How To Survive As a Villain on the Verge of Death

An unfamiliar warmth rose from deep within her heart. It was a strange feeling, like being buried in a cotton blanket soaked in sunlight, a mixture of warm, cozy, and soft sensations. The warm sensation seemed to be flowing through her upper body and quickly gathering inside her heart. Then, it slowly spread throughout the body in time with the heartbeat and then gathered back into the heart.

 

‘What is this?’

 

She touched her breasts with both hands, feeling an unfamiliar sensation coursing through her body. The moment she touched it, the warmth spread to her fingertips, like a spark.

 

[What did you do?]

 

Bayan, who seemed to have been at the entrance to the mansion, quickly ran towards her and asked.

 

When she heard that voice and looked around, she saw people surrounding them. There were already a lot of people gathered in the hallway, including guests.

 

“What was that light just now?”

 

“Her Highness took something out, and light came out of it.”

 

Everyone had come to help them and were confused after witnessing the strange phenomenon created by the sacred tree’s sap. The Duke of Rohan, who was the first to run out into the hallway, looked confused and didn’t know what to do.

 

“Grand Duchess, are you okay? Now what about that…”

 

At that time, the Duchess, who belatedly ran in front of me, screamed like she was screaming.

 

“Terrence! What are you doing? Quickly move Her Highness and Terence to the guest room.”

 

Bayan completely ignored all the talking and walked between the people’s legs to come towards her. Bayan saw her and opened his golden eyes wide.

 

[How did your sacred power suddenly increase?]

 

‘Is this holy power?’

 

This warm feeling was sacred power? She focused on the warmth moving in her chest. She felt like she could vividly feel the blood pumping out of her heart, circulating throughout her body and returning to her heart. He said that the holy power was in her body from the beginning, but she just didn’t realize it. Now she finally understood what he said. This really was something that existed in her body all along. No, but she tried hard to realize this. She suddenly came to enlightenment in such a critical situation?

 

[For some reason, the Holy Power with other characteristics has increased. This…]

 

Bayan looked at her closely and tilted his head.

 

[This certainly seems similar to the holy power of that yellow-haired saint.]

 

Holy power similar to Sorel?

 

‘How can that be?’

 

She turned her attention back to Terrence. If a power similar to Sorel’s was really added, would she be able to use it like Sorel?

 

“Your Highness, I will help you, so hurry over here…”

 

The duke’s butler came closer to support her arm. Whether it would work or not, there was no time to worry about it now. She touched Terence’s wounds like Sorel treated others in the original. She remembered the explanation she heard from Bayan before that made her ears hurt. He told her to collect her holy power in her heart and then slowly send it to her hands. Before, it felt like a random idea, but once she became aware of the power, she was able to move the sacred power within her body in an instant. The warmth that had been gathering in her chest slowly moved up her arms and into her hands.

 

“Well, that…!”

 

Surprised exclamations erupted from the people watching her strange behavior. A soft, golden light began to appear in the palm of her hand. It was a beautiful and gentle light that could be called a divine power. At the same time, Terence’s wounds disappeared and his complexion became much calmer than before. It was like this when Sorel used her healing powers in the original work. It was said that if you infuse them with a lot of holy power, their wounds would disappear and all injuries on their body will heal.

 

“Her highness is using holy power…!”

 

The nobles who came as guests quickly realized what she was doing the moment they saw the light. It was only natural that they had seen Sorel use her sacred power for a long time. Only after she had used up as much of her sacred power as she could, did she remove her hands from Terence’s body. Then she looked at the Duke and Duchess and said.

 

“It looks like his wounds have healed, but I still have to watch him until he wakes up. Please move him to a room.”

 

“Oh, yes, yes. That’s right. Hurry and move His Highness this way.”

 

The duke came to his senses and gave orders to his servants with a bewildered expression. The servants carried Terence into the guest room.

 

“Eve, are you okay?”

 

Someone helped her up. She turned around in surprise and saw that it was Arentine.

 

“Yes, I’m fine. It didn’t hurt much… Ugh.”

 

She was about to say it was okay, but as soon as she got up, a sharp pain hit her left ankle. Was it really broken? At least it looked like the bone was cracked. When she looked back later, the waiting room was a complete mess. Furniture was torn here and there, decorations were smashed, and windows were shattered. If we hadn’t quickly opened the door and stepped out into the hallway, they would have died in there too.

 

She lifted her skirt, exposed her ankles, and touched her like before. Once again, warm light seeped from her hand. The throbbing pain she felt in my ankle quickly subsided.

 

‘Wow, it works on my body too.’

 

Not only those who were watching but even Arentine who was supporting her looked shocked. She turned to the Duchess and spoke in a clear voice so that everyone in the hallway could hear.

 

“Ma’am, someone used the rope bell over there to set off the bomb.”

 

Hearing the word bomb, the Duchess ordered the butler without delay.

 

“Find out who was in the basement and close the mansion.”

 

After hearing that, she also started walking to the room. However, the people gathered in the hallway started asking her questions as if they had been waiting for her.

 

“Your Highness, that was just…”

 

“Are you using your holy power on His Highness the Grand Duke?”

 

“Could it be that you had healing powers?”

 

Everyone looked at her with curiosity and longing. Vilos, standing on one side, looked like he was about to faint. Actually, everyone was surprised. It was known that Eve lost her sacred powers at a young age and had no abilities.

 

‘How will we do it?’

 

This happened in front of everyone anyway, so there was no way she could hide it. And there was no need to hide anything. If this were to happen, she would be able to take Sorel’s place as a saint of the empire without revealing her precognitive abilities.

 

“Yes, I have been able to use my healing powers for some time now. The situation is urgent right now, so I’ll explain in detail later.”

 

After looking around like that, she held Bayan in her arms and headed through the crowd of people to the guest room.

 

* * *

 

Fortunately, Terence came to his senses right away.

 

“Eve…?”

 

As soon as he opened his eyes, he checked her safety.

 

“Eve, are you okay?”

 

She was next to the bed and quickly grabbed his hand.

 

“Are you awake? I’m fine. This is the Duke’s guest room.”

 

Terence looked around helplessly. The blurry purple eyes slowly came into focus. This time he came out and checked himself. Although they were both covered in dust, they looked unharmed and in good condition.

 

“How… Are we both okay?”

 

The person who answered the question was the duchess next to him.

 

“Her Highness healed you with her holy power.”

 

“Sacred power?”

 

Terence’s quizzical gaze returned to her. It must be incomprehensible to him that she couldn’t even see her premonitions properly until yesterday, but suddenly he was cured using her holy power.

 

She was conscious of the people in the room and quickly looked around.

 

“It has the same healing properties as Sorel.”

 

Terence seemed very surprised, but he didn’t bother to ask about that here. Instead, Arentine, who followed her into the guest room, asked her a question.

 

“Since when did you have healing powers?”

 

“A while ago. I suddenly realized.”

 

She thought it would be better to say she found out a few days ago rather than just a little while ago, so she just answered like that.

 

“I didn’t know what it was, so I kept it a secret for now. I never imagined that I would suddenly do something like this today.”

 

She smiled in relief as she held Terence’s hand.

 

“But I’m glad it has healing properties. Because I could have treated you right away.”

 

Terence seemed to understand what was going on. The Duke’s doctor who examined him explained:

 

“Yes, that’s right. Thanks to Her Highness’ holy power, all of His Highness’s injuries appear to have been healed.”

 

Even though they had already seen it with their own eyes, when the doctor confirmed it again, admiring surprise spread among the people in the room.

 

Arentine muttered with a surprised expression.

 

“You have healing powers… You had the same power as Sorel. You definitely used different abilities when you were young.”

 

“It seems that as you get older, you become aware of other abilities.”

 

She didn’t know if that’s the case, but right now she had no choice but to insist that way. At that time, the Duke of Rohan opened the door and came in with a serious expression.

 

“A servant was found dead by suicide in the basement pantry. Maybe he rang the bell.”

 

The duke bowed deeply to them with mixed eyes.

 

“I can’t believe something like this is happening in my mansion… I am truly sorry.”

 

That servant must have been sent by the emperor. Now she understood what happened. The emperor had deliberately sent Mikhail to lure her into that room.

 

‘When I first saw the vision, it seemed like an explosion occurred while riding a carriage.’

 

Perhaps the emperor’s plan was twofold. There were bombs hidden in both Mikhail’s gift and the rope bell in the waiting room. If she obediently took Mikhail’s gift with her, she would have left the bomb in the waiting room. If that were the case, a bomb would have exploded by the river while riding a carriage like the vision did when she first saw it. However, because she had the foresight and prevented it, a second bomb exploded in the room.

 

What it pointed to was clear.

 

She exchanged a look with Terence. He seemed to be thinking the same thing. The emperor noticed her precognitive abilities.

 

‘That’s why you tried to kill me by using such unreasonable methods.’

 

He must have thought it was a huge risk since the princess with the ability to foresee was hostile to the imperial family. After gathering her thoughts, she comforted the duke.

 

“No one was hurt, so don’t worry too much. The person who did this is bad.”

 

There were people who were injured, but they all recovered. And it was the emperor who did it in the first place. There was no point in blaming the duke.

 

“May my knights examine the dead servant?”

 

“Of course. I will ask my servants to cooperate in anything.”

 

After talking about it, they decided to hurry back to the mansion. Anyway, since she wasn’t seriously injured, she thought it would be a good idea to go back early and get some rest. After getting into the carriage and only the three of them, Terence and Bayan, were left, they were finally able to have a proper discussion.

 

“You suddenly became aware of your abilities at that moment?”

 

Terence was surprised after hearing her explanation.

 

“I was surprised too.”

 

She raised her hand again and gathered her holy power into her fingertips. A round golden sphere like a bead appeared above the finger and then disappeared. Bayan looked at the golden beads with shining eyes like a cat looking into a fish tank, and said quietly.

 

[I am glad that the saint has finally realized her sacred power. But even looking at this again, it’s strange.]

 

It was equally strange to her.

 

“How can this happen?”

 

She was a saint and originally has only one holy power.

 

“Surely my precognitive abilities have disappeared?”

 

[Not really. Your basic holy power is foresight. It just adds a little bit of healing power.]

 

Since it’s just a little bit added, she guessed she didn’t just bring in some of Sorel’s abilities, right? She didn’t know if it’s even possible to steal someone else’s abilities in the first place.

 

Bayan put his nose to her hand, inspected it as if smelling it, and then tilted his head again.

 

[Surprisingly, both sacred powers are well combined. As if they were one from the beginning.]

 

“Well, I’m glad that the vision hasn’t disappeared.”

 

She would have time to observe and test her new abilities.

 

She turned her attention to Terence.

 

“Did Michael return safely?”

 

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