Love Letter From The Future

3. Dragon’s Eye, Human Mind (71)

Shien couldn’t hide the sound of his beating heart.

It was a face-to-face meeting with Sir Ian, whom he had been longing for, but more than that, he was trembling and nervous. A variety of anxieties and worries rose like the twilight of dawn.

What if I can’t be forgiven?

It was Xien who had already felt Ian’s true intentions in the last ‘Chungang-daero Imperial Family assault case’. I thought in my heart that it couldn’t be, but even so, I couldn’t help but feel a handful of uneasiness.

So, after meeting Ian, I made frequent mistakes.

Surprised, Shien didn’t even know what he was doing. I just wanted to express my sorry for Ian as much as possible.

It was right after he kissed Ian’s foot when he felt that it might be a bit excessive.

Of course, Shien didn’t mind.

It was humiliating and humiliating, if you ask me. However, Ian was the owner of the dragon blood letter, and more than anything, Shien did worse to Ian.

He could endure that much humiliation and humiliation.

It was just part of the process of washing away the sins Ian had committed.

But Ian didn’t seem to think so.

The air that had been clearing up quickly became chilly. In that awkward atmosphere, Cien, who got up, had to wiggle his fingers and keep an eye on Ian.

oh i’m stupid… … .

I should have gone in a more gradual way, but my heart didn’t get ahead of me. The original purpose of trying to look good to Ian seemed already stranded.

Shien died just as quickly as the color of the flower quickly turned.

Ian’s one word that came out at the end of the silence was a fatal blow.

“… … Aren’t you always that ignorant?”

The obvious bruise made Shien’s face pale.

Shien, who hesitated, eventually tried to lower his head to the ground again.

“Sorry, sorry… … !”

“No, don’t do that.”

Hmm, Ian cleared his throat as if there was some misunderstanding.

“Well, don’t you have ‘eyes’? Even so, I don’t think I can read people’s psychology very well.”

Shien was silent for a moment at that, but then smiled bitterly.

You knew.

If the owner of the hagiiya dragon blood character was the closest aide to the emperor. It wasn’t strange even if he knew secret stories that others didn’t know.

Shien carelessly touched my eyes.

He knew very well how much pain he had suffered because of these light gray eyes and how much he depended on this power nonetheless.

In particular, the two-week incident that started with the conflict with Ian gave Shien a lot of realization.

“… … Originally, I thought I knew it well.”

Hearing the sudden calming voice, Ian swallowed his saliva and looked away.

It was as if he had an intuition that something serious was about to happen.

“If you look with these ‘eyes’, you often see things you don’t want to see. It’s mainly people’s desire. There is no emotion with such intense color.”

It was no coincidence that C.N naturally compared emotion to ‘color’.

In fact, the ‘dragon’s eyes’ possessed by Xien showed emotions as colors. Although he couldn’t read all the psychology of others like he did when he was a child, he could still read emotions in Shien’s eyes.

Then, of course, I had no choice but to accept the emotions of the darkest color.

The most essential emotion of human beings was ‘desire’.

“It’s a simple thing. Once you start to see it, you just have to keep pace with that feeling in moderation. It is not uncommon for hostility to turn to goodwill, and vice to goodwill. I was living in such a good taste.”

The accusation on Shien’s lips became pitiful.

The girl tried hard to pretend nothing was wrong, and shook her head courageously.

“But, that wasn’t true. I realized it after meeting Sir Lee An. Actually, I don’t notice. Until now, I could see everything just by looking at it. But now it’s hard to believe your eyes… … .”

Continuing to talk like that, Shien took something out of his arms.

It was a small pocket.

He lowered his head and accepted Ian’s pocket as if expressing his gratitude with a puzzled expression.

It was light. The thick pockets looked normal on the outside.

However, since it was something the princess showed sincerity, it wouldn’t be an ordinary pouch.

Ian opened the pouch and peered inside, then said as if he realized it.

“… … It’s a space expansion pouch.”

“Yes, last time I saw that Sir Ian carried a lot of things with him during battle… That, and there’s another one inside!”

As soon as I heard that, Ian’s hand patted the inside of his pocket. Then, a large cat’s eye stone fell out of it.

A light gray cat’s eye.

It was the last thing Shien’s mother left behind.

Xian smiled a little sadly.

“As you may already know, it is something my mother left behind. So far, I haven’t been able to dispose of it. I didn’t know why until now, but now I do. That I couldn’t take a single step from the memory of that day.”

Ian looked at the light gray cat’s eye without saying anything.

It was a good product.

The color was unusual, and the size was large, so it had a great meaning even in terms of simple monetary value. It wouldn’t be strange to say that the empress had a hidden secret, much less.

It was too big for a gift to express gratitude.

However, the events of the past few days meant more to Shien.

“Memories of that day kept haunting me. They don’t trust humans, so they misunderstand and torment them… You might regret it for the rest of your life if you go on like this. So, Sir Ian, please accept it.”

Ian’s silence was long.

He hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Shien was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

It’s over now.

I would finally be able to escape the nightmare of the past.

No matter how much it is, since mother and daughter are in a relationship, it was something she had been keeping because she couldn’t get rid of her last lingering feelings.

Because at one time, my mother was the only side of Shien.

But now Ian is there, and there is an opportunity to escape from the pain of that day. So it was a bit sad, but it was okay.

It was time to let my mother go.

After making up her mind like that, a bitter smile appeared on Shien’s lips again.

It was then that Ian, who had been silent for a while, opened his mouth.

“… … By the way, do people’s psychology and emotions exactly match?”

“yes?”

At the sudden question, Shien’s head tilted.

It was the look in his eyes asking what he was talking about.

However, there was no hesitation in Ian’s words as if he were expressing his long-standing worries.

“It’s strange. Sometimes people don’t even know their own mind, so how can you explain people with one psychology and emotion?”

“… … Is that so?”

It was a sudden claim, but when Ian said it, it was strangely persuasive.

Shien fell silent in his thoughts. Come to think of it, I’ve felt so many emotions, but I’ve never seen them expressed in a single color.

Human emotions are revealed in more complex and diverse colors.

Shien, who had never trusted humans before, thought it was a kind of pretense. Because the most intense color has always been a matter of desire.

“Just because there is less color, that feeling is not going to be false. The same goes for psychology. You may have some thoughts at one time, but on the other hand, wouldn’t you be able to have other thoughts? Human beings are like that. So contradictory, complicated… … .”

While doing so, Ian tossed the cat’s eye into the air and caught it.

The sights shimmering through the cat’s eye reflected Shien’s childhood.

The bad people who bullied Shien.

But once loved, good people.

From the time he was born, Shien grew up reading human psychology. Back then, without thinking, I was able to love even the ugliness of human beings. I didn’t even think they were bad.

That’s why I didn’t reveal the psychology of others without thinking.

Suddenly, a question crept into Shien’s mind.

But why, why did I think all of them were bad people?

“… … Every orphanage director I met did that.”

And then, Ian took a step forward. Shien looked up at Ian, stiffening his body.

The pupil is torn vertically.

Even if he knew what it was, Ian didn’t look afraid at all.

“Me too.”

With those words as a signal, all sorts of information poured into Shien’s optic nerves.

It was a wave of emotions.

Never before has the feelings of the other person been so dramatic. This was probably because there was no objection to the other person’s mind being read.

Even if you don’t know the power of Shien, all humans try to hide their true feelings. Not to mention, anyone who knew Shien’s power.

No one has ever broken that barrier.

But now, Ian has deliberately subdued that instinctive reluctance. Numerous hues spread out, making the world a feast of natural colors.

It was a visual revolution.

The atmosphere, which had been dyed in achromatic colors, is dyed in brilliant colors.

Like paint spreading through water, the colors spreading one by one were so clear and diverse that Shien was at a loss for words.

Are these true ‘feelings’?

In that color tone, only bright and beautiful emotions were not contained. Dark and gloomy emotions were also coloring his vision together.

Even so, Shien didn’t feel it ugly in the slightest.

It was beautiful.

The sincerity was conveyed desperately to the point of being frightened.

“… … Perhaps, Her Highness’s mother did the same.”

Shien’s eyes blankly turned to Ian.

Aren’t you afraid?

It’s scary for anyone to show my sincerity. All the humans Shien had ever seen were like that, her mother was like that, and she was like that too.

So I’ve never seen one before.

The truth that cannot be hidden is the fact that such a beautiful color can be produced.

The fact that even the ugly and dark colors are only part of that harmony.

In the distant past, dragons had a unique love for humans.

Shien finally realized why they were able to love humans.

Ian’s question pierced her ears.

“How do you see my heart?”

Crying, the girl’s eyes turned red. “Since I cried, I couldn’t help it,” Shien muttered an excuse he didn’t know who he was talking to.

She just managed to squeeze out a word.

This was also Cien’s sincerity.

“… … Mo, I don’t know.”

There were so many colors to see, I couldn’t even tell.

As soon as Ian heard that answer, Ian smiled bitterly as if he knew that.

Then, Ian gave a pat, and put the cat’s eye stone in his hand back into Shien’s hand.

“It is my gift.”

The light gray cat’s eye returned to Shien’s arms like that.

However, it was difficult for Shien to bear the weight of the cat’s eye. Shien’s hand trembled as he received the jewel again.

Suppressing her tears, Shien asked.

“Uh, what should I do?”

Ian’s eyes turned to Xian.

He patiently waited for the teary girl’s words.

“Uh, mother… Hehe, my, what should I do?”

The girl didn’t have the courage to ask.

The love and hatred for his mother, whom he had hated and buried for a long time, came back to life and disturbed Shien’s thinking.

A single tear ran down the girl’s cheek.

The man who was watching the scene gave a simple answer.

“Once you find it.”

“Ha, but… … .”

“I will go with you.”

Shien’s breathing stopped for an instant.

It was because Ian said that and wrapped his arms around Shien’s hands holding the cat’s eye.

The warm touch made the girl’s heart beat again.

Shien resented the fact that he couldn’t see himself with his own eyes.

I couldn’t figure out the identity of this surging emotion.

“… … Later, by all means.”

The girl decided to believe in that short but firm pact.

In the end, Shien laughed while crying.

For the first time, very sad and happy.

“… … yes.”

The girl with dragon eyes learned the human heart that day.

**

The room the princess left was silent.

Without saying a word, I lifted the whiskey that had been placed on the table. And after filling the glass, he poured it down his gullet without hesitation.

It wasn’t a bad feeling.

Remembering the girl’s teary smile at the end, I smiled and laughed.

None of the problems, including dragon blood characters, have been resolved yet.

Even so, I decided to think that the road I’ve walked so far is worthwhile.

At least it made a girl who was trapped in a childhood nightmare laugh.

As I drank with a somewhat pleasant feeling, I became very drunk before I knew it. As I inadvertently took out the letter from the future, my eyes reflected the sentence written on the back.

‘A person with dragon’s eyes does not know the human heart.’

I didn’t know what he was thinking.

However, as I got drunk, I added another sentence to the letters written on the back.

‘But not a girl.’

It was just plain letters without short sentences or even fancy rhetoric. It was the limit of a drunken swordsman with no writing skills.

However, after writing it down, I really liked the words, so I looked at the sentence for a while and went to sleep.

A high-ranking member of the imperial family was about to arrive.

Even so, my heart was amazingly calm. The more you get drunk, the more your senses become dull and your emotions calm down.

The next moment I closed my eyes with the feeling that it would work somehow.

When I opened my eyes again panting, it was still early in the morning. My heart was making a rough noise, probably from a little lack of alcohol.

As I was pouring whiskey into my glass again, the letter I had put on the table before going to sleep came into my eyes.

There was another sentence added to the back of the two sentences in succession.

‘Maybe.’

The scribbled short sentence seemed to reveal the man’s temper, so I laughed and threw it away.

And I drank all the whiskey. So I got drunk again and fell asleep.

That day I had a dream.

A strangely vivid dream of a certain man.

It was a familiar thing by now. My eyes opened with the sound of heavy breathing, and I headed straight for the table by my bedside.

A date on the calendar that has already passed, a letter envelope that I have never seen before.

He didn’t even give me time to rest.

“… … under.”

Feeling a stabbing headache, I picked up the envelope.

I didn’t even have the energy to curse.

It was the beginning of a new incident that would shake the world.