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Chapter 289
A Twisted Plan
Ferda headed toward the City Hall.
He didn't want to bring her to Valdrova Castle.
He wanted to show that she wasn't such an important guest, but merely a passing figure.
Fortunately, that intention worked to some extent.
No one questioned her identity as Sierra's Saintess upon seeing Angrem following behind.
Е̌.ň ǔ m̄ а .іd
"Ruri."
"Yes."
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"Sorry, but I'll have the story from here on be just between the two of us."
"Understood. I'll patrol the village."
Ruri bowed deeply and vacated her spot.
Ferda immediately unfolded a mana barrier so that no one could eavesdrop.
Е n̄ û.m̆ а̀ . і̌d́
Only after double-checking like tapping a stone bridge before crossing did Ferda take his seat.
Ferda looked at the woman sitting across from him.
'Sierra's Saintess.'
He was already acquainted with this woman.
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She had danced with him at the wedding; before that, at Heinkel Kingdom's castle; even earlier, she had disguised herself as a young noble lady during the Spring Festival.
She had introduced herself as Sierra's Mercy, Chain, and the Saintess of the Full Moon.
W̊ ѐ b̂n̄ o v е̂l̃ Ёn um̂ ä
Green hair with narrowly opened eyes.
Her glossy skin looked like a woman in her 20s prime, but Ferda could sense from her skill.
'This woman is absolutely not in her 20s.'
She's already at a master's level in martial arts, and in mana management she displays skill above a 5th Circle mage.
To have reached a master's level in both, she must be at least over eighty.
"If I'm not being oversensitive, it seems you're having a terribly rude thought."
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She said while drinking tea.
Ferda answered that question.
"I thought you were around eighty years old."
"Hoho, telling a woman she's old is incredibly rude? Don't say such things carelessly to a 20-year-old maiden. You might end up dead if you're not careful. Understand?"
When age was mentioned, killing intent thickened considerably.
I thought she'd be skilled at lying, but she wasn't as much as I thought.
W ẽb̄ n̈ô v̂ е́l̄ Ѐ.n ú mа
Or maybe that was just her reverse scale.
"How did you stop that ritual?"
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Ferda asks about her actions as his first question.
The killing intent she'd emitted vanished as if it never existed, and a faint smile settled in its place.
"To put it simply, it's close to a massage."
"Massage?"
Éňů m̃а . ĩd
"It's forcibly circulating the mana converging in the heart. Relaxing the muscles and putting them in a peaceful state."
"And you killed them like that."
"Isn't dying without feeling anything the truest mercy, rather than dying painfully?"
It was a thought befitting a follower of Sierra.
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"So thrusting a sword into the heart wasn't simply tension/force."
"Yes, it's vibration. It's simple enough that even Regent Ferda could learn it if you just spent a little time."
Ẇ е̌ bn̂о v̆ ē l̆ _Е́ n̈um а
"I'll pass."
"Wouldn't it be better to learn? There's nothing this good for getting closer between lovers? Hands moving slyly here and there, ooh, how nice. Kyaa."
Angrem swaying with her hand on her face.
Even such frivolous behavior struck Ferda as something only an older woman would do.
"It seems you're having another rude thought."
"Let's stop the useless talk."
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Ferda didn't suit her lightness.
Angrem said she wanted to talk, and Ferda obliged.
"Why did you reveal yourself before me?"
"Well, I couldn't bear to watch 11 innocent people die... you wouldn't believe me if I said that, right?"
"I won't believe it."
"I don't want to tell such an obvious lie either."
Еṅ uḿ а. іd
While laughing in the light atmosphere, she glanced toward the door.
Nothing should have been detectable due to the blocking magic.
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"Could you briefly release the locking magic? It seems my companion just finished their business and returned."
This place should be blocked off, yet she sensed her companion coming.
Ferda, thinking he might be tricked, briefly released the barrier as Angrem requested.
That was when it happened.
Wӗb n оv̄ el̆ Ě ñ ü m̆ а̂
As all senses blocked from the outside expanded, Ferda could feel it.
"Uht."
It was felt clearly.
That something primordial he'd never felt before was standing outside that door.
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Soon after, the door opened and the existence hidden by the door revealed its identity.
The moment that form stepped inside, Ferda felt a strange sensation.
W е̄ b̊ṅ о̌.v е l Е n_ũm̂ а
A chill as if something cold and sharp had grazed his own neck.
An absolute concept that didn't even allow a moment to resist.
Unavoidable death appeared before him.
Black hair, wearing a rag like a robe, and a large dog leash.
Eyes without emotion.
She was Sierra's Revenge, Sierra's Wolf, the Saintess of the Waning Moon.
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'And the woman I saved......'
Yubel.
Was saving this woman connected to Sierra the right thing to do?
Just as Ferda had that doubt, everything changed like a lie.
The murderous atmosphere composing Yubel reversed.
She walked toward Ferda.
Еn̈ū.m̄ ǎ_. id
Even walking fast, there were no footsteps at all.
"...What?"
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Ferda, unable to forget the death from moments ago, asked while wary of her.
Making even that wariness pointless, she knelt right there. Then she carefully touched Ferda's hands with both of hers and pulled them to her side.
She kissed the back of Ferda's hand.
"Oh my."
W̄e̊ b̀novе̇l̂ Еǹùm̊ a
"...?"
After that, all sensations changed heterogeneously.
The wolf that brought death until just now started looking like a dog wagging its tail.
After kissing deeply, that woman opened her mouth.
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"Ferda."
Three clear syllables coming from her mouth.
Ẽn ū m а̃ ..i d̀
"Oh my. Yubel, you're truly bold. Stop that and come here quickly."
"Sak."
"You shouldn't come on so strong at a first meeting? It looks like you have no chastity. And above all, he's a taken man."
"....."
Angrem spoke as if enjoying herself, and Yubel finally rose from her spot and stood beside Angrem.
"Please forgive the rudeness. Yubel had an extremely special experience."
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"Special experience?"
"That child is a wolf, the Sword of Punishment, a child who lived only to kill something. She never thought she'd be saved by someone, but you saved her."
"Just that?"
"Just that is everything."
Just that is everything.
Ferda knows what that heart is.
È.n̄ǔḿ а̀. іd
Ferda looked at Yubel again.
She was staring blankly at Ferda with a dazed face.
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Ferda averted his eyes from Yubel's appearance.
"Please answer my question now. Why did you reveal yourself?"
"I should."
Angrem, who had been nothing but light, spoke with gravity.
Ёn u ṁа
"On the wedding day, I told you, didn't I, Ferda-nim?"
"You said I'd become the Mad Moon."
Mother, Sierra only wishes for Ferda to be unhappy.
"Sierra, our mother may call us children, but we're merely tools. Preventing the Mad Moon's birth, upholding that will, never able to rest eternally... that's our fate."
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"And you said I'm the one who can sever that."
"Yes."
Е̇ n.ŭ m̃ а
"The reason you revealed yourself like this... can I take it that you found the method?"
Angrem smiled.
"That's right."
The way to not become unhappy.
The way to not become the Mad Moon that seeks to destroy everything.
The way to not kill Valdrova.
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"What is it?"
Ferda hoped for an answer.
"Olivia Arken."
The name she spat out was an unexpected person.
"You already know that woman is trapped under the World Tree, right?"
How does she know that information,
Е̂n̄ũ m̂ à
I wanted to verify the source, but the next words she'd spit out were more concerning right now.
"I know."
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"She's trapped by demons, and Ferda-nim learned that fact. And now... Grand Duke Golt probably knows that fact too?"
"....."
Fear pierced Ferda's chest inwardly.
Just how far does this woman know?
Еṅu m а̌
"That's correct."
"That woman will make Ferda-nim unhappy."
What does Olivia have to do with this?
"You can't believe my words."
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"Isn't that natural?"
The Arken Empire's state religion is the Sun God Alte.
W̌ ё b no v е̌ l Е̃ nuṁá
The Moon God Sierra is treated as a heretic group, and they didn't hesitate to mistreat her with stoning in the plaza.
The Arken Empire was extremely harsh to Sierra, and historically it's not strange to hold a grudge against those related to the Alte religion.
"Olivia tried to be reborn as a True Saintess as an Apprentice Saintess of the Alte religion."
"That's right."
"It's the moment a Saintess of the Alte religion is born after over a hundred years, so Sierra's Saintess can't just watch quietly. Isn't that the story?"
Considering the circumstances, it was enough to think the persecuted Sierra couldn't just watch Alte's revival.
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One could only think she held a grudge against Olivia.
"If what Ferda-nim says is true, then leaving that woman alone would be the best move. That way she'll become unhappy, after all."
"That'll happen."
"Then why did I come all the way here to tell the Regent he must lead the rescue?"
It was a completely unexpected story.
Not that she must be eliminated, but rescued?
Ẅе̇b̈ṅ о v̌e l̂. Е̊_n û mа̄
"You mean I must save the Princess?"
"Yes."
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"Why?"
"Our Princess's plan has gone completely awry."
At Ferda's question, Angrem folded her hands neatly and spoke.
"I don't know if you know, but the Princess is currently in collusion with demons."
Е̂ n um̂а̃ . i̇d
"...There's no way the Princess would do such a stupid thing, right?"
Ferda didn't believe easily.
An even stupider thing than making a deal with a devil is colluding with demons.
Angrem carefully persuaded Ferda.
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"Think a little more. The Princess who was only in the Imperial Palace was replaced by a Doppler. Only Grand Duke Golt in the Empire noticed that fact and learned of Olivia's survival by plotting rebellion."
"That's right."
Ẅе́bnо̃ v е̌ l E nūm a
"Doesn't one question arise?"
Angrem spoke with a meaningful smile.
"How did a kidnapping happen in that heavily guarded place?"
"....."
"The Princess wouldn't have been someone to just take it lying down. She would've somehow signaled or resisted her kidnapping. That's something you, Regent Ferda, would know well."
Ferda couldn't deny Angrem's words.
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Because he thought she would've definitely done so.
"But she changed into a Doppler form without a sound. How could that be possible?"
At Angrem's question, Ferda felt his mind opening up.
If it were another human, he would've believed it was a mistake.
But the opponent is Olivia.
She was a woman who'd lived fiercely in this Imperial Palace wearing a mask for over a decade.
Е n ü m а̃.і̆ d
It was unthinkable that she failed to use her wits when her life was threatened.
She would've left traces somehow.
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But she was replaced by a Doppler, and only Valdemar knew she was a Doppler until her final moment as sword dew.
'Don't tell me......'
If the reason only Grand Duke Golt could notice was designed?
Only someone who knows the opponent well and knows themselves well could design that.
Е̇ ǹ üm а̀
"No......"
Ferda denies it in his heart.
But contrary to his heart, his reason was gathering scattered puzzle pieces and fitting them in one place.
The first piece of that picture was this.
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'Divine Stigma.'
Olivia has a Stigma on her hand.
Ẃ ê b́n̈ о̇v̌е.l Е̄ n̆ ú m а́
That Stigma was created while swearing to kill all her kin.
'Her anger didn't move for decades.'
No, it's closer to couldn't.
Not only was her support base lacking, but those around her endlessly clung to her, wanting her to remain only a well-cultivated jewel.
Moreover, the Emperor hadn't shown himself until she was born, and didn't properly know his existence.
But in the end, she raised a rebellion with Ureas.
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One might think she moved simply because she felt she couldn't delay any longer.
Tracing back the timing, there was a commonality.
'The Emperor's appearance.'
When Ferda killed court mages and stormed the Imperial Palace trying to overturn the Empire, Ferda faced the Emperor.
His appearance bowing his head in a lazy and wretched manner was so pathetic it made Ferda spare him.
After that, Olivia showed movements for rebellion.
W e ḃ nо̊ vêl Е̇ n.üm а̂
'The timing almost matches.'
Both incidents shared the commonality that Olivia started moving when the Emperor revealed himself to the world.
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Why?
'If it was something she could know because the Emperor revealed himself?'
The Emperor was a veiled figure who'd secluded himself for over a decade.
She'd calculated Ureas and Alexander whom she faced often, but the Emperor had no achievements, so she couldn't properly know him.
Е n̊ u̇ m а̀ . id̄
When the Emperor finally revealed himself, Olivia could get a measure of him.
She'd thought of all possibilities and headed toward the single scenario with the highest probability.
Back then it was using Ureas, and now it's using Grand Duke Golt.
"...It can't be seen that way."
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"Why not?"
But even so, one thing was lacking.
Е ǹum̊а
"Alexander is still alive, isn't he?"
For Olivia's revenge to be fulfilled, everyone must die.
Grand Duke Golt killed the Emperor, but left room by letting Alexander escape.
The imperial family's death she desired wasn't over.
Angrem smiled.
She seemed happy that Ferda understood.
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"Yes, that must've been the problem. She thought she'd figured out everything about Valdemar Golt, but she couldn't bring herself to know that. So the plan went awry."
Angrem answered with a smile.
"So the Princess opened the path toward the Black Sun."
