The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 116

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Chapter 116

Into Helmut’s dazed ears, their ongoing conversation continued to reach him.

“…I’m someone who only thinks of my own feelings, but my heart isn’t at peace, so I must apologize and compensate….”

The Young Lady was speaking earnestly.

Her eyes and attitude were certainly not false.

In the past, Helmut’s judgment had been clouded by affection and he couldn’t judge properly, but since the Young Lady had grown up, she had never been wrong even once.

That was sincere.

Helmut couldn’t even think to pick up the bandage rolling on the floor and fell into deep thought.

‘As expected, the Young Lady has truly changed.’

In fact, he knew it himself too.

Though he stubbornly denied it outwardly, at some point inwardly his desire to acknowledge that the Young Lady had changed had grown stronger.

‘If she’s really had a change of heart… I would have no regrets now.’

In his fading vision, he saw Aristina’s retreating figure as she finished her conversation with the newspaper journalists and left.

“Zikren, let’s go now. But where’s Father?”

“The Dean kept apologizing and took him that way. Let’s go look for him.”

“Alright.”

They would soon go to find the sword that held the secrets of the past.

‘And….’

Helmut impulsively rummaged through his chest and pulled out a small leather pouch. Then he untied the string and pulled out the paper inside to unfold it.

On that old, wrinkled paper was written:

【Holy Knight Qualification Certificate】.

Helmut stared at that paper for a long while, then nodded his head.

“I’m going too.”

Princess’s Bedroom.

Violet stood by the window holding a pillow, looking down at the garden.

She could see the maids hanging ribbons and ornaments on the trees. They were preparing for the festival as the Imperial Tournament was approaching.

“Sigh….”

An old-man-like sigh escaped from Violet’s lips.

Even after her plan to restrain Aristina and make Sion the winner had failed, Violet had plotted another similar scheme.

But then she was caught red-handed by her two half-brothers and got scolded. Her mother also learned of this fact and sternly reprimanded Violet with a hardened face.

“Everyone’s so mean.”

Violet muttered.

They don’t know. What Violet had seen.

While going to meet the old butler of the Imperial Palace to extract information about Windfearer, she discovered Sion coughing quietly in a corner of the Maze Garden.

“Sion!”

When she approached happily, Sion was very flustered. He hastily hid his handkerchief, but Violet had already seen it.

The blood that covered the handkerchief.

Violet was shocked.

“You coughed up blood?”

“No. This is just from practicing magic and making a calculation mistake….”

“Lies! Now I understand! Sion has a terminal illness! Why won’t you tell me the truth?”

Under the Princess’s interrogation, Sion reluctantly confessed.

“It’s not a terminal illness. But… if I don’t become the successor, I’ll probably die.”

My goodness. No wonder he looked desperate.

For Sion, it was truly a matter of life and death.

‘And everyone doesn’t even know that….’

Violet hugged her pillow again and sighed.

Aristina is a truly terrifying villainess. Recently she’s improved even more, and they say there’s nothing she can’t accomplish. Surely Aristina will become the successor.

‘Then Sion will die?’

As tears welled up in Violet’s eyes, she heard the conversation of maids passing through the corridor.

“The preparations are all finished, so they’re going to test it for the first time later?”

“Will they succeed in finding the sword this time? I’d like to at least watch.”

It seems the time has finally come.

Violet Glace Etienne Valcarde is a Princess of the Empire. She couldn’t just let Sion, who had treated her so kindly, die like this.

Violet wiped her eyes with her fist and bit her lips tightly.

‘I’m going to that place too!’

The experience of opening a space different from the world we live in was something I had done before.

When I went to the Mining Area to obtain the World Tree’s lullaby.

A transparent membrane enveloped me, then a magic circle-like formation appeared on the ground, and warm light seeped out from there, surrounding everything.

I thought this time would be roughly similar….

Basement of the Main Palace.

The place where Carnel and Helmut and I went down under Zikren’s guidance had a landscape beyond imagination.

“You’ve come.”

Beyond Aldensis who greeted us, I could see an enormous whirlpool standing tall.

It felt like a cosmic big bang. Blue shimmering light was spinning round and round, stretching far into the distant beyond.

I took a step closer and asked.

“Is this the space that His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the Second Prince opened this time? It’s different from what I’ve experienced so far?”

Carnel asked with a puzzled face.

“When did you?”

“I’ve done it a couple of times. But it wasn’t like this….”

“That’s probably right.”

Aldensis interjected with an answer.

“This time, the scale of the door we had to open was very large. Therefore, it inevitably took time.”

He pointed to the giant whirlpool and explained.

“According to Master’s words, the scale of the ‘Mother of All Dragons’ guided us to the space where Windfearer is located. But Master didn’t know where that place was, and naturally we don’t know either. Therefore, we had to open all the doors.”

“All the doors?”

“That’s right.”

Zikren nodded at my words.

“To be precise, we should say all possible doors.”

He drew pictures in the air as he spoke.

“Usually when we move from one space to another space, we only need one door, right? But if we don’t know whether to go east, west, north, south, up, or down, naturally there have to be many doors. When we summoned all those doors, it became like that.”

Ah.

Listening to Zikren explain it at my level, I understood it somewhat.

“Then now we need to stand in front of that door and test it with the scale… Where’s Sion?”

Just as Carnel asked that, the sound of someone quickly running down the stairs could be heard.

“Young Master!”

Helmut welcomed him.

“I’m sorry. I’m late.”

Sion bowed his head and apologized to everyone. He pretended to be calm, but his complexion wasn’t very good. Probably other people wouldn’t notice that subtle change.

“Now that both challengers have arrived, let’s begin.”

Aldensis gestured.

Sion and I went in front of the giant swirling whirlpool. And almost simultaneously, we took out the golden scales left by the ‘Mother of All Dragons’.

The scales began to emit light.

Whether because of that, or because of the giant whirlpool opening the space. A mysterious light began to rise from both our bodies. It was the protective power of the Rosen Family that guards the successor candidates.

But….

From the light that was gently enveloping Sion’s body as usual, there was suddenly a crackling sound and sparks flew.

It was a very brief moment, but black cracks appeared and disappeared over the barrier created by the family’s protective power.

‘This is serious….’

I tried to pretend I didn’t see it, but our eyes met directly so I couldn’t. I feigned ignorance and asked worriedly.

“Sion, are you feeling unwell somewhere?”

“….”

He looked at me with one eye. Then he suddenly said.

“Actually, you know everything, don’t you, sister?”

“Know what?”

“Stop pretending, will you?”

Sion said with a sneer.

“You have a habit of slightly pushing out your lower lip when you lie, sister. You fixed your nail-biting habit, but you couldn’t fix that one?”

A lie. My soul had changed, so there’s no way such habits would remain. He’s probably just testing me, trying to shake me up.

I just pretended not to hear.

Whether it was really just a test, Sion watched the light from the scales spread out, then suddenly spoke again.

“The Imperial Palace is busy preparing for the Founding Festival.”

“….”

“It was around the Founding Festival when I first met you too, sister. You entered the manor in shabby rags, holding Helmut’s hand, and there appeared before my eyes a girl like a princess from another world. The moment I saw you, how hateful you seemed.”

“….”

I wondered why he was suddenly talking about memories.

As I remained silent, Sion muttered again.

“But then it rained after that.”

Rain?

As I searched my memory, it came back to me.

That was a few days after Sion came to the manor.

As always, after being scolded by father and the Elders, Aristina went alone to the backyard. But Sion was there.

The two discovered each other and stopped dead in their tracks.

They hoped the other would turn around and leave, but neither left first.

So they just sat far apart, keeping their distance. Like two stray cats guarding their territory from each other.

But then suddenly it started pouring rain.

Aristina skillfully found an umbrella that the gardener always kept in the tool shed and opened it.

But Sion just sat there quietly.

“Back then I didn’t know I should take shelter from rain. Rain was just something you got wet in. So I was sitting there wondering when it would stop, when suddenly it got dark above my head and all the raindrops disappeared. I looked up and you were holding an umbrella over my head, sister. And with a sullen face you said, ‘Stay still. I’m only doing this because everyone might say I drove you out into the rain.'”

Sion said.

“You really looked like a princess then, sister.”

“….”

“That doesn’t mean I liked you, sister. I hated and despised you. But even so, I would sometimes remember that moment. With just that one memory alone, I promised myself that no matter what happened, I would spare your life at least….”

“….”

“I kept thinking on my way to the Imperial Palace earlier. I never dreamed such a day would come, but I’m starting to see the possibility that your existence could become a threat to me, sister. So I have no choice.”

Sion said, looking ahead.

“It’s unfortunate, but I won’t be able to keep that promise.”

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