I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 23

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23.

“How did you do it?”

As soon as we arrived at the Countess’s tea party venue, Caroline said she had something to tell me and dragged me toward the pond outside the tea party location to ask.

When she cut straight to the point and asked out of nowhere, I pretended not to know with a “Hm?” Caroline immediately spoke with a sharp expression.

“The Grand Duke. He agreed to be your partner, didn’t he?”

“Ah.”

“How exactly did you do it? Did the Princess help you?”

To be precise, you’re the one who helped.

You suggested the hunting festival partner to Theor, so Theor contacted me.

“What method did you use to become the Grand Duke’s partner, Eli?”

“Well, I didn’t particularly use any method.”

“It must be the Princess. The Princess stole my partner again…”

Caroline muttered to herself, and her expression showed she truly believed this, which was bewildering.

This is getting dangerous.

“Get a grip, Caroline. Who stole what from whom?”

When I spoke seriously, Caroline looked at me.

Judging by the bloodshot whites of her eyes, she seemed to be struggling to contain her anger.

It seemed that after Lloyd and now Theor both refused to be her hunting partner, she couldn’t think straight.

At this rate, it wouldn’t be strange if Caroline turned into a villain. I spoke in a firm tone to help her come to her senses faster.

“Neither His Highness nor the Grand Duke were ever yours, Caroline.”

“…”

Tears welled up in her bloodshot eyes.

Seeing her seemingly about to fall into a swamp of confusion, I unconsciously grabbed one of her hands and said.

“Put aside your emotions and think properly.”

At my words, the tears in Caroline’s eyes streamed down her cheeks.

She looked down at the hand I was holding and muttered as if talking to herself.

“I… don’t know.”

“Hm? What?”

“Nothing like this has ever happened to me before.”

Caroline said that until now, everything she wanted and desired naturally became hers.

Born with light attribute abilities, she became an object of admiration for possessing power closest to divine strength.

Though she came from a poor Baron family, she received courtship from numerous high-ranking noble sons and kindness from young ladies.

When she caught the Crown Prince’s eye, Princess Perioze bullied her, but everyone took her side and pointed fingers at the Princess.

So she had nothing to complain about.

Until I became Perioze’s person.

“Ever since you abandoned me and only sought out Princess Her Highness, my life has changed.”

Caroline said that from the moment I sided with Perioze and only sought her out, people’s attitudes toward the Princess and toward herself began to change little by little.

Moreover, when Perioze, who had been desperate to bully her, changed to completely ignoring her, the image of the pitiful and poor Baron’s daughter who was always being wronged by the villainous Princess disappeared, and fewer people treated her as kindly as before.

In the end, Caroline had now realized that she stood out more thanks to the villainess Perioze.

“Even His Highness the Crown Prince, who showed excessive interest in me for some reason, has now lost that interest.”

That wasn’t interest in you but interest in your light attribute, and since Lloyd himself has light attributes, he naturally had to be interested in the same light attribute.

But after learning that I knew about Lloyd’s light attributes, his interest in me probably grew more than his interest in the light attribute itself.

“I feel like it’s your fault. No, yours and the Princess’s fault.”

Caroline blaming others for the disappearance of attention directed at her was unfamiliar.

In the original story, she was frustratingly and annoyingly kind, making me feel as stuffy as if I’d eaten a hundred sweet potatoes whenever something happened, but Caroline in front of me, showing her raw emotions, seemed very different from the original.

Well, the female protagonist is human too, so she can’t be without emotions.

Caroline’s emotions that flowed fragmentarily in the text would have been very faithful to the female protagonist’s emotions and only showed emotions from the good side.

So that people wouldn’t recognize that the female protagonist also had the duality that exists in all humans.

This might have been due to the rigid stereotype that female protagonists must always be kind, righteous, and good.

“Caroline. Blaming others for that doesn’t seem like a good idea, and it’s not like you.”

At my words, Caroline, who had been looking at me with confused eyes for a long time, soon let out a long sigh.

I could feel her gaze calming down.

Caroline soon showed her characteristic kind and gentle smile.

“You’re right. I must have lost myself for a moment, this isn’t like me at all. Sorry for taking up your time. After His Highness the Crown Prince and now the Grand Duke rejected my hunting festival partner proposal, I must have temporarily lost my reason.”

“Don’t you think you should abandon the idea that they must unconditionally accept your hunting festival partner proposal?”

At my words, Caroline’s face instantly hardened.

But as always, she managed her emotions well.

Caroline soon showed a gentle smile and nodded once.

“Yes, I’ll keep that in mind.”

After finishing her words, Caroline turned around and disappeared into the tea party venue that had already begun.

I watched her retreating figure and let out a short sigh.

I had no intention of doing so, but I unconsciously spoke sharply to Caroline.

I suppose I wanted her to come to her senses because I was afraid she might fall into a great delusion and become a protagonist who falls and becomes a villain like in other novels I’d read.

Even now, seeing how I still desperately hope Caroline will quickly escape from the delusion she’s thinking about.

I slowly walked toward the tea party venue, hoping and hoping again that Caroline wouldn’t become an enemy of Perioze and me.

“Where did you go?”

Perioze, who didn’t know I had gone to talk with Caroline because she was busy receiving greetings from the Count’s head of house and his wife as soon as we got off the carriage, asked me as I approached the tea time table.

“I was just looking around.”

As I sat in the empty seat next to Perioze with a smile, I instinctively paused when my eyes met Caroline’s, who was sitting at the very edge.

But Caroline looked away first. What’s that about?

“You two look so good together.”

“Indeed. To think you could create such different feelings with the same dress code.”

“It even feels perfectly matched to both of your images.”

The young ladies gathered at the table began praising Perioze’s and my custom dresses to no end.

Among them were those who felt bitter but forced smiles to praise the dresses for the sake of smooth social life, and those who were truly captivated and said they should attend tea parties with matching dress codes with their friends.

I smiled at them while implanting in the young ladies’ minds that all of this was grace given to me by Perioze.

“By the way, has everyone found hunting festival partners?”

“I heard Her Highness the Princess received a proposal from His Highness the Crown Prince?”

“My goodness, then this year’s hunting festival best dresser award is practically guaranteed for His Highness the Crown Prince and Her Highness the Princess.”

As various conversations continued and talk about hunting festival partners came up, Caroline’s face, who had been sitting silently, instantly darkened.

One of her followers suddenly interjected into the group praising Perioze and asked Caroline loudly.

“You said you’ll be with Marquis Maxston for this hunting festival, didn’t you, Lady Caroline?”

“Oh my, Marquis Maxston? Isn’t he going to be the next head of Solin Trading Company, one of the Empire’s three major trading companies?”

Strictly speaking, Solin Trading Company wasn’t one of the Empire’s three major trading companies, and no one knew whether Maxston or his sister Jurasian would become the next company head.

Even in the original story, it wasn’t properly addressed, so it never clearly came out whether the next head of the Solindeb Marquis family would be Maxston or his sister.

But judging by the flow, Maxston definitely wouldn’t become the head of the Solindeb Marquis family and would lose both the family headship and trading company leadership to his sister Jurasian.

That’s because he’s quite stupid.

As Caroline’s childhood friend, he was someone blinded by love who would do anything if it would make Caroline happy.

Of course, Caroline would unintentionally use him, but thinking about it now, I became suspicious whether all the episodes from the original story were truly unintentional on Caroline’s part.

I recalled the stupid episode Maxston committed at the hunting festival after coming of age, hoping he wouldn’t act excessively for Caroline’s sake like in the original story at this hunting festival.

Completely unaware that Maxston’s episode from the original story would be moved up to now, before coming of age.

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