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Chapter 310
Humanity
Meanwhile, inside the World Tree.
No matter how much one could survive in this environment, there was no one here to attend to her needs.
Grooming herself alone ultimately had its limits, and in the end, she could only become disheveled.
Her once splendid dress had to be changed into a plain, patternless one, and her long, slender hair was tied up.
She spent most of her time praying.
Ёñ ů m а̌
Because of that, she looked utterly powerless and pitiable.
Footsteps descending into Olivia's chambers.
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Olivia reflexively lifted her head and looked there.
A single ray of light amidst the gloomy sky came crashing down along with black skin.
"I brought clothes."
She brought neatly folded white clothes to Olivia.
Ёn u m а̇ . і̂ d
Olivia didn't forget her smile.
"Thank you."
"Change right now. I'll take the old ones back immediately."
"Yes."
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Following the instruction, Olivia untied the strings on her back, and the clothes slipped off in an instant.
The demon woman turned her head away and waited for her to finish changing.
Ė n u m̊а̀.ǐ d́
"Excuse me, Guard-nim?"
"Why?"
The demon woman looked back.
At that moment, Olivia's half-dressed back was laid bare.
"I'm sorry. It seems I'll have a hard time tying the strings alone. Could you help me a little?"
"....."
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The demon woman quietly began tying Olivia's strings.
Her nape visible beyond the hair lifted by hand.
And the loose baby hairs she couldn't tidy, and the concentrated sweet scent.
"How is the situation outside?"
The demon woman felt something awaken upon hearing those words.
Though brief, she had unmistakably been focusing on Olivia.
Ӗn u ṁ a. іd̂
"Why would you want to know that? You're our prisoner. You didn't come here to play."
Olivia's body flinched.
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"Ah, sorry. As you say, I'm a prisoner. I keep forgetting that."
Her voice tone lowered, as if she'd forgotten her own status.
"That much... is proof that I'm cornered, too."
"....."
E nùmа̀
"Every time I open my eyes, I'm afraid. Will I be able to return to the Empire... will I be able to live hearing human voices?"
Olivia's voice growing damp.
Her hand wiped at both eyes.
"So you felt strangely comfortable. I'm sorry. For making you uncomfortable..."
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The demon woman silently finished tying Olivia's dress strings.
After even tidying up the loose ends, she turned Olivia's body around and asked.
Е̇ n̆ūm а́._іd
"Do you want to go outside?"
"Huh?"
Olivia's eyes widened.
"I asked if you want to go back."
"I'm a prisoner here..."
"This isn't a test. Just speak your true feelings."
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The demon woman's expression, seen in a sidelong glance, was serious.
Olivia watched her, then quietly nodded.
At that, the demon woman drew the sword at her waist.
"Wh-."
Before Olivia could even voice her question, the demon woman's action was already over.
Pachang!
Еṅ ü m̂ a . іd
She'd simply smashed the lock hanging on the bars.
"I'll help you escape."
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"...Really?"
"This war fails anyway. I won't survive, and neither will you."
The demon woman held out her hand to Olivia.
"Let's go. I'll protect you all the way to the Empire."
E n ûṁа.і̊ d̃
It was like a fairy tale.
But life wasn't something like a beautiful fairy tale.
Olivia knew that fact.
"You're... a good person."
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Olivia looked down at the boundary of the bars, then lifted her head again.
The confusion on her face was nowhere to be found.
Ē nu_m а̌. і̀d̈
"That's why it's such a pity."
Olivia didn't cross the bars, but stepped back.
And quietly raised her hand.
The gesture was like a farewell, as if saying goodbye.
"Just what—."
The demon woman couldn't continue further.
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Her head simply flew off.
The demon woman's corpse fell forward limply.
Beyond her, a white man came into view.
Gokma.
The very one who had imprisoned her here.
"You're doing something pointless, Arken Princess."
En u m а
A woman turned into a corpse right before her eyes, and the man who killed her glared at Olivia.
But Olivia didn't bat an eye.
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"What do you mean?"
Olivia smiled softly.
As if nothing had happened.
"No need to play dumb. You've splendidly succeeded in seducing our person."
W е̂b̆ n о̇ vӗĺ Е n̆u m̂ а̄
"I was just a little curious. Whether demons really don't feel any emotions at all. But it's not entirely like that."
Olivia had seduced the demon woman who had attended her for four days.
Since Olivia knew how to attract the same sex, the rest was application and wit.
The reason Olivia seduced her wasn't something grand like escape.
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It was merely curiosity.
A trivial thing like a tart that bursts with rich flavor the moment you put it in your mouth, then disappears.
Е nŭ m ȧ
"Kids these days are all like that. Unstable things. They don't know the direction of loyalty at all. Demon reputation isn't what it used to be. Since they only crave power without clear purpose, they waver aimlessly without principle, don't they?"
"You sound just like the elders."
He rephrased 'outdated' that way.
"Haha, this was a famous phrase even before I became a demon. I remember laughing when I translated an ancient text and the opening line started with 'Kids these days...'"
"Were you a scholar when you were human?"
"Just a human who pretended to be one in the back alleys. Stop digging into me, Princess. I'm starting to want to reconsider you."
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Don't test my patience.
One would normally back down at such a warning.
Because Gokma could burst a human head like a watermelon, and had the execution power to kill even his own kin without mercy.
But Olivia wasn't like that.
"Are you in a position to tell me to behave?"
She possessed both an objective gaze that knew her own worth, and boldness.
Ė ń úm̃ å..i d
She dragged a chair over and sat before Gokma.
She crossed her legs and spoke.
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"I heard. Your subordinate attacked Regent Ferda's family, didn't they?"
"Yes. I don't know the details, but it seems they did it to shake him."
"So did it succeed?"
"It succeeded. We annihilated them. The Rosnova Family no longer exists in this world."
Е̌n̂ù m̂ а
"The Regent must have been very sad."
"No. Rather, he acted like something was taken from him. Like you."
"...Don't make me laugh."
"Yes, it's a lie. To see your reaction."
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With a corpse before them, tension stretched taut.
Olivia looked away with a displeased expression and asked.
Е̇ n̊um а̀. їď
"Has he come?"
"Everyone's come. Your damn orabeoni and the countless men lusting after your chastity."
"How refined an expression."
The hehehe laughter cut off abruptly.
"Shut up and speak properly."
Chilling eyes.
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All the more so because it was unimaginable for the Empire's Flower to make such a face.
"Yes, he's come. Valdemar Golt. He's come as you wished."
Gokma glanced toward the bars and spoke.
"The man who made you act like this pitiable princess and rebel against the Empire."
"I see."
Olivia unconsciously placed a hand on her chest.
Wе̌b̆ nо̀_v̀.е̂ l Е n ǔ m̃_а
Her heart was pounding vigorously.
A sensation similar to when she received her first birthday present.
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But it probably wouldn't be as pure as back then.
Olivia knows she's a twisted human.
Gokma smiled faintly as he watched Olivia.
"In a way, you're a person very suited to demons. Olivia Arken. How about becoming a demon right now?"
E ñ u m а
"Become like those ugly things? I'll pass. I've already seen enough of what blind things like you do."
Olivia smiled bitterly.
"Useless things. If they just knew to do exactly what I tell them, it'd be fine, but they always try to get one step ahead. I don't know why they do that. If ordered, they should just do as ordered."
"Blaming others only proves your lack of control, Olivia."
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"Save the sermon. I've never been respected even once. They just assume my head's empty because my hips are wide and my chest is big, and repeat only those actions."
The resentment she'd felt surged up all at once.
Еn̄ um̆ǎ_.і̌d
"I've thought hundreds of times that it would've been different if I were a man."
"You wanted to become a man?"
"Of course."
Olivia wants to become a man.
Enter a marriage without heart, bear a child, enjoy intrigue with the restless forces trying to expel her, and become Emperor.
It was the sweetest dream she'd had lying in bed, and the most sorrowful fate.
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"But not now."
Olivia's eyes were like a pilgrim who'd finished a path of asceticism.
"Because I realized that if there's someone who truly sees me, my appearance ultimately doesn't matter."
She felt self-love for her disgusting self for the first time.
"Only that person... only that person truly saw me properly."
Olivia's eyes grew moist.
Е num̈а̄
Gray hair, blue eyes.
A man who seemed impossible to hold in her hands no matter what she did.
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He had a superhuman appearance, yet was simultaneously human.
A man who was unspeakably beautiful precisely because he knew he would break someday.
"Is what you really want just Valdemar's head?"
"Of course?"
E n̆.ùḿ а̃
"Looking at you, you're not someone who'll end with just that. The Arken Family has only ever been such people."
He was right.
The Imperial Palace was a place where more blood had been shed than the countless gold decorating its interior.
She knows how many collateral branches died of unknown causes whenever a new Emperor ascended.
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At the same time, assassination plots against Ureas and Alexander were monthly events.
Olivia was always the exception.
Wе bñ оv е̊ l̀ Е̂n̄ú m̂ а̀
Because when Ureas and Alexander died, and a new Emperor ascended, she would be needed.
She could watch everything from the furthest distance as a third party.
"Your father, Godfrey Arken, was truly cunning."
"But he died in the end. By my subordinate's blade."
"I'll praise you for that, Princess. I hope you show that black heart of yours to the one you love, too."
"That person already knows. What kind of heart I hold. And I know that person's heart, too. We understand each other."
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Olivia spoke with a bewitching expression.
"That person roughly pinned me to a dirty inn bed."
"....."
"Subdued me like a beast, and we stared into each other's eyes for hours. We shared boiling emotions. I ended up fainting."
"To speak such nonexistent erotic talk without blinking an eye. Truly amazing, Olivia Arken."
"It's not a lie."
Е ṅü m_a .і d
Olivia felt it from his face.
That he was feeling a strange displeasure at the fact she'd consummated with Ferda.
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It was subtle who that displeasure was directed at.
What was certain was that he didn't give a damn about Olivia's purity.
Because he's a demon.
"Let's get back to the original question. Do I just need to take Valdemar's head?"
Еǹ u m̆a
"Haven't I answered that several times already?"
Olivia pulled out the dagger she'd stuck under the chair.
Its curved shape looked fit for a ritual, and the dagger held a gloomy energy.
"I'll take revenge with these hands. That damn man... who drove my sister to death."
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"And after?"
"Alexander Arken. That idiot can be handled already. The support forces clinging to him are just ant-like things that fall off in droves with a light touch."
Е́ň.ú m а̃ .і d
"And you'll take the Empire?"
"No. I'll destroy it."
As that person wishes.
That was the promise.
Olivia gripped the dagger tightly with both hands and smiled like a woman in love.
"Haha, don't deceive yourself half-heartedly, Princess. I'm someone who's examined the Empire more deeply than you. Your bloodline is cunning, treacherous, and dirtier than us."
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Gokma's finger traced down from her head to her chest.
"And you stand at the apex. They say black hearts give off a stench, but yours is at the peak, so rather it gives off a scent sweeter than flowers."
"You keep trying to shake me, Gokma-nim. I can see the trick to seize my psychology, and now it's getting annoying."
"Let's be honest now. You love Ferda Valdrova."
Valdrova.
She shows an extremely displeased expression at that word.
Ẁ е̃ b́ ǹ о̌ v ėl Е̄ ń u m а́
Sincerity wells up like she's never felt during their entire conversation.
Gokma smiled with satisfaction and added.
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"I'll give you the Empire, and Ferda, too. So they can be entirely yours."
Gokma attempts psychological domination.
Knowing that, she could counter anytime.
Olivia was familiar with such situations, and skilled enough to turn them around.
Wēb̈ ň о̆ v ёľ Ẽ n̈_ùm̊ a
But it didn't work.
Because it wasn't a lie, as Gokma said.
The Empire and Ferda.
Those were Olivia's long-cherished wish and desire.
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"Don't say nonsense."
Olivia desperately denied it.
W eb̆n̆ ö vе̂ l̈ Ĕ ṅ ü m̈_а
"That person loves Valdrova-nim. That won't change. How could someone like me have that person?"
"Princess, if it's Olivia Arken, you would. But it's different now."
"What's different?"
"It's what I've been feeling since a while ago. No matter how much I think about it, it doesn't make sense, so I've reconsidered several times, but it seems certain. You are truly beautiful."
Olivia's expression distorted for a moment.
But she immediately put the mask back on.
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"Thank you for the compliment."
"No, it's not a compliment. I said you're beautiful."
Princess Olivia Arken.
But unlike when she was a Princess, her appearance didn't shine as before.
Her alone-braided hair felt somewhat disheveled, and without the skin cream she'd maintained like white jade, her tone was darker than usual.
Gokma tilted his head and spat out the remaining words.
W ѐb̃.n оv̀ е̊l̆ Е̊ n̂u m̂а̄
"Even more than when you were a Princess."
"Isn't it thanks to my devout prayers?"
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"Those damn prayers won't even get an answer, so how could that be?"
Gokma refreshingly ignored Olivia's words and dug into the cause of his thought.
"In my view, it's because you finally feel a little human."
"Human?"
Ӗ n̈ūm̀ a..і̊d
"Yes. Princess Olivia Arken was flawless beauty. So she must have felt like an object of longing or worship. But you're not like that now. You smell like a person."
"Scent, to a lady... your word choice is nasty."
Princess Olivia had a longing she couldn't have.
That's why there were many around her, but they only ever stayed by her side.
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But she's a bird in a cage now.
A pitiable flower.
Eṅũ m̈ă . ĩd
Now, wouldn't she be within reach if one stretched out a hand?
That's why the demon woman must have fallen for her seduction.
"So my point is, then and now will be very different. The desire to possess you won't be sprouting in just me."
Hearing those words, Olivia recalled the incident at the inn back then.
Drunk, she'd held a dagger and poured out her emotions to him.
And as expected, he'd stopped her.
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His strength was weaker than expected, but that wasn't a problem.
In the end, we faced each other, just the two of us.
And as expected, he showed her a new path.
She thought that was enough.
But she'd underestimated human greed.
When they made eye contact and turned their Circles, Olivia clearly remembered her desire.
W е̃b n̈_о̀ v_е̊l̊ Ėn̄ ü m а̇
The man and woman in her desire had unmistakably crossed the line.
That's why she could no longer deceive herself.
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Olivia got excited hearing those words.
The Red Circle was turning.
