Time-Limited Saintess, You’ve Been Caught by the Tyrant Once Again - Chapter 50

Chapter 25.2

Rising from the sickbed and straightening her position, Ellin spoke with a determined expression.

“Your Majesty offered me employment the last time.”

“The last time? When was that?”

“At that time, when I was Angelia, I told you that I was leaving the temple…”

Her feverish, hazy eyes regained their clarity after a long time.

When he told her, who was being kicked out, that she could find a job here, he actually said it without thinking. The imperial palace wasn’t short of labor, and furthermore, he didn’t particularly want to ‘make’ Ellin work. Nevertheless, because he didn’t feel inclined to say so, he unwillingly answered like that.

“Why don’t you look for it yourself?”

“Yes?”

“It seems like if I arrange it for you, that might also be a topic of discussion. I’ll pass the word to the palace.”

At that, the woman nodded.

“You’re right. It would be better for me to find it first.”

As she became more serious and nodded, Arkan couldn’t take his eyes off her.

“Okay, I’ll try to find a job tomorrow.”

Then, she gazed at him with a determined expression. Light green eyes, like freshly sprouted buds, stared into strong, blood-red eyes that threatened to consume her.

There was still not a single trace of fear.

In mythology, the demon who killed the gods was described as having red eyes. As a fallen warrior of the corrupted Normaty, it is said that the blood of the gods he shed back then was reflected in his pupils. Perhaps it was because of the mythology that the Nicaeans were frightened by scarlet eyes. Even Marquis Kasmin, who was a friendly and sociable person, couldn’t look into his eyes at first.

Has there ever been someone who had treated him with such an expression and attitude until now?

He felt new and different.

“Let’s see where she can find a job then.”

Arkan smiled as if he were looking forward to what lay ahead.

Whether she failed or succeeded, it would be interesting in its own way. He tried to focus on Ellin, deliberately ignoring the dark realities surrounding him, such as his sister, who had gone mad, or his brother, who hated him. It seemed like that was the only way he could breathe.

What kind of job would she find? A regular maid? A librarian for the library? A gardener? No, perhaps she might even get a job as a stablekeeper.

That seemed amusing in its own way.

In his mind, he pictured her struggling with the horses in the stable and, eventually, her collapsing from exhaustion.

“Her body is weak…”

Then, he wouldn’t leave the stablekeepers alone!

“…I won’t let her do that.”

“Yes?”

“What do you mean?”

Marquis Kasmin and Bronn asked, but Arkan didn’t respond.

If she found a job without a plan and obtained a difficult job, he would immediately lay her off. He didn’t want any headaches.

If she kept getting sick, wouldn’t it be annoying and troublesome?

“Your Majesty!”

At that moment, an urgent voice was heard. The hurrying maid was undoubtedly one of the Princess’s handmaidens.

“What is it?”

“Her Highness the Princess…”

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Upon seeing Princess Charlotte, Ellin was overwhelmed by a strange feeling that she couldn’t put into words. It was a strange feeling to see someone who was already dead when she was there but now alive again when she was given a new life.

Even more so to actually see someone she had only heard stories about.

“Kyaaaaaak! Aaaakkkk—!”

The Princess was a small girl with flowing golden hair, different from her brother, Arkan, though they had the same red eyes. She was screaming with her ears covered as if trying to escape from something terrifying.

“Your Highness the Princess!”

They scrambled, trying to calm Charlotte down.

Ellin was surprised by the more horrifying sight than she had expected.

Despite the fact that she should have been a lively girl for that age, she looked emaciated, and the area under her eyes was as dark as those of the sickly. In addition, the gaunt hands that covered her ears looked like they were barely clinging to her bones.

Her emaciated appearance hardly resembled that of a princess.

“Kyaaaaaak! Aaaaaak!”

The Princess continued to scream.

Hearing that scream, she remembered the reason why she died.

Ellin looked at the girl with sorrow, biting her lips.

She had gone mad. In simple terms, she was insane, and in the end, she couldn’t overcome her madness, so she jumped into the water and drowned.

‘…There’s not much time left.’

In her first life, it was known that she died before Arkan became the Emperor, which was to say, at this point in time. It was heartbreaking to see her become like this at such a young age.

‘I heard there was a reason for her madness…’

The death of the Princess was heartbreaking, but in reality, it was the death of someone she had never met. So, because of that, she had forgotten the details of what had happened. The only thing she remembered was that the Princess’s death wasn’t a suicide caused by madness.

There was something deeper hidden behind it.

As Arkan found out later, his rage toward the temple burned even further, and she happened to find out about it after coming to the imperial palace.

…Did the fact that he was being enraged about the temple mean that the temple was somehow involved?

She couldn’t know. Still, she couldn’t turn away from the pitiful girl in front of her.

‘Let’s think about it, Ellin.’

Even though she reassured herself, because of the screams, she couldn’t concentrate at all. Ellin covered her ears.

“Your Highness the Princess!”

“Kyaaaaaaaak!”

“What should we do?! Calm her down quickly!”

With her pretty blonde hair frantically tousled and screaming, she looked almost demonic. It was even more so because of those red irises.

“Miss, let’s go quickly. His Majesty might get angry.”

“Has Princess Charlotte always screamed like that?”

“Yes.”

“Since when did it start?”

Melissa hesitated.

“Go ahead and say it.”

As Ellin’s tone was gentle but carried a firmness, Melissa found herself speaking without realizing it.

“Well, Her Highness has been covering her ears and screaming since she was five, and it’s been getting worse over time.”

“….”

“They say it was fortunate that she still has a voice at all because she doesn’t listen to people and only screams like that.”

She pondered Melissa’s words.

‘…Covering her ears and screaming?’

Then, her gaze shifted to the hands of the Princess, which were still covering her ears. Her thin arms, tightly covering her ears as if she didn’t want to hear any sound, showed prominent veins, indicating how much force she had exerted.

At that moment, something clicked in her mind, and she saw a clue.

She could help her.

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