Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 177

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Chapter 177

Seeing her expression that looked like she was about to cry, I must have appeared quite frightening.

But I had never particularly tormented Seiri. Naturally, I couldn’t understand why she was reacting so sensitively.

To figure that out, I narrowed my eyes and stared quietly at Seiri, and she avoided my gaze. While doing so, she kept glancing at me furtively.

…Ah, Seiri was looking precisely at my neck. At the vivid evidence of decapitation that would be encircling my throat.

Once I noticed that, the interest that had briefly stirred cooled down completely.

“My, how is it that you still look like a half-wit even after all this time?”

When I spoke with my lips twisted in a sneer, Seiri’s face reddened. In her hesitant expression, I could glimpse shame and fear that she couldn’t quite hide.

“You’re not a child anymore, and at around ten years old, shouldn’t you be out hunting rabbits or something?”

“Rabbit hunting…”

“Young lords your age would be going out to do that quite often. I don’t understand why you’re here in the garden tormenting this little puppy.”

“I’m not tormenting it, I’m pl-playing with it.”

I gave a mocking smile toward Seiri, who was struggling to protest, and strode toward the puppy’s cage. Looking closely, I could see it clearly.

The puppy had sandbags attached to its body.

“If you can’t catch it without putting such things on it, I think you should go to the training ground starting today and grab anyone to ask for lessons. Even though all the knights in that training ground are possessors of useless skills, at least they know how to hold swords.”

This time Seiri’s face turned pale without a trace of color.

“For a boy born bearing the Roam name to be this lacking, I understand why you’re too ashamed to go out.”

I poured out insulting words like a downpour. Seiri’s face, which had been filled only with fear, now mixed with defiance toward me.

However, the behavior of immediately avoiding eye contact when our eyes met remained the same.

“If your body is slow, at least become clever by studying more. You need to have something to show for yourself if you want to become someone else’s son-in-law, don’t you?”

When I gestured toward the door while speaking, Seiri’s eyes shook greatly. He seemed to want to say that this was his room.

However, his hesitant lips couldn’t utter any particular words of resistance in the end.

Only after brazenly driving out the room’s owner from someone else’s room did I withdraw the smile I had been deliberately wearing.

I casually opened the door to the puppy’s cage.

Then Mori, who had been holding her breath in my pocket, poked her head out and called to the puppy worriedly.

[We need to untie those bags first! It won’t be able to breathe!]

“I was going to do that without you rushing me.”

As soon as I untied the tightly bound sandbags, the puppy panted heavily. Its limbs were still hanging limply without strength.

Even Minte was worriedly approaching the puppy and poking it gently.

“Let’s take it to my room for now.”

I stood up holding the puppy, which was small enough to carry in one hand, and left the room.

Seiri, who had been driven out by me, was nowhere to be seen.

‘He certainly looked like his pride was badly hurt…’

I had personally come and so troublesomely provoked him like this, so now he should cling to Mother’s skirts and cry for the position of young duke immediately.

‘Since he met the Crown Prince, he knows that Mother has marked him as her successor.’

So I hoped Seiri would quickly pester Mother. That they shouldn’t put me forward, that he would do it.

Thus Mother would persuade Father, Father would secretly summon Lilia, and decide to support Maxel.

Such a natural sequence should continue as quickly as possible.

‘That way I can confidently bind Roam and Maxel together.’

Anyway, everyone is impossibly lazy. I clicked my tongue irritably.

If Seiri quietly let today pass, I thought I would have to visit this place several more times to take away Seiri’s small animals.

* * *

During the sluggish days that followed, I tormented Seiri several more times.

Not content with the puppy I had taken from him, I also stole the kitten he had newly acquired afterward and handed it over to someone else to raise.

After repeating such acts a couple of times, Seiri glared at me resentfully with a pale face, breathing heavily.

“If you’re going to take my animals, at least give me that cat by your side!”

The guy who always acted like a speechless idiot in front of me had said such an impudent thing, so I could say I had quite stirred up his anger.

“What are you impudently demanding?”

Of course, he immediately cowered at my cold voice.

“If you want to hunt, go run around outside catching rabbits. Don’t play house noisily outside my window.”

When I scolded him coldly, Seiri no longer played hunting games with small animals in the garden.

He might have found another location out of my sight… At least Mori no longer looked out the window worriedly.

Meanwhile, I also heard some social circle news, and it seemed the Roam family was quite the talk these days. Even though Mother was constantly going around trying to establish her dignity.

As soon as I heard that news, I picked up any invitation that had flown to me and left the mansion.

The justification was that I would engage in social activities since I would be stepping forward as the young duke. Father couldn’t bring himself to stop me.

It would be more accurate to say he had no justification to stop me.

‘He’s probably lamenting inwardly that it was rather comfortable when he was keeping me hidden, isn’t he?’

But it was already too late. I had revealed myself to everyone, and people who knew where I was staying sent invitations to me even while enduring the Duchess of Roam’s sharp glares.

There were that many hyenas interested in gossip and rumors, desperate to somehow make connections with a Reviver.

Today’s gathering I attended was like that too. A gathering of families not too low in status, with a moderately diverse group of people attending.

They were surprised and excited by my attendance. Perhaps because of that, there were many people who spoke particularly loudly trying to draw attention.

‘With this kind of noise, I’d rather listen to the Dura’han’s conversations.’

Trying to be sociable after so long was mentally exhausting.

It was even more tiring because I wouldn’t have come if not for the purpose of going around creating gossip.

‘Don’t they ever get tired?’

The people attending the tea time were curious about the inside story of Roam, which had been particularly noisy lately. There were many rumors going around, so they wanted to confirm their truth.

Though they couldn’t ask outright, toward those whose eyes were full of curiosity, I just gave them an enigmatic smile.

Interpreting that was up to individual perspective. They would draw stimulating conclusions on their own.

While moderately generating rumors to seem like something was going on, I heard a voice filled with emotion nearby.

“Oh, Creator. I give thanks for your grace.”

The noblewoman who was today’s tea time host kept calling upon the Creator and praying.

I was the one who attended the tea time, but I don’t know why she’s giving thanks to the Creator…

I was trying to guess at her incomprehensible thinking, but soon shook my head and brushed away the thought. Then I busily took out my pocket watch to check the time.

“It’s already gotten this late. I should take my leave now.”

“Already? I would be even more grateful if I could host you until dinner!”

Cries filled with regret burst out from various places. However, I firmly and resolutely cut off their invitations without wavering.

“I have to go to the Lindea River tomorrow to exterminate monsters.”

It wasn’t an empty statement. I was also diligently performing the act of exterminating monsters at the Lindea River.

It wasn’t particularly spectacular combat.

Anyway, everyone wouldn’t think I had the ability to fight monsters.

I just made up random words and muttered them like prayer while wandering around the Lindea River area.

The monsters naturally didn’t appear since I had already killed them. However, most people who didn’t know the situation firmly believed that monsters didn’t appear because of me.

“Ah, I see!”

The noblewoman gladly saw me off. While doing so, she once again offered a prayer of gratitude toward the sky.

Well, she must be quite a devout believer.

Having understood it that way, I boarded the carriage.

“Let’s return to the mansion.”

I should get some sleep in the carriage since I have things to do as soon as I get back.

* * *

Having returned to the mansion quite late, I stood in the lobby without even changing clothes and called all the employees together.

Then I informed them that talk about Roam was circulating outside, and threatened them to find out which employee had carelessly run their mouth to outsiders.

It was natural for the employees to be flustered by my sudden harsh command.

“Yes, yes? What do you suddenly mean by that?”

The butler tried to calm me down in his confusion, but it was useless.

I was already immersed in the role of Anelli Roam from the past who used to commit all sorts of misdeeds.

“I’ve already heard rumors from outside. How dare you run your mouths when you’ve received grace from Roam’s mansion, unable to distinguish heaven from earth? I won’t let this matter slide, so it would be better to confess on your own. Then I’ll at least allow you to walk out on your own two feet.”

When I subtly revealed that they would face great hardship if things went wrong, the employees’ expressions turned pale.

Some became disgracefully distorted.

Unable to bear the increasingly menacing atmosphere, the butler once again attempted persuasion in a gentle tone.

“Employment matters are under the Madam’s authority.”

“How dare you defy my words?”

What could the Butler do? To the Employer, I was the heir personally chosen by the head of the family, soon to be declared the young Duke of Roam.

The Butler struggled helplessly, saying he would handle it himself, and I became even more indignant, shouting, ‘How dare a mere servant presume to punish a Betrayer who betrayed Roam on their own authority?’

“Ha…”

After just a brief tantrum, the Butler’s face aged a good ten years.

Since it was early in the day, the other family members were busy with their respective schedules. This meant there was no one to stop me if I was determined to cause a scene.

Moreover, behind me stood Palides, armored from head to toe in heavy plate, ready to follow my commands at any moment.

Thus, I succeeded in driving out the Employer before Mother returned home from her schedule.

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