I Am The Villainess With A Maxed-Out Luck Stat - Chapter 164



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164. Another Interviewer

After Marquis Balton left the dungeon, Shiloh couldn’t close her eyes.

She had been up all night, completely exhausted by dawn.

Fatigue had already built up.

The mind, pushed to its limit, wandered between consciousness and unconsciousness.

But whenever I tried to doze off, my son’s face would come to mind and I couldn’t fall asleep.

“I just want to see my son once, just once… … .”

As Shiloh muttered to herself, someone stood in front of her.

“You don’t have to beg so much, we’ll meet soon.”

“Why are you here… … .”

Shiloh looked up in surprise.

To my surprise, the person standing in front of me was the empress.

She was also accompanied by guards and escorts. The Iron-Blooded Empress was surrounded by armed men, creating an even more oppressive atmosphere than usual.

Gulp, Shiloh swallowed instinctively.

The empress looked down at her with emotionless eyes.

“The date of execution for you and your son has been set.”

“… … !”

“The day of execution will be tomorrow, a public execution in the square. The miserable end of your mother and son must be shown to the world. So that no one dares challenge the power.”

A cold smile spread across the Empress’s face.

“How, how… … .”

Shiloh’s legs gave out and she slumped to the ground.

The fear she was desperately trying to ignore was squeezing her throat.

She was more afraid of her son’s death than of her own. The guilt of not being able to protect her son tormented her like a leech.

Shiloh glared at the empress.

“You never even thought of saving me from the beginning!”

“what?”

“You used me to set a trap for me, to kill my son in a more miserable way!”

Shiloh screamed in agony.

A scream-like outburst rang out loud.

Then the smile disappeared from the Empress’s lips in an instant.

“It’s ugly.”

The voice, as cold as ice, made the chilly prison even colder.

“I must tell you straight. It was you, Lady Shiloh, who killed your son, not me.”

“……what?”

“Haven’t I already given you more than enough opportunities? Who kicked those opportunities away?”

He has already given many chances.

He gave her a chance to take upon herself the sins of her son, and to end her own wickedness by getting rid of the puppet emperor.

Even so, he even looked after Shiloh himself, fearing that she wouldn’t be able to do it on her own.

But since he had failed to make things work, now he had to pay the price.

“If you want to blame me, blame my incompetence.”

The Empress glanced at Shiloh coldly.

“X who deserves divine punishment… … .”

Shiloh’s face contorted.

As she began to curse and swear, the warden and his guards came running.

“How dare a traitor insult Her Majesty the Empress!”

“This is an insult to the royal family!”

They subdued Shiloh roughly. Shiloh fell down helplessly like a paper doll.

“Ugh… … !”

I wanted to kill him.

I wanted to chew that damn enemy up and kill him painfully.

However, the opponent was the empress of a country, and he himself was in a situation where he could not even take a single step out of a one-pyeong prison.

Shiloh blurted out a word to the Empress, who was about to leave the prison without any hesitation.

“Shall I make a prophecy?”

The empress stopped walking.

“You too will die a miserable death like me one day. Abandoned by your son, kicked out by your husband, you will die in the most miserable way.”

“You’re really throwing a tantrum.”

The empress snickered, letting out a faint laugh.

“Do you think that would be a curse to me?”

“… … !”

“Well, you must be afraid of being abandoned. You can’t do anything on your own. You’re a poor woman with nothing but a pretty face.”

The Empress lifted Shiloh’s chin between her thumb and index finger.

His sharp gaze scanned Shiloh’s face, one by one. Her flower-like beauty was withered, covered by despair and sorrow.

“It’s a shame that even that has outlived its usefulness.”

Shiloh felt a surge of shame at the blatant, contemptuous gaze.

“Let go of this!”

She roughly shook off the empress’s touch. As she was grumbling and suppressing her anger, the empress opened her mouth.

“Let me tell you something too.”

“what?”

“Last night, the Marquis of Balton came back after accusing you. He said that the criminal was plotting evil in prison, so he wanted to be executed as soon as possible. Because of his request, the execution date was set earlier than scheduled.”

“… … !”

“How does it feel? Being betrayed by someone you trusted.”

Shiloh bit her lip.

From the beginning, the author was someone who had no faith.

There was no need to be shocked if someone who had betrayed you once betrayed you twice.

But my situation was more and more miserable as I was driven further and further into a corner by someone’s cunning words.

The fact that he was a weak and helpless being who could not protect even one thing precious to him became a stab in the eye.

“… … .”

The empress looked down at her with her domineering eyes, shuddering with a terrible sense of helplessness.

* * *

As morning dawned, a massive guillotine was set up in the central square of the capital city.

The news that the heinous criminal who had attempted to assassinate the emperor was being executed quickly spread throughout the capital.

A large crowd gathered from dawn to see the sight.

The Empress, Perwin, and Margrave Balton were also seated on the high tables outside the stage.

The Empress looked at the guillotine with a calm expression that made it impossible to read her intentions, while Perwin looked at it with a troubled expression.

At midday the executioners brought the criminals up onto the stage.

“Die!”

“Kill the sinner now!”

“Traitors, dirty government!”

When the two criminals appeared, the crowd rose up like a swarm of bees.

The incident in which the government and its illegitimate child attempted to assassinate the emperor aroused public outrage regardless of social status.

Unlike the virtuous empress, Shiloh was extremely vain and extravagant.

Since she was brought into the government, criticism poured in that the national finances had become extravagant and that the emperor had become negligent in state affairs.

The Emperor even slyly shifted the blame heaped on me onto Shiloh, causing Shiloh’s public reputation to plummet.

The fact that she attempted to assassinate the emperor was a great shock to the public, and the shock soon turned to anger.

The Empress fueled the crowd’s anger.

Instead of declaring Cayenne as the Emperor’s illegitimate child, she announced that Shiloh had a child with another man.

This made the people even more angry, and public opinion was in an uproar, demanding that the dirty government be executed immediately.

“Die!”

“You look like a brutal criminal!”

Cayenne and Shiloh, the two of them, climbed the stairs with their hands tied.

A stone flew onto the stage.

Shiloh’s ears were ringing from the jeers and shouting, but she kept her eyes focused on her son.

Now, the child’s face, which had grown up so much, overlapped with his childhood appearance.

“Baby, my baby… … .”

When I first met him, I felt like I had the whole world.

I just wanted to give happiness to the child who brought me so much joy.

I promised myself that I would not pass on a miserable and shabby life to my beloved child.

I will raise him to be the son of the emperor and not be envious of others.

But hope soon turned to despair.

“Shiloh Valentine, forward.”

The executioner’s cold voice pointed to her.

It was the moment I had been longing for.

I just want to see my child once, I just want to meet him once again.

Her fervent wish came true in the worst way possible.

On either side, guards grabbed her by the arms and pulled her away.

Death was waiting for her right before her eyes.

“Now, just a moment!”

“… … !”

Shiloh, who was being dragged to the guillotine, desperately fought off the guards’ hands.

“Just a moment, just a moment… … . Please give me time to talk to my son one last time. Please.”

“What are you doing?”

As Shiloh pleaded, the guards watched the empress’s expression.

As the Empress nodded silently, the guards released their grip on Shiloh.

“Baby, my lovely baby.”

Tears flowed ceaselessly down Shiloh’s dry cheeks.

“Baby, I wanted to do everything for you. I wanted to do anything, even if it meant giving up my life.”

“… … .”

Even as she strangled the emperor, she thought of her son.

How resentful must he have felt, how much resentment and longing for his parents must have pierced his bones.

“I never forgot you for a single moment. I lived my whole life in regret and longing.”

She stroked Cayenne’s cheek.

I felt sorry and sad for the warmth that passed by my fingertips.

How I lived, how much I was sick, how hard it was… … .

I wanted to know everything.

I missed you so much that my heart ached and my intestines broke.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, my baby. My baby, for whom I wouldn’t mind giving my heart… … .”

Shiloh whispered something in Cayenne’s ear.

Then Cayenne’s eyes grew as big as lanterns.

Shiloh stumbled as the guard, sensing something strange, tried to stop her.

“Ah, ahh… … .”

The bright sunlight shone like a mirage above her head.

It was a dazzling brilliance that I once believed was mine.

She twisted her limbs in pain as she felt the scorching sun on her whole body.

A shrill scream echoed through the square.

“Ahh, ahh …

“Wh, what’s going on!”

The crowd was in chaos and roared, and Perwin also jumped to his feet.

“W-Wow. That crazy woman… …!”

The Marquis of Balton’s face turned completely blue.

The guards tried to grab her, but Shiloh’s body was already engulfed in flames and burning fiercely.

A hellish pain where every single organ is burning in flames.

In that excruciating agony, her body collapsed into ashes.