How to Be a Dark Hero’s Daughter

Jade laughet.

“Anyway, we need to find an easy way for you to become stronger. If possible, a way to become stronger without effort.”

What a sweet sound. It sounds nice, but that’s not possible, right?

“Is there a way?”

“There is.”

“What is it?”

“You don’t need to know yet.”

He’ll tell me when the time comes, right? I nodded my head.

Suddenly, I was so sleepy that my head felt like it was going to explode. I wanted to collapse into bed in my disheveled state and sleep.

“For now, I should wash up and go to bed. I’m so tired that I feel like I’ll just lie down like this.”

“If you lie down on the bed in dirty clothes, Zion will get angry.”

“I guess so,” I nodded seriously and went inside the partition.

“Goodnight, Leticia.”

“Goodnight, Jade.”

As we exchanged soft greetings, my heart settled.

Thump, thump.

I could smell myself again. I sighed.

“Lady, are you here? I’ve prepared the bathwater, so please come in your gown.”

I heard the sound of the door opening on the opposite side. It was the voice of a maid who often took care of me.

“I’ll be there soon.”

The maid went to the bathroom and closed the door.

‘Ah, I’m so tired.’

I could barely stand, so I sat in front of the mirror. Suddenly, I looked at myself in the mirror.

‘Come to think of it….’

A creepy memory from the darkness.

‘He touched me.’

I touched my forehead. That person touched me in the darkness.

Who could that person be?

‘Did Claire confess about the accomplice?’

Claire was clumsy today and made many mistakes.

‘Was it really Claire who came up with this plan?’

A chilling shiver ran down my spine.

‘I have to tell Collen…’

An accomplice touching me in the dark. At first, I thought it was right to tell the guardian about it.

I was wearing a coat over a messed-up silk dress.

First, I need to take a bath… and find Collen.

I hurriedly took off my coat.

Plop.

But as I took off my coat, something fell from my arms.

“Huh? What is this…?”

My hand trembled. This is…

“Ah!”

I involuntarily screamed.

Several red flowers spilled from my arms.

Thump, thump!

“Leticia, what’s wrong?”

I heard Jade knocking on the door.

I collapsed to the ground.

‘That’s a flower left by a very bad person. A very, very bad person.’

<Since you brought the red flower, you may be the target of that person.>

I recalled what Collen said about the red flowers.

Flowers scattered around my knees.

They were red trumpet flowers with golden lines on them.

* * *

The sound of hooves pounding the ground filled the air. I watched a horse galloping outside the window.

Collen was riding on it. As soon as I found the flower, I ran to Collen’s room.

“Dad! We have to go to the palace! We need to interrogate Claire ourselves!”

It was natural for Collen’s face to change as he looked at the flower in my hand.

“Did she touch you?”

“That’s not the problem! The person who left the clue of the red flower was inside the secret passage!”

I told Collen what happened in the underground passage.

Collen headed straight to the palace to catch Claire.

‘He was Claire’s accomplice.’

The person Collen had called a very bad person. The person who left the red flower before I came here.

‘He was right in front of me.’

He was close enough to kill me, or kidnap me instead of Lavigne. Very close. He was there.

‘Who are you?’

I thought as I looked at the red flowers scattered in my hand. The flowers were meaninglessly crumbling in my hands.