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LXXXVII.

Princess Olivia.

Princess of the Alfonso Empire and a candidate who passed the candidate competency evaluation.

As a result, her stock among the nobles, especially within the Alfonso Empire, was rising without end.

She was poised to become the first and youngest empress of the Alfonso Empire.

If only this problem hadn’t exploded.

no. To be more precise, the problem has already occurred and would have happened if the problem had not surfaced.

Because she was a candidate, she was not completely detained like the royal family.

I was able to move around the academy freely, and it was also possible to go out and meet people in the name of training.

So I could feel it more clearly. The way people look at themselves has changed from before.

That dark, base anger and contempt gaze was something she had never received in her life.

No, it happened once.

Candidate from a commoner named Gray.

From Olivia’s point of view, Gray was a commoner who was lowly and inferior to the pet cat she raised herself.

Not all candidates are the same.

I thought so.

Until Lina Inverse’s shocking incompetence was confirmed during the candidate competency evaluation.

The reason I approached Gray that day was no different.

Lina Inverse.

It was because the genius wizard followed Gray to such a strange degree.

However, what came back was a cruel and cold treatment that made me feel incontinent.

If only I had been exposed to Gray’s life for just a few more minutes, I would have been rude enough to get my skirt wet in front of the other candidates.

But what’s even more unfair to Olivia is that she can’t take revenge on Gray, who wouldn’t mind tearing her to death.

Because Olivia was there too.

At the scene where six middle-level demons and one high-level demon were slaughtered by Gray and his women.

The audience might not have felt it because they were far away, but all the candidates waiting close to the stadium could feel it.

The aftermath of the power that Gray’s women exuded as they raged.

The fear that she had barely suppressed after being indirectly exposed rose from deep within her lungs and attacked Olivia.

And that day, I became so incontinent that my underwear got wet.

Fortunately, the other candidates present were in a more serious condition than Olivia, so she did not become a laughing stock.

How could Olivia touch Gray, who was so cherished by such beings?

But even if she couldn’t punish him right now, she decided not to forget this resentment(?) and promised herself that she would pay him back someday.

however,

“Is it okay for that woman to maintain the position of candidate?”

“That’s right. What if they plot something evil again?”

“You didn’t like me from the beginning? How much did they abuse the princess just because she was a candidate!”

In the past, things that would have waggled their non-existent tails to get even a little closer to you, are now gossiping behind your back.

And that too loudly, as if to be heard openly.

In this situation, Olivia didn’t just sit still and be absorbed. I tried to turn the situation around.

Not only did she actively utilize her status as the princess, but she also actively utilized her beautiful appearance and the advantages of being a woman.

But all of Olivia’s attempts were futile. No, she was thinking wrong in the first place.

Olivia did not realize that the problem of the Plague Lost was not something that could be resolved simply by a few nobles gathering their opinions.

Olivia, it would be more accurate to say that she was the only one who was unaware of it.

And it was only at the moment when the time had passed and he stood in the stadium receiving cheers and applause and faced the malicious gaze of so many people,

‘ah!’

I realized that this was not simply a diplomatic issue or a political agenda.

[We had to lose our precious people just 60 years ago. It was also caused by a plague created by the emperor of the empire.]

“Woowoowoo―.”

That moment.

At the moment when tens of thousands of malicious intentions coalesced and rained down on her and her family, Olivia felt as if her vision was becoming hazy due to steam.

I was distracted for a split second, and before I knew it, Dean Hu had finished speaking.

‘What happened?’

While Princess Olivia was unable to understand the situation, a woman who became a hot topic because she was a dragon lord and volunteered to be Gray’s slave approaches.

Under Gray’s orders.

“Call. The Kinship.”

And along with an unprecedented magic, people who are only ‘family members’ in name but did not come to the candidate competency evaluation appear in front of Princess Olivia one after another.

The funny thing is that there were a lot of people around her who could be called family, but Olivia didn’t know more than half of them. And Olivia’s anxiety grew even more as the magic summoned blood vessels she did not know about.

That uneasy premonition soon came true. Afterwards, by the dean’s declaration.

Princess Olivia couldn’t lift a finger as the purple energy, which seemed ominous at first glance, was rushing towards her.

And when that energy engulfed her, Princess Olivia felt that something was wrong.

It’s not just that it’s painful,

‘S-stop!’

Like other blood relatives, he was feeling so much pain that he couldn’t even scream.

This is because the traces of power he received from God as he became a candidate were competing with the curse of the Walpurgis Witch, which developed through God’s advice.

‘I’d rather kill you, Lord!’

Olivia, who was trying so hard to live, silently begged to be killed, and the power struggle going on inside her was at a level she couldn’t handle.

No, no one would have been able to handle it.

If you’re human.

To put it simply, it can be compared to knights from two empires clashing with all their might in a small town.

The village is Olivia’s body, and the knights of the two empires are the two powers of divinity and curse.

Princess Olivia was struggling in so much pain that she couldn’t even scream.

The thing that saved her was unexpected,

“Princess Olivia? Why is this like this?”

It was gray. Gray’s interest aroused the witch’s interest and soon succeeded in attracting the interest of May, who helped with the curse.

“Hmm. It’s a clash of powers.”

“Yes. It’s a clash of powers of similar magnitude. brother. It must hurt~.”

“Is it okay if this is like this?”

The witch calmly nodded when asked, pointing to Princess Olivia, whose eyes had turned red with blood vessels bursting and whose mouth was wide open with great force. Her expression was filled with extreme pain and fear, making her face look like she had aged in an instant.

“Honestly, I don’t know what will happen. If you are unlucky, you may not be able to withstand the aftereffects of the force and your body may break.”

“Huh? no no. Whatever happens to this year is none of my business.”

“Yes? then… … ?”

“Witch. Yes, you. Are you okay? This is resisting the curse, right? If you resist the curse, won’t it bounce back to the caster?”

“Ah!”

Gray, who is worried about the witch, not Princess Olivia, is faced with Princess Olivia, who is in pain due to her terrible appearance, a sight that would normally make anyone feel sorry for her.

After hearing Gray’s complete and one-sided concern, the witch smiles with a melting expression. A smile that is even more attractive because we don’t see it often.

“I’m fine.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

“Is this really true?”

“Hoho. It’s really okay. If what I had manifested was simply the Walpurgis Curse, I would not have been able to compete with the traces of divinity remaining in the candidate’s body.”

“Then?”

“Yes. I manifested this, but I follow their will. Perhaps that is a small error resulting from a lack of communication.”

The screams of those who are not only forced out of their bodies by the divine power that all humans have, but also transformed into bodies that are rejected by the divine power.

At the center of the commotion that was scary and even sad.

The witch explains that the excruciating pain that causes a human being to silently cry out, ‘Please kill me!’ and the collision of such tremendous force that the human body is likely to be broken alive, are ‘small errors.’

After hearing the witch’s explanation, Princess Olivia became angry even though she was in extreme pain.

In the center of the screams and pain, Princess Olivia was trembling and shedding bloody tears.

From the perspective of Gray and those watching, it was a short time, but for Princess Olivia, an eon had passed.

Huuu.

Divine power burst out from the witch’s body. Like a dam that broke its embankment.

“Ha. I’m almost used to it now.”

[Is that what I’m going to say?]

The God of Time, who managed to hear Gray’s mutterings, responded playfully. But the joke ended there.

The God of Time, who descended in the body of a witch, revealed his presence without hiding it, as if claiming that the fleeting moment in which he showed Gray a mischievous smile was an illusion.

Silence falls in a space that was filled with all kinds of screams and shouts, someone’s vomit, feces and urine, and the fishy scent of blood.

Heavy and heavy.

[Are you feeling unfair?]

And then he asked that question to Olivia, the candidate and princess.

Princess Olivia did not answer. No, I couldn’t answer.

The moment I heard God’s voice, the feelings of injustice and resentment that I had felt until a moment ago disappeared as if washed away, leaving only fear.

When the division commander asks the private, ‘Is there anything difficult?’, tens of thousands of times more fear comes over me.

Princess Olivia wanted to lie and deny it, saying it wasn’t like that, but she couldn’t.

[I said let the curse be applied, but cause and effect is opposed, so you suffer?]

The goddess who borrowed the body of a witch begins by saying that it is not her fault.

[This curse is a decision made solely by living beings in this dimension without the intervention of the devil or gods, so it is not a matter for me, a god, to intervene.]

[however.]

[Regardless of the method, I would like to organize this part because it is subject to the provision that candidates who pass the candidate competency evaluation must be protected by ‘setting’.]

[Candidate Olivia de Prime Alfonso.]

Silence falls around the stadium at the sound of God’s voice. The cold and chilling silence, like a courtroom before the verdict is announced.

[The curse engraved on your body is temporarily suspended. The curse will lie dormant while the candidate maintains his position.]

[If you abandon your position as a candidate or take actions that are not suitable for it, the hidden curse will immediately manifest and engulf your body.]

This was the part that the God of Time ‘announced’.

However, there was an additional comment that only I, Arcana, and Olivia herself, who were close to Princess Olivia, could hear.

[You have to try really hard. The devil won’t be able to urge you to betray like other traitors.]

[Why? This is because the energy that is wrapped around your body right now is a high-level curse that not even the devil or those above him can do anything about.]

[so.]

[Put aside those immature thoughts in your head right now and do your best. We don’t know when we will retrieve the candidate’s title and gift from you.]

The God of Time, who smiled brightly and made an eerie threat in a soft voice before disappearing.

Those who remained were silent for a while.

Including Olivia, the person involved, myself, Dean Hu, and even the Arcana.