Record of a Thousand Lives

Henryk, who had just completed one of the wooden bracelets, tightly grabbed the sculpture.

Kang Yoon-soo was clutching the last of the cold liquor with an indifferent face.

Bashrack.

The sound was heard from beyond the grass.

Shanette looks carefully at the place and takes her hand to the side.

Suddenly, a long shadow appeared from the grass.

“May I join you? ”

She was a blonde, fluffy, blonde woman.

The outfit was as glamorous as a nobleman's, and it felt old-fashioned.

His voice was soft and strangely eloquent in his actions.

Smooth skin is smooth and new, as if you've never held a sickle in your life.

She was beautiful for a moment.

The attraction of the woman was noble enough that wet trees up and down looked like valleys.

However, Shanette said in a cautious tone.

“Who are you?”

“A thief.”

It was an absurd answer.

Shanette frowns.

“A thief?”

“You're a thief, aren't you? ”

It was then.

Suddenly, Henry presses Shanette's back head quickly.

Suddenly, she lowers her head as if her neck was broken.

“Ugh! What are you doing? ”

Shaynet looks at Henryk in embarrassment and asks.

But she was appalled.

Henryk, who was usually less sophisticated, was several times more embarrassed than he was.

He shakes his eyes nervously as if he were about to sweat. He kneels down and squeezes his head.

“I can't help but glow with my embarrassed face. How dare I meet the honour of Kisifran, Empress of the Leonardo Empire, in this dreadful and barren place! ”

At that moment, Shanette doubted her ears.

The princess?

This blonde woman in front of you is the Emperor's daughter, the emperor's empress?

At one time, however, Henry was a goldsmith of the royal family.

It was hard to even think of lying because Henrik, who was usually so lazy, reacted like this.

As Shanette looks dazed, Henryk presses her back head in haste.

“Idiot! It's a sin for the common man to raise his head in front of the imperial blood! ”

“I'm sorry! ”

Shanette tightens her head in a hurry.

However, her gaze was directed at Kang Yoon-soo, not the princess in front of her eyes.

It's different.

Kang Yoon-soo was not tightening his head, but just drinking cold water.

Kisifran gives you a curious look.

“Why don't you bow to me? ”

“I don't want to do it. ”

Henryk and Shanette's face turned blue.

Shanette yells out rudely with the idea of returning the topic somehow.

“Woe, Your Highness! Why are you in this filthy mountain range? I'm so curious!”

“I'm lost. ”

“Yes…? ”

I was embarrassed because the answer was too simple.

Henrik's gaze at the princess changed subtly.

He asked with a cautious voice.

“Are you really the princess? ”

“True, but not true. ”

It was a strange answer.

I began to suspect Henryk's eyes.

“Excuse me, can I stand up? ”

“If you want, go ahead. ”

Henryk rises slowly.

The former Queen Dowager looked at the Queen Dowager's face with sharp eyes.

Soon, he carefully releases the bracelet he was holding in his hand.

“Would you be able to wear it? ”

“Of course.”

The princess softly replied, and took a bracelet and put it on her left wrist.

Henryk sighed.

“Doppelgänger.”

* * *

The princess was neither embarrassed nor angry.

They just looked at me and wondered why I was so surprised.

“Doppelgänger?”

Shanette was embarrassed and asked.

It didn't make any sense.

What business would an Imperial princess have in the mountains in the middle of the night?

Henryk looks at the princess and says,

“I used to be a ginger, but now I know for sure. I met him often. He was allergic to the weaver's elf. If it's a workpiece related to Elven Carving, he's gone. When I gave her the Weathered Tail Tree Bracelet, she was so fluffy that she almost got kicked out of the Imperial Palace. ”

Henryk points to the Princess in the bracelet.

“That tree bracelet is also an elf's neck. But, look. You're fine.”

Henry said with conviction.

“Above all, the emperor's daughter is a terrible lover. I wouldn't let that woman, Princess Kisif, come to a place like this. ”

“Ha, but……. ”

Shanette raises her head and looks closely at Princess Kisifran.

Beautiful, long lashes.

Sophisticated necessities.

There was no word to describe except the beautiful woman of the century.

I was confused in my head because I thought she was a monster.

“Are you really, really a doppelganger? ”

“From your point of view, yes. ”

The princess admitted with a gentle tone.

But she was different from the other doppelgangers.

Unlike monsters who have been messing with other people's heads or attacking, the princess just stood there.

Moreover, there was no misleading or attacking.

At that time, the princess pointed to a piece of meat cooked by the fire.

“Can I eat it? ”

“Huh."

Kang Yoon-soo, who was in front of the meat, said.

He pulls the ripe heart from the fire and puts it on a wide wooden tablecloth.

She shakes her head and says,

“Forks and knives? ”

“Nothing.”

“Then what do you eat with? ”

“Bare hands.”

“I see.”

The princess glanced at Kang Yoon-soo and followed him, barefoot, lifting up the heart of the Fang Boar and chewing on her mouth.

It was a brutal act.

What looked like it was the nobleman's affection without fail, but it was unnatural for me to tear the meat out of my mouth.

Shanette whispers to Henryk.

“If you're a doppelganger, why don't you attack us? ”

“Do I know that? ”

“I am a mutant. ”

Shanette and Henryk were a little surprised.

Even though she whispered in her ear very little, she understood it like a ghost.

After chewing the flesh of the heart, the princess said.

“Ordinary Doppelgängers change the face of time. There's a lot of hatred for other creatures. But I'm different. I'm a mutated doppelganger. ”

Mutated doppelganger?

“An alchemist gave me a lot of novelty as an ordinary doppelganger. ”

The princess continued:

“I am the Princess Kisipran, immobilized, and cannot be changed. I can't read other people's minds. But intelligence is very high compared to other people. There are many other things that are unusual. ”

“Why are you calling yourself an experiment? ”

“Oh, you know. I was a test subject.”

“Excuse me?”

Henryk makes a strange face.

Then a noise came from the mountain pass across the street.

Ta-dah! Ta-dah! Ta-da!

It was the hoofbeats.

Twenty-three men must have come this way on horseback.

The man's harsh voice rings.

“There must be a woman nearby! We must find it today and capture it! ”

The princess said she was sorry.

“I'm sorry. If I see them with me, they'll kill you. ”

Henryk looks angry.

“What the hell is that supposed to mean? ”

“My existence is classified. They'll kill any civilians who've seen me in places like this. ”

“Who are they? ”

“The Imperial Knights.”

“What division? ”

“I remember you as a third knight. ”

“The Third Knights? So Lenox is the commander? ”

Henryk looks embarrassed.

“Do you know him? ”

“I know, but he's not swayed by his private affections. Even in the old days, I could not be the Great Person to disobey the imperial order and save my life. ”

Henryk glances at the Doppelgänger with his eyes wide open.

“Can't we just hand you over? ”

“I am the top secret of the imperial court. They will slaughter every civilian who has seen the Empress in a place like this. They're loyal Imperial dogs. ”

Henryk has declared:

“They're really dead now. ”

He quickly picks up his things and gets up.

“Let's get away from this doppelganger. Only then can we pretend not to know and run away. ”

“Ha, but is it okay to leave the Doppelgänger alone like this? ”

“Damn, I don't know what kind of battle you're in, but life is the most important thing." A monster anyway.There's no reason to keep surviving the loss of someone you've never seen before. Don't you think? ”

Henrik looked at Kang Yoon-soo and said,

Kang Yoon-soo slowly nodded.

“Huh."

The Doppelgänger of the Empress.

In the past, she traveled together as a colleague.

As a mutant doppelganger, she was unique and helped with her journey forward.

But I didn't have to go with him.

Obviously, she can grow strong.

But I had too much to teach or care about because I was born a monster.

I remember my colleagues, so I could tell you how far I'd run to survive.

Kang Yoon-soo got up and pointed to the other side of the mountain pass.

“If you climb up that mountain pass and go up the left fork in the ridge.... ”

He said, "You look awkward. You've lived for 20,000 years. ”

“Yes? Kang Yoon-soo? ”

Shanette makes a curious face.

Kang Yoon-soo, on the other hand, doubted his ears.

“What?"

Henryk shouts in haste, not hearing the princess since she was standing far away.

“If you want to live, you better run! Hurry up!"

They hurriedly start down the mountain path.

Kang Yoon-soo approached the princess and whispered.

“…… What did you just say? ”

“You're living a thousand lives, aren't you? Lost to the Crown Prince a hundred times. ”

The princess replied with a pure face.

However, Kang Yoon-soo was different.

A new color was added to his expressionless face.

“How... do you know that?" ”

Over thousands of years of regression.

This Doppelgänger has not noticed that he has returned.

Unlike regular doppelgangers, she doesn't have the ability to read other people's minds.

Then how did you find out about it?

“Answer me.”

Kang Yoon-soo chewed his lips white.

His voice was hoarse.

“I told you to answer. ”

It was the moment when the princess was about to say Moore with a big smile.

The sound of horseshoes grows louder and louder.

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