Time-Limited Saintess, You’ve Been Caught by the Tyrant Once Again - Chapter 75

Chapter 38.1

What… What just happened?

Ellin couldn’t gather her senses for a while. At the same moment as the explosion, her sight and hearing disappeared for a moment.

“Meli—Cough!”

At the same time, people startled by the dust covering their eyes began to scream and swarmed towards Ellin, where there was relatively less dust.

“Melissa!”

“Ellin!”

In the surge of people that pushed against them, the two fell into the crowd of people who were pushed in an instant.

Ellin suddenly realized that her voice sounded far away. Not only was it difficult to breathe amidst the dust pit, but she couldn’t see ahead, no matter how hard she tried. As she struggled to keep her eyes open against the sting, she quickly moved to where there was less dust. It was increasingly difficult to find Melissa.

“What is this…”

When she completely escaped and opened her eyes, Melissa was gone. She searched for Melissa amidst the crowd of people rushing out.

“Melissa, Melissa?!”

Even though she tried to search for the guards meant to watch over her, she couldn’t find them because of the crowd either. Ellin wiped her eyes, which were watering from the dust.

“What… what happened?”

She escaped from the crowd and wandered around searching for them. Disoriented, her feet started to move in the opposite direction from where Melissa was.

“Melissa!”

She kept calling out her name desperately.

‘What should I do? It seems that I’m lost.’

All of a sudden, a thought flashed through her mind.

There were no guards here.

If she left now, she would be free.

…Should she run away?

Ellin thought of Arkan. Wasn’t she trying to avoid getting involved with him? He had brought her, so strictly speaking, it wasn’t her will.

Now was the only chance.

Her light green eyes shone.

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“What?”

Arkan frowned.

“Someone set off a smoke bomb in the commercial district of the capital.”

“What about the damage?”

“There are no casualties. However…”

Bronn trailed off. He had never been so hesitant about reporting like this before.

“Ellin, who got caught up in the commotion, disappeared.”

“Disappeared?”

Arkan clenched his fists.

“It seems like she… escaped.”

Arkan responded as if that couldn’t be true.

“Perhaps she’s injured and stuck somewhere? If a smoke bomb went off in the commercial district, the crowd would have been massive. She could have been trampled by people. She has a bit of a dull side.”

She told him she wouldn’t run, and her face looked sincere at that time. Nonetheless, his stomach, which had been calm, began to boil.

“The dispatched knights searched for her, but they only found the maid who went out with her.”

“….”

Arkan didn’t say anything. It was when Bronn saw his face that he became frightened for no reason.

“It might be too late to find her now. How much time has passed?”

“It’s been… six hours since the incident.”

Six hours… It was enough time to reunite with the group again and contact the Imperial Palace personally. Arkan realized something he didn’t want to admit. Even at that moment, he realized the unpleasant truth he didn’t want to admit.

…The bird had flown away again. When he opened the cage, it just flew away.

“I should have killed her.”

He muttered through clenched teeth with a murderous voice.

He recalled Ellin, who shyly asked for her salary and permission to go out before leaving. Seeing her smiling with a sparkling smile, he held out a bag of gold coins as if mesmerized. He thought he had to do that… because didn’t she deserve freedom? Knowing that she was a slave and had never experienced joy, he showed her kindness.

For him, it was an unfamiliar favor bestowed upon someone for the first time. Although he thought he was foolish, he didn’t hate it. However, after receiving it, that woman eagerly waited for the opportunity to run away.

Wait a moment.

Why did he think she wouldn’t run? Because of her sense of responsibility towards Charlotte?

The reason she was here was because he brought her to prevent her from revealing the ‘secret.’ This was partly his own fault. He should have made the relationship clear from the beginning. Just because she didn’t avoid his cursed eyes or relied on him didn’t change anything.

He was foolish.

“Who set off the smoke bomb?”

“It seems to have been a prisoner released from the prison. It seems they set it off out of anger when their family didn’t accept them…”

“Does it have anything to do with that woman?”

Ellin has already become ‘that woman’ again.

“No, there’s no connection at all. In fact, that man died being pushed to death by the crowd.”

“Then, this is a coincidence.”

She took advantage of the lax surveillance as an opportunity to escape. He took her in and treated her well, but she ran away as soon as she had the chance just like that. Yeah, she had a full stomach*. She should be grateful he didn’t kill her, yet as soon as she got the chance, she escaped?
[ T/N: It’s an idiom which implies that a person has eaten or has enough and is satisfied.]

“Kill her immediately.”

“….”

“No, make sure to bring her back alive. I’ll be the one who kills her.”

Bronn was terrified.

Despite the fact that Arkan’s anger was something he had grown accustomed to, seeing that murderous intent in his red eyes was something he could never get used to.

…That woman, Ellin, would die today.

It had been a long time since the Emperor had scattered his wrath like this.

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After hesitating for a while about whether to run away or not, Ellin realized she had walked to a deserted place.

In fact, it wasn’t quite the realm of ‘escape’ yet.

‘…Where am I?’

The place was deserted and dark, a place where something felt ominous…

All of a sudden, she heard the sound of footsteps.

As soon as she sensed danger, she tried to run. However, at the same time, someone blocked her path. A large man was looking at her with a smile on his face. When she turned around and tried to go somewhere else, a skinny man appeared out of nowhere this time.

“It seems like the lady came by and spent some money, but what a coincidence.”

Men stood on every path she tried to escape.

Ellin frowned.

They were robbers.

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