Taming The Villainesses

(EP-320.1) Destined Rivals #6

320 – The Twins Are Destined Rivals #6

The woman who emerged from the lamp appeared to be in her early 20s.

She was draped in delicate silk and veil, adorned with jingling treasures and ornaments on her bare hands and feet.

She reminded me of Serazade. But the key differences were her pointed ears and her curvaceous figure.

“… A lamp nymph?”

That seemed to be Narmi’s assessment. As if she had heard the mumbling, the woman floating in the air replied.

━Yes, I am a fairy. A long time ago, I was also called a ditch nymph. But then those vile men sealed me in this lamp… Well, that’s not important.

Seurrr.

The woman’s face turned towards me.

━So, you are the one who has freed me. Everything has a cause, and I assume there is a reason why you went through the complicated process of unsealing me.

It seems she’s asking why I decided to release her. So I said while holding the lamp.

“I want to get out of this place. Would you be able to help us escape, O… great fairy?”

At my attempt at flattery, the fairy let out a languid laugh.

━Child, is that your wish?

“Yes.”

━You don’t want to rule the world? Or perhaps obtain an unimaginable fortune of gold?

“I don’t need those.”

More than that, I don’t think someone who had been stuck in a tiny lamp could grant such grandiose wishes.

Thinking about that, my request suddenly seemed strange. If she couldn’t free herself from the lamp, could she really have a way to get us out of this cave?

Still, the fairy’s attitude remained positive.

━Getting you out of here is simple. However, as long as I’m bound to this lamp, it’s an impossible task. Free me completely.

Free her completely?

I thought the seal had been broken just now, but it seemed that it hadn’t been fully released. As I glanced between the twins, Mirna spoke up.

“Does fulfilling a wish require any kind of price?”

━It did. But I’ll waive it for you. It’s been so long since I’ve tasted the scent of the mortal world, and I’m in a very good mood. Now, hurry and release me from this seal.

The lamp’s fairy was desperate to be freed from her accursed seal.

Well, if it were me, I’d be frantic too, stuck inside a cramped lamp for over a thousand years. I’d be desperate to escape.

So…

Just when I was considering how to undo the seal—

━Now, offer one of you to the lamp. If you do, I will be free. And you too will be free from this cramped cave.

I was startled by the fairy’s words.

“Offer one of us?”

━Exactly as I said. One of you must take my place and be sealed within the lamp, so that I may be free. Now, what will you do?

Faced with this completely unexpected demand, we all fell silent. During that brief moment, the floating fairy began circling around Narmi.

━You, haven’t you always wished to be alone? You wished your sister wasn’t around, didn’t you? That’s why my power responded and split you two into separate bodies.

It was a surprising statement.

Narmi also seemed taken aback as she questioned the fairy swirling around her.

“You’re saying it was your power that caused me and my sister to split?”

━Yes. But it’s incomplete. If things stay as they are, you might merge back into one again. Or one of you, the weaker one, might vanish altogether, leaving only a single whole.

━So, decide. Offer your sister to the lamp, and you can make everything yours.

It was like a sinister spell, whispering to Narmi to sacrifice her sister. Naturally, Mirna responded as one would expect.

“That’s absurd! As expected, there’s a reason a spirit like you was sealed away! Releasing you was a mistake!”

Swish—

The fairy floated over to Mirna this time. Mirna tried to swat at it with her fan, but the incorporeal body of the fairy merely dispersed like mist, only to reform moments later.

━You also wished you didn’t have a younger sister, right? Sharing your body and putting up with her whims. You hated your arrogant sister more than once, didn’t you?

“Are you trying to read my mind? My mental defenses aren’t so easily breached!”

━But it’s the truth, isn’t it? Two souls in one body. I can heal you, who were born in such a deformed state. Or, will you offer this man?

The fairy’s finger extended toward me.

Its vermilion eyes above the veil gleamed strangely.

━What a peculiar man you are. I sense the hateful presence of David and his patron lingering within you. The vile beings of Gwangyeom that pushed my people—.

Mirna suddenly lashed out, as though she’d heard something utterly intolerable.

“Are you insulting the Gwangyeom God? You, a wicked idol, trapped in a pitiful lamp buried in this dark and miserable mountain?”

━The Gwangyeom God? A god? Is that what he’s called now? Come, show me your world. Let me read more of your thoughts and memories.

Ssssss—

I could feel the fairy’s strange smoke coming through my nose and ears.

━Very strange thoughts, very strange plans. I see. You are a descendant of David.

I realized the fairy was skimming through my consciousness, sifting through my thoughts.

━But you are merely a pawn. It seems the time for his resurrection draws near. I don’t even need to imprison you in the lamp. You’re already bound by fate, half-fairy. Pitiful…

While the fairy was saying something—

━Grrrrr…!

Something leaped at the fairy, snarling ferociously. It was none other than the Cloudling, Yingying. Its blue body writhing in motion.

━C-Cloudling!? Stop! Stop this thing!

━Grrrr…!

Yingying pounced on the incorporeal fairy and began to absorb it.

Cloud against cloud, the strong consumes the weaker one—it was the only way to describe the scene unfolding before me. Strangely enough, the battle seemed to favor Yingying!

━I surrender! I surrender! If this continues, I’ll be completely absorbed and disappear!

━Yingyingyaing.

━Ining-ya-ing!

I wasn’t sure what was happening, but it was wonderful.

* * *

━Even though this body is weak, I can still help you kids get out. But… I just wanted revenge. Revenge against the world that imprisoned me.

The fairy, subdued by Yingying, readily answered our questions. She explained that she’s been trapped for a long time and was waiting for someone to release her.

━But no matter how much time passed, no one came. So, I decided. If someone ever freed me, I’d take revenge. That was the resolve I made.

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