The Villain’S Daughter-In-Law Is Inherently Powerful [EN]: Chapter 166

Ian coldly stated his accusation.

Simultaneously, as if to protect their mate, the three beasts growled, emitting potent alpha pheromones.

“……!”

Instantly, the atmosphere of the entire banquet hall became oppressive.

Raheen instinctively clutched at her neck, feeling suffocated. The scythe of light had vanished.

“Cough……!”

Raheen felt a sense of utter despair, as if she were being buried alive. Or rather, as if only her head were submerged in ice-cold water.

Her chest ached as if it were splitting, and an unpleasant sensation gnawed at her nerves, but there was no one to turn to for help.

“Sa, save me… save me.”

She coughed and gasped for breath, but no one around her offered assistance. Instead, they recoiled in fear of suffering the same fate, their faces pale.

Raheen shuddered, feeling like a pariah, a carrier of disease.

‘Wh, what is this? I, I don’t understand this. I don’t understand!’

It was a sensation utterly foreign to her. And one she never expected to experience. Raheen was, after all, a complete human, incapable of transforming into an animal.

But by some cruel twist of fate, Raheen had been turned into a white ferret.

She was helplessly overwhelmed by the energy emanating from a beast of higher rank.

‘I’m so miserable, but why is that child so unaffected……!’

Raheen glared at Florin.

She noticed, perhaps for the first time, Florin’s sunken eyes and unremarkable brown hair.

More importantly, Florin wasn’t panting and struggling for breath as she was.

Florin, with her hands neatly folded and her back straight, exuded an air of superiority.

Raheen couldn’t bear it.

“The reason you’re in so much pain right now is because you’ve become a white ferret.”

“What? Who do you think you are, trying to lecture me, huh?”

Huff, huff.

As Florin spoke, the oppressive feeling, which had momentarily subsided, returned with a more subtle and insidious intensity.

Raheen clenched and unclenched her fists, barely managing to stand as her knees trembled. Cold sweat trickled down her spine. Even so, Raheen continued to glare at Florin.

As if ceasing to hate would mean defeat.

‘Did you know this would happen? Say something!’

Raheen, cornered and desperate, began to question her god.

‘You said I was an important person in this world. You said you couldn’t do without me! You seduced me with those promises! You said you would die if I failed. Do you want to die so badly that you’re just standing there, doing nothing?’

Raheen had never solved a problem on her own.

It was the same before she came to this world. Someone was always taking care of the difficult tasks for her.

Raheen was born to criminal parents.

Not just petty criminals, but figures behind incidents that caused significant social disruption.

There were always expendable people used as servants by their side, and her parents would berate them for even the slightest displeasure.

Naturally, Raheen followed suit.

Her parents’ way of avoiding crises was to pass the blame to the nearest subordinate when their crimes were discovered, to evade taxes because they considered them a waste, and to collaborate with powerful individuals whenever a problem arose.

Raheen had learned those lessons perfectly.

‘Just turn me back to the way I was now! Then I’ll be in that position. No one will suspect a thing. I’ll make sure they don’t! I’m really going to die at this rate……!’

She just had to survive this moment.

If she returned to her original form, she could transfer all this humiliation and insult onto that child and reclaim her position as the victor.

– That is not possible. You have already exhausted all the wishes granted to you.

As she pleaded, the god finally responded.

But it was a deeply disappointing answer.

Raheen had used up all the opportunities given to her.

Now, all that remained was to be dragged to the deepest depths of hellfire, trapped in a state between life and death.

“That’s enough.”

It was at that moment that Kiraxus stepped forward.

As soon as his command was given, Ian, Dante, and Yuri simultaneously withdrew their pheromones. Some of the nobles, who were on the verge of fainting, sighed in relief.

“It’s time to end this ridiculous farce and restore things to their proper order.”

Was this why he had saved a wish?

Kiraxus quietly wondered.

It wasn’t that he had anticipated this specific situation, but he knew that if a significant problem arose in the life of the child he cherished, he would attempt to resolve it with a wish.

He wasn’t afraid of falling into hell or anything like that.

What did it matter where he ended up?

He would survive by taking even the life of God. He had gained abilities close to a demigod with a living body, so what difference would death make?

He was the one who could seize the position of the supreme god for himself.

“Father, no wishes!”

Florin, having realized his intentions, cried out in dismay.

Kiraxus pretended not to hear her and made a wish to the evil god.

‘I will make a second wish. Restore the child I cherish to her original state. Her appearance, as well as her status and reputation. Oh, and of course, the divine power bomb in her heart must belong to the saintess of the Holy Empire.’

Wishes made to God are not fulfilled in a flamboyant manner. But they are fulfilled in a definite way, as they demand the soul as payment.

Saaah.

In an instant, the silver color vanished from Raheen’s hair. The silver light transformed into beautiful, shimmering dust and returned to Florin.

It was quite a dramatic display.

“Wh, what is it?”

“Why did her hair color suddenly change?”

“The proof that she is the princess of Arcalik is her silver hair and red eyes! Could it be…… that woman is an imposter?!”

“I knew something was wrong! She suddenly appeared at this important event dressed like that……. Now I understand everything! That shameless fake dares!”

The confused people looked around at each other, bewildered. Some were indignant.

It was Ian who took charge of the situation.

“That person is Raheen, the saintess of the Holy Empire. She has been living as Florin, stealing her appearance. The real one is here.”

The one who acted recklessly without any dignity, and the one who stood tall without batting an eye even after going through such a big ordeal. And even the change in appearance.

It was impossible not to believe Ian’s words.

Kiraxus turned his back on the murmuring crowd and approached Florin, opening his arms.

There was something he wanted to say first.

“Welcome back, my daughter born of my heart.”

At that, Florin jumped into Kiraxus’s arms.

* * *

Tears welled up for all those reasons: because my heart was full, because I was so sad, because I was surprised, because I was shocked.

I bit the soft flesh inside my mouth to keep from crying, but I didn’t know it would burst out like this as soon as I was hugged by my father.

I buried my face in my father’s suit and shook my shoulders.

“You’ve been through a lot.”

“Fath, Father…….”

Then my father patted my back. I looked up at my father with tearful eyes.

It was the first time I had seen his face in a long time.

I believed that my father would somehow solve everything, and he really did.

‘But you used a wish.’

That meant there was no other way.

What is done by the power of God can only be solved by the power of God.

“What should we do, Sister?”

The knights were holding Raheen, who now had brown hair, and restraining her. To make matters worse, Yuri, who had transformed her fingernails into sharp weapons, had her hand on Raheen’s neck.

She seemed intent on slitting her throat with just one word from me.

“Save me! I was wrong! I don’t want to die like this…… Ugh! Ugh!”

“How noisy.”

Taak.

As soon as my father snapped his fingers, Raheen’s mouth was silenced.

I looked at Raheen, who had lost all hope of escape, and banished the unnecessary sentiments from my heart.

After all, there is only one victor chosen by God.

‘And that has to be me.’

To save the soul of someone more precious.

I condensed divine power in both hands, just like Raheen did earlier. Then, a spear made of light materialized in my hand.

– True victory comes when you destroy the saintess of the evil god with my power.

At that moment, a familiar whisper echoed in my ear. Simultaneously, I felt a cozy and warm force embracing me.

“Oh, that figure is……!”

“A descent! Isn’t that a descent [a divine being temporarily inhabiting a mortal body]?”

The priests, who were bewildered because they didn’t know what was going on, were shocked. Soon, they all knelt down and began to recite prayers.

Everything felt very slow, but in fact, it happened in a matter of seconds.

Explosive divine power swirled around me as I plunged the spear down without hesitation.

Now, let’s end it like this, you and I.

That wish was contained in the tip of the spear and aimed directly at Raheen.

“That’s troublesome. Using my material like that.”

“!”

I definitely stabbed her with the spear.

But I hadn’t won yet.

“Let’s see. I don’t know what’s going on…… but the divine power bomb is here.”

The Pope was standing next to Raheen, who was gasping for breath.

I don’t know when he appeared, but the Pope grabbed the back of Raheen’s neck and pulled it out, preventing her from dying instantly.

“Save…….”

But as a result, tears streamed down Raheen’s eyes, which had become even more desperate.

“Yes, yes. I’ll make you comfortable soon.”

The Pope patted Raheen as if soothing a baby, and then suddenly thrust his hand into the place where her heart was.

Soon, the Pope extracted a bead-like object with black energy swirling inside from Raheen’s body.

The embodiment of evil.

I felt like I already knew what it was, even if no one explained it to me.

What that is. And what the Pope is trying to do.

An ominous atmosphere filled the world.