Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 253

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Chapter 253

At Heinrih’s cold dismissal, Jeon grumbled but inwardly felt sorry.

Every time he visited, he could see how busy Heinrih’s days were.

Heinrih had not only become Crown Prince, but was also working to receive an early transfer of the throne from the Emperor.

Though the vigorous Emperor was stubbornly holding out, judging by the general atmosphere, it didn’t seem like it would take much longer.

Anyway, Heinrih was really busy. Honestly, if Jeon weren’t the next Mage Tower Lord, he would have been arrested for insulting royalty long ago.

If that had happened, he probably would have become cellmates with the former Duke and Duchess of Roam.

‘No, wait.’

The expression “Duke and Duchess of Roam” was inaccurate. Their titles had been stripped.

Roam had met a disgraceful end, and his retainers who had tried to inherit their position were scattered in disarray.

From what Jeon could tactfully guess, it seemed none of them had caught Heinrih’s eye.

Or perhaps there were circumstances only known among the noble lords…

‘What do I care.’

Jeon shook off his thoughts and moved busily. He wasn’t well-versed in palace affairs anyway, nor was he interested. Heinrih would have handled it properly.

More importantly, he needed to hurry and plant the newly acquired flower seeds. He had to plant them quickly for the flowers to bloom.

Having already decided where to plant these flowers, Jeon’s steps were confident.

After several warps and passing through private warp gates, the scenery changed dramatically.

Stopping at shops along the way to purchase various gardening supplies, by the time he arrived, both his hands were full.

“I should have brought a separate space dimension magical tool if I knew this would happen.”

Jeon, who had been walking while greedily carrying his load for fear of dropping anything, suddenly stopped.

He had spotted two massive shadows facing each other tensely at the castle entrance.

‘Should I warp away even now?’

He had habitually tried to check the moat before entering, but today seemed like it might be okay to just pass by…

The moment he thought that, both shadows turned to look at Jeon simultaneously. Caught off guard as their eyes met, Jeon gave an awkward smile and reflexively opened his mouth.

“Oh, um, hello?”

Though it was barely more than talking to himself, it seemed to reach them clearly. As evidence, they were making those incomprehensible sounds.

“Grrrrowl.”

“Kyaaak!”

“…It looks like you two were fighting, so don’t mind me and continue what you were doing.”

“Grrrrr!”

“Kya!”

Jeon unconsciously flinched, his shoulders trembling as he slowly backed away with a pale face.

Those things—the massive troll and massive wyvern—were exchanging sharp cries, and it seemed they were having some kind of conversation.

However, since he wasn’t Anelli, he couldn’t understand the monsters’ conversation at all.

Fortunately, the monsters didn’t charge at Jeon. More precisely, the moment the troll, who hadn’t been at Beladia Castle for long, showed wariness toward Jeon, the wyvern intervened with a scolding cry.

Jeon remembered Anelli greeting that wyvern warmly. The wyvern probably had quite a friendship with Anelli.

The wyvern also seemed to know about Jeon one-sidedly.

Since it was acting as the leader among all the monsters and beasts gathered at Beladia Castle, it probably had quite a good personality too.

“Kiak!”

…It does have a good personality, right?

“Well, then I’ll be going.”

Jeon made a wide circle as he slowly passed by them. The wyvern flapped its wings threateningly at the troll, and the troll stomped its feet in response.

Regardless of their quarrel, Jeon quickened his pace and crossed the moat.

As he crossed the bridge and glanced down, he saw a shadow cutting through the water beneath the surface.

“The youngsters grow so fast these days.”

He was sure the tail hadn’t been that long just yesterday.

He had witnessed the wyvern occasionally throwing hunted beasts into the moat, and it seemed the surrounding monsters were taking good care of them.

As soon as he entered the outer castle with admiration, this time he encountered countless bones.

They were living their own lives as if they were residents of the castle, and when they spotted Jeon, they showed great joy by shrugging their shoulder bones.

Clack, clack.

Instead of cries, the sound of teeth chattering echoed all around.

“…Oh, I’m happy to see you too.”

With an even more disgusted expression than before, Jeon hesitated and then crossed through them faster than light.

The skeletons, who had gloriously won the group fight against the goblins that had previously occupied the castle, triumphantly claimed one side of the outer castle.

Moreover, whatever they thought of Jeon, they approached very favorably.

Sometimes to the point of seeming servile.

“No, wait, it’s not that heavy, so you don’t need to carry it…!”

Several skeletons divided up Jeon’s luggage and led the way with rattling sounds.

Just how was he being perceived among these monsters?

Jeon sighed deeply, burying the truth he didn’t want to know but was curious about in his heart.

“Please take me to the inner sanctum’s front yard.”

When he spoke to the skeletons in a resigned voice, the skeletons clattered their teeth together again.

He didn’t need to hear their answer, so he wished they would please stop making that sound.

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After Jeon declared he would make Beladia Castle his residence, the Magic Tower was turned upside down.

Generally, there were two main reactions: the crazy suggestion to “take this opportunity to seriously investigate the Trebi Mountain Range and become the first great mage to conquer the mountains,” and the scolding question of “are you having a late rebellious phase and running away from home?”

The former came mainly from the young and hot-blooded mages of the tower, while the latter came from the elderly council members and his teacher.

For Jeon, it was difficult to present clear grounds to persuade them.

To say it was for research purposes, the Magic Tower was already a place with excellent research facilities. And it wasn’t like Beladia Castle was a pleasant place for people to live…

Especially his teacher, who had once fallen backward when a skeleton suddenly poked its head behind Jeon during a video communication, was constantly nagging him to return immediately.

Even now.

—What’s this talk of running away at your age, you fool!

“Who said I ran away? This is independence.”

—Who becomes independent by going to a monster den!

“A monster den? That’s not what this is.”

—Then what’s that flying thing behind you if not a gargoyle!

Oh no, it wasn’t time for gargoyles to be active yet.

Jeon clicked his tongue briefly and quietly moved locations. Gargoyles were monsters that were mainly active at night, but it was still quite bright out.

It must have woken up a bit early.

“Maybe you’re seeing things because you’re getting old.”

—What kind of thing to say to your teacher!

“Instead of supporting your student’s independence, why do you always nag with things that won’t work?”

It should be about time to give up.

Jeon glanced at the flower bed where he had finished his work. Having diligently planted the seeds he got from Heinrih one by one, the day had passed and his usual contact with the Magic Tower was later than usual.

His teacher’s anger was probably due to that reason.

Despite deliberately maintaining faithful contact and showing that he was fine, his teacher was still worried.

“Don’t you need to go eat dinner soon?”

—Are you even eating and living properly in that desolate place?

“Of course. How can a person live without eating?”

—What about Nesi?

“She’s doing well. Gamon too.”

—Since you’ve taken away this old man’s precious pets, even if you starve, make sure to properly take care of Nesi and Gamon!

At his teacher’s spiteful curse, Jeon just laughed.

Despite speaking that way, he knew very well what his teacher’s intentions were in assigning Nesi and Gamon to him.

Since Jeon stubbornly refused to take along any people, his teacher had reluctantly assigned trustworthy animals instead.

Anelli had said the same thing—everyone seemed to see Nesi as a reliable wolf.

—So when exactly are you planning to return? You’ll have to attend the regular research presentation meeting.

The regular research presentation meeting was one of the Magic Tower’s major events and also a venue for evaluating new magical tools to be sold externally.

Good results could allow someone to jump several floors within the tower, so everyone usually staked their lives on the presentations.

Naturally, it didn’t end in just a day or two either.

“I’ll go, but I can’t stay long. I still haven’t finished organizing the flower beds.”

―You crazy bastard, what flower bed organizing!

“The skeletons have bone hands so they can’t plant delicately, there’s no choice. Even if it takes time, I have to do it myself.”

That wasn’t all. This Beladia Castle truly had far too many places that needed attention.

Even if basic repairs and cleaning could be solved at once with magic, delicate decorating work inevitably required personally procuring materials and putting in effort.

At Jeon’s somewhat carefree words, Teacher let out a deep sigh.

―Who are you trying to show off to by going that far?

“How did you know? I was just getting ready to complain about it. Thinking about how to effectively show off takes up all my time every day.”

―To that Reviver?

Even without explanation, Teacher seemed to have quickly figured out who Jeon was waiting for here.

Feeling a bit embarrassed about that, Jeon gave an awkward smile. Teacher continued without waiting for Jeon’s answer.

―I heard the Reviver’s whereabouts suddenly disappeared. The Knight who went on an unofficial pilgrimage with the Reviver returned in tatters. Do you know how much Morico grilled me over that incident?

“Why did Priest Morico come to you to complain about that Knight bastard getting turned into a rag?”

―Why! Because you were accompanying them, so he wanted to dig out the full story!

Jeon frowned and shook his head. Really, these Temple people.

―He suspected for a long time that you fought and that’s how he ended up like that, I almost blew up that bastard’s Temple!

“You should have just blown it up.”

―Hey, you brat!

At Teacher’s look of exasperation as if he was talking nonsense, Jeon pouted his lips.

I’m serious though.

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