It was shortly after the birth when I regained my consciousness.

I knew it sounded a little strange, but it really was a day ago when I was born. Until then, everything I am was sunk deep into the water as if it were a dream.

My last memory, vague but barely at the end, was the fact that a strange man stabbed me in my stomach with a sharp knife, and I died after I was rendered unable to resist the ruthless hand of the man I saw for the first time.

Oh, Seriously! Come on! Even when you die of motiveless crime?

“Baw-”

I opened my mouth in frustration, but what came out was not a proper word. I just wanted to say, ‘This is so annoying,’ but instead, I frowned at the feeling of my toothless gums hitting each other.

What’s up with this weird voice?

That was when I realized. Oh, that’s right. I was a baby now. I felt somehow miserable. As soon as one died, reincarnation would come afterward.

“Oh, when did my princess wake up?”

I know right, but when did he come in?

I felt a hand hugging my body and I instantly reacted by yawning for no reason. In fact, I couldn’t tell whether it was night or day because my eyesight was so blurry. Of course, I had been getting better after a few days.

When did I wake up?

I didn’t even know when I woke up.

I was already feeling drowsy even after sleeping the entire day. Like, a lot. What was the point of sleeping if one would still feel sleepy after they woke up? Even after a peaceful respite, I was relieved when I slept again.

Oh no, my sleepiness struck me again.

Even so, I was glad no one said anything to me when I slept all day.

Speaking of sleeping, should I sleep again?

I closed my eyes again, which won’t open well, and I smelled something delicious. Ugh, now I felt that a scent was delicious. It’s over. I was really a baby now. When I opened my eyes, it was what I thought.

The milk.

The repulsion lasted only for a moment. My body reacted even though I knew it’s mother’s milk. I’m hungry. I ate hard because I couldn’t even open my eyes at first, but now I can open them! Still, the situation has not changed much. Yeah, I should eat it. What am I supposed to do?

At least this tasted good though. I was busy sucking what had been passed on to my mouth and filling my stomach. I didn’t know how I reincarnated, but it’s different to experience a baby’s life in action… No! What the hell am I doing!?

“You don’t have to be in such a hurry. Yes, that’s right.”

I got curious about this sweet language filling my ears. I’m sure babied learned languages as they grew. A newly-born child could not know the human language, but somehow their voices were always automatically interpreted to me.

Was that Korean? That can’t be true though.

“Princess, my princess.”

The lady patted me on the back as I finished eating. She was asking me to burp. I would like to do it quickly, but what could I do when I couldn’t even hold my neck? This body is my body, but I couldn’t handle it the way I wanted to.

“Princess…”

Oh, seriously! Why do you keep calling me that!

She called me with that pathetic-sounding voice, and when someone heard it, they will think I was dying. I also felt like I was a serious patient who died after hearing that voice.

Yes, do not worry. I’m fine here, nanny.

The nanny smiled at my little gesture. I was glad to notice it was a smile.

On a side note though, since they called me a princess, I thought my name was ‘Princess’ or I was a child of a noble house. However, I was a real princess.

Oh my, what kind of twist is this?

Oh, but a bigger twist was lurking elsewhere. I wanted to be born in a really happy royal family, but now that I was born a princess,…

“Your Majesty!”

Oh, he said he’d be here in two days, but he was already here. I grabbed the hem of the nanny’s dress in amazement. The nanny also stood in amazement with a pale face. The burf was back on its way. Oh, my.

“Y, Your Majesty!”

So I was reincarnated. I didn’t know the name of this body I currently used. Anyway, I was born under a huge responsibility, but I had a problem. My biological father was a bloodthirsty tyrant, Emperor Caitel.

Caitel Agregiant.

He was the handsome guy who came in with him.

“Glory to Evangelium.”

As soon as I saw the Emperor’s heel, my nanny held me as she bent her knees. However, his scarlet red eyes did not even look at her.

You are him.

The main character of the story I had been hearing all week. I had never seen him before. However, it didn’t feel like I was seeing it for the first time.

Is it because I have heard so much about him?

Suddenly, the air that had cooled down in this room turned into tension. I tried to straighten my back even though it does not make any difference.

There was only eye contact, but my body was shaking. Those were unbelievably threatening eyes to use while looking at a child; no, his own daughter. The fierce look held me back in tears.

This madman will kill me if I cry.

His maddened eyes were as red as blood. Silver hair with a tint of red which looked like tanned oars fell like snow, and its beauty was magnificent enough to be praised as heavenly creatures.

Yes, this was that man. This felt wrong in my first meeting with my father, but I had no choice but to look up with a face full of discontent.

So this handsome man in front of me was the Emperor of Agrient Empire and my father. He was a tyrant called the Mad Emperor of the Empire who toppled over ten kingdoms within five years of his reign and built up this United Empire.

Oh, God.

“…”

The heavy silence subsided. An expressionless and cool, insensitive eyes gazed at me with arrogance.

Those eyes looking down at me made me thirsty for no reason. Was this an effect of too much pressure?

“This is my child?”

At the moment, the tip of his lips twisted and a long stretch of eyelashes covered his eyes. Only then did the air weighing on me grew a bit lighter.

Ha, that God-like beauty doesn’t suit to be placed on the face of such a madman.

My cheeks swelled by itself. It was easy to tell because my cheek was chubby.

He laughed at the sight of it.

“Y, your Majesty!”

“Your Majesty!!”

Along with the voice of the bewildered nanny, I could hear the voice of another man. However, I didn’t have the chance to see what the new man looked like.

It was because on my neck, yes, I had a big hand on my neck.

I took a short breath.

I stared at the pupil of the fellow who held my neck. His eyes were looking down at me and it was more threatening to look up at him. However, the fear it induced was not enough to kill me.

It’s just, it’s just…

Oh, I could not believe this fellow was my father.

My new life was already 90% sh*t.

I sighed with lamentation and tears in my heart.

I could hear a particularly small breath of a child.

He must have heard it too. The emperor’s eyes were showing a bright brilliance. It seemed strange that I did not react to him even though he held my neck with a hand. That was weird for me too.

“…Your Majesty.”

I could hear a flustered voice behind him.

I felt pathetic hearing that flustered voice. Well, that was normal though. Anyway, I could not believe I am this calm even after facing an immediate threat to my life. Was it because of my experience of being dead once already?

What is the matter with me!?

I guess it was because I gave up this life as soon as I was born.

Phew… those terrible rumors about him. Fundamentally, he massacres people on a daily basis, and he is a madman who killed all the women he slept with. There would be no difference even for his child.

Yeah, if he would kill me, then do it quick. His eyes, that was not a father’s eyes. Oh, my life. What is the point of being reborn when that fellow was my father? I had not sold my country out of my previous life. If it’s not like that then why is my life like this now!?

“Ariadna.”

Caitel’s lips, which had been holding my neck still for a long time, moved. Suddenly, the cold hand holding my neck disappeared. He grinned as I shook my head against the sudden vacancy.

“Let’s call it that.”

This was the first encounter between a mad tyrant and his only daughter.

. . .

A baby’s life is monotonous. Eat, sleep, eat, sleep, eat, sleep, and repeat.

Yeah, that was really the end of the day. So whether my father came or not was none of my concern, I laid down the cradle because I had to stick to my daily routine. The sweet, fragrant of the fluffy quilt tickled the tip of my nose.

The nanny who was patting me on the back until the burp came out again, was now smiling at me. Her face was filled with relief.

“You did great, my princess. If you burst into tears there, your throat would have blown away. Very nice.”

That is true, but I could not help but get angry. Wow, was she talking to the baby about that? It was so unfair, but I could not speak, I did not have teeth, and above all, I was a baby! Boo-Hoo!

“Come on, you should sleep.”

I hate you! I hate you! I hate it!

I closed my eyes as I glanced at Serira, my nanny who was only twenty-three years old.

Fine. I am going to bed since that’s what you told me.

I was twenty-five years old before I died, so no matter how much I tell myself that Serira was my nanny, she still seemed younger than me.

I am screwed.

The fact that my father was infantile, clearly implying my life is already half ruined. The fact that Caitel had already returned from sweeping the southern kingdom of Icharta, told me it had been swept away a long time ago. I did not know what blood smells like, but my nanny told me earlier how the Emperor had the scent of blood around him.

“Can’t you sleep? Would you like me to sing you a lullaby, princess?”

Yeah, sing a song.

I nod, with my sleepy eyes close. It was just that little movement, but Serira smiled after seeing it. She was so pretty when she smiled. I heard she left her child in a family home when she entered the palace. I guess she managed to do it somehow.

“Good night, my baby, in the front yard and in the back garden.”

The familiar lullaby I felt like I heard when I was baby in my previous life blinded my eyes. I did not know if I am sleepy, but, let’s get some sleep. It’s sad to think so.

Oh, my gosh. I think I’m a real baby.

I’m about to fall asleep. At the same time, my previous memories and thoughts were intertwined. I’d been hearing things all week. You would die soon, the Emperor would not let you survive, or something like that.

More specifically, that lady in the past died like this, and the other lady died like that, so this was how they would die this time. Well, that was all.

Besides, my mother was already dead, and when she gave birth to me, my father raised his army to fight the kingdoms of the South. I thought I was the daughter of his first wife since I was called a princess, but my father was extraordinary. He’s twenty-six years old, but he still did not have any concubines.

Nevertheless, I was called a princess because I was his only child.

“How surprising for His Majesty to leave the princess alive, and give her a name.”

“Hush, do not say that.”

Oh, she’s here again. I wrinkled my forehead with irritation at the voice I heard in my sleep. The provider of my knowledge, and the woman assigned to me, Elene, was a chatty person. She was so loud. It is not been a day or two that I woke up sleeping with her voice.

“The princess woke up.”

“Oh, she is sleeping well.”

Haha, you are funny—you woke me up! I wanted to say something to Elene, but as soon as I realized I couldn’t because I was a baby, I felt so sad.

“Elene!”

“Sorry, I got it. I’ll be quiet.”

When Elene got depressed by my nanny’s voice, I finally felt relieved.

I went back to sleep with a relaxed expression. Elene could not stand it and chat about the new news.

Leaking the story in one ear, I recounted the stories I had heard.

I heard Caitel was beautiful and had a high status, many women had been after him. Of course, there were countless powerful men behind them. Even though he was a madman, he was still the emperor. They would do anything if they could sew up that side seat. Many women did not refuse to hide in his room ***** or to seduce him for a night like a **********. Thanks to it, countless women were impregnated, but none of them birthed their children. They were all trying to pin down Caitel with the baby, but they had a terrible ending.

That was where I frowned.

Ah, crazy! Caitel did not have any love for his family. That was why when the women made demands with their children, he would do unspeakable things to them. I could not imagine it when I did not meet him, but after seeing the man I saw earlier, he would. He would.

“She is sleeping well.”

“Hush, you will wake her up.”

“Phooey.”

Yeah, that was why everyone was so surprised I survived. I would be surprised too.

I woke up and opened my eyes, and the ceiling was dangling in front of my eyes. The sight of a child looking at the light was generally bad, but it was a little surprising because I did not think it was inconvenient. How come there was no difference?

“Are you awake again?”

As soon as I got up, my nanny smiled at me.

Serira was such a pretty girl. By my standards, of course. Unfortunately, unlike me, the aesthetic standards of people in this country were quite high.

“I think she is really cute.”

Next to her, Elene interrupts and pulls her face out.

A round, cute face came into my sight. What a chatterbox with that face. She was someone I literally could recognize through hearing her voice alone, so I was not really welcoming her.

I did not like her.

“Oh, dear.”

Keep your hands off of me. As I frown, the nanny knocked out Elene’s hand. Elene drooped and pulled her hand off me.

“The princess hates me.”

That’s because you are so loud. I wanted to answer, but I could not talk. Oh, it was very uncomfortable to be a baby. I wish I could get a tooth already. I prayed eagerly the day would come that I could say at least a simple word.

“She is pretty though. I envy her.”

“Because she looks like His Majesty.”

“That is true. Who would have known that silver hair would be hereditary?”

Elene looked at me from the back of the nanny. I would like to put that face away, but I would make her cry so I left her alone. Well, it was all because I was being nice.

“Oh, dear. You are so cute.”

“How dare you. She’s a princess.”

“Oh, she is still a baby.”

The nanny frowned as Elene smiled.

Actually, I liked it when she called me cute… You mean I am cute. I am pretty too. I didn’t like the chatterbox, but I liked the praise. When I smiled, Elene smiled.

Yeah, well, I figured out that my father was a madman because of you so I would forgive you even if you’re so noisy.

Still, thinking it was annoying when she touched my cheek, Suddenly, the palace door opened and a few people came in.

Huh?

Even I could feel that a lot of people came in the room even though I was lying down, and I could not imagine how those people barging in surprised Elene and the nanny when they saw it with their own eyes.

They stood in amazement. Of course, the nanny held me in her arms first. Seeing her getting blue was not a good sight.

What is it?

Oh, did my crazy father finally order to kill me?

“What’s going on?”

The voice of Serira was harsh. However, it was buried by the sound of clanging noises. I wanted to raise my head and see who they were. The clanging sounds, were they wearing an armor?

My head went back to the nanny’s arms and I could not tell with my own eyes who had come.

“Majesty’s command.”

“A command?

Oh, it’s not been long since I was born, and my life would end just like that. While I was saddened with frustration, the knight’s voice was clearly in my ears.

“The emperor’s commanded us to move Princess Ariadna to the Palace of Solay.”

The Palace of Solay was, to put it bluntly, the palace of the Emperor.

The palace is a collection of all living quarters, including the emperor’s bedroom and office. In addition, it was a palace where all state affairs took place. People call Solay palace as the imperial palace due to its amazing size and importance, and it seemed quite meaningful for me to move there.

“I think he will accept princess.”

For some reason, Elene spoke in a serious voice.

I looked at her with my eyes open, dressed and wrapped in a sack. The face that was always on the bright side was somehow somber. Although she was only an 18-year-old girl who had been talkative the entire time, she seemed to be afraid of the madman. It was a surprise to me. I felt rather sorry for being seriously frightened.

“Hush, don’t talk like that. This is not Ecelon.”

“Yes, ma’am…”

Elene shushed herself. I closed my eyes again.

Ecelon was the name of the palace where I was previously staying. I didn’t know what the palace was for, but there was one thing I knew about it, it was the scrubby palace in the corner of the imperial palace, the palace where my mother lived.

“I feel sorry for the Lady Jereina.”

“Don’t you dare say such a thing!”

Elene bites her lips. The nanny’s stern look reached her. I watched her and pulled the nanny’s hair. Serira looked down. Her blue eyes cooled my view.

“You will be fine. Don’t be nervous.”

When did I say I was nervous? I pursed my lips with a blank face, but the nanny just smiled affectionately. I thought about it earlier, Serira was such a tragic woman. No matter what she did, it was always pitiful and pathetic. That was somewhat a skill too.

“I am sure His Majesty will never harm you. Yes, of course.”

No, once he laid a finger on me, it would not make him a madman. It would just make him a son of a b*tch. Hurting a baby, such a crazy bastard.

Oh, but there were stories I heard before when he swept up a palace in the north. He drove all the royal family into one palace, both adults and children, and burned them all.

He is a son of a b*tch. A common notorious son of a b*tch.

…my life was ruined.

“Not that room.”

“Sorry? Not this room?”

The knight, who got orders from the emperor, guided us to another place. This surprised the nanny and Elene. I don’t know what was going on, but I was guessing this was the room I had to go to, but the Emperor handed it over to another person.

Oh, anything was fine, just let me go back to the cradle. I want to sleep!

“Are you sleepy?”

“(crying).”

“What’s wrong? She must be sleepy.”

I could feel the knight panic at my whining. The people who were moving in a hurry wandered through my blurred vision.

Oh, my eyes hurt.

Children’s eyes are delicate, and they quickly grew tired. I closed my eyes as I felt my body shake.

Still, it was comfortable because I was in the arms of my nanny.

When I grew up, I cannot be held up like this, right? Even when I was a kid in my previous life, my mother would cradle me in her arms like this. It was sad I could not remember it now.

“My princess, we’re all here.”

When I opened my eyes, Serira was smiling. This seemed to be a new cradle, the unfamiliar touch on my back made it evident. I whined.

Not this one. Not this one. Old one! Bring back the old one!

“Princess, this is better. It’s wider.”

However, the old one is more comfortable!

“Peekaboo, no, This is more comfortable. Okay, is it better if I do this?”

The nanny’s hand must have been a magic hand. The cradle really got comfortable after she did that thing. Wow, that was amazing. Serira laughed as I opened my mouth. I laughed too, looking at her pale cheek.

“How cute.”

Her hands on my forehead were warm. This was what warmth was. I laughed once again and closed my eyes.

I am sleepy. I am falling asleep…

I could not remember what I had dreamed of as I drift to dreamland. It’s just like floating on a cloud. The feeling was vague.

Yes, if one could walk on the clouds, they would feel like this. It felt like a dream, somehow like feeling cotton candy. It felt like something lumpy was tangled with something plumpy touching me and shaking me.

It tickled. I laughed.

However, all of a sudden, the air became heavier. My heart was beating. My heart got stuffy. Somehow it was hard to breathe. I whined and opened my heavy eyes. A hazy view free from darkness. At that moment, I encountered a cold gaze and an eye looking down upon me.

“…”

What a surprise!!

I almost cried it out. I could see the rough pounding of my chest. As I struggled to check the surroundings, it seemed it was evening.

Why are you here?

I looked up at him discontentedly. We had eye contact. Our eyes intertwined in the air.

I thought it was over. Was that eye color truly crimson? The colors of the crimson disturbed my view. It interlocked with his fierce eyes and made me feel uneasy. Was it hostility or murderous intent? It was hard to guess. It seemed the same to Caitel, my father. He smiled like a breeze. It was a smile that perhaps looked flustered.

“I felt it earlier, but…”

A cool cold hand touched my cheek as I laid on the cradle. It was cold. No, it was cool. I felt as if I was submerged in dry water.

“You are not crying.”

A word of affirmation.

He seemed surprised I did not cry after seeing him.

However, that was interesting to me too. I want to cry like normal kids. There was plenty of such desire. The problem was, he would cut my throat without mercy if I did.

Was it because it was loud? Ha, I would have never thought that he would not kill me. He’s a madman.

“The princess is very gentle.”

Oh, the nanny was there. I thought she wasn’t there.

Turning to the place where the voice was heard, Serira stood, holding her hands together. Her previous pale countenance became even paler as if it was bleached. She was nervous. She was scared if the emperor would kill me by any chance. Also, she felt uncomfortable dealing with Caitel’s attention to what she said.

Oh, well, that was too burdensome for me too.

Even I felt uncomfortable; in the case of Serira though, it was obvious.

Fortunately, Caitel seemed to have no more fun thing to ask from Serira. His gaze soon returned to me.

“Even so.”

His cold hands swept my cheeks. To be honest, I felt goosebumps. With that cheek swept down, his hands traveled towards my short, thin neck.

Did he have an interest in strangling? Why did he keep touching my neck?

“She should feel some murderous intent.”

Yeah, I am feeling enough.

I wanted to nod to reassure him that he’s correct, but I could not because his cold hands were holding my neck. Oh, really, if I died, it would be because he strangled me. He smiled as I moaned and groaned.

A smile that seemed like a smile but also not. Yes, it was more of a mockery towards my feebleness.

“This child is too unprotected.”

It’s your daughter, asshole. Stop calling me like I am someone else’s daughter.

He leaned toward me. That cast a shadow over my head. It wasn’t a bright room, but the world was as dark as it was before he covered up the lights. Nevertheless, his red eyes were quite scary, their sharpness felt like a knife.

“Unfortunately, she does not look anything like her mother.”

Did you even remember what my mom looked like? I looked up at him in a sulky way, and suddenly he laughs. He laughed like a madman.

Mom, there’s a madman here!

I looked up at him, I wish to call 211, Caitel just touched my forehead.

“A curse.”

Curse? I opened my eyes wide.

“That is good, too.”

What’s wrong with him? Why was he saying such nonsense?

“I’ll look forward to it. Whatever curse you will bestow upon me.”

Even his lips on my forehead felt cold. At that moment, I saw something twinkling in the scarlet eyes staring down at me.

My mother was a princess from a kingdom in the north. She was commonly called Lady Jereina, but it was not her name. Originally, her name had a more northerly hard tone. However, they replaced her name when her father sold her in order to prevent the fall of her kingdom, that was when she was brought to this palace. Here, she had an Agregiant name. The name given to her was Jereina. Thus, the people surrounding her called her Lady Jereina.

“Ariadna, your name is too long.”

Since the morning, Elene started to agonize over my name. I averted my eyes from her as I suck hard at the bottled milk in my mouth.

“Would you like me to call you Leah or Anna?”

They’re both weird. I tried to say I do not like both of them, but I was just a baby. Just because I was young, my opinion was ignored. You dirty world!

“Let’s call you Leah.”

Yeah, I think Leah’s better than Anna, but I do not like both of them either!

I cried inwardly as I sucked the bottle hard. No, this was delicious, It was over. I am such a baby.

“Princess Leah~.”

When the nanny lifted me up to finish eating and help me burp, Elene could not stand it for long and she leaned her face towards me. I frowned as soon as I saw her face. I did not like her at all!

“The princess does not like it.”

As expected, you are my Superman. The nanny was a wizard who recognized my mind. it was like she was my mom.

Serira, You are the only one for me.

Showing the cute act of smashing my cheek with a small body, I clinged myself in the arms of the nanny. Meanwhile, Elene seemed shocked. She bulged her cheeks and complained like a child.

“The princess hates me!”

I did not hate you, but you are kind of annoying. I felt jealous for her because she had a much grown up body than I do, and most of all, she could speak. I whined as my jealousy consumed me. Serira made face at Elene. On that face, she shut her mouth and sat beside me with a sullen face. Come to think of it, even though I am a princess, she was the only maid I had got. In a way, I was in a pitiable condition. Well, if one would think of it, if there were more maids in the palace, it would be twice as annoying than my circumstances now. So this is better.

“But it is a little strange. She doesn’t cry in front of the king. She does not usually cry, but still.”

“She recognizes even when she is young.”

Their gazes touched my soul. I gave them a big burp and a bright smile in return. It was almost like an instinctive behavior for my case.

“That he is her father.”

Well, about that.

I know it, but my instinct did not recognize him. I did not feel good because I was under the impression that I was a genius baby who could recognize my own father in an instance. This kind of delusion was not good!

“What is wrong, Princess?”

My nanny took my whining in a different way and looked at me anxiously.

Phew, no, no. I will just take care of this.

Still, the nanny checked my diapers to make sure I was not uncomfortable. Her delicate and caring hand movements showed me that I was not the first child she raised. it was not the skill of a mother who had her first child.

“…really.”

I put my pacifier back in my mouth to be cradled in her arms. This pacifier was the symbol of babies. At first, I felt uncomfortable with this kind of thing in my mouth, but it helped me not to get bored.

“She does not look like my lady at all.”

When Elene said so, the nanny’s face darkened. I sucked my pacifier while looking at their stern faces. What is wrong, you two?

“Not her dazzling blonde, not her green eye color. Even the features…”

“I do not think it is possible to recognize unless someone says it.”

“I think so, too.”

Oh, my look.

I did not know what they were talking about, how could I look like anyone when my age did not even cross the threshold of a week. Of course, when I saw a baby, I would probably say the same thing they had said. However, when I saw these things from the baby’s point of view, it made me realize that they looked like a fool.

“Why did Lady Jereina do that?”

Elene somehow looked conflicted. Did she feel depressed because I kept refusing to cooperate with her? I thought she would not get hurt because she was like a roly-poly. I began considering if I should be kind to her from now even though she’s annoying. I closed my tired eyes, and the nanny’s voice, mixed with a sigh, fell over it.

“How can we know what she meant?”

It was always the same thing these two were talking about. it was about me, and about my mother and my father. I could quickly catch up to what they were talking about, as I have been listening to it all week.

Caitel, the mad emperor, killed every woman who had his child. Well, he killed all the women who were trying to get something from him. There were women who tried to hide until they gave birth. However, after finding out about them, Caitel cut their bellies while they were alive. What a crazy bastard.

I was fed up with the same old story and started wondering how he could throw his own child away so casually. Soon, I had a violent feeling of anguish towards my life. So the conclusion I came to was, ‘If you will kill me now, kill me with no pain.’

Yeah, I know, I am very servile.

“I just wish…”

My nanny stroke my cheek with a serious face. I smiled at her. A soft smile quickly spread over her lips.

“I just wish he has a bit of warmth to love this little baby.”

Warmth…

I think it would be hard. He did not have that. He killed women who had his own children. Of course, the most direct reason he could do such a thing was because of his ice-like temper. Still, it would be better to ask the skies to pour rain during dry days than expect some warmth from him.

He was a cold-blooded man who did not take care of his parents and his siblings. Not only did he kill his biological father with his own hands and seized the throne, but he also sold all his sisters abroad. He gathered his brothers in one place and killed them. However, he felt like his efforts to rid his family were not good enough, so he started a war to kill his sisters. That was the end of what I knew about him.

He was the main culprit who swept through all the battlefields like the wind and roiled the continent into a frenzy.

Oh, a simple summary for those busy people. Caitel was a crazy bastard, similar to Hitler.

There were still some people who said he would feel different towards his children. I heard even a hedgehog felt compassion about their baby. However, those words had completely disappeared when the emperor cut off the neck of a woman who had his child. Goodbye.

“I am sure both Lady Jereina and the emperors are amazing people anyway.”

Perhaps because Caitel was an emperor, my mother, who protected me from such a fellow, seemed to be perceived as a pretty great woman in the palace. Well, my mother, who got pregnant with me in just a night, was being held in Echelon by herself as soon as she found out that she was pregnant. It was almost like she was in solitary confinement.

At the end of the palace, at the corner of its most secluded area, she raised me with that delicate body. The emperor found it out a month before I was born. Of course, the emperor tried to kill her. No, actually I don’t really know what happened.

Al I knew was that the princess lived safely and died after giving birth to me. Meanwhile, the emperor went to conquer South Icharta at the time of her birth.

I looked up at Serira. She smiled softly. I did not know how many months, but most of my memories were about her. I feel strange. Perhaps if I could consider someone as my mother, Serira would be the best candidate, not the lady they were talking about.

“Oh, by the way, do you know the rumor?”

“What?”

“I heard the Emperor is cursed.”

“Ah.”

Serira’s expression darkened at Elene’s words. I stared straight at Elene. How dare you do that to my nanny! Elene went sullen again.

Oh, I just decided to be nice to her and then I am staring at her menacingly again. I was a little sorry. She liked me so much.

At that moment Serira put me down on the cot. I guess it was time for me to sleep.

“It is not a curse.”

Sherra’s expression was grim. She was recalling.

“If I can name it…”

Her hand clenched my little hand.

I rather felt pathetic in the mercy of her bigger hand. I clasped her little finger trying to hold my hand.

“I will call it ‘Cry’.”

Cry…

When a flash of memory ran under the surface of the seas of my mind like a fish that had been pulled out of a net, I remembered a voice that had been accompanied by it. Somebody’s sorrowful, mellow voice.

“I truly hate you, emperor. My body and my blood will not forgive you. If this body of mine withers and rot away, this child with my blood will curse you in my stead.”

I mumbled to myself, closing my eyes.

What are you asking to do to a little child?

After our scary first meeting, the emperor unexpectedly came to visit me.

For me, he was a pain in the neck, but Elene and nanny seemed to be inwardly pleased with him. Well, I know why, it’s because I am a princess, but by all accounts, my position was vague and equivocal because I am not the daughter of an officially married couple. That was why it was such a sad fact that I did not have any legitimacy to shut those annoying mouths of theirs all at once, even if some of the junkies insist, “she is not a princess for this kind of reasons!”

Yeah, that was what it was. I liked the fact that dad came to visit me as his daughter. He was not like a father at all, but his beauty truly was amazing.

He was my eye candy, and most of all, I am his daughter. He would not kill me. Right?

“You are not sleeping.”

Oh, yeah, sorry. I misjudged you. You were the one who would kill your daughter.

I raised my head, and we had eye contact. Shoot. I was not as nervous as I had been since I had seen him for the first time, but it was just a difference on the degree of the fear, and it was natural for my heart to fluctuate in the sight of him, so I could not help it.

Oh, it was hard for me to breath because he was too handsome and I’m enjoying the sigh of him. My heart beats because I thought I would die. What the hell is going on, God?

I did not think he was looking down at me because he wanted to kill me, but his eyes were… It was a little scary. Yeah, he was scared!

“Is it because I am here?”

The illusion was free, sir.

I turned my head with a rotten look at his smile, and I sucked my pacifier. I had heard a lot about breastfeeding being good for the growth of a baby, but my mother had no way of supplying it since she was already dead.

Oh, do not tell me that milk I drink was all mother’s milk. No way. It tasted so good though.

Perhaps, it was only a really good baby milk powder?

“Oo!”

I almost fell into a world of unconsciousness, but even before I realized, my pacifier was gone in my mouth. I looked up at the sky where my pacifier disappeared. Oh, my God!

“Do you want this?”

…God, was this violent temper what I’m feeling right now?

That bastard, how could you take your daughter’s pacifier! I looked up angrily. Of course, what could you do with that cute baby face? He was grinning furiously with my pacifier on his hand.

Oh, I hate it!

Yeah. This was the problem. It was fine that he visits me often, it was good to see that handsome face, it was all good! However, the problem was he thought of me not as a daughter, but as a toy that soothes his boredom.

You crazy bastard!

“You have that unpleasantly red eyes.”

I got that eye from you. You red-eyed monster.

“It is too red.”

Oh, well, I got it from you.

“I’d like to draw it out.”

What the. I opened my mouth in shock, and he laughs coolly. It was his smile with a really glistening beauty that made my eyes cool, but it did not look as beautiful as it was.

There was a demon in there.

He laughed like that and placed my pacifier in my mouth. He was so serious I thought he would cut me down with that pacifier.

…well I am sorry I doubted.

“Tiny.”

What an artistic thing for him to say to his 2-month-old baby. I curled my lips and sucked my pacifier. We had another eye contact.

Yeah, look at me if you wanted to behold my eyes. I already knew what he would say. Valuation, Appraisal, Appreciation. That was what he said when he looked at me.

Am I some kind of statue?

I had come to the level that treats all his words as bullshit. God, free me from this madman. However, he said it once every few hours.

I tried to listen to it so carefully. I was an idiot.

“This is really small.”

Still, there were a few things I learned from his visits. It was something that I did not know from Elene or Serira’s chatter, so I found the new discoveries as amusing and entertaining.

“Hmm.”

The first was the fact that this guy was a psycho who was more reasoned than I thought. He even had a sense of morality or ethics.

However, the problem was his attitude or mindset that did not try to keep that in mind. It was a little different from when people called him mad to mock his name, but it all happened.

Yeah, so that does not change the fact that he was a lunatic, but it was different from that craziness like Elizabeth Bathory (the Contessa of Transylvania in the 16th century who killed virgins and bathed in their blood) who took bath with blood, or Vlad the 3rd(Romania’s second prince, Dukes of Walachia, the inspiration behind Dracula) who impaled his enemies with iron spears.

It was good to know that he was not such a pervert, but if he was not crazy, then that was no…

If I had to define him, he’d be a fucking lunatic.

No, it was not a definition.

“Hey, cry.”