The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 121

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Chapter 121

I knew well that Sion’s mental state wasn’t normal, but how could he think such insane thoughts?

Princess Violet is just a five-year-old child!

“Your Highness! Come here quickly!”

I shouted with all my might.

Couldn’t he regain some sanity at least considering the fact that she’s royalty?

Doesn’t he know what the crime of assassinating royalty means?

‘No. He’s calculating everything.’

A cold voice echoed in my head.

‘He’s planning to pin it on you!’

…Well, that would make sense.

Eliminate the Princess who witnessed his secret, remove me as an obstacle, seize the family to gain power and destroy evidence of using black magic.

A brilliant plan to solve three problems at once.

My chest grew even colder.

But why isn’t this little one responding?

“Your Highness! Hurry!”

I squeezed out my strength and called again. But the Princess didn’t seem to hear my words.

“You can’t use black magic, Sion!”

Violet burst into tears.

“That’s the one thing you absolutely can’t do! There’s a reason everyone avoids it even though they know black magic is powerful! Breaking the order comes with a price! It’s killing your soul!”

“It’s useless!”

I cut off the Princess’s words.

“He won’t listen anyway. Just come here quickly!”

“But…”

“Hey! Violet! What do you mean ‘but’? Does this look like the time to decide who you like or dislike? If you want to live, come here now!”

When I threw aside all etiquette and shouted, Violet flinched and looked at me.

“No! Your Highness!”

Sion screamed.

“You don’t have to come to me, but please don’t go to that villainess! That woman is the one cleverly hiding black magic!”

Violet was startled.

The moment the child looked back at Sion with confused eyes.

A blazing lightning bolt flew from Sion’s hand.

While speaking, he had already been preparing to harm the child.

“Sion…?”

The child’s face was filled with terror.

At the same time, pure white light exploded from my hand.

A magic bullet infused with divine power flew like lightning and struck the lightning bolt.

And maintaining that momentum, it hit Sion directly.

“Argh!”

Sion’s body convulsed as if electrocuted by high voltage. I folded my fan.

‘I was trying to save it for myself…’

Blocking the lightning and attacking Sion used two to three times more divine power than before. The power Ruellian had lent me was almost depleted.

Could I use it maybe one more time at most?

‘He needs to come quickly…’

Anyway, for now, saving the Princess who was about to die before my eyes was important. I barely managed to get up and grabbed the child.

“You saw it just now, didn’t you? What Sion was trying to do to Your Highness?”

“…”

Large eyes filled with fear turned toward me.

As if trying to pull herself together in her own way, she trembled while looking around…

“Ah! Over there!”

She screamed and pointed behind me.

I turned my head.

“…?”

I saw a scene that made me doubt my eyes.

Sion, who had fallen after being hit by powerful divine power, was somehow getting back up.

Blazing black energy swirled around his entire body.

He was casting black magic powerful enough to literally burn his soul, driving out the divine power.

His hair stood on end, and his single eye burned bright red.

In that grotesque form, Sion shouted.

“Die!”

Lightning created by black magic flew toward the Princess at tremendous speed.

In that situation, there was only one thing I could do.

‘…I don’t know!’

I pushed the Princess away with all my strength.

When the target that should have been my shield disappeared, the black magic energy pierced straight into my body.

With a thud, a powerful shock struck me.

“You did something pointless.”

Sion’s cold voice reached me.

Soon after, another lightning bolt shot from his hand.

This time it struck toward us with tremendous force, as if to blow both of us away at once.

‘Damn!’

A curse escaped me naturally.

Now that it had come to this, I too had to end it in one shot.

But would it work?

My hands trembled from the shock I’d just received. No matter how much I tried to concentrate, it wouldn’t work well.

Still, as I somehow squeezed out energy to give the firing command.

The black lightning flying toward us suddenly exploded in mid-air with a bang!

Huh?

My blurred eyes snapped open.

In the brilliant light, I saw a small form. A large head with a small body. A tail held proudly upright.

It was a golden baby dragon.

It was blocking the black magic lightning with its short arms spread wide.

I shouted in surprise.

“Mother of All Dragons!”

The baby dragon turned its head slightly to look at me.

The next moment.

My vision shook violently.

“Stop it! Sion!”

The Princess’s figure, struggling to lift her sword with both hands, disappeared from before my eyes.

When I came to my senses, we were both in a completely different place.

A quiet space somewhere in the maze.

Sion was nowhere to be seen.

Instead, the baby dragon was lying on the ground looking up at us.

“You saved us!”

The dragon was breathing heavily as if exhausted.

⌜It’s over now… Once for you, and once for those children… I’ve used all my power… I can’t do it anymore…⌟

Then its body went limp.

I screamed in shock.

“No!”

Then the dragon opened its eyes slightly.

⌜It’s just sleeping.⌟

“Ah….”

I felt a bit embarrassed.

“Anyway, thank you.”

⌜Don’t mention it. Fortunately, I succeeded in evacuating you two, but I sent you too far away so it’ll be difficult for the others to find you. Moreover….⌟

The golden eyes, just before being covered by eyelids, turned toward my left arm.

With that as the last sight, the baby dragon’s form disappeared.

“….”

I looked down at the place the dragon had just been staring at.

The dark magic energy that I had taken in place of the Princess earlier was clumped together on my left arm.

When I rolled up my dress sleeve to examine it, I could see the pitch-black energy that had seeped into my body trying to spread through my blood vessels.

At this rate, my soul would be consumed by dark magic.

‘What should I do?’

The pain I had momentarily forgotten came rushing back.

I knew it was a crisis, but it wasn’t a situation where I could do anything about it. I could only overcome it with willpower.

‘Focus. Focus. I can do this. I can do this….’

As I was concentrating to avoid being consumed by the evil energy.

I saw the Princess, who had been trembling in the corner, put down her sword and stagger to her feet.

I said to the child.

“No. Don’t even think about moving from here.”

Please read the situation.

I looked at the child with such earnest hope….

Unexpectedly, the Princess didn’t head outside but walked toward where I was. Then she grabbed my left arm and closed her eyes.

The next moment.

I opened my eyes wide.

Because pure white light burst forth from the child’s small hands.

“Divine power?”

I shouted in surprise.

“Princess! You had divine power?”

“I don’t know.”

Violet replied curtly.

“This just started coming out of my body at some point. I absolutely, absolutely tried not to tell anyone….”

“….”

I understand.

Probably in this world, if you have divine power, you become a saint, priest, or holy knight.

Even if you’re royalty, your life would change quite a bit.

Just like how Ruellian receives many restrictions.

If you have divine power, you probably have to live for others rather than yourself from that point on.

If she’s a princess, no matter how young, she would know such things even better.

‘It’s natural that she was afraid to reveal it.’

Nevertheless, Violet seemed to have made a resolute decision in her own way.

To reveal that power for me, whom she hates most in the world.

“I don’t know if it’ll work well. I’ve never done anything like this before….”

Violet firmly grasped my arm with her small hands and poured out her power.

At first, it seemed like no change was happening.

But as she struggled until beads of sweat formed on her forehead, changes gradually began to occur.

The tendrils that had been finely spreading along my blood vessels disappeared one by one.

Soon after, even the larger tendrils began to vanish one by one.

Eventually, the pitch-black mass at the center also began to gradually shrink in size, and after a while, it completely disappeared.

“Phew….”

Violet collapsed backward from exhaustion.

“Princess!”

I quickly caught the child’s body.

“Thank goodness. It succeeded….”

After muttering that, Violet remained quiet without saying anything.

Then….

As if her sorrowful emotions finally exploded, she buried her face in my arms and burst into tears.

“How could Sion…. How….”

I gently patted Violet’s back.

After crying like that for a while, Violet calmed down. Pouring out her emotions seemed to have helped.

“When I secretly snuck in here without my brothers knowing, I never imagined such a situation….”

The child asked while firmly grasping my collar with her small hands.

“What do we do now?”

“First, we need to try sending a rescue signal.”

I said that while looking at the floor.

The light trail that Ruellian had carved was still following me. But it had grown so dim that it was barely visible.

‘He said he sent us very far away to evacuate us, and it really seems to be true.’

Still, being alive is something.

I looked at Violet.

“Let’s try together. Fortunately, you also have divine power, Princess, so our voices will be heard better. If we keep at it, we’ll be able to find Ruellian or your brothers.”

“Do you think so?”

When I mentioned her brothers, light returned to Violet’s eyes.

“Yes. Let’s definitely survive until then.”

“Alright.”

We faced each other and nodded firmly.

Because surviving is the most excellent form of retaliation.

Violet and I firmly held each other’s hands and stood up from the floor.

The radiance of divine power emanating from Violet’s hands began to brightly illuminate the corridor beyond.

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