Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 115

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Chapter 115

 

Then he gestured toward the palace servants who had been following me.

 

“Stand back.”

 

The palace servants immediately bowed their heads and stepped backward. Their actions made me frown, but I pressed my lips together tightly.

 

It was difficult to scold the palace servants I employed for following someone else’s orders.

 

That was because, although his position had become precarious due to recent disgraceful incidents, the man blocking my path was still the Crown Prince.

 

“….”

 

I looked around.

 

The Imperial Palace garden I had been crossing was certainly a place where only permitted individuals could enter, but even so, it wasn’t usually this devoid of people—yet now it was as quiet as a tomb.

 

Perhaps seeing my behavior, Maxel calmly spoke.

 

“Your palace doesn’t receive visitors, so I had no choice but to use this method. I thought you wouldn’t want to become a spectacle for others, so I temporarily stationed people to keep them away.”

 

He was saying he had controlled access to the garden.

 

The walkways were already restricted due to quarantine measures, and now he was controlling access to the Imperial Palace garden as well.

 

His words, pretending to be for my sake, were disgusting.

 

I hoped rumors would spread that the Crown Prince had gone mad and was causing public nuisances.

 

‘Besides, if he was going to appear, he should have shown himself quickly. Of all places, he had to wait by the artificial pond. How unlucky.’

 

“I heard you went to the Imperial Mausoleum.”

 

When I didn’t answer and just stared at him silently, Maxel cleared his throat and looked away.

 

Though he was trying not to show it, I could tell he was quite anxious right now.

 

The fact that I could read his inner thoughts so easily was unpleasant, showing how thoroughly my affection for him had cooled. Emotions are that ridiculous.

 

“You’ve had a hard time. I’m sorry for not properly listening to your… warning. If I had paid attention earlier, you wouldn’t have had to suffer like this. The responsibility is largely mine.”

 

“It’s not like you ignored my words just once or twice. How surprising.”

 

Maxel seemed flustered by my calm retort. He rambled on incoherently.

 

“We don’t need to keep being at odds like this. Of course, I lost you due to my foolishness, but there were surely happy days too. Tell me what you want. I’ll grant you everything.”

 

He must be quite desperate. Seeing him struggle to continue such difficult appeasement.

 

The fact that Maxel was this frantic also meant that Heinrih was doing well.

 

Since the power struggle within the palace was his responsibility anyway, I hadn’t been paying attention to it, but I never expected to confirm the results this way.

 

“You’re saying strange things. I want nothing from Your Highness the Crown Prince.”

 

Standing with my back straight, I gazed at Maxel with a peaceful expression.

 

“Anelli.”

 

He paused briefly as if suppressing his emotions. Then he turned his gaze to look at the palace pond.

 

“We once walked here together. Do you remember?”

 

Ah, I could finally understand why he had waited for me in this place. Having no solution, he wanted to borrow the power of old memories.

 

How selfish. He hadn’t given even a speck of consideration to what kind of memory this was for me.

 

“Yes, I remember.”

 

At my answer, Maxel’s eyes lit up with hope. I gazed at those hopeful eyes and let out a sneer.

 

“You pushed me.”

 

“Anelli, that was—”

 

“I remember the water was quite deep.”

 

The hope in Maxel’s eyes vanished without a trace, replaced by complex emotions.

 

I didn’t know what he had expected when he came to this pond, but I could tell that after hearing my words, he was recalling the same scene I was.

 

Maxel looked down gloomily and said.

 

“I was reckless. I must have been possessed by something back then.”

 

It was a strange feeling. Even though I thought I could just ignore and pass by whatever Maxel had to say since it would all be nonsense anyway, my feet wouldn’t move easily.

 

“You were always by my side, so I didn’t know how precious that was.”

 

Of course, that didn’t mean I wanted to see Maxel pleading with me like this.

 

His apologies and such gave me no emotional response whatsoever now.

 

Even if he knelt and begged at this very moment, there would be no satisfaction.

 

“I wandered briefly, but now I’ve clearly realized it. The reason I couldn’t allow you to leave this palace.”

 

Nevertheless, the reason I was standing in front of this pond, listening to Maxel’s words, was singular.

 

Out of pity for my past self who had given her whole heart. Feeling sorry for and tender toward that foolishness.

 

This was both a mourning and a farewell to the love I had once harbored.

 

“Anelli, I was in love with you.”

 

Only after a proper farewell could I make a new beginning.

 

“Come back to my side.”

 

His eyes lit up again as he raised his head. Those were the eyes I had once gazed into endlessly, the eyes that made me happy just by looking at them.

 

When Maxel looked at me with such bright eyes, I used to resolve to respond as an excellent spouse should.

 

He was my Emperor, my husband, and the love I would be with forever.

 

I didn’t want to be even a speck of shame to him.

 

“…Maxel.”

 

“Yes, Anelli.”

 

It felt so distant. It had been truly long since Maxel and I had conversed so freely like this. It was from when nothing stood in my way.

 

I had believed without doubt that we would spend our entire lives like this.

 

“Though we didn’t begin with love, I believed we could sufficiently nurture love together.”

 

These were words I had once said to him. When his increasingly distant figure made me anxious and afraid.

 

For me, it was the maximum expression and confession. I had crushed and folded all my pride to cling to him.

 

At my words, the light of hope swirled again in Maxel’s eyes.

 

“It’s not too late. We can do that.”

 

“Well, if you had said that on that night.”

 

I paused briefly in my calm words. I could feel my heart beating rapidly. The fishy smell particularly stimulated my sense of smell.

 

“If you had, I might have gladly offered you even my heart.”

 

At my unfiltered words, Maxel’s eyes widened greatly. I didn’t know what surprised him so much.

 

But whatever it was, it wasn’t my concern.

 

I decided to say everything I had wanted to say all along. Since I had no intention of facing Maxel like this again.

 

“Surprisingly, Maxel. The second daughter of Roam, whom you so despised for being cold, was swept up in such irrational emotions.”

 

“I was….”

 

“You killed her.”

 

Maxel, who had been about to say something, closed his mouth. I stared straight at him and continued without inflection.

 

“You weren’t possessed by anything. No one forced you. You simply faced the consequences of your own will, your own choices. So just admit that you were trash.”

 

Maxel, who had turned pale, looked at me blankly.

 

Around him, frozen speechless, the sound of fountain water falling echoed.

 

The memory of that day comes back vividly. Him on that day, those humiliating emotions.

 

“If you don’t understand, I’ll tell you now. You really are trash to the very end.”

 

As I smiled and drove the point home, Maxel’s pale face gradually turned red. I could see his jaw bulging as if he was gritting his teeth.

 

Step.

 

Someone’s footsteps intruded into the silence that had enveloped us.

 

It was Maxel’s guard knight who broke the precarious situation that seemed ready to explode at any moment. He who had probably been guarding the garden entrance was approaching hesitantly.

 

“Your Highness, I… Lady Roam is….”

 

Lowering his voice while glancing at me, he checked behind him. Among the people visible in the distance, a woman in a particularly eye-catching dress could be seen.

 

I didn’t know how she found out and came, but I had never felt Lilia’s appearance was so timely.

 

“Your side doesn’t seem to be my place.”

 

As I quietly watched Lilia, who was being blocked by palace servants and couldn’t approach further, Maxel turned around with a hardened expression.

 

Lilia clung to Maxel as he approached her, and soon the two moved outside the garden.

 

I stood still until they completely disappeared from view, then slowly turned my head. The pond was still peaceful.

 

“….”

 

The sneer I had forced to irritate Maxel had long since disappeared.

 

In fact, I hadn’t been able to smile from the beginning. I had only forced it out of necessity.

 

As I gazed at the rippling water surface and took a step closer to it, someone grabbed my arm and stopped me.

 

Startled, I turned around to see fiercely glowing yellow eyes.

 

“…Jeon?”

 

When I called out in a bewildered voice, he who had been glaring at me intensely muttered something incomprehensible.

 

“No matter how hurt your feelings are! There are things you can do and things you can’t!”

 

“What? What are you talking about?”

 

Despite my puzzled question, he frowned and pulled me toward him. As I was dragged along awkwardly by him, watching the pond grow distant, I asked in a voice filled with disbelief.

 

“You thought I was going to jump in there?”

 

At that, Jeon, who had been blindly pulling me away from the pond, stopped abruptly. Thanks to that, I became even more dumbfounded.

 

“How could you have such delusions… Are you bored these days?”

 

“…Well, it’s a relief if that’s not the case.”

 

Having released me, he seemed to belatedly regain his senses as he cleared his throat and avoided my gaze. I caught a glimpse of his earlobes turning red.

 

Unexpectedly, I found that cute. I don’t know why he said such nonsense if he was going to be embarrassed about it.

 

“By the way, why are you here?”

 

“I didn’t come out because I didn’t want to be alone with Dura’han. I came to meet you.”

 

Oh my, he must have been scared of Bak.

 

Well, Bak only acted gentle toward me, but basically never let his guard down around anyone else except me. There was no reason Jeon would be an exception.

 

I was nodding my head thinking it made sense, when Jeon let out a long sigh and rubbed his face with his hands. Then he glared at the pond with a somewhat fierce look.

 

“Should I just fill it all in?”

 

“The pond? Why?”

 

If he did such a thing, he’d really go to prison for damaging Imperial Palace property.

 

When I asked back indifferently, Jeon’s lips twitched. Whether he was choosing his words, he couldn’t answer easily. Then he reluctantly gave a brief response.

 

“Because the water is cold.”

 

Through that answer, Jeon had indirectly revealed the fact that he had heard my earlier conversation with Maxel.

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