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nMarinette's POV

nThe sensation as I fell down, time stopped, all I heard was the scream of the person above...

nMy blood defy gravity floating above, was that it? Or was it just because I fell too fast?

nIt took too long, when will my body hit the ground?

nIn the end, I was never able to do anything...the worst of all was to die at the hand of someone I trusted the most.

nI really just got backstabbed by that person...

nIs this how I die? Will there be a third chance? A fourth chance?

nNo...

nI'm really sorry, Marinette. You made a big mistake summoning me out of all people.

nI failed you.

n...everyone has a happy ending...now that this villainess is gone...

nMy eyes closed slowly accepting that fate soon fell upon me.

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"Marinette!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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nHahaha...again with that villain...stupid dumbass...

nI'm not Marinette. I'm Sun-hee! Kim Sun-hee!!

nAt least I died without losing sight of myself, and I hope that backstabber, that betrayer...will live a good life after fooling me, lying to me, and killing me...

nIt hurts so much, not just once I was betrayed by them, twice!!!

nGoodbye!

nEarlier,

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"I was sure that the path is here!!!

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"Well then, why it is blocked??? Ack--

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"Aurora!!!

" Marinette grabbed Aurora's hands as she almost fell off the slippery cliff of the mountain at the border, the path Marinette used to escape with Valencia from before was completely filled with big rocks.

nThose people...and demons who were chasing them started getting closer and closer every second passing.

nMarinette and Aurora's hands which grabbed the rock of the mountain as they climbed up the mountain covered in the snow became numb and cold.

nTheir thin layer of clothes gave them shiver, but the man who raised comfortably on the rose petal Marinette made was sleeping warmly and cozy on the petal of a rose.

nThe wind started getting stronger as they climbed higher and higher to the same place Aurora jumped when she entered the northern empire.

nDemon Art: Raining Sword

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"Marinette, dodge!!!

" Aurora shouted grabbing Marinette's shoulder taking shelter from many swords falling down from the dark black and orange sky which the circling sun started rising up.

nThere were too many of them and only two women were up against them, no more like escaping from them. Aurora's magic power hit zero, the same goes with Marinette.

nThey were all magicless and the duke's condition also didn't get much better, the stain of black blood still remain on the right side of his face.

nMarinette as she climbed up the mountain with all of those powerful beings after she kept glancing at the empire at many citizens who were staring at her and the rest, tried to find a single man from all of those people which was technically impossible.

n'Should I do an avalanche like in the movie I used to watch???'

nAn idea came up to her, but the citizens were in the way, the dragon Igneel was also among the people chasing her, and there was also no barrier as the barrier already shattered. One avalanche and the empire will be buried in snow for more centuries to come.

n'Where are those guys??!!!'

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"Your highness, what was that sound earlier?? Should I go check?

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"No need. Robert, you stay here and take care of all these people.

" the prince walked past Rober tapping his shoulder leaving all of those corrupted nobles sitting on the ground to him. All of the other nobles who lived without a care about the world above stayed underground comfortably while the other people had to live starving above the surface while all of their money went to those nobles.

nThe prince broke the door for all of those people above the surface, the door led to hope, dream, and everything to them they could achieve fairly.

nThe light of the magic lamp was off and on shining the light on the prince's pale face as he climbed up the stair alongside the man in the knight suit walking with him.

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"The next person we should go to should be the emperor.

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"You're right, I'm planning that since I came here.

" the prince replied to Victor who also came along with him as they ran into each other at the clock tower.

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"You planned all of this?

" Victor was a little bit surprised by those words, it wasn't just words, he really proved it by his action.

nWithin barely one hour, he managed to bring out the corrupted noble and tied them all up even beating all of the knights protecting those scumbags with only his fists.

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"I received the mission from the emperor, to put a stop to this cruelty of this empire. The emperor won't let the bloodbath happen in this empire again.

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"You mean the bloodbath many years ago?? The one with half of the citizens were killed??!!

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nThe prince nodded.

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"You're not here to ask for the army and marry Diana??!!

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"Did lady Marinette tell you that??

" the prince sighed.

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"Let's cut to the chase...I only came here to check on you to see if you're worthy--

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"You mean if I'm worthy to Marinette or not?

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"Yes. I love her after all, and...she doesn't love me. I don't want to force her to love me, and you know too that Marinette love yo--

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"What gives you the right to judge people who should be worthy of Marinette?? You're just a stranger to her in this life, commander Victor.

" the prince muttered to the commander with his gaze turned sharp glaring at Victor.

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"As I thought. You're also one of the people Marinette brought back in time.

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"And I didn't forget a single thing how you killed all of those people in the hidden village, commander!

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"...

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"And how you betray Marinette.

" Victor's face changed to the face of a murderer, a spark of the color red appeared slightly on her face with the red light shining on his face. Just like that faithful night when he fired the red firework into the sky bringing all the armies storming in the village killing the people one by one.

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"Your highness...I'm not the only one who betrayed Marinette. If you remember every single thing, you should remember that night too...when you put the poison inside Marinette's room.

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"...huh??!!

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"Marinette's maid wasn't the one who would do such a dangerous thing without anyone backing her, don't you think it's all too much of a coincidence of how you came to rescue Marinette when she hit the rock bottom??!!!

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"What did you say, you bastard??!!!

" the prince landed a punch on Victor's right cheek making both of them fall off the stair. Even falling from many staircases, they kept grabbing each other's collars.

nThe prince hit the commander till the blood came out of Victor's nose.

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"Don't compare me to you, you bastard!!!!! You push her away, your undecided feeling led her to pain!!!! You were her first love!!!! I waited!!! I waited like forever...but her eyes only had you!!!!!! Do you think I took her hand back then because I wanted to use her??!!! It's because of you!!!! You pushed her into that cold snow!!!!! She didn't get up!!!! For many hours, she waited for you!!!!

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"Huh???!!!!!! You scum prince!!!!

" Victor kicked the prince right in his stomach blowing him away to the street light pole built underground.

nWhile those two were fighting, Robert stood there guarding the corrupted nobles was enjoying the fighting between the best fighter he knew so far in his life and past life.

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"What're those two doing??

" if it was a modern world, Robert would grab popcorn to eat while watching those two fighting for such a ridiculous reason.

nThe lady he knew never loved anyone in her past life. He got some fragments of his memories with Marinette's memories, but with only that small memories, he knew who Marinette was.

nShe never loved anyone, she only saw people who could be a tool to her. Victor was a tool for her to reach the army of the empire, she recruited her only wish that he could protect her using his amazing sword fighting.

nAnd Prince Philip was the best comrade with the opportunity who could rebel against prince Richard and claimed the throne.

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"You idiot prince, she never loved me, the person she loved was yo--

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nMeanwhile, as those two men were fighting because of the stupid reason. Marinette was shaking just by looking at how high she was just by a glance at the mountain and trees below her.

nShe no longer could see the people, people were like ants from her eye.

nDodging the sharp claw of lady Igneel, even chain, everything came in her direction.

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"Give me the sword!!! Achoo!!!

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"Here you go!!!

" Marinette grabbed the sword from Aurora stepping backward from all of her enemies.

nThe death roses magic energy was gone, but the other magics inside her body were useless.

nThe northern emperor with his chain attached to Igneel's back became someone unrecognizable with his hair floating all over the air. The demon on the mountain was Lucas with Valencia was nowhere to be found. But after Aurora told Marinette how strong that demon was, Marinette almost fainted from the power difference but that guy couldn't move much except standing at the edge of the top of the mountain.

nLucas was using his magic to be the eyes of the demon Valencia who made her way up the mountain, she was the slowest one. She never broke in or out of the northern empire by climbing the tall mountain like she at that moment.

nThe only biggest threat was Kira.

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"Go for the grey-haired woman first.

" Kira was also not herself after she reached the top of the snowy mountain.

nIt was the place of her beloved person died and the place where she changed her name from Kyrana to Kira.

nTears fell down across her cheek hanging on her chin, her feeling was a mess with all the nostalgic and emotional feeling burning in her fragile heart.

n'Leona Unnie...it's been a long time...since that day'

nTo be continued....!

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