The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 88

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88.

Duke Tillard barely held onto his patience as he scolded.

“What rudeness is this toward His Highness Kail?”

“I, I…”

“Enough, follow me now!”

In the current situation, retreat would be the best option. Following behind Kuern who hung his head low, Iris also took difficult steps.

At that moment, Lillian thought she briefly made eye contact with Duke Tillard.

‘Why is he looking at me like that?’

She wouldn’t have been surprised if it had been soaked in hatred as usual.

But there was something different. Perhaps something like doubt about himself.

However, the gaze was broken, and Lillian decided not to mind it.

* * *

After moving some distance from the Underground Library Building.

Lillian was still being carried in the villain’s arms.

It was quite an embarrassing situation.

Her mind had truly become clear.

However, the shock she received when her parents died still remained in her limbs, leaving her weak.

‘Since private soldiers can’t be brought into the Imperial Palace Citadel, I’ll have to borrow this person.’

But even after crossing the citadel’s barrier, he didn’t put her down.

“Lillian, are you okay?”

“Yes. I’ll get down now.”

“No, you can’t.”

Her request to get down was refused. Wasn’t he asking if she was okay to let her down?

“What? But I must be heavy.”

“I’m your carriage.”

“…”

It was a beautiful but extremely burdensome carriage.

Even more so when she thought of it as the carriage that had crashed into Lillian’s life.

“Why do you keep separating yourself from your ability user and going to others? It’s inefficient.”

“Ah, yes.”

Why doesn’t the annihilation ability take away nagging too?

Lillian deliberately spoke sulkily in her mind.

Otherwise, she felt like she would remember the hands that had pulled her up when she was lying on the red-stained tiles.

‘I’ll take you out, so hold on.’

He should be a human without emotions.

Still, thanks to that, she avoided being buried in terrible old memories.

‘But… that bastard.’

That kid whose face was completely blacked out.

Though the memory was hazy, she was certain. That child had killed her parents.

‘In those days, there were no such high-grade ability users except for the Tarandia Royal Family.’

Since this man and Kail Tarandia were S-rank.

And no matter how outstanding, a young child wouldn’t act alone.

‘There must have been companions with him…’

A voice without malice, innocently bright, whispered in her ear.

‘Killing here won’t do. But since you’ll live as a powerless person forever, it’s the same.’

They said Lillian’s life was as good as dead.

So it didn’t matter if they couldn’t kill her.

But Lillian was alive and had announced her awakening.

It was only a matter of time before someone came looking.

“Hmm.”

Lillian began flicking abacus beads.

Until now, she had told everyone she was B-rank.

“Mmm.”

Since she had awakened anyway, she would face the same threats.

‘But my rank will be revealed at the High Priest selection banquet…’

Then the villain narrowed his eyes and looked down at her.

“Lillian, what’s wrong with you?”

“Hah…”

Lillian muttered with a feeling of enlightenment.

“I have something to tell you about my rank…”

Anyway, from that crossroads where she met this man, Lillian’s plans had been continuously going awry.

Let them go awry one more time.

* * *

When he tore through space to enter Lillian’s consciousness trapped in the prophecy book.

A girl crouched on a marble floor stained with red water.

Lillian who seemed to have forcibly squeezed between her parents to sleep.

Evren didn’t quite understand the feeling he had when he saw that.

That feeling of wanting to vomit, his head spinning, and hearing ringing in his ears.

A place like this…

‘Doesn’t suit you.’

Lillian suited best when she was among flowers, shining things, and living, breathing humans.

That dirty feeling from that moment really lasted for a long time.

“…So.”

Evren, who had returned to the Imperial Palace, narrowed his eyes.

Listening to Lillian’s story in the garden, his irritation grew more and more.

“Someone in the prophecy book’s memory tried to kill you.”

“They wanted to kill me, but since they couldn’t, they said they’d settle for this much.”

“…”

“It seems they deliberately came to the temple looking for me and my parents.”

Ah…

How very interesting…

Evren smiled with an increasingly cold expression.

‘A world without this woman at all.’

It was a hypothesis that would completely overturn his already mortgaged life.

It was such a disgusting possibility that he hated it the moment he heard it.

“But they called me ‘bride.’ The prophecy book also says ‘monster’s bride.'”

“…”

“So that person came looking for me. It seems they might come looking in the future too.”

But this was an even more revolting possibility.

“Hmm, bride.”

He knew this world was overflowing with potential thieves.

But Lillian as someone’s bride?

He really should just destroy the world if such a day came.

“So I think it would be better to reveal that my rank came out strangely.”

“‘Strangely.'”

“Mmm, I saw it as B-rank then. But it didn’t seem right actually.”

“…”

Evren scrutinized Lillian persistently.

Lillian sighing as she spoke was adorable.

However, his heart beat like a drum from hell.

Did she really not know?

‘…No. How smart is this woman.’

The possibility that she deliberately hid it is much higher.

He felt quite upset inside.

But he couldn’t scare her.

He should be relieved that she confessed to him even now.

If he scared her, the possibility of her willingly leaving as that monster’s bride would only increase….

“I see.”

Evren smiled with narrowed eyes.

“But don’t tell the rest of the people in this castle.”

“Huh? Why? They’ll be disappointed, so I should tell them….”

“They’re all terrible at acting.”

“….”

* * *

“Sob, sniff….”

From the finest room in Tillard Manor came the sound of endless weeping.

Being humiliated in front of the court officials was also painfully mortifying.

Iris trembled as she looked around the room.

It was the prettiest area in the Tillard Family reserved for direct female descendants.

‘This room actually belongs to Lillian too.’

After Lillian’s parents died, Iris had seized this position for herself.

…Lillian’s grade hadn’t been announced yet, but wouldn’t she be pushed out once the announcement was made?

‘But how could that be?’

She lived as a powerless person for 20 years.

But suddenly she’s receiving everyone’s attention like this? Is this really something that can be dismissed as just a miracle?

She’d never heard of anyone manifesting abilities after age ten!

‘Come to think of it, she’s always hanging around with the Crown Prince’s retainer.’

What was her name? Marguerite Rubelli?

That girl is A-grade, as far as I know.

“…! Could it be!”

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