I Became a Tyrant’s Maid - ✿ dusk blossoms ✿

I clutched the book tightly to my chest and followed behind Ruel.

However, it didn’t take long before I was backing away in shock at the sight outside the palace.

‘Crazy, this is… like a ghost town.’

It was worse than Tundera where I had briefly visited.

The once lively civilian houses were filled with an inexplicably dark atmosphere.

Perhaps they had lit many candles emitting faint light to avoid magical beasts, as red light leaked through tightly closed windows.

“Let’s go somewhere where there are no people.”

Ruel raised his sword and looked around quickly.

Cold winds blew through the empty streets.

It seemed autumn was approaching.

“Stay close and follow me.”

“I’m already doing that.”

Since the elven residential area, there had been no significant changes in the diary.

It wouldn’t answer any questions and kept displaying the last sentence it had shown.

[System: The vaccine, in accordance with Article 1, Paragraph 1 of the Dimensional Management Law, eliminates and tracks a portion (12%) of the divine power of the first-class criminal Morisias.]

If 12% had been eliminated, would Morisias completely disappear if the remaining 88% were found and eliminated?

“Ugh, my head hurts.”

“There’s one over there.”

While I was holding my head, Ruel pointed with his sword behind a tree-sized object.

Soon, a fierce energy emanated from Ruel.

Now I know for certain. This energy is mana.

But it was somehow different from Calix’s.

Does mana’s energy differ from person to person?

Anyway, Ruel asked while taking a perfect stance for an attack.

“What do you plan to do now?”

“Wait and see.”

I opened the diary and shouted.

“Vaccine! Work!”

“Pardon?”

Ruel asked with a blank face at my outburst, and the diary in question showed no reaction.

What’s this? Is it completely useless?

“…The magical beast seems to have noticed us.”

Ruel said troubled. As he said, the magical beast was expanding its body and approaching us.

I thought hard.

How did the diary work in the elven residential area? It definitely floated in the air and…

Whatever, I don’t know.

“Miss Rose, what are you doing…!”

“Take this!”

With a whatever-happens-happens attitude, I threw the diary right at the magical beast’s face.

That’s when it happened.

The diary spread open in mid-air with a swooshing sound and began to suck in the black energy just like before.

“What on earth is…”

“Don’t ask me because I don’t know either, Lord Ruel.”

“What are you saying?”

“Don’t try to understand it, just accept it. The situation seems to be turning more positive than I thought.”

Soon, the diary stopped, and the magical beast, having lost all its black light, collapsed.

As it lost its original form and crumbled onto the ground, Ruel frowned and approached it.

“…It turned into soil.”

Ruel said while poking the remains of the magical beast with the tip of his sword, and I picked up the diary that had fallen to the ground.

[System: The vaccine, in accordance with Article 1, Paragraph 1 of the Dimensional Management Law, eliminates and tracks a portion (0.03%) of the divine power of the first-class criminal Morisias.

Currently, 12.03% of Morisias’s divine power has been eliminated. :)]

And I frowned.

It absorbed the magical energy of a house-sized magical beast and this is all it did?

“Why that expression?”

I tore at my hair. So now I have to capture all the magical beasts across the country? To fill up the 88%?

“I’m thinking, my lord. Could you please not talk to me for a moment?”

I opened the diary and stared intently at the pages.

What exactly does this system want me to do?

“Do you really have to think here? If His Highness finds out that you and I went outside the palace alone, he will surely be angry.”

Ruel urged anxiously. But I couldn’t just move on after seeing what just happened.

“Let’s experiment with one more beast before we go.”

“…Pardon?”

“Didn’t you see just now? If we can use this properly, His Highness will instantly rise as the empire’s hero!”

I stamped my feet. Regardless, this was a green light.

Whenever magical beasts rush toward Calix, I could secretly throw the diary from behind him, and the beasts would turn into soil.

To others, it would look like Calix was performing some kind of magic.

Wait, wouldn’t even magicians be unable to do this?

“…Miss Rose. May I ask you one thing?”

“Yes?”

Ruel gazed at me quietly. As if hesitating about something, he pressed his lips together before finally speaking.

“Why are you so dedicated?”

“Pardon?”

When I asked back with genuine confusion, he flustered and added in a rambling manner.

“Well, the truth is, when His Highness first met you, he wanted to kill you. And I also suspected you and was disrespectful…”

Ruel seemed uncomfortable and couldn’t meet my eyes. I stared blankly into space at his words.

“Well…”

It was a difficult question to answer.

The reason I stay by Calix’s side? When I tried to explain, there were too many reasons to organize.

If at first it was sympathy because I felt sorry for Calix, now it’s…

Shaking my head at the rising thoughts, I said to Ruel.

“Why does that matter now? Let’s just check one more beast and go.”

“…This is a secret from His Highness.”

“Of course.”

***

“D-Didn’t you say we would keep it a secret!”

“…Secret?”

I made an apologetic gesture to Ruel and continued speaking to Calix.

“It seems my diary has an effect on magical beasts.”

“…How do you know that?”

Calix looked back and forth between me and Ruel with a crumpled face.

He was definitely asking while knowing everything.

I laughed and answered.

“I went out for a bit last night…”

“Are you insane?”

Calix jumped up from his seat and grabbed both my shoulders.

“Hahaha, unfortunately, I’m in my right mind, Your Highness. Would you please sit back down?”

“Are you crazy? You’re saying you went outside the palace at night where magical beasts are swarming to experiment with the power of your damn diary!”

Calix shouted fiercely, but I gently pushed him away with my finger and calmly said.

“Since it was dangerous, I went with Lord Ruel.”

“…Now that’s… what…”

“I thought Your Highness wouldn’t give permission even if I asked.”

“Knowing that, you still!”

I patted Calix’s arm soothingly and sat him back down. Is that what’s important right now, human?

“Your Highness, could you please focus on the fact that my diary is effective in suppressing magical beasts?”

“You, you!”

Calix lost his words and glared at me, his eyes blazing with fury.

“Anyway, just like when we met the elves, my diary absorbed the magical energy.”

“Don’t you ever think about hiding things from me? That guy is here too!”

When Calix pointed at Ruel, he complained with an expression of unjust accusation.

“Why me? Is this something I shouldn’t know?”

“That’s not what I meant right now!”

I covered the excited Calix with a blanket and spoke calmly.

“You know I’m on your side anyway. I don’t see what’s wrong with revealing my secret to Your Highness. So please calm down and listen to me till the end.”

At my words, Calix trembled even with his hands.

Though his anger didn’t seem to have subsided, he became a bit more docile, reluctantly preparing to hear what I had to say.

“This is all new to me, too, so I don’t know exactly what’s happening. You know I come from another world, right?”

At my words, Ruel’s expression turned harsh.

His face said, “What nonsense is that?”

“Pardon? I thought Miss Rose was summoned to Morisias…”

“Yes, that’s right. Like a demon from the magical era.”

“…A demon?”

At Ruel’s words, Calix glared at him and said.

“If you’re going to talk nonsense, leave.”

“…Well. You don’t look much like a demon physically, Miss Rose.”

I kindly explained to Ruel.

“Morisias brought me here from another world to change his predetermined fate. So, I’m not sure, but it seems the rules of my world have been disrupted.”

I opened the diary and showed it to Ruel.

“Can you see?”

To which Ruel shook his head and replied.

“…It’s blank.”

What? So again, it’s not visible to other people?

“Ah, I see.”

“…That’s not something you just accept.”

At Ruel’s words, I shrugged.

“Anyway, isn’t this a good thing? You saw it too, my lord. We experimented on three beasts, and they all turned to soil…”

“Three beasts? Are you really insane? One is dangerous enough, but three? Ruel, why didn’t you stop her!”

“Your Highness, as Miss Rose said, it turned out well, so-“

“What turned out well!”