How to Run Away from Obsessed Men

Episode 88

Lindsey looked around.

‘Where is this?’

She wasn’t at the Kesion Marquisate. It was an old, decrepit hut. The architectural style seemed from the past, and it was oddly unfamiliar.

‘Karen said he would show me what Mikhail had done.’

That meant this place might be from Mikhail’s memory, right?

Lindsey felt like a ghost floating in midair. Floating in the air, she couldn’t figure out where she was.

“Han Ji-yoo is going to die?”

At the sudden voice, Lindsey turned her head.

There, she saw Mikhail, looking somewhat youthful.

And in front of him stood Karen.

“Yes, it’s something that will happen far in the future.”

Karen shook his head in a playful manner as he spoke.

His behavior reminded Lindsey of when she had seen Karen in the Asen Empire.

‘Is this when Karen first met Mikhail?’

Karen had told Mikhail about her fate.

The fate of meeting a tragic death at the hands of her father. It seemed like this was the moment.

The twisted expression on Mikhail’s face was something Lindsey had never seen before. His face looked both sad and angry.

His expression, mixed with various emotions, was unfamiliar.

Mikhail, who never showed emotional fluctuations, making such a face?

‘He was someone who accepted his death so calmly.’

Mikhail’s enraged voice echoed.

“Go tell that arrogant goddess. I won’t let it happen like that.”

“What? The woman you’re looking for doesn’t exist on this land, dimensional traveler. She will exist in some far-off future that we don’t even know when.”

“So what?”

“She’s a woman whose birth is uncertain. You would wait for someone like that?”

“……”

“You thought she was some great person for succeeding in dimensional travel and maintaining her soul, but she’s nothing but arrogant.”

Karen shook his head.

His tone was firm.

“I know how powerful of a transcendent you are. That means your lifespan must be long. But you know, don’t you? Why so many transcendent beings choose death instead of life? There aren’t many who die after fulfilling the lifespan given to them.”

Mikhail and Karen’s eyes met. After a brief pause, Karen continued.

“The goddess’s power. That damn curse. Transcendents either go mad, or before they do, they have to choose death.”

“……”

“The goddess’s power will torment your mind. The soul that clings so strongly will shatter once more. Is that all?”

Karen’s face twisted in disgust.

He shuddered as if the thought alone was unbearable.

“Changing your fate? It’s not as simple as dying. Every time you try to change your fate, the goddess’s power will lead you to hell. You know that kind of torment better than anyone.”

Karen waited for Mikhail’s response, hoping that this foolish dimensional traveler would change his mind.

But even after Karen’s words, Mikhail stood firm.

“Help me, Karen Rosset.”

Karen stared at Mikhail with a bewildered expression.

“Why would I? What have you left for me? Do you want me to go through that terrible time with you?”

“……”

“No, more than that, what can I possibly help you with? Can’t you see this hut? The Rosset family is nothing more than a poor, powerless baron’s family.”

With his words, the scenery began to change again.

After that, Lindsey watched the time Mikhail spent.

He began searching with Karen for a way to save her.

The once poor and powerless Rosset family grew wealthier over time.

He spent long years waiting for the moment when Lindsey Kesion would be born.

‘Mikhail knew that he was Baek Ji-hyuk from the beginning.’

Mikhail endured the aftermath of dimensional travel with a strong soul.

He repaired his shattered soul.

But as Karen had predicted, the long years only served to make the goddess’s power in Mikhail’s body stronger.

Seeing this, Karen came to Mikhail and said,

“If you keep going like this, you’re going to go mad.”

“Is there no way out?”

“Forget it. Forget that you were Baek Ji-hyuk. And forget that you’ve lived through all this time.”

An ordinary person couldn’t endure hundreds of years. Mikhail chose to forget in order to protect his sanity.

He forgot that he was Baek Ji-hyuk.

Lindsey watched the rapidly flowing years unfold.

As she waited for her, Mikhail had moments of despair and sadness.

He didn’t understand why he was living, why he couldn’t die. He had even forgotten who he was.

The erosion of his emotions wasn’t just from dimensional travel.

The time he spent waiting for Lindsey was too long. Long enough to break him.

‘Why did it have to be like this…?’

When Mikhail was Baek Ji-hyuk, he risked his life to travel dimensions just to meet Lindsey.

And now as Mikhail, he had spent countless long years waiting to save her.

Time passed once again.

Mikhail found himself, in a state he couldn’t even understand, becoming one of the trusted men of the Kesion Marquisate.

He didn’t want power. He didn’t seek material reward from the Kesion family. But the thought that he had to stay by the Marquis’s side was overwhelming.

And finally,

Lindsey was born.

On the day Lindsey was born, Mikhail, who had no memory, came to find her.

Looking down at the young child, he muttered to himself.

“I must protect you.”

Lindsey tightly shut her eyes.

‘You fool. You should have listened to Karen’s words.’

Mikhail always watched over Lindsey. But at the same time, he never got too close to her.

‘Why go through such a difficult time…?’

Mikhail never helped Lindsey, never wiped away her tears, even after he regained the memory of being Baek Ji-hyuk.

He only appeared when her life was in danger, to protect her.

Lindsey vaguely understood why he made such a choice.

‘I can’t fall in love with Mikhail.’

He was someone who would eventually disappear.

The person who had resolved to save her, and then die.

Lindsey, who had spent time in the Kesion Marquisate, was a child starved for affection. If Mikhail had been kind to her, she would have fallen in love with him instantly.

As she quickly watched the long years Mikhail spent, Lindsey felt her chest tighten.

She slowly took a step forward.

‘Karen didn’t send me here for no reason.’

Karen had watched Mikhail for all these years. As she looked at Mikhail’s memories, Lindsey realized that Karen cared for him deeply.

Karen had tried to persuade Mikhail countless times.

“Give up now. I don’t want to see a transcendent like you meet a miserable end due to the goddess’s power.”

Karen had endured long years alongside Mikhail without facing death.

“Mikhail, we’ve tried enough. You’ve reached your limit.”

Mikhail did not answer his words.

‘There’s something I can do for Mikhail.’

Lindsey took another step.

And soon, she understood why Karen had sent her here.

A blinding light dominated the space.

Lindsey vaguely realized that this light was the goddess’s power.

The long years hadn’t only been spent by Mikhail. Karen, too, had spent that time, searching for a way to save Mikhail.

Lindsey smiled faintly.

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The room was enveloped in silence.

Raysis gazed down at Lindsey and Mikhail with a neutral expression.

Lindsey and Mikhail were lying side by side.

‘This is annoying.’

The transcendent named Karen had said that if Lindsey were to separate from Mikhail, her life might be in danger.

He survived the battle with Crain. How it happened, he didn’t know.

Crain ultimately couldn’t kill him.

Karen, the transcendent, had said it was simply his fate.

‘Damn bastard.’

Raysis didn’t like him. If Lindsey wasn’t collapsed like this, he wouldn’t have left him alone.

Raysis clutched his head in frustration. Crain had lost the ledger.

The ledger that Lindsey had brought was now in his hands.

He had become the head of the Kesion Marquisate. The position he had once wanted so badly.

But now that he had become the head, the person he wanted to protect was unconscious before him.