I Just Wanted Revenge, But Everyone Loves Me - Chapter 12

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Episode 12
“…….”
The Duke froze for a moment at my words.
“I’ll explain how to clear the false charges once we’re outside.”
Worried I might leave mid-sentence, I’d rushed through my explanation and ended up just blurting out the main point.
I wondered if my explanation had been too brief.
A nervous feeling crept over me…….
“Very well.”
“Yes, what?!”
I answered in shock, and the Duke, looking down at me with cold arrogance, continued.
“I’m taking you with me. To Bancadium.”
In other words.
“You’ll have to answer for your words when we get there.”
“…….”
“If even a hint of deception comes to light, or if anything seems suspicious.”
Then.
“You’ll be disposed of immediately.”
There would be no second chances.
* * *
“She’s set off a bomb……. Inmate number 100. Her name is Karin, and she has no family name.”
“…….”
“Something doesn’t feel right about this. Her wanting to go to Bancadium, and if we let her live, she could certainly become a hindrance to our plans……. But that woman is always at her side.”
“There’s no help for it. We’ll have to eliminate her before complications arise. I’ll report this to the Prime Minister at once.”
“Understood.”
To deliver this news quickly,
to that person.
* * *
A crisp, clear morning……or rather, a late night with the full moon hanging bright.
I yawned widely.
“Yaaawn——.”
Perhaps it was from receiving that terrifying warning last night. I was exhausted.
But still,
‘I succeeded!’
I’d succeeded in entering the prison, and I’d even managed to arrange a prison escape with Bancadium.
There was much I’d need to prove once I was outside, but for now, the immediate crisis was solved.
That’s why I was following him like this.
I stifled my yawn and stared fixedly at the man walking ahead of me.
Rodrigo Bancadium.
The Duke, whose hand I’d taken, was now heading toward the Director’s Office.
‘I thought there might be Bancadium people among the guards.’
But besides the Prison Director, the two guards who watched the Solitary Cell were also both Bancadium operatives.
The Director must have assigned them directly. So that’s how we could sneak out like this?
‘Well, it’s the easiest way to move freely. And a prison escape would be much simpler.’
This was the moment when a mystery solved itself.
“Welcome, Your——.”
The Prison Director faltered mid-greeting as he approached Rodrigo.
He’d been startled upon catching sight of me peeking out from behind his legs.
“Hello!”
We were colleagues now, after all.
I greeted him as cheerfully as I could. The flustered Director looked toward the Duke.
“My lord, I——”
“Sit down first, and we’ll talk.”
Rodrigo headed straight for the sofa and settled into a seat. Then he jerked his chin toward the facing chair.
He was telling me to sit.
I immediately scurried over and plopped down into the plush sofa.
The next instant.
Thud-thud-thud-thud!
The door burst open with heavy footsteps.
“My dear!”
“Sister?!”
“……You’re going to wake everyone in the building.”
Rodrigo muttered with a sigh. I looked up blankly at my sister standing directly in front of me.
“Wait, why are you here? You were supposed to be in your room…… Ah?!”
“You really……!”
My sister pulled me into a tight embrace with a sigh.
“This is why I can never live a normal life. If you were going to blow up a building, you should’ve let me in on it. How could you have all the fun alone?! I’m actually really good at demolition!”
Wait, that was the problem?!
“Stop it and sit down. Don’t make such a racket.”
While my sister was squeezing me tightly,
the Duke watching us spoke up.
At his look telling her to sit, I gently patted my sister. Only then did Veronica release me from her embrace and pouted.
“You’re completely hopeless.”
“Be quiet and sit.”
“Don’t use coarse language in front of the child.”
My sister, having said that, turned to me.
“Our Karin should only hear pretty words. Don’t you agree?”
“Sh——.”
The Duke swore without thinking and glanced at me nervously.
A sharp tsk followed, as if annoyed.
“Sit down. We don’t have much time.”
“Yes, all right.”
My sister answered offhandedly and gripped my hand while muttering complaints. I glanced back and forth between the two of them in confusion.
‘Do they know each other?’
Everyone in the prison fears the Duke.
The head of the great house of Bancadium.
A perfect, flawless dragon.
That immense presence alone would intimidate anyone just by looking at him.
‘Even I get scared sometimes.’
Especially when he’s expressionless!
That’s when he’s truly terrifying.
But unlike me, who steeled myself against it, my sister seemed completely at ease. Far from being afraid, she actually…… seemed bored?
In any case, she seemed as comfortable as if they were close friends.
“Are you and the Duke close?”
I couldn’t help asking,
“Close with that idiot? No way.”
“Close with that one? Not a chance.”
“Oh, so you’re not close at all…….”
They seemed incredibly, incredibly close.
I’d just discovered something new.
My sister, holding me with one arm, asked,
“So you’ve decided to take her with you?”
“Can’t you tell?”
“You’re impossible.”
“Wait, hold on!”
Lost in the conversation, I looked between the two of them.
“Sister, did you already know?”
“Know what…… Oh. That you and your brother joined hands?”
“!”
She really did know?!
I’d thought only the Duke and the Director knew!
And besides, brother?
“W-wait, wasn’t he a friend?”
“Friend? No way. Didn’t your brother explain things to you?”
“Explain what?”
I had no memory of hearing anything, so I tilted my head in confusion. Then my sister glared at the Duke before letting out a deep sigh.
“I’m sorry. He has no consideration.”
“Veronica.”
“I thought he’d at least explain things to our dear Karin first.”
Paying no mind to the Duke’s murderous gaze, my sister turned to me.
“That inconsiderate, unkind person with no redeeming qualities is my real brother, Karin.”
Truly,
“We only share blood as family.”
Tsk!
My sister clicked her tongue.
* * *
‘This can’t be real.’
Sister was part of Bancadium?!
I was so stunned by this revelation that I couldn’t close my mouth.
Bancadium was a house long shrouded in mystery.
How many members of their direct bloodline there were, their names—such information was extremely rare. The only widely known figure was the Head of House, Rodrigo Bancadium.
‘I’d assumed there would be other direct members of the family.’
But never did I imagine it would be Sister Veronica.
“Um, sister, didn’t you say you stole jewelry from nobles? That’s why you were caught?”
“I’m sorry…… That was a lie, Karin.”
“!”
Unbelievable.
So there was someone else who’d fabricated charges besides me!
Cake theft and jewelry theft.
……My charges suddenly felt a little, just a tiny bit, embarrassing.
“So why did you come here, sister?”
“To help that hopelessly incompetent brother of mine?”
At this, the Duke chided her for talking nonsense. Completely unbothered, my sister stroked my hair.
“If I’d realized sooner that our dear Karin wanted to go to Bancadium, it would’ve been better. Then I wouldn’t have needed to hide and could’ve told you straight away.”
That was certainly true.
Things would have been simpler if I’d known Sister was part of Bancadium.
But that didn’t make me regret anything.
‘I did it with my own strength.’
Not like before, helpless and passive.
Entirely through my own power.
I’d moved with my own hands and seized this opportunity!
‘I did so well.’
I felt joy rather than regret.
And besides!
“I’m just so happy I get to go with you, sister!”
“Really?”
“Yes!”
I could only see my sister because we were in prison. I’d thought we’d become complete strangers once I left.
But if she was part of Bancadium, I’d be able to see her constantly from now on.
From my perspective, that could only be wonderful.
“……Sigh.”
My sister sighed as she stared at me.
“I can’t have this. Want to be my daughter? Or would being my little sister work?”
“Stop spouting nonsense.”
The Duke cut her off sharply.
Turning his gaze toward me, he spoke.
“The moment you enter Bancadium, you belong entirely to us.”
You might’ve been free to come in,
“but leaving is another matter.”

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