System vs Rebirth

"You don't know anything, Anna. You are always inside the cage that you've created yourself." Noel looked down on her.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Anna gritted her teeth, glaring at Noel.

'Eh?'

This was a scene where they had a final fight before they got betrayed. The current Anna could see both her past and Noel's past figures before her eyes.

Her consciousness didn't question what happened to her or what kind of body she had right now. Instead, she was asking to herself about the reason why she had this kind of dream.

When she looked at this stand-off, she couldn't help but feel pain in her heart.

'That's right. Why did I fight against Noel in the first place? I think that the first time I fought Noel was at that time… I was visiting a small village and got angry due to the fact that they didn't have any good places to stay.

'The past me didn't have a memory like this, so I was immature back then. If I wanted something, I could get it. If I couldn't, I would do anything as I pleased.

'Yes, I was a genius, but my behavior was terrible. I might look nice on the outside, but I was a horrible human being on the inside.

'Back then, Noel was the guide to complete the mission and I was tricked by him the first time. I got lost and almost died in that mission.

'Still, all I had was hatred back then. By the time I got tricked on the second time, I got rescued by the local people. Yet, when they saved me, I didn't thank them. Instead, I killed them. That was the start of my regret.

'I noticed something when I looked at the happy smile they had when they found me and the horrified expression when I killed them.

'Noel might be taking revenge for this slaughter by forcing me to live in the wilderness without anything. Yes, he somehow trapped me in the middle of nowhere. I hated everything at that time, but to survive, I needed to eat everything.

hungry, thirsty, tired… basically, I did everything by myself for the first time. I realized

how thirsty they were when they needed to walk for half an hour just to fetch out some water. Yet, those same commoners were killed by me previously despite them

to act differently. I wanted to fix my past

a nightmare of the people she had killed so far because of

that what she had done

that, I accidentally saw Noel in another place, helping the people in need. They were smiling genuinely… Their smiles were much brighter and bigger than the

people around me were smiling because they feared me, not because they were happy

they couldn't give me the best smile. I didn't know why. I did my best to help them and gave the best solution, yet,

doing the same thing as him? Why could

did better than Noel. I was hailed as a

were kidnapped. When they saw

they swore to themselves that they would repay everything to

her, they were horrified and angry. Although it was an act, she never had the need to clarify it.

I can't even though we do the same thing?' Anna bit her lips before she recalled the first

are always inside the

that I've created?" Anna gritted her teeth. "I don't understand. I haven't created

her stories flashed in her mind. She somehow could see the reason why

a bit more, she

she acted like a horrible person, so Noel tried to crush her by making her fall into the trap. When she

like a dirt, the knight only smiled at his last moment and said, "I'm glad that you're alright,

help and to be helped. Yet, I

a normal commoner in the middle of nowhere.

only treated me well because they feared me. No matter how hard I tried