I Just Wanted Revenge, But Everyone Loves Me - Chapter 5

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Episode 5
‘That worked.’
Look as suspicious as possible.
‘I think I pulled it off!’
I glanced back at the building I’d just left, grinning to myself.
I hadn’t expected the Director to move personally just to ask something like that.
But I’d had no intention of answering straightforwardly from the start.
‘If I had, he’d have dismissed me right away.’
More precisely, the Duke, who’d been hiding in a corner not far off the whole time, would have.
That’s right.
I’d known the Duke was hiding in that same room.
Though I hadn’t noticed it at first.
The scent reached me partway through our conversation.
That crisp, crystalline scent peculiar to dragons.
With a nose far keener than most people’s, I couldn’t have missed it.
‘So he heard everything I said.’
By now he’d be dying of curiosity, since I’d deliberately given him nothing but nonsense answers.
He probably told the Director to keep an eye on me, or to look into me more carefully.
‘Because the Director is a Bangkadium man.’
Sys, the Director of Izteail.
The fact that he was a loyal vassal of Bangkadium had come to light quite late in the past.
For now, no one knew.
“Hey.”
Just then, someone blocked my path as I was walking back to my cell with the guard.
I looked up at a man of towering height.
Strange, indecipherable tattoos covered the half-shaved man’s body.
And a build so massive that he made even most people look small.
“Stand aside. Prisoner 392.”
The guard who recognized him issued a quiet warning.
“Aw, come on, don’t be so stiff. I just need to ask this kid something.”
It’ll only take a second. Just a second.
As if this wasn’t the first time, the man deftly pacified the guard and turned his gaze to me.
“Hey, shortstack. You share a cell with Prisoner 444, right?”
‘Prisoner 444?’
I nodded, turning the familiar number over in my mind.
Prisoner 444 was Veronica’s number.
“Yes, I do.”
“If you live together, you must know plenty about her, yeah?”
The man grinned, baring yellowed teeth. A sense of foreboding swept over me instinctively.
“I don’t.”
“You don’t?”
“No. We don’t talk to each other.”
“Ha! No way. I’ve seen you two going at it in the cafeteria.”
The man glared at me, telling me not to lie.
“A little brat already running cons. You keep that up and you’ll end up a real delinquent.”
“Like you, sir?”
“Yeah, like me…… What?”
The man, about to agree carelessly, suddenly furrowed his brow. Before he could protest, I quickly changed the subject.
“If you’re curious, ask her directly.”
“Kid, you think I haven’t tried? She won’t even talk to me. Why else would I come to you……”
“If she rejected you that many times, you should’ve given up.”
The man’s eyes widened considerably at my words. The guard looked rather shocked too.
But it was true, wasn’t it?
‘If she rejected you like that.’
You shouldn’t keep going.
‘Why come to me?’
I didn’t understand.
“If you don’t even have the nerve to push harder, you should just back off. You’re wasting her time.”
“……Kid.”
The man’s face darkened at my words.
“No sense in you at all.”
“But you’re an adult and you have none either……”
“What?”
The man glared at me savagely. Seeing the obvious threat in his eyes, the guard moved to stop him.
“Kid. You got only one life? Your mouth’s gonna get you killed.”
“But that’s the truth, isn’t it?”
It wasn’t wrong, anyway……
“Hey! Prisoner 392!”
Guards who happened to be nearby began gathering. I quickly slipped behind the guard standing next to me.
The man, staring at me with rage, clenched his fists. He’d want to teach me a lesson right then and there, but this was Izteail.
Any reckless move would bring harsher punishment.
“Prisoner 100. You need to stop as well.”
“Yes.”
I nodded obediently. After that, the guards who approached us grabbed the man’s arms.
Whether the man grumbled or not, the guards pulled him far away from me.
But clearly wounded in pride at being bested by a child, he didn’t forget to glare at me as they dragged him away.
“Let’s head back.”
The guard who’d sheltered me also resumed his steady pace.
‘Hmm.’
I turned away, having stared at the path where the man had gone.
‘That’s strange.’
Why was he looking for our Veronica?
* * *
Even within Izteail, our Veronica was quite famous.
Her eloquent tongue, her nimble movements—she’d made a name for herself among thieves, and on top of that, she was breathtakingly beautiful.
Standing out was perhaps inevitable.
Besides, Izteail was a coed prison.
So from time to time, there were men who’d pester Veronica……
“What’s wrong, our little one?”
“…….”
“Why do you look at me so prettily?”
“Veronica.”
“Hmm?”
“You must never meet strange people.”
“What?”
“Even if someone offers you candy, don’t follow them. And even if someone says they’ll do everything for me—no, you can’t.”
“Good grief.”
Veronica gently stroked my head as she listened.
“Then we should just live together so no one else can come near you.”
“No!”
I had dangerous, important things I’d need to do ahead. If it came to that, Veronica might be put in danger.
“If I’m with you, you could get hurt.”
“Hmm.”
At my firm refusal, Veronica’s lips curved upward.
“That just makes me more interested.”
“Pardon?”
“I like dangerous people.”
“Yikes!”
What was this Veronica saying?
I shook my head frantically in alarm.
There were so many bad people in the world!
I started worrying she might later bring some strange man and introduce him to me.
“But why are you suddenly worried about your sister’s boyfriend?”
“I saw a strange person earlier.”
“Huh? Everyone here’s crazy. Or, I mean, strange?”
The phrasing had shifted midway, but I let it slide.
“Some man asked if you were……well, about you.”
“About me?”
“Yes. So I gave a vague answer, but something felt off about him.”
Since this place was filled with nothing but lowlifes, as Veronica said, I warned her to be careful.
Taking my advice to heart, Veronica smiled brightly.
“Thanks, Karin. If any strange guy shows up, I’ll kill him—I mean, drive him off.”
“Yes!”
“Next time anyone approaches you, you tell me right away. Got it?”
“Yes!”
“How cute. You answer so well too.”
Veronica poked my chubby cheeks with her fingers and smiled.
“By the way, how long do people usually stay in Solitary Confinement?”
“Hmm, about a week? Depending on the situation, it could be longer. Why do you ask?”
“Just curious.”
A week, then.
So I might not see him for at least the next week.
‘That’s not good.’
I’d succeeded in catching his interest, but it would only be temporary.
I didn’t know when his curiosity would wane.
‘……!’
Wait.
‘If I can’t go meet him directly.’
To make him have to come there—
‘I just need to cause trouble, right?’
My eyes snapped wide open.
“Hehehe.”
A brilliant idea had come to me.

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