Life as a Tower Maid: Locked up with the Prince - Chapter 293

Chapter 293

Translator: Yonnee

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Emmett’s intention to not involve himself in worldly affairs remained unchanged.

Hearing that it was his lover’s wish, Albert understood Emmett.

After knowing that Emmett had left him to meet his lover again, Albert no longer felt resentment towards him as before.

He simply realized that Emmett was a human being just like him—a truth young Albert could not have known now appeared wholly clear.

He no longer hated Noire either. Albert had come to accept the existence of the dragon just as she was.

Albert intended to try.

Liam, Schubert, and even Mercy had said they did not regret serving him.

However, deep-seated shame and regret from moments of submission in their youth lingered in their eyes.

They said they had no regrets, and Albert knew they were sincere.

But there was goodwill he could extend to those who had suffered because of him and might suffer under him again.

‘Why not just prevent such events from occurring in the first place?’

The marquis’s banquet, which was the commonality of all their traumas.

If that horrific event could just be prevented from happening, that was all that was needed.

It was unclear whether they would remain by his side without that day’s events, but this was the last consideration he could offer as their liege.

As a child, Albert repeated the process of using magic and depleting his magic power to increase his total magical capacity.

What was once merely self-harming behavior no longer felt so torturous.

All his actions were merely steps towards meeting Jung-in again. Life with a purpose turned out to be quite bearable.

“…Still, I’m envious that your loved one is alive.”

After hearing Albert’s story, Emmett understood the entire situation and agreed to help where he could.

Albert’s recount of his past actions was exactly as Emmett had expected.

Perhaps the only difference now was that Albert could discuss these matters with him like this.

“I never expected to be told I’m being envied by my mentor.”

Albert chuckled and murmured as he got up from his seat. Talking with Emmett turned out to be much easier than he thought.

Especially considering how much he had thought it difficult to talk to Emmett in the past.

He had thought that whatever changed in his unhappy life wouldn’t matter much, but it seemed Jung-in was right. He acknowledged this to himself internally.

‘Has she ever been wrong?’

No longer being hurt by his family and caring for those who had cared for him.

Even if this was the same life, it felt different.

Perhaps this was what Jung-in meant by a second chance.

Living his life over and carving out a new path was strangely thrilling, more than he had expected.

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Greten was fired. While her discernment in recognizing him had been useful, she was too vain and greedy.

Hadn’t there been a time when she even drove Jung-in out of Albert’s room?

Keeping her close just because she was the first to take care of him had been a complacent choice.

The verbal abuse hurled at him by his family continued, but Albert did not throw himself into the lake anymore.

Now he used the mute spell to turn nagging time into meditation.

Albert’s magical power grew stronger and stronger over time.

When the time of the Snowflake Festival approached again, Albert had finally managed to grow into a mage of a similar level to when he first entered the tower.

Of course, separate from his tremendous magical abilities, his reputation had hit rock bottom.

Before he was appointed as a prince, he had only done groundwork, but the main reason was that he was so consumed with increasing his magic power that he hardly paid any attention to Rosteratu or his abusive family.

This groundwork involved exposing Belfort’s human trafficking ring and bringing him down from his position of lord of the magic tower.

With information obtained from Emmett and successful fundraising, Albert had placed young Mercy in the position of the current tower lord.

He achieved this by intimidating all the mages with his power. Of course, it was also true that Mercy had been exceptionally skilled from a young age.

He didn’t kill Belfort. It was appropriate, after all, to leave his end to Mercy again.

Even with the change in the magic tower’s master, the country was still corrupt.

It was about time he became the king.

Putting aside his magic training to become a transcendent for a while, Albert decided to sweep away both Marquis Evnen and Rosteratu at the same time.

Once Jung-in returns, he would be waiting in the same position as the emperor.