The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 120

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Chapter 120

A vision appeared within the dazzling light.

Orange eyes glowing like lava. Elongated pupils. The eyes of a massive reptile were looking at me.

These were the eyes of the dragon ancestor that had adorned Windfearer, the sword of the founding emperor.

Though only a single eye floated there with nothing else, the emotions that being felt were vividly transmitted to me.

「…?」

Surprise. And bewilderment.

Within those wavering eyes, a certain scene came to mind.

The Duke’s Villa Library. The image of Aristina collapsed on the floor wearing a white muslin dress.

Her face had turned lead-gray from stopped breath and was pressed against the floor, her golden hair spread carelessly like the feathers of a dead bird that had lost their luster.

These eyes had seen it.

Someone using Windfearer to murder Aristina.

They had definitely witnessed it….

Why is she alive?

The intensely blazing gaze swept over me thoroughly as if scanning me with a laser.

I flinched in panic, worried my secret of being a possessor might be discovered….

「She’s not dead…?」

Unexpected words resonated loudly.

Having not spoken for at least hundreds of years, it was a very slow and creaking voice, like struggling to open an old wooden door.

「Why… is she not dead?」

Only then did I come to my senses.

‘I did pass the test for now.’

I was equally confused.

‘So this sword wasn’t stuck here for 11 years? Someone found it in the middle and used it to kill Aristina?’

Then had I just discovered it? The murder weapon of the culprit who had disappeared without leaving any clues?

With this amazing realization, goosebumps rose on both my arms.

‘I did it!’

Strictly speaking, Aristina was not Windfearer’s last victim.

After examining me, the eye had concluded that Aristina was alive and well, not dead.

But who cares about that.

‘I can’t miss such crucial evidence as a murder weapon!’

This is why you must never be complacent and keep your wits about you until the end.

Taking advantage of the moment when Windfearer’s eye was dazed, I quickly reached out both hands toward it.

The massive vision gradually shrank and slipped into my hands.

With a sharp impact sound, orange radiance spread in all directions.

The next moment.

Pieces of the sacred sword scattered throughout the maze began flying toward me one by one.

The heart that held the sword’s center.

The fangs that formed the sharp blade.

Wing fragments that became the handle’s material.

Hide that wrapped around and decorated the hilt and body.

All of this gathered toward the eye imbued with the being’s will, becoming one again.

「Remember death.」

With those majestic words.

The founding emperor’s sacred sword Windfearer regained its true form in my hand.

Wind from the sword whipped my hair wildly. Heat flushed my face.

I looked like a legendary hero.

Well, an investigator who found crucial evidence would certainly be a hero.

‘I did it!’

I raised Windfearer high.

“…?”

I could see Sion looking this way with a stunned face from beyond.

He seemed unable to believe what had just happened before his eyes.

His wide-open eyes slowly moved toward the ghost right in front of him.

What he had caught was some maid.

Crimson hair. Blue eyes. A pale face dotted with freckles.

Seeing the hat with the imperial crest, she seemed to be a palace maid.

‘She must be the person killed right before Aristina.’

For some unknown reason, Sion, who had known the information in advance, seemed to have believed without doubt that this maid was the answer.

But she wasn’t.

Sion’s face hardened with surprise and bewilderment.

“That can’t be….”

The image of Aristina I had caught had long since disappeared. Therefore, it would be even harder to understand what had happened.

“That’s impossible….”

He roughly pushed away the maid’s ghost and shouted.

“What did you do! Aristina!”

“What did I do?”

“How could you do this? While I was sold off and suffered terrible abuse, you lived comfortably in the mansion being treated like a princess! How could you take even this away from me!”

Sion’s face changed. It was twisted with such terrible hatred that none of those who knew him could have imagined.

Before this intense hostility, my family’s protective power activated once again.

“Take away?”

I said while preparing to flee with the sword.

“It was a fair test. I just found the very last victim according to the rules and obtained this sword.”

“That’s impossible!”

Sion shouted.

At that moment, black energy rose from his body.

It spread through the blood vessels throughout his body, creating hideous cracks on Sion’s face.

I clicked my tongue.

“Black magic? You’re not in your right mind.”

Sion had already used black magic once to find the stolen helmet, so his soul was in a contaminated state. I had clearly seen the evidence with my own eyes.

If he used black magic again in that state?

Only evil energy would accumulate.

“This is really unwise, Sion. Since your helmet was stolen, you can’t purify your soul even if you leave here. Besides….”

Sion didn’t listen to my words and created black lightning to shoot at me.

But immediately, my family’s protective power gathered in the form of a round shield and deflected it.

I continued what I was trying to say earlier.

“Besides, you can’t attack me anyway.”

“Is that so?”

Sion sent a cold smile.

At that moment.

The maze above my head collapsed with a thunderous roar. I dodged to the side in surprise.

Sion had just pretended to attack me with lightning while secretly destroying the ceiling. Since direct attacks didn’t work, he had made an indirect attack.

“Fine. So this is how you want to play?”

I glared at Sion.

I had been holding the fan in my hand since earlier. As I concentrated, the divine power Ruellian had given me flowed into it, blazing with radiance.

The divine power of the Holy Order’s leader.

There could be no better weapon against black magic than this. Though it was limited, so I’d have to use it sparingly and well.

Toward Sion who was once again invoking the power of black magic, I quickly shot a divine power bullet.

“Go!”

The white-blazing bullet hit his chest precisely. Sion screamed “Urgh!” and flew far back to crash.

But….

“Ah!”

I was caught off guard too.

Of course, Sion couldn’t attack me directly. But this time, he attacked the Windfairer in my hand.

The Windfairer naturally deflected it. When the two forces collided, a powerful recoil occurred, and that shock struck my body completely.

“Ugh….”

When I came to my senses, the sword had left my hand and was flying away. It spun through the air and hit the wall on the opposite side before falling with a thud.

‘Using the recoil!’

I tried to get up hastily, but my body wouldn’t move.

“Urgh….”

Sion also seemed unable to move his body.

As we glared at each other, both struggling to get up first.

From the corridor beyond the broken wall, the sound of small footsteps walking this way could be heard.

“Ah!”

I was delighted.

Ruellian, Aldensis, Zikren. Any of the three would be fine. Or even Duke Carnel or the Elders would do.

If they saw this scene, they’d immediately understand what was happening.

‘It’s definitely my victory. Sion is finished now.’

I focused my eyes and stared at the corridor.

But….

What eventually appeared wasn’t any of the people I had expected. It was someone I never could have imagined.

‘I feel like I had this exact experience just a little while ago….’

I felt like I’d been hit hard on the head as I lowered my gaze.

There stood a small person.

“…Princess?”

That’s right.

What appeared before us was a little kid with blonde hair wearing a dress. Princess Violet.

Since this was such a strange space, I might have been seeing things, but the Princess’s appearance proved that it wasn’t a hallucination.

Considering her usual state, it was humiliation itself.

Her clothes were all wrinkled and had turned black, one side of her twin-braided hair had come undone, and her face was covered in dust.

Whatever method she used, it seemed she had succeeded in secretly sneaking in here following the adults….

What a five-year-old child had experienced alone in this space full of ghosts was vividly revealed by the child’s own appearance.

I was dumbfounded and opened my mouth.

“For a little kid to be so fearless….”

“Princess Violet!”

Sion cut off my words.

“You’ve come at the perfect time! This is absolutely perfect timing! Please save me! I found the Windfairer, but my sister took it away! That wicked Princess Aristina! So please hurry and pick up that sword and give it to me!”

“No!”

I looked at the Princess in horror.

But….

“….”

The child said nothing.

She just stood there blankly, only looking at Sion’s face.

Then she finally asked in a trembling voice.

“Sion…. What’s that on your face?”

Ah.

Come to think of it, I had forgotten too.

Right now, black cracks were forming along Sion’s temples.

His soul had become so numb to black magic. Sion hadn’t even thought to hide that first.

“…!”

He hurriedly withdrew the aura of black magic.

His disgustingly changed face returned to normal. Back to the gentle and kind face of an angel.

“Princess.”

Sion called softly.

But the Princess’s face, having already seen what she shouldn’t have seen, was filled only with fear.

“Sion, did you use black magic?”

“….”

“It’s a lie, right? Right? I saw wrong, didn’t I? Sion couldn’t do such a thing!”

Princess Violet began to sob.

Troublesome little brat.

That expression appeared on Sion’s face without any pretense.

The gentle look that had briefly filled his eyes became dry and indifferent.

It was the exact same look he had when watching the crow flying toward him.

At that moment, I had an intuition.

‘He’s going to harm the Princess!’

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