The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 10

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10.

Chapter 4. Snow and Butterfly

Evren smiled bitterly.

He couldn’t help but think of the Second Prince, Kail Tarandia, who would be at the Imperial Palace.

Though Kail was somewhat more dignified, he was similar to this bastard in how irritating he was.

Evren glanced sideways at the knights who had followed and were now supporting Lillian.

Lillian was a mess.

Thump, thump…

The drums of hell kept echoing from his heart.

Ramio Tillard.

‘How should I destroy him for maximum entertainment?’

Shadows rippled in his lightless eyes.

The ‘Ability of Annihilation’ whispered dangerously to him.

This bastard tried to destroy what’s ours first.

Let’s experiment to see how far a human can be broken.

We’ve never tried it on a human before.

No matter how much his body creaked and groaned, Evren had never lost to this voice.

Wasn’t it ridiculous to submit to an invisible existence?

“…Should I?”

Until this very moment today, that had been the case.

The ability rejoiced.

Excellent! How long I’ve waited for something I’m allowed to destroy!

Live according to your true nature, Evren Tarandia.

And being broken feels good.

Thump.

As the drums of hell sounded once more from his heart.

“…Ah.”

A rampage erupted.

A pure white space began expanding outward from where he stood.

Trees crumbled to powder in an instant.

It was truly a hell without a speck of dust.

Evren smiled with satisfaction.

It’s so easy when you hit rock bottom like this.

All that struggling and fighting not to do it…

‘How shall I play with you?’

Evren calculated what to do with the life caught in his grasp.

But then a afterimage flashed before his eyes.

It was a shimmering pink butterfly-like illusion.

‘What is this?’

He stretched out both arms and cupped the illusion with his hands.

The butterfly scattered a clear, sweet, and transparent fragrance.

Even his rampaging ability hesitated.

When did it say such a nice scent should be destroyed?

His vision, which had been turning white, gradually began to clear.

And when he opened his eyes.

Evren was holding onto the arms of a pink-haired woman.

“Your Highness, the Prince.”

“…Tillard?”

Lillian was caught in his grip.

Ramio was sprawled on the ground, and the world that had been turning white returned to normal.

Lillian gritted her teeth and panted.

“My younger brother… if you kill Ramio Tillard here.”

Lillian, who had been barely standing, slowly collapsed.

“Who’s really going to deal with the aftermath…”

“Wait, you.”

Evren hurriedly caught Lillian.

Her body was burning hot like a fireball.

“Your Highness… I…”

“Tillard? Your eyes-“

“I’m just going to faint now.”

As soon as Lillian finished her announcement, she closed her eyes.

* * *

A few hours later.

Ramio and all the Tillard family knights who had fainted were bound.

After herding them into the middle of the campsite, memory-erasing magic was cast on them.

“Trash bastards.”

The sound of spitting could be heard intermittently.

It was the sound the Shadows were making.

Among them, Ramio received the most spit.

“Hey, did you hear what this bastard was saying?”

“I’ve never seen someone so two-faced.”

“As expected of a hypocritical Tillard bastard…”

“This is why the main family knights are trash too!”

Ramio Tillard had an excellent reputation.

A cheerful, dignified young knight popular with both ladies and gentlemen.

He was also known to be affectionate toward Lillian.

‘Sister Lillian is truly a pitiful person. Even if she lacks ability, it would be good if she tried a little harder.’

This made Lillian Tillard stand out even more as the ‘family’s blemish.’

However, through his communication artifact, the Shadows had overheard part of their conversation.

‘Has going around outside made you lose your mind? Come here right now!’

‘Why? So you can take me back and use me as a maid again? Even now, the reason you ‘came to get me’ is because your work is piling up, isn’t it?’

‘This demon, are you happy to see it after so long? It’s the one that likes sister the most.’

The Creator God had given birth to ability users for the purpose of subjugating demons.

In modern times, there were those who summoned demons for underground entertainment.

However, for someone who was even an Imperial Knight to do this was outrageous.

And to use it on his own blood relative, no less.

‘If the youngest in the family is like this.’

Didn’t it mean that the eldest son, Young Duke Kuern, and Iris had agreed to it?

Even the family’s knights didn’t hesitate to show such contempt.

Elias crossed his arms and muttered.

“…She said it was running away from home.”

When he heard it while guarding beside the Prince, he had inwardly mocked Lillian’s words.

What kind of person craves people’s attention so much that they’d pull such a bold stunt?

But that wasn’t it.

Perhaps, really…

‘Running away was an excuse and she really intended to die…?’

Lillian’s chilling decision was unsettling, but.

‘His Highness’s rampage subsided.’

It wasn’t likely that he had learned how to control it.

The Ability of Annihilation didn’t even make that possible.

Then, as expected.

“…Is it thanks to Lillian Tillard.”

That woman who was still burning with fever in the barracks.

* * *

The barracks where the prince’s party was staying.

The physician who had joined this expedition repeated his diagnosis of Lillian once more.

“It appears to be awakening fever.”

“I’m not asking because I don’t know what that is.”

“M-my apologies, Your Highness.”

The prince’s rampage had subsided.

Though he didn’t show it outwardly, his tattered insides had recovered.

However, there was no time to feel relieved.

Evren quietly listened to the sounds seeping from the curtained adjacent room.

Painful groans of someone on the verge of death kept coming through.

Awakening fever.

Literally the fever that ability users and controllers go through when awakening their powers.

Around three or four years old, it was a symptom that passed like a brief cold.

But….

“Tillard isn’t at the age to go through awakening fever, is she? And originally it shouldn’t be this painful either.”

“Wasn’t Lady Tillard powerless for a long time?”

The fever that should have been experienced in childhood had accumulated and was now bursting forth.

So the backlash was bound to be that much greater, the physician answered….

“Is such a thing actually possible?”

“It’s quite rare, but there are cases like this once every few decades, Your Highness.”

The physician furrowed his brow at Evren’s expression.

‘How truly surprising.’

He had served the 1st Prince for quite some time.

While not cruel to subordinates, he was indifferent.

After all, if he showed too much interest, his annihilation ability would be provoked and destroy things.

‘But were he and Lillian Tillard that close…?’

For now, it wasn’t the time to be curious about such circumstances.

“Your Highness, I’ll arrange for female ability users to nurse her.”

Since awakening fever occurred due to excessive power, ability users could absorb some of the control through contact.

However, he couldn’t allow members of the opposite sex to touch her without permission.

“Do that.”

“Yes. Understood.”

The physician felt relieved.

After the rampage, Evren’s condition was much better than expected.

‘He always suffered because of his destructive ability.’

The voice that opposed reason must no longer be heard.

After responding, Evren silently stared only at the tent entrance to the room where Lillian was.

Contrary to the physician’s thoughts, it wasn’t that the ability’s voice could no longer be heard.

They had become perfectly one.

The Red Spider Web Pattern glowed faintly before disappearing.

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