The Camellia Tattoo - Chapter 129
‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.
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“Yes, I did turn back time. So what happened to the time I lived before that? Did it disappear?”
Few people know about the blessing of regret, and its origins are unknown.
As a child, Amber didn’t believe in it and had no intention of investigating. Even now, she would want to find out more, but being so far from Shardroch makes it impossible.
Moreover, her mother said that such things weren’t documented.
It was simply passed down through word of mouth…
Her mother had asked her to share if such a thing ever happened to her, but she hadn’t expected her mother to pass away so soon.
“I’ve heard that even if you turn back time, the events that happened then don’t completely disappear.”
“Really?”
“Yes. I heard this directly from the late Queen Mother when I served her. At that time, many people knew about the blessing of regret.”
The late Queen Mother…
Amber blinked, suddenly puzzled.
“Wait a minute.”
The late Queen Mother would be Amber’s maternal grandmother.
“…Wasn’t it supposed to be passed down from mother to daughter?”
“Oh, I see you knew that.”
“Now that I think about it… Mother didn’t have Shardroch blood. So how…?”
Has she ever had the experience of a fact she has believed in all her life suddenly becoming shocking?
That’s exactly how Amber felt now.
Grandmother Linda noticed Amber’s reaction and smiled warmly.
“The idea that it’s passed down only to princesses was probably just a fairy tale meant for young princesses.”
“…Really?”
“Yes. The blessing is actually given to women who belong to or have become part of the royal family of Shardroch.”
“So it manifests even if they marry into the family?”
This was something Amber was hearing for the first time.
If that’s the case, it’s not passed through bloodlines but through affiliation with the royal family.
“Furthermore, only those who have experienced something worthy of regret are granted the ability to turn back time and amend their regrets. Some people live their entire lives happily without such events, and in those cases, the blessing is not passed on to their daughters.”
“So, as long as someone belongs to the royal family of Shardroch, they receive this secretive blessing?”
“Yes, that’s correct. Whether it’s records, inscriptions, or portraits in the halls of history, any woman belonging to the royal family of Shardroch has the blessing. The blessing can be lost, and sometimes people don’t even realize it exists, or they simply view it as a fairy tale. Unlike curses, blessings are interesting because they can be forgotten, distorted, or lost entirely.”
As Amber listened to Grandmother Linda’s story, she suddenly realized one more thing.
Her mother must have used this blessing, which is why it was passed down to her.
“I hadn’t thought deeply about it before… What did Mother regret?”
“I still remember that day clearly. The late Queen said that if the Princess ever asked, I should tell you.”
For the first time, Grandmother Linda’s previously serene smile faltered slightly, and her eyes grew moist. As she continued, Amber’s own eyes began to well up.
“The greatest regret of the late Queen was… losing you, Princess.”
“…Me?”
“Yes. In fact, when you were just four years old, you fell into a pond and… returned to the heavens as an angel.”
What was that supposed to mean?
It was an astonishing and at the same time heart-wrenching statement.
Losing a child you haven’t even had a chance to raise can be a profound sadness, making you want to claw at your heart with sharp, tormenting thoughts…. But losing a child at such a beautiful age…
It’s unbearable to even imagine.
And yet, the image had already formed, causing her nose to sting.
“Since time was turned back, this old woman only heard about it from the late Queen. She turned back time to a week before the accident, and she anxiously protected you.”
“Mother…”
“I remember the very day she turned back time. The late Queen came to your room, weeping endlessly. It was a day like any other, which makes it stand out even more in my memory. She hugged you while you slept peacefully and cried out loud.”
The regal and graceful mother.
Amber had never seen her mother cry, despite her always smiling face.
‘I never even got a warning not to go near the water.’
This meant that perhaps, if she had been warned, she would have acted like a stubborn child and stayed near the water out of defiance. Her mother must have silently and diligently protected her without ever revealing the truth.
‘Ah… Mother.’
How could she have done that?
How could she…
Amber realized that, if it had been her past self, she wouldn’t have fully understood these feelings.
But now, Amber could feel her mother’s emotions in every detail.
‘Even breathing feels painful now.’
