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nMarinette's POV

nYou gotta be kidding me!!! At first, she was the female lead loved by the citizen of the Center Empire and now...now she turned out to be the northern emperor's daughter??!!

nDidn't that mean she was the princess since her birth?

nThere should be the case that she wasn't duke Jellal's daughter but how the heck was Diana's father turned out to be the northern emperor?

nBy the look of the woman in his memories, I had no idea who she was but I was pretty sure she wasn't Duchess Catherine.

nSo the duchess took someone else's child.

nThe woman whom the northern emperor slept with could also use the death roses magic, her age, according to her look and my calculation, she should be younger than duke Jellal for one or two years.

nThere wasn't much document describing duke Jellal's generation, so I had no idea how she related to duke Jellal.

nThe drama!!! So the duke and Tristan loved the kid who turned out to be the random child and not Marinette??!!

nI was furious at the thought of it. I was mad.

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"My wrist hurt!!!

" I yelled at the emperor since I was in his daughter's body.

nHe finally let go of it. His glare was really intimidating.

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"Tsk. Follow me, if you ever run, I'll let that dragon bite you and carry you with me.

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"Yes.

" I obeyed his words when I glanced at the enormous dragon behind me.

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"Who are you to my daughter and how did you end up in my body??

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"I'm living with her in the Mortel duchy, she was my...lovely sister.

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"You're lying.

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"She was the worst sister, I never considered her as my sister ever since she burned the gift I gave her.

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"She burned your gift??? AHAHA, she's really my daughter.

" the psycho laughed instead of worrying about his daughter's ridiculous behavior.

nI rolled my eyes and ran to him to walk under his warm cape made of animal fur.

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"I only allow it because you're in my daughter's body.

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"Yes, yes.

" I didn't care much as long as it was warm. We walked up the mountain again with the snowstorm surrounding us but the dragon did all the work by destroying all those snowstorms.

nThat guy Victor should escape the empire by now, with the monster's help, he will be able to escape the empire without the dragon noticing him.

nThe emperor's secretary said there were two more intruders, so that meant one was Diana. She also teleported to the empire, huh?? But who was the other one??

nI hoped she won't die at the hands of all those dragon hunters the secretary mentioned.

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nSomewhere in the northern empire, the forest with trees covered in the snow stood an igloo with the fire in front of it,

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"Want some??

" the black-haired woman, even after massacred all of the dragon hunters who were on the blacklist for years, not a single drop of blood stained the dress or her straw head.

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"No!!!

" Diana shook her head trembling inside the igloo the other woman made refusing the dragon meat she offered.

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"Suit yourself. By the way, I won't kill you for now.

" she was the one who saved Diana from all of those scumbags but Diana escaped from the tiger den into the dinosaur den.

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"You're a demon!!! I don't need your sympathy, you demons only saw humans as insects.

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"Don't get me started. I only told you that just to reassure you.

" even though the demon Valencia couldn't see the face of the one who talked rudely to her, she got a feeling she hated the woman already. That was why she used the crow to give her the vision of the woman.

nShe smirked seeing the scar on the woman's face.

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"I don't expect any thanks from you, but don't ever think of running. I want to complete my mission as soon as possible.

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"What mission??

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"You're Marinette Mortel, right??

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nDiana nodded in hesitation wanting to know why such a big-shot demon like Valencia saved Marinette,

"Yes.

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"I need you as bait to lure that destruction.

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"Huh?? Do you mean the destruction, the one who almost destroyed the world four thousand years ago??

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nValencia nodded and bit the big bite of the dragon's meat.

nIt had been a very long time since she ate the dragon. She ate many species of them but the only one who she hadn't gotten a taste of yet was the dragon Igneel. Valencia already gave up that long ago seeing the difference of power between her and that creature.

nDiana when seeing the demon in front of her whose sword was still in the sheet letting the guard down. She took the hairpin which she found behind Marinette's dress, the hairpin with the poison on its end.

nShe raised it to the blind woman who rescued her.

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"Again...I can't really seem to like humans.

" Valencia really all the aura and the killing intent which pent up inside of her body.

nIt seemed like she no longer needed the bait. And killing all those humans really didn't satisfy her, Valencia unsheathed her sword using all the crow and snow eagles around that igloo as her eyes faced the fragile woman in front of her.

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"You evil demon...

" Diana felt the pain chilling down to her bone coughing up blood on the snow.

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"Don't play victim to me, if I'm not the evil demon, I would have already been killed by the like of you.

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"I won't obey anyone anymore!!! I won't be the bait or puppet to anyone!!

" Diana snapped using the hairpin and jumped midair in Valencia's blindspot to kill her in one move.

nValencia cracked her neck to release the stress and then destroyed that hairpin with just her aura.

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"Seeing your scar, I thought you would be stronger than this.

" Valencia dashed behind Diana with the unsheathed sword knocking Diana many meters from where she stood.

nDiana blowing away was faster than the carriage, her body hit the tree making the tree fall down along the path.

nHer bone and rib were broken, her head was bleeding. Without any time to recover, Valencia dealt the second strike.

nDemon Art: Black Light Execute

nDiana screamed in fear seeing the ray of black light directed at her burning all of those trees in backfire.

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"No...no...

" again, when she closed her eyes pitifully, someone came to her rescue again.

nMarinette was there taking the damage while the northern emperor grabbed his daughter and ran away from Valencia.

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"F*ck.

" she cursed at those two trashes clenching her hands when watching the back of that man carrying unconscious Diana leaving her there.

n'That's a deja vu~'

nIf it wasn't for the light magic, she would have already dropped dead.

nWithout delay, she cast the death roses magic making a sword out of rose with the magic energy inside Diana's body while looking at Valencia making her way to where she stood.

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"Well, it's been a while since I saw those eyes.

" Valencia smirked and unsheathed her sword while the snow eagle around both of them stared at the battlefield like spectators.

nMarinette clenched the sword made out of roses tightly in fear in front of the blind woman, and also the woman she had to kill if she wanted to save Tristan.

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"I think the legendary demon like you shouldn't need those annoying eyes, right??

" Marinette cast the death roses magic and eliminated all of those pests at once, eagles and crow fell on the snow like a red fireworks display.

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"Let's see who's gonna die after those pests.

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nDemon Art: Demon Soul

nThe rock on the snow shook under the pressure of the demon whose black energy surrounded her like a tornado, Marinette didn't have the gut to strike at her when seeing her like that. She kept calm and analyzed the situation, scanned the surrounding landscape, and used the knowledge of the novel to plan how to defeat such a god-like being.

nDemon Art: Grim Reaper Eyes

nWearing the floating black dress made of souls, a woman with the same black hair walked out of the tornado unscathed with new eyes.

nShe wasn't the only one who transformed, while Valencia stared at Marinette with her new white eyes. Marinette took advantage of Diana's body and used all of the magic at once.

nDark Magic: Curse of Death

nLight Magic: Second Heal

nDeath Roses Magic: Rose Armour

nMemory Magic: Second Eyes

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"Uwahahaha, I'm thrilled!!! Interesting!!!! If I win this battle, I'll cut your head off and threw it across this cliff!!!

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"Well, we'll see.

" Marinette in the rose armor with many layers and the cape behind her, there was white energy surrounding the pink eyes of her and the glamourous light magic form its shape to a wing of the goddess, and the devil horn on her head.

nDiana's body was the best for experimenting with all of the magic.

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"Bring it!!!

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"Yeah!!!

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nThe fight finally started, valencia no longer needed to see her enemy with the eyes of others, with her white eyes, even a little movement, she could see it all.

nWhile Marinette on the other hand couldn't keep up with Valencia's speed with her ordinary eyes, the memory magic gave her the strength into her eyes to see all of the demon's moves.

nBlack and red blood spraying on the pure white snow, rose petal showering the mountain.

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"Argh...

" Marinette was blown away into mid-air, the wing was just for a show as she fell back down into the snow. Without the time to get up, the swordswoman jumped from mid-air thrusting the sword directed at her head.

nSome of her blonde hair was cut off, she panted in exhaustion and smirked when the barrier was finally completed.

nDeath Roses Magic: Death Roses Barrier

nShe wasn't moving around and blown away for nothing, the barrier will keep Valencia in one place while the monster from the ground was awakening.

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"Wake up, monsters of rose!!!

" Marinette shouted raising her sword summoning all of those monsters.

nSuch a familiar sight for Valencia who killed all of the minions yesterday.

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"This isn't enough for killing me, lady.

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"...

" Marinette was already gone. Valencia was started when the woman was out of her sight even under her white eyes detection.

nThe monsters Marinette summoned climbed over Valencia tearing her limbs with their strong force but ended up getting massacred by her and all turned to rose petals.

n'No matter what, I won't die in this body!!'

nMemory Magic: Memory Manipulation

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"Memory magic, I commanded you!!! Delete all the memories of all people on earth except Ji-hoon, my father, and Eun-Kyung.

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nShe appeared out of the rose petal and trusted her sword inside Valencia's stomach, with her black blood, the horn on Marinette's head glowed and then sucked all her demon blood into it.

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"What did you do to me??!!!

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"How the table has turned...

" even when Valencia kept hitting Marinette, the light magic kept healing her back up using Diana's enormous magic energy as the source.

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"Release me!!!

" Valencia started to lose her vision, her eyes turned back to black then her head dropped on Marinette's shoulder after many minutes of resisting.

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"Well, that...was something...

" Marinette fell on the snow holding Valencia's hands after successfully manipulating her memories.

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"I did it...

" she finally did it in one way, but Valencia wasn't completely dead yet even with the wound on her stomach. It already turned back to normal closing the wound.

nThe wing, the horn, the armor shattered into ashes leaving Marinette cold with only one layer of clothes under the snow. She felt like it happened before, when she rested her head on the snow watching the snow falling onto her covering her body.

nUnlike what happened before, at the moment, the tears that came out of her eyes were tears of happiness.

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"I'm alive...

" she smiled crying covering her tears with her arms, then the reality hit her hard when the screen appeared in front of her.

nSun-hee's time remaining: 50 days.

nShe got up and sat looking clueless at the screen that was starting to fade.

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"Who...is Sun-hee??

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nTo be continued....!

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