The Falsely Executed Marquis’ Daughter Wants to Live Peacefully with Fluffy God

Vol. 3 - Chapter 143 - Katariona Goes to the Past Before Her Time Travel (Part 1)

Finally, we can know.

I didn't think I needed to know, especially since I was going to start my life all over again.

If I could take a different path and live a peaceful life, I would be fine with that.

But things happened differently than in my previous life.

I met wonderful friends and mentors.

The days I have lived up to now have been sometimes turbulent, but they have also been full of fun.

Above all, I have met people who I consider to be very important.

And I look forward to the life I will lead with that person from now on.

However, fate is cruel.

We are about to cross the same path again as in my previous life.

We who have escaped from the belt of reincarnation are now facing the moment of my execution before the time-reversal.

It is a moment I cannot forget even if I tried.

Seventeen-year-old me standing before the decapitation table.

My hair was gray like an old woman's and my face was deformed from the pain I had suffered.

I was not given enough to eat, and my body was so thin that I did not look like a seventeen-year-old girl.

"How cruel ......!"

Leon muttered in a hushed voice.

The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that the executioner is not a woman, but a man.

The reason why the executioner is not able to see this place from where the crown prince and Charlotte are located is because it is a blind spot. However, we can see it clearly from here.......

"Yurie. If you find it hard to watch the moment of your execution, just turn away."

Ron-sama expressed concern for me, but I refused.

"I cannot turn away. I was executed for a crime I did not commit, and I was going to stand tall with my chest out until the moment of my death. But I think the truth is that I was trembling because I was afraid to die. Wasn't I crying unresolvedly at the end? I was doubting myself. That's why I had to see it through to the end ...... to see if I was able to die with dignity like an ...... aristocratic daughter."

A warm and fluffy arm enveloped me.

"Rio. You were magnificent in your previous life. Look. You are proudly defying Charlotte. You have a strong inner strength, Rio."

"You don't look like a person whose candle of life is about to be extinguished. Yurie is certainly strong."

Leon and Ron-sama both showered me with compliments as I was dying.

"Heh. Did you hear that? Me. The gods are praising me. I've never been so honored."

I was going to watch carefully, but my eyes clouded over.

Then the moment came.

The blade of the decapitator shone dully.

--It fell

"Rio!"

A voice descended from overhead.

This voice .......

That voice is .......?

The voice I heard just before I died.

The voice that called me.

I thought that voice was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

But ...... I was wrong.

"It was you. Leon."

It was the last time I heard my beloved's voice.

Even in my previous life, I was happy until the end.

Because the love of my life was so close to me.

That's good enough for me.

"Hmm? The executioner never takes off his hood. I thought there was a rule that they weren't supposed to take it off until after they left the executioner's box."

Ron-sama's words brought me back to myself.

I had to check!

He must be the one who slipped into the same breach along with me.

The executioner removed his hood and placed it over my body.

It is as if he is mourning. The executioner mourns for the guilty. Why?

Eventually, he stood up and looked up at the sky.

"Who is that man?"

The next moment, with a tremendous roar, lightning struck the execution platform.

The lightning destroyed the execution platform as well as the executioner.

The people gathered around the execution platform screamed and ran for cover.

"This lightning has magical powers."

When Ron muttered, Leon nodded his head in affirmation.

"It's not a natural lightning strike. It did not fall naturally."

Lightning charged with magic power. Did someone create it with magic?

I gasped.

Among those who possess the wind attribute, there are those who have magical powers that include the lightning attribute, which is rare.

I only knew one person who possessed such magical attributes.

A person who appeared at the place where the execution platform was located.

"I didn't make it....... ...... in time."

The person who appeared dashingly with beautiful golden hair, while looking at the execution table for a moment and muttering so with a sorrowful expression, was--.

"The crown prince. No. Seize the former crown prince, Richard, and Charlotte!"

The voice was clear and majestic.

"Chris!"

Thank God! Chris was safe. She was alive.

"I knew it was Chris."

Leon laughed.

I was relieved again when I saw the person who appeared behind Chris.

"Uncle ....... Thank God you're okay. I'm glad to see you're okay, too."

Francis Stiaato Paulford, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Findalia, that person.

Although he looks a little old, due to the hardships he has endured, he is indeed my uncle.

"Chris! What do you mean by arresting us? How did you escape from the room with the magical inhibition!"

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is indignant, his face contorted at the sudden appearance of Chris.

However, Chris's attitude toward her brother was cold and not in the least bit frightened.

"Foolish brother. You were deceived by such a woman and abandoned your duties as the crown prince. You are not qualified to be the crown prince! Guards! Seize him!"

The guards surrounded the Crown Prince. The unexpected turn of events left the Crown Prince with no time to fight back.

"Shut up! I am the crown prince! Chris, you have no authority to do this! What is this about captivity?"

Chris held a letter in her hand and spread it out in front of His Highness the Crown Prince.

" ...... that's ......."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, whose face was distorted with anger, had a puzzled expression on his face.

"It is a letter authorized by His Majesty the King. He has given me full authority in this matter."

Chris's uncle lined up one step behind him.

"I regret to inform you that you are no longer the Crown Prince. As of this day, you are no longer the Crown Prince."

Uncle held up the document.

The Crown Prince's lips trembled as he looked at it.

"A single piece of paper like this is enough to remove me from my position as Crown Prince?"

"It is rust from your own body. Your Highness."

Next to His Highness the Crown Prince, who had fallen to his knees, Charlotte was shaking violently.

"You are kidding me! If Rick is no longer the Crown Prince, I can't be the Crown Princess!"

"Lot ...... tie...... what? You told me you loved me as myself."

The crown prince was clearly upset, unable to believe Charlotte's words and actions as she screamed and became distraught.

Perhaps Charlotte has never shown her true self in front of the Crown Prince.

"I'm not interested in you if you're not the Crown Prince. I dreamed of being the bride of the Crown Prince. I always wanted to be a princess."

Charlotte looked down at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with a sneer.

"So ...... you ......."

The Crown Prince slumped to the ground with his hands on both sides of his head. This is Charlotte's real self, and it seems to have been a shock to him.

"This is the true colors of that woman. You've been beautifully deceived,......, my foolish brother. Take him away."

The guards stood up and took the Crown Prince away.

Chris turns away from the Crown Prince and directly confronted Charlotte this time.

"Charlotte Campbell. You are guilty of seducing my brother, the Crown Prince, and framing Rio for a crime she did not commit."

"I did nothing wrong. And there is no proof of that."

It's just like Charlotte. ......

At this stage, she is only the Crown Prince's fiancée, but does she already think she is the Crown Princess?

"There is proof. Do you think I would say such a thing without proof?"

Charlotte's shoulders trembled.

"The man who tried to assassinate you has told me the truth. You know what that means, don't you?"

The assassin with the dagger that was coated with Blue Snow Rose poison. That man supposedly made a false confession that he was hired by me to try to take Charlotte's life. ......

"Wa-! I don't know what you're talking about! I'll file a nobleman's suit for libel!"

"Trial by nobility? Pfft! Hohohohoho......"

As Charlotte desperately protested, Chris suddenly started laughing hysterically.

"What's so funny!"

"Oh, my. Excuse me."

Chris smiled coldly at Charlotte.

"Charlotte," she continued, "by the time you go to trial, you'll have already been convicted of a crime. Because by the time you stand trial, you will no longer be an aristocrat."

"What did you say ......? What do you mean?"

"Baron Campbell has just been arrested. He's been captured for the crime of endangering the nation. He will soon be tried, stripped of his nobility, and decapitated."

"No way! What did Father do? Tell me what my father has done!"

"What did he do? How could you not know? You used your father to get the Blue Snow Rose."

From the way Chris talks, she must have already done a lot of research.

Baron Campbell's scandals. Charlotte's crime.

Charlotte must have sensed it somehow. That there is already no way out of it. ......

As proof, she is getting paler and paler.

"It's ...... true that my father gave me ...... blue snow roses, but I didn't know that blue snow roses were poisonous, and I certainly didn't know what he did with them!"

"Not knowing when to quit!"

A loud noise echoed through the area, so loud that the whole place shook. It was the voice of an enraged Chris.

Chris took a step toward Charlotte.

"You framed Rio for a crime she didn't commit because you want to be the crown princess!"

She took another step forward.

"My best friend lost her life because of your stupid dream!"

Charlotte fell on her bottom, overwhelmed by Chris's power.

"You took someone's life and you're still trying to get away with it!"

"Hic!"

Charlotte was almost trampled when "dang"! Chris stomped her foot.

"Your Highness, Your Highness. In the meantime, ......"

Chris grabbed Charlotte's trembling, shaking arms, but Uncle stopped him.

"Guards! Lock Charlotte Campbell in a magical inhibitor and take her to the Magic Academy."

Uncle gave the order to the guards on Chris's behalf.

Soon after, Charlotte was taken away by the guards after being locked.

"It's done, isn't it?"

"Yes. But it was too late. Rio has been executed."

Chris moved to the execution platform with wind magic.

My body and head were lying under the destroyed execution platform.

Someone must have moved me just before the lightning struck.

"Rio ......"

Chris put the cape that she was wearing over my body.

" ......I'm sorry I didn't get to you in time ......I .......I wanted to save you ......!"

Chris hugged my body wrapped in the cloak and began to cry aloud.

I watched her from afar.

Don't cry, Chris. You punished them for me.

I felt something on my cheeks.

"Rio. You have a good friend."

Leon pulled me into a hug and stroked my head.

"Yes, I have a dear friend. I want to see Chris when I go back to the present timeline. I want to give her a big hug."

"If so, I will especially move you to Chris's location."

I laughed as I cried because Ron-sama said such a thing.

"Ron-sama," I said. "It is the middle of the night over there."

"Pft-! I know it is."

When I returned to my current timeline dawn had just arrived, I decided to ask my uncle if I could go up to the royal palace to see Chris.

I'm sure that both he and Chris would be surprised but agree to my sudden request.

I am sure that both my uncle and Chris will accept this sudden and unexpected request.

And I will thank them both for their help.

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TL: We finally find out what happened after Rio left! —Bittersweet feelings. Chris in that timeline simply makes my heart ache for her, but I still relished in knowing the Crown Prince and Charlotte are getting their just deserves.

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