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Chapter 18

I’m sick of it. How can I get through this sinister life?

Above all, I kept getting impatient thinking about how much Lucy and Deleign were worried when they saw me missing.

“I’m doing pwetty well. Please be nice to evewyone.”

I had a bad hunch. I became more and more desperate for someone to come running to me.

I grinned while holding back what I wanted to say and bite my lips.

“I see.”

“Diwecto, whewe is thwis place? Thewe awr still two weeks weft…”(Director, where is this place? There are still two weeks left…)

Why would she want to kidnap me so dangerously?

If the Grand Duke doesn’t accept me, I’ll be going out in two weeks.

I pressed my nervousness down and asked carefully.

“I guess even though you’re useless you need a place, and I heard that someone is looking for you.”

The director said with a fishy smile. At the same time, the person standing behind came one step forward.

‘I think it’s him who used magic. Then don’t tell me…’

He stood in front of me and slowly took off his hood.

An unforgettable face even in a dream.

As soon as I saw him, I couldn’t help but shiver with shock.

‘It’s him!‘

My head was full of shock.

The one who pulled my spirit out of the orphanage when I just entered this body!

The Queen’s errand boy!

The man’s eyes gave a cold stare.

I opened my mouth to scream.

However, I was so shocked that I couldn’t hear the sound properly. I could only faintly hear the frightened sound of my breath.

‘You’re trying to take my power away again!’

Shuelina has been deprived of her spirit power by the Queen’s errand boys since she was a baby.

There were about five people who came to rob my spirit power. It seemed to change periodically.

Age and gender are different, but they have something in common. They all use magic.

I can’t resist from that moment on when this man cast his spell on me.

It was like being tied to the neck at the end of a harness to capture the spirit power.

When his magic began to take action, I felt more terrible.

The blood in my body drained away, and there was a terrible soreness that seemed to twist somewhere in my intestinal organs.

“Help, help!”

I found someone to help me.

The sound barely escaped from my throat wafted without equilibrium. A faint entreaty rang out.

In a remote alleyway, there is no way for people to react. Even though I knew it, I couldn’t help but call him.

“Long time no see.”

The man’s voice was as eerie as a snake licking its ears.

The feeling like your whole body is sinking from your feet to the floor.

I wanted to get out of his sight and run away.

“Diwecto…!”

I didn’t want to call the director.

She won’t help me anyway. Far from helping, she was a person who cooperated with the enemy.

The heads of all the orphanages that Shuelina has gone through have aimed at taking away her spirit power. It was the power of money and intimidation.

The immediate director was no different. It’s no use anyway…

But the fragile part of me made me call the director.

‘Obviously, I came and went there a month ago… ’

It is not the time to extract the spirit power yet. Men usually visit once every two months.

This time, it was clear that the Queen had sent an additional message a warning about me going to the Grand Duke.

“No, no… “

I sat down on the floor and started to crawl using my hips.

If you can tell how to use the spirit power and how to use it clearly.

Power certainly exists, but I couldn’t use it.

In a desperate situation, I bit my lips firmly and tried to bear the pain that was coming soon.

“It will be over soon.”

Like last time, the man talked to me in honorifics. He must have known about my true identity.

Because he’s a person who is doing things up even though it is related to spirit power. There’s no way you don’t know that spirit power is only inherited in the royal family.

“But you did it wast time awwready…”

I whispered and immediately wanted to hit my mouth.

I didn’t want to beg with such a soft voice. Because I didn’t want to give in from my heart.

‘My future is still scary. This is the grand order. The Empress hasn’t locked me up yet. Someone will come to help soon.’

Whether it’s Deleign or Lucy or the driver, someone knows and will track me missing.

‘The Grand Duke… .’

It was the face of the Grand Duke that came to mind at the moment of crisis.

How firm and comfortable his arms were when he hugged me.

Wouldn’t it be nice if this was all my dreams?

‘I’m fine. I can change the future. It will be okay somehow.’

While comforting myself without hesitation in my mind, the man pulled out a magic tool from his arms.

Brooch with transparent gemstones.

Even in the original novel, even right after I came to this world, I saw it consistently.

A magical tool that traps spirit power, called a «brilliant».

That is Azuela’s secret.

Although Azuela was a member of the royal family, she doesn’t have spirit power.

So, she took mine in order to be an enemy with spirit power. For that reason, I had to have a fully charged «brilliant» on my body.

It was only possible to take out and use the spirit power if it was not always separated from the body.

A gem in a transparent state turned purple like amethyst when it filled with my refinement.

Because of that, Azuela pretended that her preference is purple. So no one wonders about her always wearing a purple brooch.

‘I didn’t take Azuela’s.’

In the original, Azuela said that Shuelina was born with something she shouldn’t have, however…

I honestly couldn’t think badly of myself, as I became a Shuelina.

‘In the first place, Azuela was born without the spirit power.’

I was born late, so is that a problem?

Azuela and my mother are not the same, but I couldn’t tell why I was connected to Azuela’s problems.

It just seems to justify harassing me.

Besides, no matter how you think about it, it gives you pain from the time you were a baby and robs you of the spirit power…

‘No matter how you look, she’s going to play the villain role…’

The original story said that Shuelina was a villain, but I couldn’t admit it.

Because she’s not the main character, she’s a villain. Why did I read this nonsense novel?

“No, No! Grand Duke! Help! Grand Duke!”

I swung my hand and hit the man.

Things like potion bottles that were hanging in the man’s arms fell. Clinking fragments splattered.

“Why do you rebel?”

When I was first attacked after entering this body, I was overcome with no time to rebel and cried painfully.

The original Shuelina was more accustomed to this thing than I was, so she stretched out like a corpse without any resistance and cried.

So it seemed that this was the first time the man had seen the rebellious Shuelina.

‘He won’t let me go even when I’m so rebellious….’

A vicious person.

The man reached out to me with his hand holding the «brilliant».

When he brought the end of the jewel to me and said the spell, all the spirit power in my body got sucked into it.

‘The Grand Duke!’

Foreshadowing terrible pain, I squeezed and rolled around.

“Shushu!”

“Miss!”

“I’ll kill you!”

It was then that I heard several footsteps. It was a quiet sound, roughly hitting the ground.

Soon after, the voices of the Grand Duke, the knights, and the other children were heard.

I felt that the man got startled.

‘Really, he really came.’

Everyone ran for me.

At last, I was able to cry. Tears flowing down to my cheeks are hot as fire.

“Ugh… .!”

For the first time, I heard the man groan.

The voice that was always relaxed, the look on that face that rolled me like a bug on his palm, and looked at me without any guilt.

When I stretched out my curled body and raised my head, I saw a man gripping his teeth.

He unfolded a translucent shield and kept the Grand Duke in check. I was also in the shield.

‘You took me as hostage!’

I felt different from the normal me, and I was worried about the orphans.

If so, it’s a situation where everyone might be overwhelmed.

The man was looking at the Grand Duke and couldn’t care about me.

‘Right now!’

If the shield does not disappear, I cannot escape from the wizard either.

However, it wasn’t clear whether this shield would disappear from the Grand Duke’s attack.

I looked over the broken potion bottle on the floor.

The man didn’t seem to notice the quick move as I searched and picked up the sharpest piece.

“Ahhhhhh!”

As soon as I clenched my teeth deep into the man’s thigh, the man screamed and dropped the «brilliant» in his hand.

Even though I was light, my whole weight as a child was all loaded anyway, so the flesh was cut.

The shield shook as if the concentration was broken. The Grand Duke ran through the gap and swung his sword heavily over the blurred shield.

In an instant, a black, dingy light, oozes through the man’s chest with the shield.

I wanted to fall like a waterfall, but my legs were loose and I couldn’t move.

‘You have to move! Move right now, stupid Shuelina!‘

I figured out what to do next.

‘Brilliant!’

The «Brilliant» should not be put back into the man’s hand.

If I hold your refusal, you will definitely try to come back to me.

The Empress and Azela couldn’t give up the spirit power.

So we had to be enemies. Like the relationship between prey and predators.

They had to wriggle to escape, no matter how powerless they were, since they were like me.

‘If I get rid of «Brilliant» right away, you’ll have to make it again, so you won’t be able to come straight to me!’

I waited and tried to grab the «Brilliant» that fell between the man and me.

It was the slowest moment in my life.

“Shushu! Are you alright?”

But at that moment, Wyndert came to me and hugged me.

“No! Bwothew, I have to get wid of it!“ (No! Brother, I have to get rid of it!)

I was reaching for the «Brilliant», relieved that the man had noticed my movements.

Defense was almost neglected.

‘If I get rid of that, you can give Azuela a big hit.’

I bit my lips and struggled in Wyndert’s arms.

“Yap… .!”

Perhaps he heard my voice, Deleign took the knight’s sword standing next to him and cut him dead.

The trajectory pointed precisely at the man’s arm.

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