62 – The Villainess Doesn’t Listen
“Please make the theater he loved a better place.”
A theater with a gloomy atmosphere. Sael and I were watching a play with a scary story.
Sael said dissatisfiedly.
“I wonder how many times I come to the theater…”
“I can’t live without this. You said you would give me dessert instead.”
“Then keep that promise.”
Sael said in a rather loud voice. A theater with many people. Of course, talking about it here was a nuisance.
「Ah, it would be nice if we could chat together while watching the play.」
“I’m noticing you not to be noisy next to me, so be quiet.”
As expected, there’s no way that Shael would keep quiet for others. To block Shael’s mouth, which was still trying to open, he held up a snack.
Shael’s mouth had to be closed. Because I shoved the cookie into Shael’s mouth.
“For some reason… I’m sorry.”
“If you are going to talk, do you speak quietly like me?”
Shael glared at me. Of course, Sael ate the snack next, forgetting her complaints. It was thanks to the excellent taste of the sweets I shoveled in.
Maybe the sweet snack relieved Sael’s anger, but Sael told me while holding back her dissatisfaction. Be quiet so no one else can hear you.
“It would be nice if noise control magic tools were scattered all over the audience so that it would be easier to talk.”
“You have to say something that makes sense.”
If that happens, a lot of money will be spent on the theater at the very least.
“Then…”
“Stop talking nonsense and focus on the play.”
She simply ignored Shael’s words and started to focus on the play. But that was only for a moment.
She was upset that she cut her off at me, so Shael was drinking water to cool her teeth.
“⋯⋯Puha.”
“Is that what I was drinking?”
“⋯.”
Shael glaring at me. It was a water bottle I drank from the beginning, but it was a really selfish way of thinking.
“It’s a joke, so drink it.”
It’s actually a lie. Blatant lie. But Shael, fooled by my words, drank to his heart’s content.
And when the play comes to an end. I told Shael.
“Ah, now that I think about it, I think the one I drank was right.”
“⋯⋯!”
I stood up from her seat, appreciating the surprised Shael as usual.
“⋯⋯You did it on purpose.”
“Not at all.”
“For that reason, you are smiling.”
Shael persistently pursues me. As expected of a villainess who can’t stand her own loss, Shael handed me a bucket of water and said,
“⋯⋯I feel like I’m about to die, so please drink too.”
“Yes. Yes, what.”
“⋯!”
As soon as she received the water bottle Shael handed her, she drank it all the way. She even laughed at Shael, who was embarrassed by my quick action, while holding her water bottle in her mouth.
She said it shamelessly to make fun of Shael.
“Is this the ‘indirect kiss’?”
“What nonsense!”
I didn’t answer Sael’s words. She just puts her mouth on her bucket again when Shael would have put her mouth on it.
Of course, there was no way Shael would see this. Because her personality was filthy, her feelings of shame existed for her as well.
“Bring it here!”
“I don’t like it.”
“⋯⋯Not a pervert.”
Pervert. The words are too harsh. But I wasn’t in a position to hear that. Because there was a Shael who acted more strangely than me.
“Who tried to feed me some strange tree sap?”
“⋯⋯That.”
“Didn’t you try to make me do something strange?”
I don’t know if that action was insidious, but it was obvious that it was strange.
“If you think so, I suddenly have a question.”
“⋯?”
“Didn’t you intentionally drink the water bottle I used to drink?”
“⋯⋯No!”
Shael shakes his head in denial. Sael had been complaining about her injustice with all her strength, but I couldn’t defeat her with that at all.
Shael, who was trying to feed me the strange juice from the beginning, did something wrong to me first.
“Then why were you trying to feed it? The sap of the tree of obedience that can make you do anything.”
“⋯⋯.”
“It can be made to do anything, no matter who thinks, its use is strange.”
“⋯⋯Ah, no.”
As expected, Sael couldn’t confidently say that I was wrong.
“Come to think of it, when I asked if I was the only one waiting lately, ⋯ she nodded.”
“⋯.”
“Isn’t this a strange situation, no matter who sees it?”
Shael shook her head. She still looked proud of Shael. It seems like the shameless thing hasn’t let go of the old personality yet.
But the next thing I said was, even that Shael had to lose her brazenness.
“Even naming future children.”
“⋯⋯That.”
“She even insists that she resembles her personality more.”
“Close your mouth.”
As expected, the last one was the villain’s threat to me. Normally, I would have stopped here. But I continued to make fun of Shael.
“In the end, I hope to see her missing daughter much earlier.”
“I want to see her daughter soon. I think she is very cute.”
“⋯⋯Say something that makes sense.”
“I don’t think I was being honest after giving you a name.”
“⋯.”
At this point, I’m worried about Shael’s reddened face from her shame. I brought out her dessert for Sael.
“Shael.”
“What?”
When I call his name, Shael replies harshly. On the other hand, I answered full of complaints with my mouth pouting to get angry…
It didn’t seem that way to me at all. I only see a grumpy cute woman.
“If you don’t want to eat it, then you should give it to someone else.”
“⋯⋯That’s not possible.”
Shael, who acted as if he would not treat me, snatched my dessert. With really fast hands.
“Is it delicious?”
“⋯⋯Yes. No, no.”
Shael hides her true heart that pops out without her knowledge. I barely swallowed a blank laugh and walked with Shael.
An accessory shop that appears before you know it. Since you teased Shael badly, you still need to reward her. As soon as I entered the accessory shop for this, Shael said.
“⋯⋯ Why is this all of a sudden?”
“Wait.”
Leaving behind Shael, who expressed her doubts, she turned her attention to a pair of rings.
A pair of rings that would go well with Sael and I. It was a ring with a softly shining blue gem embedded in it.
“This is perfect. I would love to share.”
“Yes, I see.”
Sael also nodded her head as if he had forgotten his anger. I proudly checked the price tag.
ㅡ5 million gold
It’s expensive, but it’s not too expensive. From this point on, the Baslett family was a duke of high prestige.
Even the gold I received every month for maintaining my dignity was a huge amount.
The value of the numerous heirlooms in the family must be enormous.
After completing the calculation, I handed the other ring to Shael.
“Cuddle.”
“No, yes.”
Shael tried to deny it for a while due to his grumpiness earlier. But because the ring was so pretty, I couldn’t do that.
Maybe it was thanks to the sweet desserts that relieved her anger a little.
“Then let’s go back to Azbel Street.”
“Yes.”
The Azbel family’s mansion has arrived before you know it. Duke Jespen, quick-witted, smiled as he recognized the ring Shael and I shared.
Shael must have been annoyed by that, so she grabbed my arm and headed for the room.
That’s how time passed. As everyday life continues as usual. A daily life to enjoy while drinking her tea while facing Shael.
Shael, who used to bully me, had changed before I knew it. In fact, she wasn’t that Shael didn’t bother me.
It’s just that I was able to accept Sael’s bullying as her cute prank.
However, just like everyday life, even Sael and I did not last forever.
Because sadness is a sudden step in between happy days.
「Please allow him to carry the magic he can sense, no matter what poison he is.」
“Boss, I have brought you some tea.”
“Yes. It seems that the scent is different from usual?”
It was a great scent. It seems to be similar to the tea I drank in the imperial palace when I was young.
In order to wait for Shael to go to the Duke of Jespen for a while, I drank her tea.
* * *
My memory stopped for a while. Covering my throbbing head, I tried not to miss the sparsely seen scene.
Then, facing the dark figure, I saw the expressionless Duke Ezran kneeling down.
A dessert shop that Shael loved to death in the original novel. There, Shael sobbed while receiving something from Duke Ezran.
I saw a wicked woman struggling to steal the bracelet of holy power from Clie. A piece of paper and a book with my handwriting were placed in front of Shael, who had taken her bracelet and wrote something down on her.
It was the end of her memory.
* * *
My body felt stiff and my head ached. I opened my eyes with difficulty. I saw the Baslet family’s hospital room.
After breaking Clie’s bracelet, he must have fainted for a while.
“⋯⋯?”
I see Shael sleeping with her head propped up on my stomach. I wanted to hug Shael right away because of the memories I had just seen in her dream, but I didn’t.
Because Sael looked very tired and emaciated.
She left her room with Shael lying down comfortably. Even though it was quite early in the morning, I could see the doctors from the Barslet family who were up.
“Go, Young master!”
“What, why?”
Suddenly, the doctor who was making a fuss came up to me taking a deep breath.
“Mo, are you feeling well?”
“Of course it’s fine. Why are you doing that?”
“⋯⋯You have been unconscious for as much as 15 days!”
“⋯⋯What?”
So, I’ve been passed out for 15 days?
Was the aftereffect of breaking the bracelet of holy power that great? Well, it deserves it. Even the great memories flowed into my head.
“Papa, you need to calm down quickly!”
“Okay, stop making a fuss and go.”
I came back into the hospital room from earlier. I sat next to Sael, who fell asleep, and looked at him.
I don’t know how worried I must have been, since I’d been fainting for 15 days. No, did the villainess worry about me?
The answer to that question was soon known. Because the sky blue eyes were looking directly at me.
Shael made her face look disbelief for a moment, then let out her cute spit.
“⋯⋯Ah.”
“Did I wake you up? You look tired. Get some more sleep.”
As expected, there was no way the villainess would follow my words. Instead of sleeping, Shael pounced on me and hugged me while lying down.
What just happened i need explanation…