May I Kill You, Your Majesty?

May I Kill Your Majesty

Chapter 2

It was some sunny spring day that Erendel took possession of the ring.

“Go ahead. It won’t cost you a lot.”

It was an old woman who caught Erendel walking down the market street. The old woman’s shabby stand had old accessories close to antiques.

If ever, Erendel would have ignored her words. She wasn’t interested in jewelry in the first place, and she wasn’t one of those people who could buy such valuables.

But that day, Erendel did not ignore the old woman’s words. She stood in front of the stand like she was possessed and watched the jewels she recommended.

Scratched diamond bracelet, drain ring, and pearl earrings without a single bead.

It was a gem that caught Erendel’s eye among the junk.

A large black jewel decorated on an old ring.

“……”

The sunlit jewel was shining brilliantly. What kind of jewel is this? I’ve never seen this before. My step sister Lillent, also collects a lot of jewelry, but I never seen anything like this.

The glow of the black gem like night felt warm like sunshine and cold like ice.

“Do you like the ring?”

Erendel looked down at the ring with a blank expression.

“I knew it. I thought you’d like it.”

The old woman talked while giggling. Erendel mumbled to herself instead of answering.

How much is this…..?

Will it be expensive?

I don’t have much money.

The old woman smiled and her lips were drenched while Erendel was thinking.

“Oh, you don’t have much money.”

At the moment, The old woman’s eyes full of wrinkles shone sharply.  It seemed like I had looked through the inside.

And I seemed to see through other things.

“It’s not just that I don’t have money…..Yeah, there’s a lot more to it.”

“……pardon?”

“No family, no parents. There are some things that live together under one roof, but that’s all. Right?”

To be honest, it was not wrong.

“What are you talking abo—?”

It was as soon as the unpleasant Erendel was about to say something.

“Poor thing.”

“……”

“Nothing at all.”

In the eyes of the old woman looking at me, there was both a side and sympathy.

Although she had been treated in heaven, she was not enough to be pitied by a stranger. In addition, it was even more upsetting because of its strong self-esteem.

Erendel put down the ring she held in her hand with her lips tightly clenched.

I was about to leave the stand.

But the old woman with the ring blocked Erendel’s way.

Then she placed the ring carefully in Erendel’s hand.

……Her ring in the palm of the hand seemed strangely brighter than it had just been seen.

“Sorry for talking nonsense, kid. Please accept this as an apology.”

Erendel gave a bitter look.

“You don’t have to pay me. I was about to leave anyway. Now the ring is yours.”

“But I can’t just take this.”

Erendel slowly sweetened her lips.

“I felt bad, but I’m glad I can apologize.”

The old woman laughed.

Erendel was proud, but she was also as outspoken as she was. Anyway, it’s all right that she got an apology.

It was the old woman who did the wrong first, and she said she would give it to me for free, so I could cut the price a little bit.

Erendel looked for her pocket of emergency money.

“Try it on.”

“What?”

“Shouldn’t you check your finger first?”

Erendel looked suspicious for a moment but she still nodded. Then I put the ring the old woman gave me on my finger.

The ring fits well.

It was neither loose nor tight.

And that was the moment.

An unknown glow came out from the black jewel, like the night sky on a ring.

Erendel was so frustrated so she closed her eyes tightly and opened it again.

The strange glow had already disappeared when she looked at it again.

‘Did I see it wrong…..?’

“It suits you very well.”

“……”

“Like it was made just for you.”

The old woman’s mouth twisted up.

Erendel, who came to her senses late, smiled awkwardly. Yeah, I’m sure I got it wrong. Maybe it’s because it’s reflected in the sun.

“Wait a minute, please. I’ll give you the money.”

Erendel began to look through her dress.

I didn’t see the old woman’s purple eyes glistening sharply as she looked at my ringed fingers.

“……I hope you like my present.”

The old woman’s murmur sank in my ears. Then I looked in my pocket and looked up, but in the meantime the old woman was gone.

Earendel looked around with a blank expression but the old woman was already gone.

Only the jewel on the ring finger twinkled and shone alone.

…….That day was a strange day.

It was a sunny and warm spring day, but it was different from usual.

[There’s a day like that, Erendel.]

My mother once told me. But she died more than a decade ago.

[A curious day so I get to do things that I don’t usually do. You have to be very careful on such a day.]

[Why?]

That day, my mother’s purple eyes were shining dimly in the sun.

She gave a cool look at her daughter’s question…..

[……If you make a mistake, you may be bewitched.]

She said something I couldn’t understand.

[Being fascinated is for a moment, but bewitched is for a lifetime.]

My mother said it but I felt like someone else said it, so the young Erendel, took a step backward without realizing it.

She looked at her daughter with an unknown look and began to giggle.

[……and suffering is eternal]

Anyway, it was definitely a strange day as my mother said. So Erendel stopped in front of the stand, which she had just passed by.

Contrary to her mother’s request, Erendel was not careful and took a ring from the old woman. She did not pay, and she returned home as it was.

Of course, Erendel had no idea.

How much time she’ll regret what happened that day.

***

It was the year when Erendel became an 18-year-old adult and the year that prince Castian rebelled.

To be honest, Erendel thought it had nothing to do with her.

Erendel was a duke’s daughter, but her status was just a shame.

Erendel’s mother was a woman who joined the duke’s concubine when Erendel was only two years old.

It was a different matter even though she didn’t hear what people were saying around her. However, the Duke who was fascinated by Erendel’s mother eventually took her into the family, and Erendel became a member of the Duke.

Her mother, who has been wandering and living her life freely, made that choice purely because of Erendel.

There was only one condition I had when my mother entered the Duchy.

To give Erendel the last name of Bellerophon.

But the duke did not keep his promise.

And her mother died when Erendel was seven years old. And a real nightmare began that day.

There was no way that people in the house would look at Erendel pretty. Even Erendel knew about that, but…..the bullying grew worse day by day.

Everyone did. Human beings are adaptable animals.

Erendel already adapted.

Even though her step sister ripped her hair.

‘The damn year.’

That’s what I thought.

My step brother pushed me to the ground.

‘Son of a bitch.’

I was just cursing at myself.

But how long should I live like this? I didn’t know.

In the meantime, there was only one thing on my mind.

My mother’s last dream.

The only daughter being accepted as a member of the Duke Bellerophon…..

Of course, it was already a bad dream.

That’s what Erendel knew best.

‘So what am I supposed to do from now?’

Should I leave this mansion?

Let’s go and live free. Like my mother did before?

[I can’t live like that! Never!]

It was a time when I was struggling to ignore my mother’s bitter will.

Prince Castian rebelled.

It was not long after Erendel’s 18th birthday.

‘The idea that it had nothing to do with me, no matter who rebelled or who became emperor was just a thoughtless idea as I walked toward the jail on my own.’

‘Why, why would you kill me?!’

I felt wronged.

If you lived with wealth or honor as a member of the peacock, you would understand.  This was really a dog ​​death.

I understand that I lived with wealth or honor as a member of Duke’s family. But it was just a useless death.

It was even more ridiculous. The duke was not even caught because he had already fled

“I don’t have the blood of the Bellerophon family. Never!”

……I protested but if it had work then I wouldn’t have been dragged here in the first place.

Erendel was eventually dragged to the execution.

(t/n: It’s actually guillotine. Like in the reincarnated FL’s who was executed using that thing.)

I cursed the faceless prince with all my heart before my neck fell.

…..that damn prince wants to become an emperor.

I hope you get struck by lightning!

That was my last memory.

And I open my eyes again….

“…..I hope you like my present.”

Erendel was back on that sunny and mysterious spring day.

The day I bought the ring from a suspicious old woman!

“Huh…..”

The first thing I did when I came to my senses was to touch my neck. My neck was well fixed.

The next thing I did was to look around. However, there was no sign of the old woman.

“What is……this……?”

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I muttered with a blank expression but I couldn’t figure out the answer.

It was Erendel’s first death, and her first return.

……and it was the beginning of all those crazy things.

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