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◈ The Villain’s Ending

Chapter 128

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Sunset (11)

Not long after the demons invaded, nobles still preferred to travel by carriage.

After all, they knew well that traveling long distances on horseback was no work for a human.

And such clever nobles, not long after, were hit by the spells unleashed by the demons, and before they could even think with their clever minds, they burned to death along with their carriages.

"Young Master, the horses aren't thinking of moving forward, you'll have to walk now."

While I stared blankly at the burning mansion, the coachman spoke.

The horses, neighing in apparent fear, were slowly backing away instead of moving forward.

The coachman, looking troubled, also got down from his seat, approached the horses, and calmed them by stroking their necks.

By then, Levina, who had been dozing off in the carriage, also disembarked.

"What's happening, standing there blankly......"

As she spoke, she saw the burning mansion and seemed speechless, staring blankly at the house engulfed in flames.

"......A riot? Count Beluze wasn't the type to exploit farmers, was he?"

Levina said so, then took out a small staff from her clothes and began to move her feet.

I followed silently behind her.

After walking for a long time, the mansion's garden eventually came into view, and the burning wheat fields and mansion became more clearly visible.

Servants with dazed expressions were fetching water from somewhere and extinguishing the mansion's fire, and the cries of the pet dogs and stable horses seemed to further muddle the already chaotic situation.

And the Count and Countess Beluze, who were also carrying water with slightly bewildered expressions, along with Seraphina, who was diligently putting out the fire attached to the mansion with spells, also came into sight.

However, perhaps her concentration wasn't good when using spells, as they kept breaking repeatedly.

The fire on the mansion was almost extinguished, but the flames engulfing the golden wheat fields were spreading as if to burn everything around them.

Levina held her staff diagonally towards the sky, then began to murmur something softly for a long time.

At the same time, rain began to fall from the sky, and the fire, instead of spreading further, slowly began to die down.

Levina, who had made it rain, wore a somewhat tired expression, then sighed, put her staff back into her clothes, and moved her feet.

She approached Count Beluze and Seraphina, then said softly.

"So, could I get an explanation of what exactly happened, Count Beluze?"

Count Beluze glanced at his burned-down mansion, then merely looked back at Levina again, unable to reply.

It seemed he had lost too much for merely trying to break off his daughter's engagement with a disgusting scoundrel.

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Thanks to the burned wheat fields and the frantically moving servants, it wasn't a situation where a conversation could be had.

Talk about the engagement annulment vaguely passed by.

After all, Count Beluze, staring hopelessly at his half-collapsed mansion and burned wheat fields, didn't seem to be in a state to have any proper discussion.

Did Levina, despite this, still think she needed a firm answer regarding the annulment?

She entered the reception room of the still half-standing mansion, which fortunately didn't reek too much of smoke, and after drinking a cup of clumsily brewed tea, handed Seraphina a document.

"Since the situation doesn't look too good, I'll just get a quick confirmation and leave. Sign it."

Seraphina took the pen Levina handed her, looked at the pen's tip, then turned her gaze to me.

"Lavin, do you want to break off the engagement with me?"

There was no light in her eyes.

Perhaps it was because the day was slowly darkening.

"If that's what you wish, I suppose I have to."

"......But you clearly said you wouldn't."

"Still, the topic came up. Not from me, but from your mouth."

"So I clearly told Father I didn't want to, but still......"

Seraphina said so, then placed the pen she was holding down on the table.

I knew it well.

Seraphina would never want to break off the engagement with me now, even if it meant death.

Even because of the time we've accumulated.

Even because of the time only I remember, and Seraphina can't properly recall.

Because even if she doesn't remember clearly, she must vaguely recall having lived a painful life.

It might not have been solely because I wasn't by her side, but because she vaguely recalled it, she must have unconsciously become certain.

Fragmented memories and emotions tend to bias one's thoughts even more.

"You can't lightly retract something officially discussed just by saying your mind has changed."

Levina cleared her throat, then cut Seraphina off, speaking in a somewhat excited voice.

"You were the one who officially brought it up to Count Beluze, Seraphina."

"I did bring it up."

"......"

"It was just, I was a bit confused. I must have gone crazy for a moment."

She then held the document, stared at it for a long time, and simply tore it in half.

"You must have gone crazy, judging by your actions without considering the aftermath."

"As if you're any better."

Seraphina said mockingly, then slowly began to continue speaking.

Levina was simply smiling faintly.

"Come to think of it, ever since I was little, someone seemed to want me to be separated from Lavin.

If I think about who always mysteriously whispered about breaking off the engagement ever since childhood, it was you from the very beginning."

"Of course, you have the ability to meet someone far better than Lavin. I said that for your own good."

"Thanks to that, I seem to have been confused for a moment."

"Not confused, but rather, you came to your senses for a moment.

Inviting guests to your mansion, only to show them a half-burned ruin.

Tearing up a document I meticulously prepared and brought right before my eyes.

I think this level of behavior can be considered an insult to the Edelgard family."

Levina continued speaking in a somewhat triumphant voice.

While tapping my hand resting on my lap with her finger.

"Do you know why the mansion ended up like that?"

"Well, some foolish servant of the Beluze family, without proper education, must have started the fire. Wouldn't you agree?"

Seraphina pointed her finger at the torn paper, then simply incinerated it.

"I burned it. Just.

I only intended to get a little angry, to threaten a bit, but something too powerful came out before I knew it."

Seraphina said calmly, as if it were nothing, then crushed the burning paper with her foot.

The fire went out, and a peculiar stale burnt smell, somehow damp, rose up.

"Even so, I couldn't exactly aim it at where people were, could I?"

The room was filled with silence.

Levina tried to utter something, then repeatedly closed her mouth.

"So, you burned down the mansion and the estate?"

"Saying it like that makes it sound like I burned it on purpose."

"......"

"It was just, the fire spread a bit. It was an accident."

"Why?"

"Because Father, saying it was good, brought up the annulment you proposed, talking about family happiness, my future, and so on, without even properly discussing it with me or asking what I wanted.

He spoke so carelessly, not even knowing that all I want is Lavin, so I just got a bit.

Emotional. It was an accident."

"Do you love Lavin?"

"Of course I love him, more than anyone.

Unlike you, I don't think of Lavin as an object."

"I love Lavin too."

"Nonsense."

"Perhaps because of that, I'm thinking whether I should really hand Lavin over to a madwoman like you......"

"Since when did you ever think of Lavin like that?"

"You're just a bit confused.

At the thought of possibly separating from a friend you've known for a long time...... But a friend is just a friend, and Lavin isn't a good man, is he?"

"He's a good person to me."

Seraphina stood up from her seat.

And she stretched, then continued speaking lightly.

"It must be my destiny to become an Archmage or something. I had a dream.

A dream where, if Lavin isn't by my side, no matter what kind of life I live, I won't be happy."

Seraphina kicked the table in front of her.

The table overturned, and the teacup, teapot, and the glass panel on it shattered.

Levina looked at Seraphina without showing any emotion.

"You've truly gone mad. No matter if he's an illegitimate child, an important child of the Edelgard family......"

"Important, yet you chased him out."

"Even so, I can't hand him over to an insane person like you."

"At least I'm saner than you.

I'll save Lavin from that pathetic family that acts like they'll kill him for not being able to devour a single child, and I'll love him.

So stop spouting nonsense about annulment and all that crap, and go home."

Seraphina said so, then began to light fires around her again, as if she didn't care if the already burning mansion completely incinerated or not, and approached Levina, saying softly.

"Before I burn you alive here."

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