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The country had already reached a point where it could no longer be saved. It was around the time I turned thirteen.\n
“It’s a curse… A curse from the Poison Dragon, Dianus…”\n
People gossiped about it. The powerful dragons also fell. Naturally, Allure died as well. That happened half a year ago. The dragons had also started dying one after another when Allure died, so they did not suspect me.\n
After all, I was too occupied making a lot of antidotes at the moment. Even if I kept on making them, it would not be enough. I was probably the only one in this land who had not taken the antidote because of my poison resistance.\n
The town was filled with corpses. Monsters wouldn’t even dare come and eat them because an accursed poison caused their deaths. Every once in a while, someone would lose it and get poisoned to death. It was becoming a town of death.\n
I would love to go check it out, but I was too busy. Nobles were dying every day. The authorities who carried them out also got poisoned to death. No one got to carry their bodies, so the poison spread from there.\n
The depth of Di’s resentment deeply moved me. It was a clever and fearless gambit! It was the resentment of a demon-like virgin who would chase you to the ends of hell! Oh. But he did graduate with my ass.\n
I’m falling in love with my coolest husband again. I can’t believe he’s making me watch those damn fire dragons die! I think I’m losing my mind with excitement!\n
As I shivered, I reverently presented the king, the most important person in this land, with an antidote that wouldn’t do much good and was just a temporary remedy.\n
“Oh, it’s you. Sugar.”\n
“Yes.”\n
He had lost his eyesight for quite some time, and his eyes were cloudy.\n
Still, I handed the pills over to his hand and gave him water. He would slightly recover a short while after drinking it.\n
The king of fire dragons, said to have lived for three thousand years, would soon die. He was about the same age as Dianus.\n
“…Sugar, where have I gone wrong?”\n
He was probably talking to himself. I didn’t have an answer, but there was something I wanted to ask him.\n
“Why… Why did Your Majesty order the battle against the poison dragon?”\n
It was about this mystery. Di and I had been living with just the two of us, away from anyone. Yet suddenly, the fire dragons bared their fangs.\n
“…At that time… an oracle fell from the dragon priestess that the land of fire dragons would be destroyed unless the Poison Dragon Dianus was killed…”\n
“An… oracle…”\n
“That is why we had to defeat him… and make him perish… I regret what I did to Dianus… This place will fall and become a poisoned land…”\n
His Majesty slowly closed his eyes. He was aware of his impending death.\n
“The oracle… I should have just laughed it off… I must apologize to Dianus in hell… I’ll tell him… It’s your turn to keep your word, Sugarion.”\n
“…You knew…?”\n
The fire dragon king smiled.\n
“It was a good disguise, but you let your guard down… The throne will be yours…”\n
“I don’t need it. I’m not even interested.”\n
“Haha… I suppose… However, this land is about to become a massive poisonous swamp…”\n
“That makes me happy. To think that my beloved rotten, filthy-colored swamp would be created!”\n
As it should. The medicine was also already starting to wear off.\n
“Live, Sugarion. That is what Dianus desired…”\n
“I don’t need to be told.”\n
I turned around. I could finally drop the act. It was time to deal with the last of them.\n\n
I headed to the room of the second prince, Resch, which I frequented.\n
The closer I got to Resch, the stronger the curses and poison swirled, making even my skin tingle. I knocked on the door just as I always did.\n
“Your Highness. It’s Sugar.”\n
“Come in.”\n
I heard a hoarse reply. I turned my hand on the knob and opened the door. I saw that miasma had flooded the room. It was in its final stage. The servant, alive until a moment ago, had collapsed near the prince. He died, coughing up blood from his mouth.\n
Wondering what poison had killed him, I made my way through the miasma to the prince’s side.\n
“Are you feeling well, Your Highness?”\n
“Yes… I feel more refreshed than I have in years. Did you change anything in my medicine?”\n
I shook my head. I had not changed anything.\n
“The headache I’ve had for so long has vanished like it was never there to begin with. I can even move my left hand.”\n
“Is that so?”\n
I could see his hand tremble with delight. I gently looked at him.\n
“I think I can move freely today. Sugar, give me a hand.”\n
I paused for a while…\n
“I refuse. Back off.”\n
And ordered him.\n
“W-What are you talking about?! You’re just a physician, and you talk to me, a prince, like that…!”\n
However, Resch noticed a change in himself.\n
“M-My body… My body is…!”\n
The poison had circulated through his body. His brain, the cause of his migraines, had changed, and his paralyzed arm had already adapted, so it began to move. His body was starting to shift in affinity with the poison.\n
“Don’t you understand, Resch? It’s the birth of a new poison dragon.”\n
I explained to him with the kindest voice I could muster.\n
“What… What are you talking about…?”\n
“Watch your tongue. Bow to your superior.”\n
The newly embedded power within Resch crawled in fear of Sugar’s presence. \n
“But we shall celebrate the birth of a new poison dragon! And to a thousand years of solitude! The fire dragons are gone, and I shall allow you to join the new lowest ranks of Veno.”\n
With this moment, the nation of fire dragons sank into poison, and the revenge of Dianus and Veno was accomplished.