Your Highness, please spare the concubine

Although Athena's face was tired from staying up all night and dark circles under her eyes, the girl's expression had already become firm.

[I have thought about my father, I will go to the Magicians Association, become a powerful magician, and then return to the family to serve! 】

At that moment, the weakness and gentleness in Athena seemed to have disappeared.

So much so that Will Maglia smiled in relief.

[Okay, this is my daughter of Val Maglia! 】

[The members of the Magician Association will leave the palace today, let's say goodbye to His Majesty, and show off in front of the ministers, haha! 】

The proud Weir Maglia led the people ahead, and Athena got on the sedan chair obediently.

Yes.

She wants to escape from here.

Escape from that sickly highness, escape from this family that treats her like a pawn.

She wants to throw away her tenderness and weakness, and take control of her own freedom.

Give up everything here, give up who you used to be.

She can start over in another place, be herself again.

Not a puppet of the family, nor a puppet of the little princess, let alone lose one's purity because of this.

In the future, she will control her own destiny with her strength...

If she still remembered what happened today, she might come back for revenge.

===

And that day was the moment when she bid farewell to her past self.

===

Entering the palace, under the leadership of Ver Maglia, she met many people.

It's all kind of forgettable.

She just kept her ladylike greeting—

Even the family that asked her to marry was the same.

Then, with the emperor's blessing, the people from the Association of Magicians took her into the carriage.

Maybe it was because she didn't rest all night, or because she saw too many people today, which made her a little tired.

The girl was in a daze, and she didn't seem to be that energetic.

Not long after, Athena sat in the carriage and clenched her hands.

Although she kept looking forward and joyful on her face, only she knew how hard it was to keep it up.

When she left the palace, she vaguely heard the commotion in the rear.

In a daze, from the mouth of the Magicians Association who was traveling with me, I seemed to hear that some guards wanted to rush over and were stopped...

When they arrived halfway, Athena stopped the crowd in a strange way, with the excuse that she had to go to the toilet.

No one made things difficult for a gentle and beautiful girl like her...

It's just that it seems a little long.

It's been half an hour...

When she came back, the leader's face was clearly unhappy.

But if you are careful, you will find that after returning, Athena no longer has any confusion or some kind of strange entanglement in her eyes.

She has completely lost the past...

Travel with them to a new future.

===

But now...

In severe pain, blood spit out from the mouth.

Athena looked at her with a self-deprecating smile.

The golden phoenix burns with flames comparable to the sun.

Athena had never seen such Willis.

Can't even be called human...

As Snow Demon said before - she is not human.

But Athena is very sure that when she was a child, she must be a human being.

Falling from a high cliff without any protection, the body hit the raised rock several times.

That kind of pain brought to the body, but it was not as good as what happened in the heart.

She didn't know what happened to herself tonight, just as she didn't know why she was in a mess when she left that day.

The ghost ran to the edge of the imperial city and waited for the person who shouted to cut off her limbs and keep her by his side, who would never show up;

By coincidence, what was clearly a revenge plan turned into a grave to punish oneself with death.

How ironic.

After so many years, no matter how strong and powerful she has become.

As if it was all false.

Only half an hour to go to the bathroom when I left ten years ago, and twenty seconds to fall off the cliff...

is real.

So real that her armor was shattered.

===

The momentum of the fall was blocked by the warm wings, but there was still a strong wind.

While whispering, tears suddenly appeared in Athena's eyes.

So even the voice was choked up.

She just wanted to ask why...

What came out was a painful inquiry that wanted an answer.

"It is said in the book that when the forest is deep, you see a deer, and when the sea is blue, you see a whale... But why did you not see you when you woke up from the dream?"

"After all, when the forest is deep, the fog rises and thickens, when the ocean is blue, the waves surge like mountains, and when you wake up from the dream, the night is still...right?"

Her answer was only a faint, thunderous blow.

"You didn't look back, how did you know I wasn't there?"

Volume 56#Chapter [-] Let's find a place where there is no one

On the walls of the imperial city ten years ago...

The young girl lay there blankly, her eyes filled with tears, and she was crying.

Her elder sister Athena, after all, has failed to live up to the oath she promised to always be by her side...

and those people left.

The guards sent out were also stopped by the emperor's people.

She is just a young princess, and she doesn't have much power in her hands.

The so-called guards are nothing more than a few small soldiers in charge of security in the palace.

They can do very little...

In order not to be beaten and scolded by this little master when he came back, or even tortured in anger.

They have even collected some excuses to wash away some of their faults...

[His Royal Highness, the little ones are incompetent! 】

【inability?Then you all go to die... Sister Athena is gone, what's the use of you staying here? 】

【His Royal Highness! 】

The guards knelt down with a plop.

They shouted hoarsely, shaking their heads and begging for mercy.

[It's not that I'm not doing enough, but that Miss Athena has made up her mind to go! 】

[The Maglia family has been planning to contact people from the Magicians Association, and Miss Athena herself is willing to go with them. 】

[Even if we bring her back today, Miss Athena's heart is no longer here. 】

[If she can run once, she can run twice, three times... We can't keep it no matter what, Your Highness! 】

【Why? 】The little girl was in a state of despair, and she was in cruel and unbelievable pain.

【I wish I could cut off her hands and feet... In this way, she won't be able to run away. 】

The guards immediately replied - [But Your Highness, do you really need a person with only a body? 】

【If you do that, she will no longer be the Miss Athena you know! 】

A few simple words dealt the heaviest blow to the young Willis.

yes……

If Sister Athena broke her oath and wanted to leave by herself, she could really cut off her freedom...

to hurt her...

Are you going to tie her by your side forcibly?

In that case, what will sister Athena become?

Will it still be the same?

no, I can not.

She will also be like the other servants who are punished, shrinking and fearing her, even if she commits suicide and escapes, she must stay away.

At that moment, the little girl cried very sadly.

She just felt like her heart was about to burst...

The broken part will go away with Athena along with the memory.

until--

That familiar figure quietly returned to the imperial city from a distance.

Wei Lisi wiped her tears in disbelief, ran over the city wall and came to Athena's head.

She was so excited that she wanted to open her voice to shout, but found that it was full of sobs and tears.

But Athena was weak at the time, so she didn't find her at all.

Just as the guards were about to shout out for help, Little Willis suddenly stopped them.

because--

Athena did not choose to return to the imperial city.

She was just leaning against the foot of the city wall, next to the Imperial City Gate...

But Athena just watched obsessively, without any movement.

This shows that she did not choose to come back to fulfill her promise.

Little Willis, who felt that she had been betrayed, also chose not to make a sound.

Grievance, sadness and anger welled up in my heart together.

She just stood on the city wall and watched Athena.