Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 224.3

When I interrupted the man, they trembled slightly, and the man in the middle who had called out to me lowered his hood, which had been hiding his face, as if he had given up.

I’ve seen that face before. He’s one of the knights next to the girl.

“What do you want?”

When I asked quietly, he opened his mouth, twisting his lips.

“Layton family…I’m sure you’re from the royal faction, right? We appreciate your help in defeating the demon. However…if that power gets in the way of the Saint, we must do everything in our power.”

“…Is that by your will?”

“…Yes.”

Perhaps he is being subjected to that strange mental interference…He grips the hilt of the weapon under his cloak tightly and lets out a bitter voice.

“We don’t think this is right either. I don’t think all the Saint’s actions are right. But we have condemned the innocent for the correct teachings of the Holy Church. There are evils that are necessary for a just world.”

“That’s necessary…?”

“Yes. …No, maybe not. But Saint Licia has forgiven us, who were tormented by guilt. We have decided to fight for her, who gave us peace.”

After he finished saying that, the remaining two knights also drew their swords.

They were not being controlled. The gap in my heart that had always existed was pried open by the {protection} of the Saint, and I was seduced by her sweet words.

“Let’s go!!”

The three knights kicked the ground at the same time and swung their swords. All three were in the top ranks of rank 3, but I felt the sharpness of their skilled techniques that could not be expressed by their fighting power. But…

If that is your will, I will no longer hold back.

“–{Iron Rose}…{Real Breaker of the Rejected World}–“

My pinkish hair turned a burnt gray iron color, and the three swords slid past me, with light radiating from my entire body, and as we passed each other, I crushed their necks with my bare hands.

“…”

Glancing at the three, who were uninjured except for their broken necks, I used {Real Breaker of the Rejected World} to send the pendant to the castle where Elena was.

Even though I was also crazy, I could sympathize with Carla. That’s why I wanted to grant her wish.

But that’s not it. That saint is just like “that woman.” Just like that woman, she knows about otome games, and is trying to repaint the world to her liking.

To become a “real heroine”…

I’m not “me” now.

I thought that by protecting Elena, I could change our fate. That’s why I, who was in the darkness, stepped onto the stage and became a shield for Elena, who was fighting alone.

No, that’s not it… Just like my master, it was because I felt comfortable being by her side.

I found peace by standing next to Elena, but it also created ties.

But now, Elena has Rockwell and Mikhail by her side. The Dandol and Melrose families will also protect her.

When the demon targeted me, it recognized me as an enemy. It’s even more important that I’m not by Elena’s side.

I absolutely can’t let that thing live. If that thing, who knows, about games just like that woman, acts on its own, Elena will be in danger. Still, I have a reputation as a saint. If I interfere poorly, I don’t know how the crown prince and his followers will react.

So I will return to the darkness once more and eliminate everything related to that thing before the crown prince graduates. I told Elena how I felt and asked her to pretend that I was dead.

If there are no more unnecessary people, Elena will never lose.

“I will eliminate that girl…the woman who calls herself Alicia in my own way.”

***

“…that pink-haired woman”

Saint Licia looked out the window at the streetscape where the pink-haired girl had disappeared, and clutched the “magic stone” in her hand tightly.

That was probably the “real thing.” She knew that she was the real thing because she knew the scenario of the otome game.

I was now the heroine of this story. I couldn’t lose everything by being disturbed by a foreign object.

Elena, Carla, and Clara… He had thought that these three villainous ladies were his greatest obstacles, but after meeting them today, he realized that they were his greatest enemy.

“I will kill that pink-haired woman. I will use everything I have.”

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