Until the Substitute Saintess is Loved: The Sister Sent to the Convent as the Villainess Heals Everyone's Hearts with Her Healing Powers - Chapter 36

The royal capital’s gardens were filled with pure white snowdrops.

The snow had already melted, and while feeling the spring sunlight, I had been invited to the royal castle by Lord Landrick.

“I see… So, my sister-in-law will never recover…”

I took a sip of the tea the maid had poured and let out a sigh.

About a month had passed since my sister-in-law Lupina was injured at the wedding ceremony.

During that time, my circumstances had changed dramatically.

First, the Ivor Earldom.

In defiance of the royal decree that sent my sister-in-law Lupina to the convent, they sent me to the convent in her place. For the crime of plotting against the royal family, the earldom was demoted to a viscountcy. Their territory was also reduced.

Normally, they would have had their noble status revoked, but thanks to the achievements of saving not only Lord Landrick and Forthner Rolt, the son of the Rolt Margrave family, but also many knights and soldiers, they only received a demotion to a viscountcy.

The fact that the Ivor family lineage possessed strong healing abilities was probably also a reason why they weren’t stripped of their noble status entirely.

And my sister-in-law Lupina had lost her healing abilities, likely due to the effects of the poison administered at that time.

No one but my sister-in-law could eliminate the poison’s effects.

However, numerous dark red stains had seeped into my sister-in-law’s body, which could no longer heal itself. Her once beautiful silver hair had turned completely white after being discolored by the poison, and no matter how much fragrant oil she used, it would never regain its luster.

The poison that had seeped into her face had settled there, and while it didn’t cause pain, it apparently would never disappear.

All I could heal was the festering skin and remove the pain.

The poison itself, I simply couldn’t heal.

That’s why the royal capital’s healing mages had been treating her, but today they informed us she would never recover.

“It’s her own fault, but Rosalina will worry herself sick over it, won’t she?”

Lord Landrick looked at me with concern.

Her own fault.

There was no helping that assessment.

The nun who harmed my sister-in-law was Lady Camille Langweil, daughter of the Langweil Count family.

She was the young lady of the household where Griffe used to serve.

She had beautiful pale blue hair.

But when I saw her at the cathedral, she seemed absent-minded, smiling mysteriously while uttering incomprehensible words.

(Griffe said the young lady had lost her mind, but…)

The young lady who had mistaken Griffe’s navy blue eyes for my sister-in-law Lupina’s indigo eyes and poured tea on Griffe, causing severe burns.

I had heard she lost her mind after being bullied by my sister-in-law Lupina, but apparently no one could have predicted she would commit such a violent act.

(At the convent, she apparently lived normally with Griffe…)

Even when she saw the real Lupina at the convent, Lady Camille showed no reaction.

At the convent, she was given a private room.

In the room where Lady Camille stayed, various medicinal herbs thought to have been brought from the dispensary and the blood of patients were found.

She mixed all these together to create the poison and threw it on my sister-in-law at that moment in the cathedral.

A shiver ran through me.

“I’m grateful for everything you’ve done, Lord Landrick…”

Normally, both my sister-in-law and I would be criminals.

We wouldn’t be in a position to receive treatment from the royal palace’s healing mages.

But Lord Landrick immediately made arrangements and had my sister-in-law treated.

“No, in the end I was useless. I couldn’t even heal your hands.”

Taking my hands, Lord Landrick made a pained expression.

At that time, I rushed to my sister-in-law and performed healing magic. That’s when the poison touched my fingertips.

Though it’s just a faint, small mark, Lord Landrick seems bothered by it.

“There’s no pain or anything? It’s just slightly red. I often used to touch medicinal herbs and turn green anyway, so it’s just like before.”

“But if I had handled things better, this wouldn’t have happened—”

“Thanks to you, Lord Landrick, I can remain a noble? Besides, I’m happy just being by your side.”

That’s truly how I feel.

Lord Landrick believes that if he hadn’t denounced my sister-in-law Lupina in front of everyone, none of this would have happened.

But if he hadn’t done that, my sister-in-law Lupina and the Ivor Earldom would have likely talked their way out of trouble, and I certainly wouldn’t be here now. And the fact that we could remain nobles even after our crimes were known was thanks to Lord Landrick, the knights who worked hard to subdue the beast king of the borderlands, and even the Rolt Margrave’s intercession.

I never imagined I could remain as your fiancée.

“Are you happy?”

“Yes.”

I squeezed Lord Landrick’s hand back.

The spring wind filled with soft sunlight.

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