The Hidden Princess
Repeating Time Back

“Your Majesty, it's morning, it's time for you to wake up.”

Xaveryn's vegetables heard the familiar voice of a woman waking herself up. Slowly Xaveryn tried to open her eyes, the first sight she saw was a short-haired woman wearing a maid uniform. The woman smiled gently as Xaveryn opened her eyes, she clearly knew the woman very well.

Suddenly Xaveryn hurriedly rose from her sleeping position, her pair of hazel beads perfectly rounded.

“Annita .. You're Annita, right? Why are you here?”

Yes, the maid was Annita, she was Xaveryn's governess who was appointed directly by the Emperor to babysit Xaveryn in the tower away from the crowd. Annita's face was confused as Xaveryn looked at her with a shocked look.

“Yes, this is Annita, Your Majesty,” Annita replied.

‘How could Annita be here? And again, she looks younger, I never once forgot her face.’

Xaveryn looked down in disbelief, suddenly a bad memory hit her head, Annita's death that she had never forgotten in a lifetime. Annita is one of the most successful people in her life. Annita is willing to sacrifice herself to save Xaveryn from enemy attacks.

“Your Majesty, you must live no matter what happens, I will be the bait and you can escape through the back door of the tower. You got that? Don't let them catch you.”

“How about you, Annita?”

“Do not mind me, for me your safety is the main one because I have promised the late Empress to protect you.”

A picture of Annita's blood-soaked memory approaches Xaveryn and takes her to the tower that passes through the forest. A painful memory for him when his loved ones die for protecting him. Now Xaveryn returned to a time where she could still clearly see the sweet face of Annita who always smiled at her.

“Your Majesty, what's up? Why are you acting strange? Could it be that you suddenly lost your memory? Oh god, this must not be allowed.” Annita suddenly panicked, she fumbled Xaveryn's forehead to check the girl's temperature.

“I'm fine.” Xaveryn again widened in shock, she only realized her voice sounded different and her hand turned small.

Spontaneous Xaveryn jumped down from the bed, she rushed towards the large makeup mirror that was plastered in the room. To Xaveryn's surprise, watching the small shadow of her body, she fumbled across her face to make sure she wasn't dreaming. It is clear that Xaviern is back as a child. Then Xaveryn circulated a glance around the room, this familiar sight was her room while in the tower.

“What are you doing well saj—”

“Have you forgotten? You're five years old, Your Majesty. Though it was only yesterday that you had a birthday, but you forgot about it so quickly.”

Xaveryn's body decays to the floor, her heart as if it was squeezed, a feeling of fear and despair comes back to haunt her. The shadow of death, betrayal, and pain he had felt during his sixteen lifetimes had never been forgotten in the slightest.

‘I'm alive again, I'm back to five years old, but why? Why am I back again? I don't want to live, if I live I'll end up staying the same. I will die at the hands of Emperor Saverio, they torture me again, harass me, fuck me, and humiliate me. Why did God give me this sad life? This is my seventeenth life, I am very frustrated .. I am afraid ...’

Annita immediately greeted Xaveryn's body that almost fell to the surface of the floor, the small body began to tremble violently let out a sweat wet forehead. Annita looks anxious, she tries to call Xaveryn, but no response is given Xaveryn. The golden-haired girl drowned in the dark memory that enveloped her memories.

“What should I do? Suddenly the Princess fell due to fever.”

In a tower of this size there are only two of them, sometimes knights come to ensure the condition of Xaveryn and Annita. In addition, when it was raining heavily, Annita could not get out of the tower to call a doctor so Annita was forced to treat Xaveryn using only makeshift drugs. Annita compresses Xaveryn while hoping nothing bad happens to Xaveryn.

Until the night before, Annita began to calm down because Xaveryn's condition improved slowly. Annita can now rest while waiting for Xaveryn to wake up, she comes out of Xaveryn's room and lets the girl sleep in her room. A few hours later, Xaveryn woke up with a bad breath, apparently having a nightmare.

“Again I dreamt of my past life, I thought I wouldn't live again after I shot my head with a gun, but it makes no difference ..” Xaveryn bent her knees, all over her body still trembling considering her past.

Then Xaveryn raised her head back, she scanned her right hand which was emitting a spark of blue light. Xaveryn was stunned, her eyes perfectly rounded as the spark of light enveloped her right hand.

“Magic ... Why did I get to cast magic when I was five years old? In the previous life I only realized this magic when I was twenty years old, precisely at the time of the rebellion. There is no magic in this world, that is what I know because magic disappeared twenty thousand years ago. I am the only person in this world who has an abundant amount of magic in my body.”

Xaveryn seemed unhappy with the existence of magic in her body because of the magic that the Saverio Empire wanted her to have. As the only human who has magic and who has infinite magic in his body makes Emperor Saverio complacent.

“Because of this magic I lost everything, I don't want to have magic in my body, I just want to be an ordinary human being. They fucked me to absorb my magic energy, I hate it when I remember it. Magic can only be absorbed through body contact so before I die, the existence of this magic slowly spreads to the corners of the world. I was made Empress, but behind that I was just a power-enhancing tool.”

Xaveryn continued to mutter, repeatedly hitting his own head and blaming himself for being the root cause of the problems for the family and people of Graziella. There was no stopping Xaveryn's tears dripping out, just how great of a trauma she had gotten from the painful life she had lived all along.

“If only I had never been born into this world, had I died when I was born, this empire would never have been destroyed at the hands of the rebels. Why did God send me to this world? Mother died while giving birth to me, I am nothing more than a pesky bringer Princess. I'm just a parasite, I should just die .. right, I should die no matter how.”