My Fiancee Was the Villainess of This World

45 – Legend passed on

It was a hellish experience.

In the empire, burning is the only method of execution for those who have committed the most heinous crimes.

It was amazing that he was still sane after going through that burning.

He honestly thought he was actually dead at the moment when his lungs were burned and he couldn’t breathe.

‘No, he died….’

Obviously, the heart seems to have stopped momentarily and then started beating again due to the heat that started from the chest….

“First of all, what should I do with that shabby outfit?”

“… Yes.”

Following his father’s instructions, several knights started running somewhere.

He was probably thinking of stopping by Count Arbest and borrowing some clothes.

I sighed and sat down slowly.

Of course, I didn’t forget to hug Priscilla carefully so that she wouldn’t get hurt.

“Rest in peace.”

Why are you still hugging Priscilla?

My father seemed so eager to ask.

“… There are circumstances.”

If Priscilla isn’t there, mana is running out of control and it looks like a human trying to set himself on fire again, father….

Even if I try to put out the fire, the flames amplified arbitrarily by the mana of the sun try to burn my body even more fiercely.

Even now, I leave this soft halo on because I don’t know how to turn it off, not to create a believable atmosphere.

“Ohh… The Imperial Sun… !”

“The eyes that embrace the sun are finally… !”

“My God, my God… !”

“The seventh dawn dawned… !”

In order to heal the wounds of the knight commander and the knights cut by him, I sat down near where they had fallen.

Then, the power of the sun shining softly in all directions from behind my back began to heal the traumas of those who had fallen.

The knights who witnessed this knelt down on their knees and looked at me with eyes almost as if they were worshiping a god who had descended into the present world.

It was extremely disrespectful to offer a sword to the emperor of the empire.

But he didn’t point out the rudeness of the knights, as if even his father, the emperor, understood it.

The effect of the halo seemed to be just as amazing.

“Uuwehehehehe.”

‘Tsk.’

“It’s dirty. Go away, so-and-so.”

“That, that… Anything, that’s too much… Ooohhhhh.”

When I came to my senses, both Priscilla and I were virtually naked.

I couldn’t leave the church in that state, so I had no choice but to procure clothes from nearby places.

But can’t Priscilla and I wear those filthy piggy sweaty clothes?

So I took the most rational choice, but it seemed difficult because the smell of the pig’s broth was so disgusting.

Is it worse than the smell of human meat being burned?

And—

Swoop.

‘What has this guy been doing since before?’

I came to my senses, but when I open my eyes, it’s awkward, so I know you’re keeping your eyes closed.

But I don’t know why he keeps rubbing his hair against his chest.

It’s summer, but it’s a cool evening because the sun has gone down, doesn’t it?

“Meet the Sun of the Empire!”

In front of me, Count Arbest, who had been making fun of his cheeky mouth, came flying in contemplation.

Earl Arbest ordered the servants to change our clothes.

I grinned and raised the corners of my mouth as I looked at Count Arbest, who was so flustered.

Before, the situation was the situation, so I just let it go, but now I know the truth.

I’ll make you shed tears of regret for being so rude to me back then, Count Cuckoo.

Thought so, I entrusted myself to the servants.

Of course, since we were in a hurry, we didn’t have time to prepare things like changing rooms.

That’s why we had to cover our bodies with large curtains brought by the servants and change our clothes in the simple changing room.

“….”

By the way, you can see the inside because of the halo, right?

“Ohh, ohhh… !”

“It is indeed the sun… !”

“There are two dragons in the empire… !”

… I’ll welcome you.

It’s not a body that I’m ashamed to show to others, but I felt like my migraine was getting worse when I saw them blatantly spouting nonsense like that.

Still, this was a problem to be passed on with a smile.

Softly.

If it weren’t for Priscilla, who is holding hands with me and is in a state of rejoicing, here.

‘Whoa….’

You’re showing all the things you can’t see.

Today truly feels like a long day.

After the rejoicing, we immediately returned to the imperial castle under the escort of knights.

“Don’t let anyone set foot in the imperial castle!”

─ I will serve the Emperor!

As the situation is, it seems that my father has more strength in his shoulders than usual.

It’s late at night, so you should have told me to go wipe my feet and go to sleep.

“… Maximilian.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“It is a place only allowed to those who embrace the sun.”

“… Priscilla.”

Anyway, it would be faster to show it with your eyes.

I gently let go of her hand and kept my distance from her Priscilla.

Then, the shadows that were connected as one split apart, and the flames of fear began to flick from my body.

Chi Iik.

“Kuu!”

As I groaned in pain, Priscilla rushed over and hugged me tightly.

Then, as if my father understood the situation, he rubbed his forehead with a tired expression.

“Is it something out of control?”

“Yes…. Couldn’t we do this instead?”

I picked up the rag bag that I had put in her arms to try to somehow create an embarrassing atmosphere.

“Yes, yes?”

“Be still.”

After saying that, I immediately wrapped a mat around Priscilla’s eyes.

Then, with her eyes covered, she carried the flustered Priscilla on her back.

“….”

My father twitched the corners of his mouth in a look of exasperation, then turned his head away from us.

Judging by the slight twitching of his shoulders, he seemed to be laughing because the situation was so absurd.

“Chung!”

“Yes, suffer.”

“Warm words like the sun, it is an honor!”

Unlike before, my father became quite relaxed and even greeted the knight who was standing guard.

“Uh, uh uh….”

I made eye contact with the knight who was saluting my father.

The knight looked at me with an indescribable expression.

… I was in a complicated mood, so I hurriedly followed my father and left the place.

I crossed the vault and took the stairs to the sanctuary as before.

When I visited before, the sound of stepping on these stairs was really loud and heavy.

But now it felt like coming back to my dear hometown.

“… The atmosphere is very different from before.”

“Yes, I feel that way too.”

Dude.

Finally we reached the end of the stairs as before.

In front of it, as before, an iron gate of unknown metal was waiting for us.

Looking at the iron gate, my father put on a nervous expression for a while.

And while I was about to say something, I carelessly touched the iron door.

Then the heat that started from my hand covered the entire iron door, and a very familiar shape to us was engraved on the iron door.

“… It is the sun.”

The iron gate emits light in the form of the sun, slowly revealing the legend hidden inside.

“Then go.”

Saying so, he took a step back.

From here on, it is a sanctuary that is only allowed to those who embrace the sun.

It must be a place where even the emperor of the empire is not permitted.

But there was a faint longing in his father’s eyes.

That was the look in the eyes of Duke Trista when he was talking about adventure during the meeting.

So I grabbed my father’s wrist and pulled him slightly.

“I apologize for tampering with the emperor’s prison body.”

“… What did you do, Maximilian?”

“This is such a mess. Wouldn’t this be worth going over?”

As I said that, I glanced at Priscilla behind me.

And then, before my father said anything, I took a step towards the sanctuary.

‘Is this a sanctuary?’

It was a space that seemed too monotonous to be called a sanctuary.

It was engraved with a piece that could be called the symbol of past emperors, and inside it were several boxes containing something and books of this kind.

One was the official language of the empire, but the other was a strange character of unknown origin.

However, strangely, when I held him in my hand, I was able to read the characters I had never seen before, as if in my native language.

‘Is this the reason….’

What I need right now is the tears of the sun.

So I picked up the book left by my great-great-grandfather, His Majesty Maximus, the 6th Sun.

Then, as if I had waited, a page with the Tears of the Sun written on it appeared to me.

“I found it, Your Majesty.”

“… Is the legend that it cures all diseases true?”

“Yes, I am sure.”

“Oh, my predecessor….”

It is not at the level of curing all diseases.

It is a new drug that can even bring the dead back to life within 10 minutes after the heart stops.

The reason why I had no choice but to hide it here….

‘The material is the blood of the one who embraced the sun?’

─ Personally, I think that drugs that cannot be mass-produced are miracles or tricks.

For Tears of the Sun, many expensive medicinal materials were used.

But the key was the serum collected from the blood of those who were born with the sun.

The serum created from the fresh blood extracted during the sun rises is consecrated with the divine magic used by priests of cardinal rank or higher.

The handful of liquid that was created was the key ingredient for Tears of the Sun, and even if the recipe was out there, it would only be a problem.

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What would happen if you discovered this recipe when the life of a very precious person was at stake?

If there was no way, I’d rather curse God and give up.

But what if there was a mirage-like method within reach?

Remembering what if, he would reach out to do things he would never have done in the first place.

But in the end, it’s a mirage.

The misery of the moment you realize that you will never be able to reach it will be beyond imagination.

‘That’s why.’

This is a place where a legacy that only those who embrace the sun can fully inherit is buried.

For example, the legacy of the invitation is exactly that.

Swords and swordsmanship that can only be handled with the mana of the sun. How would the future generation feel after witnessing such a thing?

The words of the situation where the emotion exploded is a genetic disease called ‘sunspot’, which is passed on to the Sun clan.

This sanctuary was chosen with consideration for future generations.

“… I memorized it all. Hurry up and go to the Marquess of Wellston.”

“Okay, just try harder.”

“Yes.”

Contrary to my concerns, my father seemed to have no lingering attachments to the sanctuary.

On the contrary, it was to the extent that he showed a smile as if he was very satisfied with having had such a valuable experience.

“Thank you, Maximilian.”

My father’s smile was truly innocent, resembling that of a little boy chasing after a boy playing a knight.

***

Not even a day has passed since the Prime Minister’s detention.

However, the chancellor, who was released by his father’s order and accompanied him, had changed so much that he couldn’t recognize it in that short time.

His eyes were full of vicious hostility he had seen for the first time.

… Did he endure these feelings for two years and sharpen his knife?

It was the moment when I confirmed that my choice was not wrong.

The chancellor’s eyes were only on his father.

How full of miasma could you not have noticed my existence with a soft halo?

My father was speechless at that gaze, and I quietly kept my mouth shut to create a dramatic situation.

Amid such uncomfortable silence, we headed to the Marquess of Wellston, the Prime Minister’s home.

When we arrived at her parents’ house, the chancellor ran to the bedroom where her wife was waiting without saying anything to us.

I’m guessing he’ll watch over me even on his deathbed.

“I will prepare.”

“Okay, let’s begin.”

I ordered the sanitation department personnel to assemble the ingredients I ordered.

Then, the faint smell of medicine began to fill the Prime Minister’s mansion.

“Hey! You said it was a fragile material! It is dangerous if it comes into contact with the skin!”

“Sorry!”

Among the medicines used for Tears of the Sun, dangerous medicines used as poisons were also mixed.

It seems that the poisons mix with each other to neutralize each other, but honestly, I couldn’t understand how it was done.

As I was mixing the medicine like that, the long day was over and the dawn was slowly starting to come.

I checked him and immediately drew blood.

─ Most of all, drawing blood hurts so much. Decided This guy is ‘tears of the sun’. A failure who draws tears out of me….

Fishik.

I remembered the phrase that His Majesty Maximus had written down like a diary, and I laughed involuntarily.

“Your Highness?”

“Nothing. Let’s begin, priest.”

“Yes.”

The sanitation department personnel who received my blood created a serum, and the priest’s consecration was poured into the serum.

When the finished serum was mixed with the medicinal herbs prepared in advance, a subtle fragrance began to be smelled from it.

Sniff sniff.

Priscilla began sniffing her nose very weakly.

Have you become a puppy before you know it?

“Maximilian-sama’s scent….”

“What?”

“Oh no….”

The medicine, which used to have a bit of a nasty smell, smelled strangely warm.

Should I say it’s the scent that you smell on a dried blanket on a sunny day….

“Complete, Your Highness!”

“Well done. Everyone suffered a lot.”

Those who cheer in silence, fearing that there might be a problem with the tears of the sun.

It’s impossible to save rewards for these people.

‘This time, give me a decent reward, Chancellor.’

I carefully picked up the bottle of Sun’s Tears.

‘Is this only one bottle because of all the hardships?’

In addition, the expiration date cannot exceed one month.

Even after Emperor Maximus made this, it was a drug worthy of being called a failure.

“Your Majesty.”

His father clenched his fists and nodded his head.

Then I headed for the bed where the chancellor’s wife was sleeping with a little faster than usual steps.

There, the Prime Minister’s knights were standing guard, but their eyes looking at us seemed complicated in many ways.

Perhaps the chancellor realized that he harbored hostility toward the empire.

“Tell the chancellor. I brought you a cure.”

My father understood that, and he put words of consideration for the prime minister into his mouth.

The knights who heard the father’s words hurriedly reported the news to the inside, and the chancellor opened the door with a visibly embarrassed expression and ran out.

“Your Majesty… Is it really… ?”

The man standing at the edge of a cliff looked at us with despair and hope coexisting.

My father looked at the prime minister more solemnly than usual and nodded his head.

“Maximilian.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

I carefully took the Tears of the Sun from my bosom and handed it to the Prime Minister.

“Tears of the sun, Chancellor.”

“Ah, ah… aaa….”

The chancellor took the medicine with her trembling hand and hurried to the bed where her wife was lying.

We cautiously entered the room where the chancellor’s wife was lying.

‘It’s been a while, Ludwig.’

Dior and Kyle are young for their age, but you still have the boyishness that suits your age.

I know the pain you suffered as you weighed loyalty to the Empire and affection for blood with a tender heart as much as your appearance.

But now, even that will never happen.

“Honey… my love…. Please open your eyes… !”

The chancellor burst into tears and poured the sun’s tears into her wife’s mouth.

Then, a warm light began to radiate from the chancellor’s wife, and soon a healthy glow began to radiate from her face.

And finally.

“Everything, you… ?”

“Reina!”

The chancellor hugged her wife, who slowly raised her body from her bed, and began to cry.

It was the first time she had ever seen the chancellor, who always showed a stingy and harsh side, make such an expression.

It was a truly strange sight.

The moment I saw that scene, my legs gave out and I sat down.

“Wow!”

Then Priscilla, crushed between me and the wall, wriggled with a grotesque scream.

“….”

“….”

We looked at each other and laughed because this situation was so stupid.

In order not to disturb the touching reunion of the Prime Minister and his wife, we squatted with our backs against the wall in the corner of the room and let out a small sigh.

I was tired.

I stayed up all day, and I passed the test of death again and again.

I felt like I would lose my consciousness at any moment.

However, as I held that dazzling sight in my eyes, I felt that the drowsiness that was pushing me was a little bit aware and backed away.

“You saved it, Priscilla. Be proud.”

“This is Maximilian. I just….”

“No, this is a scene you created.”

I recall the hostile eyes of the chancellor.

How many citizens of the empire would have died sending their eyes toward the imperial family before dying?

You saved the lives of over a million people in the Empire, and you saved the smiles of those million families that would be lost.

Be proud, witch.

No, Priscilla.

“Thank you.”

Priscilla nodded her head, blushing a little.

“Did you have a wish? I’m in a good mood right now, so I’ll listen to pretty much anything.”

Non-gong pedagogy must be taken seriously for the country to run smoothly.

Priscilla seemed to be in a moment of trouble.

The guy who would have shook her hand and head at the same time and declined in the past seems to have become really brazen now.

But rather, she liked this look better, so she decided to wait for his reply with a happy expression.

“Once the situation is over… How about going on a picnic a little farther away?”

“Is that all? I will do whatever you want.”

“Yes, I promise.”

Priscilla smiled broadly and leaned her head on my shoulder.

Something cheesy.

But I will forgive you today.

The shoulder of the imperial family would be lighter than that of a million imperial citizens.

I looked at Priscilla, who was soundly asleep, and raised the corner of her mouth.

‘It’s a witch….’

There was something in Priscilla’s body that seemed to have been planted by the shadow of the end.

But a seed that hasn’t germinated is helpless in the face of the sun.

I don’t care if this guy is a witch anymore.

If this guy becomes a witch, she’ll be fine if she burns away all the shadows with the power of the sun and gets them back.

‘There’s still a lot left to do.’

Because now I’ve only cleared Chapter 1.

‘I want to finish it as much as possible before entering Soleil….’

I wouldn’t be able to afford that much.

First of all, as Betsy said, we must treat the body that has become muddy.

After that….

No, rest first.

Since Priscilla said she wants to go on her picnic, she can go on her trip to Arvest for a while in the name of recuperating.

On the subject of a priest who changed his race to a pig, he should also teach Count Cuckoo, who mentally abused Priscilla, the manners of treating her royal family….

Ah, I’m falling asleep….

Isn’t this enough?

I slowly closed my eyes, staring at the rising sun.