The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 96

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96.

Chapter 26. Memories of the Original Story

Iris blinked her eyes rapidly.

What?

Right now, this demon just said what to me…?

Saint? That I was originally a saint?

Kyaak, I knew it!?

…Hey, you’re annoying so just go to sleep. Sweet dreams!

Iris fainted as instructed.

Being an S-rank Controller herself, she could have broken free from this level of suggestion if she tried, but she didn’t want to.

Meanwhile, the underground prison became a complete pandemonium.

“Everyone get back! It’s one that causes confusion symptoms!”

The Holy Knight who had been blocking the demon shouted.

“Call for Controller support, right now-! Urgh!”

Mental attack-type demons prevent Ability Users from displaying their true abilities.

Moreover, its power was beyond imagination.

When was the last time something like this appeared in the capital?

But the demon trying to climb the stairs was pierced by a pillar that shot up from the ground.

Kiiiiiek…!

Over the demon’s shriek, Jeanne shouted to her subordinate Shadows.

“Don’t let it go up to the first floor!”

“Yes!”

Jeanne properly drew her sword and faced the demon.

‘The mental attack is coming in…!’

But her concentration for using her ability wasn’t shaken.

It wasn’t just her. All the Shadows who came down here together!

Jeanne looked down at her silver bracelet.

‘Moon’s blessing…!’

Something Miss had given her before.

They sell them at the shop, but she said the ones she gave them were the best.

‘It’s the first limited edition, so it’s the best.’

I didn’t really understand what those words meant back then.

Now I understand it firsthand.

‘Miss, thank you…!’

The first limited edition is really good!

* * *

“Phew.”

Belliel flicked the ‘shell’ he had been wearing and swept back his hair.

“Ah, this job really sucks.”

He had borrowed this priest’s body because he needed to observe.

‘Now I’m certain.’

Lillian hadn’t just suddenly manifested abilities.

She remembered that this life wasn’t her first.

‘Does she remember dying in the last war?’

No.

If she remembered that, she should have had a fit the moment she saw Belliel…

Not threatening with that slightly mad air…

‘I wondered what she had eaten wrong… Even if she was reborn, would she change that much?’

Her original personality wasn’t really like that.

‘She wouldn’t have been next to that plunderer Tarandia in the first place.’

If she remembered the time when she suffered all those humiliations.

Belliel recalled some of the humiliations Lillian had endured in her ‘past life.’

‘A C-rank commoner Controller would be worth more than that woman.’

‘Why did you bring the Tillard woman?’

‘A powerless person… clinging like a parasite on the battlefield.’

‘Isn’t the Tillard family going to become traitors now?’

‘Then that woman should be cast out.’

If her memories from that time were intact, she wouldn’t be clinging like this now.

‘Fine. Now let’s go back to ‘Master’ and report.’

Belliel raised his hand.

To open a ‘rift,’ his companion had to buy him time.

They must be properly causing a ruckus outside.

But before he could even open the ‘rift.’

“Urgh!?”

Between himself and the underground prison door.

A huge hole appeared in the body of the demon that had been blocking for him.

And in an instant, it was thrown against the wall behind him.

“Cough…!”

“Where do you think you’re going.”

“Kugh…! You…!”

Lillian, who entered through the hole, pressed Belliel’s shoulder hard against the wall.

Rather than being pushed, Belliel’s eyes widened in shock at the impact flowing through his body.

Lillian had used her control power to completely block all the ability circuits in his body…!

How could she do such a thing?

‘…Damn! Our compatibility matches even now!’

Lillian met Belliel’s eyes.

“Oh my, what’s wrong. Is your next schedule that urgent?”

“Kugh…!”

“It’s not urgent, right? I’m not forcibly detaining you, am I?”

Belliel gritted his teeth at Lillian’s elegant mockery.

This isn’t asking for a real answer, is it?

‘Still stupid as ever though.’

No matter how much she had changed, could Lillian have received training like himself?

Just push her away with brute force…!

But then Lillian raised her other hand.

“Ah, wait. Shall we have a conversation together with this child too?”

What she held in that hand was a magic torch with a good grip. The torch instantly demonstrated the feat of reaching 1,600 degrees.

After watching the flame jet shooting up toward the ceiling…

Belliel’s mouth froze in disbelief.

‘Why is she carrying around a torch?’

And…!

“You, you’re a subordinate of the Revenant.”

In this life, why is he so quick to catch on?

* * *

Lillian racked her brains fiercely until she faced Belliel.

Just as intensely as when she calculated hospital bills in her ‘previous life.’

Committing such acts in the Central Temple, the ‘house of the Creator God’?

‘Of course he’s a heretic…!’

The Emperor’s words echoed distantly in her mind.

‘The being called Revenant must be behind this.’

And the moment she realized those words through her own power.

Crack!

An explosive sound rang in her head.

Fragmented memories came flooding into her mind.

The day of the engagement ceremony. Karkin, heretics.

That incident back then, all those situations that had surprisingly little impact…!

‘I almost forgot about it completely.’

Why did she naturally accept even that?

‘It’s exactly the same as with my parents.’

The same phenomenon repeated, yet she didn’t connect it to the current situation?

That bastard should vomit up everything he’s eaten so far.

“…Killing my parents, deceiving the people here.”

“Kuk-.”

“It must have been quite entertaining, right? Your abilities are truly impressive.”

Lillian waved the torch in front of Belliel. Then she whispered.

“You deliberately tested me with the purification crystal, didn’t you? To confirm that I had changed in ‘this life.'”

“…!”

“It was strange to do that with the Prince, Grand Cleric, and even the Holy Knight Commander present.”

No matter how much it was for Iris who had given bribes, it was a dangerous move.

Unless he was specifically trying to compare Lillian’s ‘original’ and ‘current’ state….

Belliel, who had been struggling until now, became quiet.

Then he smiled with malicious satisfaction.

“Finally getting smart, our ‘bride’? You should have done so earlier.”

“Cut the chatter and tell me about that bastard-!”

But before she could finish speaking.

In the blink of an eye, black thorns were floating where Belliel had been.

Screech.

Making a chilling metallic sound, they disappeared like a spider curling up its body.

The strange monsters that had filled this underground prison also vanished.

“Tsk.”

I knew he wouldn’t talk, but it’s still a bit annoying.

‘Still, I’ve made my move-.’

But then, a thoroughly irritated voice came from beyond the prison door.

“Fiancée.”

“Ah.”

“Are you satisfied now?”

“Yes.”

…Lillian shuffled around and turned back.

The Villain had annihilated part of the monsters blocking this door and was monitoring from the rear.

And when Lillian said she would confront Belliel directly, he became a sulky silver-haired boy.

“You have no awareness that you’re my heart.”

“Wouldn’t it be more infuriating if that heart was being looked down upon and deceived….”

“Even correct words should consider timing and situation.”

“Yes.”

The entire time he carried Lillian back, his nagging was endless.

Why does the annihilation ability leave things like this behind….

“When did you even get that torch. Why bring such a thing to the Temple.”

“The torch and I are now one body….”

“Be quiet.”

Even trying to be useful is this difficult.

“By the way Ren, did you succeed?”

“Did it look like I would fail?”

No, of course not.

When it comes to abilities, I trust the Villain.

‘Belliel. You didn’t even notice the Villain’s presence getting on you while I was talking?’

Ability users can definitely sense the presence of their own abilities.

Wherever you return to, it will serve as solid evidence.

…And.

‘There’s already someone I suspect.’

* * *

The Empress’s Palace.

Unlike the Temple where an incident was unfolding.

An atmosphere of complete relief pervaded the Empress’s Palace.

“I suppose I must give up on Iris now.”

The Empress calmly informed Kail, who sat across from her.

“Do you regret it? I know you’ve cherished her for a long time.”

“No, now I feel rather at peace.”

“….”

“With Lillian here, I no longer need to cling to that side.”

Clink. The Empress set down her teacup and smiled.

“I should break off their engagement and bring Lillian here….”

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