I Just Wanted Revenge, But Everyone Loves Me - Chapter 87

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Episode 87
“You want to go out?”
My sister held out a piece of cookie toward me.
I caught it and munched away thoughtlessly before hesitating belatedly.
But I said I’d grab it myself!
“Come on, say ‘aah.'”
“…Aah.”
Before I could protest, the cookie was already delivered to my mouth.
With no choice but to savor the sweet cookie again, I nodded my head.
“I’d like to go outside.”
“Where would you like to see?”
“That plaza I saw before.”
My sister understood immediately and smiled.
“The Grand Plaza you saw when we first arrived in the Capital?”
“Yes. Is that possible?”
“Of course it is. Should I take you out with me? If you don’t mind….”
“Miss!”
Just then, someone burst into my sister’s office.
It was Hyacinth, looking like she’d barely escaped death.
“I will take her out and bring her back!”
“No.”
“But why…!”
“You look like a corpse.”
“That’s not my fault. The Duke worked me to the bone—over and over again!”
Hyacinth protested vehemently, but my sister wouldn’t relent. After continued refusals, Hyacinth exhaled sharply.
“I’m not saying I’ll just take her out on a whim.”
“I don’t want to hear the reason, whatever it is.”
“The Duke is looking for you!”
“…My brother is?”
Hyacinth quickly interjected her crucial point and nodded.
“What does he want?”
“I don’t know the details either, but the Duke said there’s something you need to discuss right now. If that weren’t the case, I’d know I’d catch grief from you for coming all this way—would I really be here?”
“Fair point.”
My sister didn’t deny it and stroked my head.
“Exactly. So I’ll take the child out and bring her back! You need to go to the Duke right away!”
Hyacinth’s eyes shone brightly.
“Who am I, after all? When everyone was attacking me, I’m the brilliant mage who protected the child splendidly in that thorny Imperial Palace….”
“Dear, if this mage talks nonsense, you come straight to me and tell me. Understand?”
“Yes!”
“Oh, no!”
Hyacinth, who’d heard our exchange, cried out indignantly.
“You can’t do that to me!”
“Mmph….”
I quickly clamped my mouth shut around the sweet cookie.
Nom nom.
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Thus I boarded the carriage with Hyacinth and set off outside the mansion.
“Don’t take off the necklace I gave you unless absolutely necessary. It’ll break all the magic otherwise.”
Inside the carriage heading to the plaza,
I touched the necklace Hyacinth had fastened on me.
She’d cast a spell to change my hair and eye color just in case the Emperor might target me.
The necklace, imbued with Hyacinth’s power, maintained the magic, or so she’d said.
‘How fascinating.’
The more you learned, the more boundless the applications became.
I was starting to understand why mages commanded such respect.
After admiring the necklace for a while, I lifted my head and my eyes widened.
My hair color, which had been a clear sky-blue just moments ago….
“Has turned dull!”
The dark brown hair showed absolutely no distinctive features—utterly ordinary-looking.
My eyes were the same. The deep charcoal eyes matched me perfectly now.
“But what about you, Hyacinth?”
I might be at risk, so that made sense.
But Hyacinth wasn’t, was she? Even if she were attacked, she’d strike back just as fiercely—she was someone who’d never simply endure.
“I’m in a position where it’d be inconvenient if I were discovered.”
“Inconvenient? Why….”
I hesitated mid-question. The fact that she’d been from the Magic Tower suddenly occurred to me.
“Since I’m someone who was once next in line to lead the Magic Tower. There are plenty of people who resent and envy me for leaving.”
It wasn’t just rivalry and jealousy.
It amounted to lifelong enmity.
“Those people are so sinister and underhanded that it becomes a real nuisance if I don’t do this. So whenever I go out, I always do it this way.”
“Seems like it would be inconvenient though.”
Having to use magic every time she left.
I supposed the Temple attendant had called Hyacinth a minion the moment they saw her, so if she went out in her true form, her distinctive hair color would make her easy to spot.
“It’s fine. For a brilliant mage like me, this is nothing. Even if they did attack, I could deflect it all. This is just for convenience when moving about.”
Hyacinth shrugged with a completely unfazed expression.
‘Oh, that’s right.’
There was something I’d wanted to ask anyway.
“What happened to that monster that appeared at the Imperial Palace?”
That unpleasant snake that had appeared at the Imperial Palace.
I’d been curious, so I asked my sister, but….
‘It’s still under investigation. I’ll tell you for sure later.’
That’s what she’d said.
“Oh, about that….”
Hyacinth, on the receiving end of the question, scratched her head. She frowned slightly, seeming troubled, and spoke carefully.
“I think the Duke will probably explain the details eventually… but actually, the reason I’ve been so busy these past few days is because I was investigating that monster.”
Hyacinth swallowed hard.
“From the investigation so far, it’s definitely a Demon Beast.”
“A Demon Beast…? One still exists?”
I thought such creatures had all been sealed when the Empire was founded.
At my words, Hyacinth rubbed her chin once.
“You know the Duke received investigative authority over the Crown Prince’s case, right? While investigating that case, we discovered the monster you saw. It turned out that Bancadium didn’t summon it.”
Hyacinth added that we ended up investigating it together by circumstance.
“Since the Empire’s major nobles were present. We had no choice but to investigate.”
“….”
“But… we couldn’t investigate further.”
“What?”
We couldn’t investigate further?
“We had investigative authority.”
“Right. But… that monster just vanished. Overnight.”
“!”
It vanished?
Then it completely disappeared?
“We confirmed it was a Demon Beast, but it vanished overnight, so there was nothing more to investigate.”
‘…So that’s why my sister couldn’t tell me.’
The monster had just poof—disappeared right when she was about to conduct a proper investigation.
She wouldn’t have been able to tell me even if she wanted to.
“This has become quite troublesome. It disappearing so suddenly.”
“Exactly. I was trying to investigate that red light you saw too, but it completely vanished—no clues left.”
Hyacinth let out a heavy sigh.
“Because of that, the Duke worked me so hard. How much I wanted to desert….”
She even added how exhausted she’d been, poking at the dark circles under her eyes with her fingers. The long, dark shadows hanging beneath them seemed especially concerning today.
I waited for the carriage to grow quiet momentarily, then scooted over to the seat beside Hyacinth.
‘If she went through all that hardship investigating that….’
It made sense she’d want to run away.
As I gently patted her exhausted shoulders, Hyacinth’s expression softened emotionally and she reached out her hand.
“After all, there’s nothing like something cute. The only person in Bancadium who understands and comforts me is you….”
But just as that hand was about to reach me,
“Oof?!”
My body was lifted up suddenly,
and my vision flipped in a blink.
‘What—what is this?’
Startled, I tilted my head back.
I’d been beside Hyacinth just a moment ago. Suddenly I was nestled securely in Rem’s arms.
Rem, who’d pulled me into her embrace, spoke with a serious expression.
“You mustn’t be coddled by her.”
“….”
“Acting. Act pitiful.”
“……Act?”
“Acting, my foot! I snuck out of the Duke’s office yesterday because I wanted to play with the child, rolled around with excitement all day long, then went to bed early at ten at night, and…!”
“…….”
“…….”
Hyacinth froze for a moment.
Rem nodded knowingly.
“Don’t be fooled. She’s a good actress.”
“You…!”
She could only speak well at times like these…!

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