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Chapter 1

"Raise her head."

With Kain's order, someone grabbed Aria's b.l.o.o.d.y hair and she was lifted into the air by rough hands.

Aria's once beautiful golden hair had now turned into a lower state than that of a pig's hardened hair after a roll in the mud.

"You should have known the sins you've committed."

"……."

Aria didn't have the energy to respond. Even if she did she wouldn't have been able to respond with her tongue cut off.

Her tongue was sprinkled with soft, white salt, which only left her in pain with no chance to repent.

Aria closed her eyes, which was difficult since it was already bruised and inflated. At one point her eyes had throb the hearts of men with its fresh green color and glow, but now it looked just like the eyes of a rotten fish.

Knowing that it was her end, she patiently waited for the blade.

"Brother, I have one last thing to say to Aria."

The saintess, who had suffered countless times because of the villainess walked up to the execution area.

She had forgiven the villainess, who had framed her of being a thief, and smiled at her, telling her the injury was not too bad when she had been pushed off the stairs. And this time, when she had been poisoned, everyone believed she would forgive the villainess once more.

Kain shook his head.

"You can't."

"I must say it. Please…….."

How could she be so forgiving to a villainess who had tried to harm and murder her. There was no one who could refuse her when she was showing her tears like this.

Kain sighed and gave his approval to Mielle, whose shoulders were shaking like a flower in the fields. Mielle walked towards Aria with her weak body.

"I've been saving these words for you. Since this is the last time…… I should tell you……."

Mielle went on her knees and wiped her transparent tears with her hands.

The audience, shocked at her actions, leaned forward as if they were about to run into the scene. Mielle smiled at them, indicating that it was alright, and put took her lips next to Aria's ear.

As if she would whisper words of salvation to the villainess.

But.

"You stupid bit*h. Did you have fun floundering in my maids' jokes till now?"

Aria's eyes widened. She turned her stiff neck to see Mielle make a forgiving smile. Her smile was as innocent and beautiful as a flower.

Aria blinked her eyes quickly, showing that she had not understood what she had just heard. This was because she could not ask what Mielle had said because her tongue had been cut off.

Mielle, who was kind and caring, understood her through her expressions and repeated herself so that it would be easier to understand.

"All the maids who have been giving you ideas on doing bad things are all my maids. It was all to make you into the villainess so I could get rid of you. Just like this."

"……!"

"I'm telling you this since this is the last time, but I wanted to kill you since the moment you walked in with your lowly mother. Painfully if possible. I didn't want to see you guys, who were an embarra.s.sment to our family."

Hahaha. Mielle let out a laugh, unable to resist.

She had been waiting for this moment and smiled clearly, as if she wanted to dance to Aria's tears. Her happiness, which was unseen to all except Aria, became a knife that dug through Aria's heart.

"I thought I could poison you like your mother but dropped the idea. It's not very interesting is it? So I gave the poison I had to the maid, and made her put it in my tea. Ah, of course I didn't drink it."

"Ah……! Ah ah……!!"

Aria's body wobbled greatly as she fell to the floor. She twisted her body with all the strength she had left, but it was still only a weak struggle.

The veins on her eyes all popped, making tears of blood flow down. Screams exploded out of her mouth, which could not speak because of her cut tongue.

Mielle got up after she finished talking. She created an expression filled with sadness as she returned to her place.

"It was really enjoyable till now……. My heart feels like it's breaking as I think about how big sister Aria won't be around anymore……."

The saintess who had forgiven the villainess put her face into her holy hands and shook her shoulders. But this was to hide her face that had been overflowing with joy that she could not hide.

Please don't let the saintess suffer from the villainess' death. Please don't let her feel responsible for it. Everyone present were worried for Mielle's well-being.

Kain raised his hand high since there was no one else who had feelings left for Aria.

And along with his hand the soldier's sword was lifted high into the sky as well. The sword, which was sharpened so well that it could cut through bone, reflected the light.

And this light created a strange sight in Aria's eyes. The light, which looked like an hourgla.s.s, left an impression in her b.l.o.o.d.y sight for a long time.

Aria stretched her arms out as if to grab the light like a rope, but the soldier stepped on her shoulders that was struggling like a fish out of water.

And soon Kain's hand dropped. It was a signal to get rid of the villainess. The soldier's sword also dropped, cutting through the wind. And the thin girl's neck and life became separated, ending a single life.

"Kyaa!"

Aria's head fell off as someone screamed, and it rolled on the floor along with her sight of the hourgla.s.s.

Why was it that Aria could not feel pain, suffering, or sadness? She could only see the after image of the hourgla.s.s spinning several times, but not knowing which way, and falling after its spins.

'I want to go back. Again……. To the time when I can redo everything……. Like that hourgla.s.s.'

In the few seconds that it took for the brain to take in death and take the light out of her eyes, Aria's whole world was the movement of the hourgla.s.s.

* * *

"……ia! ……Aria!"

Crash-!

The cup in Aria's hand fell to the floor and broke into tens of pieces. The maid who had been waiting behind her ran quickly to clean the mess.

Aria watched the scene, dazed for a moment, and turned towards the direction her name had been called to see Mielle making a worrisome face.

Looking like she would cry if someone touched her, she was still beautiful 'back then'.

'……how does she look so young?!'

Mielle was 23 years old to her knowledge. But the Mielle in front of her could not be much older than ten.

Next to her was Kain, who was glaring at Aria with his brows furrowed in disapproval. He also looked young, about sixteen or seventeen.

Aria blinked, unable to adjust to the situation. Then she heard a cold voice from right next to her.

"Aria, are you alright? I called you several times and you didn't reply."

"……Mother?"

It was her mother, who had died from a heart failure caused by poison. She was a beautiful woman with lips redder than roses and a voluptuous body who had captured the heart of a n.o.ble.

She also looked very young and energetic as she told Aria to keep her table manners. She was a mother who had never had a single drop of motherly love ever since the moment she became pregnant.

Aria finally realized that she was at the dining room. At her plate was meat that had been cut violently and salad that had been spread all over the table.

'I never did something like this after being embarra.s.sed on my sixteenth birthday…….'

Aria looked down at her hands.

She saw a pair of small and soft hands that belonged to a child. The scar on her hand from throwing a gla.s.s bottle at Mielle was also nowhere to be seen.

That was the first evil act she had done to Mielle, and it was when she was fifteen.

The bottle filled with water had been too heavy for a weak girl to throw at the time, and the final destination of the bottle was Aria's foot, not Mielle.

Aria had cried loudly when she injured her foot and hand from the sharp pieces of the bottle. Because of her own maid, no Mielle's maid who had told her that everything was because of Mielle, Aria hurt herself for the first time.

'I didn't even know that they were all controlled by Mielle……."

The maids that always gave Aria ideas on harming Mielle let go of her hand at the last moment, and told the people that everything was planned by the villainess.

And so the foolish daughter of the prost.i.tute met a miserable ending after confessing everything to the maids who made her joyful.

'No way…….'

Aria looked around, opening her eyes to an unbelievable possibility. She too, had a small and weak body along with everyone else who looked younger.

Also.

'I'm alive……!'

It wasn't a dream or her imagination. The injury from the cla.s.s cup hurt too much for that to be the case.

When she touched her leg she could feel a wet sensation. And when she checked it with her own eyes, it was clear, red, blood. The maid who had been cleaning the floor noticed and turned pale, putting her head down.

"Aria?!"

Her mother, who was next to her, had noticed as well.

Aria's hand trembled. Her lips became dry and her face turned pale.

Looks of annoyance began to point at Aria who was staring at her hand. They all thought that this lowly girl would now start screaming at the top of her lungs.

No one doubted the future. No one felt pity for Aria, who had lost all their trust.

Aria closed her eyes. She thought about the choices she had and which one she would choose before opening them, as if to say that she had decided and organized her expression.

"Jessie, give me a handkerchief. And I'll leave the treatment to you since it seems like I've injured my leg. I'm sorry but I'll be excusing myself from the table."

Betraying everyone's expectation, Aria chose a calm reaction.

She wiped her hand with the handkerchief her maid handed her, and left her seat after apologizing for causing a scene.

At Aria's unexpected reaction everyone at the table froze at a loss of words.

END OF CHAPTER 1.