92 – The Villainess Olivia -1-
A sunny afternoon.
The lady, dressed warmly, and I stepped out of the mansion for a stroll in the bustling city.
“What would be a good gift for Sir Ricardo?”
“It’s not Sir, it’s Madam.”
“Right, Madam. Sir.”
Without any hesitation, the lady firmly established her address for Darvab.
Nodding, she thought about the gift for Darvab, and a satisfied smile graced her face.
“hehehehe…”
If the lady has a child in the future, she’ll probably be called “Mother”. The sight of the lady scolding her child was heartwarming.
– Mother, give me food.
– Eek! It’s not Mother, it’s Mom!
– I said Mother.
– Get out!
Maybe it’ll be okay…?
Imagining the future in my mind, I lightly pinched the lady’s cheek, and a small smile formed on my lips.
“Eek! Why!”
“Just thinking about the future of the lady who will become a mother.”
Sitting in the first-class carriage, the lady raised her head to look at me with a stern expression.
“It’ll be beautiful, won’t it?”
“Yes. She would be very beautiful, resembling the young lady. Of course, their personalities might be quite different.”
“Eeik! Don’t insult my daughter!”
The lady, who wanted to protect the daughter that existed only in imagination, was a lady awakened by maternal love. Watching the lady confidently brandishing her fist, I thought I would be a good mom.
Playing pranks unexpectedly, we were on our way to Malik’s newly opened Forest Friends Tteokbokki place today. We also came out to buy a gift for Lady Gajunim’s birthday.
The original plan was to meet Malik and greet him long ago, but it was delayed due to meeting Darbav in the capital.
I never said when I would visit, but I did send a letter to Malik saying that I would visit, so he might be waiting.
Although I was tense about the business with the master of the food industry, I didn’t worry much because Malik was so skilled in business. Even if I worried, it wouldn’t change anything.
All I did was give him the recipe for Tteokbokki, so I didn’t have the qualification to say anything.
The lady and I headed towards the address written in the letter, thinking about getting Tteokbokki for free.
“What will Ricardo give to my father as a gift?”
The lady, sitting in a wheelchair, asked while wrapping herself in warm clothes against the cold wind.
Lately, she had been shivering and sniffling in the increasingly cold weather.
I buttoned up the lady’s fur coat and said, “Well… I’m considering gloves or a scarf.”
“Gloves? A scarf?”
“Yes. I think they are safe gifts. What about you, Lady?”
“Well…”
Actually, I had prepared a different gift, but pretending not to have chosen intentionally, I asked the lady for her opinion.
“True…”
The lady looked around the shops lining the bustling street in hesitation.
In fact, I had been preparing a birthday present for Darbav for a long time.
I had planned to greet him on his birthday and hoped that it might wash away some of the accumulated resentment.
I had been preparing a somewhat burdensome gift for a long time.
A potion that enhances magical power.
I was planning to give this to Darbav on his birthday. The “Sage’s Potion,” one of the pilgrimage items to the mage’s sect, would be the best gift for Darbav, who is a magician.
Darbav, who possesses the magic power of an archmage. This potion, which allows him to surpass his limits, was one of the items we obtained from the Hamel Dungeon last time.
To a magician, magic power was like salt, so I thought that from Darbav’s perspective as the recipient, it would be a more meaningful gift than several million gold.
That’s why I told the young lady that it was the most pathetic gift. To be honest, she would have been devastated for sure.
I also thought about the way the young lady could give the potion to Darbav instead of me, but I had buried the plan in my heart, thinking that Darbav would expect a gift chosen directly by the young lady rather than the one I had chosen.
“Hmm…”
The young lady frowned, pondering.
As someone who had given various gifts to the lord so far, she couldn’t easily decide which gift would be the best.
During the time when she received support from Desmund, she gave jewelry or suits. She even gave a diamond mine as a gift, but now she was worried because she knew that she couldn’t give as remarkable a gift as in the past due to the lack of funds.
“I have a gift I want to give, but I don’t have the money.”
I murmured quietly to help the young lady.
“You can borrow from me.”
“Interest-free?”
“No. 3% annual interest.”
“…Greedy.”
“I think this is a very reasonable offer.”
“Ricardo, thinking of receiving interest from a beautiful and lovely owner like me is a bad idea.”
“Your self-objectification is quite something. Then we’ll go with 1%. I need to make a living too, you know.”
“Great!”
With a delighted smile, the lady spun the wheel of the Ferrari 1.
About 10 minutes passed.
As the lady rolled the wheel of the Ferrari 1, she stopped as she saw a certain boutique.
[Royal Boutique]
It was a clothing store the lady used to frequent. She paused as she saw a tie pin displayed behind the glass window, priced more than a mansion for a dress.
“That…”
The lady murmured quietly, glancing at me.
“That would look good on the master.”
The golden tie pin did seem to complement the master, as the lady had said.
It was not overly adorned, with diamonds delicately encrusted on the edges, blending well with the golden background and transparent diamonds.
Perhaps due to her noble upbringing, the lady had an excellent eye for such things.
I glanced at her discreetly and shrugged my shoulders.
“Shall we go for that?”
“It looks expensive.”
“Oh, come on. How much could this tiny tie pin possibly cost?”
“…True.”
The lady looked at me hopefully, and in response, I nodded and took hold of the wheelchair’s handle.
“Since the weather is cold, let’s hurry up and buy it.”
2 p.m.
Rather than wandering around in the cold weather, it seemed better for us to choose quickly.
I pushed the wheelchair, exhaling white breath.
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“Let’s go.”
“Yeah…!”
The young lady smiled shyly with a bright smile.
*
“Yes?”
Inside the Royal Boutique.
I spoke to the staff with a surprised voice. I knew it was quite awkward to show such behavior in a public place, but I couldn’t have imagined that a single tie pin would be more expensive than the repair cost of a mansion.
“hahahaha…”
The clerk looked at me with a startled look and let out a nervous laugh. It seemed like this kind of thing happened often, a clerk who introduces other products.
“This is a new product, so the price is a bit high. Besides this, we have these tie clips on the hanger, which are popular as gifts. They are made of the finest cotton, so they have a nice texture and fold beautifully at a nice angle.”
I appreciated the consideration of showing me other products that fit my budget, but I hesitated when I saw the disappointed expression on the young lady’s face.
“Um… that…”
The young lady looked at the tie pin displayed on the shelf and smiled sadly.
“It seemed like it would go well with my dad.”
The young lady felt regretful about not being able to buy the gift she chose. I glanced at her and spoke to the clerk with a trembling voice.
“Um… is there any chance of a discount?”
The clerk smiled mischievously and replied, “This one is also at a discounted price.”
Discounted price of 300,000 gold.
There was no doubt that the world was unjustly treating us. It seemed like it was trying to test us with money, somehow.
With a bitter feeling, I sighed and asked the gods somewhere out there about my parents’ well-being, holding onto my belly button and laughing.
“Miss.”
“Yeah…”
“Can you wait for a moment?”
“Huh?”
With determined eyes, I looked out the window. Thinking about how much money was left in my bank account, and the limit of the loans I could pull, I spoke with a stern expression, leaving the young lady perplexed as she asked me:
“No, let’s buy something else.”
“No, I must buy this.”
“It’s too expensive…”
“It’s been a while since I gave a gift to Grandma. I need to pray and all that.”
The face of the owner is soon the face of the servant.
Unable to see the disappointed expression on the young lady’s face, I clenched my fist and looked at the bank, saying:
“I’ll be back soon.”
“No… No! I’ll come with you then…!”
“It’s cold, stay here.”
Not wanting to show the young lady me taking out a loan from the bank, I ran outside while requesting the clerk not to sell it to someone else.
Money.
A skill I tried not to bring out for a while.
I stood in front of a small, sparkling casino next to the bank.
“I’m sorry, Father.”
I bowed my head to the future of gambling addicts who would end up with empty wallets, preparing to take advantage of them.
*
The shop Ricardo left.
Olivia, who was left alone, sat in a corner of the shop, drinking hot tea.
“Oops… It’s hot.”
Olivia, saddened by not being able to afford a gift that would suit her father, sadly looked at her reflection in the tea cup.
“Money…”
Even though she had no money, Olivia couldn’t help but indulge in such luxury. She thought she was weak-minded, but this time, Olivia felt the desire to buy a convincing gift for her father.
Olivia, who shed bitter tears at the sight of her father still wearing the conqueror she had given him two years ago.
Because of her, the family was shaken.
The guilt of the family becoming poor was hitting her harder and harder as the days went by in the mansion.
The number of servants in the mansion, which used to be filled to the brim, decreased, and her father’s clothes, which used to receive new conquerors every year, were the same.
Olivia drank her bitter tea with a bitter taste in her mouth.
“Ugh… It’s sour…”
The wind was blowing outside.
Ricardo didn’t come back.
When the feeling of loneliness suddenly struck.
-Ding.
As the door of the store opened, a new customer caught Olivia’s eye.
“Oh my gosh! Have you seen the new arrivals? They’re so pretty.”
“Yeah, I know. I got a few when Olivia persuaded me before, but now you can’t get them for free. Ah, it’s a pity!”
“Oh, come on. Weren’t you the one who popped champagne and celebrated when Olivia got expelled?”
“That was a different time!”
A group of young female students were entering the store.
They were wearing the uniforms of the academy. They were the students who used to stick around Olivia and flatter her when she attended the academy.
Olivia lowered her head as she looked at them.
“Ricardo… when will he come?”
Lowering her head and hiding her body so as not to be noticed by them, Olivia started to shrink in size, thinking about Ricardo who never showed up.
About ten minutes passed.
When the laughter of the female students, who were looking around the store, suddenly stopped.
Olivia slowly lifted her head.
“Did he leave…?”
Just as she thought she no longer had to worry, she raised her head.
“Oh, Olivia, right?”
A well-built female student was looking down at Olivia.
“Still alive and kicking, huh?”
A mocking laughter emerged from the expression of the female student who seemed to have seen amusing toys, and Olivia’s eyes widened.
“It’s been a while. Us.”
Malicious words began to be directed at Olivia.
“How have you been all this time? You said you were dead. Still alive?”
“No. She’s a cripple, you know.”
The female student muttered while looking at her own legs.
Olivia lowered her head.
“Right. Get us some bags too.”
“hahahaha. What are you saying? She doesn’t have any money. Didn’t she suffer disgrace from her family?”
“…”
“hahahaha, really, Olivia?”
When the female students, who couldn’t even meet eyes at the academy, teased her, Olivia remained silent, just bowing her head.
And then.
“Sigh….”
She let out a deep sigh.
Olivia slowly lifted her head.
She surveyed the surroundings, confirming no one was there. Olivia, who confirmed Ricardo and the shopkeeper had also left, muttered quietly.
‘Ricardo told me not to get angry….’
As the derisive voices grew louder.
From Olivia’s lips, a cold voice flowed out. Not the usual firm voice, but a bitterly cold, ice-like voice emerged from Olivia’s lips.
“Shut up. You bastards.”
Olivia was a villainess.
“Before I kill you.”
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