ICSM 10

Chapter 10

[Golden Family Geum Siblings Obsessed With Her]

What the hell is this?

[I’m Getting Off at This Station]

Haha, Author, where do you live? Author? Could you please answer me?

Au. thor. ni. m ! ! ! ! ! ༼ง=ಠ益ಠ=༽ง

[A Happy Ending Is the Most Perfect Home]

????? What is this, a dream????

[Please Read Akbaeksoo, I’m Begging Youㅠㅠ]

No, fucking hell, heroine, what the hell are you doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Send the Junk Car to the Scrap Yard]

Wow, I thought this was a comfortable trash can, but it turns out this place was a scrap yard.

Wow, seriously, that backstab was fucking insane, shocking, and amazing.

Looks like Lovely is the only character who isn’t a junk car lol. Hey, just become the protagonist yourself lol. What a frustrating, sweet-potato story lol.

When I came to my senses again, I was lying on the bed in my room.

“Haha, hahahaha!”

I had worked like crazy and supported him all my life, but……

What I got in return was a cold betrayal.

“Life……. Why does this only happen to me!”

It seemed that this time, I had gone back even further.

Even I could hear how childish my screaming voice sounded.

I asked Ena, who came after hearing my scream, what year it was.

She said it was the year 214.

The one good thing was that I had returned to before my engagement to Pedro, the man controlled by his lower half.

“I’m not getting married. Ever.”

“All of a sudden?”

“I’m not getting marrieddddd!”

My sudden declaration of lifelong singleness only made my family happy.

But unlike my family, I felt like I was going to die from depression.

‘Is there really no way to stop the destruction?’

I really tried hard.

In my previous life and the life before that.

I did my best and always chose what I thought would benefit the world.

One of those things was supporting the ability users…….

But what more could I possibly do?

How much harder was I supposed to try?

I had no confidence left.

‘If I at least knew what happened, I could somehow try to stop it.’

Even though I poured so much money into them, I never even got to see a single hair on the heads of the ability users.

So I had no idea what they did on the final day, either.

“I gave you so much money…… and you couldn’t even grant me one wish? You useless bastardsaaaaaa!”

If I failed to stop it this time, too……

Would I have to repeat this time again?

My first regression was when I was fifteen.

This time, I regressed to when I was eleven.

Then next time, how old would I be?

And if I kept repeating my regressions and eventually went back to before I was even born?

Would I be able to be born safely?

“……I’m scared.”

Aside from how pointless it all felt, the thought that I might have to keep repeating this without knowing when it would end was terrifying.

If only I had never regressed.

If I had simply died on the day of destruction without knowing anything, like everyone else……

‘Maybe that would have been much better…….’

I could not hide my depression.

I knew my family was worried about me, but I had no strength to do anything, so I stayed in my room.

My family watched me with worried eyes.

“Cutie. What’s wrong? Did someone bully you? Should I go and scold them?”

“Noona, get up and play with me. Huh?”

“I don’t know what happened, but if someone as bright and thoughtful as you is this upset, then it must be something serious. Lovely. Stay here until you feel better. And whenever you need help from your family, ask us. Even if we are busy, we will come whenever you call.”

My family came to check on my mood every single day.

Their love and attention eventually helped me get back on my feet.

“Are you feeling a little better now?”

“Yes. I’m sorry.”

“For what? Children have all kinds of worries when they are young.”

Hehe.

Mother smiled and gently hugged me.

Although my mind was already that of an adult, perhaps in front of the existence called a mother, I could always become a child.

I leaned into her arms and acted spoiled.

“Should we postpone this family trip until next time?”

Mother carefully asked while holding me.

We went on a family trip around this time every year, but since it had only been a short time since I came to my senses after regressing, she seemed to be considering postponing it.

I shook my head.

“No. Let’s go. On the trip.”

For me, this might be another period of time that would be repeated again.

But for my family, this was a moment that would happen only once.

I did not want to waste this precious time, which was already too short to shower them with love, because of my fear.

‘Come to think of it, I met him on this trip.’

That bastard Pedro.

Thinking about it now, he really was nothing special.

His face was somewhat handsome, but he was not handsome enough to be some god of beauty.

The reason I had fallen for him so helplessly was because I felt indebted to him for saving my life.

‘My memories from this time are vague. Something really scary seems to have happened.’

Was I being chased by something?

In my broken memories, there were scenes of Pedro holding my hand and running away.

I had been raised like a flower in a greenhouse, surrounded by my family and never experiencing anything difficult.

So there was no doubt that this had been a very frightening experience for me.

Pedro was also the same age as me.

Yet, somehow, he had the courage to keep taking me with him without abandoning me until the very end.

How could I not fall for him?

To my young self, there was no other person but the prince from a fairy tale.

‘But why did he become so mean after that?’

Did he simply like every woman?

It was difficult to understand.

It was more comforting to think that the bastard was simply mentally ill and acted however he wanted.

‘Sigh.’

Would I meet him on this trip again?

Anyway, I had no intention of getting involved with him again.

I knew something dangerous was going to happen, although I did not know what it was, so I had no intention of going around looking for trouble.

I would just stay safely and comfortably among my family and enjoy the trip.

That was what I thought at the time, too.

“Hehehe, hello?”

Despite my determination, when we arrived at the place where our lodging was located, the Sachsen family was waiting for us as if they had known we were coming.

The place we were traveling to was a forest near the Sachsen territory, but it did not belong to their territory, and it was also some distance away from the lord’s castle.

Unless they had deliberately come looking for us, there was no reason for us to meet like this.

Because of that, we all could not help but feel uncomfortable and displeased.

We knew exactly why they had come.

‘Really, nothing has changed.’

No.

Since this was the past, it would be more accurate to say that they were still the same in the future.

And that applied not only to the Viscountess of Sachsen, but also to Pedro.

The young boy had a face full of mischief……

He was a grumpy little child, so he was somewhat cute.

But knowing how rotten the inside of his head was, I could not develop even the slightest affection for him.

Perhaps because he was treated like a prince in his territory, he stared at my handsome older brothers with jealous eyes.

“So this young lady is the princess of the Count’s family.”

Even though we were clearly showing our discomfort, I could not tell whether the Viscountess was clinging to us because she genuinely did not understand, or simply because she was shameless.

A boy and a girl of the same age.

Her calculations were obvious.

Her son did not look bad, so perhaps she thought he could attract my attention.

And in my previous life, I really had fallen for it……

So her plan was not completely unreasonable.

As soon as I felt her gaze on me, I deliberately hid behind Mother’s skirt.

Normally, I would have cheerfully greeted her.

But because I did not hide my discomfort and simply hid myself, my family seemed quite surprised as well.

“Oh, my…… She’s cute when she’s shy, too.”

“Madam. I’m sorry, but we have just arrived and we are tired.”

Mother gently told them to leave while the rest of my family gathered around me and hid me from their greedy gazes.

Since the entire family did not hide their discomfort, perhaps it was difficult for the Viscountess to continue shamelessly.

Her face turned red.

“……I’m sorry. I was simply happy because there are no children around here who are the same age as our child.”

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Did she mean that the commoner children living in the Sachsen territory were not the same age?

Since they were a family that cared about social status, it was obvious that they did not even consider commoners to be human beings like them.

“I hope our children can have a pleasant time together while you are here.”

We barely managed to send the Viscountess away, even though she continued to cling to us until the very end.

I was already tired, and I wondered if coming here had been a mistake.

But then I shook my head.

‘What are they going to do if I don’t deal with them? I can just stick to my brothers and never leave them. What are they going to do about that?’

I repeat, there was a time when I thought that way, too.

I did not know because I had no memory of it, but the Viscountess was truly persistent.

She came to visit every day and bothered me.

“Princess, would you like to go pick flowers with our prince? There is a beautiful flower field nearby.”

“No, thank you.”

Save me, Brother!

I quickly ran over and hugged my second older brother.

If I acted this shy around strangers, anyone else would have given up.

But her endless persistence was almost enough to make me respect her.

‘That bastard is funny, too.’

His mother was throwing away her pride and doing everything she could to bring me closer to him.

But the very person she was trying to bring closer to me did not even hide his expression of, Who the hell are you?

It seemed he did not like me because I had taken away his mother’s attention.

But……

‘I don’t need that attention either.’

Sigh.

My parents were also troubled by the Sachsen family constantly coming to visit, but there was nothing they could do.

Although they were close to neutral, Sachsen was also part of the Emperor faction.

Even though we were in the same faction, if we failed to get along and avoided them, it could become politically troublesome.

All we could do was sigh.

Perhaps the Viscountess thought it would be difficult to lure me out by herself, because now the Viscount himself came to visit.

But this time, it had a little effect.

“Hunting?”

“Yes. A herd of rare white deer lives in this forest. They are very difficult to find because they hide and run away so well, but if you succeed in hunting one, you can obtain truly excellent leather.”

As he said this, the Viscount lifted his jacket.

Underneath it was a vest made from deer leather that was closer to ivory than white.

Perhaps because it had been well maintained, or perhaps because it really was as fine as he said, I could see its smooth, glossy surface shining.