The Baddest Villainess Is Back - Chapter 104
Singh was an exceptional human being who, despite working as a torturer, possessed the healing Abyss, and his appearance was very bizarre.
He was a man with severe burns. His skin was melted off, a mess, and it seemed his vocal cords were also damaged in the process, as his voice always had a metallic, gravelly roughness mixed in it.
Anyway, he was quite a dreadful sight.
‘So he was originally a priest.’
Well, she had guessed as much.
The healing Abyss was something most who have returned to the temple possess.
The stronger the divine power, the stronger the Abyss’s power.
The Abyss is usually awakened individually due to innate talents.
But there’s one exception. There’s an Abyss that can be obtained even without talent, and that’s the healing Abyss.
Even so, not everyone can receive it. One must have divine power to return to the temple, and only after becoming a child of the gods there can one receive it.
“It’s quite regrettable that I can’t see the face of the one who helped me.”
She had wanted to see what kind of face he had.
“Soon you will be able to see. Just relax and after a good night’s sleep, you’ll feel better when you wake up.”
“Well, that’s something to look forward to.”
Roxelyn responded leisurely, slowly tilting her head.
‘That reminds me, there was a priest who had been sentenced to burning at the stake.’
The crime was clearly…
‘Because he dabbled in forbidden sorcery.’
Execution was usually by hanging or beheading.
Hanging was common for nobility, while beheading was for those outside of nobility.
Burning at the stake was a punishment reserved for those who reached out to evil darkness, such as taboo black magic or sorcery.
‘It’s miraculous he survived that…’
Instead of cherishing that tenacious life, he became a torturer who would never see the light again.
It made sense why his character would turn sour.
“But you mentioned an imperial decree earlier. Am I not in the ducal residence?”
“It is as Your Ladyship guessed—this is the Imperial Palace. You collapsed on your way here after receiving a command to present yourself to His Majesty… Do you not remember?”
Roxelyn frowned.
‘Now that I think about it, that’s right.’
She gently rubbed her temples with her palm. It seemed her mind had been elsewhere lately.
“How many days has it been?”
“It’s been three days today.”
“…My father must be in a frenzy.”
Roxelyn felt tired as she remembered soothing Zerti, who had dashed out like a tragic heroine.
“Then, I shall take my leave now. There wasn’t much I could do except restore some of your strength. If you need anything, there’s a bell rope next to the bedside table. Please feel free to pull it any time.”
Roxelyn nodded at the man’s explanation.
Revenge or whatever it was, she needed to recover first to do anything.
Ka-chak.
The door closed.
‘What remains is the case of the disappearances.’
It was about time for the perpetrator of the disappearances case to come forward.
The perpetrator of the disappearance case and the arson case were linked at the root.
If the arson cases had started to occur, it meant the perpetrator of the disappearances case would also start to make moves.
‘I wonder how the epidemic is going.’
It was when Roxelyn sighed out of frustration.
Click.
The sound of the doorknob turning was heard.
Roxelyn stopped all movement.
Being unable to see had become an irrevocable trauma for Roxelyn.
The torturer ‘Singh’ had a very nasty personality.
He enjoyed the fear of prisoners who could not see.
And Roxelyn had always tried hard not to give him that pleasure.
Someone who had slowly approached stopped right beside Roxelyn’s bed.
“……”
There was silence, and no action was taken, not even the slightest rustle.
Then, Roxelyn felt a large, warm hand on her forehead.
The hand slowly caressed her cheek and seemed to tidy up her disheveled hair before slowly moving away.
‘Who is it?’
Roxelyn pretended to be asleep to avoid revealing that she was awake.
The cautious touch didn’t feel harmful, which was why.
“Roxelyn….”
The moment that person’s hand grabbed Roxelyn’s, she couldn’t help but be surprised.
This situation was overlapping with the scene that now flashed through her mind, and the voice that now echoed in her ears.