The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47

He was truly moving like a ghost. The thief’s form was completely invisible to people’s eyes.

But how could I see him?

‘It’s because of that.’

My gaze turned toward his chest. I could see the shape of a wound that was distorted as if space itself had been warped.

A stigma.

The mark of God’s Representative. The source of divine power.

My eyes could see through it. That’s why I could clearly see something like mist emanating from the stigma and wrapping around his body. Like a strange cloak with a life of its own.

It thoroughly concealed his face so he couldn’t be recognized. At the same time, it perfectly camouflaged him to blend into his surroundings like protective coloring.

I could only see this much with my eyes because of the stigma’s radiance. To other people, it would seem like nothing was there at all.

Even if Aldensis and Zikren saw this form, they would perceive him as just a stranger.

‘So such things are possible with divine power.’

Without footsteps or the sound of rustling clothes, he walked toward this direction.

The light from the luminous stones decorating the ceiling. Thanks to that light, his form appeared a little clearer than before.

‘His outfit is different. Naturally, though.’

Black leather clothing wrapped around his entire body without gaps. An outfit with no cumbersome decorations, revealing every muscle without exception.

Thinking of his usual appearance in magnificent, flowing white robes with scriptures in hand, he might as well be a completely different person.

The dangerous feeling that had subtly emanated even through his sacred clothing was now revealed without restraint.

‘This must be the real him.’

Fortunately, this beast’s violet eyes were only quietly surveying ahead, not noticing anything.

Completely unaware that I was watching him through my mysterious vision.

In the silence, he arrived in front of the Exhibition Hall.

“Hmm.”

I thought I heard such a small sound, then suddenly his hand flashed.

The next moment.

An intense light that seemed to crush the luminous stones’ radiance cut through space in an arc. Afterimages bloomed along its trajectory.

Even though I was watching from such a distance, it felt like it was searing my retinas with fire.

I squinted slightly. Was it some kind of light whip?

‘So he uses that kind of weapon.’

I was able to learn a trade secret that no one had known until now.

A whip. It did go well with the leather outfit.

Moreover, its performance was excellent. Though it seemed to flutter and move slowly, both its speed and power were tremendous.

Whoosh! As it swept through the top, bottom, and all sides of the Exhibition Hall, a fierce wind arose.

‘He must be checking what Aldensis and Zikren have hidden here, right?’

Last time when I came out after watching the demonstration at the Training Grounds and encountered Ruellian, I had lied that the Crown Prince brothers would hide a 10th-class golem.

‘Seeing him check like that, he must have heard those words. Or someone conveyed them to him.’

Even after finishing his inspection, Ruellian swung his whip once more to thoroughly illuminate the space. Flashing radiance poured through the gaps. A cautious attitude.

‘But unfortunately.’

It wasn’t that something was hidden inside, but that the space itself was a trap.

No matter how outstanding your abilities might be, as long as you’re human, you cannot perceive it.

Dragon language magic.

It’s their language and a cheat skill. It completely transcends the range that humans can perceive.

“…”

Ruellian investigated this space cautiously in his own way. But he discovered nothing.

He knew that the Crown Prince brothers were preparing something, but there was nothing he could confirm in this current situation.

With a small pat sound, the whip’s light went out.

His gaze turned toward the Ice Crown.

I tensed up.

‘Now when the trap activates, I’ll be summoned inside there. Let me prepare thoroughly.’

I was thinking such thoughts when…

‘…?’

Ruellian disappeared.

He was already standing tall in front of the Ice Crown. As if he had skipped through space, he lightly launched his body and landed in an instant.

Was it because he came in as fast as spatial movement magic?

The trap that should have reacted to the curse planted in his body didn’t activate.

‘To outpace the trap’s activation speed?’

Thinking I couldn’t believe my eyes, I watched his form intently.

In the midst of pouring radiance, Ruellian stared at the palely glowing Ice Crown.

His face was clearly visible in my sight. So I could tell.

‘He’s not looking at the crown?’

His gaze was fixed on the notice attached above the crown.

Was it because I could see the stigma? Beyond the rippling mist, some intense thought was conveyed.

-Is this ‘his’ doing?

Ruellian was trying to confirm that fact.

Who was ‘he’?

I didn’t know that either, but instead I learned one fact.

‘He must be chasing someone. The reason he does thief work must also be related to that?’

I felt strong obsession beyond the mist.

The existence called a thief that he had worked hard to create while living a double life until now. He came here to maintain the rumors about that existence.

But that wasn’t all there was to it.

Because my maids had forged the notice too well, they had even hooked the person involved in another sense.

-Is it that person’s doing?

To confirm that, Ruellian had no choice but to come here during a moment when no one was around.

‘What kind of story could it be?’

His leather-gloved hand grabbed the notice. Then, his coldly burning eyes stared through it intently.

Then suddenly his expression changed.

-It’s fake!

At that moment.

Sharp bursting sounds like tearing air rang out repeatedly. Countless blood-red swords appeared in the void.

The trap had finally detected its cursed target.

It had only hesitated briefly because Ruellian had pierced through too quickly, but it immediately began pouring out powerful attacks.

Simultaneously…

「Beginning summoning.」

Along with the voice guidance, my body was surrounded by light.

I felt dizzying vertigo as spatial transcendence began. From beyond, deafening noise and skin-trembling shockwaves were transmitted together.

Inside the trap was pandemonium.

As blood-red glowing swords struck down like missiles toward their target, Ruellian swung his whip to deflect them all.

Thwack!

Dozens of blood-red swords were sent flying in unison and shattered to pieces.

Zikren was wrong.

Ruellian’s abilities seemed to far exceed a 10th-class golem.

With unbelievably powerful strength and amazing reflexes, he dodged or deflected every attack.

However…

Where all the pouring fragments had disappeared, blood-red swords appeared in the void once again. The entire space was going mad with killing intent directed at him.

“Ha…”

Perhaps judging that this would be endless, Ruellian immediately turned his body to try to escape.

But that wouldn’t work.

His body couldn’t even cross the exit and was dragged back into the trap. Because of the curse’s powerful binding force.

“…”

A look of dismay crossed his face.

The next moment, the whip in his hand began to glow white-hot like incandescent light. His eyes blazed with fire, and his hair whipped in the strong wind rising from the whip. His jet-black flame-like cloak fluttered along with it.

He was preparing to settle this once and for all.

That’s when it happened.

Thud.

The space shook once.

And then…

I appeared exactly in the center. Between Ruellian and those swords.

“…?”

Shock appeared on his face, which hadn’t shown any panic even when seeing this tremendous trap.

“Princess?”

At that moment, the swords in the air came pouring down.

There’s no curse secretly hiding inside my body. Therefore, this space doesn’t attack me.

Even knowing that, I flinched for a moment…

Then.

“Ah?”

Suddenly my body was lifted into the air.

“…?”

I understood what had happened a beat too late. Ruellian had thrown himself forward, blocking the attack with his back while pulling me to safety.

When I came to my senses, I was rolling on the ground with him, wrapped in his cloak.

My eyes widened in complete shock.

First, even though I was a person of interest he had no reason to view favorably, he had thrown himself to save me without the slightest hesitation.

Second, this was a more minor point, but…

I could have easily been crushed or kicked in the process, but instead he was carefully and protectively embracing me without any such mishap.

It felt like being an egg protected inside a steel frame, kept safe from even the smallest crack in its shell.

‘I’m seeing him in a new light.’

But that choice came with a price. When he should have been defending, he had instead come forward to save me. He had to pay that price himself.

I could see it with my own eyes.

‘Oh no…’

Because Ruellian was holding me protectively, I could see his arm right in front of my eyes. The sleeve of that arm was torn in a long gash.

“I don’t know what these things are, but…”

Ruellian’s violet eyes glanced down at me. In that moment, I seemed to see some cold resolve in his pupils.

“In any case, this all happened because of my mistake. I’ll definitely get you out of here alive, so don’t worry.”

His clipped words brought me back to my senses.

‘He’s misunderstanding that I got caught in this trap while trying to protect the crown.’

I barely managed to open my mouth and speak.

“That’s not it…”

Right now, the magic wand for modifying this magic circle was floating before my eyes.

‘I need to grab that…!’

As I tried to wriggle my hand out from under the cloak, Ruellian’s arm tightened around me even more.

“Bear with it even if you don’t like it. Now’s not the time for this. I know what you think of me, but…”

Even in this urgent situation, hearing those words made me feel slightly guilty. Because I had been thinking about how his clothes were pressed too tightly against my body. And how his breath kept seeming to touch my face.

The person himself seemed completely unaware of such things due to his focus on saving me, which made those sensations and his breathing reach me even more directly.

“Bear with it even if you don’t like it.”

His other arm swung once, sweeping away all the blood-red swords pouring down on the cloak.

“Just endure it for now.”

My vision cleared.

But only briefly. A much larger number of blood-red swords began pouring down like a black torrent, even ignoring the laws of space.

“What?”

Ruellian was shocked once again. In that gap, I finally managed to pull out my hand and grab the magic wand.

「Beginning magic circle modification.」

The countdown that had been stopped at ’14:00′ began operating again, and the dwarf fairies visible only to me appeared. I quickly commanded them.

‘Pause!’

At that moment.

The swords that had been pouring down toward us froze in mid-air.

“…?”

Ruellian stared blankly at the sight.

The troublesome princess he had been planning to summon and thoroughly scold had suddenly stepped forward through the crisis to play the role of savior?

His face showed he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

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