Born as the Hidden Daughter of a Villainess and the Male Lead

<Episode 39>

 

Creak–

“Omg!”

The moment I was lost in thought, I clearly heard the sound of the door opening and closing.

I was startled and trembled.

“You’re awake?”

Just before I pretended to lose consciousness, a familiar voice spoke to me.

I slowly raised my head, feeling my heart sink.

It was that man.

Naiad said, he was a member of the royal family of Nisha and the leader of the group that kidnapped me and Ashamed!

A cool young man was revealed under the bright lights.

A handsome man, perhaps similar in age to Roberick, but with a decadent aura, the exact opposite of Roberick, who regardless of his personality, had the appearance of an angel descended from heaven, looked down at me with a grin on his face.

His sharp gray pupils were showing the same interest in me as before I lost consciousness.

“Hello, princess.”

He said.

“…….”

He spoke as if telling a joke to me, who did not answer and could not hide my hostile expression.

“No, should I call you Mariette’s daughter?”

“!”

I looked at him with shocked eyes.

He just raised the corner of his mouth without saying a word, as if he was expecting that kind of reaction from me.

That kidnapper… who was he exactly?

As if being the royal family of Nisha wasn’t enough… Did he know Mariette?

I thought as I stared anxiously at the man who did not take his eyes off me with a happy expression.

……When I thought about it carefully, since I saw that man, he kept saying Mariette’s name as if he was trying to provoke me.

It’s like they had known each other for a very long time.

In an extremely unpleasant tone.

I only wet my dry lips and finally opened my mouth.

“…Who are you? Why did you kidnap us?”

The kidnapper answered my question with a wide smile.

“Now that I think about it, my introduction was late. My name is Riat Ilkay Khalid.”

The kidnapper confidently announced his name.

For a moment I looked at him in confusion.

“I am the monarch of the Nisha Kingdom.”

[That… I see. You are the royal family of Nisha!]

Thinking back to Naiad’s words, I opened my mouth in astonishment.

Not just a member of the royal family, but someone who was like the king of a country.

How on earth could he kidnap a prince and a princess from a foreign country?

“……..”

“Fuhahaha!”

The man who was watching my expression bursted out laughing as if he was going to die of laughter.

It was a ridiculous joke.

Unless he was planning on starting a war, what was the king of Nisha Kingdom thinking when he kidnapped us?

What’s his motive behind this?

I gritted my teeth, unable to say the words that were inside me.

“hmm. It looks like you don’t understand the current situation.”

As if he sensed what I was thinking, the King of Nisha raised the hand that was resting his chin and waved it lightly in the air.

Crack-

I thought I saw a black trace in my vision.

“……The wall……”

A large crack appeared in the wall behind where Ashamed and I were sitting.

Small pieces of debris fell from the cracked wall from just a little higher than where we are.

Goosebumps appeared on my back.

“You’ve seen this a lot, right? It is the power of Sak. Using this power is a proof that I am Nisha’s royal family.”

I thought, suppressing the trembling that kept trying to show.

I have never read anywhere about a spirit with that kind of power.

“…Why did the King of Nisha kidnap the second prince of Roshan and the grand princess of Heilian?”

I turned my stern face towards Riat and asked.

I didn’t want to believe it, though.

Is he really trying to start a war?

“You’re bold. If I had moved my hand a little lower, it would have been your head drawn like that, not the wall.”

He recited a bloody threat with a nonchalant expression and looked at me with a grinning face.

“Let me start by explaining the second prince. His biological father, the Emperor of the Roshan Empire, personally asked me to assassinate him.”

“!”

It felt like my heart stopped.

While I was looking at Riat in confusion, I quickly looked at Ashamed’s complexion.

“……I knew it. There was no way he would admit defeat so easily and move on.”

But Ashamed didn’t look shocked at all.

The boy just quietly lowered his eyes and muttered indifferently.

An indescribable emotion rushed over me.

I just clenched my palm tightly.

“It looks like there were complicated circumstances even within your imperial family. If you had been born in Nisha, you wouldn’t have been ostracized like that, but it’s pitiful.”

Riat spoke in a light tone, as if he was shedding crocodile tears for him, and then turned his attention back to me.

“And our Princess…”

Could it be that the Emperor asked him to get rid of me too?

I stared at Riat with a feeling of anxiety.

“I kidnapped you not because of the Emperor’s request, but because I wanted to bring you back.”

…….?

I stared at him blankly as he spouted nonsense that had no meaning and no context.

“It feels like it was just yesterday that you were in her stomach, but you’ve already grown a lot.”

And I widened my eyes at the words that followed.

It wasn’t an illusion.

That man……

“This may be your first time seeing me. But I’ve met you… once before.”

He knew Mariette.

It was clear that they not only knew each other’s names, but had also built some kind of relationship by meeting each other in person.

“How on earth do you know my mother?”

I asked with a trembling voice.¹I think she is not handling this situation at all, I hope she picks herself up and face this bravely.

In the original novel, the country called Nisha was mentioned only once and its name and history were not given any importance.

It was natural. The Roshan Empire, which was the background of the novel, was a country in a hostile relationship with Nisha.

Nisha, who worshiped the Dark Spirit King, and Roshan, who was blessed by the Fire Spirit King, who was the most hostile to the Dark Spirit King.

The two were described in the textbook handed over by Count Jupes, saying that there was never a time in their long history when they were not hostile.

How did Mariette, who was a princess of Roshan, meet Riat, who was probably a member of the royal family of Nisha then?

At that moment the outline of the past became more and more unbelievable as it was revealed, which made my fear arose.

Riat stared at me with my lips quivering.

He quietly pursed his lips with a calm expression, no trace of his previous cheerful demeanor.

“I…”

His unique gray eyes seemed to be searching the past.

“….loved Mariette.”

I looked up at him in confusion.

 

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Endless rain poured from the sky.

The old fenced country road was unable to drain the rain that was pouring down on the land like the sky was crying, leaving large puddles of water in various places.

Bang-!

“You…”

Rainwater dripped from her flawless white hair.

Roberick stared at the person facing him with a fiercely distorted expression.

“You probably know where Edith is. Hurry up and say it right now.”

“………”

The man wearing a white robe did not reply.

He just looked away from him for a moment, finished packing his luggage, and then approached the door Roberick had blocked and opened his mouth.

“Move.”

A cold voice shouted as if commanding.

“Ahh!”

Roberick let out a sharp breath and glared at the person facing him with a shocked expression.

“Are you ignoring me now? On the subject of ugly taboos and the bloodshed of a ruined family. There is no longer a master who will tolerate your wantonness, and yet you are still so arrogant. I could take your head off right now…”

“There is nothing to tell a father who cannot protect even his own children.”

The moment Roberick’s voice continued.

The pitch-black eyes hidden under the robe were revealed under the bright light of the light bulb and stared eerily at Roberick.

“!”

Roberick trembled.

The man walked away, no longer paying any attention to Roberick.

When Roberick suddenly stepped aside and stared blankly at his back.

He stopped walking and spoke as if talking to himself.

“I told you about Edith’s existence because of Mariette’s will. If I had known it would end up like this, I wouldn’t have sent her away.”

“What……!”

Roberick stared at the white figure walking away with an angry expression.

And cried out with hatred.

“Meinhard Astrape!!”

That man, Meinhard, paid no heed to Roberick’s cries and disappeared beyond the foggy road.

 

***

 

-Along time ago, beyond the sea and shadows.

Litera, the academy that every spiritist on the continent dreams of.

It contained tens of thousands of books handed down from ancient times, not long after the creation of humans.

It was an absolutely neutral area that protected the freedom and rights of the spirits and could not be threatened by any conqueror from the continent.

It was also an excellent learning place where young spiritists with outstanding future prospects gathered from all over the continent to compete with equally talented individuals, engage in heated discussions, and stimulate each other’s growth.

But despite all those useful features-

“Get out of here, you parasite!”

They did not apply to Nisha’s second prince, Riat.

“…….”

Was it his intention to burn his body alive?

I barely managed to block the fire that was aimed directly at my face.

The back of Riat’s hand was burned black because he was unable to block everything.

The boys surrounding him shouted at Riat, who looked down at his scars without saying a word even though he must have felt terrible pain.

“Chairman Mekhail is also in a serious trouble. How did you allow the filthy Prince of Nisha to set foot here?”

“A dark spiritist is also an elementalist like us? Nonsense. Something like that is a bug that attaches itself to Arkane and lives as a parasite for the rest of its life.”

“Shouldn’t the hero who defeated the disaster himself, and no one else, do this?”

“Hey, get out of here quickly. Otherwise, it won’t end with just that… All of the spiritists gathered here are direct or indirect victims of the massacre that took place decades ago.”

Tuk.

The boy with a fierce expression who was at the forefront pressed Riat’s forehead and scolded him.

“No matter how much we fought together against the disaster, in the end, a traitor who embraced the dark spirit master set foot in Litera? Honestly, don’t you feel guilty about being here?”

The boys behind him burst out laughing.

The boy standing in front didn’t even notice because he was so busy cutting down the other person’s pride.

“……..”

The gray eyes hidden by black hair sparkle with eerie murder.

At that moment just when Riat pressed his lips.

“Aren’t you going to take that hand away?”

A clear voice broke in.

Riat slowly rolled his eyes.

“Hey, Mariette!”

The boys who had been bullying Riat to their heart’s content were embarrassed and shouted someone’s name.

The first thing that caught my eye was a calm sky-blue dress.

As I slowly looked up, I saw her light purple hair that had fallen down to her waist and was shaking slightly.

Her face, shining elegantly in the sunlight coming in from the window, had a sharp intellect and a girl’s youthful appearance.

Her pupils filled with brilliant golden light scanned the dark hallway.

Soon, as if she had finished understanding the situation, a clear voice was heard.

“Yes, fire was used.”

“Oh, wait a minute! Mariette!!”

Crakle~!

The voices of the boys who were desperately shouting were completely buried in the rough current.

The boys were seen lying face down in a miserable state on the floor of the hallway where the moisture had disappeared.

“Uh….uut, huh….”

“If you don’t want to experience drowning here.”

Click, click.

Her shoes made a light sound.

“Get out of my sight right now.”

And a cool voice murmured lowly.²Wow, a queen 👑, I hope Edith becomes like her some day〈⁠(⁠•⁠ˇ⁠‿⁠ˇ⁠•⁠)⁠-⁠→

 

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TL:

I am aware this week updates are late and I am so sorry for that, I didn’t cope with my college days so well, but today is my free day and I will be posting all this week’s chapters today after I finish them of course ᕙ⁠(⁠＠⁠°⁠▽⁠°⁠＠⁠)⁠ᕗ.