Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 76

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Chapter 76

Samuel’s brow furrowed slightly at Sister’s leisurely tone.

“I apologize. I thought I had dealt with all the followers before arriving at Claim.”

“…Since you dealt with them, they probably followed even more secretly.”

As is typical of influential families, Roam also has a secret organization that operates covertly.

They only take orders from the head of the family and the heir, and are mainly specialized in secretly tracking someone or gathering information.

Of course, they also possess a certain level of force. Each one is an elite member, making it a costly organization to raise and manage.

I had thought that Roam would mobilize them to capture me. Since the publicly announced search party wasn’t producing proper results, the secret organization’s role would become even more important.

Still, the reason I didn’t guard against them much was because I was confident they had no way to find me.

I had used appearance-changing magic tools early on and was rotating through several fake identification papers. After all, to find someone, you need some kind of clue first.

I never expected that clue would be Samuel.

No, saying I didn’t expect it is just an expression that represents my complacency. I should have naturally anticipated that Samuel could be tracked to find connections to me.

Making belated self-reproach, I stared at the figure across from me. What good would regret do now? The priority is to shake off Sister who’s standing right in front of me.

“I didn’t know it would be this difficult to see your face once.”

“I didn’t know you’d want to see me this badly either.”

When I responded in the same tone, Prisian Sister hesitated.

Since she’s naturally proud and aloof, I thought she’d obviously be offended, but instead a faint smile appeared on Sister’s face.

That smile was tinged with joy.

“It really is you.”

It was an incomprehensible reaction. I frowned and scanned the subordinates standing behind her. It wasn’t the size of a search party, but there were more than I expected.

Of course, no matter how many there are, I don’t think they could beat my Dura’han. However, since revealing the Dura’han wouldn’t be beneficial, I just want to resolve this as quietly as possible.

“But it’s strange. I heard Samuel Bent’s ‘companions of unconfirmed identity’ were two people.”

“If you’re interested in Samuel Bent, I’ll give him to you. Take him.”

“As if. Anelli, knowing you, you’d hide someone and try to catch us off guard, so I’m worrying in advance.”

If Jeon hadn’t been armed with the magic tool that erases presence, we would have been caught already. I inwardly felt relieved and twisted my lips.

“Sister, you’re the one who caught us off guard.”

“You’re the one who revealed yourself first before I could catch you off guard.”

Prisian Sister’s expression was calm.

So it didn’t really feel like we were meeting after a long time. Come to think of it, this is the first time we’re meeting since the execution.

“How did you notice we were chasing you? We were moving secretly.”

Of course, as Sister said, I was the one who revealed myself first. Since they had already caught up this far, there was a possibility that if I fled clumsily, they might unluckily follow me all the way to the monastery.

Before revealing myself, I gathered testimonies from the mountain birds. In that process, I was able to obtain information that the number of soldiers was small.

I concluded that rather than dispatching a search party with the determination to capture me, they prioritized making contact with me above all else.

Seeing Sister personally leading the secret agents and appearing here, my guess seems to be correct.

“How did Sister follow me all the way here? Samuel Bent’s identification was only used in Immon.”

“I was lucky.”

Looking at her faintly smiling face, it seemed as if the relationship between us was no different from before.

If it weren’t for the scar remaining on my neck, I might have forgotten about my execution forever.

The familiarity was somewhat unpleasant. Even though I had hated and resented her, I had the illusion that I couldn’t escape from the framework of family. It was a terrible illusion.

“What’s important is the fact that we’ve met like this now. I happened to have something to give you too, so this worked out well.”

“Sister, to me?”

“Yes. I brought it personally for you. Here.”

Sister smiled and held out something. What was sparkling on Sister’s palm was a brooch. The brooch of Roam’s direct lineage that I had sent away like discarding it.

Through this, I could clearly understand Sister’s intention. Returning that meant accepting the name of Roam.

“I am not a child of Roam.”

At my words, Sister’s smiling lips stiffened. Quietly sunken purple eyes stared at me.

“You are a child of Roam.”

“You seem to have forgotten. Sister was the one who led the way when erasing my name.”

“I only considered the family’s political position as the heir. Your name is now engraved in the registry again.”

“The Roam Family put me on the execution platform.”

Sister’s mouth, which had been shamelessly retorting, closed.

“So Sister is not blood relative, but the enemy who killed me.”

Sister was looking at me without answering. I pulled up the corner of my lips crookedly and asked cynically.

“Shouldn’t you be grateful that I’m not making a fuss about getting revenge?”

“Anelli Roam.”

“Be grateful and go back.”

“I know you must resent us.”

“Even resentment is too generous, Sister.”

When I replied in a gentle voice, Sister’s expression cracked slightly.

Sister knows me. How I treat things I’m interested in, how irrationally I pour all my nerves and heart into what Roam people are attached to.

“I’m just not interested, Sister. Whether it’s Roam or whatever.”

So take your subordinates and get lost, I was about to say that when Sister suddenly opened her mouth.

“Lilia suddenly insisted on going to Riddle.”

Lilia?

“She said she wanted to travel to the sea with His Highness the Crown Prince. Just then, we discovered traces of Samuel Bent in Immon, so I accompanied them too. But when we arrived in Immon, she said that. That she absolutely had to go to Riddle. She’s there now with His Highness the Crown Prince.”

Lilia is in Riddle with Maxel right now?

I felt bewildered by the unexpected news. Why did that kid suddenly pop up there?

“What I said about being lucky was true. We heard news of you in Riddle and chased after you.”

‘Did Lilia find out my location through foresight?’

My spine went cold at the thought that suddenly occurred to me. But if her foresight could be utilized in that way, there’s no way the Imperial House or Roam’s search parties wouldn’t have found me by now.

‘She visited because of her connection with the Village Chief, and it just happened to coincidentally coincide with my timing.’

I tried to calm my pounding heart and put on a nonchalant smile.

“…So, should I congratulate you on that luck?”

“Lilia has become strange.”

“She was always strange.”

“She hasn’t been able to have any foresight since you died.”

Foresight is Lilia’s greatest weapon and value. When I fell silent at the unexpected words, Sister continued in a cold voice.

“It turns out she was hiding a lot of things too. Did you know that kid had a friendship with Preshi?”

Preshi was an underworld figure I had once made contact with to obtain medicine for Lilia.

I thought it was too easy to mess things up. Were you acquainted with Lilia? You bastard.

No, even comparing him to a dog is too generous. Damn son of a bitch.

“She’s Roam now. If she’s strange, Sister can handle it yourself.”

Discussing the past now is ridiculous. I shook my head and tried to turn around. But Sister didn’t stop talking.

“We were all very tormented after putting you on the execution platform.”

“What?”

“You don’t know what kind of feelings Father had when he made that decision.”

“…Decision?”

Without realizing it, I stopped abruptly.

“What a great decision.”

I looked up after quietly sneering.

“But Sister, that’s not called a ‘decision,’ it’s called ‘unfilial conduct.'”

I was the proud second daughter of Roam. I take pride in having lived in that position without an ounce of shame. I am…

I cannot forget the execution platform where my entire life was denied and treated as worthless.

“Unfilial conduct.”

Prisian Sister’s face turned pale. Even in that state, she didn’t stop talking.

“Lilia prophesied! That you would destroy the Roam Family!”

I hesitated at the voice full of tension.

“We couldn’t ignore that. Neither Father nor I… As you know, Lilia’s foresight was accurate! And now we’ve learned that the kid who was like that has become strange! You never got along well with Lilia from the beginning, so you must have known something, right?”

Sister instead questioned me. As if it was my fault for not informing them of Lilia’s strangeness in advance.

When I shouted in frustration, got angry, and screamed, she coldly mocked me saying it was ‘too immature and stupid behavior for the second daughter of Roam to show.’ She shuddered saying it was low-level.

I asked in a subdued voice as I stood there speechless.

“Do you know that it was Lilia who bribed the doctor to make me terminally ill when I was perfectly healthy?”

Prisian Sister gasped and swallowed her breath. Just looking at her expression, I could tell she didn’t know.

I smiled as gracefully as possible. It was the most beautiful smile I could manage.

That ‘dignified Roam posture’ that Sister used to demand from me all the time.

“Maybe it’s not prophecy, but manipulation to make her words become prophecy.”

Sister’s lips trembled as she forced out her voice with difficulty.

“You know how accurate that child was.”

“I don’t believe it. Even if it was real prophecy.”

After taking a brief deep breath to compose my nearly scattered emotions, I concluded gently.

“If she had said Sister would destroy the Roam Family, I wouldn’t have believed it.”

That I would destroy Roam – they fell for such nonsense and put me on the execution platform.

Because it was unavoidable, I should understand? Is that what you’re explaining to me now?

“So go play with the believers. Consider me dead.”

Prisian Sister, who had been breathing heavily with a pale face, gritted her teeth.

“Too many people know about the Reviver for you to claim you’re dead.”

“So the Reviver is the problem after all.”

When I spoke sarcastically, Sister smiled, baring her teeth.

“Roam’s things to Roam. You must know that, don’t you?”

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