The Baddest Villainess Is Back - Chapter 31
“Roxelyn! Where are you going?!”
“Hey, are you crazy!”
Roxelyn halted at the rough pull from behind.
Zerti, his face pale and rigid, watched her approach and stumbled as he retreated.
“Let me go.”
“What do you mean, let go! When he’s like this, it’s best just to lock him up here until he calms down…!”
Ian Bellion yanked Roxelyn back roughly.
Despite her grimace, Roxelyn stood her ground.
“It’s because you always avoid it that Father can’t control his power.”
Roxelyn stated curtly.
“What…?”
“Let me go.”
With a brisk utterance, Roxelyn strode towards Zerti.
“Don’t come.”
Zerti growled fiercely, but his constricted pupils revealed his intense tension.
“Coming close any further will just make me slip my control…”
“If you don’t control it, Father, I will die.”
Roxelyn declared.
Zerti’s shoulders shuddered violently.
Splashing, hissing!
Her shoes began to melt.
“Don’t come…!”
His voice was reduced, fearful of his own uncontrollable power harming her.
‘This is an Abyss’s rampage.’
As Roxelyn stepped closer, her shoes began to dissolve in the dangerous, purple venom.
‘Abyss,’ also known as an extraordinary ability, was a special power that awakens at random and was named after the ancient word for ‘abyss’ due to its mysterious origin.
People with the Abyss possess distinct powers.
‘I knew Father had an ability, but…’
Not this.
She’d never seen him use it.
Some Abysses were hard to control, particularly in children or adults with overwhelming powers. They wore accessories made from soul stones to suppress their abilities.
Zerti wore three bracelets on each arm, piercings above his earrings, and seven rings. Even more than Duke Bellion, known for his numerous trinkets.
But still, when Zerti’s emotions peaked, his power uncontrollably seeped out.
Born with an awakened Abyss, Zerti was seen as an omen, having killed the midwife and his mother at birth.
He was lonely and isolated, choosing solitude to ensure no one else got hurt.
“Don’t come…”
His voice trembled.
He couldn’t believe it.
While everyone fled in terror, his daughter calmly approached, stepping over the lethal poison emanating from him, as if in a dream.
“Father, I honestly don’t mind dying.”
Zerti’s eyes widened as he heard Roxelyn’s declaration.
“I don’t have much attachment to life. I’ve already died once.”
Roxelyn didn’t even spare a glance at the venom dissolving her shoes.
Instead, it was Zerti and those behind him who were visibly anxious.
“You know, Father.”
Roxelyn began cautiously.
“There’s something I’ve been curious about.”
Strictly speaking, the man before her wasn’t her real father.
If one were to be precise, yes.
There was no one left to ask this question.
One can’t question the dead.
Yet, Roxelyn felt a sense of unease.
If this man from the parallel world was really similar to the person from her own world…
Why did her father in her own world die in the first place?
‘If my father’s Abyss is venom, then he should have been immune to all poisons…’
Why didn’t he notice the cowardly trick Lady Carmel used?
“If someone who is immune to all poisons dies from poison… how could that be?”
What could be the reason for someone who should never die to end up dead?
At Roxelyn’s question, Zerti hesitated.
After a long pause, with a meaningful look, Zerti finally spoke,
“…Perhaps it’s because the person’s body gave up on detoxifying the poison.”
At Zerti’s words, this time Roxelyn came to a halt.
Right.
It was somewhat the answer she had expected.
Roxelyn cast her gaze downward, exhaling a short breath.
When would an immortal, flawless in their immortality, meet death?
Perhaps it would be when the immortal chooses to give up on living.
When every cell in their body decides to cease functioning.
Or when they themselves decide to embrace death.
‘Why?’
Roxelyn wanted to ask.
But there was no one to ask among the dead, so she remained silent.
