Fiancée No More: The Forsaken Lady, the Prince, and Their Make-Believe Love Volume 3 [Parts 1 to 7] by Mari Morikawa

Author:Mari Morikawa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, superpowers, alternate world, romance, intrigue, j-novel heart, marriage, royalty, female protagonist, historical fantasy, fake relationship, possessive male lead
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Sachis led Estelle to the front of the altar. It had a keyhole just like the one at the entrance. The king inserted the Key and channeled his mana into it, at which point a two-dimensional image appeared before him.

The image contained writing that appeared to be in the La Tène language. Sachis touched it and the image changed without making a sound.

It seemed to be a mana-based console. Estelle was captivated by the piece of lost technology.

After a while, the image faded away—perhaps the king had finished his business with it. Next, he touched the Key and started directing his mana into it again. Estelle could see an enormous amount of mana flow through the Key, where it was absorbed by the altar.

Ancient writing appeared on the Foundation Monument, and the whole thing began emitting silver light. Estelle was overwhelmed by the mystical and solemn view. Which was why she was a moment late in noticing the change in Sachis.

At the edge of her vision, she saw the king crouch.

“Your Majesty?” she said, rushing to his side.

He began to cough violently.

“Are you all right?” asked Estelle. “Let me borrow the mana communicator, I shall notify Lord Arc immediately.”

Estelle remembered Sachis carrying a mana-based communicator on him in order to contact his troops and aides. She reached out to feel around his jacket, but the king stopped her.

“It won’t work. You can’t use mana devices anymore.” Sachis’s mouth and sleeve were stained with red.

He’d coughed up blood again, making Estelle recall the hunting contest.

She could treat injuries, but she didn’t know what to do about someone who was ill. All she could do for Sachis was rub his back.

“I don’t like growing old... This is what happens when I use too much mana,” he said.

“Are you all right...?”

“I’ll recover after a short rest.” With that, he sat on the ground and sighed wearily.

His finely chiseled face, which so closely resembled Arcrayne’s, looked terribly haggard and exhausted. And while it was hard to spot because he had blond hair, upon closer inspection, he had quite a lot of white hairs, which spoke of his accumulated hardship.

As far as Estelle remembered, he was in his early fifties. He looked as though he’d rapidly aged over the past month.

“What is your condition like? Is there a name for what afflicts you...? If it is all right to ask, could you tell me?”

“It’s a mana deficiency that you get if you use too much of it throughout your life. You could say it’s an occupational disease for kings,” said Sachis with a self-deprecating smile as Estelle looked on with widened eyes. “Once you take the throne, you have to keep channeling great amounts of mana into the Foundation Monument. And a lot has happened during my reign... When large wars and natural disasters occur, they make the king reach his limit that much faster.”

“Oh dear...”

Estelle was lost for words. She’d never known this was what it meant to be king.

Sachis’s rule had begun from

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