Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 51

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Chapter 51

That’s true.

I sheepishly closed my mouth and looked down at the lying Palides, pretending to be distracted for no reason.

Samuel also didn’t open his mouth anymore, so the room was filled with silence… it would have been nice if that were the case, but Jigol and Tristan were by my side.

The two felt considerable wariness toward Samuel who had subdued Palides and were constantly warning me.

[Captain, if you can’t transform into your true form, I’ll bring a nearby swarm of bees.]

[Will a swarm of bees be enough? Go find poisonous insects!]

[That would take too long. I spotted a beehive on the way here, Captain.]

[Captain, let’s ambush with Nadab’s back kick! I’ll be the decoy!]

Seeing the two putting their heads together and earnestly devising a plan to strike Samuel’s back of the head, I thought there was no chance I’d be helplessly dragged to the Temple.

By the way, when will Palides wake up? Will he be in his right mind when he wakes up? Jigol said he was in a calmed state, so that should be right, right?

I could see that the helmet part that got hit during the fight with Samuel earlier was dented.

I was planning to buy him armor anyway, but now I really need to get him new ones. I should also secure the armor and helmet more firmly. I’ll have to ask Dekin later if there’s a way.

“Is it a monster?”

I glanced back while touching the dented helmet with my fingertips. Samuel’s gaze was fixed on the helmet.

“It must be a monster. You said you don’t refuse any living creature except humans.”

He has good memory too.

He parted his lips as if to say something to me sitting there reluctantly. However, the sound of someone knocking on the door prevented him from achieving his purpose.

Bang bang!

“Are you there?”

The booming voice belonged to a familiar man.

[This room is certain! The temporary member of the pack is here right now, so hurry up and open it, male!]

“It’s me, Jeon!”

Even though I didn’t deliberately tell him where I was, it seems Jeon found me by putting Nesi in front. There’s probably nothing good about having Jeon get acquainted with Samuel too.

I deliberately turned my head pretending not to hear and cleared my throat.

“He must have found the wrong room…”

Did he come running all the way here because he couldn’t wait to contact me? But how did Nesi distinguish and find my scent in this crowded city? What an incredible sense of smell.

Truly the wolf I covet!

“If I leave him alone, he’ll just go away, wait. Samuel Bent?”

Samuel, who had been staring at me intently, got up. And before I could stop him, he opened the door wide.

Through the wide open door, I could see Jeon frozen with his fist raised. Below him was Nesi disguised as a dog.

Both seemed surprised to face the sturdy knight who had unexpectedly appeared.

Jeon’s eyes, which had been looking at Samuel with wide-open eyes, slowly moved toward me.

‘Don’t act like you know me!’

I quietly raised both hands, crossed them in an X shape, and glared. Jeon, who had been blinking rapidly, calmly faced Samuel again.

“Oh my. I found the wrong room. Ha. Ha.”

[What are you talking about, male!]

“Our doggy. This isn’t the place. Let’s go.”

[You weak male! Are you getting scared and trying to run away again!]

“Oh dear. Why is he acting like this. He won’t listen.”

If you can’t act naturally, you’d better not speak at all.

I sighed at the sight of Jeon stiffly spitting out words while dragging Nesi away. At least it’s fortunate that he understood my intention.

I looked at Samuel with relief. Samuel was staring intently at Jeon while holding the door.

His narrowed eyes seemed to be gauging something. Samuel, who had tilted his head slightly, looked back at me as if he had finished thinking.

“That guy is a real human.”

“…Excuse me?”

Jeon looked up at Samuel bewilderedly. However, Samuel’s gaze was fixed on me.

“Didn’t you say you refuse humans?”

“Yeah, I refuse them.”

“But you continue to travel with that guy.”

“He found the wrong room…”

“Isn’t he the one who ran away leaving you behind before?”

Samuel interrupted me and frowned. He had generally shown no major emotional fluctuations until now, but unusually, something like displeasure came through.

“A mage from the Mage Tower.”

At Samuel’s definitive words, Jeon’s bewildered expression also hardened.

“I think he used to wear a cloak with the Mage Tower emblem embroidered on it.”

Jeon, who had been trying to drag Nesi away and escape this place until just moments ago, straightened up.

Resignation along with slight irritation showed on Jeon’s face as he swept back his bangs.

“So it was you? The one who snitched to the Mage Tower.”

“When you do tracking work, you develop the habit of remembering anyone clearly even if you only pass by them for an instant.”

I swallowed dry saliva while looking back and forth between the two men. Even without knowing the detailed story, I could tell this was a situation where excuses wouldn’t work.

“Do you know how troublesome you’ve made things for me?”

“Do you know what it means for the Mage Tower to hide a Reviver?”

“The Mage Tower? If the Mage Tower had intervened, I wouldn’t be struggling like this. Aren’t you underestimating mages too much?”

“And you’re underestimating the Temple’s tracking techniques.”

[…The usually weak male is angry for once. Good spirit.]

Nesi, who had politely cheered for Jeon, slowly passed between the two men and approached me.

Saying she was tired from running around the city, Nesi settled down and lay at my feet. Regardless, the atmosphere between the two was becoming increasingly hostile.

Unable to watch anymore, I deliberately cleared my throat loudly. The two men who had been glaring fiercely at each other simultaneously looked back at me.

Looking calmly at both men, I suggested clearly.

“I won’t stop you, so go out, get separate rooms, and fight. Let me rest.”

Please. You troublemakers.

* * *

Maxel rejected meeting with her again today.

‘Why? What exactly is the problem?’

Lilia gripped her dress hem tightly to hide her impatience. Managing her expression was becoming increasingly difficult.

But if she burst out in anger here, she would only look foolish, so she bit down hard on her molars and forcibly held back her emotions.

“You’ll be busy with festival preparations for a while too, so you don’t need to come to the Imperial Palace.”

Even the Empress said that. She had judged that Lilia wasn’t much help with the Imperial Palace banquet preparations.

Banquet preparations? That’s something you should have subordinates do, isn’t it? There are already servants who have been trained through years of experience, so why would she need to personally go around the site pretending to know things she doesn’t?

Lilia had already discovered subordinates with excellent skills in each field long ago.

As Lilia expected, they had made remarkable progress in recent years and each had established their own position.

Lilia had achieved great success through friendships she had formed in advance with the Empire’s finest designers, skilled merchants, and others.

She had also filtered out the maid Anelli had planted early on and taken in an orphan she could make into her own person. That child regarded Lilia as the savior of her life and took care of many tasks.

‘Is there someone I missed? …No. I’ve already won over all the necessary people. The rest are all unnamed extras!’

She had also kept in mind a man who would become an excellent swordsman in the future and brought him in as her guard.

Roam seemed flustered by the sudden appearance of an outsider, but they couldn’t break Lilia’s stubbornness. Lilia’s guard was stronger than most of Roam’s knights.

Looking back, her course of action had been nothing but perfect. The main characters moved as she expected, so dealing with them wasn’t difficult at all.

Everything went according to Lilia’s plan up until Anelli’s death.

The problem was what came next. It didn’t proceed to the next chapter she knew.

“It really went wrong from the revival.”

Lilia, who had been anxiously biting her lips, looked up. She saw a group of priests passing by.

Since the Reviver disappeared, priests often come and go from the Imperial Palace. They’re getting scared in advance that they might find the Reviver here first.

When she approached the priests a couple of times, the Empress, who heard the news, subtly warned her to ‘keep an appropriate distance.’ And she couldn’t even extract any useful information.

When the Holy Knights visited Roam, she was delighted thinking she could make contact away from the royal family’s eyes, but this time she got scolded by the Duke of Roam.

Even when she pressed her subordinates, it was difficult to find out meaningful information. Rather, her subordinates asked back whether her ‘foresight’ might tell them something the Temple might be hiding.

Contrary to their expectations, there was no particular information about the Temple. The Temple had no significance in her ‘foresight.’

“It’s all because of that thing.”

Revival. That can’t be a revival. Something else definitely happened. How could a dead person come back to life?

Lilia believed that the person called ‘Reviver’ couldn’t be Anelli.

This was especially true given that Anelli had disappeared without a trace instead of returning to Roam as soon as she opened her eyes.

The Anelli that Lilia knew was a villainess with strong pride and an intense obsession with Maxel. If she had been revived, she would naturally try to take everything from Lilia and seek revenge.

“Did God give another chance to someone else?”

She thought she was the only one chosen by God. She was supposed to be the protagonist of this world.

And now they want to change the protagonist?

By whose authority?

“Miss Lilia.”

Lost in thought as she walked, she had reached the carriage before she knew it. Just as Lilia was about to board the carriage, she suddenly stopped in her tracks.

She felt that she couldn’t just turn back like this after all.

“I think I need to go directly to the Prince’s Palace.”

“What? But according to the message…”

“There’s no way he would reject me!”

Lilia, who had shouted irritably, immediately shut her mouth. After biting the tender flesh inside her mouth and remaining silent for a moment, she managed to show a smile to her maid.

“I’m just so worried. I’m his fiancée, after all. When he’s struggling, I should be by his side.”

Maxel was the male protagonist, and he should become one of her most reliable allies. He shouldn’t be holed up in the palace like that, refusing to come out.

“Miss…”

Lilia’s steps toward the Prince’s Palace were hurried. She kept repeating to herself inwardly.

I already know all of your personalities and thoughts. I know what kind of characters you all are, so even if minor events are added, the main storyline won’t change.

“The protagonist will have a happy ending.”

And I am the protagonist of this world.

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