My Man Is A Villain, So Am I!

Chapter 38 - 38: Oracle And Sacrifice(4)

Teleportation Error! Error!! The destined location changed to...

"Where...am I??" Anette groaned putting her hand on her dizzy head looking around her surrounding with her blurry eyes.

"Hello...princess." a person lurked from the shadow of the abandoned building with a collar in their hand full of scar and the other hand was missing and covered with the cloth made of fur having the pattern of a zebra.

"Who...are you??" Anette felt something was off, but couldn't confirm it at the moment. From one quick look, she was really in the southern kingdom. Although the place she thought she would be transported to was the town square and she ended up at the creepy place instead.

"Your highness, this is your birthplace...your citizen was suffering all over the empire and you...you're going crazy over love elsewhere."

"I asked...who are you???" Anette got up glaring into that man's yellow eyes gathering her raw strength in her grip to defense herself.

"I'm a person living peacefully here...until all the magic inside our empire disappears..."

"Our empire never used magic!!"

"We use it!! Our raw strength was our magic until it was taken away from us all of the sudden."

"What do you mean??"

"Everyone...even your family, all of us lost our superhuman strength after you left. Our empire tried to prevent the information from leaking out, that was why no one came for you...we weren't even allowed to get out of this empire..."

"So you're the one sending me the letter?"

"That's the only way...to bring you back here--"

"Liar, you were the one saying we couldn't get out of the empire and how did you deliver the letter??" she dashed to punch him right in the face but he vanished right before the blow, the abandoned building collapsed into pieces with one of her hit.

"So it's really true...you're the only one who still has the power."

"I don't give a damn about you, but now I'm relieved that nothing happened to my father as you said."

"What're you saying??? Are you crazy?? The power was all we have...without it...we...we're nothing."

"No! Our empire survived without the magic ever since thousands of years ago and losing the superhuman power...we will have a way to survive just like we always did."

"Urgh...you really annoyed me!!! I want your power, damn it!!" he dashed to Anette swinging the blade right under her throat, she jumped up in the air and kicked him breaking one or two of his ribs in the process.

"You're not our people."

"Haha...haha haha hahaha..." the guy snickered and transformed to his original self right in front of Anette.

His laughing voice turned to sweet like a woman, he turned into a woman with black hair lying down, her eyes were completely black with a unique mark on them.

Anette took many steps back being cautious since she had no idea what kind of collar that person was holding the whole time.

"Princess Athena...give me your power easily...or else...I will--"

"No."

"Listen to me, damn it."

"No."

"Jellal!!" Anette's eyes shook as she mentioned that name to her, she clenched her fist with the killing intent showing everywhere.

"It's our business...don't involve another person."

"What do you mean...princess?? He followed you here in our empire...he must have loved you so much...but too bad for him, our empire won't be welcoming him warmly at the moment."

Booommm

She turned her head looking at the town square, red roses which were the signature of the Mortel family were everywhere, archers were shooting at the man escaping from all of them, it was Jellal.

"Why did he--"

She finally came back to her situation when she heard the sudden footstep toward her, when she turned back to that woman, their eyes locked with each other.

Anette was stunned, she suddenly felt weak like all her energy was draining out of her body and all of her sense vanished. Her eyes had the same mark imprinted in them.

Lost Magic: Hypnosis Command1

"Athena...give up your will. Listen to me. Put on the collar and do what I order. You're my servant. Repeat after me...you're my servant."

"I'm your...servant." Anette's hands and lips were trembling, as she tried to escape from the spell, she couldn't resist the woman's words. The collar was put on her neck.

Once that is wrapped around her neck, a leash with the yellow light attached to the woman's hand from her collar.

"Now, sit." Anette did as the woman said.

"Stick out your tongue."  she also did with her tears falling out losing her pride in that woman.

"Poor princess...I'm Kira...I will never lose. Before we go to that place, I really want to see you struggling to fight the one you love...it'll be super interesting."

"...no...anything...but..."

"Oho?? Still can talk??"

Anette was shocked down to her spine in every inch of her body, a scream escaped from her lip as she couldn't handle the shock.

"Anette, go kill Jellal."

"...yes, lady Kira." Anette got up, the leash disappeared as she jumped from one block to one block toward Jellal.

All the warrior of her home country was surprised to see their princess back in the empire and she still had superhuman power. They bowed at her on one knee with their hand on their chest.

But only Jellal noticed something was wrong with Anette as her eyes were different.

"Anette!!!"

"You fool, how dare you--"

"No one touch that guy..."

"But he invades our--"

"...except me. I'll kill him myself." Anette grabbed the spear of one of the warriors and cut down her long hair right where she stood on the roof. Her lovely pink hair blew along with the wind to Jellal who stood on the ground.

She touched her short pink hair and turned it red, her original hair color.

"Anette..." Jellal let out a sad tone calling her name like he used to but her bright smile was no longer there except the cold eyes staring down at him.

She cut her long dress to the length of her knee and then jumped down to Jellal. Jellal couldn't catch her as they have always done, he had to dodge her. Seeing the power of Anette, Jellal felt overwhelmed and hurt when he saw her fist bleeding.

Anette walked on the destroyed ground to Jellal, Jellal kept taking a step back and tried to wake her up.

"Anette...what's wrong?? I'm Jellal."

"Stop it. I never liked a person like you. How dare you invade my home country?! You impudent fool."

"Home country??" his words were cut off as he had to dodge her punch. When he thought he already dodged it, she came behind his back and dealt a huge blow at his back breaking his bone.

Jellal coughed blood as he was sent in the air for like so far and far away from where they were before.

Anette jumped after him into the sky, and then kicked him to the lake. Jellal almost lost consciousness from the two blows in the row.

He could use the magic to defend himself, but he didn't.

Jellal's head was bleeding, his clothes were covered with his blood and the mark of Anette's shoes. He put his hand on his stomach to lessen the pain looking at Anette walked in the shallow lake toward him. Her leg was shaking, her grip was still tight as she was about to deal the finishing blow.

"Anette...it's good...meeting you...teehee." he smiled through the pain and put his hand on her beautiful red hair and closed his eyes with a tear dropped on the lake.

"...teehee...?? Jellal...I...I..." Jellal already fainted with all the blood dripping from his body.

"...I'll give you my power." Anette said to the one behind Jellal in tears.

"Good...you should've done that in the first place."

"I don't know how to transfer my power..."

"Don't worry because I know." the leash appeared again, the woman put a handcuff on Anette's wrist. She pulled the leash and dragged Anette away from Jellal to where their operation of transfer magic took place.

"Look at him one last time because you won't see him again."

"Just go..." she was scared to look at Jellal's face for the last time, she walked away voluntarily.

In the palace of the southern empire,

"Your majesty, princess Athena has returned." the warrior came into the throne room with all the royal family was presented there.

"Where is she now??" the emperor asked loudly surprised knowing she had already come back after all these years.

"Her highness is fighting against the intruder, they fell into the Amour Lake."

"The sound earlier...does she still have her power??" the warrior nodded, "Yes, we all saw it."

"We won't be able to catch up with her...Ares, go take the army and take her back here safely." the empress told the first prince.

"Yes, mother." the first prince bowed at the empress on one knee, and soon after, the other two older brothers of Anette also bowed at the empress and emperor asking for their permission to go to their youngest sister.

"Be careful...Kira is out there...whatever you do, you must protect Anette from that woman."

"Yes, your majesty." they said in sync and went out together.

The rain kept pouring down on that day, Jellal was unconscious for hours but when he woke up again. He was on land different from where he was before he lost consciousness.

His wound was also treated.

"There's no way it is this man!!" he heard many people talking around the campfire.

"She rejected all the men in our empire for this man??"

"Ah...how low is our sister's standard??"

Jellal let out a groan as he tried to get up, his bone wasn't completely treated yet.

"Drink this, it'll help you better."

"Thank you..." he took it and drank in one gulp when he saw the similar faces in front of him with all the same red hair as Anette.

"Are you..."

"Yes, we're Athena's brother!!"

"I was going to ask are you the one who saved me though...but who's Athena??"

"Hah!!!!? You bastard, we lost our sister almost a decade and you don't even know her name???"

"Are you guys talking about Anette??"

"Ah, did she not tell you her real name??"

"...she--" Jellal couldn't reply, when he stopped and thought about all the years he spent with her. There was never a time she told him about her identity.

"You should ask her herself then. We won't go against our little sister."

"So...where is she now??" Ares asked Jellal and gave him the food.

Jellal shook his head not knowing either. The lightning strikes above those people including the army in the camp.

The light from the lightning made Jellal notice the mark on his hand, it was a heart shape mark.

Anette's second brother when he saw Jellal look clueless about the mark, opened his lip and told him, "That's the mark left by Athe--Anette, if we didn't see that mark, you wouldn't be here with us."

"What's this mark??"

"It's...erm...just ask Anette herself." he said in a nervous tone.

'Where...are you, Anette??'

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At the mountain,

"Anette, kill them all."

"Yes, my lady." Anette threw the spear right in the big monster's eyes. The fight have already gone by many hours, her body couldn't keep up with Kira's order any longer as scratches and cuts appeared everywhere on Anette's body.

Her skin looked pale covered in the red blood of the monster guarding the mountain.

The biggest monster swung its tail hit Anette right in her stomach, she was blown away from Kira. She was shocked right at that moment.

Kira looked indifferent sitting on one of the tree branches and kept enjoying the fight.

"Anette...hurry...I'm getting sleepy now."

"...ye--yes,  my lady." Anette got up from the ground in pain grabbing the big rock and threw it at the monster but it still couldn't win against the tough skin of that one horn monster.

'...at least Jellal will live...I already left that mark...' her heart ached as she already guessed what the future those two will have.

'Goodbye Jellal.'

To be continued...!