The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 143

It was the day the winner of the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting was to be announced.

Everyone gathered in the vast plaza for the ceremony.

However, those who gathered weren’t particularly curious about the winner.

Their attention was entirely focused on the Basilian family.

Feeling the intense gazes, Chesha looked around.

The flags of the Holy Empire fluttered throughout the plaza.

Although the weather was cool, the glaring sunlight reflecting off the marble floor was a bit bothersome.

“Why are we doing this outside instead of in a perfectly good building? It’s bad for the skin…,” Ishuel grumbled, adjusting her wide-brimmed hat.

Ishuel meticulously adjusted the parasol several times, ensuring Chesha’s face remained perfectly shaded.

While Ishuel was taking care of Chesha, Karha was talking to Theo some distance away.

‘Have they always been this close?’ Chesha wondered. Lately, they seemed inseparable.

Chesha glanced to the other side.

There, Kiernan and Belzeon were talking with serious expressions.

Sensing her gaze, Belzeon looked over. Chesha gave him a bright smile in return for his faint one.

As it was an important day, most of those belonging to the Holy Empire were present in the plaza.

The Holy Priests didn’t look too pleased.

As they had hoped, Prince Remil of Hebaton had won the championship.

Thanks to Princess Aran Skaya of Skaya asking her supporters to back Remil, he was able to win without issue.

The Holy Knights had pushed out Chesha Basilian, whom they supported, but the Holy Priests couldn’t simply celebrate. It was a bittersweet victory.

Cardinal Milliard, who had been their center, was miserably ousted.

Not only was he driven out as a heretic, but he was even falsely accused of bringing monsters into the Holy Empire.

Moreover, the Holy Emperor had condoned all of those accusations.

The Holy Priests must have been driven to madness.

‘But where did Hylon go again?’

Hylon and the Holy Emperor were nowhere to be seen.

Not long ago, it was said that 99 saints had gathered to determine the winner of the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting…

Looking around, the Holy Knights also had stiffened faces.

‘Since he revealed himself as an Inquisitor to the world, he must have received some kind of punishment.’ She was worried that he might be undergoing re-education.

She would have to look for Hylon as soon as the ceremony was over.

With the most important figures absent, the ceremony to announce the winner of the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting began.

Since neither Holy Emperor Cyanor nor Cardinal Milliard was present, another cardinal took on the role of congratulating the winner.

“In the name of God, we have selected the most faithful young saint,” the elderly cardinal announced, seeming burdened by his role and showing clear signs of nervousness.

He cleared his throat several times before finally calling out the winner’s name.

“The Minor Saint of this prayer meeting is… Remil Lou Hebaton of the Kingdom of Hebaton.”

Clap, clap, clap.

Dull applause trickled out.

Amid the listless applause, Remil slowly walked to the platform.

Remil, chosen as the winner, didn’t seem happy at all. He had a waxy, pale face and kept his lips tightly shut.

The cardinal opened the glass case.

The white chains surrounding the flower crown disappeared with a rustle.

The cardinal carefully took out the flower crown and placed it on Remil’s head.

As Remil stood awkwardly facing forward, people clapped again, roughly.

“…”

Chesha stared at the scene.

The crown was far away from her, out of reach.

Watching someone else wear the crown made her feel quite uncomfortable.

‘But it will be in my hands soon.’

Trying to suppress her unease, she looked for Aran in the crowd.

When their eyes met, Aran winked.

Chesha used her fairy power to create flowers, making a fake crown of a similar shape.

Aran was planning to replace it with the real crown.

Of course, the flowers Chesha made were not like the Fairy Queen’s crown, which never withered.

But it would last until they arrived in the Kingdom of Hebaton.

If the flower crown withered after arriving in the kingdom…

‘Well, they’ll just assume it’s because they left the Holy Empire and think about it themselves.’

Since it was a fairy’s creation, humans wouldn’t know the cause even if the flower crown withered.

‘There are too many eyes watching for Basilian to step forward.’

She had to actively use Aran. To do that, she had even asked Aran to build some friendship with Remil.

‘Kiernan is even planning to offer the Fairy Queen’s crown as a sacrifice for black magic.’

If Chesha won and took the crown, then used it as a sacrifice and destroyed it, the Holy Empire would directly suspect her.

It would be much safer to secretly swap it out and bring it back.

While running these calculations in her head, she was clapping her small hands.

As the applause subsided and the plaza became quiet, Remil opened his lips.

They waited for his acceptance speech as the winner of the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting.

But the words that came from the boy were completely different.

“I am not worthy to have the crown.”

Those who had been bored until just now began to perk up at Remil’s words.

Remil, who had always hunched his shoulders, straightened his body. Suddenly, she thought he was quite tall.

Holding the crown, Remil spoke his opinion clearly, without trembling or stuttering.

“As everyone knows, it was Chesha of the Basilian family who stopped the monsters. She has shown a more faithful and sacrificial attitude than anyone else who attended the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting.”

‘That’s true, but…’

Chesha almost nodded without realizing it, but stopped herself.

“God would not want me to monopolize all this glory alone…”

Remil looked straight at Chesha.

The moment she met his determined eyes, Chesha felt uneasy.

‘Don’t do it. Don’t do it,’ Chesha quickly signaled with her eyes.

But Remil ended up saying it.

“I want to share the glory with Chesha and the divine.”

Everything fell silent.

Ishuel, who was holding Chesha, muttered a small curse.

“That little brat…”

Then, realizing that Chesha was listening, she bit her lip.

The Holy Priests also seemed greatly embarrassed by Remil’s sudden action, but they couldn’t oppose Remil’s words, because there was no excuse.

How to dispose of the crown was up to the winner.

‘I told him to do as he pleased, and he does this.’ He seemed to be trying to take care of Chesha in his own way, but she wasn’t grateful at all.

Chesha tapped Ishuel’s arm.

Since it was an unavoidable situation, she would have to step forward.

Amid the gazes of the people, Ishuel slowly walked and placed Chesha on the platform.

“Chesha.”

Remil called Chesha in a whisper, holding the crown in his hand.

However, Chesha only looked at the crown instead of Remil.

The crown was docile. It didn’t sing or cause any strange phenomena.

It only emitted a subtle light, as if advertising that it was harmless, as if Chesha could wear the crown and not do anything wrong.

Chesha was slightly relieved by its very gentle attitude.

‘…Maybe it’ll be okay?’

She slowly reached out her hand.

Even when she touched the crown lightly, just with the tip of her finger, it was still quiet without any changes.

Chesha let out a sigh of relief and looked up at Remil, nodding.

‘Put it on!’

Remil carefully placed the crown on Chesha’s head.

It was the moment when the flower crown perfectly sat on her small head.

“…!”

Chesha felt as if something was piercing through her.

She gasped at the sensation of being pierced from the crown of her head.

Flowers bloomed from under her feet.

As if gunpowder had exploded, the uncontrollably blooming flowers, entangled with thorny bushes, spread in all directions.

The white marble floor was instantly covered with flowers, and screams erupted from here and there.

People who had tripped over the flower bushes struggled to get up, but it wasn’t easy because their feet were firmly caught.

Chesha, the one who had created the chaos, was surprised and tried to throw off the crown, but it wouldn’t budge, as if it were stuck to her head.

“Kkyaang!”

The back of her hand was burning hot.

In the midst of the chaos, she checked the back of her hand, and the pattern that the fairy had engraved in the past was emitting light.

With a cackle, the crown’s joyful song rang in her ears.

At that moment, Chesha realized.

‘This crazy crown!’

The crown was trying to send Chesha to the Fairy Kingdom right now.

The moment her eyes were about to be covered with flowers, a black magic sword dug into the flower bushes.

Kiernan shouted desperately.

“Chesha!!”