The Princess Wants to Live (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 99

Just the fact that he couldn’t reach out and grab Olivia as she turned away from him made his insides twist in agony.

That retreating back seemed to represent the future he’d see after everything was over—after he’d finally cast off the chains of slavery.

– Click.

Regardless of the storm raging within him, Olivia vanished as planned, leaving behind only Cryer and Greta.

She had deliberately slackened her posture, naturally causing even Keslan—Greta’s bodyguard—to step aside.

Thus, out of the four, two departed, leaving only two behind.

Cryer, who had been tracing the lingering trace she left behind with his gaze, soon turned his eyes indifferently toward Greta’s piercing stare, sharp as an awl against his cheek.

At the end of that gaze lay something endlessly repulsive.

The moment he first opened his eyes, he’d heard that vile, despicable desire whispered like a lullaby, caressing his brand.

‘When the purification of the entire continent is done, only the two of us will remain.’

He hadn’t realized his own father, the Mage, was absent from those words until after the man had perished at that thing’s hands and vanished.

Cryer felt neither hatred, resignation, despair, nor fury as he looked at Greta.

Because she simply wasn’t worth it.

The creature before him was nothing more than a tool wielded by the Ancient God.

No matter how dreadfully annoying, relentlessly persistent, and insatiably greedy that tool might be—it remained just a tool.

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