I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 24

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24.

‘I thought that since the original story hasn’t properly started yet, and Maxton wouldn’t have such strong feelings for Caroline right now…’

I’m screwed. I was wrong to think that.

In the original story, Maxton had prepared hunting attire identical to what Perioze and the Crown Prince wore for Caroline, who had her Crown Prince partner stolen by the villainess Perioze by the Emperor’s decree the night before the Hunting Festival after the coming-of-age ceremony.

That custom outfit was white hunting attire embroidered with golden and red thread, and Maxton had made it with the exact same design and shape, only changing the embroidery colors to a combination of silver and purple.

He couldn’t replicate the embroidery design of the wind bird symbolizing the Crown Prince and the red flowers symbolizing Perioze, so he changed it to a design combining trees symbolizing the Marquis Solindeb family and light representing Caroline.

But to see it here and now.

And hunting attire designed with only different embroidery patterns, just like in the original.

Those who had praised Perioze’s Sister and the Crown Prince’s custom outfits to no end began mocking Maxton and Caroline, who had blatantly come wearing similar hunting attire.

“How dare they copy someone? Are they insane?”

Perioze’s Sister also began to rage upon seeing the two people wearing custom outfits that closely resembled hers and Lloyd’s, which Endiweon had put tremendous effort into creating.

I tried my best to calm Perioze’s Sister down.

“Sister, please calm down. You can’t go over there and get angry now.”

“What are you saying? Should I just stand by and watch those who copied mine and His Highness’s couple hunting outfits?”

“If you just leave them be, they’ll become the laughingstock instead, so please trust me and calm your heart just once, Sister.”

I desperately hoped inwardly that Perioze’s Sister wouldn’t grab Caroline’s hair and cause a scene like in the original story.

That’s because those custom outfits were something Maxton, who had a one-sided love for Caroline, had done – Caroline knew nothing about it.

Marquis Maxton, who had an inferiority complex toward the Crown Prince, had deliberately made similar hunting attire and found out about Lloyd and Perioze’s Sister’s custom hunting outfit design in advance to order identical ones, all to show Lloyd that he and Caroline were a couple.

In any case, Maxton should have been blamed for this incident, but in the original story, Perioze’s Sister received the criticism instead.

Perioze’s Sister’s nasty personality emerged when she discovered that the custom hunting outfit she had carefully designed to shine was the same as Caroline’s, and she hit Caroline and shook her by the hair – causing such a scene that others thought she went too far with Caroline.

Her pride was already hurt by the blemish of barely becoming Lloyd’s Hunting Festival partner thanks to the Emperor, and this was like pouring oil on fire, leaving her no choice.

Because of this, public opinion poured onto Perioze’s Sister instead of Maxton, who should have rightfully been blamed, and Sister’s infamy grew even higher.

I can’t let that repeat.

I tried hard to prevent Perioze’s Sister from causing a scene here so she wouldn’t receive unfair criticism like in the original story.

“When His Highness the Crown Prince arrives, those people will be the ones who become a laughingstock anyway, Sister.”

“But…!”

“And look at Caroline’s expression. She didn’t know either that the custom hunting outfit Maxton gave her as a gift had the same design as yours, Sister.”

I whispered while pointing to Caroline, whose face was bright red with shame as she argued with Maxton.

“Right now, Caroline probably wants to die more than anyone else?”

Since she also cared about the Princess more than anyone, the fact that she and Maxton had copied the Crown Prince and Princess’s outfits would be more hellish than any other situation.

“If your anger won’t subside, I’ll give Maxton, who caused this mess, a sharp talking-to. So please don’t step forward, Sister – this is all for your reputation, so please trust me and calm your anger.”

At my earnest plea, Perioze’s Sister’s anger deflated somewhat and she told me to handle it myself.

She was still angry, but since I was pleading this desperately, she seemed to decide to calm her heart for now.

I let out a sigh of relief inwardly and headed toward where Maxton was.

Caroline, who spotted me, turned her head away sharply with a flushed face.

“Why don’t you understand that this was all for you?!”

Maxton shouted at Caroline. At that moment, I quietly called out to Maxton.

“Young Master Maxton.”

His gaze, which had been directed at Caroline, immediately turned to me.

I spoke to him in a firm and serious tone.

“How ugly.”

At that, Maxton’s face instantly hardened.

“It’s ugly enough that a mere heir of a marquis family shows his inferiority complex toward His Highness the Crown Prince, but your scheme to show off your own sense of superiority by deliberately dressing Caroline in the same outfit as Her Highness the Princess is even uglier.”

“What?!”

“Wearing the same custom hunting outfits as His Highness the Crown Prince and Her Highness the Princess won’t make you like them, and it’s not like you’ve surpassed His Highness the Crown Prince to become someone special to Caroline – how dare you shame Caroline in this way? Where else would you find such foolish behavior?”

“Are you done talking?! How dare a mere commoner…!”

“I’m not done yet, so shut up and listen, you bastard who’s poorer than me despite being from the same marquis rank.”

Because Maxton cut me off and brought up commoners, I got slightly heated and good words didn’t come out of my mouth either.

I got angry for a moment and used the word “bastard,” but I tried to compose myself as much as possible and speak without losing my noble elegance.

“Because of what Young Master Maxton did, Caroline has now become a laughingstock at the Hunting Festival, and she almost got scolded by our angry Sister…”

Smack.

It was instantaneous.

My vision flashed and my face turned.

Maxton had slapped my cheek.

“How dare a mere commoner lecture a noble? Just because you bought your marquis title with money, do you think you’re something special? Someone like you could never become a noble even if you died…”

“You crazy bastaaaaard!!!!!!!!!”

Right then. I heard a tremendous shout from behind like thunder, and Perioze’s Sister ran over faster than light and punched Maxton in the face with her fist for slapping my cheek.

“Agh!”

Maxton screamed and fell over after being hit by Perioze’s Sister’s cotton-ball-like punch.

“How dare you slap the cheek of my dear friend, whom I treasure too much to even lay a finger on?! Do you really want to die by my hand?!”

“Agh! Ah! It hurts! Agh!”

Perioze’s Sister, half out of her mind, began stomping on the fallen Maxton with her sharp shoe heels, and knights who rushed over to mediate the situation grabbed Sister by both arms and dragged her away.

“I won’t let you get away with this! I’ll make you pay dearly for daring to hit our child, you bastard!”

Perioze’s Sister cursed at Maxton while being dragged away by the knights.

I stared blankly at that scene and burst out laughing with my swollen face from being slapped by Maxton.

My cheek hurt enough to throb, but I felt satisfaction from Perioze’s Sister getting angry for my sake and threatening that she wouldn’t let Maxton get away with stomping on him like this.

‘I won’t let you get away with this! I’ll make you pay dearly for daring to hit our child, you bastard!’

I heard it clearly.

Our… our child.

Damn, I’m happy.

I pressed my lips together tightly while covering my struck cheek with my hand, feeling somehow joyful yet with a stinging nose at the same time.

“Eli, are you okay?”

Caroline asked with a worried face while looking at me.

Ah, now she’s genuinely worried.

Caroline before me was truly concerned about me getting hit by Maxton, her eyes glistening with tears.

“Yeah, I’m fine…”

“Elinea?”

Suddenly, at the pleasant baritone voice from behind me, my head automatically turned.

“Theor.”

As soon as I saw Theor, relief washed over me and at the same time, the sadness I had been holding back burst out.

Without realizing it, I shed tears while looking at Theor.

Theor strode toward me and carefully took hold of my wrist that was covering my cheek, gently removing my hand.

His black eyes, looking at my cheek that I could feel was quite swollen even without seeing it, sank frighteningly cold.

His gaze, which had been looking at my cheek, soon turned to the side toward Maxton, who was being helped up by knights.

“Maxton Solindev.”

Maxton’s body flinched at the full name that came from Theor’s mouth.

He had only called his name, but even I, listening from the side, felt a chill down my spine from how frightening it sounded.

That’s how coldly Theor’s voice had sunk when calling Maxton’s name.

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