Everyone in the meeting hall stared with their mouths hanging open. What had they just seen? They simply could not believe the scene unfolding before their eyes.
“What I urgently wanted to tell you was an apology. I wanted to say I was sorry. Sorry for killing you like this.”
Veilks spoke brightly to Emperor Debrica as he slowly collapsed to the floor, and his voice instantly snapped everyone back to their senses.
“Father!”
Crown Prince Aseraian was the first to rush toward Emperor Debrica.
“Y-Your Majesty!”
“Guards! Guards!”
In an instant, screams and shouts erupted throughout the meeting hall.
“.......”
Even amid the chaos, Veilks merely chuckled leisurely and stared at one person.
Ceres stared back at him with an incredulous look.
“Airien.”
Flash!
At Ceres’s call, the little rabbit appeared, and at the same time, thick vines burst forth and wrapped tightly around Veilks.
After binding him so he could not escape, Ceres approached Emperor Debrica while cursing incessantly in her head.
“The wound is too deep!”
Herion was already examining Emperor Debrica’s injury.
Blood and organs were spilling out through the gaping hole in his abdomen. Herion desperately tried to stop the wound from tearing open even further, but nothing she did had any effect.
“Holy water, too.......”
The priests attending the meeting hurriedly used their divine power and poured the holy water they had with them over the wound, but it had little effect.
The bleeding seemed to stop for a moment, only to begin gushing out again. It looked as though even the Pope himself would have to come immediately if there was to be any hope of closing the wound.
“He’s already.......”
Herion could not bring herself to finish the sentence.
There seemed to be absolutely no chance of Emperor Debrica surviving.
But neither could she dare to carelessly speak of the Emperor’s death aloud.
Slide.
“......!”
At that moment, someone placed a hand over Emperor Debrica’s wound.
‘Lady Ceres?’
At her appearance, Herion hurriedly stepped back. She knew better than anyone that Ceres’s healing abilities far surpassed her own.
Even so, Herion’s expression remained dark.
Emperor Debrica’s condition was simply that severe. She believed that even Ceres would be unable to save him.
But then.......
Whoosh!
“......!”
Everyone present doubted their own eyes.
Emperor Debrica’s wound was rapidly closing.
The organs that had spilled out returned inside his body, and even the blood that had soaked the floor disappeared.
Even his clothes, which had been torn open and drenched in blood, were returning to their original, spotless state.
Everyone stared with their mouths hanging open at the sight, as though time itself were running backward.
“Stop.”
A moment later, a hand caught Ceres’s and pulled it away from Emperor Debrica.
It was Kainel.
“That’s enough.”
“.......”
Only then did Ceres open her eyes and check Emperor Debrica’s condition before letting out a short sigh.
It seemed she had gotten irritated and used too much power in the heat of the moment.
‘I’m a little tired.’
...Still, I need to deal with that bastard.
Ceres rose to her feet and approached Veilks, who remained tightly bound by the thick vines Airien had summoned.
The smile still had not left his lips.
No, if anything, it seemed even deeper than before.
He did not appear bothered in the slightest that his attempt to kill the Emperor had failed.
If anything, he looked delighted, as though this was exactly what he had expected to happen.
“As I thought.......”
He looked at Emperor Debrica, who was breathing evenly as though nothing had happened, and his eyes curved into crescents.
“My prediction was right.”
His gaze returned to Ceres.
“It really was... her.”
Grace... She had truly come back to life.
“Yeah, that’s right.”
Ceres answered indifferently and took another step toward him.
Grab!
She seized Veilks by the hair and stared steadily into his eyes with the same indifferent gaze.
“So what?”
“.......”
“Want me to say it’s nice to see you?”
For the first time, the smile vanished from Veilks’s lips when he saw Ceres’s eyes, utterly unconcerned that her identity had been exposed.
“I’d like to confirm something too.”
Now that Ceres clearly understood why Veilks had attacked Emperor Debrica, her gaze suddenly sharpened.
‘My ability.......’
He had obviously wanted to confirm her ability to turn back time.
To find out whether she truly was Grace.......
He had inflicted a fatal wound on Emperor Debrica right in front of her just to confirm it with his own eyes.
“Didn’t I tell you before? Don’t fuck around.”
“.......”
“I told you that if you did, I’d really peel that skin right off you.”
Ceres’s grip on Veilks’s hair slowly tightened.
Veilks’s face gradually twisted.
A strange force was seeping into his body, and he could feel his soul beginning to separate from it.
Whoosh!
“Ceres.”
Boom!
At that moment, Kainel wrapped his arms around Ceres and retreated.
A powerful force erupted where Ceres had been standing only a moment earlier, accompanied by a deafening explosion.
“.......”
Ceres raised her head from within Kainel’s arms, her eyes gleaming coldly.
Veilks had escaped from Airien’s vines and was now being held protectively by someone.
The eyes of everyone present slowly widened when they saw the face of the person who had pulled Veilks free.
It was a face they all knew.
“Alex......?”
At Crown Prince Aseraian’s low exclamation, Prince Alex turned his gaze toward him.
But he soon looked away and fixed his eyes on Ceres.
“Let’s leave it at this for today.”
With a faint smile, he casually waved his hand.
In an instant, the two of them vanished from the spot.
“What in the world.......”
Everyone who witnessed it was left utterly confused.
Why Prince Alex?
What in the world was going on?
None of them could understand what had just happened.
“Alex.......”
Crown Prince Aseraian was more shocked than anyone.
Remembering the bright smile on Prince Alex’s face as he disappeared with Veilks in his arms, Aseraian could only stare for a long time at the place where the two of them had been.
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