Who Regressed the Timekeeper? (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 61

“…What do you mean by that?”

When Amy wore a puzzled expression, Noah fell silent for a moment before slowly beginning to speak.

“You know, Noah, people’s pity is a sweet poison.”

Born a princess and oppressed by her father, the king, all her life, my mother said the world changed the moment she met Father. Though she stood before the Emperor as a tool to seduce him, he readily accepted her.

Father was Mother’s only breathing space, she said. Though later, that very thing choked her instead.

“Your father pitied me like one pities a beast caged and wasting away. But foolish me, I mistook it for affection and eagerly drank it up.”

Do you know what happens when you drink seawater out of thirst? You die even faster. Whispering this, Mother, wasting away in illness, left her last words to Noah.

“When I die, you’ll become pitiful.”

With a withered, bony hand, Mother stroked her son.

“Maybe even beyond pitiful—miserable. The Empress Consort isn’t swayed by emotions.”

Mother gazed sorrowfully at her son, who would be left alone in this vast palace.

“Many will approach you. And they’ll try to strip your flesh and bones.”

Who is there to protect you? Now you have no one. The Emperor, your father, forgot about us long ago.

He was the kind of man who’d pick up a stray animal, wash and feed it, then lose interest once it grew plump.

“You need to learn how to read people.”

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