I Reject the villain’s ending.

Episode 44.

“Eup-eup! Pooh! Hey, let go. You! You! You!”

“Stop, Saintess, please! It’s hard to clean up if you mess up outside!”

What? You didn’t expect me to be so surprised? You’re bullshitting!

Who wouldn’t be surprised if a man you don’t know talks to your ear from behind?

I don’t care how beautiful you are, you can’t get away with this!

“Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!”

“Hahaha, it’s nice to see a saint in such good spirits, but why do I hear swearing?”

“Ugh!!!”

It’s not that I’m swearing, but I’m saying all sorts of things can’t keep out of my mouth.

It’s a shame can’t hear these colorful swear words from Siberia to the East to the West.

Iros sighs and shakes his head as I struggle to control my ranting.

“Let’s get the Templars out of the way first, you might hurt the Lady.”

“I know. It is not the behavior of knights to thrust a sword at a lady. Return to your posts, everyone.”

“Chong!”

At the crown prince’s command, the black knights sheathed their swords in unison and disappeared as silently as they had appeared.

As if to confirm that they were unaffected by anything, Iros looked around and let out a small sigh.

“Magic.”

“Magic, yes. We’re the Crown Prince’s Knights, we’re supposed to be able to do that.”

“It’s freezing. It’s just like a master or a knight to appear without a sound and scare people.”

“Hahaha. I see the priestess is quite upset.”

I tried my best to pry, but the crown prince smirked, his face unreadable.

I didn’t like that.

I’d do anything for a man who could read my mind, but he wouldn’t show me his true feelings, so I couldn’t tell what he meant.

“Perhaps my welcome was a little over the top, holy lady. I am Fritz Ronsel Cyanin Lugar, Crown Prince of the Cyanin Empire. Will you please accept my apologies?”

“Sierra Elgraton, Saint of the Lord Viata. I accept your apology.”

“Thank you.”

The crown prince smiled pleasantly, took my hand, and kissed the back of it with a squeaky sound.

“Huh? Why the sudden kiss…….?

Iros’s eyes twitched uncomfortably as he watched the crown prince casually press his lips to the back of my hand and pull away.

At that, the crown prince smiled brightly, freshly, and opened his mouth.

“I was supposed to be the one to greet you, but I had some urgent business to attend to, so I’m a little late. I apologize.”

For some reason, there was no one in sight to give me directions.

But what can I say now, it’s not like they’re here to guide me now.

Sure, the first meeting was the worst, but he didn’t seem like a bad guy.

“It’s okay.”

I said with a light shrug, and the crown prince’s golden eyes narrowed before returning.

“You’re more temperamental than I expected. Is that your nature?”

“What?”

How many times have you seen me and you’re telling me I’m good-natured?

I shook my head, giving him a suspicious glance.

“Interpretation.”

“Well, I was expecting you to be a bit of a troublemaker, given your reputation, but you’re surprisingly calm.”

“My reputation has improved quite a bit, hasn’t it?”

“Yes, it has, but the people in the palace only hear about you as a carder, not a person.”

Whispers.

The crown prince, watching us as Iros and I whispered, turned his observant gaze on us and smirked.

“The palace is large, so follow me without distraction, Saint, and the Guardian Sword.”

“Do you know me?”

“Yes. They say you’re a loyal servant who always says the right thing by the Saint’s side.”

“……?”

“You’re in a lot of trouble, aren’t you?”

“……?”

Iros blinked questioningly at the favor in the crown prince’s eyes as he looked at him.

“Didn’t we just meet for the first time today?

It was a fair question to ask. The crown prince’s eyes were moist as he looked at Iros with a wistfulness

I looked back and forth between the crown prince and Iros, and it clicked. There was a flash of light and something clicked in my head.

“Huh……!”

“Saint, did you just have a strange thought, somehow I feel goosebumps on my neck and arms?”

Iros’ eyes twitched slightly as he asked in a low voice, his face ominous.

I hastily hid Iros behind me and shouted at the crown prince.

“Our child is not yours!!!”

“……?!”

The crown prince looked puzzled as if he didn’t know what the hell I was talking about, and after a moment, his face went blank with shock.

Iros, meanwhile, unable to follow the dialogue, blinked at me and the crown prince’s contorted faces, not yet understanding.

And Iros soon realized, too, as he whipped his head around and stared at the crown prince in horror.

“……!!”

“No! I’m not into that sort of thing!”

“Woe, the crown prince is sodomizing……. Why did you look at me with those eyes, because you’re such…….”

“No!!!”

Seeing that, the crown prince shook his head vigorously and denied it, causing Iros to clutch my collar in shock.

But both Iros and I had already moved away from him.

The crown prince pressed his temples together, looking like he had a headache.

“When did you get to that point, huh, I’m getting the strangest misunderstandings in my life.”

“Then why are you looking at my child like that and acting like that!”

I shouted, and the crown prince gritted his teeth with a red face.

“Saint, will you please refrain from saying things that others might misunderstand?”

“Misunderstand?”

After sending such a hot glare at my child?

“I felt sympathy for Lord Iros, who must have suffered at your side.”

“Why would the Crown Prince of the Empire sympathize with my little pinkie? Explain.”

“It is-”

At my glare, the crown prince fell silent.

Then he murmured, his eyes strangely sunken.

“I once had a man like that. An ungrateful, self-absorbed, perverse man.”

“And why are you telling me that……?”

You’re the one who’s secretly offended?

So I’m guessing you’re feeling sympathy for Iros because you’ve been bullied by someone like me.

I’m still not convinced.

My pinkie should be pretty.

I don’t think there’s anyone out there who doesn’t appreciate her good looks.

“We’ve been chatting too long. His Majesty the Emperor will be waiting for us, so let’s get back to the real world. Follow me.”

The crown prince had lived in the imperial palace all his life, so he knew his way around the city and led the way to Al-Reality without missing a beat.

His red hair swayed with each step, his long braids dancing in the wind, and I thought to myself.

‘A crown prince, yes. His name was Freehi. How could I forget?

“In The Mad Saint, the first person Sierra killed when she took up residence in the imperial palace was the crown prince.

He was a man of great ability, gentle and strong, and had been touted as the next emperor who would always think of the people.

“I killed him, faking an accident.

Knowing that the Black Knights were always protecting him, he let down all his guard to keep them apart.

In the name of ‘lover’.

[Sierra, despite being a saint, broke the taboo and became a lover to the crown prince and slaughtered him].

Yes, that was the story.

She whispered fake love, laughed, and possessed everyone, biting everyone, killing the crown prince, and then burning his body under the guise of an accident.

“…….”

Why?

Even though it never happened, my heart has been beating painfully since I first heard the crown prince’s voice.

A tingling pain numbs my senses.

I don’t know why I feel so guilty and indebted, even though it only happened in a novel.

I don’t know how long I walked until I reached the ornate, high gates.

“Here we are. This is the real world. The Emperor is waiting for you, so let’s go right in.”

“Yes.”

“Yes.”

Iros and I nodded nervously.

The crown prince gestured to the knight standing guard.

“Open the gate. We have an important guest who is scheduled to see your mother.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

As the servant spoke inside, the ornate, heavy doors slowly swung open.

Through the cracks, red carpets and tall pillars were visible.

In the center of it all, I could see the Emperor and Empress, their kindly faces seated on a large throne and rows of chairs.

My blue eyes widened.

The crown prince stared at my faltering form and held out his hand.

“Come in.”

“…Yes.”

My trembling fingertips touched the crown prince’s elongated hand.

* * *

Meanwhile, Iros, as usual, stood like a shadow behind Sierra, staring intently at the crown prince’s hand that clasped her trembling one.

Somehow, I wanted to break the crown prince’s hand that wrapped around her small, white hand.

Woosh.

“……?”

Suddenly, I felt a tingling in my chest. I put my hand over my heart and looked down.

‘Is this jealousy? No, it feels a little different.’

As he shook his head, the crown prince escorting Sierra strode across the red carpet to the center of the room.

Iros, distracted from the pain in his heart, followed them down the aisle.

‘I don’t like him, that crown prince.

How dare he frighten my precious Sierra from the first moment he saw her, and the knights drew their swords.

‘He kisses the back of my hand.

A saint is a treasure of the Divine Kingdom, a princess in the eyes of the empire, and yet she is constantly belittled.

It was more than a little annoying.

If Sierra hadn’t held still, he would have flipped her over.

Thus began the prelude to Iros’s jealousy of the crown prince.

Sierra finally made the long road and arrived before the Emperor and Empress.

Sierra greeted them as she had been taught, lifting the ends of her skirts slightly and bowing low enough to be appropriate for her status as a holy woman.

“Sierra Elgraton, Saint of the Viatha, greeting Your Majesty the Emperor and Empress,” she said.

“It is an honor to meet the subject of all the rumors been swirling around the Empire lately, my dear.

A wicked, wicked woman.

On the other hand, a great saint who helps her people and those in need and destroys evil.

Sierra is the one who is being judged by both.

‘Hande…….’

No matter what she does, Sierra, who is always the center of gossip in the empire, seems more modest than I thought.

‘She’s a quieter woman than I thought.

When the crown prince, Fritz, suggested should be invited to the imperial palace to celebrate her achievements, I was a little worried, but it turned out to be normal.

She wasn’t as fierce as rumored, nor was she rude or disrespectful.

He didn’t seem to be the kind of person who would go out of his way to misbehave.