20 years had passed when I woke up! ~ The villain's daughter’s thereafter and after that ~ - Chapter 17
Translator: Darling | Editor: Nebosuke
The prologue of Volume 3 happened around the same time as the 16th chapter.
As briefly mentioned at the end of Volume 3, the Crown Prince of the Regalia Empire dumped a daughter of the Duke family. Instead, he re-engaged with Annerose”. This chapter is from the perspective of the dumped girl.
“Tiara! You know what you did!”
It occurred during a recess at school.
I, Tiara Sylberia, passed by Darc, the Prince of the Regalia Empire, and my fiancé, at the stairs.
As I slightly bowed and walked away just as usual, he grabbed my shoulders and pushed me down the stairs.
I rolled down and struck my head and body many times. Sparks flew in my eyes.
I couldn’t speak because I was in agony.
My forehead seemed to be bleeding, and half of my vision was red covered by blood.
“You apparently pushed Annerose down from the stairs yesterday! Not only that, but I know that you’re using your friends to harass Annerose.”
“That’s right! Tiara is so nasty! She may be jealous of me because Darc and I get on well together. She does awful things to me every day… Uhh…”
Before I noticed, a girl was standing by Darc.
A girl with her chestnut-colored curly hair and big eyes that slightly sloped downward.
Annerose Kriemhild.
Originally, she was living as a commoner, but it turned out that she was from a fallen Baron family, and so her aristocracy had been restored this spring.
Despite her different background, she was trying to assimilate into the aristocratic society. I liked her efforts, but there was one thing I couldn’t overlook.
Annerose’s personality seemed to be innocent, probably because she was raised by a commoner, but she was too close to Darc.
As his fiancée, I couldn’t disregard this.
I thought that a lady should have kept a certain distance from any engaged men. Annerose herself was creating infamous reputations too.
I carefully tried reasoning with her a few times so far, but Annerose didn’t listen to me.
In the end, it culminated in this incident.
“Tiara! You’re rotten at your heart. I don’t want to take you as my wife! I’m terminating the engagement. I also denounce your aristocracy! You’re a dirty commoner now! Begone from me and Anne!”
And then, two of Annerose’s boys grasped my shoulders and dragged me out of the school.
The wound on my forehead kept bleeding with no trace of healing.
I somehow crawled back to my home, the Duke of Sylberia’s mansion, but a further nightmare was waiting for me there.
“I heard all of your misbehaviors from Darc. You are a shame of the Duke of Sylberia!”
My father was so angry and didn’t listen to me at all.
I was innocent.
I wasn’t harassing Annerose at all.
I never pushed her down the stairs!
“Shut up! I know Annerose as well. Are you cold-blooded? Why do you bully such a sweet girl? I’d kill you if you weren’t my daughter!”
My father was furious.
He grabbed my hair and drew a sword hanging on the wall. A metallic sharp sound echoed in the room.
Falling and scattering hair…
My silvery long hair was dispersed over the floor.
Beautiful hair that I inherited from my mother.
My father stomped on it and screamed, “Tiara, you have a deportation order. I’ve already arranged a carriage. Get out now. Or else you will lose your life.”
His voice sounded intimidating, serious, severe, and distant.
Besides that, he put the tip of the sword at my throat.
Frightening.
But, more than that, I was sad.
Although he was sometimes surly, he was a kind and lovely father to me.
Now, like a totally different person, my father was hatefully looking down at me.
No one in my life was on my side. Not anymore.
Tears spilled from my eyes, and I collapsed right there.
Despair was the exact feeling I had.
“Stop crying. You annoy me! You caused this! Someone, get this girl out of my house!”
Father’s order was carried out immediately.
I did not have time to wipe off my tears and was pushed into the carriage.
It was a long trip.
The horse-drawn carriage headed east approximately for a month, and finally arrived at the border.
In front of me, there was a dense and dark forest where even the sunlight was shut off that extended across the area.
It was called the Black Forest.
Home of demons and monsters.
I was thrown out of the carriage there.
That was practically the same as a death penalty.
Because, if a monster attacked me, I would have no chance to run away.
“… It doesn’t matter anymore.”
I wasn’t really fed during the trip.
My limbs got skinny due to starvation, and I couldn’t even stand up alone.
The wound on my forehead wasn’t healed properly. My face surely looked ugly then.
I really didn’t care about anything anymore, and so I just fell down to the ground.
What was wrong with me?
Should I have cunningly plotted things in order to get Annerose away from Darc?
Or, conversely, should I have totally ignored Darc and Annerose being so intimate?
I was confused.
I didn’t understand.
I just cried.
Why?
Why did this happen?
I swear I didn’t do anything wrong.
Words such as “how come” and “why” swirled around and around in my mind.
“Guuuuuur …!”
I heard a low roaring sound.
Pushing through the undergrowth of the forest, something was slowly coming towards me.
It was a black slime.
Unlike ordinary slimes, that slime was completely black.
The slime was steadily swaying side-to-side and moving inch by inch toward me.
Runaway.
That’s what my instincts told me.
But, at the same time, my inner voice said, “it doesn’t bother me.”
After all, no physical strength was left in me.
Even if I ran away, my life would only be lengthened for a few seconds.
So, it wasn’t a bad idea to accept my final moment calmly.
“Garrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!”
I didn’t know where its mouth was, but I saw that the slime howl and it was about to jump over on me.
I was ready for my imminent death of course…
“No…!”
I was ready to die.
Until 1 second ago.
Then, my emotion burst out like raging waves.
No way.
Absolutely not.
I will not die here.
All of sudden, I got enraged.
After losing everything, my life was going to end here? I totally rejected it.
Never forgive.
Darc, Annerose, my father.
No, not only these three.
There were many students around me when I was pushed down the stairs.
No one helped me though. On top of that, they made a fuss and yelled, “That’s because you’re harassing Annerose!”
Some people even chased me and threw garbage at me when I ran away from school.
I’d take every one of them to the bottom of hell. That boy, that girl, and all others.
No one would be forgiven.
No one would be missed.
I would retaliate.
I decided in my mind.
So…
“Get out of my way…!”
My magical power was about to run out because I was so feeble.
But I desperately concentrated my mind.
Despite the blow, I fired with all I had, it was too late.
The black slime bent over me.
It stretched out its body, and tried to swallow me from my feet…
“You showed me something special. In return for your guts, let me give you a wonderful treat, << Wand of Divine Punishment>>!”
In that instant–
Godly golden light blinded my eyes.
The black slime melted and extinguished the overwhelming torrent of light.
“I’m sorry that I took so long. I never thought you were taken to the Black Forest.”
A woman came down in front of me.
She was incredibly beautiful. I even lost my words.
Despite the fact that she was on the edge of the Black Forest where even the sunlight was deflected away, she was dazzling and sparkling.
The word “noble” was probably perfect for her.
Her clear jade-colored eyes were looking at me.
“You’re injured… What a beautiful face. Let me treat it.”
The person extended her white and long fingers and touched my forehead.
I felt warmth.
It was as if I was wrapped in a soft and fluffy blanket.
“Your wound is healed now. I wonder who hurt you like this. Let me just double-check. I assume you are Tiara, a daughter of the Duke of Sylberia. Is that true?”
“Yes, I am…”
“I’m Fioria. The daughter of the Duke of Florence, Tristan Kingdom. Also known as the ‘Empress of Blizzard’.”
Of course, I knew her.
The Regalia Empire was far from the Kingdom of Tristan, but many people talked about her heroic stories.
It said that she was in a coma for 20 years because she was poisoned, but she recently revived.
The territorial reforms she performed had been studied in the Regalia Empire too, and partially applied.
“Tiara, you don’t want revenge?”
She smiled.
Quietly… But behind her smile, I saw her undeniable cruelty.
Despite some people calling her the Golden Goddess, her serene whisper to me sounded like a devil.
“Annerose who has trapped you, and the men who are bunching up with her. Every single one of them kneels down and crawls up at your feet. Don’t you want to see them in such a situation?”
Prior to this incident, I might’ve hesitated and said no to this question.
But my answer was already determined then.
I wanted my revenge and counterattack.
Unrelenting retaliation on all the people who stumbled upon my dignity and existence as Tiara Sylberia.
… So, I took her hand.
Fioria seems to get Annerose’s latest victim involved.
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