How to Be a Dark Hero’s Daughter

I slowly opened my eyes.

It was like waking up from a very deep sleep. An indistinct rustle tickled my ears. Someone was crying and whispering behind the screen.

My mind was still not clear, I heard only fragments of phrases.

“Okay… your move.”

“Ah, this child’s face… Oh, I so want to go home.”

“Whom will he choose… I don’t know… Let’s hold no offense.” 

“Please, you should wake up…”

What is this sound?

My head was buzzing. The eyelids were heavy. It took me some effort to open my eyes.

My vision was hazy, and the first thing that caught my eye was the transparent curtain around the bed.

There were people behind the curtain.

Where am I?

‘That’s right, I saved Collen. An arrow came flying at me.’

I gradually remembered the situation before I lost consciousness. Am I still in this world? Am I dead again?

My heart sank into my heels.

‘I can’t hear my own voice.’

My throat was terribly dry. I tried to say something, but only a cough came out.

Whoa, I’m going to die?

Then I felt someone next to me. I turned my head slowly.

Ah, this is Jade. Jade fell asleep with his cheek against the bed. Jade’s presence means I’m alive. It’s safe here.

‘But why are you sleeping here?’

I wanted to ask.

“Ah…”

A strange sound came out of my throat.

Jade’s bright red eyes slowly opened and aimed at me.

“Hello, Princess. Your eyes are open.”

Jade leaned on his chin and whispered languidly. 

“I waited so long.”

I couldn’t say anything, so I just laughed.

‘I was alive. I don’t know how I got so lucky. In the book, Collen also survived the poison arrow, but was on the brink.’

I would ask this if I had a voice. Jade smiled at me.

Why is he looking at me like that?

“It’s okay. Slow down.”

Jade gave me water. I sipped a little, and as if I was breathing, my voice came out.

“Where am I?”

“In the hospital.”

I opened my eyes wide. Then what about Collen?

“Um, the Duke…?”

“You’re safe. You’ve been unconscious for a week.”

“Yes…?”

Jay got up and opened the screen.

“The girl woke up.”

People in white robes stood behind the curtain. There were seven of them.

I screamed.

And I was not the only one surprised. They looked at me and screamed in surprise.

“You opened your eyes!”

“Oh my gosh. Is it real?”

“We will live now!”

They held hands and wept.

What do these words mean? Have you specially gathered here to wait for my awakening?

“When did they come here?”

“I don’t know anymore.”

Jade said bluntly.

…Jade, were you lying in my bed with strangers around? It’s a little creepy.

I tried to sit up with Jade’s help.

‘My shoulder…’

Breath choked with pain. But the wound wasn’t as serious as I thought. I looked at my shoulder. The bandage was wrapped under thin pajamas.

“Who are these people?”

“Ah. Doctors.”

I closed my eyes and waited for him to continue his story.

“They said your life is safe and you will soon wake up. No poison was found on the arrow.”

“Okay.”

“But it turned out that on the arrow had an anesthetic. You are so small that you passed out from a small dose. At one time, that’s why you became addicted to this drug, because it was difficult to detect.”

My mouth opened involuntarily at what I heard.

“I’m so glad.”

“What good is it that an arrow hit you?”

Jade’s gaze turned strange.

“I’m glad, because a large dose of anesthesia could just kill me. But I was lucky… Positive thinking.”

I said something strange to him.

I caught myself thinking that I almost told too much about my past life.

“Yes. I was lucky.”

Predictably, Jade found this odd.

But why did the doctors say they would live?

Meanwhile, the doctors’ celebration continued.

They reached out to me and jumped for joy. I didn’t know what to say here. Jade, for his part, didn’t even thank them.

“They said you’d wake up soon. As a result, you lay there for a week.”

“We were very upset with the doctors’ lies.”

“Oh, you know my dad is a little weird? He told the doctors: she sacrificed herself for me. If something happens to her, I will go crazy and punish you all.”

“You say that he was worried about me?”

This was a positive interpretation.

“Well, you can say so. After my father and I discussed this, I put forward the following proposal: if you don’t wake up, I choose one of these incompetent doctors and arrange a demonstrative execution.”

What does it mean?

‘Did you want to kill the doctor because of me?’