I Didn’t Even Want to Live, But God Forced Me to Reincarnate!

Author: LynneSuzuran

Chapter 225 – Gullible or…?

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“…So that’s how it goes,” I concluded my story on what I just encountered with Kuu-chan and my thoughts regarding that.
“…,” Ein was silent, his eyes were closed, his arms were crossed in front of his chest as his fingers fidgeted. It seemed like he was contemplating.
With his perfect memory and his insatiable curiosity towards everything, he might have read about something similar somewhere and have a clue…
“Big Sis Lyra.”
He opened his eyes, his expression now all serious as he looked at me.
I was surprised. The difference between the atmosphere he usually had before versus now was quite… a lot, if I must say so myself.
I unconsciously tensed as I paid attention to him.
“We’re here to do a very important mission. We aren’t doing a charity work,” his words and tone were so cold.
My brain froze, but what surprised me even more was his next words.
“Tell me. Why should we care about that girl and help her? Will that help us with our mission?”
“I—”
“It’s alright if you want to use her to get the prince’s help, but… Realistically speaking, looking for Oriel who’s gone missing for so long in order to solve our current problem is already hard enough. The difficulty level is extreme. We want to rescue big bro Altaire and at the same time, make sure the elven kingdom won’t agree to go to war with the Oni empire. That’s a very tall order, you get it? If we were to add another thing to the plate…”
Ein’s barrage of words caused me to feel uneasy, but I had no words to refute him, for it was the truth.
“Now add helping a girl who’s said to be cursed… when nobody in the royal castle of Cielle could be of help, none of them could figure out why and how. It’s just…,” Ein shrugged.
“…,” I could only hang my head down.
“But now that we know, it’d be cruel to leave that girl like that, right?”
I was surprised hearing his words, I reflexively looked up to my side and saw that Clavis was already there next to me as he said that to Ein.
Ein sighed, “But what can we do?”
“We can try helping her,” Clavis said.
“But promise me it won’t take precedence after our mission… Don’t get distracted,” Ein said very seriously.
“I know, but we might as well try while we are at it,” Clavis insisted.
“Yeah. Remember don’t be too naïve. We are no god. We are no hero. We are no main protagonist in some fiction. We can’t do everything and save everyone,” Ein said.
“…”
“But even so, surely there’s something that we can do,” Clavis said.
Everyone went silent after that.
It was my first time seeing this side of Ein.
It surprised me.
He used to be this little brother figure that was often annoying and playful… but I guess he had a mature side to him like this.
Right when I was thinking about this, Ein suddenly looked at me and seemed to figure out what I was thinking about, as he suddenly said, “Don’t get me wrong. I’d be happy if we can help her too, but… Our mission is already hard as it is. I don’t want us to lose track of our objective and thus making it a totally lost cause.”
“Ein is right, Lyr,” Carbuncle suddenly chimed in.
“Kuu-chan…”
Ein sighed again and said, “Okay, enough with this downer mood.  In conclusion, it’s not like we can’t try. But we will only try as long as it doesn’t become detrimental to our mission. Right now, we should try looking for more information about Eneida from the prince, gaining the prince’s trust as well as asking him questions related to our mission. Got it?”
***
Right now, me, Kuu-chan, Ein, and Clavis—all in our disguises were walking up the stairs in the Tower of Exile, with Prince Manasye leading us.
Ein was next to me when he whispered, “I can’t believe the prince actually agreed to help us right away. Isn’t he way too gullible? Or is this a trap?”
I was surprised to hear that. I used to be the skeptical one, but this time it was Ein!
How time has changed us…
Maybe I was too distracted to even ponder about stuff that deeply this moment, or I was just too desperate.
“Well, this shouldn’t be a trap. Manasye looks like he really wants to help Eneida and I don’t think he’d use this as a trap, but at the same time… I also get a feeling that he’s way too gullible? Is he this innocent? But, all of the royal family members that I know are…”
At that time, Princess Phoebe’s face as well as Luca’s flashed in my mind.
Then, King Titus’ face too.
All of them are members of the royal family and all of them are mature beyond their ages, and they shouldn’t be a simple person.
But then…
Little Leticia’s face flashed in my mind.
She’s a member of the royal family, but she’s just too innocent and adorable.
Is Manasye like her?
Perhaps so.
Both of them are the younger siblings to the heir to the thrones and aren’t even thinking of competing for the throne, maybe that’s why they can relax…
But even if this is a trap, I think I am willing to gamble on this.
I was too deep in my thought when Ein’s words snapped me out of it and shook me to the core.
“Prince Manasye, are you sure about trusting us right away and befriending us like this? Aren’t you too gullible and trusting?”
Right!
Ein actually said it out loud and asked Manasye!!
Manasye stopped his tracks and turned around as we all halted our steps too.
“Hmm… Maybe you can say that. I just don’t have that many friends and those that have the same mindset to me especially when it comes to Eneida’s matter. Maybe I am too happy and feel like it’s fated. Maybe I am too trusting. But my nanny once told me that it’s better for us to trust people rather than doubting,” Manasye wryly smiled.
“Then, what if we’re actually bad people?” Ein asked.
Manasye was stunned, as if it didn’t even occur to his mind that we might be some bad people.
“The royal family of Cielle can deal with that. At most, I’ll get punished, but I’m confident in my royal family’s abilities to deal with things like that,” Manasye answered.
“Adding to my nanny’s words… I decided to trust you guys. It’s up to you guys whether you will prove that my trust is correct, that you are trustworthy and are good people. But if you turn out to be untrustworthy, then… Well, that’s on you,” Manasye said.
I gulped.
Actually, we were already deceiving him, and that meant we weren’t that trustworthy, right?
But what else can we do in this situation?
Uncovering our identities truthfully will just instantly make him wary of us and won’t even think of us as friends.
He’d be enemies with us right away.
…
The little prince seemed so genuine in his words, but from the very beginning, we weren’t just destined to be friends.
It made me feel sad, but again, it was something that we had no control of.
Who asked him to be the prince of the Cielle kingdom?
Even if we could achieve our objective and Cielle kingdom and Riviera were in good cooperation, I’m sure this would leave behind a sore spot between us, that we might not be able to resolve in this lifetime.
Trust, once breached, is hard to recover.
Before long, we reached Eneida’s detention room.
“Eneida, we’re here,” Manasye said as he also unlocked the door to Eneida’s room, where Eneida was.
But, he didn’t unlock the bar door towards Eneida’s room. It seemed like it was the norm to hang out or talk with Eneida like this. Through the bar door.
Eneida also seemed much more relaxed this way.
“Manasye! Oh, Escha and Kuu are also here!” Eneida welcomed us, but then her attention turned to Ein and Clavis.
“These two are…?” She asked.
“They are my friends that might be able to help you too,” I said.
“I am Reynald,” Ein said.
“And I am Ralph,” Clavis said.
“Oooh! Are you two twins?!” Eneida clapped her hands in understanding.
“Y-yes…,” Ein and Clavis strained their muscles in order to smile and say that.
Right. We disguised them as twin brothers!
“Oh, I’m Eneida. Nice to meet you!” Eneida said.
“Right. We’ve heard from our relatives here about you,” Ein said.
Yup.
Again, we came up with a background story about how we were relatives that had no one else to rely on, that was why we came to work here as soon as we could. Meanwhile the twin brothers worked other stuff.
“Ah, right…,” Eneida’s mood dampened a bit hearing that.
“That’s why… Can you tell us more about yourself?” Ein asked.
“That…,” Eneida hesitated.
“If we don’t know, we won’t be able to help at all. I need to know if things have always been like that or how it was before it happened, and other details,” Ein said.
“I… I’m not exactly happy with my life story, but…,” Eneida stuttered.
“Maybe we can figure out the cause from your story. At least any kind of information will help,” Ein insisted again as he looked straight at Eneida.
Eneida still hesitated although she seemed to be more willing to talk about it.
Perhaps needing one last push, she turned to look at Manasye.
Manasye seemed to understand what Eneida was thinking about, so he only nodded.
Eneida took a deep breath before she released it and said with a preface, “Actually, my life isn’t anything that great, not many eventful things happened to me, so… I think it will bore you, but…”
Then, what I heard next was…
CERTAINLY NOT SOMETHING ORDINARY!!
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Chapter List

Prologue
Chapter 1 – The Grabberton Family
Chapter 2 – Fate
Chapter 3 – Reincarnate or Disappear!
Chapter 4 – Re:birth
Chapter 5 – Hello, Mother
Chapter 5.5 – Hello, Daughter
Chapter 6 – A New Home
Chapter 7 – The Whole Family, Complete Members
Chapter 8 – The Hartmann Family and Details about My New Home
Chapter 9 – Hartmann’s Special Arts
Chapter 10 – Third Birthday
Chapter 11 – Magic Elements
Chapter 12 – The Training
Chapter 12.5 – My Daughter’s First Training
Chapter 13 – Alt-nii’s Enrollment to School
Chapter 14 – Altaire’s Sixth Birthday (1)
Chapter 15 – Altaire’s Sixth Birthday (2)
Chapter 16 – Altaire is An Irregularity
Chapter 17 – Going to the Capicastle
Chapter 18 – My Magic
Chapter 19 – Denial
Chapter 20 – The Royal Family
Chapter 20.5 – The Adults’ Side
Chapter 21 – Lucius the Prince
Chapter 22 – Showdown with the Prince
Chapter 23 – My Education
Chapter 24 – The Mysterious Lyra
Chapter 25 – Fenix and My Magic Training
Chapter 26 – The Messy Independent Training
Chapter 27 – A Gift from God
Chapter 28 – Winter Holiday
Chapter 29 – The Plan
Chapter 30 – Journey to Chinosato City
Chapter 31 – Chinosato City
Chapter 32 – Trouble, Troubles Everywhere
Chapter 33 – Crisis During Vacation
Chapter 34 – [ ]
Chapter 35 – Mad Lunatic
Chapter 36 – Cleaning Up After The Crisis
Extra 1 – Reinst’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony
Chapter 37 – Celebrating Fifth Birthday
Chapter 38 – Luca’s Sixth Birthday
Chapter 38.5 – The Things That She Didn’t Know
Chapter 39 – My Sixth Birthday, and…
Chapter 40 – Nicole
Chapter 41 – “Mother” and “Little Brother”
Chapter 42 – Grabberton vs Fumitsuna
Chapter 43 – Second Magic Test
Chapter 44 – Preparing for Entrance Exams
Chapter 44.5 – Cyan’s “Blessing”
Chapter 45 – Entrance Exams and…
Chapter 46 – General Knowledge Test and Displaying My Swordsmanship
Chapter 47 – Last One in the Menu: Magic Exam!
Chapter 48 – Enrollment to Harmonia Academy
[April Fools Edition] Chapter 49
Chapter 49 – First Day of School!
Chapter 50 – Senior
Chapter 51 – An Unexpected Storm
Chapter 52 – The Rumored Girl
Chapter 53 – Siblings Team Battle, Against A Dragon!
Chapter 54 – More Surprising Things!
Chapter 55 – School Day 2 and Iris
Chapter 56 – School Day 3 is Very Chaotic!
Chapter 57 – A Day of Sword and Magic
Chapter 58 – Day 3’s Night and Day 4’s Activities
Chapter 59 – Day 5, Another Interesting Day
Chapter 60 – Passing Days
Chapter 61 – Sleepover Time~!
Chapter 62 – Icarus
Chapter 63 – Firis
Chapter 64 – Cyan
Chapter 64.5 – The Day We Met ~Titus’ Side~
Chapter 65 – Story of the Past
Chapter 66 – Magic Test at School
Chapter 67 – Turning Seven
Chapter 68 – Eggie’s Fate
Chapter 69 – Peaceful Days… No?
Chapter 70 – Overture
Chapter 71 – An Invitation
Chapter 72 – My [Nephew]’s Sixth Birthday
Chapter 73 – Turning Eight
Chapter 74 – Still My Eighth Birthday Party
Chapter 75 – Miss You, Big Sis!
Chapter 76 – Playing Tag
Chapter 77 – The Treasury: Revisited
Chapter 78 – Interlude
Chapter 79 – Here Comes… Ein!
Chapter 80 – Lyra vs Altaire –and Co.
Chapter 81 – Surprise and Surprise!
Chapter 82 – On A Certain Winter
Chapter 83 – An Addition to the Family
Chapter 84 – Freyr and Freyja
Chapter 85 – Bonding with the Twins~!
Chapter 86 – The Twins’ Confusion
Chapter 87 – Day 5 Month 5: 5th Birthday
Chapter 88 – The Maozi Jewel
Chapter 89 – Introduction
Chapter 90 – Seal
Chapter 91 – Debut Party
Chapter 92 – Rivals
Chapter 93 – Presents
Chapter 94 – The Magical Twins
Chapter 95 – The Princess’ Debut Party
Chapter 96 – The Hartmann Family’s Big Events
Chapter 97 – On A Certain Snowy Day
Chapter 98 – Missing
Chapter 99 – Let’s Go Home
Chapter 100 – Werebeasts
Chapter 101 – Collaboration
Chapter 102 – New Power
Chapter 103 – Confession
Chapter 104 – The Trio Troublemakers
Chapter 105 – Is He Serious?
Chapter 106 – Prepare For Trouble
Chapter 107 – Against Dmitria and Valerie
Chapter 108 – This is What I Call “Victory”
Chapter 109 – The Miracle Twins
Chapter 110 – Getting Along with the Trio Troublemakers
Chapter 111 – Erneste
Chapter 112 – Harmonia Academy’s Quinquennial Event
April Fools – Disastrous Festival
Chapter 113 – One Night, Different Experiences
Chapter 114 – Will You Come?
Chapter 115 – [Little Brother]’S 22nd Birthday
Chapter 116 – Harmonia Academy’s Quinquennial Festival: Day 1
Chapter 117 – Hansel And Gretel: Festival Edition
Chapter 118 – Prophecy
[Special] World Explanation
Chapter 119 – Day 3: Siblings Battle
Chapter 120 – Insecurities
Chapter 121 – Unpleasant Feelings
Chapter 122 – In Danger
Chapter 123 – [You] and [Me]
Chapter 124 – Finally Awake
Chapter 125 – Home Visit
Chapter 126 – Reconcile
Chapter 127 – Not Alone
Chapter 128 – Sharing Burdens
Chapter 129 – Training Begins
Chapter 130 – Untangle One Knot
Chapter 131 – Forgetting Something Important
Chapter 132 – Dark Magic Training
Chapter 133 – Turning 11!
Chapter 134 – Can Invite?
Discussion
Chapter 135 – Let’s Go and Fetch!
Chapter 136 – Briar-Rose
Chapter 137 – Ranch Life, Fun Life~
Chapter 138 – Bad Luck…?
Chapter 139 – Encounter: [ ]
Chapter 140 – Awake
Chapter 141 – Clyde and Nicole
Chapter 142 – Grabbing A Sword Again
Chapter 143 – Meteor Shower
Chapter 144 – Siblings
Chapter 145 – Fourteenth Birthday Celebration
Chapter 146 – Shaula and Titus
Chapter 147 – The Future
Chapter 148 – Differences
Chapter 149 – The Hartmann Family
Chapter 150 – How Everyone’s Doing
Chapter 151 – Loera
Chapter 152 – Please Don’t Think I’m Mental Or What
Chapter 153 – Preparation to Go Back
Chapter 154 – To Silent Forest
Chapter 155 – Overcoming A Trial
Chapter 156 – I Have A Familiar!
Chapter 157 – Confiding About Past Life
Chapter 158 – Where Do Familiars Stay?
Chapter 159 – First Step To The Plan!
Chapter 160 – Staying In The Loera Residence
Chapter 161 – Best Friend
Chapter 162 – Nicole And Reinst
Chapter 163 – Second Person
Chapter 164 – My One and Only…
Chapter 165 – Brother and Sister
Chapter 165.5 – Brother And Sister ~Sister’s Side~
Chapter 166 – Proof
Chapter 167 – Do You Believe In Ghosts?
Chapter 168 – A Chance
Chapter 169 – Attachment
Chapter 170 – I Am The Older Sister
Chapter 171 – Our Own Path
Chapter 172 – Mother or Father?
Chapter 173 – Father
Chapter 174 – Dad
Chapter 175 – The Center of My World
Chapter 176 – Family
Chapter 177 – Unanswered Questions
Chapter 178 – Older Brother
Chapter 179 – Wedding Ceremony
Chapter 180 – Should I be Worried?
Chapter 181 – After That…
Chapter 182 – Visiting the Grave
Chapter 183 – It is Fate, Isn’t It?
Chapter 184 – Returning Home
Chapter 185 – Her Smile
Chapter 186 – Just Lyra
Chapter 187 – Alt-nii’s Request
Chapter 188 – You See…
Chapter 188.5 – Parents
Chapter 189 – Coming-of-Age Ceremony
Chapter 190 – Friendships
Chapter 191 – Constant
Chapter 192 – Rupert’s Big Day?!
Chapter 193 – Growing Conflict
Chapter 194 – Our Meeting?
Chapter 195 – Becoming A Third Wheel
Chapter 196 – Celeste’s Request
Chapter 197 – Lies
Chapter 198 – Father Daughter Reunion
Chapter 199 – Oriel
Chapter 200 – Naraka’s War God
Chapter 201 – Battle in the Strange Place
Chapter 202 – Working Together
Chapter 203 – Stranded in the Unknown
Chapter 204 – Their Alliance
Chapter 205 – Adjusting
Chapter 206 – Everyone’s Hope
Chapter 207 – Baby
Chapter 208 – Sen
Chapter 209 – Have We Returned?
Chapter 210 – Current Situation
Chapter 211 – Changes in Cielle Kingdom
Chapter 212 – Why Things Are Turning to the Present
Chapter 213 – Delegation to Cielle
Chapter 214 – Cielle Kingdom’s Crown Princess
Chapter 215 – Hello, My Old Friend
Chapter 216 – Lyra’s Internal Struggle
Chapter 217 – Infiltration Plan
Chapter 218 – Preparing for the Infiltration Mission
[Announcement] Light Novel Publication!
Chapter 219 – Mission: Start
Chapter 220 – Infiltrating Cielle Kingdom’s Capital City
Chapter 221 – Infiltrating the Royal Castle of Cielle
Chapter 222 – Aiming to be the Top Maids?!
Chapter 223 – The Tower of Exile
Chapter 224 – The Person Being Held Captive…
Chapter 225 – Gullible or…?
Chapter 226 – Eneida
Chapter 227 – The Opportunist
Chapter 228 – Embarking towards Vittae Village
Chapter 229 – Trust
Chapter 230 – Aquafly
Chapter 231 – The Portal
Chapter 232 – The Vittae Village
Chapter 233 – All Alone in This World
Chapter 234 – A Monster
Chapter 235 – Investigating the Vittae Temple
Chapter 236 – The Temple’s Hidden Area
Chapter 237 – Our Way Out… Or Not?
Chapter 238 – Boss Battle?!
Chapter 239 – Escapade
Chapter 240 – Saving the Day After Ruining It
Chapter 241 – When Disguised People Meet One Another…
Chapter 242 – Dilemma
Chapter 243 – Coincidences
Chapter 244 – The Elven Divine Doctor
Chapter 245 – The Truth
Chapter 246 – One Unwavering Truth
Chapter 247 – To the Dragon’s Continent!
Chapter 248 – Pyrpgrnt Kingdom
Chapter 249 – The Dragon Race
Chapter 250 – The Confusion of the Prince’s Aide
Chapter 251 – Eneida’s Power
Chapter 252 – In the Cradle of Her Mind
Chapter 253 – The Life of A Saintess
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