For the heart - Chapter 61

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Chapter 61

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“Aaaahhh!”

Crash!

Lillien’s Bedroom was in complete chaos.

Having returned from the Emperor’s Bedroom, she threw everything in sight.

She even threw objects at the startled maids, telling them to get out immediately, so she was completely alone for the first time in a while.

“The oracle I received was false?”

Lillien, who had gone to see her collapsed father, was shocked by the sounds coming from inside the room.

She immediately entered and demanded the truth, but.

“Nonsense!”

“You just said that! That the oracle about me, the princess with a burning heart, becoming the emperor of the Arsed Empire was false?!”

“Shut that mouth!”

“Father!”

Blocking her father who was greatly angered by her demand, Mother Empress Catalina shook her head.

“How could it be false! It’s just that with the Saint who was supposed to be executed suddenly appearing, he was wondering if someone might be plotting something, dear.”

Even with Mother’s answer, Lillien couldn’t shake off this dirty and unpleasant feeling.

Unbearable rage rose and rose again as if it would burst her head.

‘If that oracle is false, then what exactly is the truth?’

Could it be that the person who will become the empire’s emperor isn’t me?

Nina Arsed?

“Aaaahhh! Absolutely not!”

Lillien clutched her head with both hands, collapsed, and let out a scream-like sound.

“P-Princess! Please don’t do this!”

At that moment, Attendant Banir, who had entered upon hearing the sound, quickly helped Lillien up.

Seeing him, Lillien grabbed his arm tightly.

“I want to know for certain.”

“Wh-what do you mean, Princess?”

“Everything about the oracle.”

“Pardon…?”

Banir had already heard that the Saint had appeared in the Town Square today.

But he was flustered when the princess he served suddenly said she wanted to know about the oracle.

“I must meet the Saint before anyone else.”

“I heard her whereabouts are unknown…”

Lillien looked down at the things scattered on the floor, then grabbed a handful of her jewels and pressed them into Banir’s hands.

“This should be enough. Tell them that whoever brings the Saint to me will receive this much more as a reward. Make them go crazy looking for that Saint!”

“Y-yes, Princess.”

Banir trembled his lips while avoiding the princess’s madness-soaked eyes.

That night, Lillien couldn’t close her eyes for even a moment.

As dawn broke, she stood by the window and muttered quietly.

“If the Saint spoke falsely, I must hear the truth directly.”

And as the sun rose, Banir’s voice was heard from outside the door.

“Princess, we found the Saint.”

Lillien, who had been standing by the window, turned around.

Madness that had suppressed fatigue spread in her reddish eyes from not sleeping a wink.

“You found the Saint? Where is she? Bring her to me right now!”

But Banir quietly lowered his head as he watched Lillien quickly approaching him.

“I’m sorry, Princess.”

“What do you mean?!”

Lillien’s sharp voice shattered the quiet morning stillness.

Only then did Banir raise his head and speak hesitantly.

“We did find the Saint, but… she’s dead.”

“What?!”

“People discovered the Saint lying dead as if sleeping in the Main Square where the public trial was held yesterday.”

“How dare she die? How dare she!!”

“…”

“Use sorcery or whatever to bring her back to life and bring her to me! Right now! Aaaahhh!!”

“I’m sorry, Princess.”

“Get out! I can’t stand the sight of you!!”

Banir bowed silently to Lillien, who was screaming, and left.

Unable to control her anger, Lillien threw whatever she could grab at the closed door.

How many times did large and small things break and shatter repeatedly?

Lillien sat down heavily on the bed, her shoulders heaving.

“…No. The Saint’s death might actually be more advantageous for me. Even if the oracle is called false, there’s no one left to speak of it now. No, the oracle couldn’t have been false from the beginning! It absolutely must not be!”

Lillien glared into empty space. Her lips, which had been wailing just moments before, had already hardened.

With bloodshot eyes, she slowly inhaled as if calculating something.

It was a strange stillness, as if a layer of ice had settled over collapsing heat.

‘Perhaps this is for the better.’

Lillien pushed down the intense suspicion that the oracle she had received might be false, sealing it deep within.

“The only one in Arsed who can inherit the throne is me.”

Rumble.

Low thunder rumbled from the suddenly darkened sky.

Since yesterday afternoon, the Velan Ducal House had sent out countless people to search, but they hadn’t found so much as a strand of the Saint’s hair.

Since yesterday afternoon, the Bellan ducal house had deployed countless people to search, but they hadn’t found so much as a single strand of the saint’s hair.

Instead, it was the merchants who came out early at dawn to open their shops who found her.

“The saint is dead?! Damn it!”

When my ambitious plan fell apart in just one day, the emperor erupted in fury.

“Perhaps it’s for the best, Your Majesty.”

She had been worried about where the Saint might go spouting nonsense, so her death was actually a good thing.

He harshly struck away the Empress’s hand that held his with a sharp sound, looking at her with contemptuous eyes.

“If she had wandered around babbling by herself, we could have captured her and done whatever we wanted. But the dead princess appeared before the imperial citizens to testify for Nina. And as if she had been resurrected solely for that purpose, she died immediately after.”

Catalina’s complexion was growing increasingly pale.

“If she had just wandered around talking to herself, we could have captured her and done whatever we wanted. But the dead princess appeared before the imperial citizens and testified for Nina. And as if she had been resurrected solely for that purpose, she died immediately afterward.”

“Th-that can’t be! The Saint only appeared for the first time that day!”

A deep darkness spread across Rayner’s face as well.

Though she had hidden it from the Emperor, there had been an incident where the Saint visited the Velan Ducal House to meet her brother.

“Even if that’s not the case, people will feel that in Arsed, where divine power has disappeared, the dead Saint reappeared and devoted herself to Nina Arsed.”

“You don’t understand, Empress. How powerful oracles are to the people of Arsed. Everyone curses Former Empress Arnesa Hamer for killing the Former Emperor. But no one curses the Saint who supposedly helped her.”

“Magnus Arsed received an oracle that he would unify the entire continent for the first time in 300 years, and was born with an immortal body. It was Saint Ellinne who delivered that oracle. In Arsed, the Saint is still sanctity itself. Having risen from death, that sanctity will have been engraved even deeper and more vividly in the people’s hearts.”

Recalling the past, Rainer breathed heavily, his chest heaving roughly.

Though he hadn’t received an oracle, he was confident he could create an Arsed far greater than his brother’s, and he was doing just that.

“That damn oracle, oracle…!”

The Emperor’s face was contorted as he spat out the words through gritted teeth.

“Though I was overshadowed by the light of one who received an oracle and couldn’t gain recognition for anything, even from my parents, I will absolutely never let my daughter experience such a thing.”

“Now all that remains is finding my brother.”

Kuk kuk kuk, hahahaha!

His eyes staring into empty space gleamed with a murderous light as strange rage and fear intertwined.

“To think that despite achieving continental unification, I cannot find a single fugitive.”

“That’s impossible. My brother is alive. I know that more certainly than anyone.”

“I must find him no matter what. And eliminate him for certain.”

“Your Majesty….”

“Now all that’s left is to find my older brother.”

Heh heh heh, hahahaha!

Emperor Rayner shrugged his shoulders at the end of his words and burst into loud laughter.

His eyes, staring into the void, blazed with a menacing light as strange fury and terror intertwined within them.

“Despite achieving continental unification, we cannot find a single fugitive.”

“Your Majesty. If Magnus Arsed was going to return, he would have returned by now. He must be dead,”

“That can’t be true. My brother is alive. I know that for certain more than anyone else.”

“Your Majesty….”

“We have to find it no matter what. Then we need to get rid of it for good.”

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