The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 151

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151.
I wish we had time to stop both Ability Users with a reasonable explanation.
But since we don’t, I went ahead and struck the curse mark first.
Truth be told, Lillian had some confidence as someone with experience dying a few times.
Surely it couldn’t hurt worse than dying itself?
“……!”
She didn’t die.
But it really did sting enough to bring tears to her eyes.
The moment Lillian sank to the ground, two men’s voices rang out.
“Lillian……!”
“Lillian!”
An S-rank Ability User apparently didn’t hurt much from this kind of impact—unlike a frail Controller’s body.
‘If I can just stop them from fighting, that’s enough…….’
But what was this state those two were in?
One covered in blood from face to chest. The other—.
‘Why do his eyes look like that?’
Stained completely red, and…….
Cracks were spreading across the exposed skin between his armor plating.
Her chest tightened.
But the problem was…….
She couldn’t quite tell if this was sadness or rage at what these two idiots were doing……!
The two men’s arms pulled Lillian to her feet.
“Lillian. What are you—!”
“Lillian, inside right now—.”
Inside? Forget it!
“No! Both of you, breathe, prepare yourselves.”
Reactions will come soon enough.
‘This Succession Competition is being broadcast across the entire Empire.’
Broadcast Stones were stationed throughout the arena.
‘I meant to show everyone on our side crushing them overwhelmingly, so Kail couldn’t spout any nonsense later.’
A pale green mist began spreading across the arena floor.
Lillian quickly covered her nose and mouth.
A shallow green haze started creeping across the ground.
Toxic fumes exhaled by an S-rank Deadly Poison Ability User.
“……Ha. Two Evrens.”
The Original Male Lead’s eyes gleamed even as he staggered.
As if the blood caking his mouth didn’t concern him in the slightest.
“The Crown Prince used Black Magic! Have you no shame!”
And he shouted it loud enough for the entire arena to hear.
“For corrupting the Succession Competition with filthy Black Magic—! Arrest Evren Tarandia at once!”
Ah, I knew this would happen.
Lillian quickly turned to the two men.
My heart’s breaking and I don’t know what to do with either of them, but I can worry about that later!
“Both of you, do exactly as I say, starting now!”
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Kail laughed with surging exhilaration.
His body, mangled by Evren’s attacks, screamed with pain. But pain like this!
‘So Evren was trying to beat me with dirty tricks.’
So you’re afraid of me after all.
The fact that you’d resort to Black Magic that splits you in two……!
“There’s nowhere to run. All three of you.”
The two Evrens and Lillian.
The green mist coiled like a serpent, targeting only those three.
And the moment the mist moved swiftly toward Lillian……!
Bang!
The power of Annihilation burst the Deadly Poison mist into nothing.
Which of them wielded that power, he couldn’t say.
But that wasn’t what mattered.
This was no longer a competition.
“Treason, then.”
They refused to comply with a legitimate arrest for Black Magic use!
As Kail’s knights swiftly surrounded them, the Crown Prince’s retainers burst forth from the opposite side.
“Your Highness!”
“Miss—!”
The arena floor shook violently.
A Baltazar knight had rent the earth itself.
Kail smiled bloodily.
The more forcefully they resisted, the more favorable the situation became for him.
‘They’ll look like they’re fighting back after using Black Magic themselves!’
Kail roared toward the barrier where the Holy Knights stood. Lillian had summoned them here.
“Arrest the Saintess as well. Since she’s complicit in the Crown Prince’s Black Magic, the Holy Knights’ intervention in this matter is forbidden!”
As Kail’s excitement peaked, the toxic fumes began spreading in all directions.
But Evren sighed lightly.
“……You could’ve at least died easy if you’d stayed quiet.”
Ren whispered as he lifted Lillian in his arms.
“Lillian. Should I really not kill that thing right now?”
“…….”
“Understood. I’ll hold on tight. Don’t even look at him.”
Ren smiled bitterly and snapped his fingers.
Snap!
With just that, the toxic mist dissolved as if pierced full of holes. Then, leaping clean over Kail’s knights who came rushing to capture them—.
“Choke!”
He reached Kail in a single breath.
Kail deflected the Annihilation attack coming at him and burst out laughing.
“You madmen! Using Black Magic right out in the open! Have you no honor—! Cough!?”
But in that instant, an unexpected heat exploded before his eyes.
A flame fired from Lillian’s Torch.
“Cough, hack.”
“Second Prince.”
Lillian descended from Ren’s embrace and dusted off the Torch.
“Before you speak of Black Magic, the Second Prince soiled this honorable competition first.”
Lillian tossed an artifact made of jade to the ground.
“By conspiring with the Tillard Family to use a Forbidden Artifact.”
“……!”
“Oh, please don’t bother denying it. We caught Count Kuern Tillard using one right on the spot.”
Kail ground his teeth.
Fool of a Count Kuern Tillard. Letting Lillian catch him with that.
But so what?
“Saintess. Do you truly think this ranks alongside Black Magic in depravity? How do you explain the Crown Prince becoming two?”
And sure enough, murmurs from the crowd reached his ears.
“That’s true…….”
“Even with the Saintess present…….”
“Isn’t that sorcery, not Black Magic?”
“Cursed sorcery is still a problem, and well, then the dignity of Annihilation…….”
There was no way even this Lillian could escape that.
But Lillian…….
Sighed sadly as she looked at the two identically dressed men.
“The Crown Prince was indeed struck by Black Magic.”
“……What?”
“When rescuing the hostages from the Land of the Heretics, he received a curse saving them…….”
“That’s a lie. He was fine then, one person—.”
“A lie? No. I have a witness to prove it.”
As Lillian finished speaking, a middle-aged woman descended hastily from the exit, escorted by guards.
Kail recognized her.
‘Ambassador Ruenda……?’
Wasn’t she the one famous for defeating pirates at the Basheta Strait?
Lillian turned to the ambassador.
“Ambassador, you were there then, weren’t you? Would you tell them what you saw……?”
“Yes. What the Saintess just said is correct.”
At the ambassador’s words, the spectators erupted in murmurs.
“When my subordinates and I were captured by the Heretics……! His Highness and the Saintess came to rescue us, and His Highness received a curse from the Heretics.”
The ambassador and Lillian’s eyes met.
“……The leader of the Heretics placed a curse to diminish His Highness’s honor—making him appear as two.”
“Yes, Ambassador.”
“And I witnessed the Saintess working tirelessly to heal him.”
The spectators stirred in shock.
“Did you hear that?”
Lillian wiped away her tears.
“So this current situation proves that the Crown Prince sacrificed even his very soul……! For Perniers’ sake.”
And she gazed at Kail with glistening tears, her voice wistful.
“Surely you don’t actually believe that the Second Prince used Black Magic just to defeat……the Crown Prince……?”
Why would you ever need to use Black Magic to defeat someone like you……?
We’d win without even trying……? Have we lost our minds?
It was a remark laden with deliberate mockery.
“Or is this simply grasping at straws to start a civil war?”
Civil war!
The word echoed through the arena’s amplification system.
“So the Second Prince committed depravity and—.”
“A civil war over a competition!”
“No matter what, Black Magic is still—!”
“But the Saintess and Crown Prince rescued people from the Land of the Heretics!”
“Did His Highness fight the Heretic leader while still cursed!?”
This was grave.
The Imperial Knights approached Kail with troubled expressions.
“Our apologies, Your Highness.”
“You fools—let me go. That’s an order!”
“Your Highness, it would be best if you withdrew from here.”
Because Kail had committed a crime, and because he’d tried to arrest the Saintess, the Holy Knights were now drawing their blades.
Kail grasped the full weight of his mistake.
Lillian wasn’t dangerous because of her control ability……!
That woman orchestrated situations masterfully whenever she opened her mouth!
It was impossible.
Kail looked around frantically.
But he found no one to aid him.
And already, cheers were erupting from the arena.
“The Saintess prevented a civil war!”
“Victory to the Crown Prince and his companions!”
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The Pavil bloodline are a “jealous” people even the Creator God acknowledged.
That meant they would employ any method whatsoever to win.
Even petty tactics beneath the family’s station.
‘That’s why I prepared for it beforehand.’
‘If Evren appeared, might he not trip us up somehow?’
Then ‘Black Magic’ was the easiest way to frame him.
That way, even the Saintess would find it difficult to draw upon the Central Temple’s power to defend him.
‘If that happened, I’d spin it in our favor instead.’
Through a trusted third party.
After dealing with Caspian.
Among the hostages captured by the Heretics, I rescued Ambassador Ruenda, a diplomat known to many nations.
Did I receive only thanks for that at the time?
‘From me?’

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