55 – A Successful Villain’s Strategy
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Shael entered her room without knocking. Unlike usual when I went to the Azbel family, Shael came to the Baslet family. As promised yesterday.
“You are late.”
“I’m not late.”
The words we exchanged each time. Only the subject was reversed.
“What would you like to do?”
“What about the body?”
Wrong answer. Are you asking if the cold is still going?
Of course it can’t be. Cold at best. A day was enough for a small bottle like that in the body of a master of swordsmanship.
“I’m fine now.”
“⋯⋯.”
At my words, Shael lowered her head. Like I’m healthy, I hate this situation right now.
Isn’t this too much? We’ve been together for a few months, but I’m sad.
So I think I can bully Shael to my heart’s content today.
“Let’s go.”
“⋯⋯Don’t go out. Wear this and go to sleep.”
With those words, what Shael handed over was an air purifying magic tool. I don’t know why ⋯ she ignored me at once.
“If you are not going out, I will go out alone.”
“⋯.”
Perhaps Sael’s goal is my dessert. So Sael had no choice but to follow me.
After a short preparation, she leaves the Baslet family’s mansion and walks with Shael to the Baslet family’s estate.
To be honest, I didn’t want to come with Shael. It would be better to go around the Azbel family’s estate, which is richer overall.
Of course, that didn’t mean that the streets of Baslett’s estate were difficult. Now that I think about it, there are many unique sights that can only be seen here.
“Where are you going?”
Where should I go? I’m not sure either. I can’t remember the new place. It was because there were so many places I went to with Shael these days.
“Today I just want to wander around aimlessly.”
“Okay, then.”
The time I was about to enter an alleyway with Sael. Someone shouted from behind.
“⋯⋯You guys!”
Shael and I were dressed as usual. Nobleman’s clothes. So there’s no way someone hastily shouted at us…
But contrary to my expectations, an old man who seemed to be a fortune teller was shouting at us.
“⋯⋯ Why?”
“⋯.”
There’s no way Sael would like this. It’s a big deal for her to upset Shael, so she needs to leave quickly.
“⋯⋯I see death in the near future!”
Hey. There is no such thing as bullshit. I sighed heavily and spoke to the old man.
“I’m not interested, so I’ll go.”
“⋯⋯More, tell me.”
It was Shael who showed interest in the fortuneteller. I couldn’t help but feel devastated. Shael, who would not normally be like that, was using honorifics for fortunetellers.
Even I, who used to live in modern times in the first place, thinks of the gap in social status, so I spit out squeaks that I absolutely do not want to say.
Is the villainess easily fooled by things like this?
I don’t understand. No matter how stupid Sael was, he seemed to be quick-witted in things like this.
I had no choice but to remain silent and listen to the conversation between Sael and the fortuneteller.
“One week. No, maybe death will come sooner.”
“In the near future than a day or a week?”
I wanted to tell Shael that it’s better not to believe in these things, but…
It was a rare scene to see Shael embarrassed, so I put it off for a while.
“Is there any way to escape that death?”
“To be honest, it is impossible.”
The old man, who had been breathing for a while, opened his mouth.
“But there is one way to get past this.”
“⋯⋯ What is that?”
“I can’t say it because it makes so much sense.”
Shael glared at her fortuneteller. I couldn’t help but laugh. The fortuneteller was asking for money.
I paid for Shael, who was waiting for the fortuneteller’s words.
“Tell me.”
“Looks like that man has a way out of this.”
“⋯?”
At the fortune teller’s words, Shael looked back at me. It’s great to trust this bullshit.
Hasn’t Sael become a fool instead of a villain?
“By the way…”
At those words, Shael looked at the fortuneteller. Suddenly, Sael showed absolute trust in the old man.
“Are you guys in a relationship?”
“⋯⋯No. There is no relationship.”
That’s what Sael said. I felt guilty and corrected it.
“We are getting married soon.”
Since you are in an engaged relationship, you are probably right. Since Sael is using honorifics, I was able to feel comfortable too.
Shael glared at me for a moment, but thanks to the fortuneteller’s mouth, she was able to get over it easily.
“Then, how about drawing out these cards?”
At the same time, the old man held out a card. Concerned, Sael suddenly pulled out a card.
“⋯ What does this mean?”
“⋯⋯ Later. You’d better go to that place.”
After that, the fortuneteller started walking past us. Shael, who had been watching her card for a while, opened her mouth.
“So, the way to prevent that death is exactly…”
The old man had already disappeared. I was barely able to stop Shael from chasing the old man.
“You better not believe that.”
“⋯⋯.”
I couldn’t help but laugh. Because Shael was still seriously thinking about it.
“No, why would death come to me when I am still young?”
“⋯.”
Of course, the villain in the novel ends her life at an early age, but ⋯⋯.
Even that was in the distant future. In the first place, I will definitely block that much.
I had no choice but to take out her dessert for Shael, who was silent despite my words.
“I’ll get you some dessert.”
But there were no desserts in the box I brought. I brought it because it’s big enough not to fit in the magic pocket.
Where the hell did the contents go?
“Obviously the dessert I had in the box is gone.”
“⋯That’s a big deal.”
Shael stuttered her. I quickly rummaged through the memory. Before leaving the mansion, when I went to the bathroom for a while.
Suddenly, Shael seemed to be in a good mood. In other words, it was clear that my dessert had gone into Shael’s stomach in that short amount of time.
The last time I secretly stole my dessert, I recognized it right away because of the evidence attached to my mouth…
I don’t even leave evidence anymore. The villainess was meticulous. I spoke to Shael in a strong tone.
“I don’t know which piglet ate it up.”
“⋯⋯ Okay, wouldn’t the bastard do too much? I don’t know who it is.”
Because that pig is himself, he must think it’s too much.
If someone other than Sael really steals the dessert… Sael will say all sorts of harsh things.
“You’d have to let the piglet be slaughtered.”
“Yes, it is the map of life.”
A pig is also a life. It was unreliable and funny to say that the wicked woman had uttered it.
“And, to say that it was eaten away. ⋯It’s too expressive.”
“⋯.”
Now, are you advertising that you stole it?
aaah!
The dessert was stolen and eaten by a pig, so I fed sweet chestnuts for the hungry wicked woman.
“⋯⋯ What!”
“This is a reward instead of dessert.”
But this is not enough. What is needed is a bigger punishment. At least not in the future.
After thinking for a while, he opened his mouth.
“Looks like the pig is closer than you think.”
“⋯⋯How can you be sure of that?”
Why? Because the piglet was intensely telling who he was.
“When I hit the honey chestnut, it howled like a young pig.”
“⋯.”
And the only person I hit Honeybam was Shael. So Sael had no choice but to recognize that I had found out who the culprit was.
“Why on earth do you steal dessert?”
What came out of Shael’s mouth after being silent for a while wasn’t an excuse.
“Sin…”
I wonder if I was trying to say I’m sorry. I couldn’t help but be surprised. I only said one letter, but….
Because it seemed that all the efforts I had made so far were not in vain.
That wicked woman made me try to apologize without my coercion.
I think a similar situation has happened before, but this was quite a surprise. Except that the situation was caught stealing dessert.
But I still haven’t forgiven Shael. He didn’t even apologize to her in the first place.
Then how can we single out the wicked woman?
After thinking for a while, she opened her mouth.
“I guess I’ll have to kill and eat the piglets. Even get married.”
Of course it was a joke. A bad joke to poke fun at Sael. But strangely, it was me who suffered.
“Is that so?”
That’s Sael’s answer. I stiffened my whole body and couldn’t help but doubt her ears.
* * *
“⋯⋯Are there any red earrings?”
“These are red earrings.”
The man thought for a while and said to Clie.
“⋯⋯Ah! You mean those red earrings that never sold last time?”
“⋯⋯Yes, that’s right.”
Originally, the crown prince should have bought the earrings and handed them to himself. However. For some reason, the prince didn’t do that.
“A certain noble lady bought it the other day.”
“Can I find out where the daughter of the family is?”
The man shook his head. It was the basics of an auctioneer to protect the personal information of customers.
Cliè held out a pouch containing gold. A quantity that seems quite large. The man struggles to ignore it, and he refuses, but ⋯⋯.
“Just, please let the lady know that I am going to buy earrings again.”
“Hmm! If it’s like that…”
The man who was looking back at his memories said.
“I don’t know the family. It was a young lady with sky blue hair and eyes.”
Light blue hair and eyes. Clie was sure who it meant.
And ⋯ Clie has to get his earrings back unconditionally.