Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 180

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Chapter 180

When I cleverly packaged my words as if I had been struck from behind, suspicion immediately appeared on Prisian Sister’s face.

“You never even intended to become the heir in the first place. Yes, thinking about it, you were the problem. If only you hadn’t pushed me out like this from the beginning…!”

“I never recommended that you marry Baron Kendall, Sister.”

I spoke curtly, then gave her a gentle smile and kindly explained.

“You were the one who got scared and hastily brought the marriage contract before the Imperial House even contacted you.”

Of course, if the Imperial House had contacted her afterward, she wouldn’t have been able to back out, so there would have been virtually no choice.

But what do I care about such circumstances?

While I did create a few intentional situations, the choice was Prisian Sister’s.

With an impatient heart, short-sighted vision, and irrational judgment.

“So the one ruining your life is you, Sister. Not me.”

The more my gentle words continued, the more color drained from Prisian Sister’s face.

“So what will you do, Sister? You’ll have to watch from afar as Roam falls to that weak and timid youngest sibling.”

Prisian Sister bit her lip. She bit it so hard that I could see blood showing.

“Doesn’t it bother you at all? If you took that position from me, shouldn’t you at least properly defend it?”

Finally, Sister showed her resentment toward me.

She was criticizing my attitude for not being as desperate as she had been.

Toward such a sister, I deliberately put on an indifferent expression.

“Sister, you’re being uncharacteristically naive. I am the Creator’s Reviver. The chosen representative of the Creator.”

I rested my chin on my hand and turned my gaze. Though they couldn’t approach due to the guard knights blocking them, quite a few people were sitting and watching us while pretending to be customers.

They were people who knew both Sister’s and my faces. They might have come to eavesdrop on Roam’s gossip.

But on several faces, clear longing and admiration were evident. Directed at me.

I gave them an eye-smile, then whispered to Sister.

“Look at those people desperate to receive the Creator’s blessing. The position of Roam’s heir is just one of many choices available to me.”

Prisian Sister’s expression hardened. She seemed to lack even the minimal composure to manage her expression while being conscious of the surrounding gazes.

“But Sister’s choices… I’m not sure. Do such things exist?”

“Do you think I don’t know your scheme?”

Her low, quick retort was mixed with fierce emotion. Rather than threatening, it was amusing.

It would have been wiser to swallow her pride and ask me for help.

“It doesn’t matter if you know.”

Of course, if Sister had knelt down, it wouldn’t have been fun for me. Breaking the neck of an enemy with no will to fight would only be troublesome.

“I have choices, but you don’t, Sister.”

I spoke listlessly and tidied my seat. It was time to wrap up the conversation.

“Can you endure it? Your life as someone other than Roam’s heir.”

Prisian Sister remained silent with a pale face.

I nodded to such a sister in greeting and stood up. After putting on the hat I had taken off, I advised her in a benevolent voice.

“Heir? When I actually tried to do it, it was rather bothersome. It wasn’t a position valuable enough for me to fight and seize. So do your best.”

I turned around. Sister didn’t open her mouth until the end.

* * *

Since Maxel was away from the palace, it was time to wake the Empress.

However, the Emperor summoned me as I was about to go to the Empress’s Palace. The reason was that he wanted to hear about the results from the Lindea River.

When we actually met, rather than asking about results, he seemed more inclined to find fault.

“You defeated the monsters at the Lindea River?”

The Emperor’s face was full of disbelief as he asked. The attendants couldn’t even breathe in the face of the Emperor’s sharp presence and stood watching both the Emperor and me.

I had heard that recently he had even shown violent behavior toward those around him, and it seemed to be true.

After observing the attendants’ atmosphere, I calmly nodded.

“Yes.”

“Then why hasn’t the Empress awakened?”

From his tone, he seemed to want to blame me for this entire situation.

I had heard that the Emperor recently disapproved of Heinrih bringing in outside forces and was displeased with the palace affairs constantly being swayed by me.

I had also heard that Maxel had appeased such an Emperor and persuaded him to subjugate monsters to demonstrate the Imperial House’s power externally.

And Lilia, who guaranteed Maxel’s victory, had used her prophetic abilities to add strength to the persuasion.

Perhaps because of Lilia’s prophecy, the Emperor’s emotions toward me were quite fierce.

“It seems the Creator’s Reviver is not omniscient and omnipotent. The Empire cannot rely on the Reviver forever.”

While Maxel was away subjugating monsters, the Emperor seemed to want to reverse the palace atmosphere that had been swayed by the Reviver, even briefly.

“Since the Creator’s power doesn’t seem to work in this matter, the Imperial House will…”

“I wonder if you remember, Your Majesty.”

When I impudently interrupted the Emperor’s words, he frowned.

I gave such an Emperor a gentle smile. Does he think I want to stay here forever?

“The evil energy that had deeply permeated the Imperial Palace.”

“Are you still going to make such absurd claims? You even entered the ancestors’ graves under the pretext of eliminating evil energy. But what was the result? The Empress was attacked by monsters!”

“The reason she was attacked by monsters was because Your Majesty still kept the evil one in the palace. And now he has left his post.”

At that moment, the Emperor frowned. It was because he understood that the target I was referring to was Maxel.

“The monsters are gone, and the evil one has left the palace, so everything will return to its proper place.”

“You speak as if the Empress will open her eyes right now.”

“Shall we go and check now?”

“What if she doesn’t wake up now?”

“I will acknowledge my shortcomings and beg for forgiveness.”

When I answered obediently, the Emperor stood up with a disbelieving expression. His accompaniment wasn’t what I had intended, but it wasn’t a bad thing. Rather, it was good.

The Empress’s Palace, which we visited together with the Emperor, was as silent as usual. Heinrih was watching over the sleeping Empress, who had a peaceful expression.

The Emperor asked the Imperial Physician who was constantly attending the Empress.

“How is her condition?”

“There is nothing wrong with her health.”

“How can you say there’s nothing wrong when she can’t wake up!”

When the Emperor flew into a rage, the Imperial Physician floundered and watched for reactions.

Heinrih intervened as if trying to protect the Imperial Physician.

“Your Majesty, please calm your anger. According to the Reviver, she will wake up soon.”

“Tsk!”

Instead of answering, the Emperor clicked his tongue. Nowhere in that reaction was there any sign of faith in me.

All I had done at the Lindea River was recite a prayer with plausible sentences randomly strung together.

The Emperor must have received reports of such behavior from me, so naturally he wouldn’t believe either that I had defeated monsters or that the Empress would wake up.

But the Empress was scheduled to wake up. Right now.

“Your Majesty ignored my warning and kept the evil one in the palace, which is why Her Majesty the Empress couldn’t wake up all this time.”

I spoke calmly.

Then the Emperor’s complexion turned red.

Unable to contain his anger, he was about to shout something at me, but before that, I reached out toward the Empress.

The green light covering the Empress’s eyes began to ripple slightly.

“This is the proof.”

Thread-like rays of light slowly rose up. They touched my fingertips.

A cool sensation penetrated my fingertips. The threads became thick yarn, then rope.

The more this happened, the thinner and more transparent the blindfold covering the Empress’s eyes became. It was a power visible only to my eyes.

The authority granted to Death’s representative.

And now, it was my power.

* * *

Before the Emperor, the Crown Prince, and many palace servants, the Reviver declared. Since the palace’s troubles had departed, the Empress would also rise.

Not long after saying this, the Empress opened her eyes.

Everyone marveled at that unbelievable miracle. Just as they were about to rejoice at seeing the newly awakened Empress, a tremendous roar shook the earth.

Everyone was startled and checked outside the windows. Beyond where the roar came from, dusty earth clouds rose massively. It was in the direction of the Prince’s Palace.

On the day the Empress opened her eyes, the Prince’s Palace collapsed.

Everyone who witnessed this scene with their own eyes didn’t say it, but they all had the same thought.

The Crown Prince, who had been publicly pointed to as having incurred the Creator’s wrath from before, and the Empress who opened her eyes as soon as he left his position.

And the calamity of the Imperial Palace that the Reviver spoke of.

Regarding that connection.

* * *

‘Divine power.’

When I spread my palm, light scattered in all directions and sparkled. It seemed like round particles were rolling around on my skin.

Every time the light rippled, my palm felt slightly tingly, similar to a tingling sensation. At the same time, a cool temperature was particularly noticeable.

When I concentrated, the evenly distributed light gathered toward specific fingertips. Though I hadn’t tried it on anyone, I could tell.

‘This power belongs to the Goddess.’

It was a power that could grant death on a large scale, or sleep on a small scale.

Through the divine power I reclaimed from Lusarca, I could directly experience the power I had only heard about in words until now.

Since I’m not a Mage, I couldn’t tell if this worked on similar principles to magic. If I were to describe it as I felt it, it was like some kind of drug had entered my body.

That drug usually pooled near my palms. Then, when I wished for it, it seeped out onto my skin.

When I clenched and opened my hand a couple of times, green light flickered over my palm. Perhaps because I had also gathered the power remaining in the Empress, the color was deeper than before.

It was fascinating to see again. This is divine power?

“The Crown Prince’s Palace is beyond repair, so everyone is shocked, saying the Creator must be very angry.”

At the voice that suddenly interrupted, I looked up from staring at my palm. Jeon was sitting across from me.

I was currently visiting the lodging where Jeon and Samuel were staying. It was because the two had contacted me saying they had something urgent to tell me.

There would be various topics, but the first thing that came up was the Crown Prince’s Palace.

“But by heaven’s fortune, no Palace Servants were hurt.”

Jeon added.

Right now, there are two topics hotly discussed in the marketplaces and Banquet Halls. The collapsed Crown Prince’s Palace and the Empress who opened her eyes.

Though the chronological order of events is different, that’s how it became known.

I answered with an expressionless face.

“Of course, since there were no people in the Crown Prince’s Palace that day. While the Palace’s master was away for a long time, he gave the others a vacation too.”

And the one who gave that vacation was Heinrih.

On his way back from nursing the Empress as usual, he happened to pass by the Crown Prince’s Palace, and feeling sorry for the Palace Servants working diligently in a Palace without its master, he gave them a few days’ vacation.

For that deed, Heinrih received all kinds of praise from the Palace Servants. Seeing how he coincidentally saved many Palace Servants’ lives, surely the Creator’s protection follows him.

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