The Fake Wants to Leave

Kwakwang.

There was a tremendous roar as Ellie’s shadow disappeared.

Harrison and John, who had been bound by Ellie’s darkness, were naturally released by her death.

They ran quickly to Tia as soon as the darkness disappeared from their bodies.

“Tia!”

“Tia.”

Each called Tia in a different tone.

Tia was still in the process of healing Charlize.

So she couldn’t answer the call of the two.

No.

She didn’t want to answer.

Because they were people who stood by Charlize’s death.

Tia shrugged off the pathetic call of the two.

“Tia. I missed you. Can I give you a hug?”

Harrison tried to act for his own benefit despite Tia’s callousness, maybe he still hadn’t come to his senses.

Tia, who couldn’t stand it, eventually spoke to Harrison.

“Your Majesty, don’t come near me. Because I don’t want to see Your Majesty.”

“Is it because I just sit by and watch Charlize’s death?”

“Yes, you know it well.”

“But Charlize is a bad sister who bullied you. Death is a cheap price to pay considering the crime that she afflicted on you.”

“My sister bullied me, but I liked her bullying, too. Don’t speak ill of my sister without knowing much about our relationship, Sire.”

“Charlize is a vicious person who kicked you out. None of the people who care about you think well of Charlize. You know it, Tia.”

“It was my fault that I made all the bad images of Sister Charlize. Sister Charlize was just struggling to survive. Would this have happened if I hadn’t run away?”

“……Tia. How can you stand by Charlize and get mad at me?”

Harrison raised his shoulders with a look of complete incomprehension.

Tia sighed for a moment, seeing that she had almost healed Charlize’s wound, she then answered Harrison’s question.

“Because I love Sister. I didn’t want anyone to notice it. That’s why I tried to get away from her. I can’t believe it was seen as me being bullied by Sister in the eyes of others. It’s my fault.”

Tia rose from her seat when she saw that all of Charlize’s wounds had been healed.

“I will protect my sister from now on. I won’t even glance at you if Your Majesty or John belittles my sister. Remember it properly.”

John and Harrison, who were once again shocked by Tia’s hard voice, only accumulated more resentment against Charlize without answering her.

Why is Charlize trying to take Tia away?

It’s annoying.

Harrison, feeling frustrated, ruffled his hair with his hands. And John glared at Charlize with a fierce look.

As if he wanted to strangle Charlize’s neck.

“Lua. Please carry my sister Charlize to the room where I am staying.”

“Yes.”

Lua, who was calmly watching Tia’s behaviour, left with Charlize carrying her princess’s hug at Tia’s request.

Ian, who joined late, made a puzzled face for a moment and followed in Lua’s footsteps.

So only Tia and the people who care about Tia were left.

Tia seemed to have something to say to them.

“If you don’t want to be enemies with me, please turn off your interest in Sister Charlize. Then I’ll step down, too.”

John was angry and tried to refute at the sight of Tia continuing to side with Charlize, but the curse had spread all over his body, so he collapsed.

The curse was nibbling away John’s body while he remained bound by Ellie’s darkness.

A strange dark red shape rose on John’s skin and eventually gnawed at his neck.

“Ugh.”

“John? Are you okay?”

Tia freaked out when she saw John’s dark red curse spreading for a moment.

‘That’s the curse that I got rid of John before. Why is it here again?’

She thought she had gotten rid of the curse then.

“John, the curse is spreading again.”

Tia looked troubled.

It is also difficult to solve John’s curse, because he was the Great Wizard, she couldn’t get rid of the curse very easily.

Wizards usually say that magic was the heart and life.

But in order to cure that curse, she had to touch the hearts of wizards.

Tia couldn’t help it.

Because there was one only choice, not several.

Tia straightened her resolve because she thought she needed to save people first.

“John, I’ll get rid of the curse right now.”

“……It’s better to die if you abandon me. Let me die.”

Tia did not treat John’s rude remarks as carelessly as before.

There was no good old Tia anymore.

There was no more Tia, who was a caring, helpful, and kind image of the old days.

Tia resolved.

She didn’t want to be nice anymore.

She wouldn’t do anything that holds Charlize back.

It was the best way to protect the person she likes.

“All right. But John, know one thing. I have never had any affection for you.”

John was a little surprised by Tia’s callousness.

The thought that the savior who saved him from the curse had pushed him away made his head spin.

“Tia. If I die now because of the curse, you wouldn’t care?”

Tia nodded to John’s question without any hesitation.

John could only laugh at the fact that he had been pushed out by the vicious Charlize.

“Ha ha, I was pushed away because of Charlize. I can’t believe it.”

Tia looked down at John, who smiled like a madman, and wanted to soothe him, but she did not approach him as warmly as before because she had decided to abandon her good image.

“John, I am no longer a good person. I don’t wanna save people anymore. All I need is Sister Charlize. I want you to know how I feel.”

“So you want me to die?”

“That’s… no, nevertheless, there’s only one person who’s precious to me, that is Sister Charlize. So please don’t be obsessed with me, all of you.”

The more John chewed on Tia’s words, the more angry he became, but the curse drained him.

In the end, John managed to hold onto the last bit of consciousness and fell to his side.

Thud.

There seemed to be no strength left in John’s body.

Tia didn’t want John to die like this.

Because they were like close friends before.

But when she tried to help her, he declared.

“If you want to leave me, leave me now. Tia.”

Tia didn’t want to see people dying in front of her.

Rather, the desire to save came from her heart.

Perhaps it was a strange desire created by the awakening as a Saintess.

“Haa. I’d rather die like this.”

John gave up all of his will and murmured in a low voice.

Tia, who has better hearing than others, heard John’s murmur.

Then John’s dark past passed through her head.

John was the only Great Wizard on the continent, and Harrison’s exclusive wizard.

The existence of a wizard on the continent was so rare that it did not appear much frequently.

The reason was simple.

Those Great Wizards were born with tremendous mana and were cursed.

It’s a curse that’s fatal and life-threatening.

Wizards often die early because their magic is cursed from birth.

But, John was different.

Tia, who has been Harrison’s playmate since childhood, somehow became acquainted with Harrison’s exclusive wizard.

This was the reason for John’s life.

Tia often went to the Imperial Palace to see Harrison, and encountered John.

Then one day, John fell down in front of her.

This is because the ancient curse began to act up.

Tia felt sorry for John inside.

She wanted to fix his gloomy expression, who seemed to have no desire to live.

Just for that light reason, John’s curse was finally removed with her own divine power over the years.

John, who had completely got free from the curse, showed Tia a clear, bright smile that he had never shown before.


“Thank you, Tia.”


Tia felt proud for some reason.

John finally wants to live.

That’s a relief.

The good Tia began to save the people in need afterwards.

This is because bright looks were better than dark looks.

Is it because of her?

She somewhat became a bigoted personality.

Tia, whose daily routine has become to save poor people by her standards, was actually very tired.

It was mentally very difficult because all she could get in return from saving others was a crazy obsession.

However, the curse spread now and John, who was about to die, could not be abandoned.

She hasn’t given up on her nosy personality yet.

‘I want to leave those who are obsessed with me and go to Sister Charlize as soon as possible.’

But she didn’t want to pretend she didn’t know her childhood friend was dying.




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