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Using royal authority to open the door, the narrator wants to reach Adel and tell her not to look at him expressionlessly.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Enraged by the prophecy, the King frightens Adelheid with his sword and demands that she drink the sterilizing potion before his eyes. Adel realizes she has relived more than thirty lives on the Mountain of Time, dying every time. The story of slaying the dragon and the desire to destroy the dragon's heart come to the fore. 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RIGHT NOW.\nTHAT DAMN PROPHECY. DID YOU THINK I'D LET SOMETHING LIKE THAT CONTROL ME?\nTHAT BASTARD... THE BATTLEFIELD...\nADELHEID, I'M REALLY NOT IN A GOOD MOOD TODAY.\nAS I WISH? HAHA, MY QUEEN TRULY IS A COLD WOMAN.\nDO AS YOU WISH, MY KING.\nPLEASE PUT DOWN THE SWORD. I'M SCARED. I'M SCARED, YOUR MAJESTY.\n\nWHY... WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?\nYOUR MAJESTY, DID YOU GIVE A SPECIAL ORDER TO THE HANDMAIDENS?\nIT'S JUST... THEY'RE IGNORING WHAT I SAY.\nTHEN FROM WHOM SHOULD I COLLECT THE PRICE OF YOUR LIFE?\n\nTHIS IS THE MOUNTAIN OF TIME.\nTHEN PERHAPS THIS IS THE MOUNTAIN'S WAY OF RECLAIMING ALL THE TIME I'VE REPEATED.\nHOW MANY TIMES HAVE I DIED NOW?\nCAN I REACH THE SUMMIT BEFORE I GIVE BACK ALL THOSE YEARS?\nI CAN'T JUST STAY LIKE THIS.\n\nI HAVE TO MOVE WHILE I'M STILL YOUNG!\nEVEN IF I TELL YOU TO KILL YOUR OLDER BROTHER AGAIN?\nIT'S A MEDICINE THAT MAKES YOU BARREN.\nTAKE IT FAITHFULLY. RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.\nCOUNTLESS LIFETIMES CRASH OVER ME, THEN PULL AWAY.\nWELL, IT'S BECAUSE YOU DO NOTHING. I AM BORED.\nADEL, COME QUICKLY.\n\nAS I WISH?\nHAHA, MY QUEEN TRULY IS A COLD WOMAN.\nIN EVERY LIFETIME, THE KING'S VOICE RELENTLESSLY ECHOES IN MY EARS.\nADELHEID, I'M REALLY NOT IN A GOOD MOOD TODAY.\nADEL, MY QUEEN.\nMY QUEEN.\nADEL.\nMY QUEEN.\nADEL, HURRY.\nADELHEID! ADEL, IF YOU WON'T COME, THEN I'LL HAVE TO GO TO YOU.\nADELHEID, I...\nMY QUEEN.\nMY QUEEN.\nMY QUEEN, COULD YOU REALLY STAB ME?\nADELHEID.\nDELHEID.\nRIGHT AS MORE THAN THIRTY LIFETIMES OF TIME RUSHED PAST ME—\nADEL!\nMY POOR QUEEN.\nADELHEID.\n\nI SENSED INTUITIVELY THAT THIS LIFETIME WOULD BE MY LAST.\n\nCOULD YOU TELL ME THE STORY OF HOW YOU SLEW THE DRAGON?\n...IT ISN'T A VERY DRAMATIC TALE.\nTHE DRAGON WAS ASLEEP. I KILLED THE SLEEPING DRAGON, CARVED OUT ITS HEART, AND SHATTERED IT.\nI CROSSED THE MOUNTAIN OF THE WESTERN PALACE STRAIGHT AWAY. THAT WAS ALL.\n\nLOOKING BACK NOW, I WAS SO NAIVE TO HAVE BELIEVED THAT WORD FOR WORD.\nHUMANS CANNOT SPEAK OF THE MOUNTAIN OF TIME OUTSIDE OF IT, AFTER ALL.\nSTILL, SAYING 'THE DRAGONS WERE SLEEPING'...\n...WAS HIS OWN WAY OF TRYING TO DESCRIBE THE TRUTH AS CLOSELY AS HE COULD.\nTHE DRAGONS' TIME STOPPED AT THE EXACT MOMENT OF THEIR DEATH.\n\nGUH...\nCOUGH, COUGH...\nI CAN'T JUST SIT HERE STARING.\n\nI TRULY DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT NOW.\nI HAVE TO DESTROY THE DRAGON'S HEART.\n\nUGH...\nNGH...\nWHY...!\nWHY HERE?\nWHY DID IT HAVE TO BE HERE?!\nTHE DRAGONS ARE RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES,\nAND THE DRAGON'S HEART IS RIGHT THERE.\n\nIF I CAN JUST DESTROY THAT THEN THIS DREADFUL CURSE WILL END!\nWHY...?\nMUST I FACE DEATH YET AGAIN?\nWHY MUST I DIE HERE?\n\nIS THERE REALLY NO OTHER CHOICE NOW?\n...I WANT TO LIVE.\nADELHEID!\n\nBY ROYAL AUTHORITY, I OPENED THE GATE.\nFOR A KING SO EARLY IN HIS REIGN, ACTING LIKE THIS...\n...WILL SURELY CAUSE UNREST AMONG THE NOBILITY.\nYET DOES ANY OF THAT MATTER RIGHT NOW?\n\n1 MUST REACH ADEL AND DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE,\nAND 1 STILL HAVE WORDS LEFT UNSAID TO HER.\nUNLIKE BEFORE, THE MOUNTAIN OF TIME WAS UTTERLY SILENT—\nAND FELT SOMEHOW WARPED.\n\nA STRANGE FEELING, AS IF WALKING BACKWARD THROUGH TIME.\nIN SUCH A PLACE—\n\nI SAW SOMEONE.\n\nHOW MANY TIMES DID 1 WATCH HER BEING CUT DOWN BY ANTON'S SWORD?\n\nI'LL ONLY RETURN TO THE DAY HENBURG FELL.\nI FINALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT SHE MEANT.\nIN THOSE REPEATED LIVES, ADEL DIED,\nPLEASE SPARE ME. PLEASE SPARE MY LIFE.\nI'LL DO ANYTHING...!\nTHIS IS A DRUG THAT CAUSES INFERTILITY.\nTAKE IT FAITHFULLY. RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES.\n\nLIVED,\nADELHEID, WHERE WERE YOU? I CAME ALL THIS WAY, AND YOU LOOK LIKE THIS?\nDEMEANED HERSELF,\nI... I WAS IN THE STUDY.\nIF YOU HAD SENT A WORD, I WOULD HAVE PREPARED...\nWHY ARE YOU HERE? YOUR PLACE IS NOT IN THE STUDY, IS IT?\nAND SUFFERED DESPERATELY.\n\nDO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE DONE, WENCH?\nWHY DID YOU DO IT? DID THE HENBURG ROYALTY BEAR A GRUDGE... WAS THAT WHY YOU COMMITTED REGICIDE?\nYOU'LL BE EXECUTED ANYWAY. ANSWER PROPERLY IF YOU WANT A CLEAN DEATH.\n\nI KILLED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A BASTARD.\nHE WAS A BASTARD. I WANTED HIM DEAD, SO I KILLED HIM.\n\nJUST EXECUTE ME ALREADY.\nENDLESSLY KILLED BY THE KING, COMMITTING REGICIDE AGAINST THE KING...\nAND AGAIN, ADELHEID—\nCAPTAIN LEGENON, YOU'VE HEARD, HAVEN'T YOU?\nHOW MANY MEN MY QUEEN HAS SMILED UPON...\n...AND WHAT BECAME OF THOSE MEN.\n\nI TRUST MY CHERISHED KNIGHT WON'T DO THE SAME.\nTHE BLAME LIES WITH ADEL, WOULDN'T YOU SAY?\n\nSHALL I TELL YOU HOW YOU LOOKED WHILE WATCHING ME DIE?\nYOU WERE EXPRESSIONLESS.\n\nAS IF YOU WERE LOOKING AT NOTHING AT ALL.\nSO CAPTAIN... DOMINIC LEGENON.\nDON'T DO THAT IN THIS LIFE.\n\nI DON'T THINK I CAN ENDURE IT AGAIN.","bubble_count":117,"pages_count":27,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Enraged by the prophecy, the King frightens Adelheid with his sword and demands that she drink the sterilizing potion before his eyes.","spoiler_summary":"Enraged by the prophecy, the King frightens Adelheid with his sword and demands that she drink the sterilizing potion before his eyes. Adel realizes she has relived more than thirty lives on the Mountain of Time, dying every time. The story of slaying the dragon and the desire to destroy the dragon's heart come to the fore. Using royal authority to open the door, the narrator wants to reach Adel and tell her not to look at him expressionlessly."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/about-things-that-havent-occurred-yet-36dxlcxp/chapter-22-ks8scg","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — About Things That Haven't Occurred Yet #22: Chapter 21","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-16T23:09:00.906Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/about-things-that-havent-occurred-yet-36dxlcxp"}}