I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 21

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21.

“No, I just said it looked good because it looked good.”

Caroline spoke to me urgently with an expression that said not to misunderstand.

“Would the Princess choose those colors as a dress code in the first place? Of course she wouldn’t…”

“Instead, she’d call me ignorant for suggesting it after hearing what you said.”

“…!”

“Sigh, Caroline. Why did you even come here?”

I pressed my temples firmly against my throbbing headache and asked, and Caroline bit her lower lip tightly.

Just then, Beki brought tea and cookies, temporarily interrupting our conversation.

Caroline, who had been thinking about something with her lips pressed together in silence until Beki left, soon seemed to finish organizing her thoughts and looked at me to speak.

“The Princess stole His Highness from me.”

What is this now.

My eyes widened at the word “stole” that came from Caroline’s mouth.

“His Highness surely would have chosen me as his hunting festival partner, but…”

“Did His Highness say that?”

It seemed like she was about to go off like a runaway train, saying anything without distinction, so I deliberately interrupted Caroline’s words.

I didn’t know how this had happened, but at this rate, Caroline would become a villain like Perioze’s Sister in the original story, let alone the female lead.

Saying that Perioze’s Sister stole Lloyd away – I couldn’t understand how she could think that way about the Crown Prince who wasn’t hers to begin with.

“That’s not it, but… but I know. His Highness the Crown Prince surely was thinking of me as his hunting festival partner.”

“Oh, Caroline. What are you saying right now?”

I was so dumbfounded it was bewildering. I covered my face with both hands and let out a deep sigh.

“It’s true. Don’t you trust me?”

“This isn’t a matter of trusting you or not, Caroline. If His Highness the Crown Prince didn’t directly tell you that he would take you as his partner for the hunting festival, then what you’re saying now is just your misunderstanding.”

“It’s not a misunderstanding! His Highness, he…!”

“Then why did he choose Perioze’s Sister as his partner instead of you? Directly, at that.”

Of course, I was behind it, but Caroline couldn’t know that.

“That’s exactly why the Princess schemed in between!”

Caroline shouted excitedly.

It seemed this child had firmly believed that Lloyd would choose her as his hunting festival partner.

But when Lloyd chose Perioze’s Sister instead of her, she seemed to have become unable to think logically.

I told Caroline to calm down her excitement, then asked seriously.

“What kind of scheme do you think Perioze’s Sister used to become His Highness the Crown Prince’s partner?”

“I don’t know that either. But I’m certain. If the Princess hadn’t interfered between me and His Highness the Crown Prince, then why would His Highness partner with the Princess instead of me…”

“How about asking directly?”

I interrupted Caroline, who couldn’t think rationally at all, and asked.

Then Caroline stared at me intently.

“Rather, ask His Highness directly. Why he chose Perioze’s Sister instead of you. Then he’ll give you an answer, won’t he?”

Of course, Lloyd wouldn’t be able to properly explain about his dealings with me, so he would either use the handkerchief as an excuse, or if not that, he would just say he did it because he wanted to.

Recalling him from the original story and the one I’d seen here, he was definitely not the type to explain his inner circumstances one by one.

“How can I ask? If I ask, he’ll treat me like a foolish countess who doesn’t know her place.”

“Oh, you’re saying that with your own mouth? You understand your position better than I thought. That’s really fortunate.”

“…What?”

“Just as you said with your own mouth, right now you look like a foolish countess who doesn’t know her place to me too.”

Caroline bristled at my words.

“Eli!”

“I don’t know what you’re thinking when you talk to me as if Perioze’s Sister stole something that was yours, but Perioze’s Sister has never once stolen anything from you. Because His Highness the Crown Prince wasn’t yours to begin with.”

“…!”

“I don’t know what basis you have for thinking His Highness the Crown Prince had marked you as his hunting festival partner, but…”

“Everyone said so, everyone! You’re the only one saying it’s not true! They all said I would become His Highness’s hunting festival partner!”

She’s excited, she’s excited.

The excited original female lead was as venomous as the original villainess sister.

But why do I find this appearance cute too.

Am I perhaps weak to the sharp-tongued and nasty type…

I stared intently at Caroline’s bristling and trembling tantrum, then let out a short sigh and spoke to her.

“Just because everyone says so doesn’t make it true, Caroline.”

Cute was cute, but floundering in delusion and being unable to get her bearings would be trouble in many ways, so I hoped she would come to her senses at this point.

After becoming an adult, when the villains appeared, this child before me would join forces with the main male lead and sub male lead to save the Empire, so I should definitely be grateful for that great contribution.

This world was the world I would have to live in until I grew old and died.

So please, I hoped that the good image that had been going well wouldn’t worsen due to the parts that had changed from the original because of my intervention.

“But I have intuition and instincts too. I’m not just thinking and talking based on what others say…”

“Are those instincts telling you that our sister stole your man? Then throw away those trashy instincts.”

“…!”

“Even before Perioze’s Sister was born, marriage talks were going on between the Emperor and Duke McKenzie. If you think about it, you’re the one who interfered in a relationship that could have had a prenatal engagement.”

“That’s because the Princess was born as a Princess…!”

Caroline shouted as if feeling wronged.

As expected, Caroline was bothered by being from a poor marquis family.

Even when reading the original, I often had the vague feeling that her marquis origins were her sensitive point, and this incident confirmed it.

“That’s right. God made Perioze’s Sister be born as a Princess.”

At my words, Caroline’s face hardened to a pale white.

Without touching on her status as a mere marquis family’s daughter, when I said that Perioze’s Sister was chosen by God to be born in a ducal family, she seemed to have no words to counter with and her face hardened.

“That too is God’s choice.”

Though I wondered if this was really a matter to bring God into, I didn’t think anything else would work on Caroline, who was quite excited right now.

Since she thought her light attribute power was the ability closest to God that God had bestowed upon humans, I thought she would definitely react to the words “God’s choice.”

After all, Caroline too was a child who thought she was chosen by God to be born with light attribute abilities.

“So I don’t think you should feel wronged about Perioze’s Sister being born with the status of a Princess.”

“…I am.”

Caroline started to say something then pressed her lips tightly shut.

She seemed to want to say she wasn’t feeling wronged, but since she clearly was feeling wronged, she seemed unable to utter the lie and closed her mouth.

“Anyway, Caroline. Unless His Highness the Crown Prince first offered you to be his hunting festival partner, I hope you won’t think that Perioze’s Sister stole His Highness from you.”

At my words, Caroline stared at me intently.

I couldn’t predict at all from her expression whether she understood my words well, but anyway, having gone this far, it seemed she wouldn’t go around spouting nonsense about Perioze’s Sister stealing what was hers.

But then.

“Eli, you. You really seem like a different person.”

Caroline suddenly looked at me and said that.

“Hm?”

“You feel completely different from the you I knew.”

“We haven’t known each other that long, yet you talk as if you know me completely.”

“At least I know how you were when you, a commoner, bought the marquis title.”

“…”

“Though I’m from a marquis family lower than a marquis family, you before accompanying the Princess treated me as a more noble aristocrat than anyone.”

Ha, look at this…?

“But the current you treats me like someone of lower rank than you and even lectures me.”

So now.

She meant that someone who was born a commoner and bought a marquis title with money was now trying to teach someone who had been nobility from birth.

“Eli, I’m saying this out of concern, but you’re not having the delusion that you’re of the same status as the Princess just because you’re accompanying her now, are you? I’m really worried about you.”

Caroline held both my hands tightly with an innocently kind expression and spoke.

Ho, look at this?

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