There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 749

Chapter 749: Side Story 4. Endless Journey - 32

For a second, Zein felt his vision go dark. But he scolded himself immediately—it wasn’t the time to think about himself when his daughter was there looking distressed.

He reached out to caress her cheek and asked gently. "Would you like to go to the couch and talk it out with me?"

"You..." Lucy raised her anxious face. "You believe me, Papa?"

"What are you talking about, baby?" Zein frowned. "Have I or Daddy ever not believed you?"

Just like that, the distress vanished from the girl’s face, and Zein realized it wasn’t the ’past life’ that was troubling her--it was his reaction.

"You won’t think I’m crazy right?" she asked again, and Zein couldn’t help but sigh.

Would he, if he didn’t know about it beforehand? At that moment, Zein felt thankful that he knew what he knew to not make his daughter unnecessarily worry. The girl had been isolated enough from girls her age--there was no need to make her feel isolated from her family too.

"I won’t," Zein replied with a smile, caressing her cheeks still. "But do you mind explaining it to me, baby?"

"Can I...can Lu sit on your lap, Papa?" the girl asked shyly, mainly because she was the one refusing it in the past, breaking her Dad’s heart.

Zein chuckled and patted his thigh. He could feel how much his daughter had grown by the added weight and the fact that she didn’t have to crawl and climb to his lap anymore. She had a simple light jump and sat on his thigh, sideway, and put the book she had been carrying on her lap.

She seemed to be obsessed with the book these days, so Zein was rather intrigued. He wondered if the book had anything to do with her sudden conclusion. For all he knew, the girl still thought her dream was a future vision last time--which was last month if Zein recalled correctly.

And it seemed like Zein thought correctly this time because Lucy held the book again before speaking. "Papa...don’t laugh, okay? But I read this novel and...and it’s about this boy--no, this man--who died in another world, and then woke up in a boy’s body with all his memories from his past life intact!"

"Interesting..." Zein raised his brow, wondering where these authors got this kind of imagination. He tilted his head to look at his daughter. "So...is there a dead man inside of you, my daughter?"

"No?" Lucy shook her head incredulously. "I’m still Papa’s Lucy, but..."

"...but?"

Lucy put the book on her lap again and sighed as she leaned on her father’s shoulder. "But these dreams that I kept seeing...they are very clear, Papa, not like usual dreams--you know, when everything feels sluggish and blurry?" the girl squinted her eyes and twisted her lips--a habit when she was thinking. "Those dreams are so clear and always continue. It feels like...oh! It feels like that virtual simulation game Uncle Shin let me play the other day!"

"...Shin let you play a virtual simulation game?"

"Hu-huh?" Lucy blinked innocently while letting out a nervous laugh. "Umm--anyway! Oh, right!"

"Don’t dodge my question, Young Lady--"

"Reflection!" Lucy clasped her hands. "Lu saw the reflection on one of the swords, but it didn’t look like Lu!"

Zein ignored the way his daughter acted cute to get out of trouble for now. "By reflection, you mean your reflection?"

"Ung!" the girl nodded eagerly, feeling glad that she dodged a bullet. "It should be Lu, but it didn’t look like Lu, because it’s a man! An adult!"

"Like me?"

She shook her head. "Younger--like, umm...like cousin Cliff, but short hair!" she clasped her hands again. "Oh, but his eyes are like Lu and Papa!"

"I see..."

Lucy turned her head to look at her father’s slightly tensed expression. She bit her lips and snuggled into his hug. "Papa..."

"Mm?"

"Do you think...do you think it’s really Lu’s past life?" the girl muttered, fiddling with Zein’s necklace. "There’s this one boy in the book who also remembers his past life, and his past life was a bird. So...so Lu think if a bird can reborn as a boy, maybe a boy can be reborn as a girl like Lu..."

"Ah..." Zein nodded. No wonder she suddenly thought that it was her past life after reading the book.

It was rather funny--or was it ironic? It was an amazing coincidence anyway, as if the world was giving her hints about her identity. Zein wondered if he should tell her about it, or just let the event take its own course.

"If...if Lu were the boy who woke up knowing he used to live in another world as someone else...will Papa...will Papa still love Lu?"

Zein frowned and held his daughter’s face. "Baby, we will always love you no matter what," he looked at the blue eyes, a copy of his, and said with utmost sincerity. "No matter what kind of person you were in your past life, it won’t change the fact that you are Lucy--my Lucy. Your Daddy’s Lucy. Your brothers’ Lucy. Right?"

The corners of the cute lips turned down like a bow as the pretty face scrunched up. She hugged her father tightly and nodded. "Ung..."

"If it’s really your past life, and someday you remember everything...you’ll still be our Lucy, right?"

"Ung!" Lucy nodded eagerly, tightening her hug while her father stroked her back in reassurance.