Chapter 180
Chapter 180 It was after the ‘real’ Rose came back. Rose became cruel without hesitation. She wasn’t the Rose Dylan remembered. So he naturally doubted. ‘She might not be Rose.’ Rose doesn’t do that. The Rose he knew was… But then he saw her crying alone, and he thought otherwise.Rose was weak when she was alone.She leaned in a corner where no one was looking and sobbed quietly. Why? Why are you crying?‘Maybe she hasn’t changed.’ Maybe I just haven’t accepted you for who you are.But then I suddenly had a question. I’m the one Yurtha put cursed on, so why didn’t it hurt when I was by your side? Could it be that Yurtha was fooled by the fake and made a mistake so bad that it hurts to be around the fake? Still… <Dylan.> She’s crying. <Don’t betray me.> <You trust me, don’t you?> I promised I would never be fooled by a fake, but I shouldn’t have been. “I am a fake, impersonating a savior!”Still, I don’t know why my body went out of control towards that crazy woman. Before Dylan could even think about it, he quickly pulled the woman who was making crazy noises. “A fake impersonating the Savior?” “I saw that notice! Someone is pretending to be the savior…” “Catch her now!” Dylan quickly picked up the woman, carried her, and pushed through the crowd. I hid the woman in my arms and ran away from the people who were chasing them. Only after entering an empty alleyway did Dylan put the woman down. “Are you crazy? Are you out of your mind? What are you thinking in front of other people…!” “You were the one who tried to expose me as a fake in front of everyone, Dylan.”Dylan was speechless. Why the hell did he do that? “Why did you save me?” “……” “If you hadn’t saved me, you would have gotten what you wanted.” “…….” He can’t answer any of her questions.He doesn’t know the answer either. He doesn’t know why looking at her doesn’t make him think.So he impulsively asks her. “If you are real… why aren’t you running away anymore, and why did you cross Lord Ruad?”“Isn’t that the same thing with the Savior? She didn’t run away, either.” “… Answer me.” The woman paused for a moment. “I told you, I remembered.” That was her answer. As if that was the answer to everything.“Do you remember the day you saved me from killing myself?” “… I remember.” How could I forget that day? The night she’d lulled me with her sweet words, the night she’d fallen senseless on the terrace. “Do you remember the trip I took with my mom after I got better?” “I remember.” She’d left to recuperate and waited dumbly for Rose to return. “Until I saw ‘That’ on the trip, I was just thinking of telling Celine that I wasn’t her real daughter.” Thinking about that time, she smiled as if frustrated. “Since long ago, I have often seen wounds on my mother’s body. I still remember the day I went on her trip with her mom.” “…….” “I saw scars all over my mother’s body.” “…….” “There are also marks that appear to have been sewn recently. Isn’t it strange? Why is the body of a woman who lives as an aristocrat full of scars?” The woman’s voice was strong with anger, and her pace quickened.Her eyes flashed. “It was then that I realized I’m going to save this woman. She can’t die here.” “…….” “But I failed. Because Yurtha killed her, I couldn’t save her.” The woman’s mouth twisted. Her pale complexion was so pitiful that he wanted to pull her into a hug.Dylan was overcome with the urge to reach out to her. “I ran away from you last night and got caught up in a disappearance in the village at dawn. I saw them making sacrifices and it reminded me of my mother.” My head was pounding. The woman he thought was a stranger is now pitiful and miserable. She was the poor Rose he knew. “My mom was sacrificed for profit, just like the others, and she died at Yurtha’s hands.” “…… ” “That’s why I decided to step in.”The woman’s eyes flushed. He wanted to call a woman’s name. And he desperately wanted to give her consolation. That moment. <Don’t be fooled.> I remembered what ‘Rose’ had said. <Don’t betray me.> Dylan was no longer lost.His mind was as white as a sheet of paper and he didn’t know what to do.In the end, he ran away, terrified. ***** Capturing the lord’s castle was very easy. After leaving the castle, he hurriedly sent a letter to the Emperor through a knight. It was quite a distance from the Ruad Territory to the Imperial Palace, but I was able to get there quickly by using the moving magic circle. In the letter, what the Lord Ruad had done was written. The lord, who had been tricked into thinking Rose was his savior, opened his mouth easily, so I was able to reach all the secret corners.The contents of the letter can be summarized in a single sentence. ‘The lord is plotting treason.’ The emperor was not surprised by the news.Using his position as head of the Paladins, it was only a matter of time before orders were issued to punish Lord Ruad. And just like that, things went smoothly.I thought so… Rose is not in the castle. Richard, who had been searching the castle, hardened his expression when she wasn’t there. Had she been captured? “Sir, they say there’s someone impersonating the Savior around the castle.” One of the knights, who had been following Rose’s trail like a mouse, came back with a startling report. “The notice just came. It seems that a poster has been put up on the Ruad estate saying that there is someone pretending to be the savior.” “…….” “Not long after that, it is said that there was someone in front of the castle shouting saying she’s impersonating the Savior.” When he heard the knight’s report, Richard’s expression softened. “… Where did that person who pretended to be the savior go?” “A brown-haired man appeared and took her….” The more I listened to the story, the more certain I had become. Richard left the job to another knight and hurriedly left the castle. I ran in the direction where Rose disappeared. After searching for a while, he found them in a dark alleyway.A woman with tears in her eyes and a man with tears in his eyes. It was Rose and Dylan Herthas. Realizing they were together, I rushed to run after them, but stopped when I felt a strange air current.Rose looked like she wanted to grab him. But he ran away, leaving her behind. Left alone, she burst into tears.She looked very miserable.Richard felt sorry for her, but the sight of her twisted his heart. She was about to leave his side without a word.An ugly twinge of jealousy stirred in him, knowing it was a side of him, he would never show her. “Rose.” When I called her, the woman turned around helplessly. A sign of boredom crossed her eyes when she found him following her to the end. “Why are you here?” “I’m here because we agreed to meet.” “Okay. Now let’s part ways.” “You said you wouldn’t hate me if I was good and listened to you. So, I did everything you told me, and now you’re going to abandon me?”“I didn’t abandon you. I said I wouldn’t hate you. Now, I don’t hate you anymore. Okay?” She spread her hands wide open. As if that was the end of this relationship. One corner of his mouth turned up at an angle. I reached out and overlapped her outstretched hand with mine. As they interlocked, her eyebrows shot up as if to ask what he was doing. “It’s really hard to resist.” “…….” “The more I think about it, the more I want to lock you up, but what can I do? Shall I just lock you up?”