Hush Now, Saintess! - Chapter 100
Chapter 100
Translator: Yonnee
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‘Better to run than get caught.’
Hestin knew his swordsmanship wasn’t bad, but who knows what could happen.
As they both finished their thorough preparations.
The nearby corn stalks shook violently.
‘Over there.’
Hildeon quickly swung his sword.
But then, he saw who it was.
‘Why… is this person here…’
He had to hastily change the trajectory of his sword.
* * *
Thud, thud.
Corn leaves cut by the sword fell at my feet.
Amid the shower of leaves, I thought blankly.
‘Wow. I almost crossed the River Styx just now.’
It felt like I had high-fived my grandmother across death’s threshold for a moment there.
What just happened?
“Are you alright?”
Hildeon, whose face was as pale as mine, hurriedly asked.
Alright?
I felt my neck instead of answering.
“My… my neck is still attached, right?”
“Yes. It’s still attached.”
“Definitely attached. Perfectly attached.”
After repeated confirmations, I felt relieved.
I had worried it might be half-sliced off.
“Is your neck hurting?”
Hildeon asked me.
I shook my head and replied.
“No, it’s not that. I was just startled.”
“What about elsewhere?”
“Everything else is fine too.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, very sure.”
It was the truth.
Only after several confirmations did Hildeon sigh in relief.
“…That’s a relief.”
His murmuring voice sounded sincere.
‘Indeed, it would have been troublesome for Hildeon too if he had cut me.’
The crown prince killing a noblewoman, and a saintess at that?
It would be a nationwide scandal.
Once things had calmed down, Hestin, who had been quietly watching, spoke up.
“But how did Your Eminence end up at this place? And at such a late hour too.”
“Come to think of it…”
Hildeon also looked at me curiously.
I gave an awkward smile.
How did I end up here? Well…
“I was summoned.”
Again, it wasn’t some sort of divine prophecy, but a call from the system.
Everything went back to a few hours ago.
* * *
After spending a typical day, I fell asleep.
And then I had a dream.
The location was a vast cornfield.
Scattered throughout the cornfield were people, all looking emaciated and worn out.
It was like watching a foreign zombie movie.
A vast cornfield. Zombies wandering around.
And, someone fighting against them.
Hildeon.
Hildeon was dealing with the zombie-like people using the hilt of his sword.
He seemed to be struggling, his expression was grim.
‘This is strange. Why is he struggling?’
No matter how zombie-like these people were, Hildeon was a war hero and a blessed royal.
It was odd for him to have such a hard time dealing with them.
But the reason became clear soon enough.
There was a dark aura swirling around Hildeon.
Looking closer, the zombie-like people were also emitting a dark aura from their bodies.
Those were definitely bugs.
Dust, misfortune, or perhaps something even worse.
The aura emanating from the people was flying toward Hildeon and being absorbed by him.
Each time this happened, Hildeon clenched his teeth in pain.
And before long.
He eventually succumbed to the dark aura. Surrounded by the black aura, he let out a mighty roar.
The black aura swirled around his back.
His dark green eyes gradually lost focus.
Watching everything like an audience, I couldn’t help but flinch.
That appearance was something I had seen in a dream before.
The scene where Roella died in the original story.
‘The rampage of the curse…’
Fortunately, it didn’t seem to end in a full-blown rampage.
But it was enough to turn the entire cornfield into a sea of fire.
From within the surging flames, Hestin staggered out.
He was bleeding from his waist, apparently injured from fighting the zombie-like people.
Throwing off his crooked glasses, he shouted desperately at Hildeon.
—You mustn’t, Your Highness! Please regain your senses…!
But Hildeon, having lost his sanity, did not recognize Hestin and attacked him.
Hestin, struck by Hildeon’s blow, flew and crashed into the ground.
—…Please, stop…
With those words, he moved no more.
The shocking scene left me speechless.
How did it come to this? This scene didn’t appear in the original story.
Why on earth…
Then, I heard a strange sound from somewhere.
< This is bad, nya. Why aren’t nya waking up? >
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