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[Translator - Kiteretsu]
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Chapter 113
Violet declared that she would overthrow the Bormian royal family and make Kaylen king.
To do so, she would have to betray the royal family and dethrone her father.
To anyone else, it might have seemed like words spoken in a moment of desperation.
But—
‘She’s furious.’
And the target of that fury was not the angel who had taken over her body.
“……I remember everything now. How my mother died.”
It was directed at her own royal family.
“The memory of my mother’s death was never clear. Subconsciously, I must not have wanted to remember. I only ever thought that the House of Oblaine had orchestrated a scheme.”
“Was that not the case?”
The conflict had begun when Queen Diana was executed for a grave crime.
The nature of the crime was never disclosed and remained largely unknown to the public.
The faction supporting the first prince believed that the queen had been framed and killed by the House of Oblaine.
Violet, who had been deeply attached to her mother, believed it even more firmly.
“……It was by my father’s hand, under the orders of Black Skull, that my mother was killed. And like a fool, that memory remained sealed until now.”
Black Skull Cesar was involved in this?
Kaylen was perplexed.
Why would he go out of his way to kill the queen?
“My mother had an unusual constitution… one that made her a perfect offering for the Demon Realm. That was the only reason. That was why my father abandoned her.”
Blood vessels stood out in Violet’s eyes as tears welled up.
“I saw it all. The way my mother healed herself even after enduring brutal torture. The way the mages laughed in fascination as they watched her.”
The queen possessed a body that regenerated from any wound.
Because they intended to offer her as a sacrifice, they could not simply sever her limbs.
So instead, they inflicted grievous wounds upon her.
But she simply refused to die.
“When my mother still wouldn’t submit, they took me instead and used me to threaten her. Told her that if she cared about her daughter’s life, she should just die. Hah.”
Only after taking her young daughter hostage did Black Skull Cesar finally obtain the queen’s corpse.
‘A woman who could heal from fatal wounds…’
To most, it was a story beyond belief.
But Kaylen had heard of such cases in his past life.
‘I can’t remember the details, but I definitely heard about something like this before.’
He kept the information about the queen in mind as he listened to Violet’s story.
“After that, Black Skull sealed my memories, so I couldn’t recall any of it… but thanks to the angel’s awakening, I now remember.”
“I see.”
Even when the Saintess had examined the entire Bormian royal family, nothing unusual had been found.
It seemed that even a Saintess couldn’t detect memory tampering that had occurred so long ago.
“Kaylen. Please, give me a chance for revenge. I will do anything. I will support you as king, and I will help bring down the Bormian royal family.”
“And… earlier, when I merged with the angel, I was able to read her thoughts. She swore on the spirit Ariel, but even so, she is planning to flee. She has already resigned herself to falling to the ninth rank.”
Kaylen was taken aback at those words.
A Celestial Angel… was willing to fall to the lowest rank?
‘……No. If it’s an angel, that’s not surprising.’
A thousand years ago, Kaylen had fought alongside angels.
They had always acted arrogantly during the war against the Demon King's army.
But when it came to actual battle, they were never as formidable as they made themselves out to be.
When they appeared, it was always on battlefields where victory was assured, or they arrived only after the fighting was over to claim credit.
But on unfavorable battlefields, they were the first to spread their wings and flee.
No one was better at prioritizing their own survival than the angels.
If that was the case, then, just as Violet said, Ariel was more than capable of running away.
[Ugh… A mere human dares to try and read my thoughts! Heir of the Dragon God of Swords, she is a member of the corrupt Bormian royal family. How can you trust the bloodline of the royal house? If you truly wish to become king, you must eradicate every last one of them!]
A voice echoed from the still-glowing Glacia on the opposite side.
Violet spoke in a cold yet resolute tone.
“Kaylen. Unlike an angel, I have no wings to flee with. I want to take revenge for my mother with my own hands. So, please, I beg you, grant me just this one chance.”
“Revenge, huh…”
As Kaylen seemed to give weight to Violet’s words, the angel Ariel’s voice grew more desperate.
[Tsk… Fine. Heir of the Dragon God of Swords, come with me instead—let’s ascend to the Celestial Realm together. This world is already doomed. Even if the Dragon God of Swords himself were to return in this era, he would never be able to overcome the power of demons. This is an age of darkness.]
"……"
[What meaning is there in becoming a king here? Come with me to the Celestial Realm. I will recommend you to become an angel.]
“Kaylen. The moment this angel returns to the Celestial Realm, she won’t let you off. She’s already imagining dissecting you to study the Sixfold Sword Path.”
[Y-You wretched girl! When did I ever say that?!]
“Oh my, I added just one more sentence, and you immediately had another horrifying thought. You were planning to tear my body apart and feed it to divine beasts once we got to the Celestial Realm. At this point, you’re more of a demon than an angel.”
Violet exposed every single thought Ariel had, reporting them aloud in real-time.
Realizing she couldn’t just stand by and take it, Ariel tried to read Violet’s thoughts in return.
But—
‘This woman… she has nothing in her mind except revenge.’
There was no will to live, no resentment over having her body taken by an angel.
Rather, if Ariel had not tried to escape and had actively helped Kaylen—
Violet was even prepared to abandon her body entirely.
That would have been the most effective way to strike a blow against the Bormian royal family.
But since Ariel had chosen to run, Violet had no choice but to take action herself.
‘Was this… my mistake?’
She had been too hasty.
She wanted to escape from this occupied Middle Realm as soon as possible.
Never did she expect that the heir of the Dragon God of Swords would recognize the significance of his five wings.
Nor did she think Violet would awaken and interfere like this.
As the angel Ariel fell silent—
“I understand, Violet.”
Kaylen, who had been speaking formally until now, dropped the honorifics.
With his dark sword, he sliced through the angel’s wings of light.
[Aaaaaaagh…!]
The radiance vanished from Glacia, returning it to its original form as an ice mask.
“Can you control your body now?”
“Yes, Kaylen. My limbs are moving.”
[H-How could my accumulated power of light…]
“I can still hear the angel’s voice, though.”
Only one of the angel’s wings had been cut.
Even if she had lost control over Violet’s body, her power still remained.
“I didn’t completely erase her strength on purpose. It would be a waste to destroy it entirely. By severing just one wing, she won’t be able to act recklessly.”
“But she might try to cooperate with the Saintess and seek Sanctuary’s help.”
“Yes. The angel’s awakening was due to the Saintess’s blessing in the first place. Even so…”
Whoooosh—
The dark sword vanished, and once again, a sword of light took form.
He absorbed the wings into the sword.
“With only one wing left, not even the Saintess will be able to restore it.”
With just a single wing of light remaining on Violet’s back, the last wing was completely absorbed into Glacia.
Glacia, which had been a half-mask of ice, now had a pure white wing engraved on the rim where five mana stones were embedded.
The angel’s voice could no longer be heard.
Violet brushed the area where the wing had been, then spoke with a grave expression.
“Kaylen, be careful. Ariel has entered the Sword of Light and is trying to absorb its power.”
“I know. She’s already doing it.”
The light within Kaylen’s sword flickered repeatedly.
It was the angel’s final struggle as she was absorbed into the blade.
She must have believed that since it was light mana, she could wield it better than any human. Inside the sword, she desperately attempted to regain control.
But it was pointless against Kaylen.
Though the sword gathered light mana, its essence remained that of a blade.
An angel with such a shallow understanding of the sword could never wield a completed one.
“She’ll exhaust herself struggling like that.”
Kaylen paid it no mind at all.
As he dismissed the summoned Sword of Light, the blade vanished and was once again engraved onto his back.
‘For an angel to be subdued so easily…’
Violet knew well the extent of an angel’s power.
After all, she had experienced Ariel’s overwhelming strength firsthand in the mental world after her body had been taken over.
If Kaylen had not drawn his Dark Sword, Violet wouldn’t have even had the chance to speak a single word.
It had been an utterly one-sided display of power.
A glimmer of hope flickered in Violet’s once-empty eyes.
‘He’s the only one.’
Now that she had regained control of her body, Violet knelt before Kaylen.
“Thank you for sparing me. And… thank you for giving me a chance for revenge, Kaylen.”
“There’s no need to kneel.”
With a flick of his hand, Kaylen raised her back to her feet.
This time, she bowed her head deeply.
“As I told you, I will do everything in my power to help you ascend to the throne, Kaylen.”
“No. The throne? You’re getting ahead of yourself. I haven’t made a firm decision to become king yet. The current king’s misdeeds don’t necessarily mean the entire Bormian royal family is corrupt.”
“They conspired with Kaiten and aided the Demon Realm’s followers—how can you say this isn’t a problem with the entire royal family?”
Violet no longer referred to the king as her father.
“Even within the angel’s lies, there was truth. In these perilous times, someone as powerful as you must take the throne and lead humanity, Kaylen.”
“Of course, overthrowing the Thousand-Year Kingdom of Bormian would require a solid justification… but as a member of the royal family, I will create that justification.”
The memory of her mother’s death had been so horrifying that it had completely reshaped Violet’s resolve.
Even though Kaylen himself had yet to decide whether he wanted the throne, she was already leading the charge to persuade him.
“I failed to make Diether Hart my king… but this time, I’m certain I’ll succeed.”
“For now, I still have my own faction, and you, Kaylen, are a Sword Master—the first to appear in centuries. That’s more than enough to—”
She was already drafting a plan for Kaylen to ascend the throne.
It was said that she had been the strategist of the First Prince’s faction, and she was proving that reputation true by forming a plan in an instant.
At that moment, Kaylen narrowed his eyes slightly.
“Calm down. The Saintess is coming.”
“Ah… I see.”
“For now, act normal.”
“Heh. Understood.”
At dawn, Saintess Theresia was approaching with a grim expression.
Unlike yesterday, she was accompanied by several Holy Knights.
Upon seeing Violet, her gaze sharpened.
Her eyes immediately locked onto the newly engraved white wing on Glacia.
“Princess Violet. It seems Glacia has changed form. Did something happen last night?”
“……Who knows?”
“Hm. I suppose it hasn’t reached the awakening stage yet. What a shame. If it had awakened and that presence had emerged, it would have been a great asset…”
“That presence?”
“Well… it’s actually a secret. But since the awakening is nearly complete, I suppose I can tell you now. That presence is an angel! Every S-Class mana suit has an angel sealed within it.”
As if revealing a grand secret, Theresia lowered her voice to a whisper.
“If the angel had fully awakened and been summoned, it would have been a tremendous help right now. Such a pity.”
She had no idea that the Archangel Ariel had been planning to flee the entire time.
Genuinely disappointed, Theresia let out a sigh.
“But since Glacia has now manifested wings, it must mean the power of light has strengthened. I suppose I should be content with that for now.”
Completely unaware that Violet had nearly lost her body due to the angel’s awakening, Theresia once again lamented the failure of the process—right in front of the victim.
“Ah… if we only had a few more days, the awakening might have happened. But of all times, the enemy just had to attack now. The timing is truly unfortunate.”
“The enemy has attacked?”
“Yes.”
With a hardened expression, Theresia nodded.
“Two Demon Generals have surrounded the fortress from both the front and the rear, approaching from a great distance.”
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HELHEIM SCANS
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