Prince, I Don’t Want To Be Killed by You This Time! -The Poor Lady Who Was Framed by the Saint, Avoids Being Skewered the Second Time! ~ - Chapter 37-2

The king refused to allow him marry her, and told him that he could only accept her as his mistress. The crown prince was shocked to hear the word “mistress”.

Around this time, Iris’s father was attacked by a large deer he had almost killed while hunting, and nearly died. Iris tried to heal her father and awoke as a saint.

Iris is Gideon’s treasure.

She was the love of his life, and he hoped she would one day become his wife.

But Iris became the saint of the kingdom and she was completely taken by the crown prince.

(As long as Iris is happy, that’s all that matters.)

I didn’t want her to hate me.

I did my best to assist the saint in her rise to the position of the crown prince’s wife.

In conspiracy with Iris and her family, the Zephyrs, he shot the lady-in-waiting with arrows and prepared poisoned tea. In this way, he helped Iris to frame the daughter of an ineffectual lord, who had been an obstacle in her way, as the assassin.

Every time Iris thanked me, I was filled with satisfaction.

But it was only for a brief moment that Iris gave me that special smile. Once she became the crown prince’s wife, the crown prince would be the only person she would see and she would no longer look at him.

Then one day, I finally found it in an ancient book of magic. I knew what I really wanted to do.

 (With this, I can do what I want and my wish will come through.)

The Three Wise Men’s Time Return was a technique that was likely to cause major side effects. Because it required such strong magic, the “initiator” and “invoker” would surely reach the upper limit of their magic power and there was a high probability that their souls would be replaced.

It’s wishful thinking.

(The crown prince’s life will be mine.)

Even if they are not replaced, the future is in Gideon’s hands.

If only he could prevent the accident on the hunting ground. If only she had not become a saint.

And make Iris his wife.

The crown prince, who had gone to a neighboring country, did not know that his lover was in dire straits in Leia. No, he was intentionally kept in the dark.

That’s why Gideon flew into battle and proposed to the prince in the middle of his return, the only way to save her was to turn back time. In fact, there was no other way to save her.

Gideon himself felt a little sympathy for the innocent magician.

“I love Iris. I want to go back in time and start over with her.”

When Gideon, a crony of the saint, said something like, “Let’s stop the execution of Liesel,” the prince doubted his words at first. 

But Gideon said, “I will give the crown prince all my magical power to perform the ‘Three Wise Men’s Begging for time’. And even if he would never regain his magical power again, no matter how many times he was reborn, he was willing to do so for Iris’ sake. Of course, he never mentioned the idea of switching places.

So the crown prince took him up on the offer.

When he returned to the palace, he was greeted with angry shouts from the people who had gathered to watch the execution. They were cursing Liesel and shouting, “Hurry up and execute her!” The crown prince’s right hand was clenched in impatience and frustration, wondering how people could be so cruel. Behind his back, Gideon whispered to him.

“Your Highness. There is no longer any room for hesitation. Please accept my full magical power to activate the technique.’”

The crown prince was astonished to see Liesel, who had been led out of the dungeon by the attendants without any resistance and up the stairs leading to the execution site. He cursed his own stupidity for causing this situation.

There was nothing to do but to turn back the clock.

And the die was cast as Gideon wished.

The side effects described in the old book of magic did not raise eyebrows. When he woke up back in time, he found himself the crown prince.

As the rain continued to pound down, the crown prince Gideon looked up at the sky that was making it rain, his mouth twisted into a smile.

“I lost my magic. But I have been reborn a man of the highest order, blessed with everything!”

He cleared his throat and laughed gleefully as he spoke.

Finally, I asked him what I had always wondered.

“It was you who tore the ancient magic book of the Three Wise Men’s Time Reversal, wasn’t it? What was written on those pages?”

It can’t just be about the replacement. As a matter of fact, the two of them already know. There was no point in tearing it up now. There must have been something on the page that he did not want the “initiator” to see.

“You want to know? There is a possibility that the magic will cause the souls of the two sorcerers to switch as a side effect. It’s one of the inevitable failures, but the Book of Ancient Magic says, “When a blank new time begins to tick by, the wrong phenomenon returns to the right one. In other words, the wandering soul spirit returns to its rightful vessel.”

“What does that mean?”

The crown prince smiled broadly, as if triumphant.

“A new day–that is, the time when we rewound time and began to mark a new time, the future of which has not yet been determined. When we have passed that time when you died. The swapping will return to the way it was.”

“Back?  You mean that Ulysses’ soul will return in the body of the crown prince?”

“Yes. If nothing had happened, the swap would have been resolved in time. But if one of them dies, it will not be restored, it’ll remain like this, Liesel.”

It took me just a few moments to digest the meaning of what was being said. Then, when I understood what was being said, my blood boiled.

This crown prince in front of me now was trying to get Gideon to die before the rewound time. After exhausting his power to the hilt. Because then it would be impossible for their souls to switch again.

I unwrapped my hand and reached for his chest, grabbing him by the collar. I grasped the collar so tightly that the fingers of my own two hands intertwined.

“That’s why you ordered Gideon to be the head of the magic soldiers. You planned to have him killed in the mess of battle!”

“I see you understand. But it’s too late. He is dead and gone. This body will always be mine. I am the crown prince forever and ever.”

He’s lying. He won’t die so easily.

He will come back safe and sound. Just like last time.