Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 376
Chapter 105
The prince couldn’t even scream, trembling in place and wetting his pants. It was a complete disaster.
While Noah was drawing lightning arcs in the air with his fingers,
“Don’t yell at Maya!”
A small but powerful punch landed on the prince.
“I guess you’re no use. Just stay asleep.”
Elaina, though it was unclear what she had done, muttered as if she couldn’t stop herself.
“Kuu… Kuwack!!”
The moment her hand touched his forehead, the prince’s face turned ashen.
It seemed like he was writhing in despair as if he had fallen into hell, then he slumped and passed out.
“Phew… I’ve really done it now.”
“…”
Elaina muttered like a murderer who couldn’t control her impulse.
But despite the regret in her words, the child’s face looked as refreshed as if she had just drunk cool water on a hot summer day.
“Still, killing is difficult.”
At those words, Maya instinctively turned to look at Noah.
At that very moment, his finger, which had gathered all the lightning, was aimed directly at the prince.
“Wahhh!”
She gasped and nearly clung to his large hand in panic, folding his finger.
“Good, good boy, good boy.”
She spoke desperately, not even realizing what she was saying.
Noah’s gaze briefly landed on the tiny hand that was struggling beside him.
Fortunately, the flashes in the air and the dark clouds dispersed quickly. The sky became still, as if nothing had happened.
Maya was relieved that the situation had ended before it got worse and exhaled deeply.
Elaina, who had been watching them with a tilted head, spoke up.
“Actually, I think we should go with the prince to the palace.”
“…Really?”
Wait… What was she doing?
Of course, Noah was the one who started it.
But just because they didn’t take the first step, it didn’t mean that they would have just stood by and watched…
Still, they had supported her, so Maya couldn’t say anything about it.
In fact, she was secretly happy, so she couldn’t complain.
“Well, that’s how the story goes. Technically, we should follow the prince so we can be tasked with rescuing the princess from the labyrinth…”
“Why is the princess trapped in a labyrinth?”
“She went to the temple to help the poor but was kidnapped by a group of villains trying to exploit her special powers.”
“You really know a lot.”
Too much, actually. Is this the child’s ability?
The more she knew, the more it seemed like peeling away layers of an onion, revealing something far more dangerous than she imagined.
‘Scary Valentine.’
Despite the children being cute and lovable, Maya decided she should avoid getting too entangled with this mysterious family and asked,
“So, the goal is to rescue the princess?”
“Yes.”
“Then, we don’t really need to follow the prince. We can just go straight to the labyrinth.”
“Ah.”
Elaina gave a dazed sound.
It seemed like she hadn’t even considered that possibility.
“That’s what I’m saying.”
He had intended to say that once they got rid of the prince.
Ugo, looking around at the aftermath as if a storm had just passed, added incredulously.
Once inside the labyrinth, Maya immediately shouted.
“Princess! Let’s get out of here!”
Flash!
Thanks to her prayer to Noah, she had quickly moved in front of the princess.
She had left the children in a safe inn for now since it was too dangerous to bring them along.
Her plan was to rescue the princess and return.
When the prince woke up, he would surely rage and threaten executions, but Maya calculated that if she rescued the princess first, they wouldn’t be able to do anything to her.
“……”
But when two people suddenly appeared before the princess, the princes remained indifferent.
Although she seemed slightly startled, that was all.
She simply stared at them.
Maya had been prepared to calm the princess, expecting her to be wary and ask what they were doing, but the response was completely unexpected.
‘Cold…’
A silence settled in her chest like a piercing spike.
As Maya awkwardly stood, the princess finally spoke.
“I regret this. I know no words will comfort you, but…”
“Huh?”
Maya was left speechless.
‘Why is the princess comforting me?’
Maya struggled to comprehend the situation with a foolish look.
“I won’t give you the useless hope that you will escape from here. You will die here, in this filthy, dark, and dreary labyrinth.”
“No, princess…”
“Like everyone else.”
Her gaze, as empty as an abandoned shell, fell to the floor of the labyrinth.
It was then that Maya noticed the fresh, dark red bloodstains on the floor.
‘Did they say time doesn’t pass in the labyrinth?’
In simple terms, the labyrinth was a fracture.
Just as a house, after years of use, develops cracks, so too does the world after long ages.
It was a space that had emerged through the small cracks in the world, a result of the passage of time.
Therefore, it was unaffected by any rules or order.
‘How long has the princess been here?’
And when was this blood spilled?
Maya, observing the princess’s state, thought that it might even be a miracle that she was still holding onto her sanity.
“We weren’t the first ones to come to rescue you, were we, princess?”
“Rescue me?”
The princess let out a bitter laugh.
“You must’ve been lured by that devil. He needs test subjects to use my precious scribbles.”
Scribbles? Maya didn’t fully understand what the princess meant, but she recalled the princess had some special power.
That was why she had been kidnapped by the villains and trapped in this labyrinth.
“That horrible person who kidnapped the princess to do such things…”
Just when Maya thought she had escaped the zealot village of people sacrificing others, she was now hearing about human experiments.
But the princess asked puzzledly,
“What? Don’t you know yet?”
“Know what?”
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