Raised the Villainous Daughter and Ran Away

164. The earnest wish of a transcendent being

The sunset has set and the moon has risen.

The softly shining moonlight was telling us that another separation was coming.

I’m out in the cozy garden to finish up my conversation with Frances.

The bright red roses held their heads up stiffly regardless of the season with magical powers. It seemed as if the roses that had just bloomed were looking at me from a flower garden that stretched out.

“jin.”

Frances called me softly.

“I wanted to see you so badly.”

“… Me too.”

“And I’m so mad at you.”

“I know.”

“I had a lot of resentment. I was in pain.”

“… I have no face.”

Frances’s sorrowful eyes. I met her gaze coldly. I froze my heart in the name of coolness.

“I was so resentful that you left me behind. I was upset that you didn’t let me know that you were dying because of me.”

Frances’s speech became faster, as if she was trying to bring out everything she had kept in her heart.

“That’s okay.”

Sparkling emerald eyes looked at me, and I was no longer reflected in them.

“Because I can see it now.”

Frances tried to smile, overcoming all the sadness and sorrow she had felt. She had the charm of scattering freshly cut rose petals.

“I’ve prepared a lot to treat you when you return. I’ve told Kazar about it too. So… … ”

Frances continues speaking. I couldn’t hear it. I couldn’t reach it. I might have blocked it without realizing it because I couldn’t bear to listen.

I should say something now before it’s too late.

“Your Highness.”

I interrupted Frances mid-sentence.

“huh?”

Frances tilted her head with the corners of her lips raised.

“I have something important to tell you.”

“What is it?”

“I will disappear soon.”

“…what?”

Did she hear me say I was running away again? Frances frowned. She quickly continued speaking before there was any unnecessary misunderstanding.

“I made a deal with Ladrien. I will give everything I have in exchange for saving the Duke, who was supposed to die. I will soon disappear. As if I had never existed in this world in the first place.”

She pursed her lips. Her complexion seemed to have turned pale.

“Your Majesty, all the memories you have had with me will fly away.”

No one will be sad if I disappear.

A lonely death, like the only flower blooming in a dry desert.

What a pitiful and yet refreshing death this is.

Still, I have no regrets or regrets.

“You don’t have to worry. Everything will be over after tonight. Your Highness will not have to worry about me.”

Frances had changed the ending of death that she had to face, and she had everyone to support her. She also gained strength. A lot of things were different compared to her previous life.

The price is a being named Jean Barenberg.

This is it.

“… Don’t make me laugh.”

The area under France’s eyes twitched.

“We finally met again and you’re going to disappear right away? And you’re someone I’ve forgotten and never existed in the first place? That’s ridiculous… … .”

A voice full of confusion, trembling and losing its bearings.

“As I disappear, something will emerge to take my place. Everything that has been accomplished so far will be changed to something that was built solely by your ability.”

And I continued speaking.

“There is not much time left.”

“…ah…….”

France’s expression fell.

“You made me into someone who can’t live without you, and now you’re going to irresponsibly disappear?”

Frances stood up from her seat, pushed her chair back, and approached me.

“If you disappear from my memory and become a non-existent entity, is that okay? Our life together, our time together, was a lie?”

She cried out in a fit of rage. She clenched her teeth, trembled, and covered her face. Her sobs leaked out through every crack of her fingers.

“Yes, there is a soul bond. I finished it in preparation for your coming, so it should be fine. You wouldn’t refuse it now, would you? You know how I feel. Yes?”

The earnestness and desperation came out clearly in his voice.

“Your Majesty, I am sorry, but our souls were already bonded. And now my soul is gone.”

I got up from my seat and moved to where the moonlight was shining brightly. The light penetrated me without any refraction or obstruction.

“Look, I have no shadow. I am no longer a person of this world. I am just a phantom formed by obsession.”

Frances looked at my feet with distorted eyes as if in disbelief.

“What the heck, what the heck is this… … .”

Then he comes up to me and holds out his hand.

“… … .”

It wasn’t caught.

“No. Don’t make me laugh.”

Frances shook her head and reached out as if to catch the scattered drops of light. It was her own denial.

“This is the end? How did we meet? If I disappear from your memories, that’s it?”

But it wasn’t caught. It just slipped through my fingers.

“Please, please don’t lie. Don’t leave me… … .”

Scattered, and scattered again.

“Your Highness.”

I smiled and called out to Frances.

“I do not regret this choice. The Duke, whom I loved more than anyone else, is so healthy.”

As the synchronization progressed, the memories flowing in were me screaming as if spitting out blood. My silent scream shook the sky, hit the ground, and echoed throughout the world.

But now it’s different. There’s no need to scream, no need to vomit blood, no need to scream over the loss of a loved one.

Okay, this will do.

“Where, where is that… … .”

Frances looked at me silently. Darkness fell over her face.

I was struggling to lift the darkness and find hope, but it wasn’t enough.

She was sinking into the darkness.

“France.”

“… … .”

I said with a smile.

“I am glad to have met you, Frances. Although it was not a pleasant encounter, as the country was destroyed and I was taken as a slave, I was fortunate to have met you as my master in the midst of such hardship and despair.”

There was not a single lie. Only the truth was told.

“I am so happy to know your life and to be able to change it. I am glad that every moment of your life was mine.”

Everything about me flowed and stopped with France.

“France and my relationship will not end. Even if my existence disappears, we will meet again someday, at some moment. Because every moment of yours was mine, and every moment of mine was you.”

I reached out. Frances reached out too. She couldn’t reach. She couldn’t reach.

As I fade away, as I disappear, our relationship is coming to an end.

It was announcing an eternal farewell.

“Even if the person named Jean Barenberg ceases to exist, even if everything about me disappears, I will never forget him.”

Tears ran down France’s cheeks. They sparkled in the moonlight.

“I love you, France.”

It was reported for the first time.

My heart that I have never been able to convey for two thousand years.

Said it for the first time.

I gave her the warmth of the red heart in my chest.

“I love you, but why…?”

Frances cried out in a fit of hysteria.

“Why do we have to break up like this!!”

She kept shaking her head and crying endlessly, denying it and saying she couldn’t accept it.

“… Is there no way?”

“doesn’t exist.”

“Is it really going to end like this…?”

I answered by closing my eyes instead.

“…I see.”

The time has come.

“I think it’s time.”

Starting from the tips of the fingers and toes, the body gradually falls apart.

Still, he smiled brightly.

“Your Majesty, you will be fine without me. The pain you feel at this moment is only fleeting.”

Frances shut her red, swollen eyes tightly, her face distorted, and sobbed as she spoke.

“I don’t want to break up.”

Then he sat down on the grass in the garden, covering his face with both hands.

“I don’t want it to end like this. You’re everything to me!”

Frances bit her lower lip and sobbed.

“Please don’t leave… … .”

I’m scared.

If you’re not afraid of the moment of separation, it’s not love.

I don’t want to leave either.

I want to spend more time with her and be with her. I want to hold her hand that is touching the ground in that garden right now.

However, even though I had given everything, I had no such strength left.

“… … .”

I froze my emotions, clutching at my chest as if it was going to burst.

“Even if I disappear and lose everything, I will definitely keep this memory and wait until the day we meet again.”

There was nothing more I could say.

The end is near.

“I command you to stay by my side for the rest of your life! Please don’t go…!”

Under the moonlit night sky, Frances pleaded desperately. But just as her hands could not reach me, her pleas did not reach me.

The moment I closed my eyes and accepted my fate.

“Are you really going to give up like this?”

Somire walked behind me.

“You, who have endured for thousands of years and even changed your fate, are giving up too easily.”

Do you think I’m leaving because I want to? I don’t want to give up either, but I can’t help it.

“What are you trying to say?”

“There is a way.”

“what?”

At those words, Frances raised her head and grabbed Somire’s arm.

“Is that true? What should I do? Hurry up, there’s no time!”

Somire looked at France, who was immersed in sorrow, and then met my gaze.

“You know that the saint is the Goddess’ representative, right?”

“Yes, I do,” he said, nodding.

“Then you must also know that the source of the saint’s power is the goddess.”

My eyes opened shallowly. Doubt came first.

“I will use the descent in exchange for the power of the saint. I am sure the goddess will have a way.”

I frowned at those words.

“Gangrim? If that solves this problem, why didn’t Baek A-yeon use Gangrim? If she had, she could have gone back.”

Somire smiled and tilted her head slightly.

“She is just a body borrowed from this world, an impurity. She is not the real owner. If I am directly connected to the Goddess, then it is possible.”

Instead, Somire continued speaking.

“If I use this, I will lose my saintly powers. I will no longer be able to perform miracles like before. Even if I use holy magic, it will only be for light healing. You can think of it as a kind of price to pay.”

Then he looked at France and smiled.

“I will grant your wish, though. There is nothing left anyway. So please let me stay at the Duke Descartes’ residence. To be exact, you will hide me and take responsibility for the rest of my life.”

Frances nodded her head repeatedly and sobbed.

“I will do whatever I can, so please… … .”

At the earnest plea, Somire said, “Okay,” and closed her eyes, clasping her hands together.

“Goddess, this is the earnest wish of a transcendent being who changed his predetermined fate.”

At that moment, golden, sparkling magic power gathered from all over.

“The transcendent being who sacrificed everything for the one he loved saved her. But he could not save himself.”

The small golden magic gathered and gathered, enveloping my entire body.

“No matter how hard they struggled, they couldn’t stay together. The end of their love was a tragedy. So she and he made a wish.”

A warm feeling came over me, who was gradually becoming blurry and disappearing from existence.

“Please don’t let us break up.”

The body that had lost its form, the tips of its fingers and toes are returning.

“The wishes of two people were enough to create a miracle.”

Brilliantly shining magical power fell from the sky like stardust, rising from the ground and fluttering around like fireflies.

“Please have mercy and help these two to pledge eternity.”

As Somire finished her prayer, gold fell from the sky.

A new miracle, at the cost of a miracle.