The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 174

The name, spoken by him, felt foreign.

Hailon didn’t usually call Chesha by her first name.

When absolutely necessary, he would use her full name, ‘Chesha Vasillian’.

Along with the unfamiliarity, her heart fluttered with a pleasant rhythm.

Taking a deep breath, her nose tingled.

Chesha finally recognized the emotion she had been suppressing.

I missed Hailon.

He was the one who had chased after her all the way to the Fairy Kingdom.

When she had wandered through the past, transcending time, and returned to the present a year later, she unconsciously expected Hailon to come and find her.

She hadn’t even realized it herself, but she secretly harbored such a hope.

Because… that’s how it had always been.

She thought that he would, as a matter of course, appear this time as well, wearing his usual indifferent face, and help her out of whatever daunting situation she was in.

But Hailon, who had become a traitor to the Holy Empire, couldn’t come to Chesha.

It was only natural, so she tried to dismiss it, but in truth, she had missed him terribly.

The emotions that had been submerged beneath the surface belatedly poured out.

With her small lips pressed tightly together, she reached out her hand to Hailon.

He, who had been standing like a stone statue, as if his soul had left his body, contorted his face.

With a completely broken expression, he hurriedly approached her.

He was so urgent that he stumbled and swayed, something she had never seen him do before.

“Ah, of all times,” Ishuel grumbled, openly displeased at being caught.

Still, he readily handed over Chesha, whom he had been holding.

Her small body nestled snugly in his generous embrace.

“……”

Hailon took a deep breath, in and out, without saying a word.

Only after filling his lungs with the faint floral scent emanating from Chesha’s body for a long time did he open his lips with difficulty.

“…Why.”

The hand that embraced Chesha twitched briefly.

Hailon, who had been unable to speak for a while, spoke again, but once again, the sentence was incomplete and cut off.

“How did it…”

Chesha hugged him tightly and said, “I missed you.”

When she expressed her feelings so honestly, Hailon fell silent again.

Then, without a word, he quietly leaned his face against hers.

Unfamiliar black hair flowed down, tickling Chesha’s cheek.

How she had disappeared, why he had only appeared now – the countless questions she had held back all melted away like snow in the sun at the simple phrase that she had missed him.

Hailon simply replied softly, “…Me too.”

***

Throughout his life, he had never yearned for anything.

Except for one thing.

It was all because of her that Hailon, who had simply existed because he was born, came to harbor such fervent emotions.

Daren, who knew all the circumstances, watched Hailon suffering and said skeptically, “Perhaps it would have been better if you had never met.”

“I sometimes think that perhaps her existence is a curse to Hailon…”

It was a frank and sincere piece of advice given as an adjutant and as a friend.

He wasn’t wrong.

Clearly, Richessia was not a blessing in Hailon’s life.

However, Hailon also existed because of her.

That was not some soft and fragile emotion, but the very logic of the world that constituted Hailon.

“……”

Hailon frowned slightly at the sharp headache that arose.

When was the last time he had gotten a proper night’s sleep?

It had been too long.

Now, fatigue felt natural.

However, he didn’t feel like he wanted to sleep soundly.

Rather, he was almost pleased with the feeling of pushing himself to the limit.

It would have been even harder to endure if it wasn’t painful.

He wanted to forget the mental anguish with physical pain, at least.

Chesha Vasillian had disappeared.

It was an event that had occurred because the winner of the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting had handed the Fairy Queen’s crown to a child.

At the time, Hailon had been dragged outside the Holy Empire.

It was because he had been sentenced to death at the Holy Trial held in the Round Assembly Hall for violating the precepts and making blasphemous remarks.

“Pope Cyanohr Hilderred has been committing cruel experiments on fairies to obtain eternal life.”

“Although fairies are considered heretical beings, they are also life created by God.”

“I revealed my identity as an Inquisitor in order to stop the act of defiling God’s name, so I have not violated the rules.”

Hailon’s claims were not wrong in any way.

He only spoke the truth.

However, it was an opportunity to oust the head of the Inquisitors.

The holy priests did not miss the opportunity and pushed him, and some holy knights who felt repulsed by the fact that he was accusing the Pope also turned away from Hailon.

In the end, he was sentenced to death by a majority vote, and Hailon was dragged out of the Holy Empire for the execution of the sentence.

The Pope also abandoned the task of congratulating the winner of the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting and followed him directly.

Nominally, it was an excuse to recover the holy relics possessed by Hailon.

In fact, the Pope did not want to kill Hailon, who had absorbed all of his divine power, as he was.

If he had to kill him, he wanted to be able to extract the divine power residing in Hailon, at least.

Hailon was confined in an iron cage that controlled divine power, his limbs were bound with restraints, and his eyes were covered, and he was escorted out of Hilderred.

The place where he arrived for the execution was a snowy field in the north.

The nameless place was full of snow and ice.

Amidst the blizzard, the Pope looked down at Hailon with an arrogant face.

Hailon knelt in the snow and silently faced him.

“Hailon.”

The Pope tried to entice Hailon with a seemingly kind voice.

“You were clearly a child who was more faithful than anyone else, but how did you end up like this…”

He stroked Hailon’s head with his prosthetic hand, feigning sorrow.

The cold touch of metal, chilled by the northern cold, was eerie.

Hailon quietly replied to the Pope, who was treating him like a child.

“I will also give you one last chance.”

“Where did you hide the fairies?”

The Pope’s cheek twitched.

He, who had been feigning kindness, eventually couldn’t hide his true colors and glared.

“You have been deeply influenced by heretical ideas. There is no sign of repentance.”

The Pope stretched out his hand and ordered, “Execute the sentence!”

Following the Pope’s order, the holy knights approached.

Usually, the Inquisitors executed the sentences of high-ranking figures.

However, this time, exceptionally, the knight commanders stepped up to carry out the execution.

Since all the Inquisitors were Hailon’s people, the Pope deliberately excluded them and summoned those he could trust at least.

In addition, he had searched all the reports from the Papal States and brought the most powerful restraints.

He thought that even Hailon would not be able to avoid death with restraints as strong as holy relics.

However, it was the Pope’s misjudgment.

Hailon, who was staring at the approaching holy knights, looked at the Pope again.

“The one to whom I dedicated my body and soul is not you, Cyanohr.”

Silver hair fluttered wildly in the snowstorm.

Everyone was momentarily taken aback when he carelessly spoke the Pope’s name.

The silence that had come for a moment was shattered by the following words.

“Also, since all my actions do not deviate from the rules given by God.”

“I will only judge all that is unjust.”

Clang!

A chilling cracking sound spread across the snowy field.

Sharp sounds followed one after another.

It was the sound of the chains, shackles, handcuffs, and everything that had bound Hailon breaking.

Snow-white divine chains stretched out in all directions.

In a world covered entirely in pure white, only piercingly clear blue eyes flashed fiercely.

“In the name of God, I will judge you.”