Overpowered Archmage Doesn’t Hide His Talent chapter 187

187 – Judgment

Aurora swam through the swamp of nightmares.

Her mother and father tried to treat Aurora like a doll by tying her with spidery threads. She ran, stubbornly breaking her bonds.

“Ugh… !”

At some point, her feet sank down. When she came to, she found herself in a dungeon without any light.

Numerous voices began to be heard from the blocked view. All of them had neutral voices whose gender and age could not be determined.

“Just do as you are told.”

“You are not special.”

“Monster.”

After struggling for a while, she was finally able to wake up. Aurora fell off her bed and caught her breath.

The time when the old moon hangs diagonally in the sky.

Despite the moderately cool weather, Aurora felt an intense chill. She couldn’t pinpoint why, but an ominous feeling crept up on her.

“Dream….”

Aurora muttered, cupping her face. Although she was free from the nightmare, she was not very relieved. She was surrounded by a much more miserable reality.

Plan.

That man of hers was her bright hope of Aurora.

If her only hope was denied before her eyes. No, what if the number of instances of her being reunited disappears?

Beneath the abyss, a true abyss exists. It was clear that it would be more hopeless than anything I had ever experienced. Aurora never wanted to look into that abyss of her own.

The princess left her residence with the intention of getting hit by the wind.

Because it was the gap between night and dawn, it was quiet outside. Those in Fritz’s estate in the distance looked like dots, and only a few attendants were guarding the entrance to the residence.

“Hey, princess.”

One of the attendants carefully held out something. Aurora slowly examined the object using her moonlight as illumination.

It was an item handed down from the imperial family. Her edges were shining gold, there was no doubt about it. However, as soon as she recognized that fact, anxiety overtook her.

She felt something beyond her common sense or simple understanding. This is a sense that is often referred to as the sixth sense.

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The fact that she sent a box rather than a letter meant that she was dealing with a very important matter, so Aurora opened the box with a nervous look on her face.

The only content was a thin piece of paper. The princess’s eyes quickly read the high-quality paper lightly tinged with gold.

Although it was filled with rhetoric unique to the imperial family, it was clear who the author was. The author seemed to be Yoo Si-ah, and the conclusion was much clearer than that.

‘We have located your whereabouts. I will not disclose the above facts to the public, but please refrain from interfering in the affairs of the imperial family in the future.’

The paper in my hand fell to the ground without strength.

Aurora’s legs were shaking. Her faint vibrations soon spread throughout her body.

“….”

Even so, his pure white face became much paler under the moonlight. She picked up the fallen paper, looked at it, missed it, and dropped it again, repeating it twice.

“Ah….”

Now there really was nowhere to go.

In a situation where one could not freely wander around Fritz’s territory, even the imperial family was no longer a home.

Where should I go?

Aurora looked around her surroundings blankly. She repeats the motion for a while, then gently touches her face, neck, arms, etc. The corner of her mouth immediately curled up and she burst into laughter.

“Ha…. Ha ha ha….”

When I had everything in my hands, I couldn’t tolerate losing even one thing. But after losing everything, he felt relieved. The laughter that once escaped quickly spread into laughter.

“hahahaha—!”

Even after bending over her and cupping her face, I couldn’t stop laughing. But what was actually leaking between my knuckles were tears. It was a scream disguised as laughter.

What should I do from now on?

Actually, it was a useless worry. Because no matter what she came up with, there was nothing she could put into practice.

After her thoughts reached that point, her complex emotions arose. Being helpless even though there was a lot of work left to do also meant that there was no possibility of forgiveness.

She just didn’t want to accept that fact.

It was a fact that seemed to pierce her brain. The pain felt like her heart was being ripped out. Aurora eventually couldn’t bear it and ripped out her hair.

Her sincerity, which I encountered for the first time in my life, was warm.

It was her first time encountering it and she absolutely did not want to miss it. It was natural for her to have a long hug.

It may be a selfish thought, but I hoped to be given one more chance. She couldn’t endure any punishment for that. As the expression says, any punishment.

But what was truly cruel was the fact that currently, no one was even trying to punish Aurora. The reality that kept pushing her into a corner began to tear Aurora’s sense of reason apart.

“Ha, hahahahaha, hahahahaha…” .”

Aurora smiled and headed into her living quarters.

Tak─!

She soon lost her balance and almost fell, but she managed to support her body by leaning on the nightstand. In the aftermath of the shaking, a notebook from above falls to the floor.

It was trivia.

Aurora suddenly picked it up and unfolded it.

[Did you hear the inside story? Flan said there was nothing wrong.]

[No matter how imperial it is, it’s really too much.]

Her second princess Aurora.

She was a woman who could control what she wanted without having to remove herself from the royal throne. However, none of that glory remained in her public sentiment reflected through her writing.

[There is something else to misunderstand.]

[What and how will I make up for the loss?]

[I think it’s too late to deal with it now… ]

Even as Aurora was looking, vivid voices were coming up in real time.

Most of the students at Marchen Academy were nobles. Those people were pouring out their voices of resentment in droves, so it was obvious even without looking what stories were circulating outside the academy.

“….”

Aurora closed the trivia without saying a word.

Making the decision wasn’t difficult.

There was a way even if others did not punish oneself.

We have no choice but to judge and punish ourselves.

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Udangtang─!

Suddenly, a loud sound rang out from inside the princess’s residence. The attendants, who were struggling with drowsiness, urgently came to their senses and headed inside the building.

It was almost a taboo to set foot in the space where the princess lived, but the noise was so bloody that the attendants had nothing to do.

One person opened the door of the residence loudly.

“… !”

And it didn’t take much time for shock to spread across the attendants’ faces.

The entire table was overturned. Food and broken dishes were lying mischievously on the floor, and Aurora was in the middle of it, cutting her wrist with her knife.

The number of wounds was ridiculously high, even at first glance.

“… !”

Everyone froze, not even thinking about tearing it apart. This is because the shock I received was enormous. There was so much blood on the floor that it was hard to believe it came from a single human body.

Aurora, who was submerged in a puddle of blood, very slowly turned her head. Her eyes, which should have contained the moon, only had an abyss. She had nothing but immeasurable despair.

Tears of blood flowed from Aurora’s eyes.

“Woe, princess….”

“It was true.”

One word completely buried in futility.

“I am not human…” .”

The practitioners froze, unable to do this or that. It was a scene that no one could help but experience. Because the princess didn’t seem to be alive and she didn’t seem to be dead.

Aurora began to trudge along, completely ignoring the gaze of those around her. It seemed ridiculous that she could still walk around with this much blood loss, but no one could question that now.

“It’s my fault. It’s my fault. Something like me….”

“Woe, princess?”

“It’s all my fault. So myself….”

As if she had been brainwashed, Aurora repeated the same words and tried to head somewhere. Her attendant, who belatedly came to her senses, quickly tried to stop the princess.

“Um, princess….”

“Get out of the way!”

However, everyone was startled by the thunderous roar and had no choice but to step back. There was no one who could stop Aurora, who even had veins on her forehead. Especially when the princess was covered in blood all over her body.

“You must be forgiven….”

The princess hurried away, muttering words that no one could understand. She was left with a clear trail of blood flowing down her body.

“So….”

In the cool dawn, only Aurora knew her destination.