I Abandoned the Male Lead Who Cheated with the Villainess - Chapter 60
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Ivonne, who never omitted using her wand even when casting spells for children, wondered if someone had noticed her reversing time in front of the bakery. It would have been hard to miss the large column of light that appeared.
The hastily cast spell to erase the situation and turn back time might have been imperfect, potentially allowing those with keen magical sensitivity or prowess to feel a sense of déjà vu or unease.
And if there was anyone in the original story with magical abilities rivaling Ivonne’s, it would be the villaines, Celestia Odell Cyand.
‘Could it be that Celestia attacked me on Yucoralini Island because of this?’
Ivonne swallowed nervously.
It wasn’t far-fetched to consider that Celestia might know that she was an ancient wizard. Celestia, ambitious and proud of her magical abilities, harbored inferiority towards Ivonne in the original story for having Blitzen, a power she did not have. Learning that Ivonne was actually an ancient wizard, it made sense for Celestia to want her gone.
Yet, Ivonne quickly dismissed this thought.
‘No, that can’t be right. If that were the case, she wouldn’t have remained quiet until now.”
If rumors of Ivonne being an ancient wizard had spread, it would have happened much earlier, and Celestia wouldn’t have stopped at a single attempt to eliminate her.
‘Then how does anyone know I’m an ancient wizard?’
At that moment, the face of one person flashed through Ivonne’s mind, sending a chill down her spine. It was Johann, the head of the Internal Affairs department, and the aide to the Crown Prince standing before her.
‘Yesterday… when he brought Rix, I panicked and used magic without my wand. But Johann didn’t say anything to me then…’
Moreover, it was common knowledge that the Emperor and the Crown Prince were at odds.
‘There’s no way the Crown Prince’s close aide would bring information to the Emperor that could benefit him.’
While Ivonne found it hard to believe Johann would do such a thing, she recalled the saying that the palace walls and floors have eyes and ears.
‘I can’t fully trust the department head.’
The realization made Ivonne’s head spin again. <Childhood Husband> was supposed to be a daily healing romance, but the relationships between the characters were intricately complex and daunting.
“Right, when did the Crown Prince know? That this woman is an ancient wizard.”
Emperor Arnold asked with a gleam in his green eyes, as if about to clap his hands, just as the murmurs in the crowd began to subside. His words were akin to throwing logs onto a dying fire.
At that moment, Prince Herix’s purple eyes clashed sharply with Arnold’s green eyes in the air.
One corner of Herix’s mouth twisted bizarrely, as if to say ‘dare you’. Arnold received Herix’s irreverent gaze calmly, his face assessing ‘what will you do about it?’
The Emperor’s green eyes, not having the ‘Imperial Mark’ of red or blue, had an inferiority complex. Despite being born of the empress and growing up less than a bastard due to his father’s jealousy, Herix despised his father, the Emperor, who did not have the mark, yet ultimately seized the greatest power.
Amid this tumult, people were panic-stricken. It was as if they were collateral damage in a battle of titans. They merely hoped not to get caught in the father-son conflict started by the Emperor, hoping the Crown Prince would coolly reveal knowing the existence of the ancient wizard, thus ending the dispute.
Certainly, the one who thought they were the most doomed was undoubtedly Ivonne.
‘…Can we discuss this without me for a moment?’
Ivonne truly wished to vanish at that moment, as she was caught between the Emperor and the Crown Prince.
Meanwhile, Arnold, despite receiving a deadly glare from Herix, which would have made anyone else’s eyes roll back in their head, appeared perfectly fine. Indeed, an Emperor was an Emperor for a reason.
“Not to waste an ancient wizard on a mere handmaid’s duties has indeed been on my mind. A good opportunity has presented itself, Ivonne of the Internal Affairs.”
Startled at her name being called out, Ivonne hastily looked up at the Emperor then quickly bowed her head.
“I humbly accept your command,” Ivonne said, pressing a hand to her chest and bowing solemnly. Her attempt, though a bit clumsy, did not detract from her grace and beauty.
The Emperor, too, seemed to find it agreeable, as Arnold smiled benevolently, a stark contrast to his earlier demeanor towards Herix.
“I hereby appoint you as the rightful master of the Southern Magic Tower,” he declared solemnly.
To be appointed as the master of the Southern Magic Tower was to acknowledge Ivonne as one of the empire’s best wizards. Without even undergoing the proper examinations.
“The, the Southern Magic Tower?”
“Is it true that she was appointed as the master of the Southern Magic Tower?”
The crowd’s faces turned to shock once more.
