I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 49

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49.

Greim was flustered by the tears that came for reasons I couldn’t understand.

‘Are you alright? I heard roughly from Greim, but I didn’t call because they said you weren’t waking up.’

‘Yes, I’m fine. More than that, can you come here with Perioze’s sister?’

When I spoke in my mind while wiping away tears with the back of my hand, Theor said he would come right away without any hesitation.

‘Thank you, Theor.’

After finishing the conversation with him, when I looked at Greim, he held out a handkerchief embroidered with the Imperial Shrine’s emblem in gold thread.

“Why are you crying all of a sudden?”

He looked completely puzzled, so I couldn’t help but let out a small laugh, which made Greim look even more flustered.

“It’s just, hearing Theor’s voice, whether I should call it relief or sorrow. I found myself tearing up without knowing why.”

I fiddled with the handkerchief Greim offered, puzzled by my own emotions that even I didn’t understand.

Greim stared at me like that, then let out a barely audible short sigh and said.

“Here, this room is the safest room in the Empire. Relief isn’t something you should feel from that guy’s voice, but an emotion you should feel in my room.”

“…Ah, well.”

I thought it was odd to dictate where I should and shouldn’t feel relief, but knowing that Greim’s room was indeed safer than any other space even within the Imperial Shrine, I nodded my head.

“…I’ll bring you something to drink.”

As if he hadn’t expected me to nod so obediently, Greim turned around in obvious confusion and left.

I watched Greim with a puzzled expression, then turned my head to look at Shin and Su, who were grooming their feathers with their beaks, and asked.

“Do you happen to know why your temporary guardian is acting like that?”

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“My goodness! Are you okay?!”

“It’s definitely that woman’s doing.”

“You’ve been through something terrible.”

When I explained to the five people gathered in Greim’s room what had happened on the way to meet His Majesty the Emperor, they all reacted with such anger.

Caroline, who asked if I was okay, looked me over from head to toe and asked if I was hurt anywhere, while Perioze’s sister, who accurately predicted it was the Empress’s doing, raised one eyebrow while thinking about something.

Lloyd, standing beside her and muttering, thought about something with a serious expression.

“Still, I survived because the divine beasts appeared at the right time to help me. This one is Shin, and this one is Su.”

“…Shin, Su, you said?”

Perioze’s sister pointed at Shin and Su respectively with her index finger and asked.

“Yes. I named them myself.”

When I said I had chosen names that were easy to call and recognize, Lloyd openly laughed despite being the Crown Prince, while Perioze’s sister let out a small laugh as if finding it cute.

And Theor nodded with a very calm expression as if to say ‘is that so.’

“Don’t laugh, Your Highness.”

So Lloyd was the only one I could glare at.

“What am I supposed to do about your amusing naming sense being funny?”

“Do you think you could give better names to a pair of divine beasts?”

“I could if it were me.”

“Oh, would you like to make a bet?”

At the mention of a bet, one of Lloyd’s eyebrows rose.

“Fine. What will you wager?”

“Your Highness should go first, since I’ve already done the naming and you’re the one challenging.”

“…What do you want?”

“Hmm.”

While thinking about what would be good, I moved my gaze to look at Perioze’s sister.

I was pondering what conditions might benefit Perioze’s sister when I remembered the week-long trip to Omberon Island we’d be taking in a few days.

“If I win, please become Perioze’s sister’s guard for the entire week. You must guard her without leaving her side for even a moment.”

At my words, Perioze’s sister, Caroline, Theor, and Greim looked at me with surprised eyes.

Having the Crown Prince who would become the next Emperor of an empire serve as a princess’s guard was crazy talk, but Lloyd himself seemed completely unconcerned, his eyes clouded with competitive spirit.

“Fine, if I lose, I’ll guard Princess Perioze for a week.”

He seemed to think he would definitely win.

I nodded and asked.

“Then what would Your Highness like to receive if you win the bet?”

“Become my person.”

Instantly, the eyes of Theor, Perioze’s sister, Greim, and Caroline grew twice as large as before.

It was inevitable since the meaning could vary so much depending on interpretation.

“Your person, Your Highness?”

“Yes, my person. As you know, until I become Emperor… no, perhaps even after I become Emperor, I’ll face crises where I might die at the Empress’s hands.”

So if he won the bet, he was saying I should become his reliable left leg and stand on his side.

But I was already on Lloyd’s side anyway, even without making such a bet.

However, considering the possibility that I might lose the bet, I nodded firmly.

“Very well. If Your Highness wins, my family and I will move for Your Highness for life.”

“Good. Then when is the deadline for this bet?”

“…Does there need to be a deadline too?”

I was puzzled, thinking I had just casually come up with names, so why was he asking for a deadline too.

“Of course there needs to be a deadline. These are names for living beings that they’ll use for life. So they shouldn’t be chosen lightly.”

“…”

I was momentarily flustered, wondering if he was planning to spread out naming books and match them one by one.

Anyway, since these were names for divine beasts, there couldn’t possibly be much better names than Shin and Su.

Though they might seem simple and roughly chosen, there couldn’t be better names to represent a pair of divine beasts.

So it would be my victory.

“Fine. But I can’t give you too much time. We have to go to Omberon Island in a week. So please do the naming within that time and gather the priests and clerics of the Imperial Shrine to vote.”

When I continued saying that of course we’d have to hide who came up with which names, Lloyd snorted saying there was no need to state the obvious.

“Well, let’s decide on that then. About telling His Majesty the Emperor about the oracle.”

I said I needed to completely revise my plan of first revealing the oracle’s contents to the Emperor, then later having Greim vaguely convey the oracle’s contents when he had an audience with the Emperor, making the Empress directly search for the ‘owner of the oracle.’

I continued that since the Empress had already tried to kill me just because the Emperor had summoned me separately, she would definitely try to eliminate me first upon hearing the vague content that the owner of the oracle was somewhere.

Since I had already become someone who displeased the Empress the moment the Emperor summoned me, I said it would be better to openly declare my power to the world and face head-on the underhanded fights the Empress would bring.

“Don’t worry, Eli. I’ll protect you.”

At my words, Perioze’s sister said she would stake the honor of House McKenzie to deal with the Empress’s faction that would harm me.

“I will also protect Elinea.”

Theor also made a firm and steadfast vow.

“I’ll help as much as I can too, Eli.”

“If you need anything, please tell me. I’ll help with anything in the name of the next High Priest.”

With Caroline and Greim also saying they would help me, I felt like I had gained reliable allies and my nose tingled with emotion.

In the original work, Elinea Brencia was surely just a trivial extra who died at the hands of an assassin sent by Perioze’s sister while trying to protect Caroline, but many things had changed since I possessed this body.

If I continued to maintain bonds with these people like this, it would certainly be easier to protect Lloyd and the Empire from the schemes of the Empress and the black magicians.

Of course, stopping the Demon God they would resurrect was the ultimate goal, but since I had already twisted the original story, I planned to see my favorite Perioze’s sister and the original male lead Lloyd reach the goal of marriage.

So not even one of these six bonds should be broken.

I smiled brightly at the five main characters whose eyes sparkled as they said they would protect me from the Empress.

“Thank you, everyone. I’ll also do my best to protect all of you.”

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Lloyd and Theor decided to accompany me on the way to the audience with the Emperor.

Lloyd said he was going that way anyway so he’d give me a ride, and Theor said he’d come along to prepare for any possible second attack.

Perioze’s sister and Caroline also wanted to follow, but Lloyd said that if something dangerous happened, he wouldn’t have the luxury of protecting two more people, so they should return to their respective mansions.

Perioze’s sister said she could protect her own life, but at Lloyd’s words of ‘I’m worried, so no,’ she backed down and returned to the Marquis’ mansion.

Come to think of it, Lloyd seems to handle Perioze’s sister quite well…

I was lost in thought, resting my chin on the window sill and tapping my cheek with my middle finger, when I instinctively glanced toward Lloyd.

Because of that, I immediately made eye contact with Lloyd, who had been glaring at me with his arms crossed.

Flinch.

When I instinctively flinched my shoulders, Lloyd moved his sculpted lips gracefully.

“This isn’t naming, just casually asking. How about Snowflake and Snowstorm?”

Without any time to think about anything, my lips moved.

“That’s fishy.”

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