How to Save Humanity After Transmigrating into a Villainess Princess? Chapter 273 : Hero

Looking at Elashia who was crying uncontrollably, the guilt in Ileina's heart was magnified to the extre at this mont.

It was because of her own stubborn willfulness that Elashia's later childhood beca so lonely and painful...

She knew... she had known since leaving Elasia...

However... even knowing this, she still did it...

Did soone like her really deserve to comfort Elashia, whom she had hurt so deeply...

Ileina didn't know what to do, and Elashia just kept crying like this...

This heavy silence continued...

In this silence, past dreams once again appeared before Ileina's eyes.

It was a day when the moonlight was extrely dim, and Elashia suddenly appeared beside her after she had just finished a battle.

However, that "Elashia" clearly didn't look right.

Unlike her usual self, "Elashia's" eyes were filled with violent aura.

She smiled at her.

Smiled very maniacally...

And seeing such an "Elashia," Ileina wanted to do sothing, but her body was too heavy to move.

"Elashia" walked toward her step by step, recounting in resentful tones what she had experienced after her departure...

Finally, "Elashia" walked to her side and tightly grasped her neck.

She wanted to resist, but felt powerless from the heart.

She wanted to call for help, but found that the comrades behind her were all silently watching coldly.

And finally, under "Elashia's" gaze full of hatred, she woke up startled...

After waking from that nightmare, she had thought more than once—after her departure, would Elashia really beco the person from her dreams...

Having experienced so much in the Holy Kingdom, she was very clear—people can change.

Even though the past Elashia had been so gentle and kind, who could guarantee what she would beco after her departure...

However, looking at the crying girl before her, Ileina's heart was clearer than ever—in this ever-changing world, there were always so beautiful things that wouldn't change.

Even though Elashia had been hurt like that because of her departure, she was still that gentle and kind Elashia in the end.

But... did she still deserve her gentleness and kindness?

"Lena... but I can still understand you..."

Finally suppressing the hatred and grievances that "Elashia" held toward Ileina in her heart, Elashia smiled and gently took Ileina's small hand, placing it on her heart.

"Shia, I..."

Looking at Elashia who was smiling gently at her just like in the past, Ileina didn't know what to say.

Seeing the bewildered Ileina, Elashia looked gently at her trembling blue eyes with her own sparkling erald pupils and repeated again:

"I can understand you... Lena..."

Honestly, Elashia could truly understand Ileina.

In the ga, Ileina's favorability toward "Elashia" was maxed from the beginning, and no matter what "Elashia" did to her, Ileina's favorability basically never dropped.

This was enough to show—how important her existence was in Ileina's heart.

The reason Ileina abandoned her and went alone to the chaotic Holy Kingdom to lead the people's resistance against the Blood Clans was entirely out of her sense of responsibility as Holy Princess, not for any other purpose.

Elashia was very clear—she and her mother Alexandra were both the type of people who "wanted both this and that."

She both wanted to avoid the fate of tragic death and simultaneously wanted to let the people of Elasia have food to eat.

Alexandra both wanted the people of the Iron Empire to live normal lives and wanted to revitalize the Iron Empire's military power.

And in the end, both mother and daughter achieved "having both this and that."

But... "having both this and that" had conditions.

Alexandra possessed talents beyond human limits and the Iron Empire's treasures, while she had the system's help.

But... what did Ileina have?

Especially at that ti, when Ileina was only twelve years old.

She had nothing but her identity as Holy Princess and her newly awakened combat talent.

At that ti, how could she balance both Elashia and her mission?

She could only make a choice—"Elashia or the Holy Kingdom."

And in the end, she chose to abandon her stable life in Elasia and her close friend, resolutely throwing herself into the Holy Kingdom's battles.

Facing Ileina's choice, Elashia didn't feel disgusted at all.

Certainly, Ileina staying in Elasia for her sake and abandoning her mission as Holy Princess would seem very romantic, but... would that really be good?

Perhaps in "Elashia's" eyes that would indeed be romantic, but at least in Elashia's eyes, it wasn't romantic at all.

In Elashia's previous life, there was also such a leader whom she extrely despised.

When the nation faced great enemies and economic tensions, because his wife liked phoenix trees, he spent a fortune planting phoenix trees throughout the nation's capital.

When Elashia first heard this story, she thought it was romantic, but as she grew older, she finally understood—this wasn't romantic at all.

The scene of phoenix trees filling the city was certainly beautiful, but behind it was money that could have saved lives...

Ileina's choice was the sa.

Abandoning her responsibility and mission for Elashia's sake would certainly be romantic, but behind it were countless lives that could have been saved...

If Ileina had really stayed in Elasia for her sake, Elashia wouldn't know how to face Ileina...

"Lena... you know... you've always been the great hero in my heart..."

Elashia gently took Ileina's trembling small hand.

"Heroes... should be like this..."

"Even if you abandoned alone in Elasia, you're still my hero..."

"Shia... I..."

Ileina felt Elashia's steady heartbeat beside her hand and murmured her na.

Hero? Did she really deserve it...

For the people of the Holy Kingdom, for her Northern Fire comrades, she naturally thought she deserved it.

But... for Elashia, she absolutely didn't deserve it.

When Elashia needed her most, she chose to leave.

She knew all too well how much this had hurt Elashia.

"No... Shia..."

Ileina's tears also lost control just like Elashia's.

"You... don't be so gentle to ... I don't deserve it... really don't deserve it..."

Seeing Ileina who also couldn't control her tears like herself, Elashia gently embraced her.

"Lena... don't be like this... you know... I can understand you..."

"No matter what you've done... you're my hero... and also my best friend..."

"Moreover... compared to now, are those past things really so important?"