The Chosen One Was Me, Not You

65 – {Those Who Know the Truth} 3

{Those Who Know the Truth}

“Raina, what are you talking about? Your brother is over there…”

She pointed at Theodore as Elliot panicked at Reina’s statement that she would talk to herself, she said to Reina.

But Reina put her finger on her lips and shh! She paused Elliott for a moment.

“Dad. Dad and Mom don’t deserve to call Theodore brother Theodore.”

From the start, Reina’s cold words stabbed the two of them in the chest.

“What do you mean?”

“Re, Reina? Why are you saying that!”

Reina went ahead with her words toward the Artin couple, who were bewildered as if she had never imagined that they would hear such words from their youngest daughter.

“In the end, neither my father nor my mother are truly sorry for Theodore oppa.”

“Reina! You talk too much!”

Elliot raised her voice.

But Reina said with unwavering eyes.

“If you truly felt sorry for Theodore, you would have apologized to me first.”

“That…what do you mean?”

As Ceres stuttered her question, Reina gave a bitter expression.

Since it was made by a girl who is only 14 years old, people around her murmured in disbelief.

“I panicked and ran out of the house as my brother William was beating me up. But my dad and mom didn’t even say they were sorry they couldn’t protect me.”

At Reina’s words, the movements of Elliot and Ceres froze.

Reina continued her words towards the two, who had hardened to the point where it looked like someone had cast a paralyzing spell on them.

“Even if Theodore’s brother comes to the Duke of Artin, Dad and Mom won’t properly stop William’s atrocities.

“Oh no…”

Elliot hurriedly tried to deny it, but his voice was quiet.

It was clear that he was feeling it himself too.

“Furthermore, Dad declared Theodore dead, just as William did. He officially accepted and treated Theodore as dead.”

Raina’s words stabbed Elliot again like a dagger. And she said Ceres, who had nothing to do with him, as if denying his fault.

“Oh, no. Mom, she didn’t agree with that kind of thing…that kind of thing. She always missed Theodore. Reina, you know that?”

Even to Yuria, there was a difference in the attitudes of Elliott and Ceres when they saw Theodore.

Unlike Ceres, who called Theodore as soon as he saw Theodore, Elliott had an attitude of saying “I’m not going to go away.”

But in the end, she was a bystander who couldn’t properly block Rayna when she felt fear when she was threatened by William.

“As Theodore oppa said, Dad and Mom are not sorry for Theodore oppa. They just want to erase their mistakes.”

Seeing Theodore slightly nodding her head at Reina’s words, Yuria felt that what he wanted to say was exactly what Reina was saying.

“It is as Reina said. Duke Artin, Duchess Artin.”

As expected, Theodore immediately helped Reina.

It was clear that they were concerned that the Duke and Duchess of Artin would yell at Reina if left alone.

“You are only looking for Theodore Artin with the intention of erasing your stain.”

“Oh, no. Theodore! Not really! Trust Mama! Please, trust me!”

“My mother is the Duchess of Skylord here. Please don’t impersonate my mother any more. Anyway, since Theodore Artin was 2 years old, I didn’t even know her until she ran away 11 years ago at the age of 10, You don’t even know when?”

It was clear that Theodore’s words hit Ceres the most painfully.

Eleven years ago, when Theodore was Theodore Artin, he couldn’t stand it and chose to run away.

However, we did not know exactly when he ran away.

“It was in August that you began your search. Do you know when Theodore Artin ran away?”

“That, that…”

Ceres stuttered.

“July, was it around July?”

I ran away from home in August, so when asked if I ran away in July, Theodore answered.

“It was April 17th. We started the search on August 20th, so it’s been over four months.”

In other words, they did not even know that Theodore Artin had disappeared for more than four months.

He said that knowing that he had disappeared began when the chef, who found it strange that food did not disappear from the kitchen, raised a question.

The servants involved were kicked out for nothing, but Theodore didn’t seem interested in that either.

‘I did too much.’

Related facts can be easily known by anyone who tries to find out a little, so YuRia knew that too.

And because of that, Yuria truly felt anger and contempt for Ceres’ behavior, not even knowing when her son had disappeared.

“He was a child who never existed. So please, please don’t label someone else’s son as your own.”

At Theodore’s declaration, the Duke of Skyroad tapped him on the shoulder and said.

“Yes, well said, Theo.”

“Yes, Father. I’m sorry to have caused you to hear such nonsense.”

At Theodore’s apology, the Duke of Skyroad shook his head.

“No. But didn’t you get angry and stand up for this father when he was being insulted? My son got caught up in something like this, and it’s no big deal that he only heard that amount of verbal abuse?”

At that, Theodore smiled slightly.

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It was disgusting.

It was disgusting.

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Ceres, who dared to come running to hug him, saw that woman. Theodore really wanted to have his leg amputated.

But suppressing the urge, he simply hit an invisible wall to block her access.

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

It was disgusting.

You dare call her mom in front of her?

She was a girl she didn’t even know her own face after she was 2 years old anyway.

Her and her own mother was the only one in this world.

“My mother is here.”

At her words, she felt her own mother, the Duchess of Skylord, smiling and hugging herself from her side.

It was a warm feeling that hadn’t changed since the days when he was still looking like a wounded young beast.

“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.”

To be honest, at that time most of my memories were of being forced to sleep by myself.

But even then, when I think about it now, it was a memory.

As she smiled as a result, Ceres, I saw the sight of that woman’s face turning pale, but I didn’t care.

“Madam!”

Elliot, that person finally appeared here too.

With this, all the important lead actors gathered on the stage.

‘Reina.’

But the sight of Rayna standing next to Elliot gave him a disturbing feeling.

And Reina also had a complex expression on her face, and she seemed to be in a complicated state of mind in many ways.

Yuria and Raina could be seen making eye contact and sharing a smile.

“Theodore…”

And seeing Reina, her feelings were shattered.

It was because of her own old name, called by a human more disgusting than Ceres.

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

The way Elliot made her speechless expression was mocking and contemptuous.

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

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

Theodore cut him off halfway through.

As expected, he was immediately making excuses for his own questioning.

‘From the beginning, those people weren’t really sorry for me.’

It was really pitiful to see him still thinking of excuses.

Theodore knew very well why the writers ignored Theodore Artin.

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

At that time, the Duke of Skyroad placed his hand on his shoulder and spoke to him.

He seemed disgusted as his father to see his son, Theodore, conversing with those who had done him an indelible wound.

“Duke of Sky Road…!”

Elliot glared at the Duke of Skylord, revealing her hostility.

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

In Elliot’s abdomen, Theodore squeezed his ki together, causing a crushing pain.

I couldn’t forgive him for saying such cruel things to his father.

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

And after that, Elliott and Ceres began to appeal that they were their real parents.

By telling them what Theodore had been through, they showed some of the power of the Chosen One.

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

Then he tried to put forward the blood flowing in his body.

It was at that time that they apologized saying that they were wrong.

“Dad, stop it.”

Reyna restrained Elliot by grabbing his arm, and Theodore felt his heart ache a little.

‘Reina.’

Then she caught sight of Reina with her bitter expression on her face and her own heartfelt thoughts directed at her parents.

But Theodore also sensed her determination.

“Reina.”

So he called her name in a soft tone.

It was to let her know that she had no ill feelings toward her and that her promise to her had not changed one bit.

‘I’m glad Judy likes it too.’

Theodore felt fortunate to feel Judith’s gaze on Rayna.

Seeing her look at her with Rayna’s gaze as if she wished she would soon become her own sister, she thought that if Raina opened up to her, they would soon become friends.

“Dad. Dad and Mom don’t deserve to call Theodore brother Theodore.”

“In the end, neither my father nor my mother are truly sorry for Theodore oppa.”

“If you truly felt sorry for Theodore, you would have apologized to me first.”

And at the sight of Raina coldly pouring out the truth to her parents, everyone held their breath as they watched her.

Judith’s eyes showed admiration, and the expression on the faces of the Duke and Duchess of Skyroad was anger and pity that the Duke and Duchess Artin had made such a young girl say such a thing.

“As Theodore oppa said, Dad and Mom are not sorry for Theodore oppa. They just want to erase their mistakes.”

And when Rayna’s words reached this point, and Elliot looked like he was going to yell at her, Theodore decided to hurry up.

Leave it as it is, Reina could have been hurt again by the actions of Duke Artin and his wife.

She wanted to lessen the pain she received from her.

“It is as Reina said. Duke Artin, Duchess Artin.”

After turning her gaze from Reina to herself, she brought out the truth they wanted to hide.

“You are only looking for Theodore Artin with the intention of erasing your stain.”

“Oh, no. Theodore! Not really! Trust Mama! Please, trust me!”

“My mother is the Duchess of Skylord here. Please don’t impersonate my mother any more. Anyway, since Theodore Artin was 2 years old, I didn’t even know her until she ran away 11 years ago at the age of 10, You don’t even know when?”

Theodore was sure that Ceres would not know the date of his departure.

Perhaps that’s the case, when he ran away, he had an idea just in case.

‘Would you really not know anything if I disappeared?’

With that in mind, I used to stay near the Duke of Artin for a few days.

However, surprisingly, there was no search.

In that fact, Theodore Artin at that time was convinced that he was a non-existent person in the Artin family.

“It was in August that you began your search. Do you know when Theodore Artin ran away?”

“That, that…”

Ceres stuttered.

“July, was it around July?”

As expected, I didn’t even know when I ran away.

“It was April 17th. We started the search on August 20th, so it’s been over four months.”

At Theodore’s words, Ceres was speechless for a moment.

The difference of four months must have been too much for her.

I heard that a lot of people who worked for the Duke of Artin were fired as a way to vent their anger at that time, but it was not important.

“He was a child who never existed. So please, please don’t label someone else’s son as your own.”

At Theodore’s declaration, the Duke of Skyroad smiled happily and patted him on the shoulder.

“Yes, well said, Theo.”

At the words of the Duke of Skyroad, Theodore remembered what Eliot had just said to him.

“Yes, Father. I’m sorry to have caused you to hear such nonsense.”

The Duke of Skyroad shook his head at Theodore’s sincere apology.

“No. But didn’t you get angry and stand up for this father when he was being insulted? My son got caught up in something like this, and it’s no big deal that he only heard that amount of verbal abuse?”