The Tyrant's Terminally-Ill Childhood Friend (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 81

Lowell momentarily doubted her own ears. She might have even wanted to deny it. What she had just heard was simply incomprehensible—too absurd to accept at face value.

The current emperor was Peter, yet he had been erasing the Hessen family records?

Did that even make sense? Peter had never forgotten her. He missed her so deeply that he remembered even the smallest, seemingly insignificant preferences she once had. Peter was the only person in the world who still remembered ‘Lowell,’ whose existence had been utterly wiped from the world.

Then why would Peter erase the Hessen family records?

“I imagine it’s hard to believe. It’s widely known—and true—that the Emperor has never forgotten Lowell Hessen.”

“…Yes. I know that better than you do. I’m certain of it.”

Peter had never forgotten Lowell. Peter still loved Lowell.

Of all things, this was the one truth Lowell could swear her life on.

Yet Karim effortlessly denied even that.

“You’re right. The Emperor never forgot Lowell Hessen. But doesn’t that very reason make it more likely that he tried to erase her?”

“…What did you say?”

“The Emperor’s magic is the power to erase existence itself. Few people know the details of this, but I do.”

To erase existence meant precisely that—to wipe away any trace that the subject had ever existed in this world.

Karim added that the Emperor had collected all Hessen family records and that, ever since, not a single mention of them had surfaced again. Records erased by the Emperor’s power vanished entirely from everyone’s memory—even the fact that they had ever existed.

“But by sheer chance, I overheard the Emperor erasing those records, so I was able to retain the memory. It seems the memory of the records themselves and the memory of the act of erasing them are treated separately.”

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