I Just Wanted Revenge, But Everyone Loves Me - Chapter 14

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Episode 14
……What kind of conversation is this?
Blink-blink.
I pulled myself free from my sister’s embrace.
“I could hold you longer if you wanted.”
“No, that’s all right. You must be exhausted.”
How long had we been doing this? I felt awful for taking up so much of her time.
“I’m sorry. I think I slept far too long……. Didn’t anyone find it strange?”
“Karin seems to really like being with you, so Sys approved. Besides, your solitary confinement will be over soon anyway. You were so absorbed watching Karin sleep that you didn’t even notice time passing, did you?”
Sys had approved it.
The Prison Warden’s authority was truly formidable.
My sister smoothed back my tousled hair and whispered that she was relieved I’d gotten such good rest.
‘……As expected.’
My sister really is too kind.
When she speaks in such a gentle voice, I can’t help but want to lean on her, to whine and complain without reason.
Even though I know I shouldn’t.
‘No. I have to keep my wits about me.’
Now that we’d sealed a pact with Vankadium, I had to move forward in earnest.
‘My revenge begins now.’
I slapped both cheeks sharply, shaking off the lingering drowsiness.
That’s when I heard a faint cough.
“If that’s what troubles you, you’re not fit to be a Dragon.”
“Pardon?”
“……Never mind.”
“?”
I could have sworn he said something.
The voice was too quiet to catch clearly. Looking at the Warden across from me, he certainly seemed to have said something, but…….
‘I can’t tell.’
If he says it was nothing, there’s no point pressing further.
I shook off my curiosity and turned to my sister.
“But why did you come today?”
“Hm? Ah, well——”
My sister smiled awkwardly at my question.
“I was thinking of heading back to Vankadium soon.”
“!”
My eyes flew wide open at those words.
‘If we’re going back to Vankadium……’
That meant——
‘We’re breaking out of this Prison!’
My heart began to race.
“How are we going to get out?”
“That’s what I wanted to talk about now.”
My sister added that today’s gathering was for discussing exactly that, then turned her gaze elsewhere.
“Sys will explain. I don’t trust him to explain it well.”
“Why don’t you trust me?”
The Duke, who had been quiet until now, spoke up. At that, my sister’s brows knitted.
“You always explain things so coldly.”
“I speak as efficiently as possible.”
“That’s exactly why it’s unfriendly. We know the general outline, but Karin is hearing this for the first time.”
……
Unable to argue, the Duke fell silent. Sys, taking the baton in an instant, cleared his throat with a bright “Ahem!”
“Then I shall explain.”
Sys, now tasked with the explanation, looked at me.
I straightened my posture.
Seeing this, Sys drew in a breath and let it out.
“First, let me put it in one simple sentence so you can understand.”
“Yes!”
“We’re going to blow this place to pieces.”
……Excuse me?
‘I don’t understand this at all……?’
They say when a person is shocked, they can’t think of anything.
This was exactly that moment.
“B-blow it up? Like when I made it all come crashing down?!”
“Exactly. We’ll blow it apart just like that.”
“Usually, though…… people escape quietly, don’t they?”
Isn’t a prison escape supposed to be intricate and careful?
Just breaking things and leaving — is that even allowed?!
I quickly turned to my sister in confusion.
“It’ll be done in one shot, don’t worry. Didn’t I tell you? Your sister is really good at these kinds of things.”
No, that’s not——can you really be good at destroying a prison?
I naturally closed my mouth and turned my gaze forward again. Just then my eyes met the Duke’s——
……
……
He just stared at me.
The Duke quickly turned his head away.
“……Hah.”line>
I trust my sister, I trust the Duke, I trust Sys.

I trust them all!
‘B-but I’m nervous!’
This will be fine, right?!
I cautiously asked if that was truly the entire plan—to just blow things up—but received the same answer each time.
Boom and bang!
That was our strategy.
‘I’ve read about it in the papers.’
Dragons apparently only ever go straight ahead.
That’s why there were many unfavorable comments—unpredictable trajectory, barbaric, crude, and so on.
But seeing it firsthand, I understand now.
‘It’s definitely not barbaric or crude.’
Just straight ahead.
Or unpredictable.
Either way, what’s clear is an audacious, forward-charging style.
“Should we put on a little fireworks show, Karin? Have you ever seen fireworks?”
……Who calls blowing up a prison a fireworks show?!
I haven’t lived in this world for very long, but I have some common sense.
And right now, that common sense——
was completely shattered.
The fact that even Sys was following this plan meant this had definitely happened before.
“So when are we leaving? When?”
“In about four days?”
“Pardon?”
“Oh wait, it’s almost midnight, so that’s two days from now.”
My sister poked my cheek.
“Just trust your sister and follow along, all right?”
The reassurance that she would protect me was included as well.
How could I do anything else when she spoke with such certainty?
I nodded my head with forced enthusiasm.
“Y-yes! I’ll trust you!”
“You’re not trusting me at all.”
The Duke exposed my true feelings.
I flinched, hunching my shoulders. My sister, seeing this, deeply furrowed her brow.
Her uncomfortable expression made my chest sink.
‘D-does she……’
Did she get angry because I seemed doubtful?
I swallowed hard.
Of course, even if I did believe, I’d had just one moment of doubt. One single moment!
‘My sister spoke seriously, after all.’
She had never been angry with me before, but the thought crossed my mind that she might be upset this time.
So I tried to apologize right away.
“Sister, that’s not what I——”
“You’re not trusting me!”
A sharp gaze fixed on a single target in an instant.
My sister glared at the Duke pointedly and grumbled.
“How would you know what our Karin is thinking!”
In that moment, the Duke’s face twisted oddly.
Even to me, it looked like a rebuke to stop spouting nonsense, but my sister wasn’t discouraged in the slightest.
“Karin trusts her sister. Don’t you?”
“Yes!”
As I quickly nodded, a laugh of exasperation came from the other side.
But what could I do?
This was the moment to change tactics.
“Then where exactly will you blow up, and how?”
“Well. Basically everything visible? Just use Magic and—boom?”
“Ah!”
There’s no answer to that……?
I cautiously glanced at Sys.
He was my last hope. But when Sys met my gaze, he simply nodded without saying anything.
That was his way of saying to get used to it.
I quietly closed my mouth.
‘Dragons are incredibly straightforward, have overwhelming execution ability…… ah.’
Maybe it’s better not to think about it?
A feeling told me that would be the wiser choice.

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