Chapter 75: Those Who Can Never Be Forgiven (26)

Why… how did things end up like this?

Laura quietly recalled the past as she looked at Sera, who had collapsed before her.

Lying on the ground, desperately clutching her lower abdomen.

She had never intended to remove the barrier, nor had she planned to leave Sera like this, no matter how much she disliked her.

So why had things turned out this way?

The first moment Laura resented Sera was when she had casually told her to use contraception properly, saying pregnancy was not an option.

She had even said that she was fine with a harem, yet she treated people like fools—it was infuriating.

And then, when Laura found out that Sera was pregnant, when she saw her attempting to seduce the warrior multiple times…

Feeling jealous wasn’t strange at all.

Among Natalia, Sera, and Laura, it was Laura who had been with the warrior first.

She had fallen for him first.

She had even held the wedding ceremony first.

Laura could have used their marriage as leverage to tie the warrior down.

But she couldn’t do it.

The fact that she had been the one to make the first move, to take the warrior for herself before anything else, weighed on her conscience.

Her original sin.

Laura had been the one to use any means necessary to have the warrior.

So, she had no right to complain now.

But there was another, more decisive reason Laura had lost control of her emotions.

The warrior she had loved first had been completely taken from her.

Her homeland had burned under demonic energy and was still contaminated.

Her sister and mother, with whom she had spent so many years, were dead.

After experiencing all this in succession, there was no way she could control her emotions any longer.

If anything, calling Laura a ‘dragon’ rather than a ‘dragonkin’ was more fitting now.

In terms of magic, she lacked nothing.

No matter how hard Baek Min-jun tried to break her concentration, she had already cast several spells in advance.

That idiot didn’t even realize it.

A magic bullet came flying toward her.

A deep, dark flame shaped like a demon.

But compared to Fran’s black magic, it was nothing.

The moment the barrier blocked the bullet, countless linked traps and sealing spells would activate, killing Baek Min-jun.

Diana, the woman by that name, possessed an abyss Laura couldn’t even comprehend.

But Baek Min-jun?

All he had was worthless desire.

So, in the end, this was only natural.

However, at that moment, Laura’s mind flashed back to a conversation with Kaelia.

“They say elves used to meet with dragonkin all the time… Oh, where is your homeland?”

“…It was burned down by demonic energy.”

She must have spoken out of ignorance.

Surely, if she had any awareness, she would know that this was a sensitive subject.

So Laura tried to let it go, avoiding any confrontation.

“Oh! I’m so sorry! That must have been terrible… but what about your family? Were they able to escape safely?”

“They’re dead.”

And yet, Kaelia’s next words prodded even deeper into Laura’s wounds.

Why?

Why would she ask something like that?

Her homeland was gone.

Her family—everyone she could call her own—was dead.

The more she talked with Kaelia, the more Laura was forced to acknowledge this brutal reality.

Silence.

She hated it.

Why did she have to have this conversation?

The more she thought about it, the harder it became to control her emotions.

But Kaelia just kept asking questions that forced Laura to face reality.

“The saintess said she really hates unfaithfulness, too.”

Hates unfaithfulness.

Those words from Sera surfaced in Laura’s mind.

And with them, Laura found herself unable to contain her resentment toward Sera.

I was first.

I loved him first.

I was with him first.

I married him first.

And yet, you?

You who once claimed you had no interest in the warrior, only to start seducing him later?

Now you have the audacity to say you hate unfaithfulness?

How much of the warrior do you plan to claim for yourself?

The only thing I have left is the warrior.

That single thought, that single emotion—jealousy—consumed Laura.

The magic bullet continued flying toward its target.

At the same time, Laura’s barrier began to unravel.

So did the countless spells she had prepared in advance.

And in that moment, Laura locked eyes with Sera.

A face that seemed to ask, “Why?”

No.

No, this isn’t right.

No matter how much I hate her, Sera is still my comrade.

I was supposed to protect her.

Laura struggled to maintain the barrier.

But the moment jealousy blossomed fully in her heart, she could no longer feel any mana.

“Huh…? No way, the baby—”

The barrier collapsed completely.

The magic bullet struck Sera directly in the lower abdomen.

And as Sera collapsed, cradling her belly, she gasped in pain, her final cry of despair filled with concern for the child inside her.

It was only then that Laura realized what she had done.

The saintess—who had chosen sacrifice for the warrior.

A woman who would give her life without hesitation for others.

Even if she had loved the warrior, it would have taken time for her to fully accept her feelings.

But now, she had no more time.

If only she had realized her feelings sooner, she could have spent more time with the warrior.

Maybe the pregnancy had made her more sensitive.

But none of that mattered now.

Sera was a saintess.

She must have agonized over the idea of a harem before saying she was fine with it.

Given time, she would have gradually let go of the desire to monopolize the warrior.

But Laura… she had been too impatient.

She had let her jealousy control her.

She had hated Sera.

And in the end, she had harmed not only Sera but also the child carrying the warrior’s blood.

“Hah… I really can’t use magic now, can I?”

“N-No… I didn’t mean to… No, the baby… The baby…!”

“Laura, get a hold of yourself! This isn’t your fault!”

Baek Min-jun—his wretched face twisted in amusement—stepped toward Sera.

He felt no guilt about what he had done.

His filthy eyes, which saw every woman as nothing more than a tool, lingered on Sera’s body.

Laura barely managed to let out a whisper.

Natalia, flustered, tried to calm her down.

But then, she heard what Baek Min-jun said next.

“…The baby? What, she was second-hand?”

“What the hell are you doing?! Stop! Don’t do this!”

Laura had barely choked out the words when Baek Min-jun drove his foot into Sera’s stomach.

Even unconscious, Sera whimpered, “No… the baby… please…”

Each brutal kick sent a pained moan into the air beneath the darkened sky.

“Goddamn it. That bastard managed to get the saintess pregnant before I even got to use her?”

“The baby… the baby… I… because of me… Sera… no, the warrior’s baby…”

Laura collapsed, shaking.

She desperately tried to channel her mana.

But nothing changed.

Blood pooled on the ground.

Sera’s stomach was a mess.

Laura and Natalia desperately wanted to deny it.

But there was no way Sera’s baby had survived.

“That bastard isn’t any better than me. But he got the saintess pregnant, and I’m supposed to sit here with nothing? Hah. That’s ridiculous.”

And still, Baek Min-jun continued to stomp on Sera’s body.

In his mind, thoughts of Kim Soo-hyun festered.

I failed to make the saintess mine.

But that bastard? He not only took her, but even got her pregnant?

And yet, none of the heroines in his presence looked at Kim Soo-hyun with the same disgust they had for him.

Even when he used the Mesmerizing Eye.

The way they had looked at him with sheer revulsion—he couldn’t stand it.