I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 10

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10.

I decided to save the wish I had earned with difficulty from Lloyd for later and start by creating good deeds for Perioze’s Sister before the upcoming Hunting Festival.

Right now, Lloyd was meeting Caroline because of her light attribute, but it would surely only be a matter of time before he fell for her charm.

So while there was still some place for our sister in his heart, we had to push forward.

As our first step toward that goal, we decided to attend the handkerchief-making gathering for the upcoming Hunting Festival.

The custom of the young ladies giving handkerchiefs they had personally embroidered to their desired young lords on the day of the Hunting Festival was the perfect event for confessing one’s feelings to someone they had their heart set on.

Naturally attending the handkerchief-making gathering with Perioze’s Sister, I decided to personally create the embroidery design for her.

Though I was absolutely terrible at sewing, I was quite good at drawing, so I was confident in creating a design that harmoniously combined the white bird of wind representing the Crown Prince and the sun representing the Imperial Court.

But the sewing for the design was still difficult.

I pricked myself with the needle so much that my fingers became tattered.

“Eli, your little hands are all scratched up! I should be the one doing this!”

When my fingers became tattered from the needle while trying to create a design for her, Perioze’s Sister became serious and made me stop.

So I ended up drawing a sketch on the handkerchief with easily erasable chalk and handed it to Perioze’s Sister.

“Would this be enough then? It’s difficult trying to create a design with thread.”

“This is perfect. But you, you really draw well, don’t you?”

At Perioze’s Sister’s praise, the young ladies around us flocked over and began examining my drawing in her hands.

This could be called a pretty good strategy in its own way.

Since it was clearly a pattern representing the Crown Prince, the other young ladies who saw that sketch wouldn’t think of giving handkerchiefs to Lloyd, pushing aside Perioze’s Sister.

Well, of course there would be some young ladies who would still give them, but there wouldn’t be any young lady who would openly make a handkerchief to give to the Crown Prince.

That’s what I thought, but…

“Eli, who are you planning to give your handkerchief to?”

There was one.

On Caroline’s handkerchief, who was speaking to me, a wind bird representing Lloyd, who possessed wind attributes, was being embroidered in large silver thread.

“Well, you… are you planning to give it to His Highness?”

I asked in the lowest voice possible, worried that Perioze’s Sister, who was surrounded by young ladies over there, might hear.

But Caroline smiled at me obliviously and spoke quite loudly.

“Yes, His Highness has done so many things I’m grateful for, so I want to express my thanks through this opportunity.”

“Do you really need to express that gratitude with a handkerchief?”

She must know better than anyone what giving this handkerchief means, yet her intention to give it to Lloyd was transparent.

Of course, in the original work, Caroline also gave Lloyd a handkerchief, so this wasn’t unexpected.

It’s just that right now, I’m on Perioze’s Sister’s side, supporting her and Lloyd, so Caroline rolling in like an unwelcome stone is a bit annoying.

Actually, since novels follow the flow of the original female lead, I began to think anew that it’s good to have someone like me who thinks of our sister.

Caroline spoke to me as if hurt.

“Eli, somehow you don’t seem like the you I used to know lately. Is there something I did that made you angry?”

It was an expression and tone that tugged at the heartstrings, befitting a female lead, but strangely I found her uncomfortable.

So without realizing it, I stepped back from Caroline and asked in return.

“Hmm? Did you perhaps do something that would make me angry?”

Then I forced a smile at Caroline, who became serious saying she had never done such a thing in response to my question.

Tsk, if not then not, why get all serious about it.

I asked.

“But why are you talking with the premise that I would be angry?”

“I… because I’m trying to give a handkerchief to His Highness the Crown Prince.”

“Hmm?”

“Since you seem to be getting along well with the Princess lately, I thought you might disapprove of me giving a handkerchief to His Highness the Crown Prince, whom the Princess likes.”

What that meant was that this child knew very well that her actions would infuriate Perioze’s Sister.

Knowing that and still making a handkerchief for Lloyd meant she thought it was okay for her to upset Perioze’s Sister.

If not that, then knowing Perioze’s Sister’s personality wouldn’t let her actions slide, she might want to cause trouble.

Well, well.

I already knew that the original female lead wasn’t all that kind and good, but she’s just as rotten as our sister?

At least Perioze’s Sister doesn’t put on airs and rather openly reveals her terrible personality, which makes her somewhat cute, but this one is somehow gloomy, or should I say transparent.

I looked at Caroline, whom I couldn’t view favorably, for a moment, then let out a short sigh and said.

“Right. Since it came up, are you giving His Highness a handkerchief knowing that the Princess likes His Highness?”

“The Princess’s feelings are the Princess’s, but His Highness probably doesn’t share the same feelings as the Princess.”

“How do you know? Then did His Highness say he wanted to receive a handkerchief from you?”

“…”

Caroline seemed to have nothing to say to my words, keeping her mouth shut for a moment before looking at me and saying.

“You seem to have changed.”

“Me? Where, how, and how much have I changed? And what’s the biggest reason I’ve changed – is it because unlike before, I don’t completely support everything you say?”

“…”

“Caroline, listen carefully. I think being kind to everyone and making people’s hearts yours is the best way for you, a baron’s daughter, to do well in society. I greatly respect that about you too. But using the hearts you’ve gained that way as you please is not good behavior.”

At my words, Caroline’s face hardened stiffly.

Surely she wouldn’t think that her fox-like behavior was wrong.

No, she might not even know that what she’s doing is fox-like behavior.

Being the original female lead, she grew up receiving female lead buffs, so countless people would have taken her side and liked her without her having to make much effort.

So she would have lived taking all these things for granted, and among all those people, when I suddenly changed my attitude, she couldn’t help but have such a flustered expression.

Moreover, wasn’t I someone Caroline had embraced with her kindness and tolerance?

Caroline was the only one who protected me when I was pointed at for being a commoner who bought a family name, and through that, my position as a noble gradually grew, so I had no intention of blaming her for thinking that way.

However, the person she had been so good to and protected had overnight sided with the Princess who was tormenting her, so she would naturally be upset and angry.

“I’m not like that.”

Caroline spoke with an expression she had never shown me before.

She seemed somewhat angry and also seemed to be holding back feelings of injustice.

Anyway, this child seemed hurt that I, whom she thought was quite close to her, had turned my back on her in an instant.

“I’ve never tried to use anyone’s feelings, and also…”

“Are you crying?”

“Oh my, Lady Caroline! Are you crying?!”

As soon as my words ended, a brown-haired young lady with cute freckles, who had apparently been watching us from somewhere, shouted.

At that, the other young ladies also turned their heads toward us.

Caroline was just tearing up, but she hurriedly wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, getting moisture on her eyelids, and shook her head.

Yes, this kind of thing, this kind of thing.

Though unintended, this kind of thing that seemed to create a situation where anyone could see Caroline was crying because of me.

In her own way, she probably hurriedly wiped her wet eyes with the back of her hand so I wouldn’t get in trouble for her tears being discovered, but in the end, people would think I had made Caroline sad and cry.

“Lady Elinea, what is the meaning of this?”

Just like those young ladies who, without thinking to accurately understand this situation, immediately turned sharp toward me.

“Lady Abigail, it’s nothing.”

“Don’t cover for her, Lady Caroline. Lady Elinea just made you cry, didn’t she?”

“Lady Caroline has taken such good care of you all this time, and you don’t even know gratitude…”

“Lady Elinea, even if you’re a rootless commoner by birth, you shouldn’t treat Lady Caroline, who warmly embraced you, like this.”

Everyone began tearing into me, thinking this was their chance.

“I never did anything to make Lady Caroline cry. And Lady Caroline never cried.”

“Lies, do you think we’re fools? Lady Caroline’s eyelashes are wet like this…”

“That’s because she was hurt that my attitude was different from before, so she teared up, but you rubbed it…”

“If you made her sad, that’s why her eyes are tearing up.”

“Actually, I was curious too – why did your attitude change?”

Because of the young ladies pouncing on me again at my single comment, I let out a big sigh that came naturally and said.

“Do all of you only make friends with just one person?”

At my words, the noisy surroundings became quiet all at once as if cold water had been poured on them.

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