Chapter 93

"Congratulations on achieving your revenge, Angelica... How do you feel now?"

Despite witnessing her father's brutal murder right before her eyes, Blood asked calmly, without any sign of concern. He circled around to stand in front of Angelica, who was still standing in the posture of having blown up the Earl of Calcifer, and bent down to observe her expression. With a single eye, Angelica glanced at her fiancé, who was peering at her with interest, and muttered softly,

"I don't feel as moved as I imagined. It's boring... No, that's not it. Perhaps it's empty?"

The Earl of Calcifer had refused to send reinforcements to the Ilkas family, his ally, which led to the death of Angelica's family. Despite avenging one of her greatest enemies after the empire, Angelica's heart was strangely calm.

"Is revenge not what you thought it would be?"

"No, it's not that. It's not that the revenge is empty, but that it ended too easily, which is unsatisfying."

Angelica thought to herself,

—I wanted more resistance.

(How can a traitor who sided with the wicked empire be so insignificant... The enemy should be much stronger and more powerful, shouldn't they?)

It was unbearable that the person who killed her family was so insignificant. For the Ilkas family to be destroyed by such a trivial villain was a disgrace to the family.

"Perhaps, I won't be satisfied until I destroy the empire. I won't be content until I eliminate the enemies of the Ilkas family and the kingdom."

"Is that so? To treat the greatest noble of the eastern border as an appetizer, my bride is quite greedy."

Blood said with a smile and took Angelica's hand. He kissed her blood-stained right hand and slowly knelt down.

"Ah, my dear bride—Angelica, the Red Death Angel. I will see your revenge through to the end."

"To the end..."

Angelica looked down at Blood, who knelt as if proposing, with a cold gaze. Then, she flipped her right hand and pressed a dagger to his neck.

"Ah...!"

"Do you understand? You are also one of the Calcifer family. One of my enemies."

"...Yes, I am your enemy. One of the people who took your family from you."

Blood grabbed Angelica's right hand and pulled it forcefully. The thin blade of the dagger pierced his neck shallowly, and a thin line of blood trickled down.

"If you want to kill me, I don't mind. But... if you have one wish, I would prefer to be killed with a kiss, not such an unsightly blade."

"...Disgusting."

Angelica twisted her face, which was wrapped in bandages, in disgust and roughly pushed away her fiancé's hand. Feeling a physiological aversion, Angelica smiled wryly as Blood wiped the blood from his neck with his sleeve.

"...Blood. I'll keep you alive because you still have value to me. I'll kill you last. If you want to see my revenge through to the end, I'll kill you after I've eliminated all the enemies of the kingdom."

"That's an honor. Being able to stay by your side until the end is the greatest happiness."

"Yes, then make yourself useful before you die. I'll blow you to pieces, leaving no trace."

Leaving these words as if spitting them out, Angelica walked away. The locked door opened, and Blood's subordinates, who had been sealing the room, entered. The subordinate, with a cloth covering his mouth and nose, took cleaning tools and began to clean up the massacre as instructed.

Blood stood there, watching Angelica's back with a trance-like gaze, and eventually picked up an apple from a large fruit platter on the table. The apple seemed a bit old, perhaps due to a servant's mistake. It was overripe, and the skin had discolored. However, Blood bit into the overripe fruit without hesitation, chewing the skin and flesh together.

"...Fruit and women are best when they're just starting to rot. You've become much more attractive than you were before. My beloved, beloved Angelica."

A woman who grew nourished by loyalty to the kingdom and whose love had rotted with revenge. Thinking about the future of this beautiful and terrifying bride, Blood Calcifer smiled, twisting his lips into a crescent moon shape.

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