The Impact Of The Villainess’ Fake Marriage On The Ending - Chapter 117 - End

Chapter 117

“Your Grace!”

Adeline, who had lost consciousness, opened her eyes and suddenly got up.

She was in her bedroom in the castle, not the wasteland. Adeline immediately looked around. Herma was right next to her.

“What about the magic tool? What happened? Was it destroyed? What about Kael? Where is Kael?”

“It was destroyed, Your Grace. And His Grace…”

Adeline looked for Kael as soon as she opened her eyes without even thinking about her own body, and right away Kael rushed into the bedroom.

“Adeline!”

He hugged Adeline, who had regained consciousness. As if he were scared that she wouldn’t wake up.

“Kael, how are you feeling? Have you looked at your scar? How is the scar…”

“Please. You lost consciousness. You collapsed from the impact while trying to break the magic tool. Is it time to care about me?”

“It doesn’t matter. I woke up, didn’t I? What about you? You’re the one that matters. Have you checked? The scar on your shoulder.”

Adeline looked at Kael with eager eyes. More anxiously than anyone, she hoped that her method was right, and that Kael would be free from the curse.

“It’s gone. It disappeared with the black blood I vomited.”

Tears flowed down Adeline’s cheeks as soon as she heard that the mark had disappeared.

Wiping away her tears, Kael recalled what had happened a while ago.

He was on his way to the portal that led to the castle. But as he was riding the horse as fast as he could, he suddenly started vomiting black blood.

He couldn’t stop, as if he was throwing up everything inside him. When the white snow was dyed black, Kael felt his shoulder lighten.

Although the curse caused the most pain when it appeared, the vigor of darkness was always with him. He always had a stiff feeling and a strange weight bothering him.

But that unpleasantness suddenly disappeared. Even the black blood that seemed unstoppable no longer flowed.

[Your Grace, don’t tell me…]

Vero, who had felt something unusual since he saw the black blood, trailed off as if he couldn’t believe it.

[My shoulder feels weird. It feels different.]

[… Let’s go to the castle and take a look right away. Let’s hurry up, Your Grace.]

The knights sped up at Vero’s words, and Kael returned to the castle faster.

The hope that had risen cautiously turned into a stronger conviction as soon as they heard that Herma waiting for them in the castle.

[Adeline broke the magic tool?]

[She lost her consciousness for a moment and is lying down.]

Although Kael lost his reason when he heard that Adeline had collapsed after breaking the magic tool to release Kael from his curse, Zion and Vero exchanged gazes and opened their mouths.

They hadn’t confirmed it yet, but they were certain. Adeline must have lifted Kael’s curse.

[She’s sleeping. She’ll wake up soon, Your Grace.]

It was only after confirming that Adeline was okay that Kael checked his shoulder.

[…]

It was gone. The scar, which looked like he had been cut by a giant sword, had disappeared completely as if it didn’t even exist.

“Is it really… gone?”

“Like it didn’t exist from the beginning. It’s completely clean.”

Adeline carefully unbuttoned Kael’s shirt with a teary face. She wanted to see it with her own eyes. She really wanted to see if there was any painful scar left on his back.

“Ah…”

As the shirt covering his body disappeared and a back full of solid muscles was revealed, an exclamation left Adeline’s mouth unconsciously.

It was really gone. Completely clean. There were only the other scars that Kael had acquired on the battlefield. The traces of the curse had disappeared.

“You did it. Only you.”

Adeline hugged Kael. Her arms wrapped around Kael’s neck. Kael wrapped his arms around Adeline’s waist and held her in his arms.

“Jeffrey is also dead. I checked his corpse beyond the border with the Corrupted.”

“…”

“It’s really over now, Adeline. It’s really over.”

As if it had just ended, Kael delivered the results in a relieved yet exhausted voice.

Adeline immediately met Kael’s eyes. There were a lot of emotions in the gaze that came into contact with his.

There was a sense of relief that they were finally relieved of their pain and that they didn’t have to worry about each other leaving.

But at the same time, there was a lot of pain buried in her eyes. The pain of Kael’s time when he had to embrace and cry over the dead Adeline, the pain of Adeline’s time when she was torn to pieces by pushing Kael away because of her brainwashing.

Many relationships and feelings were lost and became bitter when they went back in time. The blue-grey eyes and the light-green eyes sunk.

“There’s something I really want to make in the garden. Next to the sea you made for me.”

There was something always wanted to do after everything was over.

“I want to make a grave for our child. A small one.”

Their lost child. She wanted to make something that symbolized the child who would probably never come back the same.

***

Adeline stared blankly at the small grave.

Kael immediately kissed the back of Adeline’s hand and agreed to leave a trace of their child.

In front of the small tombstone was a white flower. It was a flower that Kael had chosen.

“It’s a flower that doesn’t wither throughout the seasons. It means ‘forever’.”

“…”

“It will always be next to our child. And we will never forget.”

Adeline nodded and leaned on Kael. After seeing the trace of their child, she could feel the weight of the time that passed.

Adeline closed her eyes and apologized for not being able to protect their baby. An apology that would never reach it. And she hoped that it was able to jump around in the sky. She hoped it would remain a little angel and wait for Adeline, until they met again.

***

“I feel strange. Is it because we find out the whole truth so suddenly and took care of everything so suddenly?”

Adeline asked quietly, looking at the sea Kael had made for her in the garden.

It felt like a storm had hit her. She had gotten back to her senses a little, but she still couldn’t fully realize what they had accomplished.

“It must be because of how sudden it was. Just as you said.”

Kael wrapped his arm around Adeline’s shoulders and kissed her forehead.

“I can’t feel it. We regained all the memories we had lost, your curse has been lifted, but it’s all… Though everything has been solved, I’m still anxious as if I don’t know how to feel relieved.”

“So much was going on. It’s the same for me. Perhaps, you and I will need more time.”

Adeline dug deeper into Kael’s arms and embraced him. Then, she looked up to look at him.

“Will it take a long time?”

“No. It won’t take long. We will soon be enveloped by happiness again. And then it will all be forgotten. The day will come when we’ll just casually say it happened.”

Kael carefully arranged Adeline’s slightly disheveled hair and met her eyes.

“Because we haven’t been separated. Because you’re alive by my side. I don’t have to be afraid of you getting hurt by me anymore.”

“…”

“It’s our perfect time, so all we have to do is be happy. No matter what.”

There was so much happiness that was taken away. It would take a long time to fully recover from the deep wounds caused by the vortex of fate, but keeping by each other’s side like this was enough.

“Adeline. Promise me, too,” Kael asked Adeline in a soft voice. “Promise that you’ll never leave my side. That you’ll never leave me first. That you’ll be even happier by my side, as much as the time we lost.”

Adeline, who had been listening to him with shining eyes, smiled brightly.

She could have made an oath like this a thousand times. Tens of thousands of times.

“I swear, Kael. I will never leave your side or leave you alone.”

Adeline got on her tiptoes and kissed Kael first. Kael smiled fuzzily at the mischievous kiss that seemed to be serving as a stamp to officialize her promise.

“I wanted to say something too, Kael.”

When Kael asked what it was, Adeline took a moment to catch her breath before continuing.

“Thank you. For loving me the same way the moment you met me again. For recognizing me, even though we forgot all our time together.”

Kael’s eyes were stained with love at the heartfelt and infinitely lovable confession.

Instead of speaking with a heart overwhelmed by emotions, he gently overlapped Adeline’s lips with his.

They had to go back a very long time and struggle with each other in terrible pain, but Kael and Adeline regained their positions.

By each other’s side.

Kael and Adeline kissed for a long time on the spot where they swore they would never leave each other.

And they prayed sincerely that only complete happiness would come to them.

The End

T/N: And that’s a wrap! I can’t believe it’s over ;-; to everyone who has been reading since I first started this project and those who have joined us recently, thank you so much for accompanying me on this journey ♡ I really hope you enjoyed reading this!