Chapter 82: Volume 6 - CH 18

I Will Avoid the Male Lead and Make a Harem

Why is there suddenly a fire?

I felt sorry for Shannon, who was crying and holding her arms. Her bony shoulders trembled.

Despite her rough demeanor, she was a child who relied heavily on others.

“Heuk… sob…… this stuttering girl has turned into a crazy witch!”

“……” I discovered a candle on the quilt leaves that I had discarded. Smoke was still coming from the wick that had been turned off.

Shannon had clearly knocked over the candlestick while pushing me.

“You truly sound like a lunatic witch. It’s all your own fault.”

I took up the candle and held it up to my eyes.

“You were the one who pushed me.”

“…Heuk, sob! Take that away!”

Shannon, whose face was covered in tears, nervously threw away the candlestick.

‘Ha.’

Should I just leave like this and pretend I’m oblivious?

But if I leave like this, there will be no one to help Shannon.

At my request to not to come in at all, Valhail did not open the door even after hearing Shannon’s screams.

‘Yes, pretty me, let’s hold it in.’

I reminded myself that this bad-tempered child was only seventeen years old.

I feel sorry for her shivering from burns……

I sat next to Shannon who was crying and took the magical crystal from my arm pocket.

“You.”

Shannon looked like she wanted to push me away, but at the same time, she desperately wanted someone to be next to her.

“Do you know who the only person who can save you in this castle is?”

Taking a glance at the purple stone in my hand, Shannon looked up blankly at me.

“It’s me.”

“……”

“If you have a brain, think about it. I’m really the only one who can save you, Shannon. Don’t you think so?”

Cedric pities her, but he wouldn’t have moved if I hadn’t pushed him back.

Shannon has a guardian by her side who is related to her by blood.

But, in the end, that person is no different than a stranger, and her compassion for others comes to an end.

“If it’s not me, who will put a stop at your marriage, and who will treat you like this. Don’t you agree?”

Shannon’s gaze was fixed on her forearm, which was healing from the burn.

She looked very surprised.

‘Even I found it amazing as well.’

The burn marks on her forearm vanished quickly.

Shannon couldn’t take her gaze away from the sequence of my actions as I put back the magical crystal into my arm pocket.

Her eyes looked like someone who had seen a cult leader who had just performed a miracle.

Her gaze shifted from my hands to my eyes in surprise.

“You… you have the strength to do that?”

……She didn’t listen to me at all.

“I am done. Talking with you is useless, as always.”

“Selina!”

Shannon rushed after me as I turned around annoyed.

“How did you acquire divine power? Do I need to keep going to the temple? Do I only have to tithe and pray?”

Shannon fretted as I tried to leave her bedroom.

And, as is her habit, she grabbed my wrist.

“Let go.”

Shannon quickly let go of her hand, as if she were a soldier with strict military discipline.

“From now on, if you touch my body, I won’t let you go.”

Shannon nodded enthusiastically.

“Please tell me, Selina. How can I acquire divine power?”

“Are you curious?”

“Yes!”

I had the impression that I knew what this poor girl was thinking.

Shannon had a gut feeling about her fate. That Camilla would eventually marry her away.

“Do you want to become a priest?”

You can avoid marriage by becoming a priest.

‘That’s why she pretended to be a desperate believer all of a sudden.’

Now, I understand.

When I asked William to look into it, the Marquis of Whiterot had murdered his wives, which the northerners were well aware of.

Even so, no one dares to say anything because he was known for his power as a brutal northern ruler.

Camilla chose him, however, because he intended to seek assistance when Adrian later took the Knights of White Eagle.

Knowing that this marriage would fail in the end, she was willing to be sold on behalf of her one and only brother.

Shannon was already aware of this.

‘Perhaps Camilla purposefully raised Shannon to be dependent and sensitive.’

Shannon’s dedicated maid had died as a result of my actions, and Camilla and Shannon’s maternal bond had been separated.

If it weren’t for me, Emma would have encouraged Shannon to get married.

Because all the maids are Camilla’s people.

‘If it continues like this, Shannon will eventually marry……’

Just like in the original.

Even after losing her husband and returning to her hometown, she was sold again by her biological mother.

An abandoned girl who can’t stand on her own because she has nothing to rely on.

I felt sorry for this child.