan nodded and prepared the Time Warp.
Rubian moved swiftly.
Whoooosh—!
Light flashed brilliantly. Rather than leap into the magic circle together, Rubian and Kalid locked eyes, nodded once more, and sprinted toward the place they had yet to visit.
And minutes later.
If you were to become an omnipotent master of spacetime,
would the place you wish to go be the future,
or the past?
Concluding past-oriented Time Warp
Remaining time: □□□□■
[Parting Message]
Farewell is not eternal separation, is it?
“Please! Never time travel again! You’re obsolete! Completely obsolete!”
Thus, maintaining a slight distance from Leviathan, Rubian and Kalid safely returned to reality.
In the space Rubian had vacated, only the final message window remained, floating idly.
Hahaha
Can’t get rid of me!
* * *
The Commander fell at the hands of women.
Driven like a rabbit through the Forest, he met the most agonizing and brutal of deaths.
She deliberately avoided using the weapons she had grown accustomed to.
Good weapons were unnecessary.
Rosetta used only the dullest, most corroded and crude weapons she could find.
“Aaahhh, aaaahhhhh!”
So he would meet the most agonizing death imaginable.
Whoooosh—!
Her enraged comrades burned him to ash, leaving not even a corpse behind.
It was exactly how the Commander had disposed of his own men.
They returned and shattered The Wall with their bare hands.
The Zebert knights had urged them to use artillery, but they demolished The Wall with their own hands, their own blades, their own arrows.
Leviathan, who had arrived by then, commanded that no one else step forward.
Crrrumble….
The ancient Wall crumbled to dust.
So anticlimactically.
Yet so rightfully.
Leviathan gazed long upon Rosetta’s silhouette as she watched The Wall collapse to its very end.
He etched that image into his memory.
“Explosion, it’s an explosion!”
“My lord! The explosives and magical artifacts the Commander possessed are detonating!”
“You must evacuate now!”
Leviathan wrapped his hand around Rosetta’s.
“Rosetta. We need to get out of here.”
Boom! Boom boom!
The Mercenary Unit Underground, the building, and various parts of Biltain were burning and exploding.
“The memorial box?”
“…I’m sorry.”
Rosetta’s eyes widened.
“It wasn’t where you said it would be. The Commander must have stored it somewhere else.”
“That can’t be! You said you put it in the Vault Room!”
The knights’ urgent shouts echoed around them.
Leviathan gritted his teeth.
“Rose, it’s too dangerous to stay here any longer. I’ll send people later to find it for certain….”
He murmured with desperate urgency.
“For now, trust me and come with me.”
“….”
Rosetta bit her lip hard.
Boom boom!
The explosions continued. Hearing the blasts, the Demon Beasts that had been sleeping below were said to be descending.
“Rose.”
“…Understood.”
Rosetta vowed to return and left that place for now.
‘I’m sorry.’
Leviathan drove his horse at full speed out of Biltain.
‘You’ll have no reason to come here again.’
That keepsake box would be reduced to dust inside the building that was exploding by now. He had disposed of the key in an appropriate location as well.
He couldn’t let her see that terrible letter.
Even if this meant that someday… she might come to resent him.
Never.
‘It’s better for you to hate me than for you to hate yourself.’
He couldn’t bear to watch Rosetta, yearning for her mother’s affection, fall into despair.
After that day.
Rosetta sent people to Biltain countless times.
She even went to search directly with Leviathan, but they never found the keepsake box.
She gradually learned to accept it.
She occasionally asked Leviathan about the key’s existence, and nodded when he said he was keeping it safe.
After more time passed, she stopped wondering about the key altogether.
More important matters had begun to fill her life.
Rosetta first abandoned the Braum name. Then she was adopted into the household of a count who was Ballock’s old friend. It was meant to fabricate her identity, but for the first time, a sense of stability came to her.
Her adoptive father was a kind man.
His cautious affection felt somewhat awkward at first. But like clothes soaked by drizzle, she gradually grew accustomed to it.
Her comrades with nowhere to go, she took in as her maidservant and maid.
“Are you really satisfied with this? There might be a better life out there.”
“We were always going to trust and follow only you anyway, weren’t we? Didn’t you know that loitering by your side is our joy? Ah, but now you’re something else.”
Hazel laughed with a grin.
“What about a lord? Lady is a bit… ticklish for us.”
“But who’s the maidservant and who’s the maid? The maidservant at least sounds a bit more dignified!”
“Want to draw lots?”
“…Can we really decide it that way?”
“Well, it’s not like we’re deciding a successor with rock-paper-scissors or anything…”
The sound of her comrades’ laughter was pleasant to hear.
Time passed quickly.
She learned and mastered noble life rapidly.
Using her adoptive father’s support as a stepping stone, she entered society. That world was another battlefield, but… for someone who had experienced real war, it was nothing more than eating cold soup.
And on the day when the sun shone brightest and most beautifully.
A grand wedding ceremony for two people was held.
It was a magnificent wedding procession that stirred the entire Empire.
Married life was truly as sweet as a dream. Rosetta tasted genuine happiness by Leviathan’s side.
The fruit of that happiness…
Came far sooner than expected.
“I’m pregnant.”
Clang!
Leviathan jolted upright from his meal.
He pulled her into his embrace and kissed her for a very long time.
Another person I absolutely had to protect had appeared.
That brought me such joy.
“Do you think it will be a young master or a young lady?”
On a drowsy afternoon.
Hazel asked Rosetta, who was gently stroking her swelling belly.
Rosetta giggled softly and drew out, “Well… I’m not sure.”
But then, quite suddenly.
“…I have a feeling it will be a daughter.”
Such an intuition came to me.
“Really? How could you possibly know that?”
“…Well, I don’t know. But it’s just a feeling. This child is a daughter.”
Daughters were rare in the Northern Region.
So everyone naturally assumed it would be a son.
Only Rosetta insisted it would be a daughter, gathering all manner of items for a baby girl.
“What could it be, little one? Did you ever give me a hint?”
Sway, sway.
Rosetta, sitting in the comfortable chair, chuckled softly.
Warm sunlight wrapped pleasantly around her entire body.
In that coziness, my eyelids slowly descended.
A drowsy sleep began to pour over me.
‘Now that I think about it…’
That day.
On the way back after killing the Commander.
Didn’t I meet someone?
“Sister!”
“You…!”
“I, I really don’t have much time now. But there’s something I absolutely must tell you!”
Boom, boom. Explosions erupted without pause.
The child’s silver hair traced a crimson outline. I couldn’t quite remember her face… what color were her eyes?
“Sister, you’re going to become the happiest person in the world, truly truly!”
“What are you suddenly talking about?”
“But… there may be times when you feel angry.”
“What?”
“You might feel sad. You might even experience tremendous despair.”
“…What in the world are you saying? Besides, what about the man who was with you?”
“But, even so!”
The child cried out desperately.
“I will definitely come to meet you!”
“….”
“I promise, no matter what happens, I’ll come to meet you! Please don’t be too sad!”
Ah, that blue.
From the very beginning, I thought it was the same blue as my own eyes.
“I love you so much!”
That’s right.
You said you would come to meet me soon.
And I… I am waiting for that.
‘Come quickly.’
My child… my jewel.
The sleeping Rosetta smiled softly.

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