Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 101

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Chapter 101

 

In fact, the Empress and Mother are the strange ones. Even the knights, soldiers, and palace servants treat me with a subtle undercurrent of fear.

 

They’re only groveling now because I’m boldly selling out the Creator, but deep down they must see me as a monster. A monster whose head fell off and was reattached.

 

It doesn’t matter. Unlike before, I have nothing I want to protect in this place now.

 

“You worry so much. It would be far more productive to spend that time worrying about your own uncertain future.”

 

When I replied indifferently, Lilia’s complexion stiffened. Regardless, I shrugged my shoulders and spoke nonchalantly.

 

“The sanctity of the Reviver is proven by divine oracle. If you deny the oracle directly proclaimed by the High Priest, that would be proof of ‘rampant evil.'”

 

Of course, I had countless times ignored and mocked oracles, but since no one here knows that fact, it doesn’t matter.

 

Honestly, what do I care about the oracle’s content? What’s right in front of them is me, and no matter what anyone says, I am the ‘Reviver.’

 

“Even monsters recognize and submit to the Reviver’s sanctity, don’t they? If there’s someone who suspects the Reviver is a monster, it would mean their intelligence is worse than a headless Dura’han, wouldn’t it?”

 

I raised the corner of my mouth at an angle and smiled at Lilia with my eyes.

 

“I’m worried you might be treated that way. So don’t go around flaunting such foolish imagination.”

 

Lilia was left speechless. She seemed to finally realize that opening her mouth again would bring no benefit.

 

As I was openly mocking her, the greenhouse door opened and a maid quietly entered.

 

“Your Majesty the Empress, His Highness the First Prince has arrived.”

 

Behind the maid, I could see Heinrih’s neatly dressed figure. At Heinrih’s sudden appearance, the noble ladies glanced at him with subtle looks.

 

“I came to escort you thinking tea time was over. But I seem to be a bit early.”

 

Perfect timing. I was just looking for an excuse to get up.

 

I quickly turned to the Empress.

 

“How could I make His Highness’s consideration useless? If you permit, I’ll take my leave a bit early. My physical condition seems to be deteriorating as well.”

 

“It can’t be helped. You may go in first and rest. Since we’re in the same Imperial Palace, we’ll see each other again.”

 

The Empress readily nodded her permission.

 

Ah, finally it’s over.

 

* * *

 

Being escorted by Heinrih out of the greenhouse, I finally felt like I could breathe.

 

“I hope I wasn’t too late.”

 

“I didn’t even know you were coming.”

 

At my light response, Heinrih let out a low laugh. I could feel the guards and attendants following at a distance glancing this way.

 

Seeing him act this way even with many eyes watching, the Emperor must have ordered him to appear friendly with me.

 

“You don’t need to do this kind of work.”

 

“Looking after your convenience is the only duty I have in the Imperial Palace.”

 

“Rather than taking care of me in small ways, entering as my partner at the banquet would leave a much stronger impression.”

 

This is Heinrih who couldn’t attend a single proper banquet for several years.

 

If he appeared chosen as the partner of the banquet’s protagonist in such circumstances, he would naturally draw all the nobles’ attention.

 

Being chosen as the Reviver’s partner would look as if he had the Creator’s support behind him.

 

As long as I don’t lose my reputation as the Creator’s Reviver, Heinrih will inevitably be talked about again. Of course, I have no intention of losing that reputation.

 

“…Being asked to be your partner might not be this joyless.”

 

I, who had been calculating Heinrih’s political gains without much thought, looked at him with a startled expression.

 

He looked somewhat bitter, but soon seemed conscious of the surrounding eyes and casually changed the subject.

 

“Ah, and I properly carried out the favor you asked of me before.”

 

Favor?

 

Just as I was about to ask what that was, I remembered the favor I had asked of him as soon as I arrived here.

 

I had brought it up half-doubtfully, but did word really reach Jeon?

 

“Is that so?”

 

“He returned to the Magic Tower. It seems he went back to his daily life on his own, so you don’t need to worry.”

 

“Ah…”

 

The smile that had unconsciously appeared on my lips dimmed slightly. I really never imagined he would return to the Magic Tower.

 

Of course, since my whereabouts suddenly became mysterious, the deal I made with him was essentially nullified. But I thought he would be looking for traces of me at the monastery.

 

Because Jeon is…

 

“Wait!”

 

The thread of my dazed thoughts snapped.

 

“Wait a moment!”

 

I stopped walking at the urgent voice from behind. Lilia was chasing after me hurriedly without bringing a single servant.

 

As if she couldn’t even feel the puzzled gazes of the surrounding palace servants, she stopped in front of me and immediately raised her voice.

 

“Why are you lying?”

 

“What?”

 

“Evil energy! You said there was evil energy in the Imperial Palace!”

 

Well, if you spread rumors by shouting so loudly in front of palace servants, it’s good for me. Does she really have no thoughts?

 

Even a child knows the common sense that you shouldn’t run your mouth carelessly in the Imperial Palace.

 

“How do you know whether that’s a lie or not?”

 

When I tilted my head and asked back, Lilia distorted her expression and said.

 

“According to my foresight…!”

 

I’m sure she used to openly hide her foresight ability at first, but now she seems to have no intention of doing so.

 

Since she can’t use foresight anymore, does she want to emphasize that she was competent by bringing up the past?

 

“Ah, that foresight that you can’t even see anymore?”

 

Lilia, who had been speechless at my blunt response, soon shouted in a resolute voice.

 

“The future I saw wasn’t like that!”

 

“Then it must have changed.”

 

When I casually refuted, Lilia’s face turned pale. When she always smiled gently, she was extremely unpleasant to look at, but now she had quite a watchable face.

 

Regardless of creators and representatives, I just disliked her. Lilia who had taken away everything of mine.

 

Not content with that, her extraordinary way of thinking that shamelessly shifted all blame onto me was contemptible.

 

I recalled the bright smile Lilia often showed and raised the corners of my mouth to the fullest.

 

“Or your foresight was wrong from the beginning.”

 

Lilia, who had frozen stiff, could no longer stop me as I turned away.

 

* * *

 

Anelli, who had arrived at the pavilion, asked if I would like some tea.

 

Heinrih naturally answered that he would, and the two’s tea table was set up next to the cage where the Dura’han was confined.

 

The maids who prepared tea while trembling fled the scene as soon as they finished all their work. Anelli was sneering while watching their retreating figures.

 

“Thanks to Bak, we can have a comfortable conversation.”

 

“I heard you’re often alone in front of the cage, so this was the reason?”

 

“It serves multiple purposes.”

 

Anelli, who had been leisurely smelling the tea’s fragrance, suddenly raised her head. With perfect timing, a crow flew overhead with a long cry.

 

Several black feathers could be seen fluttering and falling from the crow’s wingbeats. Anelli, who had been silently staring at the falling feathers, slowly moved her lips.

 

“Do you know Lilia well?”

 

“Privately? Not at all. I don’t remember having a conversation for more than 5 minutes.”

 

“She’s never approached you either?”

 

“Well, when we occasionally met in the corridors, she would speak to me first. Rude woman. But why do you ask?”

 

“When you lost to Maxel.”

 

Heinrih, who had been casually reaching for his teacup, suddenly stopped his movement. Anelli, who had been quietly watching him, slowly continued.

 

“Why did you lose then?”

 

“…There was a betrayer inside. Confidential information was leaked.”

 

“Could you tell me more specifically?”

 

Heinrih fell into thought, rubbing the surface of his teacup with his fingertips. His contemplation wasn’t long.

 

“…At the mine that was an unofficial source of funding, a major explosion occurred causing serious casualties. Maxel appeared then and immediately handled the accident, winning the people’s favor. A few days later, even the trade ship I owned sank, causing irreversible damage.”

 

Having lost massive funds in just a few days, Heinrih was overwhelmed just trying to recover from the damage, and meanwhile Maxel triumphantly won the people’s hearts.

 

That incident dealt Heinrih consecutive fatal blows.

 

The innocent casualties were also enormous. No matter how important the throne was, did they have to see this much blood? He felt such disillusionment.

 

Heinrih, recalling that time, unconsciously clenched his fist.

 

He was convinced that incident was Maxel’s doing, but at the time he couldn’t find evidence.

 

He couldn’t figure out where the information had leaked from. Both the mine and trade ship were managed under borrowed names.

 

If someone had leaked the real owner, Heinrih would have to suspect his own closest associates.

 

In the end, he couldn’t find the informant that Maxel had planted, and during that time, several important secrets were leaked multiple times.

 

As this repeated, not only Heinrih but also his subordinates began to distrust each other. Distrust accumulated and turned into discord, and when cracks appeared, it led to complete collapse.

 

“Decisively… there was an incident where I lost my close associates.”

 

It was a night when the moon was bright. They were steeling themselves to strike back at Maxel.

 

It was the day they were to meet for a secret conference, but that day Heinrih ended up being late to the appointed time.

 

“Deceived by false information, they were ambushed while I was briefly away. Though they were commoners, they were excellent talents, but all were eliminated.”

 

It was an attack planned to kill from the beginning. They died for the sole reason of supporting Heinrih.

 

The close associates who were there weren’t influential nobles. They were talented individuals that Heinrih had carefully selected, but who couldn’t get opportunities due to class barriers.

 

But what was the result?

 

The truth behind their deaths wasn’t even fully revealed. Rather, Heinrih’s choice to employ commoners was condemned as incompetent and useless.

 

“If I had been there, I could have at least tracked them somehow under the threat of royal assassination…”

 

“They probably isolated only you, Lord Heinrih, to avoid that.”

 

“That must be it.”

 

Heinrih smiled bitterly and lowered his gaze. If he could return to that day, would he be able to avoid being deceived?

 

Honestly, he couldn’t guarantee it. If he returned to that time and faced the same situation again.

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