With the help of my tiny hands, I got up.

"Tiny hands?"

Not only were my hands tiny, my legs were small too, and I could feel the mushroom like cheeks on my face.

My eyes caught the mirror beside me. A little girl around five years old was sitting there looking straight at me.

Not a little girl.

It was me.

I came back to my baby form.

Again.

*****

My name is Lilian, a five-year-old orphan.

My everyday routine was eating, studying, and doing orphanage chores.

Life was going like this until...

That day, two guards with heavy armor came to the orphanage. They were looking for a child.

The Child of Blessing.

Whether it was fortune or misfortune I didn't know then but I was the Child of Blessing.

From that moment my life turned upside down.

I started to live like a princess or at least a child would think that way.

Good clothes, food every day, and a house to live in.

Getting scolded for doing any childish behavior, for not following etiquette, healing people until I passed out, and being locked in a room with only books to read. At some point I forgot how to live like a human.

Yeah, princess treatment.

But after treating me like a princess for thirteen years, they found out I wasn't the Child of Blessing.

The prophecy was all a lie.

When the war between humans and demons broke out, the Imperial Knights could hardly stand against them. At that time, the Devil Emperor, who had been hiding somewhere, suddenly came out with a girl.

She was the real Child of Blessing.

The prophecy:

A child with azure eyes will be born in the slums and will be the Child of Blessing who will save the world.

Like seriously, who wrote this? Anyone can have blue eyes and live in the slums.

But the real Child of Blessing couldn't unleash her power, so to awaken it...they killed me.

Stupid people.

And that's how my first life ended.

In my second life, I had the memories of my first life, so this time I thought about finding my own family. Whom I had heard about in my past life.

Although I was the illegitimate child of a marquis, because of my title as the Child of Blessing, he accepted me.

I always smiled at my stepbrother and stepmother. I always followed their orders. I even stayed awake all night just to write them the best letters which only ended up in the trash.

But I didn't mind. One day they would definitely understand my love for them.

I thought at least this time I could live happily in my family's shadow.

But the moment I turned out to be nothing more than a normal eighteen-year-old girl my family handed me over to the Empire to awaken the power of the Child of Blessing.

This was the second time I died.

And now, this is the third time I have woken up as a baby again.

Can't I just die peacefully?

No matter what I do, in the end I have to sacrifice my life for the Child of Blessing.

Even my family didn't come to save me.

Today is the day the guards are coming for me.

What else can I do?

Hide!

Hide.

Yes, I can hide my identity. I can run away from here.

Yes.

Lili jumped from the bed.

Yes, I have to run before they come here.

She slowly opened the door and peeked outside.

No one was in the hallway.

With her tiny feet, she started moving slowly.

She quietly came out of the orphanage.

"We came here to find a child."

"A child?"

"The Child of Blessing."

"It would be such an honorable thing."

"You may find the child here."

Yes, the manager of the orphanage received a lot of money and gifts after they discovered me.

I wonder if she intentionally threw me into hell for money.

Huh! Now she won't get a single penny.

I want to see her miserable face, but I don't have time for that.

I have to run, or they will find me.

As she moved, she accidentally broke a tree branch.

Ugh!

"Who is there?"

"I said, who is there?"

They slowly started coming toward the sound.

She immediately bent down and started crawling.

By the time they reached there, she had already escaped.

*****

I was sitting in a corner of the market, hugging my legs.

It's been two days since I ran away from the orphanage, and I haven't eaten a single nut since then.

I'm regretting it now.

At least I got meals there.

My stomach growled even more as I thought about those foods.

I had zero stamina left in my body now.

But I had to eat something for that, I had to work.

She somehow managed to get up.

With her tiny feet, she started moving slowly.

But before she could take another step, her body gave up and she collapsed onto the ground.

Is my third life going to end like this?