Please Leave The Sickly Villainess Alone

The one who flew at me was none other than Creya, the Emperor’s mistress, exuding murderous intent.

Erasing her earlier naive appearance, she charged at me, swinging daggers in both hands.

I instantly summoned the Crimson Blade to block her attack.

“Oh ho. You’re not wearing that crown for nothing, are you?”

The sound of metal clashing filled the terrace, but it was drowned out by the roaring waves, not reaching the hall inside. It would be the same even if I screamed.

Creya attacked with her sharp daggers as if to stab them into my body, but I managed to block them all.

However, when I thought I had reached my limit, I decided I should borrow Tharo’s power, just as I had when facing the demonic beasts.

‘Tharo, I need your help again!’

[Master, are you always in danger?!]

Tharo, who would be rolling around with Terry at the mansion, urgently summoned a magic circle around me remotely.

Just as yesterday, when the purple magic circle filled the terrace floor and expanded to Creya’s feet.

‘Wh-what…!’

Creya was blocking the expansion of the magic circle with her hand.

[Master, what’s happening!]

As she smirked and twirled her hand, the magic circle that had been glowing purple instantly disappeared, and my connection with Tharo was cut off.

“You, you were a mage?!”

“Yes, I’m a mage. A mage who really hates mages like you who handle holy power.”

Creya quickly approached me again and unleashed her attacks. I knew my arms were starting to strain, but I couldn’t stop blocking her attacks.

Creya would threaten my life if I relaxed even a little.

The crown was now rolling on the floor.

I instinctively felt that she was superior to me. How had such a dangerous assassin been playing the role of the Emperor’s mistress so perfectly until now?

“What’s the reason for this! Your mother too, there must be a reason why you’re doing this to me?!”

“You think I’d tell you? Besides, whatever the reason, I would have killed you anyway. It’s the first time the will of my ancestors has stirred so strongly within me.”

‘…Ancestors?’

The fierce confrontation, which had been overwhelming for me both physically and technically, ended when Creya dropped her two daggers and raised her hands to cast magic that felt like dark energy.

“Kuh… As expected, your skills aren’t dead.”

The dark energy, contrasting with the bright blue sky, instantly struck my body and sent me flying over the railing.

This sticky energy was undoubtedly dark magic.

My body, thrown far away, was about to plummet straight into the sea.

Creya left me like that for a moment, straightened her disheveled clothes, and was preparing to return to the banquet hall as if nothing had happened.

‘I can’t let that happen!’

I instantly raised the Crimson Blade and shot the same sword energy as yesterday at Creya, and she barely dodged it with a startled flinch.

Kwagwagwang-!

The sword energy destroyed the terrace door, and immediately a crowd gathered.

“Wh-what happened!”

“Oh my! Look over there! Lady Rayes is floating in the air, possessed by dark energy!”

As people gathered, Creya showed a moment of hesitation before shouting at me in a biting voice.

“Ha, miss! You keep making trouble till the end? Should I thank you for letting me quit this miserable mistress job?”

Creya immediately made the dark energy disappear. At the same time, I fell from the sky towards the distant cliff where waves were crashing below.

“Ria!! No!”

Dad and Drehan pushed through the crowd and rushed towards me, while Miller was charging to kill Creya, who was about to throw another dagger at me.

“Jen!”

The sound of fierce waves came close. As I was falling at high speed, I called out Jen’s name.

I barely had time to feel white light seeping from the silver ring on my finger before I tightly closed my eyes, bracing for the imminent impact.

When nothing happened even after time passed, I cautiously opened my eyes.

In front of me, I saw Jen with a surprised expression, his blue hair fluttering as he floated above the sea. And thanks to Jen’s magic, I was safely lying inside a transparent water droplet.

“Miss! What happened?!”

Jen, who had rushed over the sea in one step with a splashing sound, raised my body.

“I-I was attacked by an assassin. I really thought I was going to die this time…”

“You fell from that high place, I see.”

Jen lifted me in his arms and moved to where the terrace was. There, we faced two men who looked like they were about to throw themselves over the railing.

“St-stop! Dad, Brother Drehan! I’m here!”

“Ria!”

“Are you safe?!”

And when I looked up, I saw Creya locked in a fierce fight with Miller. Now she had torn off her cumbersome skirt and was fighting Miller in the full appearance of an assassin.

And just as she was about to use dark magic on Miller as she had done to me, raising her hand.

I instantly re-summoned the Crimson Blade, which had sunk deep into the sea, and threw it straight at Creya’s hand.

“Kyaaak!”

Creya, sensing it, tried to withdraw her hand immediately, but the Crimson Blade continued to accelerate even as it flew, cutting off several of her fingers before she could fully withdraw.

“Miss! Are you crazy?! Ow, it really hurts!”

Is that something to say from someone who just tried to send me to my death!

Creya, glaring at me, sensed the commotion around and the approaching Imperial Guard, and summoned a teleportation magic circle.

“Next time we meet, I’ll really kill you properly, miss.”

“Wait! Jen, can’t you track that?”

Creya was disappearing instantly through the magic circle. Even as Miller threw his sword at her, now semi-transparent, it just passed through.

“Magic based on dark power can’t be tracked. If she disappears like that…!”

I was obviously going to be exposed to constant danger. Today too, death was right in front of me!

At that moment, a sword emitting an elegant light flew at high speed towards Creya through the crowd.

‘That’s, that’s the sword Luka uses!’

The bluish blade pierced Creya’s shoulder, who had almost completely disappeared.

“Kyaaaah!”

Then Creya, who had nullified all of Miller’s attacks while semi-transparent, reappeared and dripped blood.

Luka, who had pushed through the crowd and entered the terrace, first checked on my safety as I floated in the air in Jen’s arms, then looked down at the writhing Creya with a cold gaze.

Luka’s sword had been passed down from the ancient Greluphien Kingdom.

Having gone through numerous wars with magic countries, the sword possessed abilities specialized against dark magic.

Luka pressed the sword down firmly and spoke to Creya in a chilling voice.

“Reveal your backer. Otherwise, you die here.”

Even in a situation where an ordinary person would spill everything immediately, Creya only let out pain-filled groans without opening her mouth.

Then, with a calm face, she looked up at Luka with wide eyes and smiled.

As people looked at her as if she were crazy, her seductive lips opened.

“Pain is no longer a weapon against me, Your Highness. I’ve cut off my nerves with dark magic, making my body insensitive to pain.”

Luka pulled out his sword with a disgusted look, and blood droplets splattered around.

“I feel like I’ve seen a clan with such an appearance somewhere before…”

Jen, who was holding me, muttered.

Soon, Luka ordered the Imperial Guard, who had rushed to the terrace, to prepare anti-demonic beast restraints and arrest her.

People with wide eyes seemed unable to accept this situation for a while. Then, as Jen and I finally set foot on the ground, various voices were heard.

‘Isn’t that face Jen Carno?’

‘If it’s Jen Carno, isn’t he the next Magic Tower Master?’

‘So the rumor that he was in charge of Lady Rayes was true.’

Next Magic Tower Master, he was a higher-level personnel than I thought.

As I was composing myself from the surprise, a guard who had brought restraints that looked heavy at a glance put the irons on Creya’s hands.

“Le-let go!”

It wasn’t an empty claim that they were for demonic beasts; Creya, who had been struggling, collapsed like a doll once the handcuffs were on.

Jen approached her and contained Creya, who was barely keeping her venomous eyes open, in a magical tool he summoned for the first time.

“What’s that, Jen?”

“It’s a magical tool I developed recently. It can record this situation without drawing a picture.”

Jen showed me a square, semi-transparent object, which contained an image of Creya as if it were a photograph.

“I’m going to ask the Magic Tower Master. The old geezer might know about this clan.”

Creya suddenly appeared and tried to kill me using dark magic. Remembering the moment just before falling into the crashing waves made my body shudder.

Luka ordered Creya to be transferred to the imperial underground prison, and the Claire festival seemed to be concluding, leaving only surprise.

People left one by one, leaving words of comfort and concern for me, and Jen and I remained on the terrace as the sunset faded.

“Jen, thank you for coming earlier. If you hadn’t come, I can’t swim, so I would have drowned.”

“It’s nothing.”

“I’ll give this ring back. I ended up using the one-time chance like this. It was just at the right time.”

“Keep it, it’s just a means to contact me. If another dangerous situation arises next time, will you not call me because you’ve used up your wish?”

“I thought you emphasized it was just once last time…?”

“I’m not that stingy.”

“Thank you…”

“More importantly, if I stay away too long, I’ll get scolded by the Magic Tower Master, so I’ll be going now. Take care of yourself.”

Jen left with a brief farewell and quickly disappeared. At that moment, I heard footsteps behind me.

When I turned my head, sunset-like eyes were fully focused on me.

“Creya has just been imprisoned in the deepest part of the underground prison. It will be difficult to find out the circumstances that led her to attack you, but…”

“She won’t open her mouth easily. If there’s a backer, it would be someone who uses dark magic like that woman, and it won’t be easy to find them either.”

She clearly said earlier that the will of her ancestors was stirring.

If it’s related to the forces of the magic country that used dark magic, there was a high probability that Kablos was involved as well.