Let’s Tame The Crazy Heroine - Chapter 70

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Chapter 70

“I couldn’t just stand by while Beatrice was falling off a cliff.”

This crazy bastard.

Even so, who jumps off a cliff to save someone they’re not even close to?

I was dumbfounded. Jacques, dripping wet, stood up from his spot and extended his hand toward me.

“Let’s move to another location first.”

I stared at Jacques’s outstretched hand for a moment, then got up on my own.

However, since silk was still tied around my wrist, it wasn’t easy to get up by myself.

Come to think of it, I was quite reckless too.

I couldn’t swim properly with my wrist tied up, yet I jumped in just because there was a river.

Honestly, I didn’t know the current would be this strong.

As I barely managed to get up, perhaps from falling into the cold river water and coming out, my whole body was shivering.

Seeing me trembling, Jacques took off his coat and wrapped it around me.

“It’s wet, but it should be a bit better if you wear it.”

Jacques’s shirt, after giving me his outer coat, was also soaking wet.

“You seem like you’d be colder.”

“Beatrice’s well-being comes before mine.”

I looked at Jacques with narrowed eyes and returned the coat he had put on me.

“It’s fine. I’m not cold.”

“Please keep it on anyway.”

Jacques persistently wrapped his outer coat around my shoulders.

After walking and bickering with Jacques for a while, a cave suitable for resting appeared.

“Let’s rest there for a moment. My delegation colleagues will come looking for us soon.”

That means he’s planning to drag me to the Holy Kingdom again.

I looked around, wondering if I should knock Jacques unconscious right now.

Then, the brooch attached to my dress caught my eye.

Is there still mana left in it?

If there was, I might be able to teleport again.

Jacques picked up some tree branches from around and went straight into the cave.

It seemed he was planning to start a fire.

I thought I should check the jewel later and followed Jacques into the cave.

“Do you know how to start a fire?”

Jacques was clumsily rubbing tree branches against the ground.

“I’ve never done it before, but I know the theory.”

But judging by his clumsy posture, it seemed hopeless for starting a fire.

“I can’t let Beatrice stay cold, so I’ll try my best to start one.”

“Yes, well… do your best…”

At my words, Jacques smiled brightly and then clumsily grabbed the tree branch and rubbed it.

I doubted a fire would start like that. If I were a spark, I would have laughed rather than ignite.

Jacques concentrated on starting a fire for a while but ultimately failed to light one.

“I’m sorry, Beatrice. I wanted to keep you warm…”

“It’s fine.”

I shook my head while pulling the coat Jacques had given me tighter.

I hadn’t expected him to be able to start a fire anyway.

Jacques seemed embarrassed and just kept fiddling with the tree branch.

I looked for an opportunity to escape from Jacques secretly.

That’s when it happened.

Jacques looked at me, then put down the branch he had been fiddling with and spoke.

“I was going to tell you this fact when we arrived at the Holy Kingdom, but since Beatrice is so firmly refusing, I think it would be better to tell you now.”

What? Is there some major issue significant enough to change my mind?

Jacques took out a paper with drawings from his pocket and handed it to me.

“Could you please take a look at this?”

I received the drawing from Jacques. What was contained in the picture was…

“What on earth is this?”

It was something that had a human form.

No, it had a human form, but it was something difficult to call human.

All over their bodies were horns and scale-like things, their teeth had grown grotesquely, and their fingernails had grown sharp.

Some people had skin that was rotting black, and others had grotesquely grown eyeballs on their foreheads.

What on earth is this?

As I looked at the drawing in confusion, Jacques spoke with a somber face.

“They are the people of the Holy Kingdom.”

These people are citizens of the Holy Kingdom?

But why on earth…

“Recently, beast transformation has begun to progress in our Holy Kingdom.”

“Beast transformation?”

“Yes. People started transforming into beasts one by one, and now it has spread uncontrollably.”

Jacques spoke with a somber face, saying that a considerable number of Holy Kingdom citizens had undergone beast transformation.

“We also searched for ways to reverse the beast transformation in various ways, but… there was no method. Now the only remaining option is to try treating it with divine power.”

Divine power must refer to the power I possess.

Certainly, I had once restored beast-transformed animals to their original forms during the Hunting Competition.

“I also heard rumors that you dealt with magical beasts. That’s why we needed Beatrice even more.”

I thought only animals could undergo beast transformation, but I didn’t know humans could too.

I’ve never reversed human beast transformation – would I even be able to do it?

“The people are trembling in fear. When will their families become beasts, when will they themselves undergo beast transformation…”

I couldn’t say anything.

If people were undergoing beast transformation, this was a serious matter.

Not only the Holy Kingdom but the Empire wouldn’t be safe either.

“That’s why we tried to bring Beatrice by any means necessary. Not only because we worship Beatrice, but to save our people.”

Jacques spoke desperately.

“I know Beatrice doesn’t want to go to the Holy Kingdom. But our people are dying.”

Jacques then knelt on both knees in front of me.

“I will beg like this.”

Then he bowed his head toward me.

Jacques, with his head deeply lowered, pleaded with me.

“Please go to the Holy Kingdom and heal our people.”

I looked at Jacques like that and quietly examined the drawing.

If this drawing was fabricated…

I would become an idiot who was tricked into going to the Holy Kingdom.

But what if it was true?

If the Holy Kingdom’s people were undergoing beast transformation one by one, it was truly a serious situation.

Even ordinary animals became much stronger when they underwent beast transformation, but if humans underwent beast transformation…

It was horrifying just to imagine.

As I was fiddling with the drawing, Jacques spoke with a resolute face.

“I know you’re thinking that the drawing might be fabricated. I would think the same way.”

I flinched, having my thoughts exposed.

Jacques looked at me like that and smiled faintly, then took out a dagger from his pocket.

“I can do anything to remove Beatrice’s suspicions.”

Then he brought the blade of the dagger to his own wrist.

“I will prove that the drawing is real by cutting my wrist here.”

What? Cut what?

It was when I was looking at Jacques in bewilderment.

Jacques moved the dagger as if he really intended to cut his own wrist.

“Wait a moment!”

I was startled and grabbed Jacques’s hand that held the dagger.

“You don’t need to go that far. I’ll believe that this painting is real.”

“Beatrice…”

Jacques looked at me as if he was moved by my words.

I sighed and looked at the painting again. The condition of the people in the painting was serious.

I wasn’t sure if I could heal them even if I went.

After all, beasts and humans are different.

Perhaps I might not be able to heal them.

“If I can’t heal these people, what happens then?”

“Then we would have to leave everything to the will of the sky.”

Jacques spoke calmly.

“But we believe in you, Beatrice. We believe that you will save us.”

Jacques’s eyes sparkled with infinite trust. I felt burdened by that gaze and lowered my eyes.

“I’ll go to the Holy Kingdom.”

Instantly, Jacques’s face brightened.

However, I had no intention of staying in the Holy Kingdom forever.

“But I have conditions.”

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