The Baby Villain Dreams of Conquering the World

Chapter 51

Episode 51

Whether there were people around or not, she drew demonic power from her body.

But no matter how much she infused and infused demonic power, Elena's wound wouldn't heal.

Far from healing, the bleeding wouldn't stop.

"No, Elena, Elena. Open your eyes."

"I'm... sorry. Actually, at first... gasp, gasp... I hated you, Young Lady. So I... joined this plan. But......"

"Don't say it. I told you not to!"

"How could I... kill such a lovely Young Lady? I'm truly... sorry...... Please run away......"

With those final words, Elena's head dropped with a thud.

Flora frantically brought her finger to Elena's nose. A faint breath touched her finger. Fortunately, she wasn't dead yet.

Even while relieved that Elena was alive, Flora kept feeling nauseous and distressed.

Clearly, Elena was just paying the price for her own actions, so why did her own chest feel so tight?

'Every single one of them is unsatisfactory.'

Humans, so fragile they would break with a single gesture from Mors, always made her emotional like this.

Why had she jumped down from the tree?

Why had she used demonic power, risking exposure?

Why did she give her heart so easily to the kind and weak?

Why was she so quick to lose her reason over mere humans?

'Does the reason matter?'

If she wanted to do it, she just would.

Not far away, she could see the man, who was much older than him, overwhelmingly pressuring and tormenting Basilian.

Seeing his ugly face grinning smugly, Flora unknowingly let out a wry laugh.

As if mocking her for being unable to let go of the kind and weak humans, the worst of them always appeared before her, dragging her into a whirlpool of anguish.

'Ah, really. I hate humans.'

With that final thought, the string of Flora's reason snapped with a snap.

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The suspicious man was strong.

At first, he seemed surprised when their swords clashed a few times, but then he started chuckling as if finding it amusing.

Then he began swinging his sword faster than before.

When Basilian barely managed to dodge, matching the speed, the man started toying with him, who was clearly outmatched, by thrusting his sword from unexpected directions and dragging it on.

"Is that all you've got, kid? Do you think you can protect the young ducal daughter and that woman with just that?"

But perhaps he got bored of that too, as the man simply kicked Basilian away.

The powerful kick sent him flying far, where he hit his head on a rock.

A sharp pain, dizziness, and his vision began to flicker.

Basilian felt like he was going to go mad, so pathetic did he feel lying there so disgracefully.

He had worked hard to become stronger, but he didn't want to confirm how far he still had to go in this way.

'I wanted to protect you too.'

Beyond his flickering vision, he could see Flora standing there, not running away.

"Run away......"

The blood flowing down his forehead made it hard to open his eyes. Basilian closed his eyes and desperately pleaded for her to run.

He prayed that Flora would be safe if she listened to him.

The man, who had been approaching to kill Basilian, stopped in his tracks, oppressed by the immense energy he felt behind him.

'What is this?'

It was a power so formidable that he was afraid to even turn around.

The man turned his head cautiously with a tense face and soon saw Flora enveloped in a surging black energy.

A strong wind began to blow from the direction of the Demon Forest.

As the forest seemed to sway, the castle soon became noisy.

"He was right."

The man pointed his sword at Flora with a trembling voice.

"He was right that evil has descended upon this world again."

At the man's words, Flora raised her hand. As she moved her arm, the black energy rushed toward him at a ferocious speed.

"Guh!"

The man tried to block the force with his sword, but the sword shattered. He could even feel the garden becoming clamorous, as if knights who had sensed something amiss were rushing over.

He began to move quickly to escape both the immense force attacking him and the approaching knights.

"Kuh!"

But soon, the demonic power flowing from Flora's body began to diminish. The demonic power accumulated in her body wasn't much and was quickly depleted.

Noticing this, the man smirked, twisted his dodging body, and charged toward where she was.

'If I knock her out like this, I can take her away.'

But his attack never reached Flora.

Because just before his sword could touch Flora, a chilling energy flowed from behind him and swallowed him whole.

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'My head is spinning.'

As her consciousness, which had faded far away, returned, she saw something swirling chaotically before her eyes.

'Demonic power……'

Flora let out a hollow laugh at the sight of the demonic power that should have been inside her body flowing out and wreaking havoc on her surroundings.

'This is absurd.'

To lose her reason and get so angry just because Elena collapsed......

The title of Great Demon felt worthless to her once again.

Moreover, seeing that she had used up all the demonic power she had painstakingly gathered just to deal with one human made her realize her own weakness.

'I've been comforting myself that it's okay because I'm still young, and I became arrogant, intoxicated by the past.'

If she had her full power from the past, she wouldn't have had to helplessly watch Elena collapse like this.

'Was the right answer really to go to the Demon Forest as soon as possible after all?'

Even with belated regret, nothing changed.

The demonic power Flora had painstakingly gathered had easily scattered in a moment of anger.

Flora looked at the man approaching her with murderous intent and raised her hand again.

'But even if my power is scattered, it's not to the extent that I can't deal with you.'

She didn't know who he was, but she would make him properly pay the price for daring to attack those she kept by her side.

It was the moment Flora was about to shatter the last remaining vessel of her power and draw up demonic power once more.

Suddenly, a frigid energy erupted from behind the man and immediately began to swallow his feet.

"Wh-what?!"

Before the panicked man's scream could even finish, he was engulfed by ice blooming from his toes and frozen solid.

Meow.

The gray cat, which had been sitting quietly in the tree, leaped down lightly and landed on the block of ice.

The moment the cat's paw lightly touched it, the ice block shattered into pieces as if struck by a giant hammer.

The ashen-gray cat approached Flora with light steps. Then, it meowed as if greeting her and rubbed its head against her feet.

'This is strange. This power... I've definitely felt it somewhere before.'

Her mind was foggy, and something familiar seemed to be on the verge of surfacing but didn't.

"Flo, ra!"

'Ah, Basilian.'

Flora's dazed gaze turned toward the voice calling her.

Basilian, who had barely held onto consciousness, was looking at her with a deeply furrowed brow.

"Wai, t. I'll save, you."

He seemed severely injured, breathing heavily as he struggled to approach.

"It's okay, I'll save you......"

But before Basilian could finish speaking, Flora's head dropped heavily. She had lost consciousness.

"Dammit……!"

His steps, which he was forcing with great effort, suddenly stopped with a thud.

His legs, like the assassin before him, were frozen solid in ice.

Anticipating that an unusual situation was unfolding, Basilian lifted his head.

"Flora!"

He soon spotted Flora being sucked into a black void that had appeared from behind a tree.

Basilian screamed her name with a desperation that felt like the blood vessels in his eyes would burst.

"Snap out of it, Flora! Flora!"

But one, despite his desperate calls, Flora, still unconscious, was sucked into the black void.

"No, no!"

Basilian struggled desperately, but the ice holding his feet was immovable.

Frustrated, he swore and struck it with the sword in his hand, but it was useless.

Meow.

And as if mocking him, the cat's cheerful cry was heard.

"The cat?"

Basilian, who had been striking the ice like a madman, met the gaze of the cat standing before the black void.

"Wait......"

The cat let out a long meow, as if adding insult to injury, and then with a light movement, leaped into the black void.

With the cat gone, the black void completely disappeared.

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〈They say this is called ice. Isn't it quite beautiful?〉