The Executed Saint Reincarnates as a Princess and is Loved by Her Older Brothers - Episode 28

Perhaps it was because I was thinking of my homeland. I had a nostalgic dream.

In the midst of drowsiness, a sea of white fills Angela’s closed vision.

Inside the temple filled with silence, Juliet, dressed in simple robes, is kneeling.

Juliet clasped her hands in front of the altar and offered her prayers devoutly. It was a daily ritual she never missed.

“Saint Juliet!”

The ones who noisily barged into the temple were the courtiers serving the royal family. They immediately told Juliet to head to the palace.

“Hurry up! The queen has summoned you!”

It was more of a command than a request, delivered in a high-handed tone. One of the aides nudged the bewildered Juliet with his bare hand.

“But… I have a treatment scheduled after this…”

“Charity to the common people doesn’t matter at all!”

That day, an elderly woman visited the temple intending to receive treatment for her illness, but her attendants arrogantly informed her that it was canceled.

What a selfish saint, the old woman complained, as Juliet hurriedly made her way to the palace.

What was commanded was the healing of the queen, who had been suffering from prolonged illness.

The queen’s chamber, to which she was led, was dark and filled with stagnant air.

The queen, lying on her splendid bed, looked up at Juliet and sternly reprimanded her.

“Please heal me quickly. If you’re a saint, you should be able to do it, right?”

The queen seemed to be in such a serious condition that she couldn’t muster any strength. Her dark, sunken eyes looked extremely heavy, and her skin was dry and rough.

Juliet took the queen’s hand and poured her healing powers into it with all her might.

Direct all your strength towards the dark, tainted impurity within the queen’s body.

Eventually, the impurity was purified, and the queen was completely revitalized, but Juliet suffered from a strong backlash.

Even the next day, Juliet had not yet recovered and was enduring her malaise when the sound of heavy military boots echoed before her.

“Juliet! You false saint!”

The one who stepped in was Crown Prince Nathan.

“Capture him! He’s the criminal who plotted the great treason!”

Armed soldiers surrounded Juliet all at once.

“To kill our mother… the queen of this country, such a great sin that neither God nor the king would fear! Juliet, you are no longer a saint! You are a wicked witch!”

Nathan’s face, brimming with hatred, twisted grotesquely.

Even Nathan’s face, which looked down at Juliet, and the white hands that roughly bound her, were instantly swallowed by the sandstorm and became invisible.

“──!”

On the luxurious bed, Angela woke up.

“A dream…?”

The scene I just saw in my dream is still vividly spread out before me.

It was the memory of the moment just before Juliet died in her past life.

The day the saint’s power was bestowed for the queen, and the day the witch who killed the queen was condemned.

“Because I treated her…… the queen died……?”

Angela muttered in a daze.

That day, in the midst of such a sudden turn of events, I couldn’t verify the truth of anything.

I was captured without anyone listening to my side of the story and executed without question, so I haven’t had the time to pursue the truth until now, but looking back, it really is strange.

“No! I didn’t kill the queen!”

Angela got up with vigor.

“I didn’t harm the queen. I properly treated her!”

The reason I can think that way is that if the healing power didn’t reach the target, the user, Juliet, wouldn’t be tormented by the backlash.

The poured power merely passes through the opponent. Instead of having no effect, the saint does not experience the pain that comes as a cost.

However, even the next day, Juliet’s body felt heavy, and her head throbbed painfully, making it difficult for her to get up.

Even when the priest accused her of being a negligent saint, saying she was unworthy of her role, she was suffering from such a strong backlash that she couldn’t move at all.

That’s why I can confidently say that Juliet must have indeed repelled the disease that had taken hold of the queen that day.

If the queen, who was supposed to have been healed by the saint’s power, suddenly passed away, it can only be thought that someone else had a hand in it.

“Was the queen… murdered by someone…?”

Angela’s spine tingled.

Even though it’s not cold, I feel a chill and involuntarily shrug my shoulders.

“Is the Coral Kingdom… okay…?”

If Nathan still doesn’t know that the queen was assassinated and the saint was executed for a crime she didn’t commit.

Is that country, which is already said to be in decline due to natural disasters, going to be okay?

“……”

Angela is a princess of the empire. She is not the saint of the kingdom.

However, it might mean something that Angela was reborn with Juliet’s memories.

Even if the current Angela is not the real saint, her concern for the people of the Koryu Kingdom has not changed.

“I want to go to the Koryu Kingdom…”

The wish I had kept in my heart spilled out of my mouth.

My chest is restless and painful. Angela wiped her forehead, drenched with sweat from sleep.