Asel overcame a miserable childhood to become the youngest person ever to pass the Imperial Civil Service Exam. But on the very day she declared independence from her loathsome home, a carriage accident sent her back to the age of seven.
‘I have to run!’
She was fleeing frantically atop a snow-white horse when a voice reached her.
[I’ve finally found you, my daughter!]
It was a penguin gentleman wearing a bowler hat. The Empire’s notoriously wicked Archmage, Delkimeser.
‘I must have been kidnapped.’
I’ll probably be used as a magic experiment or a sacrifice.
‘After all, no one will care if a kid like me disappears.’
But even so, she thought it was fine.
“By any chance, do you provide room and board here?” [……Hm? Well, that’s a given, but…….]
Asel beamed a bright smile.
“I’m so happy to have found my father.”
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‘For a kidnapping, the treatment is a bit too good, isn’t it?’
Sometimes, it truly felt as though she had become his daughter, and a sudden fear gripped her.
‘I am a fake. Is it really okay for me to be this happy?’
Then, one day, that fear became a reality.
“You said you were my father.”
Father says he has to leave—as the price for making her regress countless times.
“Please, don’t leave.”
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