I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 36

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36.

 

Actually, there was a reason why I was emphasizing this so strongly.

 

Because in the original story, the reason Greim gave up on Caroline was that he held the position of High Priest.

 

“Of course.”

 

“That’s right! It’s something you should naturally do! You need to date, as a human being!”

 

At my excited voice, Greim finally stopped walking and spoke as if he found it absurd.

 

“Lady Brensia seems very interested in my love life.”

 

“Of course I am! You think priests can date and marry, yet you haven’t gotten married.”

 

Without realizing it, I spoke while recalling the original story’s content, and Greim’s eyes widened slightly.

 

“Pardon?”

 

“Oh, no… I heard that High Priests don’t marry, so I thought perhaps you also don’t…”

 

At my words, Greim let out a short sigh and said.

 

“As you said, I ‘don’t’ do it, not that I ‘can’t.'”

 

“Ah…”

 

Come to think of it, the original story did mention that he doesn’t do it rather than can’t.

 

It was just that Greim himself said he was a High Priest and had to listen to God’s voice for the Empire, so he couldn’t form a family.

 

What? Anyway, then there’s no problem at all if Caroline and Greim become lovers, right?

 

Marriage is something for the distant future, and right now the urgent matter is connecting these two.

 

Thinking that I could now connect the two without any hesitation, I glanced at Caroline.

 

Actually, after thinking of Greim as Caroline’s partner, I had been slightly bothered by the fact that since he was a High Priest, no matter how much they loved each other, they wouldn’t be able to marry.

 

It was even more so because the original story was rather indifferent about marriage.

 

Well, I could just take my time and effort to seduce Greim into deciding to marry Caroline.

 

We hadn’t even had our coming-of-age ceremony yet, so we had plenty of time.

 

As I followed Greim with Caroline to the room where we’d stay during the prayer meeting, I thought I should make sure to keep the two together as much as possible throughout this week at the Imperial Shrine.

 

“This is where you’ll be staying during the prayer meeting.”

 

The room Greim opened for us was cleaner and more spacious than I had expected.

 

Four beds were lined up side by side from the window side, with sofas and tables filling the center.

 

It felt somewhat like a luxurious dormitory, probably because of those four beds lined up against the walls.

 

“By any chance, will anyone else be using this room besides us?”

 

While I was surveying and admiring the room with my eyes, Caroline seemed puzzled that there were four beds instead of two.

 

At Caroline’s question, Greim showed a somewhat apologetic expression and bowed his head.

 

“The Imperial Shrine houses priests and various people staying for prayers, so we don’t have many spare rooms. Many nobles are attending this prayer meeting as well, so even though you are my invited guests, getting a 4-person room was the best I could do.”

 

“Oh, it’s fine. I wasn’t complaining, just curious…”

 

At Greim’s apology, Caroline waved her hands frantically, looking troubled.

 

“Who are the two people we’ll be staying with?”

 

Anyway, although the beds were paired together, the sofa in the middle created a boundary, so it didn’t seem like it would be too uncomfortable.

 

If I had to find something inconvenient, it would be that there was nothing between the beds placed side by side except for small nightstands.

 

Well, even that seemed fine since it would have felt more awkward if just the two of us had shared a room, so this worked out reasonably well.

 

But my comfortable feelings quickly disappeared when I heard the names of the two countesses who would be staying with us from Greim’s mouth.

 

“Countess Caroline’s younger daughter and Marquis Embrosa’s eldest daughter.”

 

Countess Caroline’s younger daughter and Marquis Embrosa’s eldest daughter.

 

It was Florence and Leilani.

 

Why did it have to be those two people…

 

Florence Caroline was the younger daughter of a prestigious family among the count families, and she found me, who had bought a marquis title with money, extremely distasteful.

 

And in the original story, she had a one-sided love for Greim and attended prayer meetings regularly like eating meals, so the more contact Greim had with Caroline, the more she would hate Caroline and make her life miserable.

 

So basically, she’s a mini version of my sister.

 

But unlike Perioze’s Sister, the difference with Florence was that she had feelings of inferiority and envy toward Caroline being the Empire’s only light attribute user, so her methods of bullying were rather foolish.

 

Unlike Perioze’s Sister who was boldly and openly nasty, she was a nasty villain who pretended to be kind and caring in front of people while using her followers to bully others behind their backs.

 

And Marquis Embrosa’s eldest daughter Leilani was Florence’s right hand, who stuck by the nasty villain Florence, took on all the bad deeds, and provided methods for wrongdoing.

 

For reasons that weren’t specifically mentioned, Leilani was quite popular among the countesses in social circles, and thanks to that popularity, it was easy for her to recruit countesses to help with Florence’s schemes.

 

Since we’d be sharing a room with those two, I naturally sighed at the thought that this week wouldn’t be peaceful.

 

“I apologize again for not being able to arrange separate 2-person rooms for you.”

 

At the sound of my sigh, Greim bowed once more.

 

Caroline smiled and waved her hand, saying it was really fine.

 

At that, Greim looked at me, but I didn’t particularly say it was okay or make any gesture to accept his apology.

 

After all, that apology was meant for Caroline, who was a noble countess, not for me with commoner blood flowing through my veins.

 

This part also came from the story of Greim Gardline that was covered as a special side story in the original work, where he perceived commoners as a completely different class from nobles.

 

Of course, his surrounding environment had made him perceive it that way.

 

Since he had been hearing God’s voice from childhood and established himself as the youngest priest, he considered commoners who had no attribute abilities at all to be a different species from them.

 

So even if I had bought a marquis title with money, there was no way he would treat me, who had no attributes, as the same kind of noble.

 

He just had the disposition not to discriminate openly, but he surely wasn’t thinking of apologizing to me right now.

 

He was probably just looking at me because I was next to Caroline.

 

With that thought, I didn’t think I needed to say I was okay too just because our eyes met.

 

No, I stopped because I felt it would make me look more ridiculous.

 

Greim greeted us to rest comfortably and then left the room.

 

“Eli, would you like to use the bed by the window?”

 

Caroline asked, pointing to the bed.

 

“Huh? Is that okay?”

 

“Yeah, of course. I actually don’t like the window side because it gets cold at dawn.”

 

She says that, but I know Caroline likes the window side too.

 

She’s just saying that because she has the frustrating personality of yielding everything she can reasonably tolerate.

 

When I read the original story, Caroline’s tendency to yield even the smallest things without concern was frustrating, but now that I was the person involved, her concessions only felt welcome.

 

Honestly, the Imperial Shrine felt quite stuffy, so when I saw the beds, I had been thinking I wanted to use the one by the window.

 

So Caroline yielding for my sake first without me having to ask separately was a situation that allowed me to feel less sorry and more grateful in many ways.

 

“And if Lady Florence and Lady Leilani bully you, I’ll protect you.”

 

Caroline said while looking at the beds across from us.

 

The bullying by Florence and Leilani was what led to my original body’s owner becoming close with Caroline.

 

Those two had ignored and bullied Elinea for being a commoner on the day she became a noble and attended her first ball.

 

When Caroline stepped in to stop it, Elinea became a supporter who would do anything for Caroline.

 

Of course, I hadn’t done that.

 

Thinking about it now, I could understand why Caroline might have briefly acted in a way that made me think she could become a wicked villainess.

 

Elinea, who had previously shown infinite affection toward her as if Caroline was all she had, suddenly attached herself to the Princess who was bullying me, ignoring and distancing herself from Caroline, so naturally she would have felt wronged and angry.

 

Moreover, she was receiving the hatred of those two people in my place while protecting me from Florence and Leilani.

 

Of course, those aspects actually worked in a positive direction for Caroline, the original story’s female lead, but anyway, she must have felt disappointed in me.

 

‘…I’m starting to feel sorry for no reason.’

 

I really was too harsh to the original story’s female lead.

 

No matter how much the novel was full of frustrating moments, and no matter how much I favored the refreshing villainess over the female lead’s frustrating and exasperating behavior, Caroline was definitely the female protagonist at the center of the original story.

 

So I shouldn’t have been so cold and indifferent, and I was reflecting on my past behavior when.

 

“Oh my, are those the people sharing our room?”

 

Just then, Florence, who had suddenly entered through the open door, frowned at us.

 

Leilani, her shadow, said to Florence.

 

“Should I go to the priest and ask him to change our room?”

 

“Forget it, what if Lord Greim thinks I’m a difficult person?”

 

Ah, come to think of it, since Greim and Caroline don’t have any connection yet, Florence only dislikes me, the commoner-born one.

 

Well, well.

 

I’m planning to keep Caroline and Greim together a lot during the prayer meeting, so I’ll probably see fire shooting from that mouth.

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