Chapter 150
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“Ugh……”
Psyche clutched her forehead and leaned against the wall. Perhaps because it was her first time using her power, she felt dizzy. Fortunately, the dizziness soon disappeared.
However, she felt no joy at having successfully escaped from that mansion. Though her ability had manifested, she realized she couldn’t properly handle even 30% of the power she possessed.
She had known it when casting the barrier. The power within her was clearly abundant, but the power she could actually use was limited.
This was just intuition, but…… it would probably take at least a month until she could handle her power at 100%.
‘They say life is full of unexpected turns……’
She had been happy to manifest her ability about 20 days earlier than in the original work, but was this the side effect? Unlike the female protagonist who could fully control her power from the moment it manifested, she couldn’t handle even half of hers.
“Haa, what am I supposed to do with this?”
Moreover, her main abilities were only concealment and recovery. She remembered that the original female protagonist had manifested as many as five main abilities, but she only had two. And neither was an offensive type.
What could she do with such power? If war broke out, how would she stop it, and how would she prevent the Emperor’s assassination?
If there was any silver lining, it was that the power she held was so immense that she appeared strong on the outside.
‘I just need to hide the fact that I can’t handle even half of the power I possess.’
Then they wouldn’t dare touch her carelessly.
Having organized her thoughts, Psyche pushed herself off the wall. There was no time to be disheartened. She needed to do what she could. Even if she couldn’t fully control her power, she could still rescue Ruon. And she had to.
She closed her eyes and focused on the power flowing inside her body. Her body floated in the air before gently landing somewhere.
Psyche looked around with evident tension. There was no one in Zephyros’s office. ……Could he be in the torture chamber? She gritted her teeth and teleported.
Space twisted, and she arrived right in front of the torture chamber. She was just about to hurriedly fling open the door.
“……Phrena?”
Standing in front of the door, as if he had just been about to leave the torture chamber, was a familiar face. Honey-golden hair and ocean-blue eyes. The handsome young man with a boyish charm before her was Paris Irene, the head of the Irene family.
“……So you’ve manifested.”
Was it because the person was Paris? Psyche’s body, which had tensed with wariness, gradually relaxed.
“It’s fortunate that you have much stronger power than Zephyros……”
He muttered in a voice that sounded as if he were being strangled, then his face suddenly contorted. It seemed like a mixture of relief and pain.
Though she was curious about why Paris had such an expression, checking on Ruon’s condition was more urgent. She ignored him and hurriedly rushed to Ruon.
Ruon lay motionless with closed eyes on what could barely be called a bed. For a moment, her heart plummeted. Pale with fear, Psyche placed her index finger near Ruon’s nose. She felt a faint but warm breath. As she deeply sighed in relief and smoothed her chest, a low, subdued voice came from beside her.
“Despite pouring recovery abilities into him, he still hasn’t regained consciousness.”
Psyche quietly turned her head. Paris wasn’t looking at her but at Ruon. His eyes were colored with sympathy, guilt, and self-loathing.
“……”
She had thought this was just a den of monsters, but perhaps that wasn’t entirely true. She examined Paris Irene with complicated eyes.
Paris was naturally kind and good-hearted. She knew this from having seen him since childhood. Of course, like other Mathes family heads, he also trembled at the mention of Arje. But he must have known this wasn’t right. And even knowing, he couldn’t have defied Zephyros’s orders.
“Phrena.”
Suddenly, he met her gaze. After hesitating for a long while, the man lowered his head and murmured.
“……I’m sorry.”
“……”
“……To this child as well.”
He didn’t continue beyond that. More precisely, it seemed he couldn’t continue. At this moment, Psyche didn’t know what to say or what expression to wear. It seemed she should first take Ruon to a safe place. She would think about what came next later.
Just as she carefully took Ruon into her arms, the sound of someone urgently coming down to the torture chamber echoed with heavy footsteps.
She realized that someone was Zephyros. Just as she was about to teleport while holding Ruon protectively in her arms, her eyes met Zephyros’s, who had arrived at the door.
“……You, with such power, and all you do is……!”
She couldn’t hear the end of his words. Because the space had already shifted.……
It was fortunate that she hadn’t heard it all. Had she done so, she would have lost all reason and lunged at him.
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