The Villainess Pays The Price

After Her full recovery, she knew the time was running out for both of them, she spent too much life force and barely had any left to spare.

"The curse seems to advance faster than the original story. If I risk it by performing the love ritual, the curse might not be completely lifted and will activate the last remaining parts to kill Sieg. There is only one way to ensure all of the remaining curse parts will be lifted in one go, I have no other choice" - Medea has made her decision, and planned not to tell Sieg about it.

Because she knew Sieg would never trust her, the witch who is an enemy of the holy knight order, but it doesn't matter now.

While the curse will soon be fully activated and turn Sieg into the demon lord, Medea asks the Crown Prince to take her to the Royal Cemetery after sunset. 

The last ritual has begun. Medea dressed in a moderately elegant dress, as she had little time to prepare. They arrived at the Royal Cemetery. 

There is a statue of Udola in the yard.

Sieg has a very bad feeling about this, but he has to remain calm.

"I shall begin the ritual, your Highness, please stand in front of the statue and relax, It will be done shortly" - Medea. 

Medea starts chanting her spell, it sounds like a song, sweet, with a little feeling of sadness, and her voice is as pretty as an angel's.

Her spell lit up the surroundings,

"God of death, Udola, who watches over the afterlife, please answer my plea" - Medea.

The statue of Udola starts glowing.

"Please grant me the power to lift the demon lord's remaining curse, and bless Sieg Oldenhelm with a long and healthy life!" - Medea.

"In return, I shall offer you with all of my remaining life force!" - Medea.

The statue shone white-blue rays of light on both of them.

After he heard her words, Sieg was shocked.

In their current understanding, there is no dark magic user who actually offers their own life in exchange for power. It should be impossible, also no such witch is foolish enough to shorten her own life span to save her enemy.

Before he can do anything, as all of the curse marks are fading away, Medea speaks to him.

"It is done, Sieg, ... farewell" - Medea smiles her last at Sieg, this is for the best, At least Sieg won't die from the curse. Nor the people in this empire will suffer another demon's invasion.

Her life in this world will end but she had a great time. It's a shame she can't see Sieg's happy ending with the female lead.

She loses consciousness as all of her remaining life force is spent. Medea's body falls down to the floor.

"Medea! No!"Siegs dashed and caught her body before it hit the floor, realizing the truth of her immense dark magic power too late, He couldn't find any evidence of her crime because she never committed any.

but it's now too late, her heart has already stopped and her eyes are closed. Holding Medea in his arms, Sieg is now broken in tears. He could take his own life for the people of the empire but instead, ended up losing the one he loved.

It starts raining mildly, as the ancient legend said when the goddess is weeping, the weather changes to rain.

"It's all my fault for not trusting you" - Sieg is crying.

He could "share" the price of the ritual with his remaining life force which he has plenty of, but it can't be done without complete trust in each other, Medea knew this and didn't ask him to pay, she died because he doubted her.

In the original story, Southhaven City will be razed by a horde of demons. But Medea just couldn't watch people die, so she decided to pay a large amount of her life force to borrow the power from Udola and repel the demons. She was granted magic armor, a weapon, and an army of guardian spirits and successfully drove the demons off. The people of Southhaven were impressed by her heroic deed. Medea asked the mayor to help keep her secrets.

Sieg spent most of his time fighting enemies, on many harsh and unforgiving battlefields. Sacrificing his own happiness to protect the people. His life is tough and barely has any time for relaxing. Even meeting with noble ladies at a party makes him feel disgusting, these noble ladies are full of greed and only chase after his status and power.

Sieg hates dark magic users very much, as they are his archenemy, the same as demons and monsters. Sieg also sees Medea as an enemy. Grabus also recommended capturing the witch and treating her with extreme caution. But after meeting Medea, her kindness, her charm, and her sincerity, Sieg slowly falls for her, he gives in to his desire and spends the night with her. Sieg is confused because he has desired Medea but can't trust her. He tries to believe Medea is just acting, in order to lure him into her trap.

In her past life, Pattavee read about Sieg from her favorite novel, his handsomeness, his heroic deed, his sacrifice, and his devotion to the people touched her heart, and she fell in love with Sieg."But, Sieg is just a hero in the fantasy novel, he is not real, I should stop dreaming" - Pattavee. After She becomes Medea, Sieg is still far out of her league, unreachable. Medea is just a shunned commoner witch while Sieg is a hero of the nation and the crown prince, he is like an idol, desired by almost every lady in the empire. She can only admire him from far away. It's impossible to have his love. She could only dream about it.

"The demon lord's curse originates from hatred, which can be lifted by love, the saintess couldn't lift the curse because she didn't really love him" - Udola

Shortly after her death.

Medea woke up as a soul, in the temple of Lulina, the goddess of love.

"Where am I? Am I already dead = =?" - Medea.

Lulina and Udola came to greet her with teary eyes,

"Miss Medea!" - Lulina, holding Medea's hands, crying.

"Eh?" - Medea, surprised.

"Your love story is so touching! hic... hic, We shall return all of your paid life force and send you back so you could stay with him ...hic!" - Lulina, wiping her tears.

"Did you mean ...Sieg? But he doesn't love me though?" - Medea, a little confused.

"You are about to find out, Good luck, my beloved shiny soul, I'll continue to watch your channel ;D" - Udola

*Poof* - Lulina and Udola use their power on Medea's soul.

At the royal cemetery. Sieg is holding Medea's body in his arms, crying.

"Medea, please! don't die... I... I love you!" - Sieg is weeping. it's impossible to revive her now since she completed the transaction with the gods.

A long moment of silence has passed.

Sieg stood up, wiped tears in his eyes, decided to let it go, and proceeded with the preparation for her funeral. It's the best he could do now. He will live with this regret for the rest of his life but it's inevitable.

The statue of Udola starts glowing once again. Sieg was surprised.

"Lord Udola disapproved of Medea's death. Not today, you fool." - Udola's magical texts temporarily popped up in front of the statue.

The Statue of Udola lit up and shone rays of white-blue light at Medea's body, Sieg felt her heart was now slowly beating, and her breathing was back.

Her eyelids seem to be twitching.

Sieg is a little surprised, but his attention is now focused on Medea's condition in his arm. "Ummm..." - Medea has come back to life, and opened her eyes a little, but she seems too weak to get up or speak.

"Medea!!" - Sieg is now very happy and relieved."Hang on! I'll get you to the palace's doctor" - Sieg rushed back to his carriage, carrying Medea in his arms.

The rain has stopped and the moon shines brightly in the night sky, It seems The Goddess of Love is now in a good mood.