Chapter 147🎀

Chapter 147

On the way back to the Peris mansion.

After finally confronting the villainess and settling the score, a strange sense of lightness washed over me.

'It's over at last.'

I'd forcibly stripped Nanael of her powers, so she wouldn't be able to wield any spells anymore.

The crown prince would handle the aftermath from here, which meant my part in all this was done.

Right after I'd first recalled my reincarnation, I hadn't even wanted to tread anywhere near Nanael's shadow.

Yet here I was, having come this far in my efforts to escape Alferen's poisoning and my own grim prison ending.

I'd thought I was just scrambling desperately to save my own skin, but looking back, I'd managed to protect quite a bit more than that.

I gently stroked Nocturne, who lay asleep on my lap.

Having gorged himself to the brim, Nocturne was slumbering so profoundly—with…