Chapter 27

Chapter 27

“What’s wrong with this kid?”

The Queen on the bedside asked about Azuela’s condition.

“The exact diagnosis is still difficult to determine, but she seems to have a cold.”

Azuela had a high fever, chills, and a headache that kept her from getting ready.

The Court Physician stepped down, saying he would prepare some more medicine first.

The Queen looked at Azuela while grumbling.

“Mother, Mother, help me!”

“Help you, what the hell is going on?”

The queen asked the princess, gently biting her lipstick covered lips.

At first, she said her chest hurt, but her health quickly declined at an alarming rate.

It is natural for a weak child, especially one with a weak immune system, to suddenly get sick. However, Azuela’s condition deteriorated too fast to be normal.

“Power, I’m losing my power!”

This is a situation where her high fever is very distracting.

In the meantime, Azuela was suffering from the anxious notion that her power was decreasing.

“Why, why is my power disappearing? What happened?”

Azuela bit her lips and squeezed the blanket with her hands.

“What the hell happened? What about my new Brilliant? Why isn’t she giving me back my powers?”

Azuela burst into tears with a hiss as her throat went hoarse.

It’s time for the new brooch to come, but the wizard that was supposed to bring it disappeared.

“I’ll lose it at this rate! I can feel it!”

“Didn’t you say you were okay before?”

The Queen clicked her tongue and looked at her daughter, who was crying ceaselessly.

“She’s the bad one. It’s mine. It’s my ability!”

“Daughter, when you have a problem, you should wait, and be a little bit more patient.”

When Azuela couldn’t resist her anger and raised her voice, the Queen looked at her daughter with a frown.

Despite this mess, the Queen remained as graceful as usual.

She is indifferent even to her daughter’s pain.

“What did I say? Didn’t I say that we should rethink our situation when we want to raise our voices and make a big fuss?”

Azuela was her daughter and a princess. She should have been a pitiful and lovely child to look at.

It didn’t matter what kind of swear words they used inside their minds or whether they destroyed their enemies thousands of times in their hearts. Those thoughts shouldn’t be openly expressed.

“You have to look and act suitably as a beloved Imperial Princess.”

The Queen’s greed caused this situation. If she wanted to keep control and remain seated as the only Empress then she needed to have a princess she could control. Therefore she had to control the power of the princess.

“Yes, Your Highness Mother Queen. I have a headache. Please help me quickly…”

Fortunately for the Queen, Azuela was quick to learn. Even more so if it is related to her personal health.

Azuela immediately pleaded, looking up at the empress as her eyes flashed in desperation.

“Please ask her to give me back my ability. Of course it’s mine. Why won’t she give it back?”

“That’s because she’s greedy. She must have lost her mind because she envies you.”

“I heard there’s no one in the world who hates me. I guess that kid hates me. How could she do this?”

Azuela’s sadness overflowed into tears in her eyes.

She had a lot of resentment for Shuelina, who was stealing her abilities and taking them away.

The power belonged to Azuela, but Shuelina came and stole it. As a result, Azuela was unable to use spirit power without a Brilliant.

Obviously, Shuelina had done something wicked and that’s why she was sick like this.

‘You’re so mean. I can’t believe you took what’s mine and didn’t give it back…’

A bad child who dared to steal from a princess. A mean commoner who was born as the enemy of my Mother, the Empress, and desires my place as the Imperial Princess.

As a princess loved by everyone, Azuela couldn’t do bad things or be hated by others, but Shuelina also resented Azuela as a bad princess.She was a blessed child loved by everyone, only Shuelina was the one suffering.

“Why is the wizard not coming?”

“It is possible that he came up with some useless idea, so he went to do some research… There must be a problem. I can go retrieve him anyway.”

The Empress’ eyes were terrified. They mirrored the sick Azuela’s eyes.

The attitudes of the wizards who were crazy for research were famously eccentric.

Because of that, when the wizard did not return on the promised date, the Empress sent for the next person.

“Don’t worry. He can’t run away anyway. I’ve prepared a way to follow up.”

The Empress gently smiled and stroked the princess’ cheek. Almost as if she was worried about her bedridden daughter.

But her eyes glowed with an evil shine without a hint of laughter.

Even when her daughter, who looks like her, complained about being sick, she acted as if she’s finding a way to solve a casual riddle.

***

In my dream, I was experiencing the contents of the fairy tale book I heard before sleeping.

In my dream, I was a wizard who came down to the cave forest and was playing.

The bad monkey tried to attack me, but I didn’t care and ignored it.

Because the vines in the forest protect me.

I felt good whenever a vine with flowers wrapped around my body and gave me a gentle hug.

Every time I walked through the flower garden, I heard a light sound underneath my feet.

‘Wake up. It’s dangerous if you use more power.’

At that time, I suddenly heard a boy’s refreshing voice. When I heard the voice, I suddenly felt a headache.

‘Now, come on.’

Who are you? Why are you trying to wake me up… .?

“Ah… ”

The moment I woke up, I started uncontrollably screaming and vomiting. Then I smelled the sweet scent of flowers, they strongly pierced my nose, taking my attention away from the fit I just had.

“Oh?”

I had been sleeping on my side in a fetal position, so I could see the rest of the room at a glance.

Surely my room was decorated in an elegant and lovely feeling.

It was a cute room filled with white and pink leaves.

‘Oh my gosh!’

But now it looked as though I was in the woods.

On the floor, flowers that I saw for the first time were growing.

The vines with white flowers, descending from the ceiling, moved with a lovely sway.

‘My dream…?’

It looked as if the scenes I had just seen in my dreams had been moved into my room.

“Uh… ”

I turned my head when I heard a faint moan in the room.

A man, covered in all black clothes, was groaning while wrapped in a vine.

I wondered if he woke me up, but I could tell that the groaning of the man wasn’t the voice I heard in my dream at all.

No matter how much I looked around, I couldn’t see anyone who matched who woke me up. Perhaps I dreamed of the voice in a moment of crisis.

‘It looks very painful.’

The man seemed to endure the moaning as much as possible with superhuman effort. I rarely heard a leaking sound.

Somehow it feels ominous.

I hugged the quilt tightly and scooted myself to the bedside. I was so nervous that my whole body trembled and shrank, but I found the courage to ask.

“Who are you?”

The man did not answer.

However, looking at the sword in his hand and a large sack on one shoulder, I could tell that it was an unusual situation.

‘No way, you’re trying to kidnap me because you can’t get me kicked out of the Grand Duke’s house?’

You could have just thrown a sword at me if you were trying to cut me down.

I glared into his bag. It was a huge bag that I could easily get in.

The only person in the empire who was able to incite a kidnapping or murder plot, and even know where to find me, in the Grand Duke’s estate could only be the Empress.

I immediately realized I had to call everyone.

“Aaah, ahhh! Help! Grand Duke! Oraboni!”

As I came down from bed, I shouted out loud.

As I loudly shouted, attracting the attention of everyone in the estate, the man’s expression became uglier.

‘Calm down. You can’t touch me right now.’

It seemed that the man was extremely stressed that he had been hurt by a vine that I had made.

No matter how hard he tried to cut it by twisting and turning his body, it seemed that the vines would not break.

Last time, when the Empress’s messenger came, I was very scared and afraid.

But today it was different.

‘No matter what happens, everyone will save me!’

Because I have strong faith in the people of the Grand Duke’s house.

Besides, it’s midnight now. As I screamed, I heard a loud voice outside.

“Shushu!”

“It’s the young lady’s room!”

It was the voices of the Grand Duke’s people who called out to me.

The knights who were at their posts elsewhere in the mansion also rushed over. The sound of grunting and the clangs of armor were heard.

They arrived in my room in no time and burst through the door.

“Protect our Lady.. huh?”

The knights seem to have tried to surround me, to shield me in front of the intruder’s eyes, just as they had practiced to protect distinguished guests.

However, they halted with a grim face.

“Not even training! What are you doing…?”

Suddenly, the Grand Duke, who was trying to walk toward the knights, who had stopped blankly without completing the maneuver, stood tall in an unexpected sight.

The vines that came sprawling out of the bed and the flower garden that grew overnight in the middle of my floor.

Even in this situation, the intruder, who couldn’t get out of the vines, was struggling.

Everyone seemed to be speechless.

Indeed, no one would think that overnight while everyone is sleeping, a normal and elegant room would turn into a forest.

‘You won’t think of me as a monster, right?’

I felt a little worried a step too late.

Because of that, I pressed over my pounding heart with one hand and looked at the people anxiously.

“What are you doing?! Not protecting Shushu! And you! Cut the vines, grab that man, and make him spit out all of his information!”

The first person who came to their senses was the Grand Duke.

He gave instructions to the knights, then ran to my side with my older brothers following behind.

“Shushu, are you hurt anywhere?”

The Grand Duke asked me with an anxious face.

“I am fine.”

I blinked my eyes and shook my head. Really, my body was very fine.

Even though I used up a lot of energy, it wasn’t painful.

When I used my power last time, it felt like sparks of pain were bursting in my head.

But this time, it seemed as if my full power was working with me now instead of reduced.

It didn’t hurt at all, instead, I just felt anger rush to my head.

“What is all this… ”

Wyndert looked around as if panicking.

Then I found the fairy tale book 『The Wizard on the Tower』 placed on the side table next to my bed and shook my head.

“I was playing in the forest like the wizard in my dream… ”

When I woke up, vines had sprouted in my room and there was a strange person breaking in.

With a confused expression, I recited what was happening just before I woke up.

“Shushu, that’s great!”

Deleign, who is as accepting as he is young, cried out first.

“Dream about a room full of chocolate cakes!”

I laughed loudly at the simple words and made a serious grimace once again.

What I saw in my dream today became part of reality.

Just by looking at the Grand Duke’s astonished expression, I could see that this was not normal.

‘Am I even stronger than I thought?’