Regina Rena – To the Unforgiven

Chapter 73

I Saw You

Translated by Wook
Edited by Wook

“Big Sister!”

The voice sounded quite young, even the pronunciation was unclear. The door opened with that cute cry.

The one who appeared through the crack in the door was a young master who was about five or six years old, and it was a child that Lynn knew well.

‘Angie Ruber.’

Lynn looked at the successor of Marquis Ruber, startled.

“Big Sister? Big Sister!”

Young Angie wandered around the room, anxiously looking for his sister. But the empty room was silent, and the child soon turned away in disappointment.

“Not here either…”

Angie slumped and closed the door and went out.

Then the closet of the empty room opened and a girl sneaked out.

Lynn covered his mouth without realizing it as he saw the girl carefully stretching her feet.

‘Rena?’

It was none other than Rena who was hiding in the closet.

Unlike before, this memory unfolded not from Rena’s eyes, but from the outside.

It is because it is a memory that has already been established. Lynn looked at the young Rena speechlessly.

She looked like she was only about ten years old now, around Uni’s age. Rena was really small and cute.

Rena came out of the closet and held a book in her arms. She seemed to have ostracized her little brother because she didn’t want to be interrupted with her reading.

But just when Rena’s foot stepped into the carpet…

“Found you!”

“Oh my gosh!”

The door swung open and Angie reappeared, and Rena was startled and fell on her butt.

‘Ah.’

Lynn reflexively reached out his hand to support Rena, but of course, his hand did not reach Rena.

Meanwhile, Angie, who found Rena, ran to her with his short legs and protested.

“I knew it! Why were you hiding? You promised to make a new house with me today!”

“I didn’t hide. I just took a nap.”

“Don’t lie, you were hiding and reading a book!”

“No, I didn’t.”

“Then hurry up and let’s go make a new house.”

“Can’t you just ask the gardener to make it for you?”

As Rena responded half-heartedly and tried to chase him away, Angie’s little face was filled with anger.

So, the bubbly child threatened his sister with all his might.

“You said you’d do it! You promised! If you don’t keep your promise, you’ll go to hell!”

“Yes, I’d rather go to hell than play with you.”

But the older sister was inevitably stronger than her brother.

At Rena’s carefree reply, Angie became dazed as if shocked. Then his eyes were soon filled with tears and he shouted back.

“Why is playing with me worse than going to hell?! Sister, you’re an idiot!”

Angie eventually started to cry.

The little kid wailed because his sister broke her promise, and the big kid felt sorry when her younger brother cried.

“F-Fine. I was just kidding. Don’t cry. Sister will make a new house for you.”

Angie, who was crying with tears and runny nose, glared at his older sister, who apologized belatedly, fiercely. So Rena leaned back helplessly, while Angie finally wiped away his tears.

Angie, hanging from his sister’s neck, sniffled and warned.

“I will take revenge later when I grow up.”

“Okay, grow up and play by yourself.”

Although her brother had announced revenge, Rena pushed him on as if she was not surprised.

“What’s in your pocket?”

Rena realized that Angie’s pocket was full of something and asked.

“Acorns.”

“Why acorns?”

At Rena’s question, Angie sniffed, and squeaked in a bright voice.

“I’m going to decorate the roof of the new house. In the shape of a desert castle.”

“Does the roof of a desert castle look like an acorn? I thought it’s a pine cone.”

“No, that’s the eastern country. The pine cone-shaped roof made of tile and brick is the east, and in desert countries, the roof is round and only the tip is pointed. It really looks like an acorn.”

Angie explained the shape of the roof with a very serious attitude, and Rena responded roughly while listening.

Lynn, who was watching, smiled involuntarily.

Although they quarreled, the siblings played together anyway. As he remembered that this memory was particularly distinct, he felt a little sad.

As far as he knows, Rena did not have any contact with Angie Ruber in the Imperial Palace. Up until now, he had thought it was natural from a standpoint, but when he found out that they were such close siblings, he felt sad.

In the meantime, Rena, who carried Angie, passed the hallway and stood in front of the stairs.

It was a central staircase leading from the hallway on the second floor to the hall on the first floor, but in RiLynn’s n’s eyes, they looked a little precarious. He wondered if a little girl could carry her brother down the stairs.

But that was his huge mistake.

“Big Sister, let’s ride the railing!”

“Okay!”

Rena readily responded to Angie’s request and moved her younger brother who was on her back to the front. Then, clasping her little brother’s little torso, she climbed onto the stair railing.

‘That’s dangerous…!’

However, Lynn saw Rena climb down the railing very skillfully. Then she jumped at the end of the railing and landed in a very stable position.

Lynn was completely exhausted by the unexpected dance shown by a child in a pretty dress.

‘Rena…’

You were already extraordinary back then.

When Lynn was laughing at Rena’s grandeur.

“What did I just see?”

A man’s voice came from somewhere.

“Father!”

Angie shouted with a bright face toward the front door.

‘Marquis Ruber?’

Lynn followed Angie to the side where he heard the voice, and was surprised.

Standing in front of the front door was the man Angie called his father, who was supposed to be the Marquis Ruber. However, the man had no face.

All of the features were erased, and only a black shape like a shadow was formed.

“I didn’t expect the little lady in my house to ride the railing, how could a lady like this become someone else’s wife in the future.”

The shadow was calm with a voice mixed with laughter. Ordinary… No. It was not a simple ordinary tone, it was a voice filled with care.

It was very strange to see him say so with his face erased.

So Lynn wondered what kind of expression Rena was making.

But he could no longer see the young Rena.

As if driving the Marquis out of her memories, darkness fell firmly and cut off the memories.

Shortly thereafter, Lynn returned to the library of memories.

‘It’s cut off.’

It’s not over, it’s cut off. The warm memory was cut off with the appearance of the Marquis.

Lynn, who was thrown out by the wind, reflected on what he saw earlier in a strange mood.

It is not surprising that Rena is the daughter of the Ruber family, but the appearance of Marquis Ruber family that he just saw was unexpected in many ways.

Memories of a peaceful childhood, Marquis Rubel excluded from it. His face was covered in black as if she didn’t want to see it.

Lynn was quite surprised that Rena remembered the Marquis like that.

He thought Rena wasn’t very conscious of the Marquis, but she wasn’t. Rena was only pretending to be calm, but she was definitely rejecting her father, who she had abandoned her.

Lynn realized that Rena was very different from the outside, and looked back at the table in front of him.

In addition to the memories with her brother, there were fragments of her good memories.

The moment her heart was filled with reading poetry, a suburban outing where everyone went together, hanging out with peers at an exchange, and a particularly enchanting spring sun or lovely autumn breeze.

The days that were sweet as if made of sugar.

However, there was no Rena that Lynn was looking for, and Lynn’s heart grew heavier as he looked at her happy days.

He couldn’t even figure out why the child, who had been raised so dearly, began to fight.

‘…Are you not here?’

Impatient, Lynn left the table and looked towards the bookshelf. He first reached out to the bookshelf where identical books were tightly inserted.

But as soon as he touched it, knowledge poured out like a torrent.

It wasn’t particularly great knowledge. Words in Imperial language, the names of various objects, the uses of tools, common sense of life and the very principles of the world.

Most of it was something Lynn knew. But there was too much pouring out at one time.

Lynn was taken aback by the uncontrollable pouring of concepts. At the same time, he felt embarrassed.

‘There’s too much information.’

The human consciousness was much broader than he thought, and the knowledge stored in it was simply vast. Instinct warned in front of the deep valley: It’s dangerous if you go in anymore.

In the first place, the power of the East is to distort and destroy the consciousness of the opponent. This kind of exploration or contact is an out-of-the-ordinary adventure.

Knowing that, Lynn clenched his teeth and stared back at the bookshelf.

He didn’t even know why he was so desperate.

He liked her, but he couldn’t even reveal it. And the time wasn’t enough to say it was deep.

Nevertheless, Lynn was desperate for each moment that Rena seemed to disappear. Then when she returned, he barely swept his chest.

When Rena looked at him, he felt like he had everything, and when she defined their relationship as an alliance, not a friend or a lover, he felt like he had lost his way.

His relationship with Rena was so messed up.

He had the feeling that he was a fiancé on a time-limited basis, and after Rena woke up by luck, hatred might be waiting for him.

No one will maintain favor with someone who has divulged all of their secrets. People who value their dignity like Rena will be more so.

Ultimately, this was a loss among losses. Worst gamble with nothing left.

Lynn, whose thoughts went all the way there, took a long breath. Then he muttered what he said to Rena earlier.

“I can’t help it.”

Yes, he couldn’t help it. It was no use worrying about what he couldn’t do, he should do what he could.

Lynn pulled himself together and approached the bookshelf again.

This was a loss among losses. Worst gamble with nothing left. Nevertheless, if he needed a reason to jump in, let’s just pick one.

Lynn wanted Rena Ruber to exist in the world.

That reason was enough.

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Since then, Lynn had gone through dozens or even hundreds of books.

Lynn, who opened his eyes, was again in an unfamiliar moment. Heavy fatigue came over him, but he struggled to pull himself together and look around.

It was a dark night. The flames shook grimly against the backdrop of the cold stone building. And people in animal masks were lying down here and there. They moaned heart wrenchingly, as if they were injured.

Lynn’s face hardened coldly at the fleshy scenery.

Lynn, who saw the animal mask, reflexively looked for the altar. Sure enough, a strangely shaped stone fell on the floor.

Lynn knew what kind of situation this was.

This was a meeting of apostles who worshiped the dead.

But the situation was bizarre.

The altar was already soaked with blood, but there were no dead there, and the apostles in masks were lying wounded on the floor.

Instead, a young child tied to a rope and a girl dressed in black face each other in the middle.

Lynn, who found them, sighed quietly.

‘Rena.’

The girl who wore black and had short hair was none other than Lena.

She looked almost identical to Rena’s self-protection instinct he met outside the study.

However, the atmosphere was clearly different. Now, as if she had forgotten all her emotions, Rena was looking at the child sitting on the floor with bored eyes.

He saw drops of blood dripping from the tip of Rena’s dagger. Judging from what he could guess, Rena was the one who knocked down the apostles.

Rena Ruber intruded the meeting. It wasn’t just the apostles who were bewildered by this.

The child, with her hands and feet tied up as food for the dead, was also looking at Rena in amazement.

The child stared blankly at Rena, who had suddenly appeared, and she asked in a sharp voice, as if trying to hide her fright.

“Are you dead?”

Rena stared at the child, and answered slowly.

“No.”

“Then are you human?”

Rena nodded silently. Then she stood still. Like a broken clock, like a doll whose mainspring has been unwound.

The child asked again at the strange appearance.

“Are you going to kill me?”

Rena didn’t answer. She just stayed silent as if she didn’t understand the question. Then the child clenched his teeth and became angry.

“If you’re going to kill me, do it quickly. Don’t waste time for no reason.”

The child said so and looked at Rena fiercely. After a long while, Rena slowly opened her mouth.

“…I saw you in the Tomb.”

She spoke very slowly, confused, as if she had lost her way.

“I came to see you, just because I saw you… However. No one came for me.”

Rena suffered, whispering words that might be monologues or complaints. She looked obsessed with something.

The child looked at such Rena, and asked again with a very suppressed voice.

“…Are you going to kill me?”

Rena blinked her eyes blankly, then shook her head.

Tears welled up in the eyes of the child who had been struggling with that small promise.

The child eventually burst into tears, but Rena didn’t even think of soothing her and just looked at her.

Lynn watched all of this from a step away. Although he had been through several short stories so far, he still could not read Rena’s trajectory.

Rena’s moments he saw were infinitely happy, infinitely lonely, infinitely comfortable, and infinitely dangerous.

And now, before his eyes, Rena was as empty as a doll.

Lynn stretched out his hand even though he knew he couldn’t touch her, just because he felt sorry for her.

At that time, a miraculous voice was heard.

“Mr. Lynn?”

It was the voice of Rena he knew and who knew him.