I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 4

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4.

After that, I had a light conversation with Perioze’s Sister and we parted ways.

My request to become Perioze’s Sister’s right-hand person was easily brushed off, but it was certain that today’s events had brought our relationship one step closer.

Anyway, the beginning of my plan to become close with Perioze’s Sister and turn her path of despair into a path of flowers was quite successful.

On our way to part, I followed Perioze’s Sister and distributed drinks and cakes to the maid who had been guarding the carriage with the coachman.

And I also put lattes and cakes that Perioze’s Sister could drink at home into the carriage.

Seeing Perioze’s Sister’s eyes widen at my preparedness, I silently cheered “Lucky!”

Thanks to that, I made a good impression on Perioze’s Sister’s maid, and I even received a farewell greeting from Perioze’s Sister who was excited about being able to eat this delicious coffee and cake again at home.

I stood at the cafe entrance waving my hand with a pleased smile until the moment Perioze’s Sister’s carriage disappeared.

After that, I returned home, took out my communication orb, and contacted the newspaper reporter I had bribed in advance.

Communication orbs required specific gemstones when used, making them expensive, so everyone mainly used letters, but as a nouveau riche, there was no way I’d be stingy with money.

“Did you take the photos?”

[Yes, I took several shots that came out very well.]

“Then please make sure it’s featured prominently in tomorrow morning’s newspaper. I’ll send the remaining payment after checking the newspaper tomorrow.”

[Yes, of course. Then, let me confirm once more. The front page title is ‘Princess Perioze Embraces the Mistakes of Eli, Daughter of Nouveau Riche Oswald!’ Is that correct?]

“No. The correct title is ‘Princess Perioze Shows Mercy to Eli, Daughter of Nouveau Riche Oswald.'”

Since the front page content was about how I acted rudely toward the Princess at the tea party, got slapped by the Princess and left, then committed another outrageous act by making the Princess come to the cafe directly again under the pretense of apologizing, but the kind and saint-like Princess forgave me, the title should include “mercy.”

[Ah, yes. Confirmed. Then we’ll go with this.]

“Yes, please take care of it.”

After ending the communication orb call, I briefly considered contacting Perioze’s Sister but decided against it.

People should be good at playing hard to get, so if I didn’t contact her anymore today, Perioze’s Sister would contact me first after seeing the prominently featured article in tomorrow’s newspaper.

* * *

Indeed, patience is very important for humans.

Because I held back from contacting her yesterday, I received a call from Perioze’s Sister from the morning.

At her words that she wanted to meet, I immediately made an appointment with Perioze’s Sister without looking back.

“Why exactly does the Countess like me so much?”

How lucky to be able to meet Sister from the morning.

As I was grinning like an idiot while going to meet Perioze’s Sister who had invited me to the Marquis’ Mansion, Sister asked with an expression of incomprehension.

Of course, all her attention was focused on the iced latte and salt bread I had deliberately bought and brought, but that look was cute too, so it didn’t particularly matter.

In the first place, the reason Perioze’s Sister called me was probably because of the article prominently featured on page 1 of the newspaper: [Princess Perioze Shows Mercy to Eli, Daughter of Nouveau Riche Oswald!]

“It’s good, does there need to be a reason? Then, Sister, why do you like His Highness the Crown Prince?”

“What?”

“If I asked that, I think you’d have an answer right away?”

Because Perioze’s Sister became serious at my question, I changed the question with quick situational awareness.

It would be presumptuous for a mere baroness to ask a Princess directly, and it’s proper noble conversation etiquette to ask as indirectly as possible.

At my question, Perioze’s Sister’s eyebrows, which seemed like they would rise to the ends of the sky, gradually came down and settled back in place.

This Sister even has pretty eyebrows.

“Anyway, liking someone so strangely and blindly is more unpleasant than pleasant.”

“I’ll try to hide this blind affection as much as possible so Sister won’t feel uncomfortable.”

When I countered without backing down, Perioze’s Sister let out a long sigh, telling me to stop.

“Drink it quickly, it won’t taste good if the ice melts.”

At my words, she glanced at me once then took a sip of the iced latte.

“Countess, you read the article, didn’t you?”

Perioze’s Sister finally brought up the real reason she had called me to the Marquis’ Mansion.

I nodded and answered nonchalantly that I had.

Perioze’s Sister stared at me intently and asked if I was okay.

“About what?”

When I asked with a puzzled expression since there was nothing at all to not be okay about, Perioze’s Sister briefly fidgeted with the straw of her latte cup with her pretty hands.

This Sister even has such pretty hands.

“I never showed mercy to the Countess, yet such an article came out.”

It was a bit indifferent, but there was some apology buried within it.

Somehow I felt like I could understand Perioze’s Sister’s heart just by looking at her eyes.

“Who says that? That it wasn’t mercy? Sister definitely showed me mercy! Look, even now you’re dealing with such a presumptuous nouveau riche like this!”

“You do realize that this nouveau riche is from the family with the most influence in the Empire’s port business, right?”

“That’s right, the daughter of that most influential nouveau riche is on Sister’s side.”

“…Countess, you’re really strange. You know that?”

“I may seem strange, but my feelings toward Sister are truthful, faithful, and pure.”

At my words, Perioze’s Sister let out a small laugh.

Ah, our Sister is so pretty even when she laughs.

With that thought, I unconsciously muttered, “Ah, you laughed.”

At that, Perioze’s Sister immediately put away her smile and looked at me with her characteristic haughty and cold expression.

Actually, I like this face the most.

“Anyway, it’s fine as long as you didn’t have any strange misunderstandings after seeing the article.”

“Strange misunderstandings?”

“Yes. Like thinking I made them publish this, or something.”

But I did make them publish it?

“Since I didn’t do it, any petty misunderstandings like that…”

“My goodness, Sister. Did you call me because you were worried I might misunderstand?”

“Since I didn’t do it.”

“Of course I know, I know it well, I’d stake my life that Sister is innocent.”

“Why would you stake your life on my innocence? …Anyway, but why do you trust me so much? How can you be so confident that I really didn’t do it?”

Because I did it?

“I can’t explain it, but I believe you. I would believe Sister even if you killed someone and said you didn’t.”

Though you do have a record of using someone to kill me.

“Countess, you’re really strange.”

“But please don’t dislike me.”

“What? There’s no way I would dislike the Countess…”

Perioze’s Sister, who had been speaking seriously at my words, soon bit her lip with an “oops” expression.

Having accurately caught that she was about to say there was no way she would dislike me, I grinned and said to Perioze’s Sister.

“Don’t forget that no matter what happens, I’m on Sister’s side.”

* * *

When I returned home, Gemma came into my room carrying a bunch of invitations.

Gemma was Eli’s nanny, who had cared for her like a daughter since she lost her mother at a young age.

“What are all these?”

“They’re invitations sent by the young ladies of various families.”

“Oh, really?”

When I opened them one by one with an indifferent expression, they were all invitations to tea parties.

“Uh oh…”

When I showed a slightly flustered expression at the sudden invitation terror, Gemma smiled warmly and said to me.

“As expected, everyone recognizes Miss’s loveliness.”

Gemma was delighted, saying she knew everyone would like me, even tearing up with joy.

No, isn’t this emotional tempo too erratic?

As I wiped away tears with my hand and smiled awkwardly at Gemma who was happy saying I would be loved wherever I went, I cut my hand on the sharp part of an invitation.

“Ah.”

“Oh my, goodness! Are you alright?”

“Ah, I’m fine…”

“Dabi! Dabi!”

Gemma grabbed my hand that was cut by the paper and urgently shouted toward the door.

A girl around my age with freckles, presumably Dabi, rushed in urgently, saw my hand that Gemma was holding with a bit of blood on it, was startled, and shouted toward the outside.

“Relly! Medicine box! Quickly! Miss is hurt!”

I blinked in confusion for a moment, bewildered by the two of them making such a fuss over just a small cut on my finger from paper.

Actually, though it wasn’t covered in the original story, I wondered if Elinea had been more of a villainess to her own household servants than the villainess Perioze. I carefully asked Gemma.

“I’m fine though. Have I ever beaten you or anything when I got hurt?”

When I asked while being careful not to make them uncomfortable, both Gemma and Dabi simultaneously looked surprised and stiffened at my words.

‘Oh, really…?’

Just as I was wondering if I had possessed a body with a bad personality that treated servants harshly and how I should improve these relationships, suddenly laughter burst out from Gemma and Dabi’s mouths.

“As expected, Miss is so quirky.”

“Miss beating us? Haha, I’d love to see you angry just once.”

From their words, I felt relieved thinking that the original Elinea wasn’t someone with bad character who abused her power.

“That’s not true, I can get angry too. I’m really scary when I’m mad, you know?”

I said playfully, recalling the infamy of how I had made the Empire tremble with dark magic in my original world.

Then, Gemma and Dabi, plus Relly who had rushed over with a medicine box, all looked at me with loving expressions.

Gemma opened the medicine box and applied medicine to my injured finger, praising me saying she would never meet someone as lovely as Miss again in her lifetime.

At that moment, I had the idle thought that the original Elinea had lived well and surely went to heaven.

“That’s probably why you received so many invitations like that, isn’t it?”

Dabi also chimed in with a smile from the side.

She definitely praised me, saying that the nobles who got to know me wouldn’t be able to escape from my loveliness.

While it’s natural for servants to flatter their master, and it wasn’t bad that Gemma and Dabi only said nice things to me, I felt somewhat embarrassed by all this praise.

“You’re all lovely too.”

So I said it meaning that since we’re being lovely, let’s all be lovely together, and joyful smiles spread across Gemma, Dabi, and Relly’s faces.

“Anyway, replying to all those invitations one by one would take all night and still not be enough.”

I muttered while looking at the mountain of invitations piled up on the table.

They probably wanted to find me to learn the truth behind the newspaper article.

That made sense, since the content portrayed Perioze’s Sister as such a good person that even Perioze’s Sister herself thought people would misunderstand that she had published the article, so the parties involved would have more than a few questions for me.

I decided to attend all of them and talk about how well Perioze’s Sister treats me.

For that purpose, I thought I should create a few good deeds of Perioze’s Sister and picked up the communication orb.

Knock knock.

“Miss Elinea, a letter has arrived from Lady Caroline.”

Beki, who serves as my personal attendant, handed me a letter.

It had a green postal mark indicating urgent correspondence, so she brought it quickly.

Instead of contacting Perioze’s Sister, I opened the letter.

For urgent correspondence, the content was just asking me to come to the Marquis’ Mansion quickly.

I wondered what had happened, as it was simple and concise content without any warm feelings like asking how I was doing.

Somehow it felt terribly inconsistent with Caroline’s publicly known image.

“I need to go to the Marquis’ house. Prepare the carriage, Beki.”

“Yes, Miss.”

But there must be a clear reason for calling me with such urgent correspondence, so I couldn’t pretend not to know.

After all, this girl is the female protagonist of the original story and the villain inside me who always makes our Perioze’s Sister into a villainess.

First, I’ll meet her and hear what she has to say, and take this opportunity to reform the female protagonist’s mindset too.

Since she has that strange personality that always makes our sister foam at the mouth, I need to talk endlessly about sister’s beauty, coolness, and superiority so she won’t be bothersome to our sister.

For that purpose, I put aside creating good deeds of Perioze’s Sister for now and headed to the Marquis’ Mansion.

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