I Will Avoid The Death Flag [It's Published]
27. Conversation II

My first day in the Nebula passed quickly.

My body here is only a soul, so I don't need to eat or drink. At least I can sleep to rest my mind.

And now, I was in the library of the Sun Castle. As a woman who loves to die in books, I feel that I am in an earthly paradise.

The library here is not a joke. Just imagine having three floors that are as large as a football field in a stadium, aka this is very large.

So, when I wasn't with Angelina, I stopped by here to read a book. The language used in this book was the language of the Asher Kingdom, so I could read it without a hitch.

However, apparently I missed a tea appointment with Angelina because I didn't notice it as a result of reading. Therefore, here I am, in the library with Angelina with a cup of fragrant tea in front of me and various pastries.

We were supposed to have tea on the balcony, but since I had forgotten the time, we instead held this activity inside the library.

"So, Serethy. What more do you want to ask?" angelina asked with her usual calm smile. Angelina raised the teacup with a very majestic movement, it was amazing that I felt a tremor in my skin.

"Ah, yes, I have a few questions."

"Say that."

"The light."

"The light that comes out of your body?"

"Yes, Goddess. What is that light?"

"It's a holy power, Serethy. A sacred power that only the saint and saintess possess. That is, you are one of the few saints. And the saintess herself is the one chosen by me specifically."

"I have such power? But I didn't even notice it at all."

"That's normal. Because even the real Serethy doesn't know his own strength and potential."

I nodded small, but could not hide my surprise. Even in the novel [Luka Serethy], there is absolutely no mention of saintess or holy power. Throughout the novel, there is only physical and mental torture that occurs in many ways. The real Serethy should have found it strange why he could be constantly tortured without dying. Of course it was because of his holy power that healed every wound that Serethy suffered, making his body return to its normal state.

However, Serethy was unable to think of the reason for being too tired of being physically and mentally abused. So, it was normal to think about whether or not Serethy would still be alive tomorrow, compared to a holy power that was not even known of origin.

"How can Serethy be a saintess, Goddess?" ask me carefully.

"Before, you had to know who Serethy's mother really was."

Ah, I don't know that at all. Despite finishing the story in the novel, it is clearly only torture that leads to the age of twenty years and above, there is absolutely no information about Serethy's parents. Even the fact that Serethy's father and brother were on a quest was never mentioned. They seemed to disappear without a trace.

Well, this is just a novel for psychopaths and I read it instead.

"Who is she, Goddess?"

"Okay, maybe this story will be a little long."

I don't mind. It was precisely my purpose to stay in the Sun Castle was to know every bit of information that I never knew through novels. This is the perfect supply for me to survive in a world filled with psychopaths.

"That woman has pink hair like you. Is beautiful. She is a woman who continues to be glorified by her existence. Not only because she was a saintess, but also because of her physical beauty."

I could tell where Serethy's beauty came from. It is honest to me that the beauty of Serethy is beyond reason. I could have been jealous of Serethy if I hadn't been Serethy before.

"His nature is also very kind and friendly. Selene used her divine power for the people who needed it and used her divine power to the best of her ability. He has a personality that is loved by everyone. Even the King of Matria loved Selene."

Selene Bellacrice is the only daughter of the Baron Bellacrice family, a noble family in the Kingdom of Matria. Mother Serethy was the only hope of Matria and Bellacrice as someone chosen by the Sun God as a saintess.

This is also what makes Selene, who incidentally is only a daughter of the Baron, can marry a king and become a queen consort. However, after her marriage to King Matria, Selene became embroiled in many scandals.

First, Selene becomes involved in an affair with the King's cousin. Even King Matria had accused Selene of sin along with the King's cousin. In the end, the King's cousin was beheaded. Meanwhile, Selene's life is not much different from the King's cousin's bad luck.

Selene was a saint, but because of the scandal, she was treated as a great sinner. So Selene gets a new title, which is a cursed saintess.

The irony of how thousands of good drowns at the bottom of the ocean because of a single drop of ink.

Selene begins to be verbally abused in the palace, her pride as queen consort becomes futile, Selene's kindness is set aside. The nobles, servants, and palace staff began to ignore Selene's kindness.

Until arriving at one time, Selene was pregnant.

King Matria was so enraged to think that the child conceived by Selene was his illegitimate child with the King's cousin.

King Matria begins to vilely banish Selene and regards Selene as a cursed saintess. He said how it was possible for the king's kindness to marry a Baron's daughter who had nothing, to be met with scandalous infidelity and conceive an illegitimate child.

At the age of Selene's ninth birth, Serethy was born. Her face is similar to Selene's, a perfect replica of Selene without any semblance of a king. So everyone finally believes that Serethy is the illegitimate son of Selene and the King's cousin.

Selene lived for a year before dying of poisoning.

"Goddess, is it true that Serethy was the son of Mother Selene and the King's cousin?" my many.

"What if I say this, Serethy. That the affair scandal was just a tactic of a young noble lady?"

"So Selene's mother was slandered?"

I frowned without any impression. Goddamn bum.

"That's right. Selene is completely innocent. A young noble lady, who is blindly jealous ends up slandering Selene who is having an affair with the King's cousin. However, the truth never came to the mainland, the more exaggerated lies Selene was lying to."

I'm upset.

I don't know why, I feel so angry.

Maybe because this body is Serethy or because I am the owner of Serethy's body now.

Biologically, Selene is my mother. Which princess wouldn't be mad at a bullshit scandal about her own mother?

"Who is that noble lady, Goddess?" I clenched my hands tightly, so tightly, I felt a pain in my palm. "I swore I'd kill him to avenge Selene's mother."

"You don't have to worry, Serethy. The young lady was already dead when the Asher-Matria war took place. His entire family was slaughtered, so you don't have to do anything to avenge Selene."

Angelina raised her teacup, then took a soft sip.

"But, Goddess! I'm angry!"

Angeline could see the glare of wrath inside my violet bead. My muscles stiffened, my heart beat was timid, and the feeling of tension within me was overpowering.

"Serethy, revenge isn't the only way, honey."

"But—"

"If you're angry, you don't have to avenge Selene."

"Then what should I do?"

"Solve your own problems."

My problem?

As if knowing my astonishment, Angelina continued, "Clare Cyrill, she is your problem."

Aw, Clare. She is a crazy woman who participated in Serethy's torture in the novel. No wonder he is my problem.

"You should know that Clare has faked my word, Serethy."

"What do you mean, Goddess?"

I calmed myself from the burning anger and began to give full attention to Angelina.

"From the beginning, Clare was never a candidate for queen. The only one who will become queen in the future is you, a Serethy. Clare has faked my word and even created a scenario for the three parts of the competition that the two of you must execute."

I was quite surprised to find out the truth that Clare was only bragging about the competition to become Asher's queen.

Does she really want to be queen? Falsifying Angelina's words?

"Clare bribed the poor priest to fake my word. Of course the price paid to the priest was so exciting that I was not surprised if the priest could afford to lie to me."

I suddenly heard the sound of lightning and thunder outside the room.

"Utilizing the weak. Falsifying my word. Playing feelings. And have the will to kill you, Serethy. It was a bit of Clare's fault in her life. Supposedly, the definition of a damned woman is not Selene, but Clare."

I gulped. Angelina's angry. Although on his face was still a look of calm, the conditions outside the castle did not say so. Thunder and rumbling rippled, making my skin feel creepy and scared.

I did not reply to Angelina's words. I should at least wait for Angelina to temper her anger first.

"Well, Serethy." After a while, Angelina widened her smile. "So, after you return to Earth, there may be some things that you must tell the people of Asher."

"And what is it, Goddess?"

Suddenly, a soft golden light appeared in Angelina's palm. That light then turned into a glittering golden scroll.

The golden scroll floated in the air while curling ink to fill every corner of the paper.

"This is proof that Clare has faked herself as the candidate of the second queen. In the beginning, there was no such thing as a second queen candidate. Once you wake up, you can bring this up at any time if you think about it. To guarantee its authenticity, call the Cardinal."

"Ah, fine." I received Angelina's golden scroll and spontaneously, the scroll disappeared in my palm. I then gave the image of this paper roll in my palm and the plop, it reappeared.

It's practical.

I then felt an awkwardness in Angelina's previous sentence. I give full attention to Angelina.

"Wait, Goddess. If from the beginning there were no candidates for the second queen, then it was just me?"

I felt that Angelina's widening smile was wreaking havoc on my next life.

"That's right. You are destined to be the queen of Asher."

I feel panicked. I'm not lying. I'm panicking.

What queen is she? The queen is the second ruler after the king. That means I will rule a kingdom. Where to take care of myself I am still overwhelmed, but suddenly there is a huge burden on my tiny shoulders?

I hope this is just a joke.

"That's because the real Serethy asked for a chance. The real Serethy asked me that she could take the place of her suffering mother. The real Serethy is a devout servant, so I have no reason not to grant her prayers."

"But the Goddess, Serethy asked for it, not me. Why should I get the sap of all his deeds?"

"You asked for a chance, honey. It is the gateway to new opportunities. How could you miss that opportunity?"

I was so anxious to let out a tear in front of the Sun Goddess that I would absolutely not be able to make the Asher Kingdom prosper and peaceful as in her prophecy.

Taking care of the country is no joke. It was a great responsibility where I had to give up my soul and body only to Asher. It's a responsibility I can't bear.

"I won't be able to do it, Goddess."

Angelina nodded slowly. "You don't know if it hasn't happened yet. There's nothing wrong with trying."

"I never got the education to be a queen. Clare is better. She had already learned to be queen even when she was a child. He has more provisions to be a ruler than I."

"I just saw that you were running away from your troubles, huh, Serethy?" Angelina's golden bead looked at me. "Who previously said that he would promise not to run away again in his troubles if there was a next life?"

I was again jerked. That was my sentence before I swallowed the sleeping pills in high doses.

"Serethy." Angelina brought her body closer to me, placed both her hands on the table, then smiled gently. "Be the queen."