Your Meaning
Chapter 1 - Prologue.

TL: motherhen

PR: Myo

Prologue.

Why did you come to my house?

It was a visibly noisy morning.

Without making a loud step, the maids who were careful about everything looked more spirited that day.

Their daily work was all about going back and forth to the bedroom and the patron.

The ladies were normally loose, but for that day, they worked hard decorating Dayeon as much as possible.

The two-hour period of decorating was almost over and was heading towards the final step.

One of the servants, who was quietly waiting outside, noticed that time had run out and informed them.

As a result, the maids who were busy with her face and hair, became more urgent, amid that, there was the illusion of silent screams pouring out from their fingertips.

‘No….. I’m the one who wants to cry right now.’

Dayeon caught sight of her face illuminating as they applied the ivory-colored powder and spread a light color on her lips.

She somehow looked gloomy and depressed. And …….

Normal.

It was like her only advantage was her neat face and they really made an effort. She’s thankful for it.

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The twelfth day of the Altius Empire in February, Year 327.

For years at the boundary, the Sarmans had been raising sporadic local wars and exploiting the Empire’s citizens. The Emperor had subjected them, led the army, and also set out to war himself. They had won the war and returned triumphantly the day before.

It was exactly nine days since they had the revelation, when Dayeon opened her eyes in this world.

[When the door of Hergonia opens, a man of strength appears.]

It’s the period where the divine rights didn’t match up the Emperor’s power.

According to the official records, it had been the first time in 32 years that a revelation occurred in the temple itself.

That alone had already caused a stir throughout the Imperial Palace and Altius.

But what was more notable was the content of the revelation.

The interpretation of what the revelation meant varied, but at least a few were clear.

‘Hergonia’ was used to refer to the vast forest on the temple grounds, but in the Scriptures, it meant where God dwelled.

Days after the revelation, the knights who had been searching the temple grounds eventually discovered the exotic appearance of Dayeon wandering through the vast forest.

The temple and the Imperial Family of Altius had had a hostile relationship for a long time.

The Emperor planted a spy in the temple to grasp the current situation, and didn’t attempt to conceal that he had been spying on the temple.

The Emperor had made one important political decision at that time. It was thought that the temple’s occupancy of her would soon lead to the strengthening of the temple’s power.

So when the news of her revelation came, the Emperor openly expressed his greed and wanted Dayeon to be led to the Imperial family.

The Emperor was a born politician who had a strong will to fulfill his original goal.

During the fierce war with the newcomers, in the midst of the officials and temple, both allies and enemies were quiveringly roasted by his political techniques when he fully displayed his ornate grilling.

And finally, he succeeded in subjugating her from the temple as evidence of revelation to the Imperial family.

Emperor Altius skipped the ceremony and hurried back to the palace. He wanted to meet Dayeon, who was inside the Imperial City.

That’s the whole story that’s been going on around her.

The problem, however, was that all of this had been going on from the start and until now, regardless of her circumstances.

The Emperor, the oracle they had obtained, the faithful knight who had discovered her, the officials who had been engaged in the temple, and the tug-of-war over her under the Emperor’s ascension, were very unexpected.

That’s where the story began.

“You may lift your head,” said the Emperor.

She tried to avoid looking at the Emperor’s face as straight as possible and raised her head in a gentle manner.

Eh?

Seeing Dayeon’s face, the Emperor’s expression crumbled slightly in that moment.

It looked exotic. At least, it was an unimaginable appearance for the people of the Altius Continent.

It was obvious that she wasn’t from here.

However, no mysteriousness and sacredness was felt.

It was modest and neat, but nobility couldn’t be sensed.

Rather, a handsome man who had just been ripped off a mythical mural and emerged was the Emperor himself with an odd expression.

“It’s not good enough.”

Somewhere in a row, a group of ministers could be heard whispering while looking at Dayeon’s appearance.

Dayeon bit lightly inside her mouth. Otherwise, she felt as if the sense of pressure and shame on top of her would shrink her body.

“What’s your name?” asked the Emperor, with rather cold eyes.

“I’m Lee Dayeon. Lee is my surname and Dayeon is my first name.”

“Before you appeared, there was a revelation. Did you know?”

“…….Yes. I knew.”

“Sure, this is the first oracle in 32 years, all I’ve been doing is mentioning God, selling an adequate amount of medicine and extorting the people’s donations. Thanks to you, this old man who almost went down on history as one of the most incompetent people, is now very encouraged. I should have been abdicated before that too, but that’s a pity.”

“…….”

Here, Dayeon somewhat realized.

The Emperor was extremely harsh with words.

Even the ministers who were lined up turned pale and lost their color.

However, he looked very nonchalant as that’s what tattered an old man’s life, a mouthful.

At that moment, he made an odd expression as if he realized something.

“…… That’s strange. I don’t feel any divine power from you.”

Divine powers were strongest in priests and knights who were dear to God.

He was considered the weakest in the history of the temple, but still the most powerful in the current empire.

From generation to generation, only a man closest to God would hear his voice and become the head of the temple.

But strictly speaking, divine power could be manifested in anyone.

Some nobles also possessed divine powers as well as faithful believers of the goddess, and even the Emperor, who was at odds with the temple, had the ability to heal faster than common people.

It was thanks to divine power.

However, in the strange-looking woman who was found in the temple’s territory, not even the handful of divine power that manifested in the starving children in the slums was detected.

“Then I’ll ask you something else. Can you read God’s language?”

Dayeon gradually felt a sense of déjà vu in this question and answer.

As time went by, the Emperor’s expression became stranger and more mysterious.

All the newer officials who had gathered at the temple took the same steps.

When she first opened her eyes, she hadn’t been able to control her emotions, but at some point she felt guilty about such profane thoughts, saying ‘I didn’t know where to feel the breath of God.’

The Emperor glanced doubtfully at Dayeon’s body.

Every day, she had worked overtime at a pugnacious level and when her sugar dropped as a result of the chocolates that she had poured into her mouth, Dayeon’s body was filled with flab.

It wasn’t unpleasant to see, but she wasn’t slender.

The Emperor asked doubtfully, noticing the body that didn’t look very healthy.

“……Do you have a sword or any other weapon you can handle?”

Altius was a nation who glorified the military.

The founding emperor was a descendant of the Muga family, and since then, Altius’s emperors had been the emperors and knights for generations.

Altius, which started with a balance between the imperial and theocracy in the early days of the foundation, was able to emerge with a powerful imperial power by putting priesthood under its feet 300 years later, because of the conquest war, which struck as a focal point for the revered imperial court, made the empire prosperous and was successful.

The popularity of the imperial family was based on strong military power, and the significance of sword and martial arts in Altius was tremendous.

But Dayeon was not even confident of peeling apples with a fruit knife, let alone a sword.

She couldn’t handle her embarrassed face, so she just responded politely.

From that point on, the Emperor began to feel slightly conflicted.

She seemed too ordinary to be the agent of God with some of God’s power.

She was small, quiet, and had a faint energy.

“Where are you from? Did you come from Hergonia like an oracle?”

Finally, she opened her eyes and got the chance to tell what she learned for over 20 days.

It was a savage world where the conquest war was active and the status system existed.

What she was trying to say was that she foresaw what disadvantageous effects it would do to herself.

But she couldn’t pretend that she didn’t know, and she couldn’t wrap it up as if it was nothing.

“……I don’t know where Hergonia is. But I don’t know about Altius or any land on the continent. The world I belonged to was not this place, and I talked about it, but no one knew where I lived. I’m not from the New World, but I’m not from this world either.”

The Emperor tilted his head as he listened to her.

“Not from the ‘New World……”

Upon hearing Dayeon’s words, the Emperor agonized for a long time with a serious expression.

The Emperor finally asked, after a long period of intense scrutinizing, as if staring at her would give an answer.

“Then what can you do?”

It was a question that was straight to the point.

However, in the face of a fearful emperor, who had been slaughtering enemies on the battlefield until the day before, she couldn’t say ‘I’m telling you the truth. I don’t know how to do anything!’.

She took a pondering glance and finally answered with a voice that sounded disheartened.

“I can do all sorts of things like cleaning and washing……..”

“…….I’m stronger than I look, so I’ll be able to do the hard work very well.”

The Emperor looked at her blankly, caught off guard.

He looked speechless.

In a short period of time, the Emperor’s face changed momentarily.

He looked at Dayeon with a look of bewilderment and a look of extreme disgust.

And finally, it quickly became cold.

Looking at his face, Dayeon could clearly see that what she said was wrong, wrong and wrong.

However, it wasn’t possible to say that there was no divine power in her or that she wouldn’t suddenly become a representative of God, could talk to the goddess, use swords, and read ancient letters.

The Emperor, who had been silent for a while, asked Dayeon.

It was a cold tone, but it also contained lamentation and disappointment.

“Why did Hernia (*goddess) send you here?”

That time, she didn’t reply.

Before entering the palace, it was very contrary to the law of the palace, but she knew that the Emperor did not ask the question to hear the answer.

And that was what she wanted to ask God.

‘Why did you drop me here?’

Dayeon really wanted to cry.

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