The Chosen One Was Me, Not You

64 – {Those Who Know the Truth} 2

{Those Who Know the Truth}

“Theodore…!”

A beauty with long, blue-blonde hair, hurriedly running over, paused for a moment as if glue had stuck to her feet, staring at Theodore.

Ceres, Duchess of Artin.

Her attitude of staring blankly at Theodore, as if she wondered if she might be seeing her mirage, must have contained many complicated feelings.

The first would be the joy that her own eyes were right that Theodore Skylord would be her Theodore Artin.

The second would be the joy that she had finally found the son she had been looking for.

“Theodore…Theodore!”

She started walking slowly towards Theodore, and soon acted as if she was trying to hug Theodore.

It was Theodore who had accepted the hugs of the Duchess of Skyroad, Judith’s hugs, and even the Duke of Skyroad’s hugs, but now his cold and cold gaze was clearly repulsive.

That meant that he no longer needed to wear a mask to hide his feelings, since he was discovered to be Theodore Artin anyway.

‘Looks like you didn’t notice.’

However, the fact that she finally has her son whom she has longed for so much in front of her eyes after 11 years. This was blurring her eyes.

Yuria already guessed what would happen to her.

Boom!

And it was as expected.

An invisible wall blocked Ceres’ path, and her face slammed head-on into it.

Her pretty face was swollen from hitting the wall, but the fact that she couldn’t reach Theodore was more shocking than feeling her pain.

“Poem, Theodore?”

She asked if he had hit this invisible barrier, but Theodore said coldly.

“Duchess Artin. This is difficult.”

Ceres looked shocked when Theodore called her Duchess Artin instead of her mother.

“Poetry, Theodore. Uh, mother? What the hell? Mom!”

Ceres called out to Theodore with a teary face. A beautiful woman with a sad atmosphere would look pitiful to many people.

But because Yuria knew the whole truth, she felt rejected rather than pitiable.

She is like this, let alone Theodore himself.

“My mother is here.”

I could see the Duchess of Skyroad smiling slightly as she approached Theodore and hugged him from the side.

“Oh, my son is so big that it’s hard to hold him comfortably now. Theo, do you remember when you slept in your mother’s arms?”

“Well, I remember. Her mother’s arms were always warm.”

Seeing the hat smiling and talking to each other, Ceres made an expression as if her heart was sinking.

It was evident that the sight of her now shocked her more than Theodore’s rejection of him.

“Madam!”

And belatedly, Elliot, the Duke of Artin, appeared.

It was obvious why he was late, but Reina was standing next to him with a complicated expression.

‘Reina.’

The only expression that Yuria felt sorry for in the Artin duchy looked complicated.

Honestly, all of this must have felt complicated to her.

However, since the current situation was not the right time, Yuria was determined that her attitude toward Reina would not change, even if she couldn’t come forward and tell her right away.

When her eyes met her Reina’s, Yuria smiled as gently as she could and conveyed her own thoughts to her.

‘Go, Ma, Whoa, Yo.’

And Reina, as if she understood her meaning, silently moved her lips to say thank you, and she smiled slightly.

“Theodore…”

Elliot, who hastily helped the staggering Ceres, met Theodore’s gaze.

“Strange? Didn’t Theodore Artin officially announce that he was dead?”

Elliot was speechless for a moment.

But then he said grimly.

“I’m sorry about that. But, but it couldn’t be helped. William…”

“I guess it was because William Artin wanted it.”

Theodore interrupted Duke Artin in the middle.

Duke Artin was momentarily at a loss for words, but Yuria sensed that he was probably looking for an excuse.

“Theo, I don’t know why I should talk to these people.”

The Duke of Skyroad said, placing a hand on Theodore’s shoulder.

“Duke of Sky Road…!”

Elliot glared at the Duke of Skyroad.

“It’s you? It’s you! It’s you who seduced Theodore in a strange way…! Creepy!”

While pointing at the Duke of Skylord, Elliott sat down feeling pain in her stomach.

“Even if you’re a foreign duke, I won’t forgive you if you say anything to my father.”

Theodore spoke in a menacing tone, like a wild beast growling.

Even for the heir to the Duke of Skyroad, it would be a problem for him to act like this to a duke of another country, but no one could take issue with that right now.

Because he was the most influential person among the Chosen Ones.

“Sir, Theodore! My, I am your father! He is not your father!”

When Elliot appealed, Ceres also appealed alongside her.

“Theodore! It’s your mother! Whoa! I’m your real mother! Please wake up!”

Yuria saw Reina standing behind them, shaking her head with a tired expression.

Then she bit her lip and saw her determined to do something.

But before she could act on her own, Theodore’s words struck the couple first.

“Is that strange? I don’t remember seeing you face-to-face and talking to you since I was two years old. Rather, I only have memories of starving and suffering every day.”

At her words, Yuria could see that even Judith, who was always bright and innocent, and her own sister, Lilia, were sending her eyes to the Duke and Duchess of Artin.

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No, it wasn’t just them, her own parents, the Duke and Duchess of Arsane, and Theodore’s parents, the Duke and Duchess of Skylord, were also looking at the couple with a mixture of contempt, disgust, and anger.

‘Oh.’

YuRia felt her hands clenched into her fists.

She felt that she was most angered by what Theodore had been through.

“Since they didn’t give you food, you went to the kitchen to fill your stomach with leftover food, or you cooked it yourself and ate it. And since I didn’t get any clothes from you guys, William picked up discarded clothes and put them on. But I have vivid memories. You’ve never found me. I remember seeing William from a distance, always wearing a favor and being busy lifting him up.”

At Theodore’s words, Elliott and Ceres were speechless as if they were choking.

In the case of Ceres, they even sat down, but the couple seemed distressed by Theodore’s words.

“I went out of the house at that time, but there was no sign of looking for it. I went out like that and rolled a little rough. I remember getting beaten up on the street, and I didn’t want to stay still, so I tried to kill bullies who were brandishing knives. .”

Some people were surprised by that statement.

“Then I realized about my power. And I realized. The real chosen one was me, not William.”

Theodore lightly raised his hand.

Then an amazing phenomenon happened.

As the spaces were twisted here and there, they began to flow in a zigzag pattern.

“What is this?”

“Oh my God?”

“Hey, space is messed up?!”

And Theodore, who caused this phenomenon, spoke calmly.

“From the beginning, the power of the chosen one to save the world should have been this much. It’s not just telekinesis.”

At Theodore’s words, Elliot looked at him and said.

“But…I am your father! The blood that flows in your body…Doesn’t change.”

“You don’t even know my face after I was 2 years old. And you still don’t feel sorry for me from the bottom of my heart.”

Elliot and Ceres vehemently denied Theodore’s words.

“No!”

“Oh no!”

After denying it like that, Elliott spoke as if he was unfair.

“I’ve always been truly sorry for doing bad things to my son, Theodore! The idea that William was the chosen one, blinded by the glory… he did the bad things, but he’s wrong now… Know.”

“Dad, stop it.”

Reina grabbed Elliot’s arm and restrained him.

“Re, Reina?”

Raina said to Elliott who was flustered.

“Dad couldn’t properly stop William when he was doing something wrong with me. No, he didn’t actively try to stop him. He actually stood by while watching William, didn’t he?”

“What are you talking about? Reina.”

Raina put on a bitter expression at the trembling Elliott.

Yuria was worried that the young woman might be carrying too much burden, but Reina seemed to have already made up her mind.

“Reina.”

Theodore called her name in a soft tone, unlike the way he was heading towards the Duchess of Artin.

Raina, feeling what Theodore thought of her just from that voice, smiled slightly at him.

“Brother Theodore. I’m going to talk to my dad for a moment. Please excuse me for a moment.”

Raina called Theodore not Theodore, but Theodore.

It was that she would treat him as Theodore Skylord, not Theodore Artin.

In other words, it meant that I would respect the current Theodore.

“Yes, okay.”

Theodore was also talking kindly to Reina. And her Judith’s eyes were strangely shining as she looked at her.

She seemed to have liked Reina already.