Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 147

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Chapter 147

At that moment, Jeon recalled a conversation from the not-so-distant past. When he had suddenly warped to the Imperial Palace to meet Anelli.

He had said the same thing to Anelli when they met after a long time.

You seem to have lost weight, doesn’t the Imperial Palace food suit your taste?

He couldn’t know if Anelli was asking with the same feelings he had back then. However, just the fact that she was asking the same question made his heart feel warm and fuzzy.

But he couldn’t stay intoxicated by this feeling for long.

Jeon cleared his throat and regained his composure.

“Even flowers need sunlight to bloom, so I suppose my appearance has become gaunt from not seeing the sun.”

When he joked around, the worry that had been dwelling in Anelli’s eyes faded. She seemed to think that Jeon was relaxed enough to make jokes, and let out a sigh of relief.

Well, it wasn’t entirely wrong. What had made him anxious all this time was because of Anelli, and now the person in question had appeared right before his eyes.

Since his only worry had been resolved, it was natural that he had the leisure to act nonchalant.

“What is this place? Why is my magic being dispelled?”

Anelli belatedly looked around the room and frowned. Samuel, who was likewise examining the interior, answered in a blunt voice.

“It seems they’ve cast nullification magic on the room.”

“Since they’re confining a mage, they put some thought into it in their own way.”

When Jeon shrugged and added an explanation, Anelli narrowed her brow.

“Is this something to accept so calmly? Why on earth are you under suspicion?”

She probably heard a rough explanation of the situation from Heinrih.

Jeon smiled awkwardly and scratched the back of his head.

“It’s the karma of having a worthless elder brother.”

With just that, Anelli seemed to have inferred many things.

Jeon awkwardly looked away from Anelli’s face that had turned coldly serious and casually changed the subject.

“But how did you get in here?”

“As a Knight’s squire.”

Hearing Anelli’s light reply, Jeon unconsciously looked back at Samuel.

Come to think of it, Samuel’s armor was clearly announcing ‘I’m a Knight.’

That meant Anelli had entered while pretending to be Samuel’s squire.

‘Are everyone’s eyes crooked?’

Where in the world would you find a squire standing with such an elegant and dignified posture?

“…They believed that? No, before that. How did you apply appearance-changing magic? If you use it in the Imperial Palace, you’d get caught, wouldn’t you?”

“I temporarily stopped the Imperial Palace barrier.”

Jeon let out a low sigh. It seemed Anelli no longer cared about the Emperor or anything else.

He could do such things trusting in the Magic Tower, but the only things Anelli could trust were her lofty reputation and the Dura’han who could transform into animals…

While Jeon was immersed in regret, he suddenly realized that Anelli might actually have more to rely on than he did.

‘Depending on the situation, the Dura’han army might be more formidable than the Magic Tower’s full power?’

While Jeon was marveling at this trivial realization, Anelli looked around the room where Jeon had been confined.

This room looked similar to the guest room Jeon had previously stayed in at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it had less furniture and was more desolate.

Anelli also seemed to notice this, as she had a displeased expression.

“Can’t you use communication magical devices in this room either?”

“Unfortunately not.”

Jeon, who answered briefly, slightly frowned. Somehow it felt like he was admitting defeat to such a shabby nullification barrier, so he deliberately added an explanation.

“Of course, this barrier poses absolutely no problem for me, but if I carelessly ignored it and used magic, I’d get caught. So I was observing the situation for now.”

“Are you certain it’s not a problem?”

“Of course!”

Anelli looked completely unconvinced. She had probably formed a solid misunderstanding after seeing him confined so helplessly like this.

And there was no way to prove otherwise.

Jeon clicked his tongue and swallowed his lament. Regardless, after examining every corner of the room, Anelli asked with a serious face.

“But if you’re confined like this, what about our Nadab?”

“Ah.”

Here it comes.

Jeon moistened his parched lips with his tongue and took a deep breath. Then he explained the situation as objectively as possible.

“Actually, that horse abandoned me and ran away.”

Wait, wasn’t that objective?

Jeon had an ‘oops’ moment after speaking, but tried to maintain a serious expression. It wasn’t exactly wrong, was it?

From Jeon’s perspective, who couldn’t communicate with Nadab, he could only explain it as the horse abandoning him and suddenly running off.

“What do you mean by that?”

“When the monsters attacked. Suddenly that horse went wild and incited the other horses around, then abandoned me and galloped away.”

Not only Anelli but even Samuel looked at Jeon with bewildered expressions.

Anelli, with her eyes wide open, couldn’t continue speaking and just moved her lips for a long while. Then she finally asked as if squeezing out the words.

“Are you saying you abandoned Nadab and came here?”

“No, I didn’t abandon him, that guy chose to…”

Betrayal flickered in her round purple eyes.

At this moment, it was clearly conveyed that Anelli was more worried about the Dura’han transformed into a horse than about him.

Clearing his throat and subtly averting his gaze, Jeon spoke in a serious and grave voice.

“I think there must have been a reason he ran off like that. That guy isn’t an ordinary horse, after all.”

The horse Anelli was so worried about was a monster.

Not just any monster, but a Dura’han with the power to protect himself anywhere. A Dura’han horse that was definitely stronger than most monsters.

Honestly, Nadab and the other Dura’han only acted cute in front of Anelli, but if you released them into the wild, ordinary monsters would obviously flee with their tails between their legs.

Jeon, who was about to subtly emphasize that point, just gave up.

‘It’s not like she’s cherished the Dura’han just once or twice.’

He should be grateful that she didn’t ask about Nadab’s safety the moment she saw his face.

“I suspect he reacted to the monsters.”

“Monsters?”

“Yes. The monsters that attacked us.”

“Do you think those were monsters? The Emperor thinks it was magic. From what I heard of the circumstances, even I thought it was difficult to conclude they were monsters.”

At Anelli’s words, Jeon shook his head.

“It definitely wasn’t magic.”

Magic that leaves no magical reaction was impossible, so it wasn’t magic.

The Emperor probably thinks the Magic Tower is such a tremendous organization that they can cast magic without even using magical power.

Even so, magic is magic, and regardless of skill level, any mage should naturally be able to recognize it.

“If it had been magic, the Imperial Palace Mages would have recognized it long ago. I think it was definitely monsters.”

At Jeon’s answer, Anelli’s expression became serious.

“You’re being so definitive because you have some idea, right?”

Jeon didn’t answer immediately. It had happened so quickly that even he hadn’t seen it properly. However, he could make an educated guess through the Empress’s symptoms of collapse.

“Probably…”

Since it was uncertain information, Jeon’s voice lacked confidence.

“I think it might be a Fallen Fairy.”

“…Fallen Fairy? That’s the name of a poison.”

“That’s right. But it’s not poison, it’s a real monster. The poison was originally named after the monster.”

A poison that assassinates people as if putting them to sleep. There is indeed a poison called Fallen Fairy, but this case wasn’t that.

If it had been poison, the Imperial physicians couldn’t have failed to identify it.

“This is my first time seeing one directly, so I’m not certain.”

Originally, fairies were beings that didn’t appear before human eyes. Because of this, opinions were divided among people, but the commonly cited characteristics were unrealistically beautiful appearance and mysterious power.

That’s why they often became regular subjects of fairy tale books.

“You know the fairy tale about a fairy appearing at the bedside of someone who can’t sleep and giving them happy dreams, right?”

“Yes.”

This was a story that had been passed down for so long that its creator was unknown. A fairy tale that parents often read to children who couldn’t sleep.

It was a romantic story about a fairy appearing when someone sighs in distress from being unable to sleep, guiding them to happy dreams.

And it was said that the day after having such dreams, one could obtain special good fortune.

“When the fairy from that story becomes corrupted, it becomes the ‘Fallen Fairy’ I’m talking about. I don’t actually know if it’s a real fairy that became corrupted, but that’s what it’s called. Like the theory of Birth that says Knights’ souls became Dura’han, it’s an unproven theory.”

Anelli made a subtle expression. Frowning, she parted her lips as if to say something, then closed them again.

Instead, she nodded as if telling him to continue the story.

“There are almost no records about this corrupted fairy. But fortunately, I happened to read about it.”

Fortunately, the Magic Tower had a vast collection of books. Naturally, there were also books about monsters.

A fairy who tried to give happy dreams to humans who couldn’t sleep, but was instead captured by humans and couldn’t return to the fairy realm, eventually becoming corrupted after crying and despairing.

The origin of the corrupted fairy contained such a story.

However, regardless of its origin story, the fact that it was a rather rare monster remained unchanged.

“According to the records I saw, corrupted fairies steal human consciousness and make them fall into eternal sleep.”

Jeon rubbed his forehead and tried to recall the contents of the book he had read.

“However… that book said corrupted fairies aren’t very aggressive. I’m not sure if they’re violent enough to suddenly attack people. It’s a monster that hasn’t been properly researched to begin with.”

Throughout Jeon’s explanation, Anelli’s expression barely changed.

Anelli listened to the story until the end with a calm face, then rubbed her chin in thought. Then she raised her gaze and asked in a clear tone.

“So it’s a monster, anyway?”

“Yes, that’s righ… Wait, you’re not planning to go there, are you?”

Jeon, who was about to nod reflexively, jumped up and asked back. At his reaction, Anelli looked at him with a puzzled expression instead.

“Yeah, I’m going to go?”

“It’s dangerous!”

I have no idea where his words about falling into eternal sleep went.

Even as Jeon became serious, Anelli responded very rationally and calmly.

“You said it’s an unresearched monster. No one would know how to treat its attacks, so the only option is to ask it directly.”

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