63 – The Villainess Feels Danger
It’s a surprise. That the wicked woman hugged me herself. She just can’t believe it.
It seems that being unconscious for 15 days caused great concern to Shael.
“⋯.”
“⋯.”
I didn’t say anything. Because Sael was frozen while holding me, I also became frozen like Sael.
Normally, he would be calm and thinking of a way to make fun of Shael for doing something stupid.
Perhaps I became an idiot, too. I barely spoke to Shael.
“⋯⋯ Are you okay?”
“⋯⋯Ah.”
Shael stepped away from me, her face blushing. She wanted to make fun of Shael. It was clear that he hugged me without even thinking about it.
But looking at Shael’s serious face, it couldn’t be.
“Explain.”
To explain all of a sudden. It was a really unkind order that didn’t even tell me what to explain. Shael added.
“You didn’t have blood clotting disease?”
“Did you say blood clotting disease?”
“⋯⋯Yes. I’m sure they would, but they’re not doctors…”
It’s a memory disease. That would also be true, because the name of the disease Clie was suffering from was blood clotting disease.
I also bought Clie medicine for blood clotting disease.
But I have a question. There’s no way I got blood clotting disease. So it was clear that Sael was mistaken about something.
“What do you mean by that? Why do I get blood clotting disease?”
“⋯⋯ Obviously. You carried blood clotting medicine the other day, right?”
Medicine for blood clotting disease. There’s no way I would have carried it. Except when Klee asked for it.
So I have my doubts. I told Shael right away.
“Did you see my magic bag?”
“⋯⋯Yes.”
So it was easy to guess what kind of questions Shael might have.
Since I am speechless in my confusion, Shael said.
“There were times when I looked tired, and there were times when I suddenly had a high fever…”
“It’s a coincidence. There was an circumstance that I couldn’t tell about the medicine cabinet for blood clotting disease.”
“⋯⋯What’s the matter?”
I couldn’t say that it was because Clie asked me to bring it to me. So she ignored Shael’s questioning.
Sael gave up on her questioning at my resolute ignorance and asked.
“⋯⋯ Then, why did you suddenly fall down for 15 days?”
“⋯.”
I don’t know what to say. I don’t think you would believe me if I told you that it was because I broke her bracelet of holy power.
I couldn’t find a suitable excuse because I had been fainting for over 15 days.
“Answer me quickly.”
“I don’t like it.”
I chose to attack Shael instead of making excuses. Just like Sael did earlier, I also jumped on him and hugged him.
“What…!”
“You did it too, can’t I?”
The selfish villain nodded her head proudly, and she struggled to get out of my arms. In fact, she doesn’t even seem to be trying too hard. There was no way I would easily let go of Shael.
I was just thinking while holding Shael. A memory recalled by the bracelet of holy power while fainting.
In other words, the hidden memory of the original novel. Remembered it I was Eran Baslet in the original novel.
I was poisoned and died. Perhaps the owner is the Crown Prince. No, I was sure.
A power enough to instruct the maid of the Azbel family, who boasts great security, to be poisoned. And if he had poisonous enough to kill me, who was the blood of a famous swordsman, he would of course be a man of great power.
Considering the sparsely seen Sael there, and the fact that Sael hated the crown prince in the original novel, it was obvious that the owner would be the crown prince.
The reason for the owner could also be predicted. Of course it’s Cli. I was able to figure it out without even thinking about it.
Since I am also the fiance of the villainess, of course the past me also had contact with Clie.
Maybe I had a private conversation with Clie in order to ease the quarrel between Clie and Sael. The Crown Prince, who always follows Clie, would have noticed this.
So it’s natural for the obsessive prince to roll his eyes.
In fact, it is not easy to understand. I already had a fiance. Even I had the status of a duke.
‘⋯⋯But you shouldn’t apply common sense to him.’
Because that clier-crazy bastard was full of thoughts of killing even the owner of the Mage Tower. Not only that, but all the men who had private conversations with Clie.
A man who already has a fiance? Anyway, if you had a private meeting with Clie, the obsessive male protagonist, the crown prince, would be angry.
The magic tower lord could have been safe through the magic tower’s excellent ring and battle magic, but…
I wasn’t. I wouldn’t know now if I had learned magic properly, but I couldn’t detect such an excellent poison at the time.
Befitting a male protagonist who has everything perfect except for his personality, he must have completely hidden it so that he would never know that he was the person responsible for the poisoning.
Only Shael, who was close to me, would have noticed this. But I wouldn’t have been able to do anything.
No matter how much the duke’s self-restraint, they couldn’t have attacked the crown prince with just a heart attack.
Instead, Shael tried to save me. It reminds me of what I saw when I passed out, of Duke Ezran on his knees in front of a dark figure.
It was obvious what that dark shape was.
In order to save me, Duke Ezran offered something to the Demon King in exchange. What was the cost
-‘I can’t use auras.’
The words that were dismissed as lies were true. In addition, the Baslett family, which was strangely lacking in heirlooms. And the Baslett family, which was poor for a ducal value.
Now, all of that makes sense. Only one. Except for the reason that Duke Ezran handed over the goods given to him by the Demon King to Shael.
We’ll figure that out later. Anyway, because of that, Sael struggles to steal the bracelet of holy power from Clie.
The Demon King is not a god, and it would be impossible to save people just because he was paid. Therefore, it must have been a bracelet of holy power that possessed vast amounts of holy power.
In the original novel, Shael didn’t try to steal Clie’s bracelet for nothing.
The next thing that comes to mind is the paper placed in front of Shael. Written there, the wishes Sael wished for me.
「Let him have magic that can detect any poison.」
It wasn’t for nothing that I studied magic diligently as soon as I was possessed in a novel. Maybe the reason why I read novels is because of this.
“Please make the theater he loved a better place.”
「Ah, it would be nice if we could chat together while watching the play.」
A movie theater that didn’t fit in at all, awkwardly existed in a fantasy world. And the fact that the theater was covered with sound-blocking magic tools.
「I hope I can see my daughter much earlier, whom I haven’t seen in the end.」
The daughter came from the future for a reason. And the book that Ruel gave me at that time.
I remembered the book that I thought I would have written in the future. Of course, it was in my handwriting… I thought I would have written it, but I didn’t.
Because Shael, who stole the bracelet of holy power from the memory that came to mind, was writing a book with my handwriting.
I read it over and over and chewed on the contents of the book, which I had memorized by now.
The content that should be written on the first page, that time should be connected with Ruel, must have been a nonsense of its own kind written by a foolish Sael.
The recipes for the desserts that followed must have been pasted up by Shael, who somehow managed to get them.
And the meaningless advice in the second half.
I could understand them now.
ㅡUnconditionally accept and drink the drink Sael gives you.
Shael tried to make me drink the juice of the tree of obedience and failed. No, rather, in that memory, I fed Sael the juice of the tree of obedience.
—-Make lots of desserts for Sael.
Of course Sael would like my dessert.
—-When you become the head of household, give up your work and devote all your time to Sael and Ruel.
ㅡ When you receive a love letter from someone, do not ignore it, but punish it with a curse.
Aside from that, thinking that all of those advices were written by Sael, it fits perfectly.
“⋯.”
I was Eran Baslett in the original novel. Maybe the reason I read the novel was because of Sael’s wish to save me.
I sorted out her thoughts and released Shael from her embrace.
“While I was down, were you worried?”
“⋯⋯Ah, Neyo. Not at all.”
“Oh, I see.”
It’s like a disingenuous villainess. I pretended to be angry for a while and left the room.
Even though it’s dawn, I needed to go to Duke Ezran. Because I wanted to know more about the past.
Above all, he was the Demon King. Seeing Sael’s wishes come true, I don’t know how much more he must have paid for what I didn’t know. A knight came to speak.
“⋯⋯ Young master Eran! Are you finally awake?”
“Yes. Where is your father?”
“Ah, they said they went somewhere for a while. When Young master wakes up, he told me to spend time with Princess Shael.”
Unfortunately, it seems that the conversation with Duke Ezran will have to be postponed. Still, I couldn’t get rid of the complicated thoughts.
The crown prince who poisoned me, the magic tower lord who quarreled with Sael and me. Lastly, Clie, who attacked the Azbel family.
Even assuming Clie lost his strength, all of those were hard trials to overcome.
It is necessary to prepare for the future. There is so much to do.
But before that, I needed to take care of the most important person to me. Of course, she was Shael.
Shael was secretly following me. The reason was simple.
-‘While I was down, were you worried?’
-‘⋯⋯Ah, Ne-Yo. Not at all.’
I came out of the hospital room pretending to be angry at Sael’s disingenuous remark.
I feel sorry for Shael, who must have suffered while I was down, but the priority was to straighten out her disingenuous villainous personality.
I spoke in a moderately loud voice so that Shael, who was following me, could hear.
“⋯⋯There is nothing I can’t say to my fiancé.”
I glanced at Shael, and she was staring at me in bewilderment.
I added so that Shael could hear.
“I’m starting to get tired of being patient now. Oh, should we break off the engagement?”
Goong!
Shael, shocked by how shocked this time was, banged her head against the wall. Barely holding back her laughter, I began devising a plan to correct her villainous personality.