Living As the Villainess Queen

The message Pides delivered was simple.

“His Holiness Sang-je has sent an order for you to attend the Celestial Festival this year,” he said. “You and Anika Flora have been given the honor of assisting His Holiness in the festivities.”

Eugene had no idea what the Celestial Festival was, so she stayed quiet. She remembered learning how Sang-je would periodically present divine powers in front of others; she assumed the festival was something similar.

With Flora?

She hadn’t seen Flora since the last Anika meeting. She didn’t know anyone at that point and the whole meeting had come as a shock to her, but she did remember how the other Anikas had mentioned that it had been a while since they had seen Anika Flora.

Eugene hadn’t been pleased when she first met the woman, but she wanted to have a positive relationship with her if she could. As long as they weren’t at each other’s necks, it didn’t matter that they weren’t friends or anything of that sort.

But Flora seemed to have other things on her mind. She had a complicated relationship with the impostor. A simple apology just would not suffice.

Besides, what does Sang-je think he’s doing ordering me around like this? He’s not even human, let alone God, she thought to herself. But she knew she couldn’t say any of that out loud.

So, instead, she said, “I don’t know if I’m worthy of performing such a great task. I’d like to meet with His Holiness to understand the responsibilities before fully committing.”