25 – The Villain Thinks
“Even though I have a bad personality, I am as good as I am to my things.”
The villainess was uttering shocking words. Sael spat out those words and waited for my answer.
It was a similar situation as before. In response, I used detection magic. Could it be that he took another strange pill?
No. She didn’t take any medication. Then, is the wicked woman crazy?
A similar situation happened again this time.
It was the sound of a door opening. Shael stared at her door, her eyes wide open.
It was Duke Jespen. He entered the room without knocking.
Duke Jespen seemed to have heard Shael’s words, and his mouth was wide open.
Well, Sael’s remarks were shocking. Absolutely unbelievable.
He was startled, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised. Conversely, Shael was down.
“Amazing.”
It was immediately clear what he was surprised by. Shael couldn’t even make an excuse.
Ah, that was what she said herself. How could she excuse herself?
Shael was silent as her face blushed.
Duke Jespen began to look around him. He was looking at the many medicines lying next to my hospital bed.
It didn’t end with the drugs. Next to it were packs of herbal juices. This was also a tongue-in-cheek amount.
“I wonder how worried I was, there are so many medicines.”
Actually, these were the medicines Shael brought to feed me something bitter.
Duke Jespen replaced those with Sael’s worries about me.
“These are… To show that… Bitter taste.”
That was Sael’s words. Then Shael stopped her mouth halfway through.
It was an excuse no one would believe. To show bitterness, why bring so many medicines?
It was nonsense.
The Duke of Jespen held back a laugh at his daughter’s clumsy excuse.
“So, what is this delicacy?”
Duke Jespen was looking at the side dishes I was eating. Even Duke Jespen, who normally ate hearty meals, was surprised by the food.
This, too, was what the wicked woman ate alone and brought to tease me. I was taken aback when he suddenly gave me some side dishes.
“These are…”
This time, Shael couldn’t even make an excuse. She was just silent and her face was blushing. The wicked woman was feeling ashamed.
A shocking statement, tons of drugs. What follows is a hearty meal.
Duke Jespen was satisfied with this and asked me.
“I heard that there was some kind of accident at the Magic Tower.”
“Yes. Somehow, I got caught up in the work.”
“Bona mana, the kid in the Mage Tower must be like that.”
A child of the Mage Tower. I knew who it meant. Duke Jespen was also aware of the mage’s filthy personality.
However, the title was surprising. Greenhorn? Doesn’t it sound like the mage lord has weak power?
But come to think of it, it was true. No matter how much the mage lord was, the lord of the mage tower, which was not yet in its heyday, would be weak compared to Duke Jespen.
He had an eerie grin.
The members of the Azbel family were very kind. Except for Shael. They were so kind that I could count on one hand the number of times they scolded the wicked Shael.
Even in the novel, it is said that all members of the Azbel family except for Shael were kind.
However, there was something I found out after being possessed in this novel.
Their personalities were sometimes different. It was when I touched the people around me.
Duke Jespen was smiling like a wicked woman.
He nodded his head as if he had vowed to take revenge on the owner of the Mage Tower. Suddenly, his expression softened.
This time, it seemed that he was thinking of something other than the mage tower master. Then he looked at Shael and said.
“Shael, would you mind stepping aside so I can talk to Eran for a while?”
Shael stood up obediently. Predictably, it would have been too embarrassing for Duke Jespen to hear the shocking remarks earlier.
In response to her proposal, which she would normally have resisted, she rather waited and left the room.
It was a private meeting with Duke Jespen. Duke Jespen was thinking about something.
That worry was obvious. He was thinking about how to help me and Sael.
Duke Jespen will want to see my daughter’s wedding soon.
“⋯⋯!”
Then he suddenly opened his eyes. Duke Jespen, who had been thinking pleasantly before, had disappeared. Duke Jespen said trembling.
“⋯⋯Certainly, are you going to live captured by Shael?”
He was asking a question no one expected.
Are you going to get caught? Not at all. But why the hell is this question popping up all of a sudden?
-‘Even if I have a bad personality, he’s just as nice to my stuff.’
It was then that I remembered Sael’s words. It was a word that evoked the feeling that Sael and I had come to like each other.
But Duke Jespen seemed to have come up with another interpretation of these words.
As Sael said, what if I had to obey Sael?
Duke Jespen was thinking such an outrageous idea.
As I was dumbfounded and unable to answer, Duke Jespen said.
“⋯⋯No.”
I can’t live in captivity. He was saying that Perhaps he wants the opposite.
On the contrary, Shael was captured by me.
If it was natural, it was natural.
Duke Jespen didn’t just want Sael to marry me, he also wanted me to be the one who would stop Sael from acting strangely.
I told Duke Jespen, who was waiting for my answer.
“⋯Rather, Sael is going to be captured by me, so you don’t have to worry about that.”
Then Duke Jespen let out a long sigh of relief as if relieved.
It looked pretty funny. He said his daughter was going to be caught and lived, but he liked it.
“So that means you will marry Shael.”
It was what Duke Jespen said. He was waiting for my answer this time too.
He seemed to want to hear what I thought of marrying Shael.
“Yes, someday I will.”
It was an answer that was inevitable. He was asking me with a sad expression on his face so that the Duke of Spen could not open his eyes.
However, it was true to some extent. I could even get married to buy time, to rehabilitate her wicked woman.
After being possessed, I was the one who had a lot of affection for Shael while living in the novel. He is already putting in a lot of effort for Shael.
I haven’t been able to find a noticeable change in Sael yet, but compared to the novel, where Sael’s personality would have become more and more dirty, he has made quite a lot of progress.
Moreover, if Shael, the wicked woman, could not be rehabilitated, many people would suffer because of this.
I didn’t want to see the members of the Azbel family mourn over the miserable ending that the wicked woman Shael would face one day.
Above all, I never give up on a promise I made once.
So it was a confident answer. Although the answer was inevitable, it was full of confidence.
Duke Jespen nodded in satisfaction. Then Duke Jespen glanced at the door of his hospital room and began to smile.
*
Sael left the hospital room at Duke Jespen’s request. Of course, she was doing something that would surprise anyone to see.
Unlike a nobleman, Shael stood with his ear pressed to the door of the hospital room. She has even been using magic to hide the signs she has recently learned.
Shael didn’t know that even though it worked for Eran, it didn’t work for Duke Jespen.
A voice was heard.
ㅡ No way, is she going to be captured by Shael?
These were the words of Duke Jespen. Shael almost opened the door without realizing it. She bit her lip and barely held back.
The words that followed made Shael bite her lips even more.
ㅡ Rather, Sael is going to be captured by me, so she doesn’t have to worry about that.
What nonsense is that? She wanted to open the door and walk in right away. Does her own fiancé have no shame?
But she stopped her thoughts. Because she, too, had made an absurd remark just before. Shael decided to just clear her head and focus her ears on the faint sound of her voice.
—-Then it means that you will marry Sael.
⋯What? She frowned in embarrassment. But what followed was even more shocking.
ㅡYes, I plan to do it someday.
That was Eran’s words. Of course, she was Shael, who thought Eran would deny it. Why the hell did Eran say something like that?
Rather than that… whoever wants to? Marriage does not happen because one person wants it. Where did Shael’s opinion go and did she say such a thing with conviction?
Shael thought. Married to Eran? Hate. Of course. However, another thought occurred to Shael.
What if Eran marries someone else? She hates that too. It wasn’t because she liked Eran.
She could not open her eyes to see Eran happy. Shael wanted to torment Eran forever.
But that was impossible. If you don’t get married even though you have passed the marriageable age someday. If so, the engagement must be broken.
Right now, the two families had to continue their bloodlines. There was only one option to torment Eran forever.
It was a marriage.
What would be the difference if she ended up marrying Eran? It was only that Shael could torment Eran forever. Other than that, nothing had changed.
At least in Shael’s opinion.
Thinking of that, marriage with Eran didn’t seem too bad.
*
The wound has completely healed. I couldn’t even find a scar. Finally today, I was able to get out of this boring hospital room.
“⋯⋯Did you say that the lord of the tower challenged Duke Jespen to a duel?”
A shocking rumor came to me.