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

<Episode 66>

 

‘What are you talking about………..?’

She had just woken up, rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked at the doorway, but the large closed door did not show the horrors beyond.

The young princess tilted her head and found it strange that outside, the incessant roar and terrible screams were still echoing.

‘Maynard…….’

The thought of going out suddenly arose, but since she had to take care of her sleeping younger brother, the princess suppressed her curiosity, sat quietly and waited.

Perhaps, if no one had burst into the room where the child was sitting guarding her younger brother that day, her future fate might not have taken place.

Bang-!

‘Hey, why is there kids here?’

But such thoughts were just fleeting assumptions.

‘what?! No way.’

‘Look over there, that young girl……What, doesn’t she look like Prince Zodiac?’

Shr was startled by a loud noise as if a door was breaking, and looked up at the giant figures that had come in.

After carefully examining the princess’s appearance, a knight found the cradle next to the child and burst out laughing.

‘Hey, I found him, Duke Kandel’s youngest son!’

‘You mean that kid……. Do you want to kill him or do you want me to kill him for you?’

‘Well, that’s fine. We have to kill them either way, but even if we deal with them, we won’t even be recognized as special.’

The knight who walked over with great strides, lifted the baby with one hand and spoke without hesitation.

The young princess urgently grabbed his collar and shouted.

‘Stop! Maynard is still young, get him down!’

‘Oh, what, are you saying you’re going to protect him because he is your younger brother? Anyways why are you here? All the family members should have taken refuge.’

‘They could have abandoned her. What is the importance of a princess who doesn’t even have a brother to rely on?’

‘Yeah, maybe.‘

The princess looked anxiously at her younger brother, who was crying sadly while floating in the air, but the knight who belonged to the second princess’s faction smiled as if he was excited.

‘No matter how much you beg, youngest princess, it doesn’t matter’

Stab–

‘Because all Confucius except the heir deserve to die.’

Tuk-

‘Be grateful that you were born a girl.’

Red blood flowed out, filling her field of sight.

Then she heard the sound of something falling.¹Oh my god(⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠෴⁠ ⁠༎ຶ⁠)

She looked at it and saw that it was her younger brother who was still alive just a moment ago.

‘Was it a bit harsh to kill him right in front of her?’

‘Who cares? Is there any reason to look into the feelings of a young princess who has no power whatsoever?’

‘Yes, that’s right. haha!’

The knights turned away without hesitation, and the princess, who was left alone, touched the body of her younger brother, who had just been crying.

It was warm.

But she could no longer hear the sound of his soft breathing.

She lifted the palm that was touching her younger brother.

The room was dark so it was hard to see, but there was a lot of red, wet stuff on it.

The child rubbed her face hysterically.

And then she checked my palm again.

It was still red.

It had to be that way.

When the knights stabbed Maynard with their swords, blood poured down from his head.

Maynard was dead.

But why?

They said that Confucius other than the heir must die.

But Maynard was my brother.

She promised she would never leave him……

However, even though she asked them to put Maynard down, they laughed at me and killed Maynard.

They behaved as if nothing had happened, rather it was fun for them…….

‘Ah ah ah ah ah!’

A cry mixed with screaming and sobbing came from the child’s mouth.

The pain that felt like her eyes were turning white, mixed with emotions that she could not fully understand, made her mind seem to gradually become blurred.

At that moment, something she didn’t even notice happened.

A part of the source created by the ancient beings that existed in the deepest part of the soul opened its eyes.

A thunderous punishment fell from the sky, accompanied by a tremor that seemed to shake the heavens and earth.

‘Ugh, ahhh!’

‘Confucius, what is this…. aaaah!’

Crackle crackle-!

The knights and spiritists belonging to the faction of the two Kandel princes, who were killing each other indiscriminately, let out terrible screams filled with fear as they were burned alive by the scorching brilliance.

The great Duke Kandel’s mansion was cruelly destroyed by a huge thunderbolt falling from the sky.

There were countless people who were crushed to death by the heavy falling debris.

‘What, Zodiac! Did you do this?!’

‘What are you talking about, brother! Why would I be killing my subordinates!‘

The first and second young masters of Confucius, who were pointing their swords at each other, stared at their painfully dying subordinates with eyes filled with fear, and ran around in fear to protect their own safety.

Thump, thump…..

‘You……!’

After a long time had passed, the brothers discovered a small human image appearing beyond the charred corpse and cried out in astonishment without anyone saying anything.

It was no one else, but their youngest sister.

‘Why are you here….’

The eldest young master of Confucius, who was muttering his sister’s name in confusion, noticed the strangely black glow in the eyes of the child and the sacred and intense radiance flowing around her, and was struck by a thunderbolt of enlightenment.

No way…… Was that child the one who caused the recent disaster?

‘What, why are you messing around here?!’

Unlike the first young master of Confucius, who had a heavy expression on his face, the second young master of Confucius, who was trembling a lot and waiting for mastermind behind the scene, changed his stance when he realized that their true identity was his youngest sister whom he had treated as insignificant as a stone rolling on the side of the road.

He shouted and scolded the child.

‘You managed to survive. I definitely received a report that your brother was killed, but…… Ah, yes. While you were running away hiding like a rat, there would be a high probability that you would have seen the criminal who burned and killed all of my men, right? If you know something, spill it right away. Otherwise, I’ll kill you like your brother… Kyaaaa!’

The moment when Zodiac, who had been pouring out all kinds of abusive language and anger towards his young sister, took a step forward.

Ughhhh-

His whole body trembled and he screamed as if a huge thunderbolt fell on his head.

‘Ugh, wow…….This, this bitch……… .’

However, he was also a spirit master of electricity who inherited Kandel’s blood.

No matter how powerful and unrivaled a talent she was born with, she was still immature to completely subdue an already grown Spiritualist of the same attribute.

Zodiac’s face was distorted with murderous hatred as he placed his blackened hands on the floor.

‘…….’

A stream of fresh blood suddenly flowed down the child’s philtrum, who was still standing there with a look of complete ecstasy even as she looked down at her second brother, who was staring at her as if he were going to tear her to pieces at any moment.

‘..…… Ha, yes! Even if you show off your power like that, there’s no way your body can bear it!’

Although she wielded unbelievably powerful power, it was clear that this was her limit in the end.

Zodiac roared with joy and crawled on the floor with all his might.

‘I……….Waah!’

Tuk-

‘You’d better stop now, Zodiac.’

At that moment, the sword of the first young master of Confucius, who was also keenly observing the child’s complexion, pierced the Zodiac’s back and landed on the broken floor.

Red blood flowed from the Zodiac’s mouth.

‘What, brother….’

‘This is our fight, so why did you involve the youngest in it?’

Zodiac looked up at his brother who was extremely cowardly and watched the situation until everything was over and was now pretending to be benevolent, and cried out in a panic.

‘Shut up! That’s what made me like this, so you were able to win so easily….’

‘Stop wasting your breath……..I guess you should just close your eyes now, little brother.’

When he pulled out his sword, red blood spattered into the air and made a sound.

Zodiac’s life, which had been writhing and struggling for a while, was soon extinguished.

The title succession ceremony had ended.

In a way no one expected….

The first young master of Confucius gazed at his young sister with the feeling of looking at something that existed in a new realm.

‘Judith.’

Judith Sephemia Kandel.

Duke Kandel’s youngest daughter, who was useless until a day ago.

‘All of this…….Did you do it all?’

It was almost definitely because of her…..

He asked a question in a soft voice, recalling the unbelievably amazing sight that a five-year-old child had ever done with his own eyes.

However, perhaps because she had used up all her strength, he quickly picked up Judith, who was staggering and falling down.

Jordi Sephemia Kandel , who as of this moment became the next Duke of Kandel, had a wicked smile on his face.

‘I think I have obtained a hand of infinite use value.’²I think he was the one who caused her death ಠ⁠,⁠_⁠｣⁠ಠ

 

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After the succession ceremony for that Duke’s title, a surprising incident shook the Duke of Kandel’s residence.

It was the fact that the youngest princess, a five-year-old princess, had started the lightning storm that burned hundreds of the two princes’ factions to the point of ashes and nearly destroyed the Duke of Kandel’s residence.

Jordi Kandel told his father the truth of that day without adding or subtracting anything.

The Duke of Kandel, who fully understood the inside story of the shocking incident, finally glimpsed the potential of the youngest child, whom he had treated insignificantly.

‘First of all……start her training as a spiritist following the precedent bestowed by previous Confucius!’

Jordi Kandel’s position had already been solidified, so there was no need to keep his youngest sister in check, as she was very valuable, and the Duke of Kandel also noticed her unusual level of talent, even for a girl, and ordered her to be treated exceptionally.

So, after about a year and a half, a surprising fact was revealed.

Judith Sephemia Kandel was a heretic who completely broke the laws of spirit death that had been in place for thousands of years.

Three spirits, three attributes that combine the main attribute and auxiliary attribute.

There was not a single spirit master who did not follow the above laws.

However, Judith was an exception.

She had only one attribute thanks to the blessing of Astrape, the Spirit King of Electricity.

So compared to the same spirit warriors who received his blessing, she freely used a level of power that far surpassed them.

[The last female child born in the Kandel family is my favorite child, and if you protect her until the end, eternal light will come upon all of you.]

The revelation that broke hundreds of years of silence and came down to the shocked and agitated interior of Duke Kandel’s residence, and to the altar of Astrape, which had been maintained only perfunctorily since the loss of the relic a long time ago, ignited all of this even more.

The uproar became widely known beyond the Kandel duchy and throughout the Roshan Empire, and after a short discussion, Elementalists agreed to define Elementalists like Judith Sephemia Kandel with the name ‘Great Elementalist/Spiritist’.

Thus, Judith Sephemia Kandel was elevated from a useless princess to a rare treasure of the Duke Kandel family in an instant, even though her own soul was empty as she lost everything she loved.

She became the first Great spiritist recognized by the world.

 

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TL:

Wow, that was so intense yet so sad. She literally lived in a trash can, no wander she broke down at the end..