WYMYEB - Chapter 97



Fortunately, Rodrick quickly cleared things up and caught up with me.

Presently, an ominous trumpet sound was heard behind us.

It must be a sound that the suspicious people have escaped.

Knowing that soon the Kishian and the other soldiers would catch up, we rushed desperately.

Thanks to our efforts, we have come quite far, but they must be chasing after us with all their might.

It was dangerous to just keep running like this.

Rodrick also shouted at me as if he had thought so.

"Let's throw away our horses and hide in the forest!"

There was a dense forest on the side of the road.

If we hid there, even Kishian wouldn't be able to find us easily, so we chased the horses as far away as we could and entered the forest.

As expected, we heard several soldiers approaching.

At first, it seemed that they were just passing through the forest, but unfortunately, they quickly found the two horses we had discarded.

"I found the horse that the fugitives had abandoned!"

Is it really Kishian that the soldier is reporting to?

We hid in the shadow created by the forest and watched the situation.

I hoped that the Kishian wouldn't come after me, but the voice that came soon shattered my hopes.

"Search the forest!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

When I heard Kishian's voice, my heart throbbed again.

As if sensing that I was shaking, Rodrick whispered in a low voice.

"It's okay. There are many places to hide here. Let's move slowly across the forest."

In order to survive the chase that started again, we desperately turned down the sound and started moving.

Every time I heard the soldiers talking, my heart felt like it was going to drop, but I didn't have time to sit down.

I roughly wiped off the sweat that was forming and dug my way through the dark forest road.

"Elona!"

The sudden sound of Kishian's voice almost knocked me over.

Fortunately, he didn't find us.

He is just calling my name, hoping that I will answer.

"Answer me, please! Elona!"

Until I heard the cry, I thought he was full of rage.

I thought he was gnashing his teeth because he felt sorry for me for running away.

But I didn't feel anger in his voice calling my name.

Rather...

'It's a desperate voice.'

His cry was more like sadness than anger.

When I stopped unintentionally, I got a little closer.

Thanks to this, I could hear his words as if he were groaning in pain.

"Please..."

Now my heart was beating differently.

I knew I had to move right away, but when I heard the muttering that was close to a plea, my body shook up.

Rodrick, who was beside me, whispered in my ear in a low voice.

"Don't be shaken."

"..."

"Think about how many times that guy made you cry."

After Kishian found out about it, I cried a lot.

I kept thinking about the face that kept asking me why I was hiding the truth.

The face, stained with a sense of betrayal towards me, appeared in my dreams and made me suffer.

It was so painful that I couldn't help but know.

In the end, Kishian also wanted the real thing rather than the fake.

"..."

My stiff body started to move again.

I had to disappear from his side.

With that single-mindedness, I desperately led my body, which was slowly starting to get tired.

Kishian's voice gradually faded away.

"Elona!"

There was another desperate cry, but this time I did not stop walking.

After escaping to the depths of the forest, where we could not feel any signs, we were relieved and able to rest.

***

Letie returned safely to the Imperial Palace.

She was not rescued.

After waiting for a long time in the carriage with protective magic, the monster disappeared as if it had lost interest, and it slipped through the gap.

She got out of the wagon, passed by the bodies of the soldiers who had died guarding her, and went to a nearby private house to ask for help, and then she was able to return.

She had a hard time, so she spent a day in her bedroom.

When she recovered her physical condition after resting like that, Letie suddenly felt strange.

'Why does my father never show his face?'

The daughter encountered the monster.

The escort knights, the coachman, and the servants who were guarding her were all dead, so he must have understood the seriousness of the situation.

In the meantime, she managed to come back alive, but the Emperor did not visit her.

Whether she has lived or died, as if he doesn't even care.

In the end, Letie, tired of waiting, went to the Emperor first.

The Emperor was yelling at someone in the throne room.

The atmosphere was too serious to interrupt, so Letie waited in the hallway.

After a long wait, she was finally able to meet the Emperor.

"Father!"

Even after hearing Letie's anxious call, the Emperor did not respond much.

Even though he poured out his anger so much in the throne room, he still looked at Letie with a look of anger and just asked.

"What did you come here for?"

"I ran into that monster. It was really bad."

"Yes, I heard it."

Since the Emperor had never visited her, Letie thought that perhaps he had not heard of the situation.

However, the Emperor replied with great confidence that he had already heard about it.

Letie couldn't hide her trembling and told him again.

"I almost died. It was a horrible, ferocious monster. If only the carriage had not been enchanted for protection..."

"It really doesn't look like you."

"What?"

Letie, who didn't understand what he was talking about, asked in confusion.

The Emperor replied with a long sigh.

"It really looks like you're not a savior."

"That's.. What do you mean? I am a savior... No, I didn't."

"Haven't you been attacked by monsters?"

The Emperor furrowed his brows, as if he were a little annoyed by the explanation.

"If you were really a savior, the monsters wouldn't even have approached you."

"..."

"Now that you've been attacked, there's nothing more to see."

Letie tried to understand what the Emperor was saying.

She wasn't a savior? What the hell is this?

The Emperor said, looking down at the pale Letie with a still, cold gaze.

"I have made a big mistake until now. I mistake a savior just by looking at the color of the mark or your personality."

"..."

"Elona, we must bring her back. A real savior."

A real savior. That one word stirred Letie's mind into mud.

The real savior was Letie, no matter what anyone said.

Didn't everyone agree and praise Letie as a savior?

With trembling lips, Letie stammered.

"I was attacked by the monster because it mistook me for Elona or my sister."

"..."

"I'm disguised as my sister's mark, so when it saw the black mark, it mistook me for a fake!"

A long sigh flowed from the Emperor's succession.

"You're stupid too."

"... Stupid?"

"Do you still not understand? After Elona left the palace, monsters suddenly began to haunt the islands. At first, I thought it was just weird. Even though you are there, the monsters have started to set up. I was wrong from the beginning."

"..."

"It means that the capital was safe because of Elona, not you."

"..."

"Not only that, but she also has the power to purify Magic. I can't know this much."

Compared to Letie, who had never performed any miracles, Elona had already proven her strength.

The Emperor was not so stupid that he could not recognize the obvious truth.

Nor was he compassionate enough to give more affection to his unworthy daughter.

When the affection she had taken for granted as a savior was taken away, Letie was soon filled with cold rage.

"...You'll regret it."

Grasping the skirt with trembling hands, Letie scowled at her father.

"It will soon be revealed that I am the real savior! When that time comes, my father will regret what you said today."

He tried to shout at her to stop talking to him, but before he could do that, Letie turned her back and disappeared.

The Emperor, who didn't even have much affection left to scream, just clicked his tongue and looked at the back of the scene.

'Did I raise her too much, holding her up as a savior? Rather, those resentful eyes... I remember seeing it.'

When she was a child, whenever the Princess and her sister quarreled, he always called Elona to tell her.

Letie is a savior, so you should give way to her.

Then Elona looked at the Emperor with eyes full of resentment and tears.

"I'm also my father's daughter. It's okay just once, so why don't you listen to me as well?"

At that time, Elona was a daughter of little value to him, so he ignored her pathetic request.

Now that he thinks about it, he regrets it.

Give her warmth at least once.

'It's not too late. If I get her back, I will take good care of her at that time.'

Perhaps she had been possessed by the Grand Duke before, but she dared to betray her father; she was still a weak child.

If he brings her back and treats her kindly, she will open her heart and crave affection as if she had never done it before.

Believing this, the Emperor slowly worked out his plan to get Elona back.


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