Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 6

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Chapter 6

I received my terminal diagnosis at a time when Maxel and Lilia had grown quite close.

For Maxel, who loved Lilia but couldn’t bring himself to break his engagement with Roam, this must have been very welcome news.

My health report, which should have been top secret, was leaked in an instant and became the talk of everyone’s lips.

At the same time, I began to waste away. As if to prove the rumors, my body lost its vitality. My skin became rough and lost its luster, and my stamina seriously deteriorated.

I thought I was truly terminally ill. I never imagined that everything was Lilia’s scheme.

With just the single reason that my health had deteriorated, everything around me changed, so I was busy just trying to keep up with those changes.

Even then, Maxel seemed to pity me. Not just Maxel, but most people did.

They whispered that the second daughter of Roam, who had grown up her whole life to become empress, was a truly pitiful woman for receiving a terminal diagnosis because she couldn’t abandon the poison in her heart.

As I withdrew from many social gatherings, Lilia filled those positions.

Prisian Sister, who had always been anxious about whether Maxel and my engagement might be broken, grew close to Lilia.

As Lilia began to frequent the Roam family in earnest, my parents also began to take notice of her.

Because no one in Roam wanted the engagement with the Imperial House to be broken. Because outside, there were countless wolves waiting for their chance to become the Crown Prince’s fiancée in my place.

In their eyes, Lilia must have been a new means. It didn’t take long for Lilia to become my younger sister.

Lilia captivated everyone’s hearts with a warmth and kindness that couldn’t be found in Roam.

I recalled from memory my father’s voice saying that although her education was somewhat lacking, with such gentle embracing power, she wouldn’t be bad as empress material.

Thus, the things I had enjoyed gradually went to Lilia. The friends who had associated with me were captivated by Lilia’s kindness. The more this happened, the more violent my tyranny became.

I tried to act as I had been taught. By any means necessary, keeping Roam’s things as Roam’s things.

I only acted as I had been taught.

But what came back were looks of disgust and contempt.

My parents, who had given me such teachings, now brought up humanity and morality to criticize my cold decisiveness. Maxel despised me, and my friends were disappointed in me.

Not knowing the reason, I was left alone in bewilderment when Lilia came to me.

“I wanted to help you.”

Lilia.

“I did it to help you.”

Ah, Lilia. You bribed a doctor to give me a terminal diagnosis to help me.

“I have the ability of foresight, Anelli.”

How pitiful was that confession she sobbed out.

“You will die young. Alone and lonely.”

Looking back now, that girl’s foresight ability was real. I was ultimately executed by beheading in loneliness.

Perhaps all the ‘coincidental fortunes’ that marked her life were actually ‘inevitable fortunes’ based on her foresight ability.

“Rather than that, it would be better for you to prepare for your end while receiving care from many people. I thought that if your body became sick, you would give up doing bad things.”

How selfish and self-centered was this judgment. When I realized that Lilia’s absurd thinking had caused all these ridiculous situations, I felt only emptiness.

In the end, even Lilia’s judgment helped my fate of ‘dying young alone and lonely.’

“If dying young and lonely is my fate, I will accept it.”

“But if you leave like that, Lord Maxel will…!”

“But you. Your manner of speaking is quite impudent.”

At that time, she was Lilia Roam. The adopted daughter of Roam who would newly become the Crown Princess in place of the dying Anelli Roam.

The object of all society’s love, monopolizing Roam’s affection, and receiving the Crown Prince’s devoted pure love.

But so what?

“Bring a whip.”

She smiled meekly, saying it would be fine if this would calm my anger, and I sneered at such a her.

“Oh my, you and I are of different birth.”

Even taking your life wouldn’t be enough to quell my anger.

“A person’s nobility cannot be judged by birth.”

“What to do. In this world, birth determines everything in life.”

So you, a fallen noble, are so skilled at menial tasks, while I, raised preciously, don’t know menial work. I think I added such mockery too.

It was around then that Lilia’s eyes, which had been meekly shrinking her shoulders, suddenly turned fierce.

Usually, Lilia always looked at me with pitying eyes. From the first time we met, she acted as if she stood above me.

I think that was probably the first time she showed me such malice.

“Life is precious. Why can’t you realize that even after receiving a terminal diagnosis?”

“You who played with my life are saying such things?”

When I asked back without emotion, Lilia trembled. Having buried the malice she had briefly shown back in a deep place, she made a sorrowful expression.

“You who bribed a doctor to ruin my body?”

“Ruin? Because you didn’t change, I couldn’t stop either.”

“…So it’s also my fault that I became terminally ill?”

She who clasped her hands together as if her heart ached, meekly turned her gaze away.

Her trembling eyelashes were delicate and her crouched figure was pitiful.

“Are you joking?”

Just then, the whip arrived. The servants gave me the whip but didn’t seem to think I would actually wield it.

But I was serious. How could I not be serious?

With Lilia in front of me shamelessly saying everything was my fault, how could I not be?

“Ah, Miss…”

The servants were restless at my ominous momentum. Lilia’s maid, who heard of this situation belatedly, rushed in and threw herself down, saying to beat her instead.

“Take her out. Close the door and don’t let anyone in.”

“Miss!”

“It’s okay, I’ll have a good conversation with big sister. Don’t worry and wait.”

At Lilia’s kind words, the maid was dragged out crying. And I was furious.

“…Big sister?”

The reason my whipping didn’t take Lilia’s life was purely because my sick body couldn’t endure it.

The maid who had been dragged out crying returned with the entire family and even Maxel, who had happened to visit the Roam family to see Lilia. As soon as she heard the commotion outside the door, Lilia fainted.

It was obvious that the collapsed Lilia and the bloody whip in my hand enraged those who burst in.

I was eventually imprisoned for the crime of injuring someone who would soon become royalty, and Roam chose one side after weighing me and Lilia.

Maxel’s choice was obvious without even asking. I was defeated.

It was right to call it defeat.

Since I acknowledged defeat before the execution platform, I had no intention of stepping onto that stage again.

“Resurrector.”

A quiet call came from behind me as I walked through the crowd without hesitation. I glanced at Samuel standing behind me, then turned my head forward nonchalantly.

“Why, afraid I’ll run away? With your abilities, you could easily catch me even in this crowd.”

Central Square was the largest space in this city and a place where various small-scale events were held daily.

From plays praising God to priests’ small sermons. It was also a place where countless people like me wearing pilgrim cloaks were scattered.

Even with dozens of the same clothes, Samuel skillfully stayed close to me. Even when I deliberately changed my appearance with the temple’s treasure, it was useless. I was now certain that his method of distinguishing me was this temple’s treasure.

That meant if I passed the temple’s treasure to someone else, I could divert his attention for a while. Since Samuel had never met the ‘real Anelli Roam.’

I had already loosened the necklace and was holding it in my hand. When this necklace completely separated from my body, the magic would break and I would return to my original appearance. What remained was timing.

I decided not to hide and run away like a mouse. If secretly slipping away was impossible anyway, all that remained was openly fleeing.

Everyone would know I was disappearing, but what did I care about the chaos that would result? However they handled it would be the temple’s responsibility.

I specifically chose today because today’s event was a particularly popular one that drew large crowds.

Today was the day when a high priest would give a sermon blessing the pilgrims. The sermon time was still far off, but Central Square was already full of people.

Having many believers meant I could hide in the crowd even briefly, and also meant the Knights couldn’t freely use force because of citizens’ safety, and being conscious of everyone’s eyes and ears would make anyone restrain their rash words and actions. It was the perfect environment for me.

“You could come just in time for the sermon.”

“Then I wouldn’t be able to get a good spot.”

The moment I replied indifferently, a black dot appeared in the sky. Eagle had said the large bird coming to get me would be red and easily recognizable.

Could that thing flying so high that its color couldn’t be distinguished be the bird Eagle mentioned?

I only rolled my eyes to check the sky, then gripped the necklace in my hand tightly. When the large bird suddenly appeared, everyone would panic and be in confusion, and during that time I would drop this necklace and Squirrel would pick it up and put it in someone’s pocket or bag.

I mixed in among those wearing the same cloaks as me as much as possible.

While doing so, I watched the sky. It was because I wasn’t certain if that bird was the right one.

Eagle had boasted that it was just a red bird, a good Elder Brother he had sworn brotherhood with who would help well, but wouldn’t tell me anything more.

As far as I knew, there was no bird with red feathers and a body large enough to carry a person…

At that moment, the black thing that had looked like a dot came a little closer. Several people discovered the flying creature shooting down toward the square and pointed at the sky with their fingers.

At first it only looked like a black shadow, but now red tones began to enter my vision.

But….

“Wh-what is that!”

I was left speechless and stared at the sky with dumbfounded eyes. Eagle, you said he was a good Elder Brother you had sworn brotherhood with.

…You never mentioned that Elder Brother was a wyvern.

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