The Tyrant Won’t Let Me Go

The Tyrant Won't Let Me Go Chapter 1

Chapter 1 : The Tyrant Won’t Let Me Go

Translated by Niks

A new national fencing representative who appeared like a comet.

A gold medalist at the World Championships

Prominent Olympic gold medal candidate.

That’s what people used to call me.

“Ms. Yu Ha-neul.”

The voice of the doctor in a white gown murmured.

“It’s unfortunate, but the damage to your right arm and right leg from the accident would be difficult to recover even in the future. It seems that there would also be difficulties even living your daily life, please refrain from any strenuous activities from now on.”

No, that’s how the doctor explained that my life now was ruined.

“I don’t think it’s going to be easy to live as a player in the future.”

Until the day of Yu Ha-neul’s death as a player came.

* * *

Was it because I thought I wanted to die at that moment?

Maybe it was because I was thinking that I wanted to let go of everything.

When I opened my eyes, I was already in possession of an extra in the novel.

Although it was the body of a small child of about twelve years old, it was a great pleasure to see that the limbs were in good condition.

Maybe that’s why.

Even when I heard the name of the kingdom in the novel I read, it was before while I was sick, and realized that I was in possession of an extra character in the novel.

And I was just happy when I concluded that my name was obviously a name for an extra, given that it did not appear in the novel.

Until my only mother abandoned me in an orphanage a week after I was in possession of this body.

On a snowy day, she took me in front of the orphanage and left without looking back.

In my previous life, my parents abandoned me, so I thought I was used to being abandoned.

I knew it only when I realized that my right hand with a tight fist was trembling.

Actually, it’s not like that.

‘Because there was no one I could really trust.’

Standing in front of the well with a bucket, I sighed, recalling the memory of that day.

I didn’t have a chance to feel sad that I was abandoned by my mother.

The Orphanage was full of children eating soup for a meal, and all teachers had to be busy in order to survive here, this place was not normal.

Otherwise, the teachers would find fault with you and you wouldn’t be able to see anything good.

‘I’m really tired…’

I was trying to somehow keep the teachers out of sight with the military skills I got from my previous life for 23 years.

Even now, I heard the director’s cool voice, “Who’s incharge of water duty today?” 

I took a bucket and brought water.

‘I can’t even reach them with this body.’

Still, it was better for me, who was older than other children, to walk with a bucket of water..

The well was deep, and there was a possibility that young children would fall into the well while walking.

Nevertheless, they are used to having children who were only five years old to bring water from the well. 

‘I should have run away immediately when I first noticed this strange feeling…’

When I realized that none of the teachers in the orphanage were normal, I tried to escape once.

However, after being discovered by the teachers, I was put back here.

It was regrettable to be stuck in a shabby orphanage at this age and to endure unreasonable teachers.

‘I would have been able to keep my mouth shut in one room if it had been in my previous life.’

No, they wouldn’t have even touched me in the first place.

Because the teachers in the orphanage were only strong against the weak.

Therefore, if I were an adult of a similar physique from my previous life, I wouldn’t have had to live like this.

‘I don’t know.’

I barely filled the quota and put the bucket down near the well.

It was something I had been doing before, but today I kept thinking for some reason.

‘In other novels, the protagonist was instinctive and strong. Why do I look like this?.’

Like an aristocrat lady, or a nobleman, or the princess.

Why didn’t I become such a precious person and lived a prosperous life.

‘If not…’

I clenched my fists.

The horrifying sensation of my arms crushing on the wheels of a car and the face of the doctor, who sentenced the death of my career as a player came to mind.

‘It would have been nice if I could at least be a knight.’

It was at the time when I was pressing and holding the thought of wanting to kick the bucket with water.

I saw something glistening through the weeds that had grown lush near the well.

‘What was that?’

I thought I was mistaken, but I wasn’t. Something was shining through the weeds.

I moved my legs as if I was possessed and fumbled between the weeds.

Surprisingly, it was a sword with a blue gem on it’s handle that glowed between the weeds.

A blade that shines in silver color and the handle with blue jewels like the deep sea.

It was a beautiful sword that I couldn’t believe if it was really a weapon but an ornament.

“Sword?”

Apparently, I wondered why a luxurious sword was left here.

It didn’t fit into the backyard of the orphanage, where nasty buckets were rolling and weeds were growing.

‘Who lost it?’

Therefore, the blade was so straight and shiny that it was ‘sticking’ between the weeds.

No one could’ve put such a wonderful sword in the yard of a shabby orphanage without being crazy.

I pulled out the sword and carefully brushed off the dirt on the blade.

When I grabbed it, I thought it was considerably lighter than I expected.

“Oh…this is good.”

This sword was easy to swing.

‘Wouldn’t it be possible to sell it if it looks beautiful like this?’

If I had a weapon, my teachers wouldn’t be able to catch me easily.

In addition, if I have a sword like this, I could certainly sell it at a high price, so I could use the money to buy a place to live and a job.

‘I’m a genius.’

Thinking so, I held the handle of the sword with my right hand and supported the blade with my left hand.

As if when the soil was buried, the well-cleaned blade gave off a cool glow, and the blue sapphire sparkled in sunlight.

“Oh, but it’s a waste to sell such a beautiful sword…”

[You don’t want to sell it?]

I looked around in surprise at the sudden voice.

“Who-who’s there?”

But there was no one.

[You, I like you.]

The jewel on the handle of the sword I was holding in my hand began to emit a strange light.

Soon, the light emanating from the jewel covered the entire sword.

I tried to release the sword from my hand, but the sword stuck to my hand and didn’t fall off.

The next moment, a silver black mass of light was scattered, and the scattered mass of light came into my body.

And the light disappeared as it was.

“Huh?”

Obviously, the sword was in my hand until a few seconds ago then disappeared without a trace.

As if it was just a dream.

‘What was that?’

Until then, I didn’t expect anything.

That this would change my whole life.

* * *

Two days have passed since the day I picked up the unknown sword.

Life in the orphanage has not changed at all, and my physical condition has not changed much.

‘I wonder if the sword I saw that day was an illusion.’

Maybe I dozed off and dreamed of picking up a beautiful sword.

If I think about it, it didn’t make sense since there was such an expensive sword in the orphanage yard.

‘But it was so vivid…’

The touch of the sword in my hand, and the light that shone brightly.

It was so vivid that I couldn’t believe it was all in vain, and I could never forget it.

“Guys, can you wait in line from now on, and when your turn comes, you can put your right hand here. Okay?”

So even when a stranger called an administrative officer came with a strange object and offered to measure our mana, I couldn’t concentrate on his words.

I couldn’t get it out of my head thinking, what the sword was and the light on the gem.

I came to my senses when a four-year-old child, Ully, who was standing next to me, pulled my collar.

“Ciel, are you listening?”

“Huh?”

As I erased my thoughts about the sword and turned to the kid that pulled me, Ully whispered in my ear.

“This magical power test was specially conducted by His Majesty’s order! Nina did it once six months ago, and that’s why I’m doing it too!”

Somehow, I wondered why the administrative official came to such a poor orphanage, and there seemed to be such a hidden situation.

“Oh, really?”

“Yes! People who come out with high magical power this time may be called to the Imperial Palace and receive a magic swordsman training or a wizard education.”

Unlike usual, Ully had sparkles in his eyes and spoke in an excited voice.

‘It’s a magic-measuring test.’

I would have been able to become a magic swordsman if I was not an extra, but a noble with high magic ability.

It may have been possible to wield my favorite sword to my heart’s content, like in my previous life.

But it was too far away for me now.

I had no magic, no money to buy a sword.

“Sister, if you get selected for this examination, you may be able to see His Majesty the Crown Prince and get out of here!”

Oh, it would be nice to get out of here, but I don’t want to see the Crown Prince.

‘Obviously, that Prince was the crazy sub-male of the novel.’

He was a typical tyrant-style male lead who killed everyone he didn’t like.

I wouldn’t want my favorite heroine to be with such a scary guy.

“Don’t talk nonsense, Ully.”

I flinched at the cold voice coming from behind.

Looking back, the director of the orphanage with a distorted expression looked down at us disapprovingly.

“Do you still believe such a ridiculous rumor? Do you think you can get out of here and live?”

Ully, hardened by the director’s scary words, he hurriedly bowed down and said in a small voice.

“Sorry, I’m sorry…”

I hid that Ully behind me and stared at the director.

‘I really don’t like him.’

The director relieved his stress on the children in the orphanage, and he would kill an innocent child who had done nothing wrong.

That’s not an adult thing to do, right?

“Where do you dare to stare with your eyes at an adult?”

The director bowed down and whispered in my ear.

Unfortunately, the only outsider, the administrative official, couldn’t see this sight because he was checking the children’s magic from the front.

“If you really had a special talent, you mother wouldn’t have abandoned you.”

“…”

“You’re going to the palace and become a magic swordsman? That’s ridiculous.

The director stood up and said, ridiculing me who could not answer.

“Wake up from your dreams.”

And I stood in a daze waiting for the long line end.

He wasn’t a human being to point out that I had been abandoned by my mother.

But in reality, what the director said was true.

“Now, you’re the last one. Put your hands on this measuring instrument.”

The official smiled kindly and pushed the gauge towards me.

Then the director intervened between me and the official and smiled pretentiously.

“Oh, I don’t think you have to measure this child.”

Looking at the surprised look on the official’s face, the director raised his lips even more.

“I don’t think she’s going to have enough mana to be measured anyway.”

It seemed that he was taking revenge for a moment that I had talked about something else with Ully earlier.

Really, he’s too much..

“No, but I still have to do the test until the last child.”

Eventually, when the official said that he would do the test, the director looked at me from an angle and made an unpleasant expression.

Ignoring the stinging gaze from the director, I put my hand on the measuring instrument.

‘Well, it’s not like I’m hoping for something, but the director’s right.’

You can’t expect anything like a miracle to happen suddenly.

I wasn’t the main character, I was just an extra.

It was then.

[What do you mean right?]

At the moment when I was surprised by the same voice I heard the day I picked up the sword, the voice spoke again.

[Show me. No, I’ll help you.]

“This! This mana…!”

The wide-eyed official shouted in a trembling voice.

The scale of the mana meter continued to rise, and the voice from nowhere rang in my head.

[My name is Caliberne. I’m the only sword of victory in the empire.]

And the dazzling blue light that fills the room envelops my hands.