Chapter 11 (2/2)

<Oh, how did you know….?>

<I preside over everything in this world. Noone can evade my eyes. First of all, let me answer your question. Both are real.>

<What the heck are you talking about?>

How is this possible? It’s absolutely impossible unless I went back in time…

<It’s true because I have turned back all the time of your life by the power of life given to me.>

What? Turned back the time of my life? Can even God do that? If so, what’s the reason? It surely goes against the causal relationship.

<Because, my blessed child, the fate of many people has been twisted.>

What?

<My blessed child was originally destined to be born in your world, but fell to another place because of the twisted dimensions. The child was returned to the original world by an angel that found the child belatedly. This distorted the fate of many. You are one of them, honey.>

I was dumbfounded to hear that. In other words, the child of God’s prophecy, that woman, was the child also blessed and loved by God, and was she the one destined to be married to the emperor from the beginning? Was I just made to replace her?

<Then, why didn’t you send another prophecy to correct your mistake?>

<Because I lost my blessed child, I wove a thin thread of fate with you, too.>

<Did you just bind me with the thread of destiny because of her absence? Did he turn away from me because I wasn’t his designated wife from the beginning? Did he fall in love with her, his original destiny, and throw me, her replacement, away?>

<Yes.>

<If so, did I have heartbroken love for him just because I was woven with the thread of fate? Was it because I was not his designated wife when I didn’t get any attention from him despite my enormous efforts?>

<Yes.>

“Haa… ”

Little by little I was short of breath. I felt something like defiance was coming up deep in my heart.

<Aren’t you God? God is supposed to love and care for all things fairly, right?>

<Yes.>

<Yes? Are you truly the creator of all things? If you are taking care of everything fairly, how can there be your blessed child? Aren’t all the creations of this world your children? They deserve your blessing. Blessed child? Ha, did you say you made me as a replacement for that child? Did you tie me with fate because you lost the child?>

<Yes.>

<Did I have to live miserably for that very reason? Was I thrown away while she took everything for that reason? What is the big deal about God? If you are the Creator, do you think you can freely interfere with your creations! What the heck is this fate that toys with me?>

<You humans can never avoid your destiny.>

“How ridiculous!”

My anger raging deep inside burst out like a volcano. I vented by shouting loudly, which I had stored over the years.

<Inevitable decision? That’s nonsense! I can’t change my fate? I’ll destroy it. I’ll refuse that kind of fate! I swear on my soul that I will never accept it!>

<Humans can never escape fate.>

<Ahhhhh!>

I screamed in spite of myself. Did I have to be deprived of freedom since I was young for that reason? Did I have to be raised as a woman for him for that reason? Did I love him just because of fate when I felt I was most lonely in the world without realizing my father’s love?

Did he think he could justify ruining everything I had? Just because I wasn’t tied to him originally?

I screamed like crazy. I could hardly endure the fiery feelings rising in my heart. I felt like I would go crazy if I just kept putting up with it, so I screamed and cried until my throat was hoarse.

<I feel sorry for you, but I can’t change your fixed fate. Instead, I’ll give you a gift for your twisted destiny>

How much time passed?. When I heard another voice echoing through the space, I burst into laughter in spite of myself.

Giving me a gift after having ruined my life so miserably?

Giving me a present?