LIGHTNOVELWORLD My Daddy Hides His Power
Chapter 195
“Ramon! Ramon!!!”
The Emperor’s roar rang out. The aide, Ramon, rushed in and fell down in front of a very angry Nicholas. “Was there anyone you missed?” “…!” Why is he asking this? Ramon recalled that Enoch had come to visit him a little while ago. ‘No way, Duke Rubinstein…’ His mind went blank. From the beginning, the risk of using commoners for terrorism was too great. Powerless people. They are infinitely weak, but at the same time, they cannot be controlled or brainwashed by Primera because they don’t have any holy power. Since everything has to be controlled by manpower, variables are bound to arise. “Your, Your Majesty. I, I apologize. My, my life… keugh!” For a moment, his heart shrunk painfully. Ramon rolled on the floor, clutching his chest and croaking. Is he going to die like this? As he began to lose consciousness, the pain stopped. “Your, heuk, Your Majesty…” When he glanced up, he saw Nicholas sitting blankly in his seat, as if his soul had escaped. “This… I’ve lost count of how many times it’s been…” “….” “It feels like something’s wrong. Everything is going too strangely…” Nicholas muttered helplessly. “Since Enoch returned to the capital. When I tried to grab the leash once, his daughter turned out to be Octavia…” “….” “As soon as Enoch came, the god who had disappeared appeared and saved the sick. In the end, the high priest who was like my limbs died, and even the standing of the great temple fell to the ground.” “….” “It took four years to put it back together. I used my blood, my life…” By establishing a fake Primera, Crown Prince Franz, they managed to restore the authority of the imperial family. A new era of a wise king who brings rain to drought-stricken lands with a single gesture and subdues the beasts. Of course, it was all Nicholas’ ability. Was it from then? Nicholas felt like he was being chased. The Crown Prince was constantly sacrificing his own lifespan without rest to conceal his identity as a fake. “Rather than using Enoch as a hunting dog, it feels like I’m the one being hunted. With his petty beliefs, he’s slowly trampling down my tower.” “….” “The comrade I sent to die in battle has become a conquering hero, and Ramon, the trash you missed, has fallen into Enoch’s hands.” “I, I apolo…” “I guess I have no choice but to admit it now.” Nicholas groped the air with empty eyes. “God is on Enoch’s side.” * * * Duke Rubinstein. Enoch, who came to the Wizard Tower claiming to have something to say, took Oscar to his own home. Oscar, who had been dragged around for a long time, shouted angrily. “Ah, what is it! Really!” Today, for some reason, the father and daughter behaved strangely. Doesn’t Lilith cry bitterly all day long? Enoch was dressed in black from top to bottom, as if he were going to a funeral somewhere, and had a gloomy expression the whole time. “Hey. Tell me why you brought me here. I’m really frustrated that I’m going crazy.” “Come in.” “Tsk.” Oscar was dragged to the basement of the Duke’s annex, which was not in use. An empty secret room. There was a glass coffin lying around. “What is it?” “Alberto Manuel.” “….” “It’s your grandfather.” For a moment, Oscar’s eyes widened. What did he say? He couldn’t believe his ears for a moment and looked at Enoch’s expression. He looked serious. He didn’t seem to be lying. “What do you…” “Check it.” Oscar approached the coffin without hesitation. Underneath the transparent lid of the coffin, the body was visible. …? He roughly rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand and looked again. Skinny body. A wrinkled face. He looked a bit older than his last memory, but there was no doubt—it was indeed his grandfather. “How…” The vanished one, Alberto Manuel. He disappeared at the age of 64. Both before and after Oscar regressed. * * * When regression is successful. Oscar was 10 years old. So, that year when Lilith was just born and Enoch disappeared. The reason for choosing that moment was to allow the child to rebuild memories from scratch without longing for the father she had been searching for. ‘But I didn’t think of this.’ Oscar, who could only think about Lilith, realized this only after he opened his eyes in the body of a 10-year-old. That his own time had also been turned back. His parents were still alive, and his grandfather had yet to disappear. ‘If my guess is correct, my grandfather must have regressed now.’ Two regressors coexisted, but only Oscar knew this. “Son, listen carefully. There’s no need to create such magic, and you shouldn’t create it either. If something like this falls into the wrong hands, it will lead to war.” Was it just by chance that he returned to the very next day after he had made the magic formula? His father, upon discovering the offensive magic formula created by his ten-year-old son, spent over an hour scolding him and then burned it. ‘It reminds me of someone.’ When he was alive, Oscar’s father looked a lot like someone. He had always been taught to use his strength for the weak and to act for justice. Yeah, Enoch Rubinstein. He was a similar, boring type. “Son, do you understand what your grandfather is asking? Why exactly is he humbling himself before the emperor?” However, his grandfather, Alberto Manuel, who was the Lord of the Wizard Tower at the time, was different. Even though he was in a position to show off, he always bowed his head to the emperor, and because of that, he argued with his father every day. For some reason, his grandfather acted like a person who did not want to be seen by the emperor. “Father, please don’t go on this kingdom expedition or whatever it is. Can’t you postpone it?” Oscar tried to save the lives of his parents, who were about to die in a sudden carriage accident. But surprisingly, after avoiding an accident, his parents were assassinated. Before and after regression. It wasn’t until he attended his parents’ funerals twice that Oscar realized. The carriage accident before returning was not a coincidence. Maybe… ‘It must have been the emperor’s doing.’ His father was a man who was strict and didn’t hide his intentions. If he inherited the Wizard Tower, the emperor would be in trouble. So, it was the emperor’s trick. ‘Oh, could it be that Grandfather struggled with the Emperor for that reason?’ A funeral home with rain falling. Looking at his grandfather, Alberto, with an empty expression, Oscar was convinced. His grandfather was a regressor. The reason for attempting regression must have been to save his child. ‘I guess my parents died at the hands of the emperor even before my grandfather returned?’ That’s why his grandfather never opposed the emperor throughout his life, and he also taught his sons and grandsons to bow down. But unfortunately, he failed again to save his child. ‘Like a fool.’ He risked his life to return home and watch his child die twice. How terrible this is. ‘I won’t fail like you, never.’ Oscar thought of Lilith as he placed a white chrysanthemum on his parents’ coffin. He will never fail like his grandfather. He didn’t want to see the child’s severed neck rolling twice. ‘Grandfather will disappear soon.’ In the vague memories before the regression, not long after his parents died, his grandfather also disappeared. Probably… the price of regression. It must have been extinct. Since there was no way to stop it, he just wanted to confirm how he disappeared. Because it might be his own fate as well. However, perhaps not wanting to show his grandson a futile end, his grandfather silently prepared everything and left first. “…goodbye.” The last farewell was left by the grandfather who disappeared alone. So after some time. Oscar inherited the Wizard Tower at the age of 15. The death of his parents, the disappearance of his grandfather. Succession at a young age. Nothing had changed in Oscar’s life before or after his return. * * * “He didn’t disappear? He’s been hiding all this time?” Oscar asked in confusion as he looked at his grandfather’s body in front of him. Enoch chose his words carefully. “I met him for the first time when he came to me yesterday, and he passed away yesterday.” “What did you say?” “Even though I knew your grandfather’s face, I couldn’t recognize him… Neither could I nor Lilith. Even though we saw him with our own eyes, we couldn’t tell.” “….” “It was only after he died that I could see his face properly. The reason he died.” After being silent for a moment, Enoch continued. “It was because he revealed his existence to us. He was prepared to die.” “….” The reason his grandfather died was because he broke the ban. But that ban. “…It was because he revealed his existence.” Oscar stared blankly again, turning his eyes towards the coffin. “…Even though we saw him with our own eyes, we couldn’t tell.” “It was only after he died that I could see his face properly…” “Aah.” Oscar finally realized the price of return and the meaning of extinction. Something that is alive but not alive. “I see.” “Master!” Now, the child who comes to him with a bright smile, someday. She will pass by without even recognizing him. “Ha, haha.” Laughter broke out helplessly. “That’s cruel…”
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