Immortals From My Past Life Are Still Obsessed With the Reincarnated Me

21 – Basic Magic Lesson (3)

As soon as I heard the question, I had to swallow the answer without spitting it out of my mouth.

Instead, he canceled his original answer and gave a completely different answer, which was in fact the exact opposite.

“No.”

If someone asked me if I had ever raised children, I would probably nod my head unconditionally in my previous life.

She raised Liwin, who was only six years old, into a sixteen-year-old girl, and subdued an elfin in her adolescence, who was in full swing, and raised her into an adult woman who could go anywhere on her own and live alone.

Justina is older than me, so I can’t say I raised her… It would be fair to say that we just lived together.

‘But now I can’t say I raised them.’

There is no other grandiose reason. It’s not that I haven’t raised it in this life, or anything like that.

It was just a matter of conscience.

In my previous life, I made up my mind before carrying out my plan, that is, when I left for the capital of Delin Kingdom.

I didn’t raise Liwin and Elfin, I just lived with them.

If I raised them, it would mean that I played the role of a foster father for Leewin and Elfin, or even a father.

‘But I… I ran away.’

After reincarnating, I don’t know how many times I blamed myself that day.

I constantly regretted it and thought I wanted to turn back time.

It felt like I was still a ghost trapped 500 years ago.

I promised myself that if I could go back to that day, I would definitely confess everything and confess that I would never come back home.

I had already experienced the miracle of reincarnation once, and there was no way that another miracle of rebirth would happen to me.

‘Why did you do that?’

Why didn’t I tell my children the whole truth?

Why didn’t you tell me you’d never come back?

Lewin and Elfin thought that they would be fine without me now that they had grown up, but did they think that they would not be able to withstand the truth that I would die soon?

‘That’s not it. Not at all.’

The reason I didn’t tell you was simple.

It wasn’t out of consideration for the kids who would hear that.

I just don’t have the confidence to tell the kids, I’m scared, I’m burdened… I evaded the responsibility of telling everything and ran away.

Like a little boy who is late without leaving a word because of the brief nagging you’ll hear if you contact him in advance saying he’ll be late.

Raising means taking responsibility for children’s lives.

In addition, people who live with the responsibility of children’s lives on their shoulders are called parents or nurturers.

At least I, who grew up as an orphan, thought so.

And I, who failed to fulfill that responsibility and ruined the end with the worst ending, had neither the right to claim to be a parent nor the right to say that I raised children.

“…… hahahaha.”

I laughed out loud when I saw the girl’s face that resembled Justina.

It was as if all of my sins, which I had been trying to avoid by turning a blind eye to, were revealed through her blue eyes.

However, on the other hand, it seemed as if my mind had been cleared up after receiving this girl’s unknown intention just a moment ago, and the core that had developed after going through the ordeal had been resolved.

‘Wait a minute.’

After sorting out the answers, I started to feel confident.

I wondered if it was Justina or just a girl who looked just like Justina.

But asking this question… No matter how I look at it, I can only see that I am floating.

‘…… That’s right, Justina.’

Of course, there is evidence that the girl in front of him is not Justina.

First of all, there was no way that Justina, who would have been over 500 years old, entered the school as a freshman in the first year.

According to the current situation, it was because Justina was the director of Denbergen Academy.

‘The door that never opens, because it must be related to a person with power in the school, such as the chairman of the board.’

Besides, Justina, a dragon who is proficient in magic, cannot take such basic magic lessons.

However, both of these evidences are invalid if we assume one hypothesis.

If Justina came to see me hiding her true identity, then everything she said is true.

‘This makes it clear. Justina doesn’t know the dagger’s ability to store memories.’

If I had properly concealed her identity, I would have changed her way of speaking and even her appearance.

But while Justina found me, she is not sure and wants me to recognize herself first.

The proof was that his way of speaking and his appearance were all similar to those of 500 years ago.

Also, if I was certain that I was a Dane, I would have crashed into it and locked it up, so it seems that I am still not sure that I am the reincarnation of a Dane.

‘Among intuition and reason, I should trust my intuition.’

Even while I was thinking like this, my reason kept arguing that no matter how much it was, it made sense.

But, no matter what anyone said, my superior senses insisted that the girl in front of me was Justina.

Even if I meet the dragon I’ve been with for 10 years again after 500 years, I won’t forget my senses.

This girl is Justina.

At least I was so sure.

“…… Is it. Your guess is wrong.”

The moment I was convinced, the gray-haired girl, or Justina, turned her head away with her disappointed face.

But once she blinked her eyes open, her attitude was back to normal.

If you have to look closely… Something like a strange anticipation in the eyes looking at me has faded a little?

“Since you asked for my personal information, can I ask one too?”

“Personal information, why do people ask if they have ever raised a child?”

“What would I really do if I had children? Isn’t it kind of like having a child at this age?”

“Hmph, smirking… Well, if you have any questions, ask them. I don’t know if I’ll answer or not.”

I thought deeply before opening my mouth.

“Tell me your name.”

“…… Bo, you mean the original girl’s name?”

Her expression, which had been calm for a moment, changed in an instant.

It’s not that big, but it seemed like I could even feel the heat in the eyes that radiated from the round blue eyes.

I looked straight into her eyes and said clearly.

“Yeah, it’s my first time going to school, so I’m working hard on making friends these days.”

“Isn’t the girl next to him enough? What is the name of the original girl…….”

“Aren’t you going to tell me?”

I tried to hide the tension from my face and continued asking questions.

She wondered what kind of identity Justina had created.

If you’re going to keep following me like this, it’s better to at least keep it within sight.

…… Even though she decided to put off revealing that I was a Dane to Justina because of her memories of reading through the dagger.

“Bonnyeo… Yu, Yuz. It is called Yuz Denbergen.”

“Denbergen? Aha, isn’t the president of this school from the Denbergen family?”

“No, that’s right. I heard that the heads of the Denbergen family serve as the directors of the Denbergen Academy for generations. I heard that the name Denbergen Academy was derived from the family name… Are you the president’s daughter?!”

Charlotte interjected and her eyes twinkled as Justina gave her a fake name she had just made up.

I usually only meet the people of Rehinar, but was it strange to meet the prince yesterday and the daughter of the chairman today?

However, Justina only slightly turned her head to Charlotte’s question.

“…… Well, let’s do that for now.”

“As you may already know, I am Deneb. Deneb Rehinar. Let’s get along well in the future.”

I readily reached out my hand first.

I’ll have to watch and decide whether to let Justina know about my reincarnation, but no matter how hard it is, I’ve met her previous life’s ties after anxiously chasing the traces for the past 17 years.

She felt a little sick to her stomach thinking that if she hadn’t read the memory of the dagger, she might have been able to enjoy the reunion without thinking.

‘No, what if I get caught?’

It is true that I wanted to meet Justina.

But she didn’t want to meet ‘only’ Justina.

Besides, she was locked up in Justina’s academy, and later, even if she found out whereabouts of Elfin or Liwin, she never met a situation where she couldn’t meet her.

As if she knew what I was thinking, Justina stared at her hand, crossed her arms, and pouted her mouth.

“…… It was a handshake.”

I felt that she was like the Justina I know, and I almost burst out laughing without realizing it.

***

“Hey, student? Now is the time to use magic yourself, but if you lie on your stomach doing nothing, your score will be…….”

“Haa, that really bothers me.”

After her conversation, Justina fell into her anguish.

In response to the words of Professor Darnay, who approached her as if she was not doing anything, Justina cast her basic magic written in her book.

That too, with skills that are several times more sophisticated than Darnay’s.

“Heh, hee hee hee profit… ….”

Professor Darnay almost blacked out for the second time today out of admiration.

Justina ignored Darnay and went back to her thoughts.

‘I really don’t know…… !’

I was puzzled no matter how many times I replayed the conversation I had with Deneb.

She thought she would be able to tell straight away if Deneb was a Dane or not by talking to her in person, but that wasn’t the case.

She said, ‘There’s no reason to lie about not raising her, so I thought she wasn’t a Dane, but seeing her talk makes me feel like a Dane… ?!’

Before he spoke to her, Justina’s half thought that she was a Dane and half that she might not be a Dane was still the same in Justina’s mind.

No, she seemed more confused.

Seeing that she matched the ancient characters, she must have been reincarnated with her memories, so there’s no way she couldn’t say she never raised them, but her tone is the same as Dane’s.

‘Maybe some memories remain and some don’t… ?!’

She repeatedly speculated about this and that, but in the end, she had no way of knowing that she was reincarnated, since Even Justina had never seen it in person.

She was just told that it is very rare for humans to jump through time and reincarnate with their memories.

Although the source is a fairy tale she picked up as a child in her parent dragon’s nest… Justina still firmly believed in her.

After much thought, Justina came to two conclusions.

‘First, I am not a Dane.’

In this way, she doesn’t even need to find out.

Just think of him as one of the Dane-like men you see occasionally and move on.

She’s at this age she’s stopped going to school and being silly.

‘Second, he’s a Dane, but he’s deliberately pretending he’s not.’

Her problem was that her potential remained and her continued haunting her.

She didn’t know, so at the end she overwrote the fake identity that she was Justina’s daughter, but she honestly thought she was Justina and she had enough to show off before that.

‘She didn’t hide her tone, and her appearance was almost the same as it was then, just a little bit more mature! He even showed me magic!’

If she was a Dane that Justina knew, there’s no way she wouldn’t have noticed.

That means that while he noticed that it was Justina, for some reason, he was deliberately pretending not to know, or he was forcibly denying it.

‘Even if there is a little more evidence that Deneb Leh Nar is her Dane, she will ask her directly, revealing her true identity… ok….’

Right now, the odds are half and half.

For now, there was no other way than to continue to watch this student by his side.

‘Perhaps, if you already noticed and pretended not to know… Why?’

Justina couldn’t figure out why.

Of course, since she was a Dane, she was such a free spirit that if she noticed Justina’s petty protective measures, she might have deliberately pretended not to be caught up in it.

If she’s a Dane, she might consider Justina’s protection as a plan for her confinement.

‘But she wouldn’t be able to find out about Dane?’

The problem was that Justina had never told anyone, not even her headmaster, Zerniel.

Since she founded Den Bergen Academy 300 years ago, she has kept it a secret, so there is no way anyone knows about it.

At least as far as she knows, her information hasn’t leaked anywhere.

In the past 500 years, no one was close enough to accidentally say something like this.

She didn’t even create a family, and the only reason she built her school was to live her Dane’s dream and wait for her Dane’s reincarnation.

‘Dane… Is she really back… ?’

The ghost of the past who was truly bound 500 years ago was Justina, not Deneb.

However, the waiting time has already been 500 years.

It’s okay to add a day or two or even a few weeks to 500 years.

Besides, didn’t there just be a basic combat class tomorrow?

You’ll be convinced that Deneb is a Dane by watching them fight.

Because being an assassin wasn’t something that could be easily hidden.

‘This time, surely…… !’

Justina clenched her tiny fists and strengthened her will.