For the heart - Chapter 80

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Chapter 80

Lillien’s face was filled with radiance as she walked through the corridors of the Main Palace.

Her steps were light, and occasionally she would stop walking and lift her skirt slightly like she was dancing, spinning around in a circle.

Ivana and Stella, who were following behind her, exchanged glances as they watched this unpredictable princess.

“As expected, nothing goes against my will. God is always on my side.”

Lillien had been watching everything happening in the square through the windows of the Main Palace.

“Nina Arsed’s hero act will end today.”

Those were the words Desmorak had said to me when he visited early in the morning.

“You must never go out to the Imperial Palace Square where people are gathered. Stay inside.”

“Why?”

“Nairak will appear.”

“Nairak?!”

“No matter how sharp the Sirin sword is, it won’t be able to handle a flying Nairak. Until Nairak gets its fill of blood as I desire, Nina Arsed will helplessly watch the imperial citizens die before her eyes. And people will remember this day when the princess who should sacrifice herself for Arsed could do nothing.”

Lillien had waited for the monster bird Nairak to appear like that.

Expecting Nina to eventually become powerless after being thoroughly toyed with by the flying Nairak.

But that crazy Nina Arsed offered her own body to the flying bird and drove her sword into it.

Lillien was shocked by that sight.

The Emperor, Empress, and Desmorak, who were watching the square from inside the Main Palace with Lillien, felt the same.

They didn’t properly know what kind of human Nina Arsed was.

Until now, they had only been interested in the sweet news of victories, but didn’t know how those victories were achieved.

Because they had never seen with their own eyes how desperately Nina had fought on the battlefield, how she had thrown her body away to protect the Arsed Order.

The sight they saw when they threw Nina before wild beasts under the pretext of a match, they only considered as her suffering from what they themselves had created.

Lillien ground her teeth when Nina drove her sword into Nairak, and felt a bit better when she saw her being shaken while caught by the monster’s claws.

If Nairak exerted just a little more strength, she might be able to see Nina’s body torn in half.

Just as the corners of her mouth were about to rise while cheering for the monster bird, Lillien’s expectations were shattered.

One person who rushed out into the square where countless people were crouched motionless.

The man who could be recognized immediately even from afar was Casian Montregger.

Pushing away the maids who tried to stop her and throwing open the window that had been closed, Casian’s desperate cry could be heard.

“Nina!”

His voice, always leisurely and calm, was boiling with anger and urgency.

It was a different kind of defeat from when she had seen them kissing.

He called the Princess of Arsed ‘Nina’ without honorifics. That alone made it clear that their relationship had become close enough that she couldn’t intrude, and Casian’s heart in risking danger for Nina needed no measuring.

Lillien’s anger surged.

Casian Montregger, the last prince of the empire Montregger that was once equal to Arsed, was a man who suited her.

He wasn’t a man that someone like Nina should dare to have.

“Damn bitch. I’ll kill her right now!”

“Princess!”

“Princess!”

So Lillien had rushed out saying she would kill Nina.

She who had snatched a sword from the guards who chased after her and really tried to stab Nina witnessed something very interesting.

Nina’s body, which had been pierced through the chest by Baraguz but healed instantly, was somehow still a mess.

Lillien keenly noticed what Casian’s desperately shaking eyes and Nina Arsed’s pupils as she lost consciousness and fell backward meant.

“Puhuhut! An immortal body that cannot be healed.”

With the unification of the entire continent, Nina had now become useless, and that useless Nina had become a body that could not be healed.

The moment Lillien realized that fact, a thrill ran through her entire body.

“Do you know what I couldn’t stand the most all this time?”

Lillien asked as she turned to face the maids following behind her.

Her face with the corners of her mouth pulled up to the limit was not just bright but eerie. The maids could feel a strange madness swirling in her eyes.

“It was that Nina Arsed had no weaknesses. But Nina has developed a weakness! And as a bonus, even Casian’s weakness!”

“Prince Casian’s weakness?”

“Yes. Nina Arsed. Nina Arsed is Casian’s weakness. Puhuhut!”

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When Casian carrying Nina entered the Satellite Palace, Tila who had been running outside collapsed to the floor with a thud.

“Pr-Princess…”

“Fill the bathtub with warm water, Tila. Hurry.”

“Yes, yes!”

Tila, who had turned pale, snapped back to her senses and rushed back inside.

Tears flowed down as the sight of Nina collapsed with her mangled body kept coming to mind.

“The prince will heal her soon. He must not have had time.”

It kept bothering her that the severe wound on the shoulder remained as it was even though Casian had carried her in.

And Casian’s urgent voice and bad expression heightened her anxiety.

When the bathtub filled with hot water, Casian held the unconscious Nina in his arms and immersed their bodies.

The blood that had soaked her body spread through the water.

As warmth returned to her ice-cold body, the gaping wounds began to heal very slightly.

“Tila, keep filling it with warm water so it doesn’t get cold. Her body is too cold, making the healing slower.”

“I understand. Pieruto is continuously boiling water right now.”

“And I’d like you to remove the princess’s clothes.”

“Pardon…?”

Tila’s pupils shook violently in her widened eyes.

Though she roughly guessed what kind of relationship Casian and Nina had, asking her to undress the princess while she was with an unmarried man.

“The princess’s body will gradually become unable to heal from now on.”

“What? Wh-what do you mean by that?!”

“Today is the day when healing power is absorbed the most. If I can’t heal this wound today, Nina will have to suffer until this wound naturally heals on its own. Perhaps even with time, it won’t recover properly and she might not be able to use one arm like before.”

“N-no… Our princess…”

Tears dripped down from Tila’s eyes.

She was only twenty years old, and just when it seemed she might escape from her harsh life, to become disabled.

“Try to make as much contact with my body as possible. That way she’ll recover even a little faster.”

Tila’s pupils shook violently.

Though she understood it was an urgent situation, since she didn’t know whether Casian would marry Nina or not, Tila found it difficult to readily comply with his request.

After hesitating for a moment, she bit her lips and quickly turned away from the bathroom.

A sigh escaped from Casian.

He understood since it was a difficult story to accept, but he couldn’t leave Nina like this.

But soon Tila returned. With large scissors in her hand.

‘She’s about to die right now, so what use are dignity and propriety! I can’t let our princess, who has never properly experienced what happiness or love is, pass away like this!’

Burning with determination to save Nina, Tila breathed heavily through her nose and boldly cut through the water-soaked training clothes with the scissors in one swift motion.

“I’ll remove the clothes myself. I’ll also take responsibility for this matter. So Your Highness, please just focus on healing our princess.”

Having easily removed the torn clothes, Tila stared down intently at Casian sitting in the bathtub while holding the scissors.

“And what happens today is a secret between just the two of us—Your Highness and me. Understood?”

Casian’s eyes went back and forth between Tila, who was glaring with wide eyes, and the scissors she was holding.

And he gave the predetermined answer.

“Absolutely. I won’t tell anyone.”

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