I Only Raised Men for Revenge - Chapter 21

The reason Silian couldn’t escape the Imperial Temple.

The contract he had to make under the guise of protecting his younger sibling. Sesenia was about to do it.

“Do you have multiple lives or something?”

“Of course not. But not right now.”

“So, you’re backing down after all. Now that you’re about to do it. Are you scared?”

“No. I’m not scared. But at least you have to show me. How useful the person you’re trying to contract is? See that first, then make the contract. Contracts need to be made carefully, you know.”

He was someone who had lived as royalty.

He was being chased, but no one was trying to use him. So, he knew the weight of his contract when he made it. That’s why he couldn’t understand this situation.

“Don’t just jump at a contract like an idiot. Contracts have always been something you look over carefully before signing.”

“…Are you calling me an idiot right now?”

“Yeah. There aren’t many nice people like me. So, look carefully.”

Sesenia’s words were laced with thorns, but she smiled so brightly that her eyes disappeared, making him even more dumbfounded.

“Ha…”

But Sesenia felt sorry for him.

‘He must have been that desperate. Because he wanted to protect his sibling. Because he wanted to save his sibling who was sealed away, unlike him.’

That was all Sesenia knew.

Salmon’s twins, whose very birth was a sin. Salmon thought of the twins as the wrath of God. He was a royal born with unprecedented power, but the twins were a symbol of misfortune. So, he kept only the boy, Silian, and sealed Pepe away just because she was a girl. Because a male was more suitable to inherit the throne.

Continuing the bloodline, marrying a strong person and having children. They concluded that a male was more suitable for sowing seeds. Silian and Pepe were separated and raised from birth. But Silian was consumed by terrible loneliness. And he found out. That he had a twin.

He heard and believed that she was doing well. But when his father died and he inherited the throne, Silian learned the truth.

About his twin sister, Pepe, who had lived a different life from him. That she wasn’t just sealed away, but that she was living a life that was neither dead nor alive due to the selfishness of the adults who were trying to extract her power by any means.

‘So, he asked the Empire for help.’

Knowing that made her feel bad. Silian’s only mistake was being too foolish.

She didn’t want Silian, who was desperate to contract with someone who could help him save his sibling, to repeat the past.

“Then let’s go.”

“Where are we going?”

“We’re going to my business, and then we’ll go where you want to go. I need to go there and make a proper contract too. I need to be a trustworthy human to my contractor, don’t I?”

Silian smiled as if he found it amusing. Rather, he seemed to think that as long as he could get out of this place, it didn’t matter, and he naturally sat next to Sesenia without saying anything.

Teddy wanted to kick him out right away, but since his master said he was a contractor or something, he couldn’t, so he naturally squeezed between them.

“Get lost.”

“My place is next to Master.”

“…Are you really going to sit next to your master like a child and say you’re going to stay here?”

Come to think of it, he did look a bit like that. Teddy, who already had a good build, had become even more muscular recently due to learning swordsmanship and exercising. So, for such a person to squeeze into the narrow space between them.

“It’s cramped for both of you.”

Nevertheless, Teddy didn’t seem to want to back down.

“There’s no reason for you to be next to Master. You haven’t even made a contract yet. Go hide in that corner like you were before.”

“I don’t want to? Unlike you, I have a very noble bloodline, you know.”

“You’re just a thief.”

“Ha. A slave.”

Neither of the bickering pair seemed willing to back down. Sesenia chuckled and got up from her seat and sat next to Lizbeth, as if she found the scene a bit cute.

“It’s nice to see.”

“Master!”

“I’ll go there too.”

“No. You two sit there together intimately. That’s an order. I hate cramped spaces.”

“Then I will.”

“I’ll go. Between contractors…”

“No.”

Like a dog and a cat trying to protect their master, neither of them seemed willing to back down and tried to get up. But Sesenia waved her hand and firmly stopped them.

“If even one person comes to this side, it’ll get cramped. Don’t come. It’s nice to see you two together.”

“…But Master…”

“I have no reason to sit with a guy who can’t even control his strength and reeks of filth.”

Eventually, Silian got up from his seat and hid in the darkness, as if he couldn’t help it. Even though it wasn’t a very big carriage, he disappeared completely.

“Oh, where did he go? Did he leave? Miss?”

“No. He’s still here.”

“Ah…”

Lizbeth looked at Sesenia with a disappointed expression. Sesenia held her hand tightly as she watched Lizbeth move her lips quite a bit, as if she had something to say if he disappeared.

“Don’t worry, both of you. He’s not someone who would ever harm me.”

“But to Miss… No, it’s nothing.”

Lizbeth, who was about to say something, shut her mouth tightly. The current Lizbeth couldn’t possibly know about Silian. But she acted like she knew him quite well for someone who didn’t know him.

‘I don’t know why but Lizbeth seems to know.’

But even if Sesenia knew everything, she didn’t intend to say anything. If Lizbeth found out that Sesenia also came from the future, that she had already experienced death and was living in the present with that experience, Lizbeth’s heart would surely be torn apart.

‘Just like me now. That pain is enough for me alone.’

The more Sesenia felt that Lizbeth knew everything about the future, that she was a regressor like herself, the more sorry she felt. If Lizbeth knew that Sesenia herself had died, and that time had returned, Lizbeth would…

Sesenia shook her head.

“Lizbeth. It’s okay. That person is allowed to.”

“There’s nothing that’s allowed. If he acts rudely to Master again, I will…”

Teddy, who instinctively knew Silian’s location, glared and turned his head.

“It’s okay. He’s family now.”

Although she didn’t say it, Teddy shook his head with an expression that he could never accept. It was a silent protest that he couldn’t lie while looking at Sesenia’s eyes looking at him.

Sesenia chuckled as if she found it cute and turned her gaze out the window.

The wind was cold. The tip of her nose was cold. Like ink sprinkled on tracing paper, winter was slowly seeping into everyday life.

‘How will my life go? Will I succeed in revenge? Will the future change?’

She shook her head.

What’s the point of all this if I don’t trust myself?

‘Every moment, I’ll doubt myself. Because the past failed. But I have to believe. I’ve already changed enough things. This time, I… I’ll change the future. Let’s believe that.’

I won’t fail.

That God brought her to this time to perfectly carry out that revenge. Sesenia, who felt both relief and anxiety as she changed from the past, suppressed that feeling and clenched her fist tightly.

**

Iar Merchant Guild.

“Stay here for a while.”

“Yes? Are we here?”

“Ah. No. I was talking to someone else. Let’s go inside first.”

“What about me?”

“How can I bring such a noble person to a shabby place? You can come if you want, or you don’t have to if you don’t want to.”

“…”

“Well, I’ll be out soon, so you can stay here. There’s someone I can’t take to the temple, so I’m just going for a while.”

Without giving him time to choose, Sesenia got out of the carriage. Teddy naturally followed her as if to protect her, and Lizbeth followed her too.

Sesenia entered the guild as if she didn’t care whether he followed or not.

“You’ve arrived.”

As the door opened with a jingle, Rohan greeted her as if he had been waiting.

“Yeah.”

“Judging by your good expression, it seems the work went well.”

“You noticed right away. That’s right. The work went well. More than that, Rohan.”

As if she didn’t want to mention the matter any further, Sesenia changed the subject.

“Did you start selling right away?”

Sesenia confirmed that part again since she had already told him before leaving for the orphanage.

“Are you talking about Hepria cotton? It’s a pity, you’d make more profit if you kept it longer.”

“There’s no need for that. This kind of thing will happen again anyway.”

“Are you going to sell firewood at a low price too?”

Rohan, who was organizing the documents at her words, shook his head as if he was disappointed.

“I have to. The price of firewood will drop more than ever the moment Hepria cotton comes on the market.”

“Ah.”

“Since it’s hard for us to manage from the moment we move the warehouse, just hand it over. There’s nothing more profitable than this.”

“Knowing you would say that, I moved everything.”

A smile bloomed on Sesenia’s face like a spring flower.

“You did all that, so why did you ask?”

“I was wondering if you might have changed your mind. You still don’t hesitate at all in what you think, Miss.”

“Was I like that before too?”

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