I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 56

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56.

For Theor, who wouldn’t understand exactly what a favorite character meant, I explained that throughout reading the original work, my heart had only gone to Perioze’s Sister.

Without mentioning that Caroline was the female protagonist and Lloyd was the male lead, I said that all the characters I’d met here in this place had also appeared in the book, and among them I liked Perioze’s Sister the most. Theor looked at me with a subtle expression, but not knowing what that gaze meant, I just let it pass.

Then, noticing that Perioze’s Sister and Lloyd had disappeared from view, I quickly moved away from him.

Theor’s hand that had been around my waist naturally fell away.

“Th-they seem to have left now, shall we go too?”

As I fanned myself with my hand and rolled my eyes, feeling my face burning hot, Theor curved his lips into a graceful smile.

“Shall we go to the seaside path?”

“The seaside path?”

“Since we’ve come to the island anyway, it would be nice to relax in a place where we can see the ocean at a glance.”

Originally I was thinking of going tomorrow morning, but since my face is all flushed and hot, he suggests we go now.

At that, I hit Theor’s arm weakly with an even redder face.

Theor laughed pleasantly, his throat rumbling, as he took my hand.

At the somehow romantic atmosphere, I unconsciously swallowed dry saliva and fanned myself to cool my hot face.

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After each pair of partners returned from walking around the island, when we all gathered for dinner, Perioze’s Sister suggested we soak in the hot spring.

When she said it would be awkward to all go together so let’s just go as women, Caroline and I readily agreed.

Since Theor and I had already talked about how it would be nice to soak in the evening when we went to see the hot spring, I naturally smiled.

As expected, people’s thoughts are all the same.

“Since it’s dark at night, I’ll stay nearby.”

Theor said as he elegantly cut the meat on his plate.

At that, Lloyd and Greim’s gazes simultaneously focused on Theor.

At their sudden attention, Theor’s movement of cutting meat stopped.

“You’re going to stand guard near the hot spring?”

“Are you in your right mind, Theor?”

Lloyd and Greim spoke simultaneously. At that moment, Theor put down his fork and knife as quietly as possible and looked at them.

“I don’t doubt the safety of this island, but still, with the ladies enjoying a hot spring bath alone in the dark night, someone should at least stand guard.”

“No, why should you do it? You could just order the servants of this place.”

“Right, if you go, we’ll naturally have to go too, won’t we?”

Lloyd and Greim seemed to dislike the idea that if Theor willingly stood guard at night for his partner, they would also have to act the same way for their respective partners.

If they don’t like it, they could just not do it, but their pride apparently won’t allow that either.

As I cut and ate my meat, I thought how nice it would be if both of them were as considerate and kind as Theor.

Then I paused, unconsciously stopping my cutting motion.

Now that I think about it, the Theor in the original work definitely wasn’t the overly considerate type.

No, rather he was so cold that a chilly wind seemed to blow around him, and while reading the original, I thought it was because of this aspect that Caroline chose Lloyd.

Why has his personality changed?

If the original work I saw truly showed the reality that another version of me experienced, then the Theor here should definitely be the same as the Theor in the original.

The same goes for Perioze’s Sister, Caroline, Lloyd, and Greim.

I began to feel confused about how much of the original work I should trust, and which parts were truly the real future.

Going deeper, I became suspicious about whether the original work I saw was really the reality that another version of myself actually experienced.

Elinea definitely dies at the hands of an assassin sent by Perioze’s Sister shortly after the original work begins.

So there’s no way my other self could have experienced the events that happened after dying like in the original work.

Then, is the content of the original work fiction rather than fact?

But the good side and bad side are clearly divided exactly like in the original work, and the protagonists’ bonds are also accurately revealed, so I couldn’t simply call it complete fiction.

With such thoughts, my head became incredibly complicated.

“Is it not to your taste?”

Seeing me lost in thought in a daze, Theor asked me with a puzzled expression.

“Oh, no. I was just thinking about something for a moment.”

I answered with an awkward smile and started cutting my meat again.

“Oh, and you don’t need to stand guard yourself, Theor. If we’re scared being by ourselves, we can just summon Pandeum.”

“Pandeum is male.”

“Pardon?”

“He’s a man. I can’t ask him to guard the ladies while they’re enjoying a hot spring bath.”

…Are you a woman then?

I swallowed the question that rose to my throat and smiled awkwardly as I cut my meat.

Well, Theor does seem more trustworthy than Pandeum, so if I had to entrust our safety to one of them, I thought Theor would be better.

But I couldn’t let Theor just stand in the dark forest because of us when he should be enjoying his evening time, so I said it was fine.

“We’ll bond as women this evening. You should bond with the men too, Theor.”

“Forget it. Though this is a safe place, there might be someone with ill intentions while you’re naked in the bath, so we’ll camp nearby.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Lloyd said that, making Perioze’s Sister look at him with a blushing smile.

As I naturally smirked watching such Perioze’s Sister, Theor called me and told me to eat.

“Please eat, Elinea. You need a full stomach to be able to have fun.”

“Oh, yes. You should eat quickly too, Theor.”

Because Theor kept urging me to eat, I ended up speaking to Theor while chewing meat in my mouth.

Since nobles usually don’t speak with food in their mouths, I thought ‘oops’ for a moment, then decided not to worry about it since my situation itself was a case of going from commoner to noble.

The original me was also a dark mage belonging to the Magic Tower, not a noble, so I was unfamiliar with noble etiquette.

“The hot spring will be fun.”

Then, Caroline, who had been eating silently until now, quietly murmured as if talking to herself.

Her face was flushed as if she truly had anticipation for the hot spring bath.

I smiled at Caroline and said, “Right?”

When Caroline nodded and smiled brightly, Greim looked at Caroline.

Seeing his gaze stuck on Caroline and not moving away, it seemed Greim had already fallen for Caroline.

It would be nice if those two, and also Perioze’s Sister and Lloyd, would harbor romantic feelings for each other after the coming-of-age ceremony.

If that happened, Perioze’s Sister would get engaged to Lloyd without much trouble, and then the Empress would find it harder to keep Lloyd in check.

I stared intently at Lloyd and said in my head.

‘If you get engaged to Perioze’s Sister, my power will all be used for your side too. So choose our sister.’

Perhaps I was staring too intently, because suddenly Theor called me.

When I turned my gaze to him, he held out a fork with meat on it toward my mouth.

Only after instinctively taking it in my mouth did I realize that Theor had directly fed me food.

“…!”

My face instantly burned up.

“It’s a new one that hasn’t been used.”

He said he hadn’t used the fork at all and again picked up meat from his plate to offer me.

“Quickly and slowly chew thoroughly and swallow.”

I don’t know what language “quickly and slowly” is from.

But at the hand offering me meat again telling me to chew quickly, I naturally chewed the meat in my mouth rapidly.

“The Grand Duke seems quite taken with our Eli.”

When Perioze’s Sister said this to Theor with a pleased smile, Theor answered with a calm expression.

“I’m only helping because she’s not eating. She only ate about as much as bird feed for lunch too.”

Bird feed? I ate stew and bread and fruit though?

And that was the same for Perioze’s Sister and Caroline too.

I chewed the meat in my mouth quickly while thinking words I couldn’t say out loud.

Lloyd, who had been watching me, picked up a piece of meat with his fork and offered it to me, saying.

“Can I try feeding you too?”

With those words, the atmosphere instantly became tense.

I looked at Perioze’s Sister with a flustered face, and Perioze’s Sister stared at Lloyd with a hardened expression.

Lloyd shrugged his shoulders once toward Perioze’s Sister and said.

“She looks like a squirrel receiving food from humans.”

He poked his own puffed cheeks with his index finger and continued.

“If you give her food, she seems like she’d stuff it in her mouth until here puffs up.”

I chewed the meat in my mouth busily while glaring at Lloyd.

What kind of bastard does this.

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