The Impact Of The Villainess’ Fake Marriage On The Ending - Chapter 115

Chapter 115

“Greetings, Your Grace. I heard you were look… Your Grace?”

Herma, who had come to the castle as soon as she was called, called Adeline. She was staring out the window with a blank face.

“Your Grace?”

“Ah. I’m sorry. Come in.”

“Your Grace. Did something happen?”

Herma asked anxiously. Adeline’s condition after returning to the north from the capital didn’t seem so good.

It was natural. She came to know that her and Kael’s lives had been shaken up because of Jeffrey and that her family had suffered because of her. She also confirmed that Kael’s curse was the price he had to pay for his effort to save her life, so she couldn’t be completely in her right mind.

Besides, Jeffrey was plotting something again. Kael informed Adeline of Jeffrey’s plans, and she turned pale when she heard it.

Another great surprise attack could have taken place. Kael could have gone out to the battlefield again, and Jeffrey could have come to threaten Adeline and try to kill her.

With Kael’s curse too, it was a chance that came one more time. The last chance that wouldn’t come again.

Things were already ruined, but she couldn’t lose even more.

‘I have to break Kael’s curse. If it’s Kael’s job to punish Jeffrey, it’s definitely mine to free him of his curse.’

Kael could stop Jeffrey, but it was entirely up to Adeline to lift his curse.

Kael denied it, but Adeline didn’t think the same. The thought that it was entirely up to Adeline to free him from the curse, beyond simple purification, was impossible to erase.

“Your Grace?”

As Adeline remained silent, Herma cautiously called her once more.

“I think this conversation is going to take a while. Can you spare the time?”

“Of course, Your Grace. I’m listening.”

After a moment of hesitation, Adeline finally told Herma everything, including Repositio. It bothered her that she had to reveal the existence of the repository of time, but Herma was a person Kael had great confidence in, as well as Adeline.

Herma was essential to solving the problem.

“When I regained my memory like that, I suddenly remembered what I had heard from my younger brother before.”

“Your younger brother…”

“If you break the instrument that caused the curse, the curse will be lifted.”

As she was searching for a way, she remembered what Simeon had told her.

The curse of darkness that Kael embraced was the price he had to pay for turning back time.

She thought that if she got rid of the tool that turned back time, even the curse connected to it might disappear.

“Are you saying you want to get rid of the magic tool that turned back time?”

“Yes. Is it possible?”

“It makes sense since it is the tool that caused the curse. It’s worth a try. But it’s too dangerous, Your Grace.”

After being lost in thought for a moment, Herma continued cautiously.

“Breaking a magic tool isn’t something simple. They’re not items that can be made with regular mana. There will be a devastating impact when you break it. In particular, a mage can never break a magic tool, so I can do nothing but stay next to Your Grace and protect you. There is no way for me to intervene in the process. That’s why it’s more dangerous.”

“Taking risks… I’m fine with that. Let me know if it’s theoretically possible.”

“… It is possible. I have the magic sword that can break magic tools in my possession.”

Adeline’s eyes sparkled. She couldn’t erase the thought that she had found a way. Herma looked at Adeline anxiously, but she had no intention to yield.

“Help me, Herma. Help me so I can break that tool.”

“But, Your Grace, it’s really dangerous. His Grace won’t allow it.”

“I’ll do it without him knowing. As Herma said, he won’t ever allow it.”

“Your Grace!”

“Please. This is something I have to do. Let me save the man who sacrificed his life to save me.”

Adeline’s voice was desperate. Herma held her hands tightly. She chewed on her lips, deeply troubled.

“Adeline.”

But at that moment, Kael came to Adeline’s study. Herma left right away, and Kael came closer to Adeline.

“I’ve been contacted by His Majesty.”

“Is this about Jeffrey?”

Kael nodded. Adeline, who had not yet heard Herma’s answer, was very impatient, but first, she had to hear about Jeffrey’s situation from Kael.

“I was worried that he wouldn’t confirm it, but I guess he looked into Jeffrey sooner than I expected. He said that he will follow my will now that he has confirmed the truth.”

“…”

“There is no way to arrest or detain him because there is no clear evidence, but he replied that he would send an army right away if I needed support.”

It was positive news.

Relieved but still anxious, Adeline asked again, “Can we trust His Majesty? What if the two of them are working together…”

“The emperor is a fool, but he is also obsessed with the throne and his life. He’s not going to cooperate with Jeffrey because if anything goes wrong, he could lose his life or even his country. He even saw a Corrupted running wild before his eyes.”

Kael’s words made sense. Adeline nodded understandingly.

“I’ve also found out and dealt with the mercenary guild that Jeffrey was scheming with. He seemed to be trying to put his plan into action as soon as the day after tomorrow. Perhaps that day, Jeffrey will face the northern wall alone.”

Regarding the imperial mercenaries, thanks to Vero’s tight grip on them, they were able to quickly find out who Jeffrey was in contact with.

The mercenaries were dealt with immediately, and this fact did not reach Jeffrey. On the day the operation was scheduled to happen, Jeffrey would wander around the northern wall without knowing anything.

“I’ve also changed the waveform of the northern wall from that of the usual defense. Jeffrey doesn’t know this at all. I’m the only one in the North that knows it.”

Kael tried to stop Jeffrey in every way he could.

He, too, was thinking that this was his last chance. If he couldn’t stop him now, he and Adeline wouldn’t have another chance.

“Are you very anxious? You look pale.”

“It’s just that…”

“Everything will be fine, Adeline. I don’t want to miss this opportunity. It’s going to work out, and I’ll get out of this situation. With you.”

Kael reassured Adeline with a voice with more conviction than ever.

Regardless of what happened, he was going to kill Jeffrey and enjoy his happiness with Adeline. Even thinking about the memories and lives they had been deprived of, he wanted to survive and obtain them.

Above all, he was eager for a happy time with Adeline.

“Trust me, Adeline. We won’t cry this time. Not you, not me.”

Kael said as he embraced Adeline. She nodded, trusting him.

“Kael. Can you do me a favor? Once you’ve taken care of the matter on the northern wall, will you flare a blue smoke? That giant blue smoke that can be seen from the castle.”

“I can do it as much as you want, but why?”

“I want to know sooner if you didn’t get hurt or if everything went well.”

“Alright. I’ll do that.”

She didn’t know what kind of force would be exerted on Kael when the magic tool was broken. She had to break the magic tool when he finished taking care of everything.

Adeline, who even had a way to check the time, kissed Kael, desperately hoping that the way she found would work.

She hoped that Kael would be able to stop Jeffrey safely and that she would be able to lift Kael’s curse once and for all.

***

“I came too early.”

Jeffrey, who had arrived near the high northern wall first, muttered as he looked at it.

It was advantageous to move when the darkness fell. After deciding to move and infiltrate the mercenary guild in the deep night, he took a breath, checking the time.

He thought about it again and again, but there was no way to take Adeline away from Kael. Even her brainwashing had been broken.

Adeline’s words that she would never love him even when her next life was granted kept ringing in his ears.

Whenever that happened, there was a surge of anger. He didn’t understand at all why the person Adeline loved couldn’t be him.

If he couldn’t have her even after going back in time, he had to break her.

So that no one could have her. At the very least, Kael and Adeline had to be as unhappy as Jeffrey was.

‘I’m going to kill him very brutally. And painfully. Tear him to pieces by the claws of the Corrupted.’

All races were sensitive to their sanctuaries, but among them, the Corrupted were the most reactive. If they found out that the north, which they were always in conflict with, had even touched their sanctuary, they would go on a rampage and turn it into a wasteland.

It was a pleasant thing to imagine. The north that Kael always protected collapsing, him dying, and even Adeline disappearing in the end.

Jeffrey was busy giggling, unaware of how hideous his twisted mind was.

“Why are they so late?”

Suddenly, he remembered that the mercenaries had not yet appeared and became angry.

He knew well that mercenaries had a tendency to move freely, but he didn’t know they handled things this badly.

He was angry because they couldn’t even stay on schedule, which was the most basic thing. It was much more dangerous than other missions, so it was expensive. He had to give them a lot of money.

He became even more upset as he remembered that.

“Damn mercenary bastards. The defense of the northern wall will take a lot of…”

Jeffrey’s eyes shook when he tried to say that the defensive type of the northern wall varied over time and that something could happen if it was delayed even further.

The defensive waveform had changed. It didn’t look like what he knew.

“… This can’t be happening.”

Jeffrey took pride in the fact that he knew the defense of the northern wall better than anyone. He had been in charge of it for a long time and managed it himself, so he was confident.

But it was the first time he had seen it in the type it was today. The waveform wrapped around the wall was so different.

“No. This can’t be.”

Jeffrey got off his horse and checked the defensive waveform from a lower height.

No matter how many times he looked at it again, it was completely different from the appearance he knew.

“This is impossible. Like this, the path to the Corrupted’s sanctuary…”

Perplexed to face a situation where an unexpected variable appeared and he didn’t know whether to revise his entire plan, he heard the fast-approaching sound of hooves.

Jeffrey immediately turned around, alert.

“…”

Without even giving him a chance to get on his horse and run away, the knights of the Knights of Neave surrounded Jeffrey.

They were his knights. The ones who existed for the north, under Kael’s command.

Jeffrey felt a chill down his spine. The fact that they came to the northern wall at this time meant that they had sensed something.

“…”

Unsurprisingly, when he heard the sound of another set of hooves, the knights who had surrounded Jeffrey opened a path and welcomed their master.

“… Your Grace.”

It was Kael. He looked down at Jeffrey with sharp, cold eyes, as if they contained a spear made of ice.

“It’s been a long time since we were together on the northern wall. Isn’t that right?”

A cold voice reminded him of an old memory.

“Jeffrey.”

The moment he heard the name he thought he would never hear from Kael in this life, a name he had heard so many times before turning back time, Jeffrey realized.

Kael had regained all his memories.

Then, the plan that he thought to be completely perfect was completely ruined.