"I only want to do memory-piercing magic on you," Diego said innocently.
"So you don't believe what I've been telling you all this time?" Rowena replied, slightly annoyed that Diego didn't believe her.
"Part of me does believe in you, but part of me doesn't. Besides, you try to tell me how can I trust someone who has even deceived the entire empire including the Sunverro imperial family about her origins," said Diego who defended himself.
Rowena was silent and thought for a moment. If you think about it, Diego's defense does make sense. If someone like that confessed the same thing as she did to Diego, she definitely wouldn't believe it right away
"All right. Do what you want to do," Rowena said nonchalantly.
Memory-piercing magic was one of the unique magics that only the descendants of the upper class nobles and the imperial family in Odelette possessed. This magic is useful for penetrating the deepest memories of humans. This magic was not dangerous, but it would be very dangerous if the imperial family used it against other imperial families. Because originally this memory-piercing magic came from light magic so if the imperial family used this magic on another imperial family there would be a mana explosion on the person whose memory was penetrated.
Diego lay down next to Rowena. He put his forehead on Rowena's forehead and gripped both of Rowena's hands tightly. The ritual of the memory-piercing magic began.
Diego POV
Now my spirit entered Rowena's memory. The first time I entered, I was immediately greeted with an infinitely dark room. I continued to walk forward into a dark alley that was there. When I reached the end of the passage without realizing it I arrived at a magnificent palace that was very bright.
I continued walking around the palace. It seemed that the people there didn't notice my presence. My feet brought me to a palace that was very abandoned and fragile, very different from the magnificent and luxurious palaces I had seen before. There I saw a girl who was about 6 years old with fiery red hair and sapphire blue irises and a woman who had almost the same stature as the little girl. After watching it for a while I realized that the woman had the same face as the portrait of my aunt Erica that was on display in the Odelette palace. Then the little girl with the aunt was Rowena.
They both looked very pale and weak. I continue to observe the daily life of the two women. As I watched them, I realized one thing even though aunt and Rowena were Queens and princesses of the Edelle kingdom, they were both completely disrespected by the King, the king's favorite concubines, princesses and princes, even the servants.
They treated aunt and Rowena badly. They didn't even hesitate to slap, punch, kick the little Rowena. The deepest part of my heart was cut to see Rowena's suffering. Unfortunately I couldn't help him at all. I began to know where the vengeful look in that woman's eyes was coming from.
After a closer look, my aunt was declared pregnant with her second child. Both my aunt and Rowena were overjoyed even though they knew that the baby who would come into the world would be treated the same as they were. When my aunts were five months pregnant, their worst nightmare began.
King Edelle's concubine came with her children to aunt's palace. The concubine also brought many bodyguards there. The vile woman ordered her guards to arrest Rowena and my aunt on charges of infidelity. It made no sense when my aunt was always at her palace with Rowena.
Rowena and my pregnant aunt were dragged violently into a dark room with a rather high pole there. My aunt was tied tightly to the pole and Rowena was left sitting on the ground with her hands tied.
First the concubine whipped Rowena's little legs with a thorny whip until her legs bled and had to be moved and then untied Rowena's hands. After being satisfied, now it was aunt's turn to be tortured. The guard cut aunt's tongue because she had been screaming the whole time when she saw Rowena being whipped. Then they forced the aunt to drain a bucket of the smelly liquid which was a very high level of poison.
Not satisfied with that, the vile concubine also ordered the guards to cut off both aunt's legs. Rowena who heard this immediately crawled to the concubine and grabbed the woman's leg and began to plead in a low voice while crying.
"Your Majesty, please don't hurt my mother. If you want to torture someone, you can just torture me. Please don't torture my mother," Rowena pleaded.
The concubine kicked Rowena again so that the little girl fell on the ground. Even though Rowena had pleaded, the heinous execution was carried out. Both aunt's legs were cut off. Once satisfied they released the aunt from the pole. Then they all left the room and locked it from outside. Rowena crawled with difficulty to aunt. She hugged her mom who was in pain because she was almost out of blood.
Day after day passed like that. Rowena's still small hands have to witness and feel such a cruel situation. Two weeks passed and finally the aunt died from the poison she consumed and lost blood. Even though I knew my aunt was dead, no one opened the door. Little Rowena was confined in the dark and cramped room with her mother's corpse. After two weeks, the door finally opened.
Auntie's rotting body was thrown into the forest which was quite close to the palace and Rowena returned to her palace. As night fell, Rowena slipped out of the palace and walked into the forest. I followed the little girl's footsteps from behind her. From what I saw it seemed like she was looking for the body of the aunt who was dumped there. Little Rowena walked through the forest. However, all she found was her mother's head. She hugged her head tightly and cried. After crying for a long time, she buried his aunt's head under a flower tree that looked very beautiful.
"I hope you can enjoy the beauty of this flower and continue to be happy with my little brother. See you later, mother," she said softly and then walked away from there.
For the umpteenth time my heart was sliced again and clear liquid came out of my eyes. I couldn't stand the sight of the little girl's endless suffering.
After the death of her aunt, Rowena was again tortured more severely than before. Even her step sister tried several times to harass her even though it always failed. At the age of ten, she was slandered by the concubine who killed her mother. As a result, her title was revoked and she was banished in the fight for Richella.
When I wanted to take a closer look at her memories, suddenly everything disappeared and became dark. Then I woke up from the ritual of the memory-piercing magic and returned to the real world. I saw Helios, Sir Damian and Sir Cedric who were also near the bed trying to wake Rowena and me.