I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 60

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60.

“Among the servants besides the Chamberlain and Head Maid, there are listening rats and tattling rats, you know? Those people are…”

“I’ll handle it.”

At my words, Perioze’s Sister crossed her arms and spoke.

“That’s my specialty, so leave it to me, Your Highness.”

“You will…?”

Come to think of it, our sister was ‘a master at dismissing displeasing servants through legitimate methods.’

Though it was overshadowed by rumors of her being a villainess, our sister had never once dismissed servants through unreasonable tyranny.

They were all either stealing, speaking ill of their master, or making mistakes in their assigned duties.

She created justification for dismissal before throwing them out.

That’s right.

Perioze’s Sister had expertise in creating justification to dismiss people, ensuring there were no repercussions whatsoever.

You might wonder why she needed to create justification when she could just throw them out, but reputation was important to nobles too.

Moreover, for royalty, reputation occupied a more important position than anyone else’s.

Royal family members with bad reputations could be pointed at several times more than ordinary nobles, and by having that justification, Perioze’s Sister had no other evil deeds attached to her name until the end of the original story, except for the evil acts she would commit against Caroline.

Simply put, except for her excessive jealousy toward Caroline, her reputation wasn’t bad.

If such a Perioze’s Sister stepped forward to handle the Empress’s lackeys planted in the Imperial Palace, she would surely handle things cleanly without any noise.

No matter how I think about it, I find Lloyd disagreeable, but why on earth does our sister like Lloyd?

“But to have you stay in the Imperial Palace, there needs to be justification.”

At that moment, Lloyd’s words made the original story content flash through my mind.

I take back what I said about Lloyd being disagreeable. He’s quick on the uptake.

“There is justification! We can say Perioze’s Sister is being targeted by assassins and needs to stay under the palace’s protection for the time being!”

I clapped my hands as I spoke.

This was the method Lloyd used to protect Caroline in the original story. In the original, Caroline was actually put in danger because of the Empress who had already made the Imperial Palace people her allies, but now the situation was different, so it would surely be useful.

Since there was a perception that the Imperial Palace was the safest place in this Empire, it meant it was perfectly suitable for a Princess threatened by mysterious villains to hide.

At my words, Lloyd and Perioze’s Sister exclaimed “Oh!” with delight, and Theor nodded once, saying it would also be easy to plant the Princess’s knights in the Imperial Palace beforehand.

I nodded at that and said it would work out then.

Thus, although we missed the Dark Sorcerer on Omberon Island right before our eyes, we were able to spend the remaining time pleasantly while planning full preparations for what would happen next.

And after finishing our trip to Omberon Island and returning, Lloyd, Theor, and Perioze’s Sister spent busy days handling the work that had been postponed for a week.

Of course, they also naturally began carrying out the plans made on Omberon Island.

They spread rumors that mysterious assassins had attacked Perioze’s Sister’s house, putting her in danger, and Lloyd had an audience with the Emperor, requesting that Princess Meckeneji be allowed to stay safely in the Imperial Palace.

All these matters would reach the Empress’s ears, but since she was an Empress who hadn’t extended her hand to other nobles until the coming-of-age ceremony, she would probably just watch for now.

Being a snake-like, cunning and crafty woman, she wouldn’t deliberately create unnecessary trouble.

I, for my part, reorganized the major events that occurred in the original story and discussed with Theor in my mind how we should resolve them.

Being able to talk like this when we couldn’t meet was quite helpful.

Above all, it was even more beneficial because the Empress couldn’t even dream of such conversations between Theor and me.

I thought everything was going well like that.

Completely unaware that on the day of the Foundation Festival, when the fact that I was the owner of the oracle was revealed and the Dark Sorcerer’s plan was thwarted because of the oracle, the Empress, the Imperial Court, and the Dark Sorcerer had begun targeting me.

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[Wake up, human!]

“Hoot! Hoot!”

[Wake up, it’s dangerous!]

“Hoo-hoo-hoo! Hoooo!”

My eyes snapped open at the suddenly heard voices of the divine beasts.

At that moment, an assassin dressed in black from head to toe was plunging a dagger down at me.

As soon as I quickly rolled my body to the side, the dagger stuck with a thud into the spot where I had been lying.

“Tch.”

When the situation where the assassin could have killed me in one strike failed, he immediately turned and fled.

“Hoot! Hoo-hoo!”

[We saved you! What on earth is going on?!]

“Hoooo, hoooo.”

[We felt excessive killing intent, so we came to check, only to find you fast asleep without even the power to protect yourself.]

Sinsu said they came straight to me because of the excessive killing intent they felt from my direction, and that they woke me up the moment they saw the assassin who had entered through the window.

Since white owls had suddenly appeared and were hooting loudly, wanting to deal with me quickly, he had drawn his dagger and stabbed.

I was momentarily bewildered by the situation where I almost got struck by lightning while sleeping, trying to calm my startled heart.

Of course, even if my heart had been pierced by the dagger, I wouldn’t have died immediately, so I wasn’t too frightened.

Since I always wrapped myself in defensive magic using dark magic before sleeping, a small dagger couldn’t kill me.

The problem was that an assassin had been assigned to me.

That clearly meant the Empress, the Imperial Court, and the Dark Sorcerer had classified me as a human who must die.

It must be because the Emperor said I was the owner of the oracle during the Foundation Festival.

After that fact was announced, I knew the Empress and Dark Sorcerer would reach out to me.

The Imperial Court too, having failed to make me, the owner of the oracle, belong to the Imperial Court, would think it better to side with the Empress and eliminate me.

So I had already expected them to target me.

The problem was that I thought this would surely start after the coming-of-age ceremony ended, but they were already trying to kill me.

Since all events occurred when the coming-of-age ceremony began and each protagonist finally started to shine as members of the Empire, I felt it was too early now.

[Haven’t you come to your senses yet?]

“Hoot, hoot.”

[Shouldn’t you quickly make a plan? He ran away!]

“Hoooo! Hoooo!”

Perhaps frustrated with me being lost in thought in a dazed state, Sinsu chattered noisily.

I waved my hands at those guys, telling them to be quiet since they were being bothersome.

Then the petty creatures got sulky, saying I called them noisy after they saved me, and went off to Greim.

Though I probably wouldn’t have died even without their help, they had deliberately come to this potentially dangerous place for me, so I felt I had been too harsh.

These were the creatures who had appeared to save me even before I could call Pandeum when I almost fell off the cliff, so I should be grateful in any case.

I thought I should pack plenty of food that Sinsu liked and visit Greim’s room later.

“But to think they’re already making moves…”

I turned my head to look at the window through which the assassin had fled.

The window must have been locked, but how did he open it and enter without breaking the window?

That meant surely some servant in this house had been bribed too.

It definitely wasn’t Betty. Who had done the window inspection today?

I recalled the servants who had tidied this room today.

Their face was hazy.

Whether dark magic had been used, I couldn’t clearly remember the face of the servant who had smiled while saying the door security was finished when I was sitting on the bed.

Since rumors that I was investigating this situation shouldn’t spread, I couldn’t wake the sleeping Betty to ask for help. To them, I should be trembling in fear after being attacked by an assassin last night.

“Hmm…”

I looked at the window and pondered how to handle this situation.

If it were just one assassination attempt, whether it succeeded or failed, they might think just giving a warning would suffice, but if they were trying to kill me again despite the failure, it meant they were seriously determined to eliminate me, so I had to prepare on my side too.

If the Empress considered me an enemy, I could get entangled in troublesome affairs even before the coming-of-age ceremony.

“For now, let’s just quietly pass off today’s incident as being frightened.”

After muttering to myself, I cleared my throat briefly, then took a deep breath.

And covering my face with both hands, I screamed with all my might.

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

Until the sleeping servants woke up startled and burst through my door asking what was wrong, I trembled my whole body as much as possible and screamed while pointing outside the window with a face full of terror.

“In! Intruder! An intruder…!”

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