[Chapter 121] Olivia Lucia

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A sword swung in front of my face as he said, "Sreung."

Roaldness cut off the front of my shirt that Rossi had been grabbing and pulled me towards him.

Rossi snorted.

"You lie quite well. I've known Blie for years. How dare you lie to me like that."

The piece of my clothes that remained in Rossi's hand instantly turned into ash and scattered.

"You said Blie Acacia was your disciple?"

"Blie, Acacia? You've even given her a cute name. She's not that cute type."

Rossi's face, which had already lost its smile, was hidden by Roaldness's back.

"Stop talking nonsense and tell me everything you know."

Roaldness warned me, hiding me behind him.

"That cheeky Blie told me this before she suddenly left."

I quietly stepped away from behind Roaldness and listened to Rossi's words.

"If she ever comes back to me..."

Rossi's eyebrows twitched momentarily, as if recalling that time.

"It would only be when she is dead."

"!"

"How could she come back when she was dead... I didn't know what that meant at the time. Cute blonde girl. I understand now when I see you."

"Blie said... such things?"

"Now you understand? It's not me who has to tell everything, but you, young lady."

Thud!

Thud, thud, thud!

The open window and front door closed automatically. Rossi slid in front of me.

"Where is Blie now?"

"She's in a coffin."

I answered, wrapping my trembling body.

"I'm on my way to put Blie in a coffin instead of me."

Rossi's eyes were bloodshot. His eyes, which had a confused light, were immediately filled with anger.

"But she's alive."

"What?"

Anger was vaguely scattered, and his eyes now shot suspicion.

"I'm not Blie Acacia, I'm the princess of Pireta, the eastern territory of Ronta. I'm Adrienne Pireta."

"...Pireta."

A subtle voice split the air.

"If you want to hear the story of how I lived as Blie, help me."

"Why should I?"

I straightened my body, forcing strength into my trembling legs, and lifted my chin.

"One for one."

"Huh?"

"I'll follow your way, Rossi. If you want to hear, help me."

****

Roaldness stood between us like a judge, glaring at Rossi as if he would cut him down anytime.

I briefly explained the situation from the moment I opened my eyes as Blie until now.

I wasn't sure if the legend of her living for over a thousand years was just a rumor, but she listened to everything I said without moving.

"That's quite a story to hear in a hut like this. So, what can I do for you?"

I took out my mother's necklace.

"How can this marble-sized mana stone in this necklace be the key to the mana stone chamber? And why can only I open it and not others? I'm sure Rossi can answer that."

"..."

Rossi took my necklace without saying a word. And without opening it, she closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them.

"Have you ever been to a mana stone mine?"

"No," she said.

"Mana stones are huge chunks of rock in their raw form. In the distant past, when the power that is now called magic was boldly called magic, the coffins of ancient royalty were all made of that mana stone. To prevent them from being easily opened by physical force. They used the characteristic of objects made from the same mana stone chunk to recognize each other and lower their guard, making them coffins and keys."

Rossi's eyes narrowed as if recalling the past.

"That's as far as the legend goes. The key is just a symbolic meaning. It meant that the deceased wanted to open the coffin lid in Avaderia and live forever, so it was placed in their hands or in the coffin with their treasures. It meant that no one else could open it. There's only one reason why it can't be opened by someone else's hand. Before dying, the ancient royal family who possessed magic would put their own magic into the original stone that would become their coffin. So, the mana stone containing magic would only react to the coffin and key containing the same magic, and to the owner of the magic."

"So, was it Blie who got that mana stone coffin and infused it with magic, knowing that you would become like this? Does that mean Blie has magic?"

"Didn't you know? She had magic. That's why she came to me and asked for my teachings. But even if the original stone of the coffin and key is the same, if you put magic in it, it will only react to the owner of that magic, so that's not why you could open the coffin. Magic recognizes its true owner. There's no way she wouldn't realize that you were inside Blie's body."

"Anyway, it seems clear that Blie planned something to save me. I don't know why the coffin and key reacted to me, even though I don't have any magic."

From the beginning to the end, Blie.

Only by assuming that she had planned everything to save me could the doubts about this absurd situation be resolved.

Just that fact alone made me want to collapse.

"If you want to sit, sit down. Seeing your reaction, I can tell that you didn't kill Blie and put her in the coffin."

Rossi, who seemed to be losing strength in her legs as well, slowly slid a chair behind her.

"So, are you very healthy now?"

"I haven't had a medical examination, but I don't hurt anymore. I don't feel weak either."

"When did you take the medicine of living death?"

"The most likely time is when the family doctor gave me a pill to swallow just before I died. It was unusually large and difficult to swallow..."

"That must be it. If Blie stole my medicine, it must be that medicine. I made it ridiculously big."

"But the doctor and Blie are not related."

"That's for you to find out. If Blie tried to give you that medicine, the best time would be when you were weakest, just before you died."

Rossi took a sip of the cold tea with a troubled expression. My mouth was also dry, so I followed her and drank the tea. The terribly bitter tea made my mind clear.

"...Why did Blie do that?"

"..."

"Why did Blie save me? More than that, why did she want to show me the truth by giving up her body? I've felt so many emotions about her while coming here, but now it all feels useless. I really want to know about her now, and I want to wake her up and talk to her."

Rossi finished the terribly bitter tea and looked at me.

"I spent several years with her. But I don't know much about her. She always had a lot of secrets. I have to admit it. I have no choice but to help you."

For the first time, we felt a sense of solidarity and made eye contact. The anger in Rossi's eyes began to sparkle with interest.

That was when.

There was a noise outside the door that Rossi had tightly closed, and then someone knocked.

"Who is it?"

Roaldness answered without taking his eyes off Rossi and me.

"Your Highness! Someone is looking for the lady!"

"What?"

In the middle of the night. In this huge baobab tree forest. Someone is looking for Blie.

Roaldness and I exchanged glances, frozen.

"Who is it?"

"I won't tell you, in case they run away. It's a woman."

"...Olivia Lucia."

Roaldness immediately muttered the name. It was a name that flashed through my mind like lightning.

"If she's looking for Blie, not you, I'd like to meet her too."

Rossi allowed the woman to join us, who were stiff.

Roaldness looked at me as if to ask if I was okay.

I nodded quickly. If she had come all this way to this rough place in the middle of the night, it meant she was desperate, and it would be easy to get information from someone so desperate.

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Neil, with Roaldness's permission, threw open the hut door.

The front of the hut was crowded with people who had arrived late.

The people who seemed to be guards muttered about coming to this eerie forest in the middle of the night, but as soon as the dark figure turned its head, they shut their mouths.

The figure was as small as Rossi.

Neil stepped aside and the dark figure slowly approached the door.

"Lady Blie...?"

A woman with gray and brown braided hair, a wrinkled but not too wrinkled face, and a slightly stooped posture entered with a cane.

As soon as I confirmed her identity, I took a step back.

"Blie..."

The woman's voice, which had been calling me desperately without an answer, stopped abruptly.

"Oh, my God!"

The wooden cane fell to the floor with a thud, and the woman's eyes turned black.

Olivia Lucia.

She was my nanny who raised me.

"My God. My God. Oh, my God..."

She covered her mouth with her wrinkled hands and lifted her drooping eyelids. Her dark pupils were so wide that I would have thought she was dead standing up if she hadn't been gasping for breath.

"Your Highness?"

Olivia recognized me immediately.

"Your Highness, Your Highness? Adrienne? Is it you? Adrienne?"

With a face full of mixed emotions, she floundered and then burst into tears.

As if she had completely forgotten her purpose of finding Blie, she grabbed my hand that was leaning on Roaldness without hesitation.

"Do you know how shocked I was when I heard that Your Highness had passed away? This nanny cried day and night for 100 days because she felt sorry for our late lady and for Your Highness who was always sick!"

"...Nanny."

At the word 'nanny', Olivia collapsed. There was no point in asking her how she got here anymore.

"Have you seen Lady Blie? Oh, my God. What in the world is happening!"

I was also having trouble coming to my senses because of the confusion and sadness, but I couldn't help but ask.

"Nanny. How do you know Blie?"

"Your lady must have taken care of Your Highness in Avaderia!"

"You have to answer my question first, Olivia."

I knelt down beside her and grabbed her shoulders, startled by her collapse.

My nanny, who had been crying uncontrollably, looking for my mother, was momentarily stunned by my momentum and opened her mouth.

"Lady Blie, no."

Her black eyes, filled with tears again, began to shake violently.

"Lady Blie..."

At the same time, her face, which was spitting out suppressed sorrow, was distorted as if pleading with me.

"...is Your Highness' twin sister."

With those words, Olivia burst into tears that she had been holding back.

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