Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 378
Chapter 378
“What is this… ridiculous…”
The princess still couldn’t calm her confusion.
She rubbed her eyes, repeatedly looking around at the bright blue sky and the lush green surroundings.
Had she realized that this wasn’t an illusion?
She cupped her face in her hands and muttered to herself while staggering slightly.
‘She seems a bit crazy.’
Well, it’s not hard to see why.
Her common sense that one could never escape the labyrinth with human strength had been completely shattered.
To have escaped so effortlessly from the prison she thought she’d never leave in her lifetime must have been a shock.
Maya left the princess to calm herself and ran into the abandoned shed at the outskirts of the village.
She had bound the prince and locked him away here.
And… all that was left in the shed were decaying wooden planks, cobwebs, and a rope that had been roughly cut.
“Ugh, of course he’s gone!”
Since hearing about the prince’s true identity from the princess, Maya had a feeling this would happen.
She pulled at her hair in frustration and slumped against the wall.
Although she had spoken with the princess, it had been inside the timeless labyrinth.
Outside the labyrinth, she had borrowed Noah’s power to zip in and out, so it had all happened in the blink of an eye.
‘So he was pretending to be unconscious the whole time.’
It would have been impossible for him to escape otherwise.
When Noah imposed divine punishment, the prince must have realized Noah was an anomaly he couldn’t handle and fled.
‘At least I’m glad I saved the princess.’
But the problem was that it didn’t seem like the prince would just give up.
“Can we not find the prince?”
“His body and soul are misaligned, so it’s impossible to track him.”
All living beings are under God’s protection, but it seemed the prince wasn’t one of them.
Maya sighed, wiped her face, then slowly lifted her head, feeling an increasing sense of unease.
“To escape even God’s pursuit… This isn’t exactly common, is it?”
“It’s not unheard of. Humans, from the very beginning, have been the only ones not hesitant to challenge God’s authority.”
It was a statement Maya, as a fellow human, couldn’t deny or argue with.
Humans were a curious species. How was it that God hadn’t eradicated them long ago?
‘So, everything’s fine?’
Before Maya could even feel relieved, a new question disguised as a response from Noah came.
“If the existence of a single human among countless possibilities causes chaos over thousands of years…”
“Excuse me?”
“What would you do?”
In the middle of this situation, was he seriously asking a moral dilemma question?
Maya, who had never received proper education, let alone attended an academy, looked confused.
“That person committed a crime?”
“No.”
“Then, did they unknowingly get involved in something bad?”
“Also not that.”
“Then, are you saying the world became chaotic just because they existed?”
“Yes.”
It didn’t seem like a question born out of mere curiosity…
Maya trembled with fear, realizing that God would not ask such a pointless question at this timing.
“If the sword hilt were in your hand, would you wield it?”
“No?!”
Don’t hand me something so violent!
“You would lose much. The world would split in two, demons would be saved, and angels would fall into corruption.”
“…!”
Shouldn’t such monumental decisions, the fate of the world, be made by him, not by a mere human? Why, then, was she being handed the sword?
Wiping the cold sweat from her brow, Maya began to slowly back away.
“Do as you wish…”
Please. She prayed with all her heart.
“Is that so? Then let me change the question.”
Noah raised his finger towards the sky, as if he was about to deliver divine punishment, and spoke.
“If I were to kill the princess right here, would you stop me?”
The person who would bring chaos to the world was the princess?!
Maya’s eyes widened in shock as she quickly turned to the princess.
The princess, who seemed calm, was looking around the surroundings, completely unaware of the dangerous conversation that had taken place.
She had no idea that her life and the world were being weighed. Of course.
“As Noah said, the princess was only used. Someone else will be responsible for causing future chaos!”
If the problem lay with ‘that thing’ living off the prince, it could simply be killed once it was found.
Even if Noah couldn’t track him for now, as long as they walked the earth, they wouldn’t be able to run forever.
But Noah replied,
“It wasn’t a specific human act. It’s not just about stealing God’s mark.”
“Then why…”
“The princess is just the starting point.”
The princess was the one who triggered the coming destruction.
Maya still couldn’t understand.
“Then what exactly is causing the downfall?”
“Greed.”
“…?”
“Once humans realize they can gain power on their own without divine power, they will never stop.”
“And…?”
“And eventually, they will desire God’s power and wish to become God themselves.”
No matter how much you try to stop it, it is inevitable.
“Unless the human race is wiped out or the princess, who will be the trigger of all this, is killed, it will happen.”
Maya was speechless.
The weight of deciding the fate of the world was a decision she, a nobody, had to make?
This was far beyond anything a normal person like her could handle.
Then, the princess spoke up.
“You don’t look ordinary. It seems you’re not human.”
After a long silence, the princess approached and spoke.
She pinpointed the issue.
She must’ve been born of the same womb as the prince but how was she so intelligent?
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