The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 192

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Chapter 192

“Aristina! Are you okay?”

Zikren shouted from beyond.

“There’s a spatial distortion phenomenon happening around here! We almost had a disaster!”

“That disaster is still ongoing.”

At the old man’s voice coming from behind Zikren, my ears perked up.

“Great Spirit!”

“Yes. It’s me. I met Aldensis and Zikren on the way and brought them along. Did I do well?”

He said he’d come soon, so that’s why he was late.

Still, he came exactly when I needed him most. Even in this urgent situation, I couldn’t help but smile.

“You did great!”

The others didn’t know who the Great Spirit was. But just Aldensis and Zikren appearing was more than enough to turn the tide.

“This can’t be! Crown Prince has arrived!”

“Second Prince is here too! Both of them have safely awakened!”

The faces of people who had been restless with fear of being trapped and dying suddenly brightened.

“Crown Prince! Second Prince! Please help us! That person is fighting alone right now! Your Highness!”

“Understood! Everyone duck your heads!”

Aldensis shouted.

The next moment, a sharp sound of cutting through air rang out.

Aldensis’s sword flew in through the small hole in the middle of the crack.

Tesseud, who had been wrestling with Ruellian, twisted his body to dodge the sword.

Aldensis’s sword missed its target, but instead embedded itself in the floor and burst forth with explosive radiance.

Then Zikren’s sword also flew in.

Perhaps it was difficult to hit the target through the small hole, as his sword also went wide.

But it too embedded itself in the floor like Aldensis’s sword and poured out energy.

The energy contained in the two Transcendents’ swords swirled like a whirlwind, rushing toward the center.

Then, joining forces with Ruellian’s sword that was pressing down on Tesseud with all its might, it caused another explosion.

At that moment, a powerful vibration strong enough to make our eardrums feel muffled shook everything around us.

After a brilliant radiance bright enough to turn everything pure white colored the entire space once and disappeared.

The sound of cracking echoed throughout.

The crack began spreading again. And with tremendous force incomparable to before.

The dark magic that Tesseud had spread throughout this space was breaking apart.

“…!”

Tesseud’s complexion changed.

At that moment, he made the wrong choice.

Was it because he was too obsessed with the fixation that he had to eliminate everyone who learned the truth?

He forgot about Ruellian’s existence right in front of him, pointing a sword at his throat, and immediately tried to reach out to strengthen his dark magic.

Because of this reckless movement, the perfect balance of attack and defense that Tesseud had been maintaining was broken.

Ruellian didn’t miss that moment.

Something flashed, and a sharp metallic sound rang out.

Startled, I unconsciously closed my eyes, and when I opened them, I saw Tesseud’s sword flying far away.

The match was decided.

The dark magic that lost control turned back on its caster.

Cracks began appearing from Tesseud’s fingertips and instantly covered his entire body. Then he couldn’t move at all, as if electrocuted.

“That’s it! When we last touched the remaining stabilizer, that appeared on our fingertips…!”

Zikren shouted excitedly.

“I knew about it, but seeing it with my eyes is astounding! Master, how could you do this to us?”

Aldensis also shouted with reproach.

Tesseud didn’t respond at all. His expression suggested there was no need to react.

Ruellian grabbed the collar of his temporarily paralyzed opponent.

Even from a distance, his eyes were clearly visible. They were blazing as if they could burn someone to death with just their gaze.

‘Of course.’

Even if you combined every expression of hatred that exists in this world, it wouldn’t express even one-tenth of his emotions.

Who was his opponent? The enemy who murdered his parents and even stole his father’s remains while framing him as a murderer.

“….”

Tesseud calmly met Ruellian’s blazing gaze.

His eyes were gleaming like glass marbles embedded in a taxidermied animal’s face.

Though death was before him, there was no wavering in those eyes. Rather, there was a satisfied emotion as if he had wished for this kind of death.

I couldn’t help but sigh.

“He’s insane….”

Ruellian, who had been deeply immersed in hatred and anger, came to his senses upon hearing my voice.

He threw Tesseud’s still-immobilized body to the floor.

“You deserve to die, but I absolutely cannot kill you the way you want.”

“And not everything has been completely revealed yet.”

I looked at Aldensis and Zikren.

“Anyway, one thing was clearly proven just now. You two collapsing wasn’t my doing, but that murderer’s. It seems he used quite dangerous means, but I’m glad you woke up early. According to Duke Dillen, there were no signs of awakening at all, so how did you suddenly wake up?”

“Ah….”

Zikren made an awkward expression.

“Actually, I heard your scream in my dream. You were shouting ‘I don’t want to die!’ very loudly. I was so startled while sleeping. That was really your voice, right?”

“….”

I remembered.

When I had kidnapped poor Grace to make her talk and nearly fell victim to an ancient curse.

With the feeling that I couldn’t die like this, I had shouted so loudly. Fortunately, I was able to summon the Great Spirit right after and escape the crisis.

“Right. It really was my voice. I didn’t know that sound would reach all the way there.”

“I know, right. I was so startled because it sounded like you were shouting right next to me, and when I opened my eyes, brother was also waking up. We really can’t help it, can we.”

“…Thank you.”

After making eye contact with Zikren once, I turned my gaze to look at Aldensis.

When there was a powerful enemy like Tesseud in front of us, I was so focused on that person that I didn’t even have time to feel awkward.

But after subduing the enemy, it suddenly became very awkward.

Since I had fought and run away saying I wouldn’t even have a fake engagement ceremony with you.

But Aldensis naturally changed the subject as if it was all in the past.

“We also learned the full story of the incident. That person over there….”

He pointed to the Great Spirit.

“While coming here together, he allowed us to see and hear all the situations happening here as well.”

Live commentary? He liked watching commentary during the contractor exam too.

I gave the Great Spirit a subtle thumbs up and said.

“So that’s why you weren’t particularly surprised to see Master using dark magic here and responded immediately? You had already been surprised enough.”

“That’s right.”

Zikren said.

“Master said he came out to the main building specifically for the gift presentation, and expressed regret about the broken engagement. He probably used his tricks on us then. We really trusted Master.”

“It’s useless.”

Ruellian replied coldly.

“That person lost his reason long ago. He may have loved Aldensis and Zikren, but before the powerful obsession dominating his mind, he could throw away everything. That person can’t be called human. He’s just a lump of obsession. Now he must face judgment.”

“….”

The brothers looked at each other with bitter faces and slowly nodded.

Aldensis muttered.

“Yes. He must face judgment.”

“Wait a moment!”

Tesseud’s adjutant stepped forward urgently after hearing our words.

“We too were greatly shocked to learn of Marquis Tesseud’s criminal acts… But separately from that, is it really a good idea to make this matter known to the outside?”

He added quietly with a troubled expression.

“It seems Your Highnesses don’t yet know the truth about the late Empress Imelda…”

“No.”

Zikren said curtly.

“Didn’t you just hear? We were told everything about the trial situation on our way here. And to tell the truth, we knew about it even before that.”

I asked in surprise.

“You knew in advance? Since when?”

“I saw it in a dream.”

Aldensis answered instead.

“When we talked on our way here, it turned out Zikren had the exact same dream. Perhaps Mother deliberately showed it to us brothers. Because the time has come when the truth must be revealed.”

“Your Highness!”

The Imperial Knights turned pale and shouted.

“Are you really going to reveal it? Please, you must be careful! This matter will have a fatal impact on both of your futures!”

“If Your Highnesses give the order, everyone who was here today will obey. You must obtain an oath that they will never leak a single word!”

“What are you talking about?”

Aldensis hardened his expression toward them.

“Zikren and I have already talked about this. Even if we get stigmatized because of what Mother did in the past, it can’t be helped. We understand Mother.”

Understand?

Everyone looked at Aldensis. He continued speaking without concern.

“If it had been a year ago, I might not have understood. But now I think I can understand what it means to be human. I suppose I realized it thanks to Princess Aristina. Humans feel fear, and sometimes show unreasonable courage. Sometimes they’re surprisingly clever, but sometimes they lose their minds completely.”

“Mother simply acted in a human way in that situation. Her fear, anxiety, losing her reason, being unable to confess her crime because she worried about our future…”

Zikren sighed and picked up his brother’s words.

“It’s sad, but we still understand. Because that’s what it means to be human. Mother suffered so much that she left this world on her own, and I think she already paid enough for her sins. The bereaved families might think differently, so we’ll have to hear their thoughts. Anyway, we decided to accept whatever comes. Like my brother said, even if we get stigmatized because of that incident…”

That’s when it happened.

“No. That won’t happen.”

Someone said loudly while walking toward us.

Everyone was startled upon hearing that voice.

“Your Imperial Majesty!”

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