The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 125

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Chapter 125

How strange.

I wasn’t sad, yet tears came. It felt as if the late Empress’s heart was being conveyed to them through me.

The tears that flowed down my cheeks sparkled in the air.

The eyes of the two children had lost their luster like those of dead animals due to shock and horror. That light reflected in their eyes.

“…What?”

Aldensis’s lips moved slightly. The fog slowly lifted from both their eyes.

“It’s not because of us. Not because strange children were born.”

Zikren muttered.

“But how does this person know that?”

“Because Father told me!”

I shouted with force.

So that it would reach their ears precisely through the buzzing noise created by this strange space.

“Before the Empress passed away, she told Father. That when the time came, he must convey these words to you and your brother. When we began investigating her death, Father entrusted me with that task instead. And I thought, now is the time to deliver those words.”

“…”

“Do you understand? The Empress died tragically, but it wasn’t Aldensis and Zikren’s fault. She worried about her sons until the very end!”

Light finally began to return to the two children’s eyes.

They blinked with bewildered faces as if awakening from a dream.

“Aristina?”

“Princess Aristina?”

The fog that had clouded their eyes finally completely lifted.

The brothers shook their heads and came to their senses.

Aldensis muttered.

“Yes… Now I remember. This maze has pulled us into old memories again.”

“Right.”

Zikren nodded blankly.

“Only at that moment did I remember. The exact same thing happened last time in front of the graveyard.”

“Back then too, the Princess entered our memories to try to wake us up. And this time as well…”

Aldensis’s words stopped.

Zikren was also quiet.

Lying to prevent them from going to the Empress’s bedroom, snatching away scissors, shedding pitiful tears, chasing until breathless…

They seemed to finally remember how hard I had tried.

The brothers looked at me without being able to say anything.

“…”

Before we knew it, the three of us had returned to our real ages.

In this strange world where consciousness and reality were mixed, the emotions Aldensis and Zikren felt were faintly transmitted to me as well.

They are beings who are human yet not human.

Beings who possess powerful potential that ordinary people don’t have, and live somewhat detached as befits the name Transcendents.

Yet the sight of insignificant me struggling desperately to help them must have felt quite ironic.

「Why did she do that…?」

They looked at me with such questions, then turned their gazes away as if by agreement.

A heavy silence flowed as they thought once more about their mother’s death.

“To think we had completely forgotten that… The shock must have been too great.”

Zikren spoke up.

“Who was it that drove Mother to that? Surely not Father?”

“I don’t know. Nothing yet.”

Aldensis shook his head.

“Anyway, what’s important is that we need to safely get the Princess out of here first.”

“Right.”

Zikren replied.

Soon, the unique energy of the Transcendents arose from their hands. It immediately took the form of swords.

‘How can this be…’

I looked on in amazement.

Aldensis and Zikren used physical weapons, but sometimes also used intangible energy.

But this was the first time I’d seen that energy unique to Transcendents take such a clear form as swords.

It seemed to be thanks to shaking off and becoming free from the memories that had taken deep root in their hearts and continued to create darkness, tormenting them.

“You’ve become stronger?”

At my words, the brothers smiled somewhat bashfully.

“Thanks to you, Princess.”

“Indeed.”

Blue eyes and golden eyes sparkled brilliantly as they looked at me.

“Once we get outside, we’ll properly thank you.”

With Aldensis’s words, the two swords expanded greatly and pierced through the space before us.

The appearance of the Imperial Palace vanished in an instant.

The ominous whirlwinds that had been circling, waiting to attack us, were extinguished at once.

The black mists that had been rising from the floor and reaching out like probing hands also completely disappeared.

“Amazing…”

I was impressed.

Beyond the space that had been blown open with a single attack, I could see the maze with its complex structure. It was the place where we had been until just now.

The briefly distorted space quickly regained its form, and people’s voices could be heard.

“Come on, the injured first, quickly!”

Violet was shouting.

The darkness had lifted and an exit seemed to have just opened. Through the door that shone brilliantly like a swirling galaxy, I could see Helmut’s back as he was just being helped out by his companions.

“We don’t know what might happen! Quickly, quickly!”

Violet was earnestly giving directions with one hand, while secretly eliminating the traces of dark magic rising from the corridor with her other hand.

Aldensis and Zikren were startled.

“Violet?”

The fact that their young sister had entered this place without their knowledge was enough to make them faint.

Moreover, she was dealing with the aftermath of dark magic with her small hands? It was natural to be dumbfounded.

“Ah!”

Violet quickly hid her hand behind her back. She looked like she had many things to worry about, but…

Anyway, she seemed happy that her brothers had safely escaped, as her face noticeably brightened.

“Princess, you kept your promise!”

Violet smiled brightly at me, then quickly went to her brothers and clung to them with a giggle.

“I was wrong.”

According to my memory, that proud child had rarely apologized to her brothers first and backed down.

She seemed to be sending a reconciliation request with her own brand of charm.

“Violet was wrong about everything anyway. Let’s talk when we get out. Okay?”

“…Fine.”

Aldensis replied as if exasperated.

Though they had clashed over this competition, the youngest was still the youngest.

“Sigh, for a Princess…”

Zikren picked up Violet, who was wearing a tattered dress.

That family seemed to be managing somehow.

‘But what about our side?’

Windfearer, which would grant me successor status, had somehow returned safely to my hand.

I gripped the sword’s handle again as if to show off and turned my head.

Then I noticed.

“Hmm…”

Duke Carnel was hesitating awkwardly as if he wanted to say something to me.

He would step forward then hesitate, then try to step forward again only to hesitate once more.

I found it strange and asked.

“Do you have something to say to me?”

“No.”

“Then please leave quickly. As the Princess said, we don’t know what might happen to this place again.”

“Right.”

Violet, perched on Zikren’s shoulders, spoke.

“The Duke said he couldn’t leave because his daughter hadn’t come out, and the others also stubbornly insisted they would only leave when the Princess emerged, but now they must go.”

“But wait a moment.”

Aldensis, who had been looking around at the remaining people, furrowed his brow.

“I don’t see Ruellian and Sion?”

“…”

Violet’s hand, which had been tugging at the ornament on Zikren’s head, suddenly stopped.

Her face, which had brightened upon reuniting with her brothers, instantly darkened.

Duke Carnel and the Elders remaining beside him also closed their mouths with complicated expressions.

Zikren asked in surprise.

“Why is everyone like this? What happened? Huh? Violet?”

“Well…”

Others tried to answer, but Violet spoke first.

“Sion went berserk while using black magic…”

“What did you say?”

“And I don’t know where Ruellian is. I only heard his voice. He helped the Princess and me find our way…”

“He did say he would come out soon though.”

I added to Violet’s story.

“So Father and the Elders should leave first. We’ll wait here and come out together.”

“No. There’s also the matter of Sion…”

The Duke trailed off.

Though the story about Sion using black magic had come from the Princess’s mouth twice now, both he and the Elders still seemed to be experiencing cognitive dissonance.

‘They definitely wouldn’t have believed me if I had said it.’

Thinking that my judgment hadn’t been wrong after all, I looked across to the other side of the corridor.

The aura of black magic that had spread in all directions through the maze had now completely disappeared. But…

‘Wait a moment.’

I opened my eyes wide.

Through the golden mist filling the corridor, a shimmering radiance suddenly flickered.

It was unmistakably the radiance emanating from the sacred mark possessed by the Agent of the Divine.

“It’s that way.”

I pointed the direction to the others and took the lead.

The sacred mark emitting light meant that Ruellian was using powerful divine power.

‘What would he need to use his power for in this situation?’

Feeling an ominous premonition for some reason, I quickened my pace.

Following the corridor that curved to the side, a space somewhat wider than other areas appeared.

There was something there.

“Ah!”

Violet cried out in surprise. Everyone’s eyes widened.

Ruellian was there.

But Sion was there too.

A situation that no one had anticipated was unfolding before our eyes.

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