Transmigrated Into A Tragic Romance Fantasy

“How...?”

As if she had foreseen this, or orchestrated the entire situation, Anna’s expression was calm to the point of being serene.

......It completely ruined my Heroic Moment...I’m so embarrassed.

Wait, could it be that...

“You used us as bait?”

I asked with a suspicious look, but this frustrating woman simply sneered at me as if I said something absurd.

“Pff-. That’s a strange way to express your gratitude...Well, I guess I can’t expect even common decency from the likes of you.”

“...Look, woman. I’m just wondering how you found this place since there wasn’t a single detection device installed in these parts.”

“Why would you say that?”

“Ah?”

Anna smirked at me as she approached, raising her hand towards my chest.

Rachel twitched a bit, a sign she was about to stop whatever Anna was trying to do, but I raised my hand, stopping my Knight.

Then,

Anna’s hand touched my breast pocket, taking out a small bead.

A single pitch-black bead.

It looked like someone polished an obsidian.

Only after seeing it, I realized how the current situation came to be.

The pitch-black bead in Anna’s hand,

The bead that lost its original white color, was the mana detection device. Actually, that one was left over after we completed the quadrant for the day.

I had put it in my breast pocket to return it to Anna tomorrow.

That...Was certainly a series of coincidences that a bead was left over, and I was using the same coat since I didn’t go to bed tonight.

The situation couldn’t be something planned by Anna.

By chance, the remaining bead was in the breast pocket, and that bead must have absorbed Deron’s black magic and sent a signal to Anna.

While it’s hard to believe in this series of coincidences, it was thanks to them that I avoided dragging Deron to the frozen lake with me.

Anna kept waving the bead next to my face as if showing off with a nasty smirk.

“Can’t you see? Here’s the device.”

“...I forgot I had that.”

“So, don’t blame me if you became the bait, idiot.”

“I never blamed you. It’s just that it’s too strange to be a mere coincidence.”

Anna shrugs and puts the blackened bead into her pocket.

“That’s how life is. It’s also a strange coincidence that I ran into you in the vast Grand Duchy. Anyway, thanks for helping me catch him, so I’ll at least say thank you.”

Boom-!

Kwagagang-!

“Fuck you all! Let me out! Let me ouuuuuttt-!!!”

Amidst all this, Deron was still struggling inside the barrier.

No, to be precise, the black magic that had taken Deron as its host seemed to be raging.

Black tentacles kept spurting from his body, black smoke being produced with each breath he took, and a grotesque maw filled with sharp teeth that replaced almost half of Deron’s face.

He continued to yell and trash around, like an evil spirit about to be exorcised.

“Keuhaaaaak-!!”

Looking at the bastard, I muttered.

“But isn’t it too early to be confident that you’ve caught him?”

Baaaam-!

I don’t know much about magic, but even someone like me knows that barriers - No matter how fancy they look - aren’t indestructible.

They also consume the caster’s mana the longer they are active.

When Anna’s mana is exhausted, the barrier will be released, and since it’s not an absolute shield, the barrier may break depending on the bastard’s strength.

Kwakang-!

It was a lose-lose situation.

However, even at the worried question, Anna folded her arms with a carefree face and spoke while looking at the bastard inside the barrier.

“If this lady had been just a little bit late, then it would be as you said. When a Black Magic user goes Berserk, even barriers become useless.”

“If we leave him like that, won’t he go Berserk eventually?”

“Heh. That would be the case for ordinary barriers.”

Hm?

Are there barriers with special abilities among them?

Anna smiled with a somewhat condescending gaze and a look of considerable pride.

“This barrier purifies contaminated mana. It’s high-level magic that only experts within the association can cast! Perhaps this is your first time seeing it?”

A barrier that purifies Black Magic.

So that’s why he was screaming in agony and struggling like that.

Heh, I guess he was being exorcised in the end.

To think there’s a handy magic like that...Magic is really amazing huh?

-Kieek!

-Kureu-reuk!!

-Keu-reuk...!

Looking closely inside the barrier, I could see thin blue streaks connecting the bastard’s entire body as if electricity was flowing through.

And soon, those streaks began to thicken and intensify, spreading throughout the entire interior of the barrier.

“Keuhaaaaak—!!”

In contrast to the bastard’s growing screams, the black magic’s struggles gradually diminished.

The attacks that were pouring out as if to shatter the barrier also slowly lost strength, and then.

-Kieeek—!!

With a final scream, the blue streaks that had covered the inside of the barrier also began to clear.

At the same time, Anna snapped her fingers, and the dome-shaped barrier began to disappear in stages from the top.

And thus, Deron Caelid was revealed once again.

Black Magic slowly infiltrates the user’s body, taking them as host, corrupting their mind, and eventually leaving only instincts, turning them into a grotesque beast.

As if to prove this, symptoms such as protruding black blood vessels, blackened eyes, and decay and rotting in various parts appear.

Even before the barrier was erected, Deron was like that, but after the purification barrier was lifted, those symptoms were no longer visible on the bastard.

The black spots that had appeared like a rash, the black blood vessels that had spread like cracking lightning, and the eyes where black flames had been burning all disappeared, revealing clear blue pupils.

Of course,

“Fuck...! Fucking hell...!!”

The thick, murky anger contained in those clear blue eyes remained the same.

This dumbass kept waving his hands in the air, trying to manifest the black magic,

“Damn it-!! How dare you-! You’re mere insects-!!”

Kwajik!

The bastard broke a piece of lumber that was standing next to him, making the end sharp.

Then, he lets out a furious scream and charges at us.

“Die-!! You fucking bastards-!!!”

Of course,

Since he was devoid of black magic, he was no longer a threat.

I ignited the mana on my left hand, which wasn’t holding a sword.

As he is now, there’s no need for me to even use the sword.

After all, there was another person who had the right to decide his fate, not me.

Crackle-!

I shot a bolt of lightning at the charging moron.

“Keu-euk-!”

Bzzzz-!

The lightning bolt struck him directly in the center mass, making him collapse pathetically.

A little bit of smoke rose from his body.

As if signaling the end of a tenacious and vicious relationship.

Kyle Beallon, who was abandoned by his family, has his current status unknown.

Blund Rosfell, who after being abandoned by his family, lost his mind.

And.

The mastermind behind all the incidents.

From being the second son of a Ducal Family, raised with all luxuries available, to becoming the lowest criminal,

who would not receive any respect anywhere, collapsed at my feet.

It was a truly fitting end for the Villains who tortured the Heroine.

Also,

It was a truly futile yet splendid ending to put a complete period to a story of revenge.

The Villains self-destructed by the means of their own deeds, paying the debt they owed.

Of course, the perfect outcome was if they truly regretted and repented, but this much should be able to allow Lumia to heal her heart, breaking free of her painful past.

Anna asked, looking at the collapsed bastard.

“What are you going to do with him?”

She wanted to know how we would dispose of him.

Since he tried to massacre even the good citizens of the southern lands of the Grand Duchy using black magic, we would be in our right to simply kill him.

Looking at Lumia, I replied.

“We’ll have to hand him over to the one who wants to judge him.”

The person who wants to judge Deron Caelid more than anyone else.

Grand Duke Logan Winterfell.

I plan to take the bastard and face him.

I intend to hand him over so that he can directly ask about the bastard’s sins, and at the same time, I plan to gauge his intentions regarding Lumia.

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If Lumia officially joins our Culinary Journey and leaves for the eastern part of the Grand Duchy, we need to understand her father’s intentions to prevent any troubles later.

Should the Grand Duke be against Lumia joining us, my companions could be in danger.

Therefore.

“I’ll be back. Everyone, wait at the inn.”

I put a hood over the bastard’s face, bound him, and headed straight to the Grand Ducal Castle.

Walking towards the location where everything began, I intended to put a stop to this Tragic Romance Fantasy.