Chapter 6 - Dead Person (1/2)

Chapter 6 – Dead Person

Despite the confusion, Goyo raised her head at the sound of familiar footsteps. And her eyes widened slightly as the face of a dead man appeared before her eyes.

“You had already woken up.”

“… Father.”

“I heard you had the flu for three days. Are you feeling better?”

Goyo was familiar with this formal way of showing concern coming from him, so she didn’t feel uneasy about that. What she was shocked about was the sight of the man before her alive and talking.

The middle-aged man, who dressed in perfect order, was obviously Coloros Rubiet, Goyo’s father.

She heard that her father was dead. No, she didn’t just hear it, but she saw it herself. She saw the dead body of her father with her very own eyes.

And the reason why she was able to see his dead body at all was thanks to the ‘consideration’ the new emperor showed her as the last living flesh and blood of her father. In fact, it could be considered as a cruelty for him to make Goyo see the sight of her decapitated father with her own eyes, but what could she do? He was the emperor.

Anyway, even before that sight, all Goyo remembered of her father was her pale and wrinkled face. It was certainly not as young-looking as he looked right now.

That was not the only thing that was strange to her. The whole place in Rubiet Household, including the room that she had woken up in and the bed where she sat now, was familiar to her.

It was Goyo Rubiet’s room from before her marriage to Terio Alte. She woke up not in Goyo Alte’s room, but Goyo Rubiet’s room of her maidenhood.

The room which she used before her marriage and the room that had burned after the extermination.

Didn’t I fail in my attempt to suicide? Or did Goyo Alte really die?

And if I really died, is it possible to see a dead person and talk to him?

With a surge of unfamiliarity, she grasped the bed with her hand. The texture of the sheet was so vivid in her hand that it gave her goosebumps.

She believed that death would be the end of her life.

So, how? And why?

“Goyo?”

She had learned how to hide her emotions since she was young, therefore, it was not difficult for Goyo to hide her flustered feelings. Nevertheless, despite her training, the current situation she was in was a little too much this time. So, for a while, she was unable to conceal her feelings, and it was shown in her eyes and expression.

And perhaps because Goyo looked strange and didn’t answer his question before, the Duke of Rubiet called her name with a slight concern in his tone.

Jolted back to reality by his call, Goyo tried to look as calm as possible and raised her head.

“My throats hurt a little. Other than that, I’m fine.”

“…Okay, thank God.”