Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 377
Chapter 105
“Maybe he just doesn’t want to accept it. My dear older brother still acts like a fool, doesn’t he?”
What?
Maya couldn’t contain her shock.
“Wait, are you saying that idiot… no, the prince is behind all this? He doesn’t have the guts or the ability… that was a slip of the tongue.”
She almost asked how such a fool could possibly imprison his own blood in a labyrinth and not get caught until now. The fact that he’s still a prince meant the king must be wide awake and fully aware of what was going on.
However, the princess seemed to understand what Maya was trying to say and let out a deflated sigh.
“You’re right, you’ve seen it clearly. I can tell what kind of vile schemes he’s cooking up, but he’s not even a threat anymore. He’s so tiresome, I don’t even want to bother with him.”
Maya didn’t say it like that, though.
After delivering a scathing evaluation of her brother, the princess concluded.
“My dear older brother has long been eaten by the devil.”
And that’s a secret only I know. The princess lowered her voice, whispering playfully, as if telling a secret.
“He was a fool, but at least he used to be human.”
“Are, are you saying he’s not anymore?”
“I think so. I called him the devil, but technically, it’s more like an unknown parasite attached to my brother, merging with him. Or maybe I should say, it’s eaten him up from the inside and is wearing his skin now.”
Was she speaking this openly because she thought they were all going to die anyway?
The princess’s recounting was merciless.
“Some deep-sea creatures hide behind a tiny, seemingly insignificant glowing body to lure their prey. It’s like that.”
It was hard to believe.
So, the prince, who could be knocked out by a three-year-old’s punch, was just a decoy to lure them?
Maya looked toward Noah. He must have known already, right?
“Could it be that when you were trying to burn him with lightning, you were really trying to fry a bug inside him…”
“He was annoying.”
“Why didn’t you just say that earlier!”
Maya screamed, grabbing her hair out in frustration.
“Why, why did this happen?”
“The reason is just as absurd. He was jealous of the God’s mark that I carry. He tried to outdo me, thinking he could gain something greater, and that’s how I ended up like this.”
God’s mark.
Maya instinctively thought of the symbol that was etched into her back.
“Could the so-called precious scribbles be…?”
And then, as if to confirm her suspicions, the princess casually lifted her dress to reveal a faint white ankle.
It was a little smaller than the symbol etched on Maya’s back, but it was unmistakably the exact same design.
It was a sign of being worthy to serve God.
‘So I wasn’t the only one with God’s mark?’
Does that mean…
‘Have I already found it?’
The priest who would serve Noah as the Evil God, having entered the human world.
Maya’s gaze naturally drifted toward Noah.
He maintained a nonchalant expression, even as he listened to the princess’s miserable circumstances. His gaze was completely detached, as if an invisible wall separated him from the world of humans, from a thorough observer’s stance.
‘Is the Evil God still considered a god?’
Since meeting him, despite the terrible luck that had plagued Maya, things had started to fall into place unexpectedly smoothly.
Too smoothly.
“Is it really alright?”
“Huh?”
Snapped out of her thoughts, Maya jolted and turned her head quickly, as if she had been burned by the sudden question.
“Your expression doesn’t look good.”
“Ah…”
The princess’s situation was very familiar to Maya. It was so familiar that it felt almost like her own story. How could it not? ‘God’s mark’ was something that had intertwined itself deeply with her entire life.
‘But I thought this happened to me because I was powerless and poor, a commoner.’
She never imagined that even royal blood, people of noble descent, could fall into such a situation—locked in a labyrinth by their own flesh and blood.
“I don’t understand. You’re saying that God’s mark was cut out and transferred to someone else’s body? Is that even possible?”
It couldn’t be possible. If it were, Maya would have already found a way to deal with it.
Those who desired the true God’s mark would have sought it desperately, sending people under the radar with promises of immense rewards.
If that were the case, the villagers wouldn’t have merely ‘kindly’ hidden her.
Maya would have been handed over to the people who needed the divine power and be used as a tool for them.
And this wasn’t just a vague suspicion—it was a certainty.
The princess, as if understanding Maya’s doubt, let out a hollow laugh and shrugged.
“Who knows? The important thing is that they believe it’s possible.”
Ah, I see. Maya’s gaze naturally drifted to the pool of blood on the floor.
As the princess said, the important thing was that the ‘thing’ embedded in the prince’s body was luring people here for experimentation.
‘I made a mistake.’
I should have killed him earlier.
Who could have known that the so-called prince was merely a shell, with something far more dangerous parasitically inhabiting him?
Maya realized this was not the time for it and quickly opened her mouth.
“Princess, I’m sorry, but we don’t have time to waste. Another victim could be on the way.”
“I have no words even if I have ten mouths.”
“Why are you apologizing?”
You’re not the victim here! Could you please not kill me off on your own accord?
“Why the long face for something that’s not even your fault? You’re just a victim!”
In the heat of the moment, as things were spiraling rapidly, words slipped out without going through her head.
Maya shouted, extending her hand toward the princess and forcefully grasped it.
“Please forgive my rudeness. Now hold on tight. We’re leaving.”
“…What?”
And just like that, they moved swiftly out of the labyrinth.
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