Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 215

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Chapter 215

“What’s a grand captain now?”

[Because you’re the Captain’s captain!]

“…Fine. If you insist on playing subordinate, I won’t stop you.”

I quickly gave up on correcting the title. Having more monsters to order around was a good thing anyway.

Though half the skeletons still hadn’t fully assembled their bodies and were wandering around looking for lost arm or leg bones…

I was watching the skeletons floundering about awkwardly when Mori suddenly poked his head far out of my pocket to look at me.

[But Captain, that leather around your neck has changed color!]

Only after hearing Mori’s worried words did I realize this place was the dead land full of poison.

And that the only reason I wasn’t having major breathing problems was entirely due to the choker I was currently wearing.

“Now that I’ve caught Dasha, I think I can just leave.”

There were skeletons staring at me, but they didn’t seem to have the courage to try to stop me.

I didn’t think moving locations a bit would cause me to miss paths with Jeon or the other dura’han.

Right now Samuel even had location tracking magic cast on him, so if it came down to it, wouldn’t Samuel make a move?

Having made up my mind, I moved my body. Mori, who noticed I was trying to leave this land, asked puzzledly.

[Aren’t you going to wait for the other knights here?]

“I was going to, but if the choker’s color changed, I need to move.”

There was no need to confirm the limits of this purification magic with my own eyes.

When I pointed to a skeleton standing nearby and gave it an order to guide me out of the dead land, the skeleton immediately took the lead.

Since Nadab wasn’t here, I had no choice but to travel on foot.

Crossing the black, pitch-dark land was simple and tedious work. Tedious enough to naturally get caught up in other thoughts.

‘I wonder how many days it’ll take to reach the Trebi Mountains.’

Rumors of my kidnapping would be circulating, so I’d need to change my appearance again, but actually I had developed a problem.

‘Who would have thought the magic tool would break.’

In the process of using the illegal magic tool to subdue Dasha and the skeletons, the necklace string of the appearance-changing magic tool had snapped.

When I noticed this fact belatedly while cleaning up the chaos and searched for the magic tool’s whereabouts, it was already too late.

I don’t know who stepped on it, but the magic stone was shattered miserably and scattered about. Naturally, the magic tool wouldn’t work either.

‘I’ll have to ask Jeon to cast magic when we reunite.’

He’s the successor to the Mage Tower Lord, so he should know how to do appearance-changing magic at least.

With that thought, I quickly abandoned my attachment to the magic tool, but moving alone like this made me feel uneasy.

[G-Grand Captain!]

I was walking while gauging when I might reunite with Jeon when the skeleton’s urgent call snapped me to attention.

We were still standing on the dead land. The dead land where thick poison drifted faintly in all directions.

So there shouldn’t be any living creatures to be found.

“…What’s that now?”

Through the thick purple mist, I could see black figures. They were people in full armor.

I didn’t know what they were, but it was obvious they hadn’t appeared with good intentions. I immediately grabbed my bracelet.

It was embarrassing to call him back out right after letting him in, but it would be better than being stubborn for no reason.

* * *

The Duke of Roam’s face after returning from the Imperial Palace was unprecedentedly serious. So the Duchess of Roam rushed after him into his study.

And she ended up hearing shocking news from the Duke of Roam’s weary face.

“…Arresting the Crown Prince?”

It wasn’t an official order, but something issued secretly. Fortunately, the Duke of Roam, who still had connections in the Imperial Palace, seemed to have returned as soon as he heard the news.

The Duchess of Roam couldn’t believe what she had heard. Daring to arrest the Crown Prince?

The people who could give such an order were extremely limited. Someone sitting in a higher position than the Crown Prince.

The Emperor had been staying secluded for days citing illness, and had no reason to be hostile toward the Crown Prince in the first place.

Then the remaining person was…

“Let me ask again. The Empress showed no signs at all?”

At the Duke of Roam’s sharp question, the Duchess of Roam shook her head.

“None at all. Even during recent audiences, she only said participating in central meetings was burdensome…”

The Duchess of Roam, who had been answering as if confused, hesitated. With a distorted face, she raised her sharpened eyes.

“The Empress deceived me? Why?”

“Obviously to pull off something like this.”

The Empress’s face flashed through the Duchess of Roam’s mind. The two women of similar age had gained their respective positions around the same time, and had known each other for just as long.

Though not intimate, they had known each other long enough to understand each other well.

“But the Empress is a woman who has lived her whole life far from power struggles. She devoted herself to pleasing the Emperor!”

The Duchess of Roam knew better than anyone why the Emperor had chosen the current Empress.

The reason she hadn’t become Empress was also the reason the current Empress had been able to rise to that position.

If the Empress had tried to seize and wield power, the Emperor wouldn’t have stood by and watched.

At the Duchess of Roam’s words, the Duke of Roam pressed his lips together and turned around.

“What about Lilia?”

“The last news was a prophecy that the Crown Prince’s subjugation would fail.”

So please send military support, it contained a plea that the forces there alone were insufficient.

If there had been time to spare, she might have listened to Lilia’s request to some degree.

But unfortunately, the Duchess of Roam didn’t even have time to reply to Lilia’s letter.

Because the atmosphere in the capital’s social circles had changed rapidly over the past few days.

The groups that had only whispered about Roam’s flaws behind their backs were now acting more and more carelessly.

They weren’t even afraid of the Duchess of Roam. There were limits to controlling people with just the power of the Roam family name.

This was all because a power that transcended human authority had appeared.

The Creator’s representative, their daughter whom they had abandoned.

“Tsk.”

The Duke of Roam clicked his tongue irritably. Roughly sweeping back his bangs, the Duke of Roam curtly announced.

“I negotiated with Friesian.”

The Duchess of Roam’s eyes widened.

Friesian had been identified as the culprit who stole secret documents from the study when the Roam estate caught fire previously.

Because it was Friesian who had blackmailed Roam with those missing documents at the time.

That incident had caused great conflict between the Duke of Roam and Friesian, even escalating to a public feud between the Roam Ducal family and Baron Kendall’s family.

Originally, Baron Kendall’s family wouldn’t have dared to antagonize Roam. If Friesian hadn’t become a member of that family.

So the Duchess of Roam thought even more poorly of Friesian.

“That child dared to blackmail Roam!”

Negotiating with such a Friesian! The Duchess of Roam couldn’t help but be shocked.

For the negotiation, the Duke of Roam would have offered compensation satisfactory to Friesian. What kind of compensation was all too obvious.

…Roam.

“We have Seiri!”

“Do you think we’re in a situation where we can wait for Seiri right now?”

“Of course, it’s true that Seiri keeps talking nonsense lately, but…”

“Prince Heinley has bared his teeth at the Crown Prince with the Empress backing him. The Emperor hasn’t shown his face for days, and instead of victory, only news of the Crown Prince’s forces’ disgraceful defeat keeps coming!”

The Duke of Roam raised his voice. It was a sharp shout that made the Duchess of Roam’s shoulders flinch.

“Do you know what the pretext for arresting the Crown Prince is in the first place? The pretext that he fell into wicked heresy and tried to assassinate the Reviver!”

The Duke of Roam seemed to have no composure, showing anger in front of her that he usually only showed to his subordinates.

“In the midst of this, Roam is under surveillance for kidnapping the Reviver. So I’m going to leave this matter to Friesian.”

“That child can no longer be called Roam…!”

“If you hadn’t interfered with talk about Roam’s successor in the first place, things wouldn’t have gotten this twisted!”

Finally, the arrow of blame pointed at the Duchess of Roam.

The Duchess of Roam, who had unconsciously held her breath while staring at her husband, gritted her teeth.

“Darling.”

“Don’t open your mouth anymore.”

The Duke of Roam stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back.

The newly relocated mansion wasn’t as good as the previous one, but it was sufficiently large and spacious. This study was the same.

It was decorated as similarly as possible to the old study, so visitors completely forgot about the fire at Roam’s mansion and discussed business matters.

However, the Duke of Roam was not the owner.

“Prisian can’t let go of Roam, so she’ll definitely succeed.”

Everything felt unfamiliar. The new estate, this study, everything surrounding him.

He didn’t know where things had gone wrong or what to tackle first.

“We need to bring Anelli here and make her testify to Roam’s innocence with her own mouth.”

The most difficult thing was the fact that there was no going back anymore.

* * *

Clang!

The last knight’s sword clattered to the ground.

The knight’s body, coughing up blood, slowly crumpled forward. I watched the falling knight with weary eyes and let out a long sigh.

[What should we do?]

Minte’s sword was now pointed at the one remaining enemy.

“Ah, Anelli…”

The person standing there with a pale face.

It was Prisian Sister, whom I hadn’t expected to see here.

The knights, soldiers, and mages she had brought were now spilling their blood on the black ground, growing cold.

Prisian Sister, who had frozen in shock watching her forces get mercilessly slaughtered, quickly parted her lips when our eyes met.

“I am.”

“Don’t explain. I think I roughly understand.”

I cut off her words with a sighing voice and looked around.

I had considered just calling Palides, who could transform into human form, to handle them, but since there seemed to be more than expected, I summoned all the Dura’han.

I also intended to silence whoever appeared for certain. Thanks to that, Prisian Sister had seen all the Dura’han protecting me.

“You, those Dura’han…”

Prisian Sister, who had been wetting her trembling lips with her tongue several times, forced a calm tone.

“Are you going to kill me?”

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