The Two Babies Changing the Original Story

 “Princess…?” 

Ellie was awakened by an unfamiliar call.

 

“Uh…?”

 

Strangers surrounded the bed.

 

“Huh? W-What’s this? Who are you?”

 

As she was surprised, she lost her sleepiness.

 

Ellie pulled the blanket over her and held it in her hands, looking around her.

 

A strange bedroom, strangers.

 

“Aaa! The Princess has awakened!”

 

“…?”

 

It’s true that I woke up, but I’m not a princess, though.

 

Ellie blankly looked at the people making a fuss.

 

“Are you sick anywhere? Are you okay?”

 

“Princess! I’m glad you woke up.”

 

People held Ellie’s hand and cried.

 

“Princess…?”

 

“Yes, Princess!”

 

“Me, a princess?”

 

“…Princess?”

 

The people who were crying at Ellie’s dumbfounded reaction gradually stopped crying.

 

Surprise slowly filled their eyes.

 

“Princess, perhaps your memories…”

 

“Doctor! Doctor!”

 

Realizing that Ellie’s memories weren’t perfect, people hurriedly searched for the Doctor.

 

It’s not that her memory isn’t perfect, it’s that her body is weird…

 

But Ellie didn’t bother to correct it and bit her mouth shut.

 

‘When you don’t know what kind of situation you’re in, you must wait still!’

 

She remembered a survival tip her brother had once given her.

 

Did he know that this would happen?

 

‘Brother Luden!’

 

She was intimidated by the unfamiliar environment.

 

Swallowing tears that were welling up, Ellie called out to her brother. However, her brother, who flew like the wind at Ellie’s call anytime, anywhere, was nowhere to be seen.

 

“Princess?!”

 

The person who heard the commotion and ran in haste wasn’t her brother, but the doctor.

 

He must have been eating, a piece of bread stuck to his cheek. Tiredness was smeared across his face. He was like her older brother when he was stuck in the lab.

 

“Have you come to consciousness? Where are you uncomfortable?”

 

“It seems that the Princess has a memory problem. She doesn’t seem to recognize us.”

 

Instead of Ellie, a woman who cried by her side answered.

 

“Oh my. Princess. I’m Doctor Girian. Do you also not know me?”

 

Doctor Girian put his hand on the humidifier and asked Ellie.

 

Of course, Ellie was the first person to see it. But her name was familiar.

 

‘Girian?’

 

Ellie’s eyes flashed open.

 

It was a name she knew.

 

“Girian!”

 

“Yes, I’m Girian.”

 

“You’ve been with Princess Ellia ever since she was born, but you suddenly said you wanted to explore new medicine in the new continent and retired!”

 

Ellie exclaimed, pointing a finger at Girian, excited by the name she knew.

 

Somehow, it was because he was a supporting character in a very thick book called ‘The Tale of the Queen’ that her brother read to her every night.

 

“Uh… I haven’t thought of that yet, but I guess the Princess thinks I would do such a thing?”

 

Girian scratched his cheek and asked.

 

Ellie closed her mouth at the question. Because it was a story when Princess Ellia turned twenty-two.

 

‘Wait?’

 

Ellie put together the information in her mind that had been rolling stiffly and pieced it together.

 

             = I’m now Princess Ellia.

 

‘…Huh?’

 

Ellie looked back at the people and asked cautiously.

 

“You know…”

 

“Yes, Princess!”

 

“By any chance, am I Princess Ellia?”

 

“Ooooh! Have you remembered your name!”

 

People cheered at Ellie’s words.

 

But Ellie couldn’t be happy.

 

Looking at people’s reactions, it’s now clear.

 

What has become of this situation?

 

‘Possessing a book.’

 

Although she always thought she wanted to be a princess.

 

Ellie, 7 years old.

 

She has become the real Princess Ellia from the book her brother read to her before bed.

 

***

 

Ellie desperately recalled what had happened at the end.

 

It was a day not very different from usual.

 

‘Nope. One thing was different.’

 

Ellie lived in the woods alone with her brother.

 

Brother said that he lived in the woods because he’s a genius magician.

 

Brother always locked himself in the study, reading difficult books, writing things, or experimenting. It didn’t seem like anyone was ordering him, but he always seemed busy. The life of a genius magician was originally like that.

 

Yet Brother didn’t neglect taking care of Ellie.

 

In particular, reading her a book before going to bed was never missed no matter what.

 

Ellie also likes the time Brother reads to her, so she waited for that time most of the day.

 

“Ellie, let’s lie down.”

 

“Already?”

 

However that day, Brother headed to bed earlier than usual.

 

“Yes, today is the day to read the book until the end. So let’s start reading a little early.”

 

“Yeah!”

 

Ellie first clung to her brother’s side as he leaned against the head of the bed.

 

Brother brushed Ellie’s hair once and opened the thick book that was on the bedside. His fingernails were scorched all over the thick sides.

 

He finished the other books after skimming through them, but he read this one line by line eagerly. So, it took a long time.

 

Brother used to read a variety of books to her whenever he had free time.

 

Some books were so exciting that even after reading one book, her eyes were clear, and some books were so difficult that she fell asleep before finishing a page.

 

Among them, there were quite a few stories that entered the world in the book. In technical terms, it was called ‘Book Possession’.

 

That’s why Ellie knew what book possession was all about.

 

“I want to possess a book too! I want to be a princess!”

 

When Ellie cried out, her brother smiled faintly and gave her an awkward nod.

 

“Yeah… Someday you will…”

 

She never thought the day would come when Brother’s support actually came true.

 

At that time, Ellie couldn’t have imagined that it would happen to her own future. So, innocently, she could excitedly exclaim,

“Wow, when will I be a princess?”

 

Brother habitually flipped through the stained book to find the last page he had read.

 

“…This book is also coming to an end.”

 

“Yeah!”

 

It was a book so far away that she wondered when he would finish reading it, but the end has finally come.

 

Somehow proud, Ellie replied excitedly.

 

Brother looked at Ellie bitterly, and then she started asking her usual question.

 

“Should I tell you the first part of what we read until yesterday?”

 

[The Tale of the Queen] is the story of Princess Ellia who became the girl king at the age of 7.

 

The Queen has the same name as Ellie, Ellia. It was just one letter difference.

 

She liked it because their names were similar. In the earlier scene where Princess Ellia wears pretty clothes and receives compliments from people, she was so excited that she even dreamed of it that night.

 

But as the story progressed, it became more tragic.

 

“Her mother and father, the King, passed away in an accident, and Princess Ellia suddenly became the Queen alone. The people around her pretended to be nice and took care of her, but it turned out that they were bad people!”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Princess Ellia believed only what they said and played every day, but then she became a bad queen and was kicked out, and she had it hard.”

 

Ellie was used to talking about the contents of the novel in her head.

 

“That’s right.”

 

Brother patted Ellie on the head again in praise.

 

The story was so extensive that she forgot the detailed episodes in between, but she remembered the context well. That’s because it’s not something that has been repeated once or twice.

 

After hearing the summary of the plot, Brother asked the usual additional question.

 

“Then what should Princess Ellia do?”

 

“Work hard as a princess like Ellie!”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Listen to other people!”

 

“Right.”

 

“She should try to do it herself!”

 

“That’s right.”

 

Brother proudly nodded his head and gave her a passing grade.

 

“Ellie, what would you do if you became Princess Ellia?”

 

“Study hard! Stay with good people beside me! I will be a great queen who does many good things for the people!”

 

“Yeah, great. Ellie is a genius, so you can do well without Brother, right?”

 

“Huh?”

 

Ellie widened her eyes in surprise at the question she heard for the first time.

 

Brother often played ‘what if’ games with Ellie in this way. However, this was the first time he had her draw a picture of a world without him.

 

“I hate not being with Brother, though…”

 

To think that there’s no Brother.

 

Just imagining it made her sad.

 

Ellie, who was sullen, was hugged tightly by her brother.

 

“But what if that happens?”

 

“Then I will go to find Brother.”

 

“…What?”

 

This time, Brother’s eyes widened.

 

It was the first time that Brother, who rarely showed emotional changes, was so greatly surprised.

 

Ellie was surprised as well, and her eyes widened to face her brother.

 

“Why…? I want to stay with you, Brother. I hate being apart from you.”

 

Brother was everything in Ellie’s life.

 

To Ellie, who doesn’t know who her mother and father are or where she was born, Brother is her mother, father, brother, and sister.

 

She didn’t want to think of a life without Brother. She couldn’t even think of it.

 

Brother stared at Ellie with a puzzled look on his face, then smiled thinly.

 

“Me too.”

 

Ellie didn’t know what to do and laughed along with Brother.

 

“But don’t waste your time looking for Brother, just think about getting along there.”

 

“Why?”

 

“Because if that situation comes up, Brother will go looking for you.”

 

At the time, she thought it was just her brother’s tenderness.

 

But now that she thinks about it, that was a notice.

 

Brother knew about this.

 

That Ellie will be possessing as Princess Ellia.