I Just Wanted Revenge, But Everyone Loves Me - Chapter 9

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Episode 9
……What on earth was that?!
‘What kind of insane little girl is this…….’
Sith pressed his temples, which throbbed with pain.
“You realize you’ve just added another charge to your record, don’t you?”
“I know.”
“There will be additional sentencing.”
“Yes, sir!”
Why did her voice suddenly sound brighter?
The question flickered across his mind for a moment, but Sith pressed on.
“You could be thrown into Solitary Confinement for this. No walks while you’re in there. You eat all your meals inside your cell.”
“Yes, sir!”
“No snack time either.”
……Yes, sir!”
Karin thought to herself that she could endure at least that much without complaint.
Sith let out a sigh at her confident demeanor.
He’d never actually intended to send her to Solitary—he was just trying to threaten her into behaving. But it clearly wasn’t working.
“……All right. One last thing.”
Though honestly, I think I know why already.
“How did you make that bomb?”
“I had materials.”
“Materials?”
“The ore that’s spread across the floor.”
Sith’s brow furrowed.
Wasn’t that what they used when controlling Mana?
“I know its weakness.”
“What weakness?”
“Tell me what you want in exchange, and I’ll grant you one wish.”
“What?”
Sith’s displeasure was written plainly across his face.
“You don’t seem to grasp what crime you’ve just committed.”
“Imperial Building Arson.”
…….
She understood perfectly well.
‘And yet she dares to negotiate.’
A frightening child, truly.
“Fine. I’ll grant you anything except immediate release or a reduction in your sentence.”
“You can’t take back what you said!”
……All right.”
Unnecessarily thorough, this one.
Sith clicked his tongue quietly.
“The Control Stone compresses power and holds it down, doesn’t it?”
“It does.”
“Then what if it received an impact?”
“?”
An impact?
Sith’s eyes narrowed to slits.
Karin nodded in response.
“The Buffer gets replaced periodically. Just in case too much power builds up inside and—bang—it explodes.”
…….
“But what if.”
It could rupture not just from within,
“but also from external shock?”
“You……!”
“Then wouldn’t an explosion be simple enough to trigger?”
Before Sith could respond, Karin laid out the bomb-making process with remarkable clarity and speed, breaking it down into easy-to-understand steps.
It was so elegant and straightforward that he found himself embarrassed at not having thought of such a danger himself.
“Basically, this method causes an explosion.”
Karin shrugged, carefully omitting the fact that the jewels she’d created could serve as something far more powerful.
“You can test it right away if you don’t believe me. But since other people might abuse it, you should probably do it secretly under the guise of a weapons experiment.”
The jewels she’d wept into existence were nothing more than detonators for a far greater blast—but the principle behind the explosion was already fully explained.
“So now can I tell you what I want?”
…….
Having already made a promise, Sith found himself with no choice but to nod reluctantly.
“Send me to Solitary Confinement.”
“What was that…….”
What?!
‘Did I mishear?’
He must have just heard something insane.
“Where do you want to go?”
“Solitary Confinement!”
Karin declared it boldly.
“I want to go to Solitary! If possible, starting today!”
……Is there something genuinely wrong with her?
Sith began to worry in earnest.
The mad little girl who had so spectacularly demolished an entire building
‘Yes!’
was now locked in Solitary Confinement.
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“This lunatic. So she really did blow up the building to rebel against the Emperor?”
“I was going to go easy on her because she’s cute, but…….”
“At first I wondered why such a kid would show up in Iztail, but now it makes sense. Why she came.”
Karin, already the youngest inmate in the prison, became quite famous after the explosion.
Iztail had seen many prisoners who’d committed assault, disobedience, and all manner of infractions,
but a bomb? Boom!
Someone who could actually manufacture one.
And use it to obliterate an entire building.
The world has no shortage of madmen, but Karin had written a new chapter in Iztail’s history with this act.
And there was one man who overheard the guards’ gossip in secret.
Prisoner Number 392.
His name was Nick.
A loyal servant of the Emperor, he was currently on a covert mission.
To surveil Bangcadium and his younger sister, both now imprisoned.
The Duke deserved it for his crimes, certainly—but his sister’s case was different.
Why had she infiltrated this place? Was she planning an escape? For two months now he’d been incarcerated to keep watch over both of them.
But recently, a new obstacle had emerged to interfere with his plan…….
‘Prisoner Number 100.’
Her name is Karin.
Her crimes—starting with Lese-Majeste and including Assassination Requests—were all serious felonies for a four-year-old child.
He’d been keeping close watch anyway, and then this building demolition on top of it all.
She was certainly far from normal.
Which made her all the more a person of interest.
Especially since the Bangcadium Princess had been sticking close to her too.
At first he’d thought she was an accomplice, but it seemed the little girl herself had no idea who her cellmate was,
“Solitary, huh? You sure that’s okay? That monster’s in there too, you know.”
“Well, this girl blew up a building, so she’ll probably be fine.”
“Still, there’s only two of them in the Solitary section now. It’s a perfect sealed room with guards only outside. If those two went at each other…….”
“Come on. You ever seen a fight break out in Solitary? They can’t even use Mana in there.”
“Damn. Did you ever think a bomb would go off in here? It’s the ‘what if’ that worries me. I’ve got watch duty there starting tomorrow.”
“Look at this guy getting nervous. Getting real nervous.”
Nick, listening to the guards’ conversation, quietly moved away.
Not far along, someone extended a hand from around the corner.
Recognizing the signal, Nick stepped toward that spot.
* * *
“Heh heh.”
The walk to Solitary was thrilling beyond measure.
‘Though my older sister said I couldn’t go…….’
She’d threatened to blow up a building herself if I did, hopping around frantically, but the guards had quickly stopped her.
‘I can only stay for a week, though.’
This might be my one and only chance.
I absolutely had to persuade the Duke.
‘If I ask him to become my comrade outright, he’ll refuse.’
I’d need to approach this carefully, coax him bit by bit, and seal the deal!
“Beyond this door is the Solitary section.”
The guard standing before the sturdy iron door looked down at me.
“Once you’re inside, you don’t come out for a week, and no one but guards can approach.”
The guard, regarding me with clear disapproval, opened the door. I grinned and scampered along behind him.
As befitted Solitary, every cell here was a single occupant, and the doors themselves were iron bars like the rest of the prison.
So you could clearly see into the opposite cell—who was there and what they were doing.
“……?”
The Duke, sitting on his bunk, furrowed his brow the moment he saw me.
His eyes, brimming with obvious confusion—’What are you doing here?’—felt like they were poking holes straight through my cheeks.
I hugged the bundle I’d brought and lowered my head.
“Hello, Your Grace!”
…….
“I may have caused a bit of trouble……!”
They say you’re already halfway there if you just greet them properly!
“I look forward to a good week with you!”
That should earn me some points, right?!

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