I’m a Villain, but I Want to Live a Long Life - Chapter 192

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“Kieeeeek—!!”

The magical beast that had been charging with its mouth wide open let out a piercing scream.

Immediately, with a bang, black flesh splattered in all directions.

“What a cute thing! It’s a big catch!”

Someone jumped up from their spot and shouted.

The person with a bright smile was none other than Sadina, the vice-chancellor of Rishion.

“Husband. Did you see that? Did you see it! This is the power of my new invention?!”

At her unusually excited appearance, Duke Haren shook his head disapprovingly.

Next to him, a well-trained black horse slowly came to a stop.

“The barracks area has been cleared. As for the training ground area….”

Rubel looked around the empty open field and chuckled while shaking his head.

“Well done, Rubel. My knees were getting weak because of Sadina.”

When Duke Haren spoke while clicking his tongue, Sadina giggled and patted his shoulder.

“Why would your knees get weak? Because I might accidentally blow up our allies too?”

At those words, the magical scholars standing behind them flinched.

Each of them held offensive magical tools made by Sadina in their hands.

“Don’t worry. I’m accurate when it comes to aiming! Don’t you know that when I blew up that noble estate before, I burned exactly up to the front yard?”

Duke Haren shuddered and stepped back.

“…Sadina. You seem to keep forgetting, so let me say this once. The noble house downfall incident you caused when you were fourteen was a crime. You barely escaped execution and got exile instead.”

Sadina frowned.

“Well, should I have just left alone a guy who wasn’t even fit to be a lord, sucking the blood out of his people? He was caught doing human trafficking with children too.”

“…I didn’t know there were such circumstances.”

“Well, of course I also didn’t like how he looked. But the main reason was ultimately based on justice….”

Leaving Sadina chattering away, Duke Haren shook his head.

It wasn’t enough that she had come out of the Academy after a long time, but she had also gotten to test her newly invented magical tools to her heart’s content, so it was understandable that she was excited.

“So then I….”

Leaving Sadina giving a speech to the magical corps behind him, the Duke gazed at Rubel.

His grandson’s golden eyes revealed under the sunlight were sparkling very clearly.

“So now, only the dragon remains in this area?”

Rubel nodded without answering.

His gaze reached the distant horizon, to a pit that was visibly enormous even from afar.

“Since it’s already made a nest, it’s probably hiding its form with a barrier. It will appear when we get close.”

“What do you plan to do?”

Rubel quietly stared at the dragon’s nest for a moment.

Despite the considerable distance, the nest’s size was tremendously large.

“I’d like to test it.”

A few weeks ago.

When he set foot on the lands of Seleneae and Sorad.

He had controlled all the magical beasts in the vicinity, including the large magical beast, the ogre.

Even so, he felt a sensation as if magical power continued to ripple deep within his body.

“…Alright.”

Duke Haren agreed.

He had been watching Rubel for several years already.

No one knew better than him how amazing the ability his only grandson possessed was.

However, even so, he couldn’t help but worry.

“But Rubel. You know as well, but the opponent is a dragon. Of course, there was a legend that the founding emperor tamed a dragon. It’s also true that you inherited that ability. But….”

“I’ll be fine, Grandfather.”

Rubel smiled as he looked at Duke Haren.

Duke Haren, who had hesitated, reluctantly gave a gentle smile.

“Yes. You’ll be fine.”

If any problems arose, he and his army would risk their lives to protect this child.

The Duke gently placed a hand on Rubel’s shoulder.

“Let’s finish this quickly and go.”

“….”

“To the Imperial Palace.”

It was time to execute the plan.

“Wh-what did you just say?”

Baron Grimaldi asked back with a trembling voice.

Rosette answered coldly without blinking an eye.

“I told you to leave this estate.”

“Rosette Grimaldi—!!”

Iliana Grimaldi shot up from her seat with wide eyes.

“How dare you say such things to us! How did we raise you!!”

“You raised me quite magnificently. Even a demon wouldn’t have been more vicious.”

“Wh-what?!”

“You starved me for days and locked me in solitary confinement, saying my ability was useless. You never once bought me clothes I wanted to wear.”

Iliana Grimaldi staggered from shock.

“Wh-what are you talking about? Even before you enrolled, we personally went to the dressmaker….”

“That wasn’t for me, was it? It was for my ability.”

Duchess Grimaldi closed her mouth.

Baron Grimaldi, who had been maintaining an ominous silence, lowered his voice.

“…Sit down while I’m asking nicely. Rosette Grimaldi.”

However, Rosette didn’t budge from her spot.

Baron Grimaldi’s face turned red and blue.

“Can’t you hear me telling you to sit—!”

“No, I can’t sit.”

“Wh-what?!”

“Am I a dog that sits when you tell me to sit, and barks when you tell me to bark? After hurting me so much when I was young, what makes you so confident, Father?”

Rosette’s voice was very clear.

Iliana Grimaldi collapsed to the floor with a thud.

“Please, I’m begging you to come to your senses! How can you not see reality even after making the estate like this?”

Rosette gestured toward the crumbling interior of the estate.

Outside the dining hall, several children could be seen watching them.

They were children that the Grimaldi couple had adopted over the past few weeks, months, or years.

All of them were equally gaunt with hollow eyes.

Rosette gritted her teeth.

“The estate is about to be taken away because of your gambling debts.”

“….”

“The streets are already full of magical beasts because of the rifts. Are you confident about living outside?”

“….”

“What are you planning to do? Are you going to adopt commoner children who have manifested abilities this time to use as guards?”

Baron Grimaldi’s body trembled violently.

In extreme anger, he just gaped while staring at his daughter.

Then, something dropped in front of him with a thud.

“It’s money.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Iliana Grimaldi shot up from her seat.

And quickly snatched the pouch that had fallen to the floor.

Her eyes widened as she checked the contents.

“H-honey…! It’s really money!!”

Inside were dozens of gold coins and quite a few expensive jewels.

Rosette spoke coldly.

“I’ve prepared a house in the Southern Lis Region. That’s enough money for you two to live there for the rest of your lives and still have some left over. Of course, you’ll need to spend frugally, but since it’s a rural area, it won’t cost as much as the capital.”

Baron Grimaldi looked up at Rosette with vacant eyes.

Rosette continued speaking with a hardened expression.

“…I should have done this a long time ago.”

It was money she had started saving as soon as she graduated from the Academy.

It wouldn’t have been possible without Estelin and Selene’s help.

“Please leave this house.”

Her parents never changed in the end.

If only they had shown her the possibility that they could change, even just once.

Then she might have somehow tried to make it work.

“…Let’s never see each other’s faces again.”

Being connected by blood meant something like that, but the two of them ultimately betrayed her trust.

“Well, if you’re going to do this much for us…”

Iliana Grimaldi muttered. Rosette barely managed to swallow a sigh.

Her parents were now completely buried in high society as well.

‘Though it doesn’t matter now anyway since everything’s in chaos because of the Blight…’

Still, spending their remaining years in the Lis Region would be more comfortable for those two than continuing to abuse children here.

“Ahem. I understand your thoughtful feelings toward us. If that’s truly your wish, then so be it.”

“Don’t thank me, thank Selene.”

Rosette replied coldly to Baron Grimaldi’s words.

The couple looked at each other.

They stared at her for a moment with expressions that seemed to say they didn’t understand what Rosette was talking about.

Then they fled from the dining hall as if escaping.

“I want to hold a trial. Please help me, Cardinal.”

Adopting dozens of children and abusing them, then abandoning them again when they didn’t manifest the desired abilities.

Or sometimes selling them to slave traders of unknown identity.

Rosette had countless pieces of evidence of the crimes her parents had committed.

“…Lady Rosette. With this evidence, the Grimaldi couple could receive a death sentence.”

“I don’t care what happens to those two! I just want to stop those horrible acts…!”

“Don’t do that, Rosette.”

Rosette clenched her fists tightly.

Selene’s face, gently covering her hands, was still vivid in her mind.

“It’s not to defend those two. It’s for your sake.”

“…What are you talking about.”

“If a trial is held based on your report, and those two are really executed.”

“…”

“Can you really endure that?”

When she heard those words. It felt like something she had been barely holding onto inside snapped.

“Don’t make that choice for your own sake. You don’t need to become cold-hearted while hurting yourself. If your parents commit horrible acts again… then I’ll do it instead.”

“…”

“You’ve done enough. You’ve worked hard, Rosette.”

Her tightly closed lips trembled.

Rosette deliberately looked upward to keep from crying.

She could hear the couple leaving the manor from outside the door.

Finally, it was truly over.

Rosette let out a long breath, then opened the dining hall door and went outside.

She saw the brothers staring at her with bewildered faces.

Rosette looked at each of their faces in turn.

“Levan, Aison, Meriyang, Pesher… and Martina.”

These were brothers around her age whom she had seen since childhood.

“I’m going to need you all to help me a bit.”

The five brothers who had been called looked at each other.

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