What the Hero Wanted Was Me

Chapter 17

Chapter 17.

“You’re not hurt, are you?”

Aine hurriedly took a look at Aria, who had come out of the box, to see if she was hurt somewhere.

Aria seemed taken aback by the sudden appearance of Aine.

When I touched and examined her whole body, she found that Arya had no wounds on her body. Fortunately, it was Aine who felt relieved.

“Where have those bastards gone?”

It was clear that the guys Aria had hidden in her box were in this alley, if not nearby, so Aine asked for their location, using a harsh expression unsuitable for a princess.

“I went that way… But how did her sister find out about this place…?”

Arya asked, pointing her finger in the direction the assassins left.

She wondered what she found herself hiding in her box at the end of an alley.

“It’s just… A feeling…”

Aine just followed the direction her body led her, so she found Aria faster than Lenny, who started earlier. Her fate seemed inevitable.

“Don’t worry, I came with the dragon. I’ll be able to get out of here soon.”

Because she saw her destiny, she honestly had no confidence that she would survive here, but her first priority was to ease Aria’s worries.

She was Aine, who had been in a dark box for a long time, stroking Arya’s face, whose expression was not good because her body and mind were tired, and walking down the alley holding Arya’s hand to meet her warriors.

“…”

As she saw her Aine who came to save her, Aria became even more saddened by the fact that there was nothing she could do alone. She said she needed a change and that moment would come soon.

“Wait.”

ㅡ clap clap clap…

At the curve of the alley, I heard the sound of someone running, and the footsteps seemed to be running out of time.

“Damn it…”

The assassin knew that if he failed this mission, his family’s life would not be guaranteed, so the situation was more urgent than anyone else’s.

‘Where did that b*tch go…!’

Feeling her wrath at Arya, who was the size of a rat and ran away, she stirred and ran through her alley.

If she ran around like that, it was natural for her to stand out.

ㅡKudangtang..!!

“Ai-san.. What is it..!!”

Tumbling over something jutting out of the alley, he shouted in anger, only to realize he hadn’t done the right thing.

“Woe..Princess..!”

Seeing Aine’s face while clinging to her land, the assassin’s expression faded and she realized that she was cornered.

“Who gave you permission to speak?”

Aine was more serious than ever and radiated dignity.

The dignity of an emperor.

Aine, who would have led the golden age of the empire had he not died in the original work, asked the assassin lying on the ground.

“What is this knife?”

“That…That’s…!”

The sword that the assassin fell and missed had a dragon crest symbolizing the 2nd prince. It was Aine who came to understand her fate by looking at that sword.

The reason why Henry tried to kill Arya instead of targeting himself, she realized why Arya was in her danger. The intention of the first prince Henry to preoccupy the position of heir by attacking the second prince, the first princess, and the second princess at the same time.

‘It’s all my fault.’

She was Aine who thought that she was not strong enough to protect anyone and that it was because she did not care for her most precious brother.

“I…Please save me…! I didn’t do it because I wanted to…!”

Family. The assassin screamed that he had no choice but to do this because his family was being held hostage.

“I also have a family member held hostage.”

If you tried to kill me, prepare for death. The assassin’s body was engulfed in fire as he spat out those words.

“Sa..Save me..!!”

The assassin shouted in agony, feeling the pain of being burned all over, let out a wailing sound that resonated throughout the alley.

“Let’s go. We don’t have time.”

“…Yeah”

As Aine left the burning assassin and walked out of the alley, she held Aria’s hand tightly.

She had a time limit, her destiny, and that time was running out.

•••

ㅡ Uh.. Ugh..!!

What came suddenly from the alley was a man’s scream. How painful it was that the groan resonated over and over again.

‘What’s happening..?’

It was clear that something bad had happened, so I ran in the direction of the sound. It didn’t take long to arrive because it echoed nearby.

ㅡ Hurray..

When we arrived, there was a body of a person who had been burned to death by an intense fire.

‘Did the princess do this…?’

Since Sera thought it inefficient to burn people to death, it was automatically assumed that Princess Aine had done it.

‘Why?’

I wondered how to dispose of the assassin in a way that resonated, but that didn’t matter, so I followed the trail on the floor.

“The Princess?”

After a while, what I saw was Aine holding Arya’s hand tightly. She heard me and looked behind her, and I could tell when I met her eyes.

‘He accepted his fate.’

It was at this moment that I understood why the assassin was burned to death. She was telling Arya. That the world they live in is like this. The world Lenny desperately hid from Arya.

“Lenny…”

Ariana must have noticed Aine’s change of heart, and she was making something indescribable expression.

‘Do I have to follow my fate like this?’

The passing worries gave me a lot of thoughts. Is it fate because fate is predetermined? I couldn’t agree with that.

“Butler, I have a request.”

Aine was talking to me as if she had made up her mind. Asking for something in this situation was flagrantly bad.

“For now, I’ll listen.”

“Even if I’m gone, please take good care of Arya.”

Aine’s words were that she wanted to take Aria with her anyway since she died herself. She escapes from the imperial castle and far away from the prince’s reach.

“Why is my sister dying…”

Since it was the first time Aria had heard of it, she didn’t seem to understand, but she recognized that the atmosphere was serious, so she told Aine.

‘What is fate?’

Is she trying to take someone for her brother like that? The goddess who brought me into this world and created this situation had nothing to her liking from beginning to end.

“Aine, should I be able to live well without her older sister…?”

She couldn’t bear to see Aine, who already thought she was dead.

“No one dies.”

I was the one who changed most of the original story. The word fate didn’t suit me, and I didn’t like it.

“I will make it.”

If people who didn’t know me saw it, they might have criticized me saying, ‘That’s a crazy bastard,’ but I, who knew myself well, was different.

Lenny keeps his words. I was myself in this world.

“Pu-sup..”

Hearing that, Aine couldn’t hold back her laughter. I couldn’t understand which part was funny.

“Does anyone actually say that..?”

“Sorry Lenny..”

Aine was laughing at my sincerity. Seeing that Aria, who was turning her head beside her, raised the corners of her mouth, Aria seemed to be laughing at me too, but I didn’t have the slightest bit of shame.

Because it was ‘seriously’.

Still, thanks to my words, the gloomy atmosphere seemed to be ventilated.

“Looks like I’ve been very upset. I’m sorry.”

Aine, who had lost her vitality in her eyes, regained vitality, and she seemed to have returned to her usual princess state.

“But please think about the request”

Certainly, the imperial castle was not a space suitable for Arya. Especially in the case of Hwangseong without me, there was a variable called Henry, so she couldn’t guarantee Arya’s safety.

‘Let’s think about it later.’

Abandoning her thoughts about Arya’s place, Lenny continued walking in front of her to exit her alley.

No one knows the whereabouts of fate yet.

•••

‘This crazy..!!’

The man was running down his alley, as if being chased by something.

There was no one behind it, but they were aware that there was something unknown.

Three out of five people had disappeared by an unknown entity in the alley.

Of the assassins who took the family hostage, there are only two left.

Only one person had to injure the 2nd princess or threaten her life to protect all five members of the family.

ㅡ Uh.. Ugh..!!

While he was putting his head on that thought, a man’s scream resounded in the alley.

There is only one person left.

He started running through the alleys to find the missing 2nd Princess.

‘Where…Where are you…’

He ran desperately because his family was at stake, and he regretted even taking part in gambling.

‘If I hadn’t bet my family that day…’

After that, he lived a life no different from Prince Henry’s slave.

I killed, dealt with, and got rid of people as I was told.

The reason why he did not die was because of his family, but he did not know that Henry had already dealt with his family.

That’s why he desperately moved for the family he believed were alive.

How much time has passed.

I could see the figures of three people far ahead in the alley.

ㅡ Creepy.

Behind him, he felt an unknown sense of intimidation. Realizing that he would soon disappear without form, the assassin gathered his last strength and threw the dagger.

The sword with the dragon on it flew straight toward the place where the three were.

‘Sorry, everyone’

Feeling sorry for his family, he disappeared from the world.

“Ah..No way..!!”

After destroying the assassin, Sera couldn’t block the sword he threw with his last strength.

Sera could only scream as he watched the sword fly away, and he blamed himself for that day.

ㅡPoo-wook!

Dark red blood flowed down the floor and soaked the ground.

A sword with a dragon on it left an indelible scar on someone.