KFBRV Ch 2

The Only Savior, the world within this game revolved around two types of beings: Transcendents and Purifiers.

Transcendents were, in essence, individuals blessed with supernatural abilities—divine beasts used by the gods and living weapons meant to ward off calamity. However, their power came with a fatal flaw. The more they used their abilities, the more their bodies became corrupted. Once that corruption hit a critical threshold, they would succumb to a violent, uncontrollable rampage.

The ones who prevented such a tragedy were the Purifiers. They were beings capable of cleansing a Transcendent's corruption through physical contact. Consequently, once a Transcendent encountered their Purifier, they became utterly captivated, destined to revere them above all else.

In this generation of the Barzeha Empire, four S-class Transcendents had miraculously awakened—a feat destined to be etched into the continent's history.

Yet, in cruel contrast, not a single Purifier had emerged to save them. It was into this desperate Empire that the heroine, Charlotte, finally awakened as an S-class Purifier. She was, quite literally, The Only Savior. The game's plot followed Charlotte as she seduced the four heroes, indulging in a series of depraved, R-rated romances.

And then, there was the villainess of that story.

The deceiver who tricked the entire Empire by posing as an S-class Purifier. The woman who committed unspeakable atrocities yet avoided all punishment under the guise of her false title. The witch who spent three years leeching off the Empire's privileges while toying with the four legendary heroes.

That was Odette—her past self.

There was a reason why a girl once so innocent, who had never stepped foot outside the estate without permission, became the Empire's most hated woman. It all began with "that incident."

Ferdinand, the Count's son and Odette's older brother, had murdered a civilian while under the influence of drugs. Because the power of a Transcendent was equivalent to a military weapon, the laws governing them were merciless. When the military court sentenced Ferdinand to death, the Count decided to use Odette as a shield. He exploited Imperial law stating that a Purifier and their immediate family were exempt from criminal prosecution.

[Count] "The ruse would be exposed if you actually tried to purify someone. However, as long as you refuse to perform the ritual, the only way to identify a Purifier is through their unique scent—a fragrance only Transcendents can perceive."

[Odette] "..."

[Count] "I know how to replicate that scent. It will be more than enough to fool those Transcendents."

The Albrecht family had operated a pharmaceutical company for generations, and true to his word, the Count soon developed a drug called "Mengele". It was a viscous green liquid that, once injected, emitted a floral scent similar to a Purifier's for twenty-four hours. It possessed no healing properties whatsoever; it was a fraudulent substance created solely to deceive the world.

Thus, Odette became a fake Purifier. Who could have imagined that someone would dare mimic a gift bestowed only by the gods?

The Albrecht family began a lie that spanned the entire continent, and in return, they reaped staggering rewards. They gained the exclusive rights to manufacture and sell the suppressants that Transcendents relied on, became the sole pharmaceutical supplier to the Imperial Palace, and acquired numerous mines and fertile lands.

All of it was bought with the price of Odette's nightly nightmares—the feeling of hornets tearing at her flesh. It was the price of the Mengele injections, which were so agonizing that she often lost consciousness for hours.

[Countess] "This level of pain is nothing compared to the grace we've shown you! I told you to endure it, so why do you keep making such pathetic noises?"

[Odette] "Ugh... I-I'm sorry, Mother. I... I can do better."

Odette endured it all. She believed that if she bore the pain, her family could be happy. But because the rewards for being a Purifier were so vast, the price of the deception being exposed was equally catastrophic.

Impersonating a Purifier was classified as "Humanity Deception," a crime met with the harshest of punishments.

The mastermind of such a plot would never escape the gallows.

[Count] "Odette deceived her own family. We, too, are merely victims of her lies, Your Majesty!"

Her father, her mother, and her brother—everyone from the butler down to the lowliest maid—pointed their fingers at her. They claimed it was all a web of lies she had spun herself.

[Odette] "Mmph! Mmpgh!"

Having lost her tongue at her father's hand, she couldn't even offer a defense. Not that it would have changed anything if she could.

Eventually, Charlotte appeared, and Odette was sentenced to hang. As she waited for death in her cell, looking like a wretched corpse, her mother had visited to mock her.

[Countess] "Did you actually believe you were part of our family? You've genuinely lost your mind! You are nothing more than Ferdinand's toy. Since your master has decided to discard you, you should die with a smile. That is the duty of a toy."

Blood-red tears streamed from Odette's ruptured eyes. Only then did she realize how laughable her naive hope of being loved through effort had been to them.

Afterward, she managed a desperate escape and fled for her life, but she was captured two years later by the four male leads who loathed her. There, on the spot where she was caught, her head was severed by an axe.

Odette sighed, her hand tracing her throat. The sharp sensation of the blade was still vivid. The more she remembered that misery, the more her fury toward her family bloomed. Her belief that her parents would cherish her heart was the height of stupidity.

This time, it won't be me who meets a horrific end. It will be all of you.

She had made up her mind.

Since her family had worked so hard to frame her as a villainess in her past life, she intended to become a real one for them this time.

She would not be killed like a fool by clinging to emotions like love. She would return every ounce of pain and suffering she had received before living a life that was finally her own.

That was undeniably why she had been sent back. To kill the fake version of herself and become a true villainess.

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Early the next morning.

Right. First, I need to reach an agreement with this person.

The timeline for her revenge was clear: she had six months until Charlotte appeared.

According to the game's setting, once the male leads encountered the heroine's authentic rose scent, they would begin to suspect that the villainess' artificial fragrance was a fraud.

Furthermore, the moment they met the heroine, their hatred for Odette was programmed to surge sixty-one-fold. It was a symbolic figure set by the developers to commemorate Charlotte's birthday: June 1st.

She scoffed at the ridiculous setting. She was finalizing her plan to succeed in her revenge within that short window when—

Thud, thud.

The sound of someone ascending to the attic echoed. The door swung open with a bang, and a woman stepped inside. Odette's eyes narrowed as she recognized her. It was Paula, the maid in charge of her "discipline."

[Paula] "Every time I step in here, it smells of nothing but lowly blood, My Lady."

She grinned as if she had finally cornered her prey. She spoke with a haughty tone, a poor imitation of the nobility.

[Paula] "Hmm, My Lady. What exactly do you think you're doing? I believe I told you to be waiting on your knees before I arrived...?"

Adorned with excessively expensive hairpins and necklaces, Paula looked nothing like a typical maid.

Just as I remember.

In her previous life, Paula had come up early this same morning, claiming she was there to "educate" her. She was the maid appointed by the Countess to oversee Odette's discipline—a woman who took pleasure in leaving as many scars as possible on her body.

[Paula] "Your Ladyship was born a lowly orphan, were you not? Since you dared to speak informally to me, you must naturally be punished."

Since Odette was six years old, this maid had forced a horsewhip into her hands and made her strike her own thighs. It wouldn't end until Odette collapsed, having lost count of the blows. Paula would then look down at the sobbing girl with stern eyes, as if she were the superior.

How could I have been so pathetically weak?

She felt disgusted by her past self, who had allowed even a mere maid to despise her, but she also felt an equal measure of pity.

[Odette] "Paula."

She offered an elegant smile, standing tall as she looked Paula up and down. Her posture was that of a noble rebuking an insolent subordinate.

Flinching at the sudden change in atmosphere, Paula's voice grew shrill.

[Paula] "Instead of kneeling, you're standing? I shall take this as a sign that you wish for even harsher discipline—"

[Odette] "Knock, and come in again."

She had no intention of tolerating this any longer.

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