He had already made her lonely and sad many times, and if he hadn't stopped her from feeling that way, he would have wanted to die of helplessness.
"Why do you look like that?"
Yves asked suspiciously.
"Huh? What?"
"Did something happen to you?"
"My expression..."
Theodore touched his face.
Of course, it's his fault. He had done countless bad things.......
Recalling the fact, Theodore choked up again.
"You look as if something bad has happened to you......."
Yves frowned as she looked at Theodore, who had particularly moist and red eyes.
"More than that, how did we end up in ancient times? Did Tenebris become extinct for good? And Ernst......."
Yves' expression of mentioning Ernst's name was not good.
Theodore could tell intuitively.
That she was trying to avoid a bad conflict between them and turning a blind eye to Ernst's death.
Theodore answered, clenching his fists.
"I think it's because of the mirror."
"Mirror...?"
"Oh, that's... It's the Holy Treasure of Tenebris......."
"You were collecting them?"
Yves pretended not to know.
"Uh...Uh...Uh....... You knew......?"
Just as Theodore was a little moved by the fact that she knew about his rumors.
"I've heard rumors that you've gone crazy with Katarina's disappearance and collecting it."
"What? Who?"
For a moment, Theodore asked, surprised.
"Katarina, you know."
"Wh, what are you talking about! Why would I......!"
Yves looked brazenly at Theodor, who raised his voice.
"Why did such rumors spread? Do you really not know why?"
"......."
At her question, Theodore once again became a sinner.
No one around him, who was afraid of the Emperor's eccentricity, could convey the rumor, but he seemed to know why such rumors circulated.
It was because of his dealings, that he and Katarina were in love with each other.
At that time, it was an act of his own justification to find traces of Yvonne.....
Rather, it only hurt her greatly.
Besides, he couldn't believe he had gone crazy because of her (Katarina) disappearance, but he didn't know and can't correct it.
Shortly after Yves left, he couldn't think deeply about anything except about her death.
Because he was crazy enough that normal thinking was impossible.
It was just a tenacity to turn back time and save her life.
Looking back, he was not just trash, he was the worst trash that's ignorant and even incompetent.
It was natural for Yves to hate him like that.
"I'm sorry..."
Theodore bowed his head and murmured an apology in a very small voice.
"When I go back, I'll fix it again......."
"Why are you apologising to me?"
Instead of accepting the apology, Yves spoke in a curt voice.
"It doesn't matter to me who you are and what kind of scandal you have."
"Ah......"
"It's your business whether you make it right or not, so I won't bother you. But if you want to apologise, don't drag me into it for nothing."
Before he could ask what that meant, she added immediately.
"So, in fact, it wasn't Katarina that you liked, but me. Even so, don't bother me with such rumors."
"......."
"I think it would be unpleasant to hear rumors like that now."
"......."
Theodore's mouth closed.
Everything Yves said was right.
Therefore, Theodore could not refute anything.
So he was more upset.
'Yves... Why is she so good at talking?....'
Yves is good at many things, and she even speaks well.
What she says is always right.
"But I really wasn't gathering them because of her."
Theodore timidly looked at her and said as if he were making excuses.
"Well, I suppose so."
Yves answered in a sour tone before asking.
"Why on earth did you collect such things?"
"Time..."
Theodore doesn't want her to feel like he's a madman.......
No, she already thought he was crazy, but.......
Still, he barely opened his mouth hoping that she would at least see him as a less crazy dog.
"I was going to turn back time."
"What?"
Yves blinked her eyes in surprise at the unexpected answer
Her narrow eyes tried to gauge whether he meant it.
"It is said that it is possible to turn back time if the power of the Ancient Apostles is gathered......."
"What are you going to do after turning back time?"
"Well, I...... Kill that bastard who didn't recognize you...... Stop your death...... To apologise to you......."
"......."
Yves really looked at him as if he was a crazy person at the confession he had brought up with difficulty.
Her lips were parted a little, and the shape of her mouth was like, 'Crazy guy......' she seemed to mutter.
Theodore became sad.
He was being honest and yet she looked at him like crazy.
'But I can't lie to Yves.......'
Still, he tried to console himself, thinking that an honest crazy person would be a little less hated than a liar.
"Anyway, I think the mirror is involved."
Theodore explained that he moved through the mirror several times and met Odelia, and that Tenebris' black energy touched the mirror at the end.
"Then we came to the past......."
Yves murmured softly and bit her lower lip.
"How do I go back?"
"I don't know......."
It was at that time.
Something fell from Theodore's pocket with a snap.
It was the mirror of Tenebris.
'What? Why is this here?'
Theodore picked it up in surprise.
"Is this the mirror?"
"Yes, but how to use....... What?"
And the moment he reflected his face on the black glass plate above the mirror.
Theodore was able to use the mirror as if he had known it from the beginning.
Time slid by.
The fall of the Ancient Albrecht, numerous countries emerged and disappeared into the back of history.
Surprised, Yves looked at the scene, holding Theodore's arm.
Her eyes were shaking a little, but she stood upright and watched as history went on.
"Theodore!"
Then Yves suddenly exclaimed.
Theodore learned that they arrived at the time of the founding of the present Albrecht Empire.
People's clothes were similar to what they remembered.
Theodore slowly slowed down the pace of time.
And he found it.
Empress Hermelinda, the woman who is also Theodore's biological mother.
Theodore looked at the woman curiously.
She was a mother who he didn't remember.
It was thanks to the portrait he saw when he was young that he could recognize the face of his mother who died shortly after she gave birth to him.
Yves asked, as Theodore couldn't take his eyes off the woman.
"Do you know her?"
"Uh......my mother......."
Yves nodded briefly to his answer.
Empress Hermelinda was reading a fairy tale while stroking her swollen lower abdomen.
"So the brave dragon...... Cough, cough."
Hermelinda coughed after reading the fairy tale.
"Come on. Have you heard from Leobrante yet?"
She dropped the fairy tale book she was reading gracefully and asked the maid in a fierce voice.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty."
The lady-in-waiting answered with a great deal of courage.
"The damn old man. Why is it so hard to send someone to share the divine power?"
Hermelinda uttered a vicious curse.
Theodore's bad personality seemed to resemble her.
Soon after, the doctor came to visit.
"Have you found anyone who can share the divine power yet?"