Villainous Lady, The Obsession Begins

“Should I sign here?”

Finally!

“Yes, that’s right!”

Excited, I forgot my feet and kindly pointed out the part to sign here and here.

“You thought well. You will find someone who is kinder, prettier, healthier, and nicer than me!”

But Esadien hardly moved.

“……?”

At first, I thought he was looking for a fountain pen. However, my patience ran out when there was no movement until I thought he would have already searched four pockets.

“What are you doing? Sign here”

It was when I finally raised my head because he didn’t move even if I pressed it.

“What are you doing…..?”

I felt like I was getting closer to Essadien’s face, which is still a state of affairs despite my lack of affection.

Chu.

Something hot and soft touched her forehead with an unbelievable sound.

“What, what, what are you doing!”

Even as I jumped back, Esadien had a light smile with his face reddened.

Now I’m starting to wonder if this guy is really crazy, seriously.

“It’s been so long since I’ve seen you smile….. Stop being pretty.”

Did I smile?

No, it’s not this!

“This is sexual harassment.”

“You also kissed me without permission.”

“Ah, are you dragging me out to the past?”

“Minuelle, I mean.”

Esadien’s voice was softer than ever as he took the engagement annulment letter back.

If it had been before, I would have died of joy, but now that I suspected his mental state, I got goosebumps as if cold silk had touched my bare body.

“It means that you are the only one who can kiss me at any time.”

Ugh. Hah, I don’t need it!

I hesitated and retreated further, but before I knew it, my back hit a tree, and Esadien narrowed the distance again leisurely.

Without realizing it, I covered my forehead with my hands and shouted.

“I refuse those rights, so sign them right now!”

“I’m sorry.”

Rip, rip, rip.

With the apology, the engagement annulment letter was torn in half, then in half again, and eventually flew in pieces like paper snow.

Where did the smile hide from earlier, Esadien returned to his usual plain face and was doing it.

“What, what…. Why are you tearing it apart?”

“I already said I wouldn’t accept it, Minuelle. No matter how many times you send it.”

Esadien was observing every detail of my astonished face.

No, his eyes were so burning so hard that he couldn’t tell whether he was observing or trying eat me.

“I won’t be signing it in the future. So, Minuelle.”

Esadien’s eye level gradually lowered. Finally he knelt down on one of his knees and looked up at me.

“Don’t abandon me.”

‘Is it a dream?’

I pinched the back of my hand and it hurt. I pinched again because I couldn’t believe it, but it still hurt.

‘Hey, this can’t be happening.’

A gentle confession reached me as I continued to pinch the back of my hand while denying reality.

“Actually, Minuelle. I was jealous.”

“Je, are you jealous?”

“The Priest Ramande. Theo. I envied they being with you. So I said mean words without realizing it.”

The hand that was pinching the back of his hand suddenly stopped. This tingling pain was not a lie.

‘It means that this situation is not a dream, but a reality. If so…’

I clasped my trembling hands tightly.

‘Esadien… must be really crazy.’

You get angry, laugh, say something weird, suddenly tear up the engagement annulment letter and get down on your knees!

I had an ominous feeling that I was really caught wrong.

“Minuelle.”

Esadien reached out to me again.

I pulled the hem of my dress in horror.

“No, I hate it!”

With this paper-like body, it is difficult to win over a child, let alone an adult. But how do I deal with a madman, even a huge madman like Esadien!

I just ran away.

I couldn’t even remember how I got home, and I gasped and shouted at my father who I met first.

“The prince is crazy!”

Oh, that’s all I’ve got.

As my eyes became dark, I felt my surprised father catch me.

After I fell, my house was was taken for granted, and later even the Imperial Palace was turned upside down.

“The third prince is normal.”

Ramande reported the news, sweeping my head, which was half-forced and recuperating.

“It seems that doctors and priests from various temples come to check.”

“That’s normal? That’s normal?”

I couldn’t believe it.

Indeed, if everyone diagnosed it like that, it must be because Esadien has gone too far.

Isn’t that right? If you turn 180 degrees, it’s the opposite, but if you turn 360 degrees, it comes back to its original position.

“Ha…. Ramande, I really don’t think I can live here.”

“Why? The aftereffects of a broken heart are so big?”

“I’m not in the mood to joke around. Esadien tore up the engagement annulment letter right in front of my eyes.”

“He ripped it?”

Finally, Ramande’s expression became a little serious. I thought it was time to release Esadien’s atrocities.

“Don’t even tell me. He declared war that no matter how many times I send it, he won’t sign the engagement annulment letter…..”

“And?”

“At the end, he kneeled down, telling me not to abandon him.”

“….”

Ramande turned his head and swept up his hair.

I couldn’t see it well from my position because I was lying down, but it was clear that it was an abusive mumble.

‘I shouldn’t say that I was kissed on the forehead.’

If caught, Ramande would really invade the Imperial Palace. I quietly pulled the quilt under my eyes.

“I’m sorry, Minuelle.”

Finally, as if he had calmed down a little, Ramande apologized, putting his hand on my cheek. The divine power flowing through the touched skin cooled the body temperature that had risen at some point.

“I should have gone with you.”

“What are you talking about? You were dispatched to training. You didn’t just stand still.”

I didn’t expect him to turn around after being so calm. Who knew that? I didn’t know either.

But Ramande was serious.

“I’m not going out on a dispatch anymore. I’ll be by your side.”

“You don’t have to. Don’t tell me the prince will come to my house every day and find out that I’m going out and follow me.”

“You didn’t know, did you? He came every day after engagement annulment letter was sent.”

“What?”

I was startled and tried to get up, but Ramande pushed me with his index finger, and I fell back.

“Your mother and father gave a strict order not to open the gate.”

“Ugh….”

“So when you go out, I should go with you.”

Ramande gently rubbed my forehead with his finger.

You may not know, but when the tip of Ramande’s finger brushed against the part where Esadien kissed, my heart fluttered for no reason.

“How are you going to go on dates if you’re always with me?”

“Date? What date all of a sudden?”

“You have someone you like, Ramande.”

Not long ago, it was still vivid that Ramande was furious after I say that it was natural that first love would not come true.

It was clear that Ramand had reached the memory.

“Ah, that?”

“Right? I mean….”

“Who do you think it is?”

“Huh? Do I know her?”

I jumped up again. This time, Ramande didn’t stop me, but wrapped his arms around my shoulder to help.

“Well? By the way, Minuelle.”

“Yes?”

“What if I want to get married with that person, then what will I do?”

“Ma….rriage?”

“Yes, marriage.”

That meant giving up the priesthood.

Priests can unleash the divine power of the body in exchange for a lifetime of dedication to Flendena.

Even if the person who chooses the path of a priest has a partner of fate, Flendena lets go generously like a god who controls love.

Instead, I heard that the divine power had disappeared completely.

‘Ramande said that his vessel of divine power is large enough to go up as a high-ranking priest.’

As if reading my mind, Ramande rubbed my forehead and grinned.

“Okay. How can I be next to you without sacred power?”

I remember many nights when I was suffering from a fever.

All those nights, Ramande always stood by my bedside like a guardian angel.

“I’m sorry, Ramande. You can’t sleep because of me……”

“Don’t worry about me and get well soon, Princess.”

When I saw him covered in a dim light, I sometimes thought he was really like an angel sent by Flendena.

Thankfully, Ramande silently bestowed his divine power to me, both then and now.

So, with or without divine power, Ramande was already my benefactor and precious person.

“It’s all right.”

“…what?”

“It’s all right, Ramande.”

Ramande has been living as a priest since he was young.

He even thought of going out of the way. I know a little how deeply he cared for me.

“Our relationship won’t change even if you don’t have sacred power.”

Of course, if she allows it.

Who the hell is it? If I knew it, I’d do my best to make friends!

“…never?”

As much as I could, I pressed my sincerity and gave a firm answer, giving strength to the hand I held against Ramand.

“Of course!”

The corners of Ramande’s mouth slowly went up.

“I… I’ve got a really good friend.”

But the smile seemed a little sad for some reason.

“The Church of Fire seems to be aiming for the power of spirits.”

The Apostle said with a rare frown.

Sunny weekend afternoon.

After the service, I walked into the temple with the Apostle in the warm sunlight.

“It seems that from the beginning, it seems to have started with a certain amount of spirit power.”

To start a fire, you have to create sparks by friction or transfer another fire.

However, the fire from the church literally appeared out of nowhere in the air.

“Is that magic? But they said that they don’t feel any mana at all.”

“I guess my guess was right.”

“In the end, they’re going to take the spirit stone, right?”

“They know that there is a greater power, and can’t be satisfied with a small power.”

And I can’t give away what’s inside of me.

Then I really had to leave Roquette.

As with any big city, the capital is a very densely populated area. If there was a great fire here, it would literally be a disaster.

“What’s more serious is that the number of people who commit themselves to the teaching is increasing little by little.”

“Why? They are just destroying things.”

To commit yourself to a group that destroyed the place you lived in just a while ago. I couldn’t understand it at all.