I'm a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 120

Translator : Missme

Editor : Aru

According to Rayl’s story, soon after the successor appointment ceremony, the prince’s monsters attacked the Diamond Dukedom.

The first people to be taken hostage were, of course, the young children of the Diamond family.

“My father was helpless, too. He couldn’t figure out what to do with the crowds of creatures he’d never seen before. So did I.”

Upon the prince’s threat, the Duke of Diamond handed over his mana and control over himself.

He became an invoice and a puppet without will.

“Well, anyway, that’s why. I wonder if your curiosity has been resolved.”

Rayl’s voice, which tells the story, was so calm.

It’s as if he’s delivering nothing.

However, the green eyes that tell the story showed signs of exhaustion.

“So, I have to go back to Acadia.”

No one answered what he said.

No, we probably couldn’t answer.

“I don’t know what will happen to my brothers if I don’t get back soon, and so will my father.”

His calm voice, which was calm when he delivered his situation, was shaking little by little.

“But we don’t know how to get back.”

Rachel hesitated to open her mouth.

After listening to Rachel, Rayl made a look as if he was saying, ‘Yes.’

He seemed to have given up.

And he mumbled low with his head down.

“Yes, I bet you don’t believe me because I betrayed you.”

Then Eugene stepped in and talked.

“No, it’s not wrong, but I really don’t know. Anyone who knows how to get back to the Academy from here…….”

His blue eyes came out and headed toward the woman as white as snow.

“Yerine, you don’t know, do you?”

His eyes rolled toward the woman as I shook my head still.

“Do you know how to get back to the place before we came here?”

“I’ll let you go when it’s time.”

The woman turned her head slightly and looked at her wrist and said.

Shining grey hair in the sun flowed down from her shoulders. Red eyes shone over the waving veil.

“It’s not time yet. I’ll send you when that time comes.”

She drew a circle in the air with her fingers.

There was an opaque membrane that suited the shape of her circle, and she looked at it carefully for a while.

‘Is there magic like that.…?’

Not only me but also others were looking at her with a hazy look on their faces.

“Even if you don’t go right now, your brothers will be safe. You don’t have to worry.”

The woman looked straight at Rayl and said.

However, Rayl asked back with a puzzled look, wondering if she could not believe what she was saying.

“Well, are you talking about me?”

“Yes, your brothers that you said were held as a hostage, they’re still alive.”

She then flipped the white membrane she was looking into and blew it toward Rayl.

“Would you like to see it for yourself?”

The opposite side of the slowly flying membrane was not as white as I saw it.

It was as clear and transparent as a well-polished mirror, and something was reflected on it.

When the curtain reached in front of him, Rayl, who was momentarily embarrassed, listened to the woman and fixed his eyes beyond the grey membrane.

“There’s a special shield around your brothers.”

At the woman’s words, Rayl opened his eyes wide and murmured.

“Defensive shield……..?”

“Because of this shield, people with intentions to harm your brothers will be inaccessible. At least for a certain time.”

“Don’t tell me my father secretly ordered protection magic just before he lost his mana……”

Then he took a big breath and bit his lips hard.

“How long is it for a certain period of time? So you’re saying that for a while, Rayl, his brothers will be fine, right?”

Astra looked at the woman and asked, but Rayl answered instead.

“A year or so should be fine. Now that the order has been issued.”

Eugene, who was looking at him with a sharp look, asked.

“Do you know anything?”

Rayl had a strangely sombre look on his face.

It was noticeable that he was confused.

“Maybe that’s a protective spell that only works with Diamond pedigree. A secret spell unknown to other families.”

Rayl poured out his words with difficulty.

“It can be used for up to three of the direct blood relatives of the spell user.”

Rayl had exactly three younger siblings.

And according to the woman’s explanation, all three younger brothers seemed to have a shield.

“When the user of the order dies, it will activate.”

The hall sank rapidly.

It meant that the Duke of Diamond had died.

My right hand, which was ruined by blood and dust, was naturally strengthened.

The moment I recalled Iker’s face, who was manipulating the monster to cooperate with him, made me gritted my teeth.

He chose the most precious things to people and used them as weaknesses.

He also took away the most precious things.

From me too.

I noticed his golden eyes.

If I never saw those eyes again, I would collapse endlessly.

“Now you know what’s going on.”

He broke the heavy silence and opened his mouth.

“We have to stop him. We can’t let him go any longer.”

I said, facing the beautiful eyes that were stained as if dyed in blood.

“Can you tell me what to do?”

The woman showed a subtle embarrassment in my words.

At first glance, the corners of her mouth were very slightly stiff.

As soon as she tried to open her mouth, Erica stepped in.

“Well, wait a minute. I have a question.”

The woman turned her head and looked at her in careful remarks.

“Well, you’re a dragon. But if you’re a dragon, you’re stronger than humans..”

Erica hesitated to continue.

“Then I think there will be a chance of winning the crown prince.”

It was an understandable remark.

It was very sympathetic to me who directly felt the power of her left eye that contained her mana.

Having these eyes, Yerine sometimes has so much mana that she can’t control herself.

The original owner of the eyes, she must have more power than Yerine.

“So, could you please come down to the human world and help us……?”

Erica looked at the woman with a pretty desperate look, but the woman couldn’t answer her questions right away.

“I’m sorry. I wish I could, but……….”

The woman spoke with a serious expression.

When Erica heard the answer, she said “Ah!”, Rachel and Astra’s expressions darkened.

“I can’t use my mana directly on humans. It doesn’t have any effect.”

I realized that “there is no way” that she said to Yerine, who hurt her eyes, was about this.

She seemed to have chosen to give her eyes to Yerine because she could not use magic to heal Yerine’s eyes using her mana.

“So there’s no way to stop the Crown Prince?”

Rachel asked with a look of despair, but the woman shook her head.

“No, there is.”

But her expression wasn’t very bright when she said it.

“However, the problem is that the risk is high.’

As soon as she finished saying it, the hazy curtain floating in front of Rayl returned to her.

“Please look at this.”

Beyond the membrane where she pointed, Iker with an expressionless face was seen.

Just looking at his face made my heart flutter, but the scenery behind him shocked me more than his face.

“What is this…?

Hundreds of monsters, who were procrastinating, were clinging together.

A monster that clumps together and makes a large mass opened its cave-like mouth.

“They’re putting each other together.”

Eugene frowned as if he was offended and said.

“I think he’s going to leave a few of the least powerful ones and put all the mana in one place at once. The more he does that, the more exponential the monster’s power is.”

Cassius muttered, revealing his disgust.

“As expected, most of the mana was on the monster side, not himself.”

“He doesn’t have mana?”

Cassius nodded at my question.

“Yeah. I saw earlier that Iker’s mana was slightly below that of Yerine when he wasn’t using magic. I’m sure it’s a lot more, but it’s no match for this monster.”

Eugene put his finger around his mouth and murmured.

“Is it because he shouldn’t absorb too much mana than his body can withstand?”

“Monsters are like mana storage for him.”

Everyone looked back surprised by the voice from the back.

It was Rayl that made the voice.

“The stolen mana is stored in the monster, and the crown prince controls the monster. Monsters can fire their magic as the crown prince tells them to, and objects above the mid-level can freely fire magic according to the prince’s will.”

Come to think of it, most of the monsters moved according to his words.

And so far Iker has never used magic in front of me.

Rayl, who paused for a moment, continued, breathing heavily.

“And the mana once stored in that monster’s body doesn’t affect the body much when it’s absorbed by the crown prince. I don’t know exactly the principle.”

“So he can absorb it indefinitely?”

When asked by Erica, Rayl nodded.

“At least he can do that. I know there’s a risk.”

Rayl added with a dark look.

“He knows that and tries to collect as much mana as he can, store it, and absorb it.”

At the end of his speech, the woman opened her mouth.

“As things stand now, it’s going to be hard to deal with that monster with anyone’s mana.”

“But you told me there was a way.”

I talked with our red eyes in eye contact.

“Right, there’s a way. I’m afraid there’s no other way but to do it in this condition.”

For some reason, her eyes seemed to glow with anxiety.

But I didn’t care.

It was important to stop Iker.

“What’s the way?”

“By using your eyes.”

Her red eyes were fixed on my left eye.

“Then no way…….”

Cassius murmured as if he couldn’t believe it.

“Yes.”

The woman bowed her head and said.

“Yerine could die.”

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