The girl tossed and turned, frowning as if she was in deep pain.
‘What the hell is this?’
I couldn’t get my mind off this horrific scene unfolding right before my eyes.
After a while, someone from outside ran into the room screaming.
“Diane!”
The person running was a middle-aged woman in a light blue evening dress.
‘The Duchess?’
She looks much paler and weaker than before, but it was clearly the Duchess with whom that I was talking a while ago.
The Duchess wept and hugged the girl tightly.
The skirt of her dress was wrinkled, and the platinum blonde hair that was painstakingly twisted was a mess.
“Diane! Why…. Why is this happening?!”
The Duchess wiped the blood from the girl’s face with her trembling hands.
‘Does that mean that this girl is Lady Diane?’
‘Diane, the only daughter of the Duchess and my bridesmaid?’
“Hurry up! Go…. Call the doctor right now!”
The Duchess, who had been continuously crying, looked around and shouted.
Only then did I see the people around me.
Several people were standing in front of the door, looking worried.
They were all dressed up in fancy evening dresses and ball robes.
When I saw it, something immediately came to mind.
‘Is there a ball?’
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My thoughts didn’t go any further.
At the end of that scene, my vision went dark and everything disappeared in an instant.
I was startled and hurriedly removed my hand.
The surrounding area was back to the winter garden where the sun was setting again.
A cool breeze permeated my skin with the warm glow of the sunset.
The illusion that had appeared so suddenly, vanished without a trace.
In front of me was the Duchess, dressed in a navy blue dress and neatly tucked in platinum hair.
The moment I saw her, a flash of realization hit my mind.
‘This can’t be….’
Seeing my strange reaction, the Duchess was astonished and asked:
“Princess? What’s wrong?”
“…… No, it’s nothing.”
I took the handkerchief and smiled as if it wasn’t a big deal.
As soon as I touched the soft handkerchief, the warmth was felt through my skin.
It felt like holding a hot pack with frozen hands.
However, unlike the warm feeling that I felt in my hands, my mind started to wander.
‘Did I just have a precognition right now?’
(T/N:Precognition, also called prescience, future vision or future sight, is a claimed psychic ability to see events in the future.)
It was just a brief vision, but the illusion was so vivid that it all felt real.
Foresight was Eve’s divine ability.
It was clear that it was a fragment of the future that I had glimpsed through that ability.
It’s been four days since I woke up here, but this was the first time I’d ever seen the future.
I looked at my hand that was holding the handkerchief.
Thin, white fingers wrapped around a soft handkerchief.
A wisteria flower embroidery was visible between the fingers.
‘This was the key to the secret.’
Eve’s foresight was triggered through touch.
To simply put it, when my hand touches someone else’s body parts, foresight appears.
And Eve didn’t know about it until she was killed.
Her ability to see the future just appeared anytime when she was still a child.
However, around the age of 10, the medium of foresight suddenly changed.
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If she doesn’t touch the other person with her bare hands, her ability wouldn’t be activated.
That’s where the problem comes from.
‘Because Eve…… had a severe case of (*)mysophobia.’
(T/N:(*) Extreme or irrational fear of dirt or contamination.)
Eve, who hates dirty things, always wore gloves on her hands.
Thanks to this, she never had a chance to touch other people with her bare hands.
Moreover, since Eve’s divine power was so weak, her foresight wouldn’t come out that easily even if she touched another person with her bare hands.
Only when I touch the other person while thinking about the future that I’ve wanted to see in particular, will the foresight come.
However, since the appearance of foresight was very rare, that’s why most of them did not appear even after holding the other person’s hand for a long time.
So, even if Eve had a chance to touch another person with her bare hands, she would not have known it because her foresight ability would not appear.
‘But what appeared in the vision is very clear…..’
The brown-haired girl in my vision was the Duchess’s daughter, Diane.
In fact, I understood why Diane’s future vision came out.
Maybe it was because I kept thinking that Diane couldn’t attend the wedding because she was sick.
I also thought it would be nice if Diane could attend the wedding.
‘The maid definitely put something suspicious on her medicine. The one that Lady Diane had drunk obediently, and then woke up from her sleep and vomited blood.
It won’t be a poison.
Because it was never mentioned that Diane died that way.
In the original story, nothing was mentioned about a maid feeding Diane with some suspicious drug.
That means that the maid’s actions were not detected and simply had something passed to Diane to worsen her current state.
Perhaps the powder is not poison, but it was a kind of drug that aggravates her disease.