NOVEL NEXT chapter 6
6 – Reincarnation (1)
Ten years have passed since I took care of the children.
Until now, I hadn’t been able to successfully assassinate, and of course I didn’t die either.
I was still just enjoying the peaceful life with my children in this house.
“Elfin sister! You’re wearing my clothes again!”
“Your clothes are mine, and my clothes aren’t mine, right?”
“I really…… Don’t do that next time!”
“How pitiful, Liwin. In that case, you have to be very angry. If you live like that all the time, you will surely get angry someday.”
“Oooh… I’m the one who got hurt, but Justina says something only to me….”
“By the way, while Elfin is always referred to as older sister, why doesn’t she call her older sister even after she dies?!”
A noisy morning as usual.
A man who lives with three girls is always troublesome.
I took a bite of the jam-covered bread made by Liwin and said as if I was admonishing the noisy children.
“Stop fighting, you guys.”
“You guys…… ? If you think about it, isn’t this all because of you, Dane?! Since you have no respect for her original daughter, even these little ones…….”
“Oh, the strap of the dress is untied.”
“Hiyaaah?! Tie them up quickly!”
I tied the laces of Justina’s dress, who went wild with bread in her mouth, and skillfully stopped the fight between Leewin and Elfin and sat her in the chair.
“Quaaah… Master, let go!”
“Kyaa, kyaaak! If you put your hand in a place like that… !”
“Yes, as you all know I am a despicable assassin. So please, let’s just sit down and have breakfast, okay?”
Elfin grabbed her by the scruff of her neck and pulled her as it was, since her body was strong anyway, and Liwin gently hugged her thighs and moved her away.
Maybe it’s been 10 years since I realized that unlike when I was 6, I’ve gained weight now, but I didn’t bother mentioning it.
“Sorry, sorry, mister. Was it heavy?”
“So I asked her to lose weight while working out with her sister, Liwin. Master is heavy. After all, all wizards lack exercise.”
“No! Justina is slim! No, rather than thin…….”
“It will not grow.”
“Is that so?”
“What are these two sluts saying?!”
After 10 years, Elfin is 22 years old and Liwin is 16 years old.
It is only natural that the body would grow if there was such a passage of time.
Unlike Elfin and Leewin who had grown into full-fledged ladies, Justina remained the same as the little girl I first met.
“Anyway, if a dragon that is over 100 years old is 10 years older, then it will be there anyway. Still, isn’t it a bit serious that you haven’t grown even one inch taller?”
“Bonnyeo… I’m sure I’ve said this before, but….”
“Oh, really? I must have forgotten Can you talk to me again?”
Justina glared at me, trying hard to gather her fists from which the dragon’s mana surged.
But why? Even with the constricted pupils characteristic of dragons facing this way, he was not afraid at all.
Maybe it’s because I’ve seen Justina in the closest place to her for the past 10 years.
No matter how you look at it, it looked more like an annoyed cat than a dragon.
“Didn’t you say polymorph magic! She would have said that she could change into a full-grown woman at any time, she just kept it because she liked this look!”
“Oh, such a setting?”
“It’s not like that, it’s the truth!!”
Meanwhile, Elfin moved her seat behind Liwin and shouted at Justina, who was screaming at her, as if to look at her.
“Cook-Cook, yes. A woman should grow up like this. Isn’t Liwin a good example here? Her breasts are very…….”
“Kyaa, kyaaak?! Stop it, sister! Uncle is there too!”
“What is Master? There is nothing to be ashamed of in your family.”
I didn’t know what to say, so I drank cold water without saying anything.
“Kuhmm….”
Looking at Liwin’s dynamically swaying chest, I didn’t know anything else, but I thought it was a little strange.
Apart from Justina, Elfin lived 6 years longer than Liwin, but Leewin had an overwhelming advantage in size.
When I think about the fact that I have just entered my mid-teens, it seems that something is different, starting with my genes.
“uuu, but I’m embarrassed… ….”
But rather, Li Yun had a complex in his body.
Elfin and Justina are flat, but since only he swells up, he seems uneasy at the thought of being different from others.
I think I felt that way even more because I was a teenager.
However, I was in an ambiguous position to speak that way, so I was always on the side of saving my words.
‘But it’s fortunate that I’m at that level in puberty.’
I still vividly remember a few years ago when a violent storm called Elfin Puberty swept through our house.
So I was worried about Liwin, but fortunately, Liwin wasn’t so fierce.
If Liwin were like an elfin, I certainly wouldn’t have been able to endure it.
‘No, I guess I should have endured it. Because they’re family.’
As Elfin just said, we were already a family.
Although they are of different races and different ages, Justina, Elfin, and Liwin were sisters and best friends.
I’m just a guardian who happened to take care of those girls and raise them.
If I had to ask, it would be my father… I didn’t really want to call it that.
‘Ten years.’
Suddenly, I felt that a long time had passed.
Of course, for Justina, a dragon, and Elfin, an elf, 10 years would be just a tiny fragment of a lifetime.
It must have been a meaningful time for half-breed Liwin and me, who had a lifespan of about 100 years.
‘… Especially for me.’
I thought I wouldn’t live to be 30.
I was 25 when I first took charge of these children.
Besides, he was planning to sacrifice his life to assassinate key figures in the kingdom soon.
But something unexpected happened, and I ended up spending 10 years with the kids I thought I would see for a few months at most.
I remember the old man’s words, “You don’t know what people do,” But…….
‘I can’t put it off any longer.’
That doesn’t mean I forgot my goal.
To be exact, I haven’t forgotten a single moment in 10 years.
I secretly took out the dagger I always kept in my chest and fiddled with its handle.
“Guys.”
“Huh?”
“Yes?”
“This is sudden, but please listen.”
“Why do you set the mood like this?”
Lewin as well as Elfin are now at an age where they can live independently.
There is no problem with these children now even without me.
In addition, if you get older than now, your physical abilities will deteriorate and your hand skills will rust, so there is a high possibility that your assassination will be disrupted.
“No big deal. I think I need to go somewhere for a while. Can you be well?”
I will leave a separate letter for you, so I can say this much for now.
Actually, I don’t even want a touching goodbye. If you do that, it will only make your regrets grow.
A calm farewell like this suits me well.
“Of course! Please be careful!”
“A present when you come, you know?”
“…… Come back safely.”
I smiled cheerfully as always.
I’ve never been afraid of death anyway.
“I’ll be back.”
***
“Catch it! He is a traitor who murdered His Majesty!”
“Catch the black robed assassin!”
In conclusion, the plan worked.
The king’s life was taken, and the heads of several other key figures were mercilessly cut.
According to the information obtained in advance, not only the royal family with the possibility of succession to the throne, but also the nobles with high government posts.
I crossed out all the names I had written down on my roster.
As usual, it was time to put an end to it.
‘Hasn’t he been caught yet?’
But the unexpected happened.
As predicted, by the time I killed the last person, my stamina should have already reached the bottom and I should have been chained right away.
But it wasn’t really like that.
I was still able to run, even though my life was in danger due to major wounds here and there.
The possibility of escaping the soldiers and escaping through a secret passage was not nonexistent.
‘How is this possible?’
Before figuring out all the external conditions, there is something that needs to be prioritized.
To fully understand myself.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, it’s difficult to lose the battle, but I guess I was underestimating myself more than I thought.
‘It deserves it.’
Ten years ago, I was full of confidence and arrogance.
I had no doubt that I was the best assassin on the continent, and I thought I could do everything by myself without the help of my colleagues.
However, 10 years have passed.
During that time, I dreamed of being under the same roof as a dragon girl of an unimaginably high level for a human being.
Time to break down the rules of the world. He gave the magic genius precious memories every day.
Having been born a thousand years ago, he trained with a necromancer elf with a talent that would surely have made him the greatest warrior.
‘Justina, Leewin, Elfin… !’
After 10 years of living among monsters so enormous that even the word genius is not enough, I didn’t realize how strong I had become even though I grew up among them.
‘By the way, can I run away? ?’
The problem was that I was rather lost because of the sudden possibility of survival.
Is it right that I, who had already decided to die here, run away just because I might be able to survive?
Shouldn’t we think we’ve been given time to kill even one more person and do our best until the very end?
It’s not that you can survive just by running away, it’s just that there’s a slight chance of survival?
‘…… I don’t know.’
I have never been afraid of death.
But the emotion that engulfed my heart right now, no matter what anyone said, was fear.
Then what the hell am I afraid of right now?
‘Liwin.’
A child who has already lost his parents once due to the severance of the relationship called death.
I will give her the death of her parents once again.
‘Elfin.’
A child who was abandoned by his own people and family because of a prophecy.
She will feel abandoned once again for my cause.
‘Justina.’
A child who finally has a dream and will earnestly achieve it.
There is one less person to watch over her.
“…… Ah.”
The moment a magic arrow was driven into my heart, I finally realized.
It wasn’t that I was afraid of death.
It’s not that I was afraid of swords, spears, or arrows.
Even though my vision blurred, my five senses gradually disappeared, and my limbs became numb, I was certain of this.
I shouldn’t have said I was going.
Certainly, it should have ended more firmly with those children.
“Goodbye, you should have.”
Only then did I realize the true nature of fear.
It’s just that the fact that I won’t be able to see those children again is just so terrifying and frightening.
…… That was it.
***
[500 Years ago, the Kingdom of Delin, which was a small country at the time. Almost all of the Deadlyn royal family was annihilated overnight by a single assassin. Taking advantage of that gap, the rebels rose like bees, and eventually, His Majesty, the first emperor of the Great Kaiton Empire, took over the territory of the Delin Kingdom…….]
“Are you kidding me?”
Dane, no, Deneb Rehnar threw the book as it were.