Volume 3 Chapter 236

Volume 3 + Chapter 236: Deception

“…Why?”

The Knight Princess fixed her gaze on Xia Yi and spoke these three words.

Xia Yi instinctively avoided the Knight Princess’s eyes.

She didn’t understand—why had her identity been exposed here?

She had clearly taken the Conversion Potion, and even resisted its side effects. By normal logic, the dragon curse on her body should have been suppressed, disguising her as a black-haired, black-eyed human girl.

Yet this was not the case.

Silver hair and silver eyes—features a human could never possess—and a great tail behind her.

Just one glance was enough for others to recognize her as dragonkind.

“Wright, why won’t you speak!!” Knight Princess pressed further.

Xia Yi took a step back, her hand starting to tremble, but as if driven by an instinct to protect herself, she argued: “What Wright? I am not the Human Sword Saint, I am a dragon…”

“Xia Yi, your mouth is really stubborn, isn’t it!” The Doctor’s voice was cheerful.

“What, Wright? You mean the Human Sword Saint, right? He already left long ago.” Xia Yi continued to force her explanation.

No matter what, she refused to admit it before the Knight Princess.

“Then, when you see this, can you still keep denying?”

The Doctor raised her hand.

The butterfly on Xia Yi’s tail flew up, landed on the Doctor’s finger, folded its wings, and stayed still, as if the Doctor was its master.

“Our great human hero, Sword Saint!” The Doctor’s tone shifted to mockery. “Have you forgotten already? I deliberately got close to you just to leave a marker on your body, so my alchemical creature could track you down!”

Xia Yi remembered now.

When the Doctor had suddenly acted like a crazed fangirl, getting so close—so that was her true goal?

Because of the Conversion Potion’s side effects, Xia Yi hadn’t noticed it at all, nor realized the Doctor had marked her.

“Explain it, then. Why is it that when my butterfly was tracking the Human Sword Saint, the one I found turned out to be a girl? And not just that—a dragon.”

The Doctor looked toward the Knight Princess.

“This is really amusing. Your fiance suddenly turns out to be a dragon, and a girl at that. How do you feel now, Knight Princess?”

“…”

Xia Yi was speechless.

She had no way to keep arguing.

“Wright, even now, you still refuse to tell me the truth?”

The Knight Princess’s body trembled slightly.

“Why is it that even now, you’re still trying to deceive me?”

Her accusations were like hammer blows striking Xia Yi’s heart.

To cover up one lie, countless others had to be spun.

And once one lie was exposed, the rest collapsed like an avalanche.

The Knight Princess removed her helmet. That beautiful face was already wet with tears.

Xia Yi had been her friend, giving her sincerity and trust.

Wright had been her precious comrade, giving her the same—pure affection and unconditional trust.

Yet never had she imagined the two were the same person.

“Kill her, kill him, kill her!!

Kill humanity’s enemy!!”

“Ugh…”

The Holy Spear mark on Knight Princess’s hand glowed faintly. The heroic will within the spear once again began influencing her.

Her heart churned with hatred for dragonkind, almost compelling her to summon the spear and pierce the dragon before her.

Now she understood why, back in the subspace, when she deeply released the spear, it had kept driving her to attack Xia Yi.

It was because Xia Yi was the eternal foe of human bloodlines—a dragon.

“No… no…”

Knight Princess clutched her head, gritting her teeth, desperately resisting those voices, struggling to suppress the hatred and impulse within the Human King’s bloodline.

She painfully raised her head, eyes red, and with a gaze filled with sorrow, asked.

“Are you Wright, or Xia Yi?”

“…I’m sorry, Tia.”

Xia Yi no longer dared to look at the Knight Princess.

“Why do you keep saying sorry?”

“…”

“Do you still remember what you promised me?” The Knight Princess gave a bitter smile. “That day, the promise you made to me—can you say it again?”

That day, the Knight Princess had poured out her heart to Xia Yi.

She had hoped Xia Yi would be her friend, never betray her trust.

And Xia Yi’s reply had been—

“I will never betray you, Tia.”

It was precisely because of this line that even though the Knight Princess had sensed strangeness in Xia Yi, she still gave her unconditional trust.

Yet the sincerity she had so painstakingly offered, what she received in return was deception?

“Knowing everything, and still unwilling to tell me—was this your true intention?”

Knight Princess felt as though her heart was being pierced, bleeding nonstop.

“You could have told me you had difficulties. I would have helped you. But why did you choose to deceive me instead…?”

“Ahahahaha!!”

The Doctor beside them was laughing so hard with joy, she could hardly contain herself. She had never seen something so entertaining!

Earlier, she had casually said to the fake Sword Saint that the real Sword Saint was actually a dragon—yet her words had become prophecy.

If the entire human world were to learn that the most worshiped dragon-slaying hero had actually betrayed humanity to join the dragons—how many people’s faith would collapse?

“Knight Princess, why did you suddenly run over here—”

The Fearless Knight arrived with the Holy Knights in tow.

Then they all saw the dragon before them, and were thrown into utter shock.

“Evil dragon!!” roared the Fearless Knight.

The Holy Knights quickly reacted, and as the most elite human warriors, they immediately drew their weapons.

In humanity’s knowledge, the existence of dragons was even more terrifying than calamity itself.

This was the absolute enemy.

“Protect the Knight Princess!”

The Fearless Knight pulled her behind him, drew a longsword, and swung it toward the front.

“Annihilate the evil dragons!!”

“Charge!!!”

The Holy Knights roared, raising their weapons and rushing toward Xia Yi together. Every one of them was filled with killing intent, determined to slay the dragon that had suddenly appeared.

“Stop! I am not an evil dragon—I won’t harm you!” Xia Yi shouted.

But humanity’s side refused to listen.

“Don’t be deceived by the dragon! Dragons are born as humanity’s greatest enemy. Don’t forget how many of our kin have perished under their claws!!”

Spears and swords thrust toward Xia Yi, attempting to surround her.

“You…”

Xia Yi knew that words and explanations were useless here.

Dodging a Holy Knight’s strike, she seized his weapon, slashed with it at the others—but controlled her strength, only knocking them away, opening a gap in the encirclement.

Then she charged through the gap, escaping.

“Damn dragon, don’t think you can run!!”

The Fearless Knight prepared to rally the others to pursue.

But at that moment, the Knight Princess shouted them down.

“Enough! Everyone, stop immediately!!”

Her hysterical voice made the Holy Knights halt. It was their first time ever seeing the Knight Princess like this.

“Knight Princess, what is…?”

The Fearless Knight was baffled.

But the command Knight Princess gave next made them all wonder if their ears were deceiving them.