I’m not sure if that child is telling the truth right now. It was an important story that could not be believed by just listening to the words of one child.
“Levanfell, take Clint and calm him down.”
“Terialla, what about you?”
“I’ll talk to the children.”
It would be difficult for Clint to grasp realistically if he listened to the conversation now. And ordinary knights couldn’t handle Clint either.
At my gesture, Levanfell nodded and disappeared with Clint.
I called the children together after confirming that Clint and Levanfell were gone. And I asked about the fairy talelike story the child had just told me.
The children all nodded, knowing the story.
The oldestlooking child stepped forward and summarized.
“We haven’t been here long, so we haven’t been experimented on yet. It’s not our turn yet…….”
“Can you tell me in detail?”
“We are called by the ‘fathers’ every day at a certain time…….”
“Fathers?”
“Ah. Those people told us to call them ‘father.'”
My face involuntarily scrunched up.
“They say that they give us new life once the experiment is successful, so it’s no different from parents.”
Like bastards, they’re talking nonsense.
As I muttered a soft curse, the child flinched in surprise but continued calmly, having experienced this before.
“Every day at a certain time, we are called by ‘father.’ And we are experimented on once or twice a day.”
“…….”
“Most of the time, we come back after being experimented on…… but there are many friends who can’t come back.”
“…….”
“So we always pass this necklace to the next child before we go for the experiment. Wishing that even if I can’t survive, you will.”
My heart ached to see the child talking about death with a calm expression.
“Is there no story about the owner of this necklace?”
“……I heard that the owner of the necklace was a noble lady.”
Unknowingly, my eyes turned to where Levanfell and Clint had disappeared.
“She was righteous and tried to save a captured child, but she was caught with them.”
It was similar to the Tenen Young Lady’s kidnapping case I had heard. Then, it was highly likely that the Tenen Young Lady was really kidnapped here.
“Did you by any chance hear what happened next?”
The thought that the Tenen Young Lady might have been used in this experiment… No, it’s impossible. If the Tenen Young Lady was used in this experiment, they wouldn’t have returned her body to Clint.
There would certainly be traces left on the corpse. They wouldn’t have just returned it.
“……Didn’t I tell you earlier that I twisted my ankle trying to escape and a dead sister was there?”
“Ah…….”
I closed my eyes tightly.
The body mutilated by wild beasts. And the reason why it was deliberately left under the cliff at the entrance to the back mountain.
I felt like I knew now. They had to disguise it as an accidental fall and hoped that there would be no other traces on the body.
The righteous and proactive young lady who resembled her father was caught here. But she never gave up hope and tried to escape until finally…….
‘What about the lady?’
I was told that the lady was also definitely lying next to Young Lady’s corpse. This meant that the bastards who led Young Lady to death dared to touch the Countess.
‘The bastards dared to….’
I gritted my teeth and clenched my fist. Then I heard the child’s weak voice.
“……So I naturally thought it was a fictitious story.”
The child let out a desolate laugh.
“Why would a noble lady with nothing lacking try to save a child like us and get caught together? It’s an impossible story. ……I thought it was a madeup story that someone created so that we could have hope, like some unbelievable hero.”
The child who had laughed desolately soon choked and dropped thick, transparent tears like pearls.
“But it was true? It wasn’t a lie, but something that really happened?”
“……Perhaps.”
“Then, then.”
The child clenched the necklace tightly with both hands.
“The saying that salvation is coming is also true? That we can live without dying, is it also true?”
The child breathed heavily, shuddering their shoulders. It seemed that the thought of letting the children rest away from the scene had come first, and the current situation had not been explained.
From the children’s point of view, it must have seemed like one day knights suddenly stormed in and kept interrogating them.
It must have felt no different from the hell they were trapped in all along and the bastards who were always overbearing like ‘fathers.’
“Yes. It’s true. We came to save you.”
At that word, the gathered children tightly held hands. Cheeks flushed from the cold came together and looked like a spark of hope.
The fear of being sold somewhere else had filled their dead eyes, and a brilliant dawn spread at those words.
“Don’t worry. No one in this empire can touch you without my command.”
The children did not readily trust the adult. As if they did not want to go through the many wounds they had received again.
“I swear on my worthless name. My name is Teriella Leonharta.”
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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