The Youngest Member Filming a Parenting Show is Adorable - Chapter 192

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【Interlude Chapter 24】
[Yes, that is correct.]
[When one’s existence is erased, it means all information regarding my master’s soul and body ceases to exist in the world outside the mirror.]
[In other words, Kaiser Laximan cannot find my master no matter what methods he employs.]
Iona trembled.
At last, the answer she had longed for had come!
“How is that possible? He is such a powerful wizard.”
My breath came in gasps.
A path to escape from him.
A path to destroy him.
A path to finally thrust him into a torment far worse than death itself.
[This mirror is an artifact bound by ancient sorcery—magic far older than anything the Laximan Family possesses.]
“I’m asking just in case, but is there a condition to free someone trapped in the mirror?”
If such a thing existed, it would be catastrophic.
With Kaiser’s obsession and wealth, he would surely find it.
[If my master becomes trapped in the mirror, I shall be freed.]
Ah, so that was it.
This was the content of the warning inscribed on the mirror’s reverse.
[Alternatively, if the broken shards are reassembled and attached to the original mirror, it can be restored. However, the true body of this mirror lies hidden in the Desert Kingdom Mrascha.]
She caressed the Mirror Shard repeatedly, a soft laugh escaping her lips.
The sea she had desired.
She felt no fear.
So when she became trapped within the Mirror Shard, she would fall into slumber.
Until someone shed blood to awaken her.
Upon awakening that way, she would become bound to the blood’s owner, and it seemed she would answer questions in this manner.
“Good. Then one last thing—do you know what my ability is?”
[Yes. However, it will cost my master her lifespan.]
“Tell me.”
I hoped it would be an offensive ability.
So I could burn that entire household to ash.
But the answer that came back was disappointing this time.
[My master’s ability is not for herself. It activates naturally upon conceiving a child.]
“What does it do?”
[My master’s ability provides a powerful mental barrier to the fetus. However, the moment of conception begins to drain her lifespan at an accelerated rate.]
Ah, so bearing a child could become a form of revenge against Kaiser Laximan as well.
Iona thought this to herself.
She could not pretend to love that child.
But if she would be caught no matter where she fled abroad, it would be better to gnaw away at him from his side.
[After conception, life expectancy will not exceed five years.]
“All the better then. It means the child will live well enough without a mother.”
[Yes. A powerful mental barrier will protect your child from external shocks.]
[Moreover, internal turmoil will be nonexistent or negligible.]
I owed the child an apology.
But truthfully… truthfully, I had no confidence that I could protect and love Kaiser and her child.
‘I’m sorry in advance for using you as a tool for revenge.’
It was absurd to even leave a letter explaining that this was why.
Either way, I would be resented.
If I found a way not to die, I could never love her; if I died, she would grow up blaming herself, thinking it was because of her.
‘Then what if I entered the Mirror before dying?’
Wasn’t that the best method available to me?
Kaiser Laximan would have the child and find happiness.
He would live as though his life held not a single misfortune.
And then, at the very moment when his happiness reached its deepest point.
He would lose his ‘Companion’.
No matter what he did, he would never find her.
Since she wouldn’t be dead, he couldn’t forget her either—he would search for her eternally in vain.
‘You don’t even deserve a funeral, you.’
Was this truly a conclusion I could reach with a sound mind?
Probably not.
‘Yes, I must be mad too.’
I already knew I was broken.
I could think of nothing but revenge—nothing else whatsoever.
I would use everything available to me, and then I would vanish.
They could curse me as a coward, point fingers and ask where else in the world such a wicked mother could exist.
It didn’t matter.
‘Revenge takes time, but yes. This is the answer I found.’
If there were someone in the same situation, I would ask them.
What answer did you find?
How would you act when you can neither forgive nor take immediate revenge?
My answer wasn’t right, but it wasn’t wrong either—I told myself this repeatedly.
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From the next day onward, Kaiser came to find me repeatedly under the pretense of giving me Cecilia’s diary, demanding dates.
I pretended to be reluctant, showing appropriate displeasure as I met with him.
Whenever revulsion welled up, I would scream, grow angry, and strike him—and Kaiser would laugh and take the blows.
In truth, it was also following the Mirror Shard’s advice that if I didn’t act this way, Kaiser would grow suspicious anyway.
Then one day came.
A day when Kaiser could not help but fail to find me.
Something about a nationwide conference of all the Magic Towers established throughout the world.
In any case, I seized that opportunity to purchase a vase of appropriate size and attached multiple Mirror Shards to it.
So that no one would know which one was the crucial Mirror.
So that she couldn’t see the back.
“What is this? I’ve never seen it before.”
“I made it. I thought it would be useful for touching up makeup.”
“Is that so?”
“I’m going to sell it under the name ‘Mirror Vase.’ I’ll make this kind of thing trendy.”
It wasn’t even a request. It was a command.
Still, Kaiser listened to her.
About a year passed like that.
Iona gradually reduced her aggression.
She no longer hurled insults or clawed at him.
She occasionally answered the man who ranted like a madman to himself, and at some point, she began to carry herself as though she had opened her heart to him.
In a certain park where white flowers bloomed in abundance.
It was on an autumn night, beneath moonlight, that Kaiser proposed to her.
“Marry me, darling. I can’t hold back anymore. Let’s live together. I’ll do better from now on. I’ll only do what you like, and I won’t do anything you hate.”
Iona laughed, feeling a cold wind blow even into her heart.
Kaiser, entranced by her smile—so rare, so long absent—stared at her in a daze.
“Do you remember my sister’s name?”
If there were an excuse, it would be this.
Because Iona was so beautiful.
So dazzling, like the goddess of the moon.
So his answer was delayed by mere seconds.
“….”
“You don’t remember?”
“No, I remember. It’s Cecilia. How could I forget a name I must apologize for and atone for my entire life?”
But Iona did not miss those few seconds of silence.
‘He doesn’t know.’
A name she had spilled out again and again, so many times—and he had forgotten it.
Of course he had.
What had she even expected?
“We even visited Cecilia’s Grave together. We’ll go every year, so there’s no way I could forget.”
Kaiser opened his mouth again.
To her ears, it was nothing but an excuse, a justification.
“There are so many women who love you, and they all had their hearts broken.”
She barely managed to speak this far, her lips trembling, before Kaiser grew anxious.
“Should I kill them all?”
Seeing his eyes gleam, Iona realized Kaiser meant it.
“If they bother you, I’ll dispose of them. I can do it without leaving a trace.”
“…Don’t you feel sorry at all?”
“Oh, should I feel sorry? If you say so, I will. I’ll reflect on meeting women carelessly. I’ll go find them all and atone.”
Words spoken without a shred of genuine remorse could never reach her heart.
It was merely deception.
She shook her head quietly.
It was just something she said on a whim.
She wanted to see how far this man’s depravity extended.
To see it clearly before marrying him.
“I will kill you someday, Kaiser Laximan. Are you still willing?”
“I have no intention of dying quietly, so live with me until you succeed in killing me. That should suffice.”
The man who smiled with a pallid grin was indeed beautiful.
Only on the surface.
From his heart emanated the stench of rot.
And so they were married. A truly magnificent wedding—the marriage of the century.

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