The Villainess Who Accidentally Stole Their Hearts - Chapter 173



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Episode 173

The chamberlain looked at the emperor with a bewildered expression.

He too remembered Nicaea’s words.

“I’m sorry, but I want to leave the work to capable people and just relax.”

“Well, I don’t want to get caught up in work right after my honeymoon.”

The small face that turned bright red as she proudly declared to the Emperor that she would support the 13th Prince.

Nicaearsha clearly said that she wanted to rest and had no interest in things like the position of empress.

‘But it is none other than the Emperor’s throne.’

A place where even blood-related parents and siblings trample and kill each other to get their hands on it.

Archduke Achelous can grab that supreme position with just an outstretched hand.

‘But why does Your Majesty make such a bold statement just for that reason?’

“You are having impious thoughts.”

“… … I am ashamed. However, Archduke Achelous has the right of succession, and the current political situation… … .”

The emperor chuckled.

“Yes, it is something you and I cannot even imagine. To give up the throne of the emperor just because his fiancée does not want to become empress.”

“… … I’m sorry, but that’s true.”

“But Iskalion doesn’t give up.”

“underneath-”

“That guy truly treasures Nicaea’s smile more than the emperor’s crown.”

The emperor snorted, “Huh?”

“I’m sure he likes it inside. The Grand Duke spends more time with his wife than the Emperor.”

“… … .”

“I don’t like the Emperor’s position and the fact that I won’t have time to spend with Nike, but I’m glad that Nike doesn’t like it either—that’s probably what he’s thinking.”

“… … .”

The attendant kept his mouth shut.

It was absurd from a common sense perspective, but somehow I couldn’t refute it.

Iskalion really seems to think so.

“… … Grand Duke Achelous is truly noble, with his face, body, status, and wealth.”

“Huh, that guy is the best? He’s the most sinister. Just look at him going to kill another man without Nike knowing.”

“Your Majesty, I beg you to… … .”

“Did you see the notification he gave to Jim earlier? He said outright that he would interrogate him but would not take his statement! Even in front of the Emperor, he would act cute and gentle in front of Nike.”

The servant’s face instantly turned pale.

‘The cute and gentle Archduke Achelous… ‘

I thought it was ridiculous, but then I remembered a scene I had witnessed earlier.

Iskalion was jealous and sullen towards Nicaearsha.

Because he had such a handsome face, even that suited him well… … .

‘I was so scared that I erased it from my memory.’

Knowing Iskalion’s true form, I was just scared.

The chief said after sealing the memory again for the sake of his mental health.

“Why are you so upset? Do you still want to take the princess as your daughter-in-law?”

“no!”

The emperor shouted.

“Now I just want you to be my daughter!”

Are you saying that you were serious about being sticky last time?

The chamberlain looked at the emperor with cloudy eyes.

* * *

The deepest, darkest abyss of the Imperial Palace’s brain prison.

Raphael, who had been lying on the ground covered in blood, felt a presence and raised his head.

A tall man approached, wearing dark shadows.

Just by the majestic outline, Raphael knew who the man was.

“Wow, what an honor! Cool, the Duke of Achelous himself came all the way to this wretched place to see me.”

Raphael spat out bloody saliva.

His entire body was covered in blood, bruises, and burn marks.

But even the harsh torture at the palace could not break Raphael’s spirit.

Iskalion looked down at Raphael with indifferent eyes.

“Raphael Hayes.”

I just called his name.

However, Raphael was so overwhelmed by the overwhelming aura that he couldn’t even breathe freely.

Even darkness seemed heavy and had mass in front of this man.

The smile slowly disappeared from Raphael’s face.

Raphael squeezed his voice as if resisting his body that was shrinking on its own.

“Why? Did Grand Duke Achelous come to ask me to hear a word from you? If you ask politely, I will think about it—”

“How dare you look at Nike with those dirty eyes.”

A cold voice fell like a blade.

At the same time, Raphael felt his left eye being erased.

“Kuaaaah!”

A terrible scream tore through my throat.

The erasure of existence did not end with mere disappearance.

A gaping abyss where eyes have been erased.

The tangible void gnawed at my nerves, and the materialized nothingness ate at my soul.

“He grabbed Nike’s arm with his unclean hands and broke it.”

“Ugh, ugh—!”

From each joint of both hands to the wrists, they were slowly erased as if they were being consumed by darkness.

The abyss that greedily devoured Raphael’s hand did not stop there.

It crawled up my arm past my wrist.

Pure agony caused blood to bubble from Raphael’s mouth.

“Your footsteps made Nike tremble.”

The ankle was erased.

No, my knees were erased.

Everything that makes me up is being erased, one by one.

“Ugh, ugh! Huh, eugh… Aaaah!”

Raphael thought he knew why Iskalion had spared his right eye.

You have to see it for yourself.

In addition to the pain, you are asked to feel a gradually fading fear.

Raphael writhed, twisting his remaining body like a man in a frenzy.

“S, save me, save me—”

The unbearable pain caused my intraocular pressure to rise.

Raphael cried out with tears of blood streaming down his one remaining eye.

Since his limbs had already been erased, it was difficult to even crawl with his remaining body.

Raphael, who had barely managed to get in front of Iskalion, raised his head, trembling.

“Okay, I was wrong. I, ugh! I was wrong… … . So, bang!”

Only about five minutes had passed.

But Raphael seemed like a different person.

He didn’t even realize that he was worse than a bug crawling on the floor of a dungeon, eating a corpse.

I’m just scared, scared, scared, and I’m just squirming like a bug that’s turned its stomach inside out.

“Please, please, please, please… … .”

Iskalion looked down at the figure with his inorganic eyes.

Now, Raphael was nowhere to be found, giggling and ruining Nicaea’s life.

There was also the sight of him getting annoyed and asking why she couldn’t endure it any longer while performing all sorts of cruel experiments on Nicaearsha’s body.

There were only worms begging for life in an ugly way.

Iskalion commented briefly upon seeing the sight.

“I guess it’s still worth living.”

“… … !”

Raphael’s body jerked and convulsed.

The brain was disappearing inside my head.

Not even a scream came out.

Raphael croaked with his mouth open.

The limbs that had been lost before I knew it were coming back to life.

Raphael’s nails dug into my scalp as if they were scratching.

Inside, the brain was being erased and then restored repeatedly.

No, it wasn’t just the brain.

Everywhere Iskalion’s gaze landed, it was erased and then revived repeatedly.

“Kill me, kill me, kill me, let me die, please. Kill me. Kill me… .”

It cannot exist without Iskalion’s permission.

Dying was the same.

I can’t even die without this man’s permission.

“It’s not enough yet.”

But Iskalion did not allow Raphael to rest.

“Cough! Ugh!”

Iskalion’s gaze turned to the wall.

I could sense a muffled presence beyond the wall.

I cover my mouth as I listen to Raphael’s blood-boiling screams.

Iskalion smiled coldly.

“Don’t be too sad. Soon your turns will be evenly distributed.”

In the darkness, the blue eyes that held the divine nature shone brightly.

* * *

‘Ugh… … I can’t even cry anymore. Can I raise my head?’

I hesitated for a moment and then raised my head, feeling embarrassed.

It was nice to cry a lot, but after the crying subsided, I felt a little embarrassed.

I look at my family as if nothing happened—

“Pfft!”

When I saw Akainu’s face, I burst out laughing.

“What? Why are you laughing?”

“Akain’s eyes look like fish eyes!”

It was so swollen that it looked like a real fish’s eye.

Akainu opened his eyes wide.

Even so, it’s just a carp’s eye.

“You don’t think so? Your eyes look like they’ve been eaten by three carp! They’re so swollen and ugly!”

“Did you lose your vision because your eyes were swollen, Akaine?”

“That’s what I call cute, Akain.”

Jerno and his father sternly reprimanded Akain.

The problem is that both of them are in a state of confusion.

“Phew… … !”

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My family, who saw me desperately holding back laughter, eventually burst out laughing.

We looked at each other with equally swollen eyes as if to prove that we were family.

“… …Nike.”

“No apologies allowed.”

“But we made you lonely.”

“I left you alone in that pain.”

“When I think about how you must have felt, I want to strangle myself.”

“It was really sad. I had a lot of resentment.”

The family’s eyes sparkled darkly.

I smiled brightly.

“But now I know the truth.”

It wasn’t just my past that I was ‘resonating’ with.

I also saw the past contained in the magic that Mikarin held.

“Mother’s hair ornament, it wasn’t given to Mikarin… … .”

“… … .”

“You gave it to me and told me to pass it on.”

[Nike said she didn’t want to come? No matter what, it’s her mother’s anniversary… ]

[I’ll go and get him right away—]

[Don’t do that, brothers!]

[… … Mikarin.]

[My sister is already saying that she will cut ties with her family. If you force her to come see me, she will really cut ties with me.]

My family wanted me to celebrate my mother’s death with them.

It was Mikarin who stopped it.

[I also begged her to go with me just today. But my sister said that if I kept doing that, she wouldn’t even look at my face… … .]

[… … Are you saying that Nike hated it that much?]

[I don’t even celebrate my mother’s death anniversary because I hate seeing her face…]

[Have you forgotten? No matter how many times I’ve come to the mansion, you haven’t even shown me your face. If you keep asking to see me, I might just leave the system.]

When I heard that, I realized.

Without me knowing, my family came to see me several times.

[… …Tell this to Nike.]

[This is… … .]

[This is something my mother enjoyed while she was alive. I’m sure Nike misses her too. Who knows, maybe she’ll come on the anniversary.]

[… … My sister probably wouldn’t like receiving something like this. She always says it’s nice to get out of that annoying corner of the house.]

After that, my brothers

“Your sister told you to do it.”

I was hurt when I saw Mikarin carrying around her mother’s belongings as if she was a fool.
“It was uncomfortable when Mikarin called me ‘dad’ and linked arms with me, but she endured it out of consideration for me.”

[dad!]

[… … Mikarin.]

[I missed you so much, Dad. I’m so glad you escorted me like this today!]

The video that Mikarin showed.

The next scene was of my father pulling his arm out with a stern look on his face.

[… … Because Nike asked.]

[Sister, aren’t you going too far? In the letter you sent to Dad, you just asked him to escort you without even saying hello.]

[That’s okay.]

[yes?]

[It would be okay if I could at least get in touch with her that way.]

“The reason I adopted Mikarin as my daughter was because I wanted to maintain my connection with her.”

Please, consider me dead and forget about me. If you need your daughter, take Mikarin instead.

I’m sick of it. Princess Delosif should be the greatest Awakener of all time. Fill that position with Mikarin and free me!

Anyway, the only person who felt like family to me was Mikarin. The reason I’m contacting you like this is because Mikarin is still at that house.

I can’t forget the shocked look on my father’s face when he saw the letter with such horrible content.

It was when Mikarin’s ‘brainwashing’ reached its peak.

Even Raphael, who knew it was brainwashing, gave everything to Mikarin.

But even that brainwashing couldn’t break my family’s love for me.

“So, my father and brothers have nothing to be sorry about.”

I was sincere.

.

.

Grand Duke Delosif looked at his daughter with trembling eyes.

The two sons couldn’t take their eyes off the youngest’s face.

A face that just smiles without any complaints.

‘Those years won’t be easily forgotten.’

Just watching it from the side made my heart feel like it was being ripped out.

What’s more, Nicaea, who experienced it firsthand…

“… … Even with all those memories, you came to me first.”

When I returned home after a long time, I remembered the face of Nicaea, who had been hovering around me, hesitantly.

“And you forgave me so easily.”

The love of his daughter was so great that Archduke Delosif could not even fathom it.

“… … I was wrong too.”

“What are you doing.”

“You only heard Mikarin’s words and misunderstood your father and brother’s true feelings.”

“It’s my fault you thought that way—”

“If it’s Dad’s fault, it’s also my fault.”

“Nike.”

“They say it’s all Mikarin’s fault.”

Nicaearsha smiled brightly.

“He deserves to get cursed at.”

At that laughter, smiles gradually appeared on the faces of the family members.

“If anything happens in the future, I will definitely come home and tell my father and brothers.”

“… …Come to my house?”

The faces of the family that had been warmly relaxed suddenly became stiff.

“You sound like you’re definitely going to leave home.”

“Huh? Uh… … .”

Nicaearsha’s face turned red in embarrassment.

It was natural that the three men’s faces became more rigid.

‘I originally planned to break off the engagement as soon as the succession war was over.’

‘The five-minute divorce law has also been announced to other nobles.’

‘I’ve already prepared the paperwork for breaking off the engagement.’

But Iskalion sacrificed his life to turn back time.

Only to save Nicaea.

I couldn’t bring myself to object after seeing that.

“Nike.”

“Oh, that’s right. I have to meet His Majesty the Emperor early tomorrow morning. Now, I should go to bed!”

Nicaearsha stood up from her seat, muttering awkwardly in a way that everyone could tell was strange.

Even that appearance makes me feel even more heartbroken because it looks cute in the eyes of my family.

‘How can I let go of a child like that!’

The family suffered, neither in favor of the marriage nor outright opposed to it like before.

Butler Walter, who was watching the scene from the side, thought.

‘It’s like a concubine who can’t stop the Emperor from going to the Empress and just suffers inwardly… Is that right?’

I wonder if it is right to look at Archduke Delosif and the Archduke’s children like that.

‘Still, it looks much better than before.’

Walter smiled happily.

* * *

The next day.

Nicaearsha finished preparing and headed to the palace.

In front of the Imperial Palace stood Rubystan, who had arrived first.

“Nike.”

Rubystan smiled as he discovered Nikaearsha.

But the smile was a little stiffer than usual.

“… … Are you planning on telling me yourself?”

“I should do it myself. That’s the least I can do.”

Nicaearsha looked at Rubystan for a moment.

“I never thought Your Majesty would denounce the First Empress.”

“For something like that, you know my heart too well.”

“Even if it means earning your parents’ resentment for the rest of their lives, don’t arbitrarily disparage the heart of a child who wants to correct their parents’ mistakes!”

“Shouldn’t His Majesty, as a parent, know better than I how courageous and great an act that was?”

These were the words that Nicaea said to the First Empress at the trial.

The two walked in silence for a moment.

After some hesitation, Rubystan opened his mouth.

“Even after learning the truth, will His Majesty the Emperor still think of me as his son?”

Only then did Nicaearsha realize why the Emperor was marked in black on Rubystan’s ‘Human Relations’.

Rubystan was just scary.

What will my father think of me?

‘I’m afraid that my father won’t think of me as his son, that I won’t become my father’s son… ‘

That’s why I couldn’t come up with a definition.

Because relationships can’t be one-sided.

‘To Rubystan, the Emperor has always been a father.’

Even at moments when the letters turned black and unreadable.

‘If the Emperor tells him that he will continue to think of him as a son, Rubystan will find comfort and courage.’

but.

“I don’t know.”

Nicaearsha shrugged.

“But there were times when I was anxious, too. I was so scared because I didn’t know what my father really thought.”

“… … .”

“So, I know your heart, even if not completely, I know a little bit.”

Rubystan stopped walking and looked at Nikaearsha.

Nicaea does not tell lies.

It doesn’t even speak of a hopeful future.

But the words that contain the truth, the gazes that meet quietly—

‘… … I really wish you were in my life.’

But at this moment, Nicaea is by my side.

‘So I can say.’

Rubystan entered the inner chamber where the Emperor was waiting, accompanied by Nicaea.

‘Today, I will die in exchange for revealing the truth.’

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