Time-limited Saintess, You’ve Been Caught by the Tyrant Once Again - Chapter 16

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Ellin, who first discovered the secret room, found the Prince downstairs while she watched the moon through the window for a while. Alone, he was immersed in thoughts.

Witnessing the anguished expression on his face, Elena unknowingly left the temple and approached him.

“Is there something wrong?”

Arkan glanced back at her.

At the time, Elena, who was only fifteen years old, had an arrogant notion that it would get better if she could comfort him. When the cool moonlight illuminated his beautiful face, she could see that he was a chillingly handsome man.

“You are…”

“My name is Saint Elena. I’m sure I saw you in the morning…” 

“….”

“Your Highness came out here with an apprehensive look on your face like this. I was wondering if maybe you’re having a hard time.”

“If there’s really a problem, could you solve it?”

“Yes?”

At those aggressive remarks, she put on a puzzled expression before replying slowly.

“I can listen. It might make you feel a little better.”

It seemed that she also even smiled then, like an idiot.

“You don’t understand my words to stay away from me, Saint. Besides, isn’t it arrogant to say that my mood or situation will improve if the Saint listens to me?”

“….”

“I’m an illegitimate child with a Normaty mother… The same Normaty whom the temple calls a barbarian.”

“Oh, that’s why you had red eyes.”

Arkan had an astonished expression at Elena’s ignorant words.

‘I must have certainly been rude at that time.’

Ellin recalled Arkan’s face.

That was their first meeting.

At that time, he ran away with a disgusted expression filling his face. Obviously, her words were rude though she did not hate Arkan.

Rather, she rather felt ashamed of herself that she had been so ignorant. The man who stood alone in the moonlight could not be erased from Ellin’s mind for a long time after that. Gazing up at the moon, he looked terribly devastated.

…What kind of person would he be now?

Ellin imagined him… But, she could not remember his face.

At night Ellin decided to go outside because it was too boring to stay inside. Besides, Arkan would not be here anyway, since he must be having dinner with the Pope by now.

“I need more, you promised to help me!”

Startled by the voice she suddenly heard, her body flinched.

The place where her voice came from was Liza’s room. Why is Liza over there? Should she not be serving Liliana right now?

“Still, magic stones are rare. So, don’t overextend your energy.”

…Magic stone?

Ellin opened her eyes wide.

“No, how could I save my energy? The temple demands the manifestation of holy power like that. My fine hair is falling out* because of it!”
[ T/N: Hair falling out, in this case, means having a headache because they’re thinking too hard. ]

“Do you know how much it cost? Do you only think that because you have it, you’ll be saved?”

That girl was Liliana.

‘No way… That was the source of her divine power?’

Magic stone.

It was one of the gems with latent magical power, and it allowed ordinary people to produce wizard-level power.

As Ellin approached the door and looked into it, she could see the back of a man.

‘Wait a minute… What about him?’

She had definitely seen it before. In her first life, he was the man she saw when she went to the Imperial Palace.

He was one of Arkan’s aides.

‘If that person is Arkan’s aide… Don’t tell me, Liliana…’

Ellin quickly fled the place without being noticed. Escaping from the spot, she chose to catch her breath in front of the Saint’s temple.

Yes, it was strange. She would have been caught right away if Liliana had impersonated the Saint because the priests were not that easy to fool. However, the fact that all the priests except Erich were deceived means that she was well prepared.

Was it possible to be so meticulous?

She knew the personalities of Viscount Timothy and Liliana. They were not of the character to do such a thing on their own. Being offered a magic stone at an exorbitant price meant that someone was behind it. Since Liliana’s family was just a small viscount. There was no way for them to obtain the stones so easily.

“Don’t tell me, the Emperor…?”

Ellin unknowingly muttered.

The next moment, something cold grazed her neck. She realized intuitively.

It was a sword.

“You’re pretty smart.”

Hearing those words, Ellin glanced back cautiously. Seeing a tall man staring down at her, her hair stood up.

‘Why… How could this person be here—!’

It seemed as if she had stopped breathing. Even though she tried to avoid meeting him, she ended up meeting this man again. The drowsy scarlet eyes gazed at her indifferently.

…Even in her first life and in her second life, this man, Arkan, was still beautiful.

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