I Was Just Having Fun With The Time Limit – Chapter 155

Chapter 155

I laughed lightly.

“Isn’t everyone being too serious?”

There was no reason for these people to become serious at the same time.

It’s probably related to my lifespan, which has only 10 years left.

“I wish Karin-seonsaengnim would tell me soon. What if I die quickly because I’m curious?”

“Please don’t say that.”

I was trying to make a joke, but Karin was as strict and serious as ever.

It seemed like making another joke would be a big deal.

“I roughly understand what it is. So, tell me comfortably. I need it anyway.”

“According to Beksa-gyeong’s records, the magic is in the realm of Transcendental Magic and requires divine power.”

“Divine power?”

“It says that it needs the breath of God, which even dragons can’t handle.”

It was expressed euphemistically as breath, but I could tell what it was.

“The Mark of Narvidal?”

A curse given by God, which even dragons can’t handle.

It seemed to mean the Mark of Narvidal.

Viaton-gyeong said cautiously.

“As you know, Your Highness, my mother also received the Mark of Narvidal.”

I remember that time.

Viaton-gyeong cried like a child who lost his mother.

Even now, when I recall that time, it hurts as much as being stabbed in the chest with an awl.

“So, she left behind a lot of research related to it.”

The death of Viaton-gyeong’s mother.

As the story related to it came out, I also became solemn.

Ah, so this is why people’s expressions darkened.

I think I understand a little bit why people become so solemn when they talk about my remaining lifespan.

“Okay. There will be no problem. I’m the one who received the breath of God, which even dragons can’t handle. Oh really, don’t make those faces. Nothing will change just because you’re sad now. We have to do what we can do today.”

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Isabel began to learn a magic called ‘Dimensional Displacement Barrier’ with three teachers.

Thanks to her innate magical talent and mathematical understanding, which were comparable to Beksa’s, the training wasn’t too difficult.

Especially, Viaton and Karin were once again surprised by Isabel’s genius.

Meanwhile, Johen, the First Training Officer of the Black Whale, summoned Arun.

“Arun.”

Arun, who was meditating in a lotus position, opened his eyes.

And he got up from his seat.

“I apologize, I didn’t know you came in.”

Currently, he is an apprentice knight of the Black Whale.

No matter how noble his original status was, it didn’t matter.

Grand Duke Arun politely showed respect to Johen, who was from a fallen noble family.

“His Majesty the Emperor has summoned you.”

“His Majesty the Emperor?”

Arun tilted his head.

Why would the Emperor, the one above all, call an apprentice knight like him?

Johen sighed deeply.

“What kind of trouble have you been causing?”

“I don’t remember causing any trouble.”

“It seems like you have violated some imperial order.”

“……”

Arun thought silently.

But he had no way of knowing what imperial order he had violated.

“I don’t know.”

“Think about it quickly. There’s a difference between being punished knowing why and being punished without knowing.”

Johen sighed deeply again.

Actually, he liked Arun very much.

He thought Arun would have grown up like a flower in a greenhouse, but he was diligently carrying out the Black Whale’s difficult training.

If there was a flaw, it was that he was taciturn and blunt, but Johen liked that too.

As a knight, the lighter the feet and the heavier the mouth, the better.

As a training officer in charge of apprentice knights, Johen thought with Arun.

‘Surely it can’t be this, right?’

Recently, Viaton did write an official document and deliver an imperial order.

The content was so funny that everyone took it lightly.

‘Oh, no way.’

Just in case, he checked.

“Have you had a conversation with Princess Isabel recently?”

“I haven’t had a conversation with her.”

Should that be called a conversation?

There was a gap between what Arun thought was a conversation.

A conversation is an exchange of highly intelligent beings, sharing each other’s emotions and experiences.

Arun decided not to consider the conversation he had with Isabel as a conversation.

It was too empty to be called a conversation.

“I knew it, right? Then what is it?”

“We won’t know until we face it, will we? I’ll go right away.”

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“As I always say, you don’t have to go if you don’t want to.”

Viaton-gyeong said, looking at me with warm eyes.

Suddenly, I felt regretful.

“Why don’t you pat my head these days?”

“Because you’re not a child anymore, Your Highness.”

Viaton-gyeong was smiling brightly, but I definitely saw it.

Viaton-gyeong’s eyes wavered just now.

“They’re definitely eyes that want to pat my head, aren’t they?”

“That’s not true. I can’t just touch Your Highness’s head carelessly.”

“It’s okay to touch it.”

Although I’ve matured physically, I’m still 10 years old.

In Korea, 10 years old is still a child.

These days, the adults around me seem to be studying quite deeply about ‘childcare’.

For example, rules to follow according to developmental stages, things to be careful of, and so on.

It seems like they are studying such things separately, and it seems that there is also content about being careful with physical touch.

I don’t not understand it, but it’s still disappointing.

“You can pat it.”

Of course, that doesn’t mean I want just anyone to pat my head.

It’s good because it’s Viaton-gyeong.

“I understand. I’ll consider it. Anyway, are you going again today?”

Every Tuesday.

I visited Sermon’s room and talked with him for a certain amount of time.

“I’ll go. And Seonsaengnim, I don’t hate Sermon-oppa that much anymore.”

At that time, Sermon was being controlled by Duke Bladock’s Blood Magic.

Despite that, I couldn’t forgive Sermon at first.

To be precise, I couldn’t get out of the sadness of losing Honey unless I hated Sermon, even if it was Sermon.

I needed some reason why I had to lose Honey.

“Then let’s go.”

I headed to Sermon’s room with Viaton-gyeong.

Sermon is currently confined to the ‘Maze Palace’, which is located in the most remote part of the Imperial Palace.

As the name suggests, it is a place where the outside of the palace is surrounded by a maze.

It was designed to allow the royal family to escape in case they needed to evacuate.

Now it is being used as Sermon’s prison.

So that Sermon, who has become an idiot, cannot escape carelessly.

“I’m here.”

Sermon jumped up from the bed.

He smiled brightly at me.

They say that when I’m not there, Sermon stares blankly outside like an emotionless doll.

He shows hostility as soon as a maid or someone approaches him.

Thanks to that, even the people in charge of Sermon’s meals are composed of knights above a certain level.

They say that ordinary people might get traumatized by Sermon’s aura.

“You didn’t bully anyone again, did you?”

“I’ve been waiting only for you.”

Unfortunately, Sermon’s wrists and ankles were bound with restraints made of steel.

He got up, but he couldn’t come closer to me anymore.

“Aren’t the restraints uncomfortable?”

“They are uncomfortable. But Isabel said I shouldn’t kill people.”

What he meant was that Sermon sometimes suffers from an unknown anxiety.

When he feels that way, it’s like someone whispers in his ear, ‘Kill’.

He couldn’t suppress that feeling, so they forcibly put restraints on him.

“I didn’t kill anyone.”

“Good job.”

Sermon sat on the edge of the bed.

It seemed like he wanted me to come and sit next to him.

I was still scared of being next to Sermon, but I went next to him anyway.

It’s the only time he regains his vitality for an hour after being dazed all week.

“Oppa, why do you only wait for this time?”

“Because only this time is precious.”

“What about other times?”

“They’re meaningless.”

One week.

Only one hour out of 168 hours is precious, he said.

That happens to be the time he meets me.

“Why is the time you meet me meaningful?”

“I like Isabel.”

“……”

I wasn’t happy with the words that he liked me.

This wasn’t normal affection.

It wasn’t that he liked me because he really liked me, but it felt like he liked me relatively because there were so many bad things in the world.

It felt like a young child who had never experienced anything good.

‘This can’t go on like this.’

I’ve been thinking about it for the past few months.

I couldn’t leave Sermon like this.

‘Dad and Mom are also looking for ways in their own way, but……’

In the end, there was no harvest for a year.

‘I know how to cure Sermon.’

It was a thought I came up with only recently.

After the Terminally Ill Villainess Dies>.

Maria would be able to cure Sermon.

However, Maria is a character who appears in the second half of the novel, and based on the flow of the novel, she is a character who will be active about 15 years from now.

When she joined Arun, she was 44 years old, so I think she would be around her late 20s now.

‘She’ll be hiding her power and living now, right?’

No one would know about Maria’s existence at this point in time.

It was a fact that only I, the reader, knew.

She’ll probably be living an ordinary life in a small mountain village somewhere in Sky Island.

Thoroughly hiding her abilities.

“I’ll come again next time.”

“Yes, I’ll be waiting.”

“Don’t wait too long, and do what you have to do, Oppa.”

“My job is to wait for Isabel.”

“……”

Sermon smiled brightly at me and then obediently went to bed and lay down.

When I glanced back, there was no vitality in his eyes again.

The thought of him lying down like a doll all week made my heart ache again.

‘At this time, you’ll be at the training ground, right?’

I immediately headed to Dad’s personal training ground.

‘Huh? He’s not here?’

Just in case, I went to his office.

“Huh? Ababanima is in his office?”

“……Is it strange for the Emperor to be in his office?”

It was unfamiliar, but it wasn’t that strange.

“But there’s something really strange. Why is Arun Gongja here?”

Why are the Emperor and an apprentice knight having a private meeting?

It’s difficult for them to be in the same place due to their status.

‘Arun seems a bit troubled?’

I couldn’t help but be sensitive about Arun.

Arun must never be bullied.

He’s the main character of this novel!

“What’s going on? Is Ababanima bullying Arun Gongja by any chance?”