Even if Your Regret Holds Me Back (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 171

Helena, returning to her room almost at a run, locked the door and took a deep breath. Her grip throbbed as if she held someone’s heart rather than dried paper.

As Flam had said, this truly felt like the last time she would search for Ian.

Helena placed the case on the table and took out the portrait. The inscription on the cover caught her eye first. Her breath stopped.

Ian Camell Axen de Febenheim.

Ian Camell. Was it really a coincidence that the two names she knew were joined?

Doubt turned to certainty, and certainty became truth the moment she unfolded the portrait.

“Ian…….”

The man standing proudly in a white uniform in the portrait. The Emperor of Rihalt. He was undoubtedly the man she knew.

The very man who had breathed life into her and whispered love.

Helena suddenly recalled the day before her execution.

In the sticky filth clinging to every knuckle, abandoned in a prison with ankles bound. The only way to gauge time there was the light through a palm-sized window and the idle chatter of the guards.

Helena listened to the world beyond the thick bars through their conversation.

⌜Tomorrow is finally the execution day? That woman.⌟

⌜You’ve had it rough; now the night watch ends too. By the way…… it seems a big ceremony is being held in the Western Empire tomorrow as well. Heard any news?⌟

⌜Ah, you mean the Emperor of Rihalt? In the end, the rebels won. It looks like a massive purge of the imperial family will happen. And this is a rumor circulating secretly, but apparently the rebels’ financier was active in Instantia.⌟

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