1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 4 Episode 20

20. Pure White Princess (1)

The black boy was standing still and staring at Steria.

Then the black boy, who had been staring at Stelia, opened his mouth.

"Can I help you?"

"what......?"

"Ah~? Kid, if you don't want to be harsh, just turn off your mind and go the way you were going."

Stelia pondered how she should respond to her boy's words.

Can you help me, how?

She could not understand how a boy as young as herself would help her.

But... Steria wanted to hold on to straw.

"Do, help!"

As Steria grabbed the boy's outstretched helping hand, it was an instant.

When Steria came to her senses, the man who was threatening her was lying on the floor, and she was running out of his alley with all his might, holding the boy's hand.

His breath hit his chin, but the boy, running ahead, holding his hand, seemed unconcerned.

Such a boy looked like a prince riding a white horse who had run to his rescue.

A prince who only exists in fairy tales.

"It'll be fine now."

"Heh heh, heh heh...! Yes..., thank you."

"... aren't you too weak?"

The boy, who stopped only after reaching the bright spot, looked at Stelia with a strange expression on her gasping breath.

'Your stamina is so good!'

Stelia was so out of breath that she couldn't get her words out of her mouth and screamed inside her.

She had been gasping for her breath for a long time, but only after Steria calmed her breath was she able to thank the boy.

"Thank you for saving me."

"It's...! Ta, I didn't do anything that deserves special thanks."

The boy blushed as Stelia greeted her with a smile, but Steria didn't notice it.

"I'd like to repay you, can you tell me your name?"

"Hey, this way..."

She thought steria was an unusual name for her.

What if the name was unusual, it didn't matter.

Now that she's heard her partner's name, it's time to teach her her own.

"I'm Steria..., shh!"

Then she felt that Steria was pulling something of her out of her own body.

It was the first time she felt it.

Her shimmering shadow entered her steria's field of vision.

why?

She said that it was the straight sunlight that was shining on her now, not the flaming torch that shook her body.

Something was wrong with her.

Then Steria's gaze went up from her own trembling shadow to the foot of this side that was treading on it, and from his foot to his leg, and finally stopped on his face.

When she saw his face, Steria felt her goosebumps appear on her own body.

The eyes on the other side of her were like beasts greedy for food.

She felt a greater fear in the steria than she had felt before in it.

Now, in Steria's eyes, Lee Kyeon looked like a demon king, not a prince riding a white horse."Kyaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Stelia felt fear and dread at the change in her side, and she ran away from the spot as fast as she could.

Her breath came up to her chin again, but she didn't stop her steps.

She felt the gaze around her, but now was not the time to care.

She wanted to go back to the manor's mansion, but she didn't know the way, so she just ran blindly.

Eventually, Steria could not beat her speed and fell to the floor of her.

Her hair was blown away by the wind, her dress was a mess, and blood leaked from her palms on the floor as she fell.

But she was in a state of terrifying fear that she could not feel the pain in her palm.

"Gong...! Stelia-sama!"

Then her nanny in her steria found her, who knew her steria had disappeared and had left her mansion to find her.

Her nanny, who pierced her straight through her people, approached her to her steria and put her in her arms, patted her on the back, soothing her.

"Black, huh ah ah ah!"

Steria, feeling her familiar warmth, was relieved and buried her face in her nanny's shoulder and burst into tears she had been holding back.

And Stelia's finger, which was dyed black, entered her nanny's gaze.

It was then that her steria's body began to weaken.

* * *

"Steria-sama's symptoms are the same as those of the shadow disease you mentioned."

The first thing that came to mind when Hoya heard her name, Stelia, was the appearance of her wrapped in white all over her body.

"Steria-sama's body is dyed black most of the time."

She could see why she had her whole body covered in white.

The reason her steria wears her white cloth may be that her blackened body made her obsessed with contrasting colors.

“Hey, I have a favor to ask you.”

Hoya roughly predicted what Evan would ask of him.

It was probably not because I had to ask more about the Grim people and tell them about Princess Steria's past.

And Hoya had no intention of rejecting the request.

"Find the boy of the Grim tribe that Steria-sama met."

The request that came out of Evan's mouth was exactly what Hoya had expected.

[The quest 'Pure White Princess, Dark Princess' has occurred.]

[Pure white princess, dark princess]

Stelia Ruzeros, the only daughter of Geoffrino, the only princess of Ruzeros, who is also called the pure white princess.

There is actually darkness beneath the pure white fabric that she always wears around her body.

The black spots that started staining her body from her fingertips and toes 10 years ago are now encroaching on her whole body.

The elders of her central temple reached out to her to heal her, but they could not heal her.

Evan, the horseman, was also unable to determine the cause.

And by chance, Evan found out about Princess Steria's illness and her information and treatment.

Princess Steria's disease is Shadow Bottle.

Help Evan cure Princess Steria's illness.

Completion Requirements: Cure Steria's Shadow Disease.

Success Reward: ???

Failure Penalty: Steria's illness is made worse.

"We must find it as soon as possible."

Not sure how long Steria would hold up, she needed to find her target as quickly as possible.

Although Evan did not know it, Hoya knew a person who could have guessed that she was a boy from the Grim tribe that Stelia had met.

It's an almost certain guess... but I think it's necessary to check it first.

"... May I borrow her next door for a while?"

Hoya apologized to Evan and entered the next room and summoned Lee Kyeon using the benefactor of the Grim clan.

"I'm sorry for calling you all of a sudden."

"No, it's fine. Is something going on?"

“That…, is there any other child from the Grim clan who went out to the city 10 years ago?”

Hoya asked Lee Kyeon a question before telling him about Steria, just in case.

If he instilled hope in Lee Kyeon that he could meet a girl, but if Steria was not the girl Lee Kyeon had met, he would be very disappointed.

There shouldn't have been any crashing and crashing again.

"No, I'm the only one I know."

"okay."

This made sure

The boy from the Grim clan that Stelia met is Lee Kyeon, and the girl Lee Kyeon met is Stelia.

Hoya took off his mask, made eye contact with Lee Kyeon, held his two hands and said,

"Here, if... If you could meet the girl back then, if you could come and treat me right now, what would you do?"

"Yes?"

In response to Hoya's sudden question, Lee Kyun vomited a rebuttal.

Why are you asking such a question?

Looking at Hoya's eyes and actions, it didn't seem like it was just a question.

'no way.......'

I had a thought about this one.

If, really, if you can do that, your options have already been decided.

"I'll see you. I really want to meet you and treat you."

Hoya laughed at Lee Kyeon's words, nodded his head, and took him out of the room.

As the benefactor of the Grim tribe, you can summon the Grim tribe for only 30 minutes a day.

And now we have 25 minutes left.

If all of that time has passed, you have to go back to the dark forest and bring this one back or wait for tomorrow.

Solving the quest as quickly as possible was good for both Lee Kyun and Stelia.

* * *

"Steria-nim, Evan-nim and Hoya-nim want to meet Steria-nim urgently."

Stelia tilted her head at the nanny's voice she heard right behind the knock.

"Evan-sama...?"

Why did he even come here with Hoya at this time?

Originally, it was late, so she would have asked to come the next day, but Steria became slightly interested in the combination.

"Please take me to the reception room."

"all right."

Stelia covered her tanned hands with her white gloves that she had placed on her little table and pulled her veil over to cover her darkened face.

Only the elders of her central temple, her own brother, Abamama, and some of her servants working in the royal castle know her true self, veiled in her pure white cloth.

She couldn't walk down the hallway without a blindfold.

Stelia walked slowly to her parlor, escorted by her knight, gazing at her surroundings with her hazy eyes.

In her drawing room, Evan and Hoya had arrived and were waiting for her.

The person wearing the puffy robe was Evan, and the person with green hair was Hoya.

Steria bites her knights, leaving only Evan, Hoya, and Steria in the drawing room.

"I'm sorry for coming so late."

"It's okay, Evan."

Evan sent her apology and greetings to her Stelia, and Hoya also handed her her greetings.

After a brief greeting each other, Steria asked Evan why he had come.“Can I know why you two came to me at a time like this?”

"I have come to cure Steria-sama's illness."

"Yes?"

At Evan's unexpected words, Steria's eyes, hidden under the veil, trembled slightly.

"Suddenly what... , uh, how are you treating me...?"

There were many people who had already been called in to treat Steria but could not find out the cause of the disease, and Evan was one of them.

So Steria did not have much hope that her disease would be cured.

However, when Evan's words came out of his mouth that he was going to be cured, anticipation rose in his heart.

Evan said, turning his gaze slightly to Hoya.

"You can take the veil off. I told Hoya everything."

Steria wondered if that adventurer could heal her at Evan's words.

So he hesitated and took off the veil with trembling hands.

She could see her face darkened in her spots under the pink hair that had been hidden under her veil.

Her hazy eyes that could be seen through them couldn't focus properly.

Seeing her like that, Lee Kyeon's face in Hoya's shadow was contorted with guilt and sorrow.

The fact that she had let her go until she was that way has made his heart ache.

Evan and Hoya had the same sad expression on Stelia's face.

"...if it's not excuse me, could you please close your eyes for a moment?"

"Yes? But..."

"It's okay, Stelia-sama."

When her Stelia hesitated at Hoya's request, Evan persuaded her.

At Evan's words, Steria trusted him and Hoya and closed her eyes.

When she confirmed that she had closed her eyes, she cautiously stepped out from the shadow of this side Hoya.

She wanted to meet her and treat her, but she didn't have the courage to face it in person.

I felt like I couldn't stand it if I was given the same gaze as I did back then.

So she asked Hoya to close her Stelia's eyes.

"......"

Lee Kyeon stretched out her hand towards Stelia's shadow.

As his hand touched her shadow, both shadows flickered, and the black spot on Steria's face slowly diminished in size.

"this is......."

"You can't open your eyes."

"Yes? Yes."

Oddly enough, with her body feeling alive, Steria tried to open her eyes, and Hoya stopped it.

The black spots on Steria's face quickly disappeared.

However, as if not everything was resolved, Lee Gyun did not take her hand off her shadow.

As time passed, she removed her hand from Steria's shadow and returned to the shadow of Lee Kyeon-eun Hoya.

"Steria, I'm going in."

At that time, Geoffrino, who heard that Evan and Hoya had come to Stelia together, wondered what was going on, and arrived at the drawing room looking for the three of them.

Inside the door he opened, an unbelievable sight unfolded.

Geoffrino's eyes, seeing it, opened wide and showed no sign of closing.

Steria's face, which had begun to stain black, had returned to its original state.

“Abama-sama? Hoya-sama, how long do you have to close your eyes……”

"S..., Stelia!"

Geoffrino immediately ran to Stelia and hugged her tightly.

The king's torso was nothing.

The daughter's illness was healed, but there was no father who could stand the overwhelming emotions.

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