Tiendavis - For Perfect Salvation (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 234

“She said she’d forgive everyone—if they could do exactly what they did back then, even now.”

Cassel’s voice landed like a heavy period.

Just then, the fully formed night added silence atop it, and Cassel drew a deep breath into his chest as if trying to endure the suffocation.

“So what happened?”

“How could anyone do to a saintess what they did to an arena slave…? And not just any saintess—she was the one who truly performed miracles.”

Cassel replied wearily to Rio, who had asked such an obvious question.

To Viscount Verde, that order was effectively a death sentence. So he died. That very night, he hanged himself.

When Cassel first heard the story from the Verde household steward—and then again when Viscount Verde, summoned by Cassel, took his own life once more to confirm everything—Cassel was so shocked it felt as if darkness swallowed his vision.

Only then did he belatedly grasp the weight of Ivy’s words.

—Do you even know how I’ve lived until now?

—While you were born heir to a marquessate and became marquess without lifting a finger, how do you think I got here?

Last spring, when the wisteria bloomed profusely and its rich, sweet scent filled the air, Ivy had sat straddling Cassel and said those words.

Honestly, back then he’d thought it laughable.

How much hardship could someone so prettily made and blessed by the gods possibly have endured?

At her age, she’d reached Tienda’s lands through her own power alone—born so exceptionally gifted—and yet she dared to play the victim? He’d silently ground his teeth in irritation.

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