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Chapter 260 - END
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After exchanging greetings, the two entered the testing room alone with Lilith, the supervisor. Oscar, as if trying to quench the longing he had felt all this time, stole glances at the child’s face whenever he had the chance. “Since it’s the final exam, the difficulty of the questions will probably be a bit higher than in the third round.” “Ah, yes.” Lilith, who sat across from Oscar and placed the test paper in front of him, chatted away with a cheerful expression. “I picked out exactly ten pages for the final exam, you know? Honestly, I thought they’d all end up being scrapped. But now, having someone to actually solve at least one of them—it’s just so exciting, isn’t it?” “….” Oscar, resting his chin on his hand, silently gazed at Lilith’s face as she began to focus. Was it because there was no sound of the pen? Lilith, raising her head, tilted it slightly as she looked at Oscar. “Is it difficult?” “Aah, no.” Oscar, finally pulling himself together, flipped the exam paper back and forth, quickly scanning the questions. ‘…What exactly is supposed to be harder than the third round?’ No matter how he looked at it, the problems didn’t seem to live up to the grand title of ‘final exam.’ ‘Haa, what kind of fool came up with these questions that have absolutely no distinguishing power, no matter how hard I look…’ Oscar, who swallowed a sigh, looked at the name of the examiner written at the top. Examiner: Lilith Rubinstein ‘…Looking at it again, it’s actually pretty hard. She did the best job at making the final exam questions.’ Oscar, who had corrected himself, started solving the problem. Some time had passed. “Mr. James, do you know the fairy tale <The Princess Trapped in the Tower>?” “…No.” “It’s interesting. If it wouldn’t be a bother, shall I tell you the story?” It seems like she’s really bored. Oscar, who chuckled softly, nodded and quickly resumed solving the problems. “Once upon a time, a very long time ago, there was a bad king who ruled a wicked country. This bad king kidnapped the princess of a good kingdom and locked her in a tower.” The sound of the pen mixed with the voice, flowing into his ears like water, was pleasant to hear. “The good king of the good kingdom, in order to get his daughter back, had no choice but to become a subordinate of the evil king. But sadly, the good king never met his daughter again. The princess, trapped in the tower, passed away from the illness she had been suffering.” What a tragic fairy tale, Oscar thought. “The good king decided to take revenge, and together with the prince, he invaded the bad country. In the end, he succeeded in killing the bad king. But!” “…But?” “It turns out the princess wasn’t dead, she was alive!” Oscar laughed. ‘That’s your story.’ Why did the story seem strangely familiar? “But the princess, cursed by the evil king’s magic, began to kill people. The prince had no choice but to kill the princess to save the people. The poor good king had to say goodbye again as soon as he found out that his daughter was alive.” “It’s a tragedy.” “Yes. But there’s a hidden story behind this fairy tale.” “What is it?” “Actually, while the princess was locked in the tower… there was a wizard who visited her every day so she wouldn’t be lonely. He would play with her, cut her hair when it grew too long… and also tell her that he loved her.” “….” “That wizard was so saddened by the princess’s death that he ended up paying a terrible price to cast a spell to turn back time.” “….” Oscar quietly stared at Lilith. In the child’s blue eyes, there was a faint trace of longing. “The price was that the wizard would be forgotten by everyone. The revived princess knew this and made a promise. Even if everyone in the world doesn’t recognize you, I will definitely recognize you—” “So, did she recognize the wizard?” “Yes!” Oscar swallowed a laugh as he watched Lilith answer brightly. The ending of the fairy tale, which the child must have made up on her own, wasn’t half bad. He just wishes reality could have ended like that fairy tale. Even if everyone had forgotten me, if only you hadn’t forgotten me… . “Hmm.” Oscar, who was trying to suppress his feelings of being depressed, stopped at the last question, number 50. ‘What is this?’ What on earth is this completely useless question? Could it be that Lilith got tired and just threw this one in after creating up to question 49? “Um… 50th question, what… what are we supposed to do with this?” “Yes?” Lilith tilted her head. “What do you mean, how? Just solve the problem as it is.” “You want me to draw a picture?” “Yes.” “What on earth is this problem useful for recruiting researchers?” “Oh, of course it is. The most basic thing in creating magic formulas is imagination.” “….” Just admit you were too lazy to come up with a question. Oscar sighed and pressed his pen hard on the answer sheet. At that time. “The princess, who had lived locked away in the tower her whole life, was curious about the outside world. The wizard, in turn, told her about the world, from one thing to another, with words.” Lilith got up. “The princess, while listening to the wizard’s words, created her own world in her mind. In a way, the princess received a world as a gift from the wizard.” Lilith moved to sit next to Oscar and showed him her worksheet. “If you’re having trouble, I’ll show you how to solve problem number 50.” “No, excuse me.” Lilith’s worksheet had solutions written for all the questions except for question 50. Oscar looked away from the worksheet that was basically the answer and said. “Looks like you solved everything yourself, is it okay to show it like this?” “Pft.” Lilith burst into laughter and playfully poked Oscar’s chest with her elbow. “….?” At that, the man’s eyes widened in surprise. Wasn’t it surprisingly friendly behavior at first sight? “Anyway, Mr. James, these are problems you could solve with your eyes closed.” “…Yes?” “Or are you planning to purposely get a few wrong to hit the passing score exactly?” “What do you mea…” Without even being able to panic, Lilith chuckled and drew a picture under question number 50. “A good king and a prince.” Two people. “And a princess and a wizard.” Below that, two more people. “This is a carriage that can run without a horse….” Next, Oscar’s eyes widened at the picture drawn by Lilith’s fingertips. Yeah… It was a picture he had definitely seen before. “This is also a bird carrying people.” It was from Oscar, the one who had wanted to show the world to the child who had lost it. The things she had heard with words and drawn in her mind. “Look. This is the world you gave me as a gift.” A moment of silence. Breaking through that, “…Master.” The moment the child’s overwhelming longing created a word to call himself. “Ah….” It was overwhelming, suffocating. His wide eyes instantly became wet. “Do you remember what I named this?” The child, who had turned around, also had tears in her eyes. She smiled despite that. “I told you. I won’t forget you, Master.” A single tear ran down Oscar’s cheek. He also cried and laughed along with the child. “… Auto, car.” “Then, this?” “A plane….” Lilith burst into laughter, yet tears flowed endlessly from her eyes. “I promised, didn’t I? I said I’d definitely recognize you, Master…” “….” “You didn’t believe me, did you? Stupid…” “Yeah…” Lilith burst into tears as she hugged Oscar. “Ah, haa….” Her heart ached from the warmth in his arms. It was so overwhelming, so joyful, it hurt. The man hugged the child tightly with his trembling arms. “The world you gave me, Master, was so, so wonderful, but still, I came back… I said I came back to show you that I’m living happily here.” “Mhm…” The child, murmuring with her face buried, lifted her head. Oscar, engraving the face he had longed for into his eyes, gently cupped the child’s cheek. “So… what happened to the princess who met the wizard?” “Of course they lived happily ever after.” Lilith smiled brightly and added for Oscar who was worried. “Master, your disciple, have you seen Hans grow up well?” God would never have turned away from his hero and those the hero loved. The proof was that he sent a wizard for the princess, erased the time of failure, and finally allowed the last Primera. “Hans made forty-two magic formulas for the master without sleeping.” In other words, Lilith believed that even the laws of the world, which even the gods couldn’t alter, would have been carefully planned to break Oscar’s ban. “We will definitely be happy.” Therefore, they will find a way. As they always have. “Forever, for a long time, together.” The two of them looked at each other closely, their faces a mess of tears, and smiled brightly. * * * My time has never stopped. Even when I was imprisoned, it always flowed in the world you told me about. Even now that I have returned and survived, it continues to flow. And, It will continue to flow in the future. Those who love me, and those whom I love, come together to become truly perfect. “Master, you have returned safely.” In this shining world. <My Daddy Hides His Power> End. Hello everyone. 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