Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 190

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Chapter 190

I couldn’t answer. I knew how ridiculous and absurd it would sound to say I was worried about monsters that were going to be subjugated.

In the first place, I wasn’t even sure if I was really worried about the monsters that would be subjugated. Why would I worry about monsters?

―Anelli, I know you keep some monsters particularly close to you. However, that’s a very special case, and I still think most monsters are dangerous. I have no intention of exposing the Empire’s citizens to danger.

Perhaps understanding my silence in some way, Heinrih spoke with a somewhat concerned tone.

Wetting my lips with my tongue, I answered calmly, wanting to correct his misunderstanding.

“I wasn’t asking you to spare the monsters’ lives.”

―I’m keeping a separate watch on Maxel’s forces. Soon it will be publicly announced to everyone that the soon-to-be-deposed Crown Prince harbors treasonous thoughts and is holding a blade to the Emperor’s throat.

Besides that, a few more topics continued that I needed to know about but wasn’t interested in, such as the Empress’s movements and the recent atmosphere in social circles.

Even after the communication with Heinrih ended, Jeon and Samuel didn’t return.

To calm my complicated feelings, I looked out through the carriage window at the quiet street. Then I muttered in an indifferent voice.

“I wonder if Dasha is near Beladia Valley?”

[Probably not, don’t you think?]

Minte, who was sitting beside me, answered calmly.

Probably… In the past, I might have agreed with Minte’s words.

Until now, I hadn’t experienced much difficulty meeting the Dura’han. The Dura’han had appeared before me as if guided by fate.

So I had unconsciously thought I would be able to meet all the Dura’han easily.

Up to Soana… Though Samuel and Jeon had recognized her, the sightings had spread first, so I thought this too might have been fate.

But now, with the last Dura’han remaining, I somehow felt uneasy.

“What kind of knight was Dasha?”

[What kind of knight, you mean…?]

“Just, personality and things like that.”

At my question, Minte fell into thought for a moment. Then she answered in a cautious voice.

[A bit… stupid.]

“…Like Bak?”

Bak was in a position of being constantly scolded by Minte. Calling him stupid and foolish.

Actually, it was an opinion I secretly agreed with too.

[Bak is stupid but obedient, but Dasha is…]

Minte trailed off. Her voice, becoming vaguely unclear, was implying something.

The fact that the last Dura’han would also be no easy opponent.

* * *

The monsters Maxel subjugated were a couple of goblins that had fallen behind from their pack.

It was a chance discovery and an unplanned battle. However, the result was extremely useful.

Through the goblin corpses, Maxel temporarily won the favor of the territorial residents in the area where he was staying. It was Lilia who suggested spreading that favor throughout the entire Empire.

「If the missing Reviver hears this news, she’ll react. She won’t want her achievements stolen.」

Since Anelli would be winning the hearts of the Empire’s citizens where she couldn’t be seen, they had to find her whereabouts and somehow stop those activities.

She persuaded Maxel with such words. Of course, Lilia’s reason for wanting to find Anelli wasn’t just because of that.

Right before the incident at the Roam mansion, she had tried to send an assassin to Anelli.

‘Don’t tell me she noticed the assassin and ran away?’

Lilia paced in front of the fireplace. In her hand was a letter she had received a moment ago. It was sent by Preshi’s subordinates.

‘I hope it contains evidence that Preshi’s death was Anelli’s doing.’

Even while opening the letter envelope, Lilia’s mind was filled with thoughts about Anelli.

She didn’t believe the rumor that Anelli had been kidnapped.

Although Anelli’s activities didn’t appear in her dreams so she couldn’t find out anything, she had a vague conviction. A conviction that she had left the Roam family without anyone knowing.

The fact that Anelli had deliberately left the Roam mansion was actually an incomprehensible choice for Lilia.

Whatever she was plotting, wouldn’t it be right to do it in a comfortable and stable environment?

Regardless of Lilia trying to push Seiri as Roam’s successor, Anelli had lived quite freely at the Roam mansion. There was no reason she would have left because of sudden discomfort.

Would Anelli even feel something like discomfort in the first place? She was a woman who would change any place to suit her tastes wherever she was.

Yes, being such a willful woman, she might think it doesn’t matter where she takes refuge.

Lilia recalled that Anelli had secretly contacted the Knight. Perhaps she was taking refuge in the Temple.

‘The Reviver chosen by the Creator.’

Having received not only an oracle but also the Magic Tower’s guarantee, she couldn’t deny that Anelli was the Creator’s representative.

However, Lilia still couldn’t abandon her suspicion that Anelli had some connection to monsters.

And that suspicion turned into conviction after reading the letter.

“Dura’han?”

Lilia’s gaze, reading through the letter, stopped at the word ‘Dura’han.’

Preshi’s subordinates had investigated the place where Preshi was killed and shared the results with Lilia. This letter contained those findings.

The letter stated that Preshi and his subordinates were definitely killed by a monster, and that monster was presumably a Dura’han.

This was the conclusion drawn from the giant hoofprints left on the ground, abnormally large footprints, and the faint aura that remained.

‘That day, Preshi went after Anelli.’

And was killed. Lilia’s speculation that Anelli was involved in Preshi’s death was extremely natural.

In the midst of this, the possibility that it might have been a Dura’han that killed Preshi meant that Anelli might be connected to a Dura’han!

‘Come to think of it, there were rumors that she was kidnapped by a Dura’han, weren’t there?’

Previously, Roam’s pursuit team had almost caught Anelli but lost her when she was taken by a Dura’han.

At the Imperial Palace, Anelli had also subdued a Dura’han.

Since the Temple defined Dura’han as evil that must be exterminated, it seemed that Anelli, the Creator’s representative, and the Dura’han, the rampant evil, would be connected in some way.

‘Was it that evil has risen so a Reviver was sent to stand firmly against it?’

Lilia pondered the oracle anew. Since her prophecies had nothing to do with the Temple, she hadn’t really paid much attention to it until now.

Honestly, she didn’t think the oracle would have a big impact on the Empire. She had accepted it as nothing more than religious agitation at best.

However, as long as Anelli was riding on the back of that oracle and succeeding brilliantly, she could no longer ignore it.

‘The Reviver is an existence that stands against evil, but Anelli and the Dura’han are…’

Lilia, who had been thinking that far, paused. She pondered several times over the thought she had been having carelessly just moments before.

‘Does the Reviver… stand against evil?’

Anelli had subdued the Dura’han at the Imperial Palace but didn’t kill it in front of everyone. No one knew what Anelli had done with the Dura’han.

‘Evil has risen so a Reviver was sent… evil has risen, so a Reviver?’

…What if the Dura’han and the Reviver were on the same side from the beginning?

A possibility she had tried to pursue but had never actually imagined to be real flashed through her mind like lightning.

Lilia unconsciously opened her mouth and stared blankly down at the letter.

Preshi had followed Anelli into the forest and was killed by a Dura’han.

“So this is why we need to subjugate monsters.”

The reason why subjugating monsters was the way for Maxel and Lilia to overcome adversity.

Lilia felt her mind becoming clear. This was it. Ah, Anelli was an evil Reviver who deceived the public eye!

“Right, just because the Creator revived someone doesn’t necessarily mean they have to do good deeds.”

Lilia turned around with a brightening face. Hastily taking out letter paper, she gripped her pen and quickly wrote.

The recipient was the head of the Yusgel Trading Company.

* * *

We decided to head toward the Trebi Mountains for now.

However, instead of choosing a direct route, we chose a slightly roundabout path. While examining the map, we had discovered a place we needed to stop by.

Palides sat in the driver’s seat. Fortunately, Palides was very skilled at driving the carriage.

“I thought you had decided to raise it.”

Jeon, who was sitting across from me looking at the map, spoke up as if talking to himself.

I, who had been looking out the window without much thought, glanced over at him.

“Raise it? What would I do with a raised Lizardman?”

At my indifferent response, Jeon nodded saying that was true. Even so, he kept glancing at the map with a troubled expression.

Where his gaze fell, a large wetland was marked.

It was the place where I had decided to release the young Lizardman.

“But is it really okay? A Lizardman habitat… Since it’s a wetland, it would be troublesome if a battle broke out.”

Jeon seemed to be recalling the time we fought the Lusaka.

Certainly, if the Lusaka hadn’t come out onto land on their own back then, fighting would have been quite difficult.

But that was if a battle broke out, and since we’re not going there to fight, wouldn’t it be okay?

“There’s no need to go close to their habitat; if we release her nearby, she’ll find her own kind on her own.”

Samuel, who had been sitting with his arms crossed, interjected bluntly. I had been thinking along similar lines myself.

“But don’t Lizardmen show territorial behavior even toward different groups?”

Well, who knows about that. But Jeon’s question was quite reasonable.

It would be a bit sad if the life we went through the trouble of sparing died right after being released, wouldn’t it?

“Ask your Teacher about it.”

“Oh, should I?”

I hesitated at Jeon’s sudden action.

I had said it half-jokingly, remembering how we had received help when dealing with Lusarca, but Jeon unhesitatingly pulled out his communication device.

No, I didn’t actually mean for him to connect…

I tried to stop him, thinking we wouldn’t hear anything good if he contacted him over something like this, but Jeon had already activated the communication device.

The communication device flickered, and before long it glowed brightly as the connection was established.

“Teacher! Lizardmen don’t show territorial behavior among themselves, do they?”

As soon as Jeon confirmed the communication was connected, he immediately threw out his question. The other end of the communication device was quiet.

Then, after a moment, instead of the answer Jeon was waiting for, a stream of crude curses and angry shouting began pouring out.

Just from the voice alone, I could picture the Mage Tower Lord waving his staff through the air.

He only contacts me when he needs something, so I should have expected this…

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