Serena and the Mysterious Labyrinth - Chapter 63

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63. Seraph (6)

“Hello, Serena.”

Richard smiled warmly.

“You’ve entered the labyrinth.”

Was it pity, or mockery? Seeing Serena’s sullen expression, the corners of Richard’s straight mouth slightly curved upward.

“This isn’t your first time. How many times have we met?”

“Who, who are you! Reveal your identity!”

“Whoa, don’t come closer.”

Ralph and Olive became wary of the mysterious young man who suddenly appeared, and Ying shot an arrow without any warning. Richard caught the arrow aimed at the center of his body mid-air. He was as relaxed as catching a slowly flying cotton ball.

She didn’t want the party to die and have to start over again. Serena warned her companions.

“Richard is a Sword Master. You’re no match for him, so don’t do anything foolish.”

“What? A Sword Master, you say?”

“Princess, you’re joking, right?”

Sword Masters had only appeared twice in history. No one believed Serena’s words. Even Count Randy doubted what Serena said.

Richard drew his sword and showed them the golden sword aura. As if to prove Serena’s words were true, the sword cut nothing and returned to its sheath.

There were many things she wanted to ask, but that would reduce the time to save Seraph. Even now, time continued to flow.

“If you’re not planning to kill me, could you just get lost?”

She wanted to ask about his wish being her death, but gave up since there were too many listening ears.

‘He’ll just give evasive answers or speak in riddles anyway.’

If she was going to hear equally strange responses, the Minotaur God was easier to deal with than Richard.

“Did something unpleasant happen? Should I solve it for you?”

“It’ll be solved if you get lost.”

“Princess, please speak a little more nicely~”

“You should be careful.”

The party members were shocked to see the princess being rude to a Sword Master of all people. Serena squinted her one remaining eye.

Richard seemed to have no intention of ending his conversation with Serena, so he brought out information that might tempt her.

“Seraph is over there.”

“I know, so get lost.”

Even though his words were mercilessly cut off, the handsome young man smiled brightly as if something pleased him greatly.

He reached out his hand and approached to pat Serena’s head, but was blocked by Ralph and Count Randy.

“Duke Oren, please leave now.”

“Don, don, don’t come any closer!”

Leaving behind the people who would be cut in half and die if Richard drew his sword, he made a pitiful expression toward Serena. Serena barely held back the curses that almost came out from getting goosebumps.

‘Is he crazy.’

When Serena raised both hands with middle fingers up, Richard chuckled.

“You have companions. How nice. I wanted to have companions too.”

“Then, would you like to come with us?”

Hearing that the Sword Master was looking for companions, Olive became interested. Richard’s single orange eye ignored the others and stared only at Serena.

“Want to go together?”

Richard extended his hand to the princess as if asking for a dance at a ball. Serena gritted her teeth, annoyed at the time passing while dealing with Richard.

“Please just get lost.”

Richard looked at his cousin with an expression like an abandoned puppy on a rainy day. When Serena ignored him, he maintained his pitiful expression to the end and left with a huff.

‘We survived.’

And no one died.

Only then did Serena curse inwardly and click her tongue.

‘Ah, the atmosphere was good, but meeting that guy brought bad luck.’

This time she hadn’t stepped in shit, and had defeated strong enemies as planned, so the flow seemed good, but encountering Richard broke the good momentum.

“Lady Serena, since when did you know that Duke Oren was a Sword Master?”

“Who is that Sword Master? Yo?”

“Isn’t Duke Oren that prince who caused a commotion when I was young because he was supposedly alive?”

Everyone except the quiet Ying demanded an explanation from the princess.

‘How bothersome.’

When she first explained it, Serena had felt emotionally invested due to the family tragedy, but explaining it a second time was incredibly bothersome.

Serena tried not to let her inner annoyance show and explained as calmly as possible about Huji’s tragedy, Richard who was thought dead but returned, and the subsequent factional fighting.

“Even if they’re fighting over the throne, this is a labyrinth. Can’t they cooperate? Yo? He’s the legendary Sword Master! Yo!”

Olive was reluctant to give up on the Sword Master’s military power. This was because she hadn’t heard the conversation about killing Serena.

Serena helped Olive quickly abandon her lingering feelings for the bad man.

“That won’t work. Richard is thinking of killing me.”

He wants to kill her so badly that he’s even conquering the labyrinth to achieve that wish.

“He looked a tiny bit dangerous, but he seemed like an affectionate older brother to the princess? Yo? He asked you to go together. Yo.”

“That affectionate older brother came looking for me with a sword to kill me.”

“Gasp.”

Ralph was startled. The awe he felt toward the Sword Master prince was shattered by the princess’s single statement.

“He didn’t seem like he wanted to kill you though. Yo?”

“Because this is a labyrinth.”

Since this is a labyrinth, even if he killed Serena, she would regress and it would be as if nothing happened.

‘Ah, could it be that he’s really not killing me because of this?’

Since killing Serena in the labyrinth would be useless, he might be planning to kill her after conquering the labyrinth.

The people who didn’t know the inside story of the cousin siblings who offered an eyeball as sacrifice to the Minotaur God thought sensibly.

“Because it’s a labyrinth, if he left you alone, you’d just die anyway? Well, high-ranking people don’t like to dirty their hands~”

“I will protect the princess. I will do my best!”

“To think Duke Oren is a Sword Master… I should pray that the rescue team from the Empire comes quickly.”

‘What exactly is he scheming.’

The mystery about Richard could be solved after saving her brother.

***

Expecting the bridge to be broken, Serena took a different route and arrived at the cave where Seraph had set up traps.

While avoiding traps with the help of the magic map, she explained the noble hobby of House Huaim.

Olive showed interest, delighting in the vicious trap placement and design.

“If what the princess says is true, I’ll be able to have a constructive conversation with the prince. I’m looking forward to it.”

There were traps that had to be triggered even with the map’s help. Olive quickly dismantled the traps under silent pressure, then hummed a tune.

She seemed pleased with the malice packed tightly into the traps like a heaping bowl of rice.

“Oh.”

Olive, who had been walking about ten steps ahead of the group, discovered something and stopped. Olive looked back at the group and put her index finger to her lips.

The back of a platinum-haired boy was visible. She could tell just from the back view. Seraph Parkling Huaim. Serena’s one and only brother.

Perhaps wanting to release the mischief that had built up while dismantling traps, Olive kept gesturing for the group to stay quiet, then crept toward Seraph.

Olive’s skill at concealing her presence was remarkable, and Seraph was concentrating on something and didn’t notice another person’s approach.

Thinking it was pointless to startle her hard-found brother, Serena ignored the guide and called her brother’s name.

“Seraph!”

“Aaaah!”

Startled by his name being suddenly called, the prince let go of the trap he was holding down. The trap activated and pierced through the prince’s body.

Olive, who had been creeping closer with a mischievous smile, stopped in shock. She turned around with a pale face.

“I didn’t kill him! Yo!”

Serena covered her face and collapsed onto the floor with a thud. Count Randy ran in shock to the prince pierced by the trap, and Ralph froze in place.

“He has died…”

Count Randy announced Seraph’s death with a trembling voice.

“I knew he was holding down a trap! That’s why I deliberately told everyone to be quiet and was going to surprise him after he finished setting it up!”

The guide, shocked by the prince’s sudden death, defended herself before approaching the real culprit who was trembling.

“Is… is it okay? It wasn’t on purpose. Princess? Could you please breathe?”

Olive roughly shook the unresponsive Princess’s body on purpose.

“No, it wasn’t intentional. The Princess didn’t know. You couldn’t see from the Princess’s position. I know it just looked like he was sitting and resting. I was just trying to play around and the Princess was trying to stop me… Zero, you say something too.”

Even the archer, who wasn’t easily shaken by most things, was shocked by the Prince’s death and its cause. Ying spoke seriously to the Princess.

“I offer my condolences. The Prince’s soul will find rest in the darkness… will not find rest.”

“Hey, Zero! Are you crazy?”

She asked her to say something, and she says the deceased won’t find rest!

Olive was horrified, the frozen Ralph was horrified, and Count Randy was horrified.

“Who goes there!”

To make matters worse, new characters were introduced in large numbers here. Four people came rushing from outside the cave, confirmed the Prince’s condition, and were equally horrified.

“Kyaah! Lord Seraph!”

The pink-haired girl screamed.

“Hup!”

The blue-haired woman threw an axe without question.

“Wait! It wasn’t on purpose, the Princess made a mistake!”

“Light!”

“Earth, block their escape route!”

The ground around the party rose up and trapped them. A strong light burst forth like the one Serena used against the Minotaur.

“All of you rot away!”

Flames shot up where the axe struck, and the shield that blocked the pink-haired girl’s punch as she leaped over the wall corroded. The party, shocked by the Prince’s death, couldn’t respond properly and only took hits.

Serena felt a chilling sensation on her neck amidst the flames and stench of decay. Looking up, it was Ying. In her deep, black eyes reflected the Princess’s terrified face more than ever before.

“This will hurt less.”

Ying’s dagger sliced across Serena’s white, slender neck.

***

“Keh-hek! Cough cough.”

Ying was right. Getting your throat cut was better than falling to death, burning to death, or rotting to death. She knew it was right, but the coughing wouldn’t stop.

Serena wasted precious time that could have been spent talking with the Labyrinth God coughing, and eventually even threw up.

“Ueeek.”

“Kyaah, Lady Serena!”

Bile rose from her stomach. Serena emptied her stomach and continued dry heaving.

Philia hurriedly patted Serena’s back and chattered about bringing water and taking a potion.

“Wait, Aunt! It might be a backlash from learning magic too quickly!”

Grey grabbed the Princess’s hand as she buried her head in the bucket and checked her mana. The mana flow was normal. Grey was surprised by something else.

“Your mana!”

A talent with abundant innate mana, sensitive to mana, and quick to learn magic. The talent Grey had dreamed of was right here.

“Why on earth didn’t you continue learning magic!”

Serena, who had barely calmed her nausea, pushed away Grey who was holding her hand and chattering noisily.

She downed the potion Philia offered in one shot and calmed her churning stomach.

The Princess who always refused potions was downing one in a single gulp! People recognized the severity of the situation.

“Lady Serena, are you alright?”

“Let’s go.”

“Pardon?”

“Let’s go quickly! I’ll explain on the way!”

They were on the verge of success, but her brother died because of Serena. Then this time, she just needed to not make stupid mistakes, right?

Since Serena died and returned, her brother hadn’t died. He was alive. Instead of blaming herself for foolishly killing her brother, she could defeat the strong enemy, cross the narrow path, and save her brother.

Then she could make up for this stupid mistake.

Later, after witnessing her brother’s death three more times, the Princess went berserk in the lobby.

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