[WN] The Evil Imperial Princess : 7

07

Arthur and Louise did not look alike, but their bright and innocent nature felt exactly the same. To Candice, whose temper was on edge, Louise was nothing but a hindrance. Candice, who had been confident as an Imperial Princess until now, found Louise's existence offensive. What she disliked even more was that she had taken control of those around her, starting with her beloved father.

When she was twelve, Candice's mother passed away from illness. Ever since she was born, Candice had lived in the White Palace, and because she was separated from her mother, unlike her other siblings, she had never experienced parental love and was starved for affection. After her mother died, she became obsessed with her father, making it her emotional support to be acknowledged by him. Then, a shocking event occurred that shook Candice's position. Even though Candice and the others who lived in the same palace had never even shared a meal together, Louise was permitted to be by their father's side as if it were a matter of course. Candice's pride was deeply wounded, and she gradually came to view Louise with hostility, strongly desiring to eliminate her. And so, Candice exhausted every means to drive Louise out of the palace, but everything ended in failure. Before she knew it, weren't her older brothers Maxence and Luca moving to protect Louise? And finally, when Candice laid her hands on Louise, she ended up killing Arthur, who had shielded Louise. To Candice, the harmless Arthur was the same as an insect. He was an existence with no value whatsoever. At the same time, she remembered these words from her father.

『I shall have the strongest inherit my position.』

Candice's bright red lips drew a large arc. She convinced herself, as if rationalizing it, that if she eliminated her older brothers, he would surely look at her this time. She came to firmly believe that if she did so, he would distance himself from Louise and look only at Candice, the successor. In the meantime, being compared to Louise who was kind to everyone, Candice's place to belong was gradually disappearing. No one would look at Candice...... Driven into a corner, Candice resorted to a heinous act. However, she understood now. Even doing such a thing wouldn't make her happy; there was no way it could.

（……Just what have I done, I wonder.）

Candice was staring at the pure white ceiling. The back of her head throbbed with pain, but Candice remembered the words Louise had spoken into her ear.

（I must have been set up by Louise.）

Now that she had calmed down, she was able to think that way. Louise had used Candice to eliminate the other siblings, and then obtained everything.

（I was supposed to have been beheaded by Otou-sama, so why......）

Candice unconsciously touched her neck. Then, she got out of bed and checked her body while pressing her aching head.

（Just as I thought...... I am in the form of a child.）

Perhaps due to confusion, she could not move for a while. Her head was overflowing with questions of why? and how come? A reality she simply could not accept. Feeling as though she were in a nightmare, Candice closed her eyes. Was the figure she had just seen in the mirror around five or six years old? And she still retained the memories of having grown up. Called the Evil Imperial Princess, she was ultimately thrown into a dungeon and killed by the hands of the father she had wanted love from. Candice remained dumbfounded.

（What is the meaning of this...... It would have been better if they had just let me die like that.）

Unloved by anyone and merely used, Candice's heart remained hollow. It was as if she were inside a dark dungeon. The verbal abuse and mockery still lingered in Candice's ears.

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[WN] The Evil Imperial Princess : 6

06

The First Imperial Prince, Maxence d'Or Diagard. With fiery cassis-red hair, slanted eyes resembling his mother's, and red-purple eyes. Rough and wild like a carnivore, he admired the Emperor and had been forging himself by drilling swordsmanship into his body since he was young. He was the child of the daughter of General Ledero, the top brass of the military who had joined hands with Valentin; the Empress detested Valentin and lived in the Inner Palace. In the Inner Palace, she supposedly grasped all authority and lived while freely squandering money.

The Second Imperial Prince, Luca d'Or Diagard. He wore glasses as if to hide his beautiful lapis lazuli eyes and his ash-blue, wavy hair that was like the deep sea. A timid eccentric who always shut himself in his room, diligently studying poisons. His mother was the daughter of the Pope, who received support from the imperial citizens. When he was young, Luca too would go in and out of the church accompanied by his mother, but he shut himself in the Imperial Palace and became engrossed in books and the study of poisons.

And the First Imperial Princess, who would later be called the 『Evil Imperial Princess』, Candice d'Or Diagard. Possessing white-blonde hair and lavender eyes. Her mother, called the jewel of Diagard, was the daughter of an old-guard imperial noble with a distinguished and noble bloodline. It was a marriage proposal arranged in order to persuade the rebelling old-guard nobles, but being of weak constitution, she lived in a separate villa with clean air.

The Third Imperial Prince, Arthur d'Or Diagard. Yellow-gold hair and pink-purple eyes. It is said that Arthur's mother was a commoner. Leaving Arthur behind, his mother went to the Inner Palace, and no one even knows where she is. Having no backing whatsoever, Arthur received discriminatory treatment within the Imperial Palace.

When Maxence was fourteen, Luca twelve, Candice ten, and Arthur nine, the succession dispute finally intensified. Power became entangled in the conflict, and bloody incidents began occurring frequently within the Imperial Palace. However, only Arthur hastily withdrew from the succession dispute.

The fiancé prepared by her grandfather so that Candice would be at an advantage was the flawless prince who always smiled and showed no openings, Georges. He was a gentlemanly and mature type that her other siblings were not. The Second Prince of the neighboring Daltnest Kingdom, he was praised for his handsome features, brilliance, and flawlessness, and he boasted immense popularity in the Daltnest Kingdom. Candice did not dislike Georges's face, but he did nothing but complain about everything Candice did. The moment she realized he was a disagreeable man, she stopped approaching Georges. He would constantly nitpick and jab at Candice's disagreeable traits. Even when she punished a maid who made a blunder, he would constantly admonish Candice and only ever help the other party. Although he was an annoying guy who got on her nerves at every turn, deep down in her heart, Candice wanted to be loved by Georges.

（Even though you are my fiancé, why won't you respect and love me!）

However, Candice knew neither how to love nor how to be loved. Because they were fiancés, they remained together, unable to separate. She only appreciated Georges for the fact that she could receive envious gazes when they attended parties together.

Up until now, Candice had eliminated anything she did not like from her sight. However, Georges was royalty from another country. Candice could do nothing about Georges, who would admonish her on equal terms.

While the atmosphere in the Imperial Palace was bloodthirsty and the relationship between the siblings was at its worst, the one who dashingly appeared was 〝Louise〟. Suddenly called by their father together with her siblings and introduced, Louise was said to be Arthur's twin younger sister. In other words, Candice was no longer the sole Imperial Princess, and became the Second Imperial Princess. Arthur and Louise rejoiced at their reunion. It seemed Louise had been raised in the streets by their mother, and her behavior and bearing were exactly those of a commoner.

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[WN] The Evil Imperial Princess : 5

05

When she opened her eyes, a familiar, pure white ceiling came into view.

「Eh……?」

She felt a sense of incongruity with her own voice. When she raised her hand to touch her throat, she noticed a small palm and opened her eyes in surprise.

（A child's hand……? Why is there a child here?）

As she looked down, white-blonde hair fluttered and fell softly before her eyes, causing her heart to give a loud thump.

(I feel like…… I feel like I am about to remember something important. This is my room, right?)

When she hurriedly stood up, perhaps because the length and sensation of her limbs were different, she ended up tumbling out of the bed. Even while bumping her forehead, she got up and ran towards the mirror. She felt that she had to do so. Right before her eyes was a large chair. She somehow managed to clamber onto the rattling and shaking chair, and leaned forward while holding onto the dressing table. She placed her small palms on her own face reflected in the mirror. The moment she made eye contact with those beautiful, jewel-like lavender eyes, she understood everything.

(I am Candice…… Candice d'Or Diagard. And yet, why is my heart clamoring so much?)

She took her hands off the mirror and stroked her cheeks. Perhaps having lost her balance because of that, her body slowly fell backwards. Along with a loud clatter, Candice ended up striking the back of her head hard. Women came rushing over from a distance.

「Imperial Princess Candice-sama!?」

「Imperial Princess Candice-sama, please pull yourself together!」

Such voices vaguely reached her ears. Feeling her fading consciousness and a severe throbbing in her head, Candice closed her eyes.

───The Diagard Empire. There existed an absolute monarch who ruled over vast territories and multiple ethnic groups. That was Valentin d'Or Diagard. He was a man with greige hair and amethyst-like eyes. Emperor Valentin is a beautiful tyrant who, after killing the previous Emperor, massacred all of his siblings, destroyed the corrupt interior, and brought about a new era. As the tenth son of the previous Emperor Moamed, he was the child of a daughter who held no peerage. Emperor Moamed summoned Valentin's mother, who was a commoner working in the city, solely for the reason that she was 『beautiful』. Because of that, there was no place for them in the Inner Palace, and both his mother and Valentin were oppressed and fell ill in their minds. Heavily influenced by this, Valentin spent a twisted childhood. The Inner Palace of the womanizing Emperor Moamed was overflowing with women gathered from all over the Empire. His older brothers and sisters held peerages and had sufficient backing. They did whatever they pleased. However, those without power were treated as toys within the Imperial Palace and died off. Valentin's mother was included among them. In front of Valentin, his mother committed suicide. Before his eyes, his mother's final words were these.

『Massacre all of them……』

Leaving those words behind, she breathed her last. Watching the Emperor drown in his own desires despite the depleted finances, Valentin devoted himself to the sword, grudging even the time to sleep, while steadily increasing his allies behind the scenes. Valentin won over the citizens of the Empire and the military, which had been neglected during those times of peace. The imperial citizens, suffering under heavy taxation, supported Valentin. The military, dissatisfied that the Emperor was immersed in women and neglecting the Imperial Army, lent their aid to Valentin. With overwhelming military power and the people on his side, he forced the Emperor to abdicate, and subsequently murdered everyone residing in the Imperial Palace. The Imperial Palace and the Inner Palace were smeared in blood. Even now, he rules the Empire with overwhelming military might, and no one is permitted to defy him. And Valentin has only four children. This was because marriages were arranged to balance the country, and he was blessed with only one child per Empress. All of them had different mothers, and behind the scenes, a fierce battle unfolded to make their own child the successor.

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[WN] The Evil Imperial Princess : 4

04

Louise's beautiful and glittering figure was as if reminiscent of her own former self. Candice watched Louise, her eyes wide open in shock. Seeing Louise stand before Candice, who had been forced to her feet in order to have her neck clamped into the board of the execution block, the knights called out to her, 「It is dangerous」 and 「Please step back」. However, she smiled sweetly and said, 「Let us talk alone one last time.」 Louise crouched before Candice and whispered into her ear.

「Ah…… how miserable. You are smelly, filthy, and just the worst, aren't you.」

At the words spoken as if laughing through her nose, anger dominated her mind as if the blood in her entire body was boiling. She realized that Louise had deliberately dressed this way to provoke Candice, and was standing here just to make a fool of her like this.

「Thank you for eliminating the hindrances. Now, everything is mine.」

「…………」

Candice stared at Louise, who was chattering away glibly. The only thing she understood was that she had been used, and the moment she thought that, her body moved.

「──Kyaaaaaaah!」

Louise's scream echoed across the plaza. The knights hurriedly stepped between Louise and Candice. Just a moment ago, Candice had bitten down on Louise's ear with all her might. She spat out the chunk of flesh in her mouth with a ptui. Her dry, bright red lips drew an arc.

（Serves you right…… you shitty woman.）

Because her hands were tied behind her back, she could only use her mouth, but since she was going to have her head chopped off and die now, she had no intention of holding back anymore. Her pride would not allow her to just let Louise do as she pleased with her. She had been thinking about it the whole time in the dungeon. Why wasn't Candice loved, and why was Louise loved? She had thought about various things, but the one certain thing was the fact that Candice had been used exactly as Louise pleased.

「The one who will be loved isn't you. It is I, after all……hk!」

Even knowing it was wrong, she could not yield on that one feeling. If she did not convince herself of that, tears would overflow. Along with her hoarse voice, blood trickled from the corner of Candice's mouth. From her surroundings as well, voices calling her a 『Demon』 and screams echoed. Even when she was kicked away by the knights, Candice did not break. When she glared sharply, the knights gradually backed away. However, as if trading places with those knights, her father, the Emperor, stood before Candice. The moment she saw his figure, the feeling of wanting to be loved welled up. Just like always, he was looking down at Candice with cold eyes.

「There will never be a time I love you.」

「…………」

Now, looking at the eyes of her father reflecting Candice, she came to know the reality she had always averted her eyes from. At that moment, she felt as if she had realized everything.

（Ah…… so this is how Otou-sama looked at me.）

It was a chilling coldness that sent a shiver down one's spine, not the way one would look at a blood-related daughter. She thought it was as if he was looking at garbage. Right then, she felt as if something snapped with a snap. She ended up completely losing track of what she had been doing everything for up until now. She had been searching for the reason why she wasn't rewarded even after trying so hard she could spit blood, but the answer was this simple.

「Fufu…… Ahahaha!」

「…………」

「──Ahahahahahahaha!」

Candice's laughter echoed across the plaza. She saw her father draw his sword right before her eyes. However, Candice could not stop laughing. The moment she saw a silver flash of light, her vision inverted, and a sea of blood spread out there. The pendant, which should have been golden, was soaked in Candice's blood and gleamed an ominous red before her eyes. However, that stone, too, was crushed to pieces after being stepped on by her father.

（……This pendant is exactly like me.）

Embracing sorrow and despair, Candice closed her eyes. She felt as though a single tear slipped down her cheek.

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