I’m a Villain, but I Want to Live a Long Life - Chapter 90

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I quickly turned away from the window as light filled the room.

Amon was glaring at me with his red eyes gleaming with yellow pupils.

[What the hell do you think you’re doing!]

As expected, Amon’s face was full of anger.

I watched him shouting and shrugged my shoulders with a relaxed smile.

“What did I do?”

[You were just about to throw this body down there!]

“That’s why I said let’s have a talk.”

[What… what?]

“You’re the one who ignored my polite request first.”

When I grinned, Amon gaped at me in disbelief.

I spoke brightly in a leisurely voice.

“Now then, shall we have a conversation? We haven’t even been able to introduce ourselves because of someone.”

I extended one hand toward Amon.

“Nice to meet you, my name is Selene. You’re Amon, right?”

Amon, who had been looking down at my hand with a stiff expression, flinched.

[…Who told you that name?]

“What name? Oh, you mean ‘Amon’?”

I held up the pendant and said.

“Who else? Of course Adam told me. But why, Amon? It seems much cuter and easier to say than your original name.”

Amon’s face turned red and blue.

[Don’t, don’t call me that!]

I opened my eyes wide.

Amon was huffing and glaring at me fiercely. But something seemed strange.

‘…What? He seems embarrassed?’

[No!!]

Amon approached me with an even redder face than before. Then he shouted as if he was about to burst.

[Call me that one more time and you’ll be burned to nothing but that smart mouth of yours!]

It was a more intense reaction than I had imagined.

I was looking at Amon in bewilderment when I paused.

Because listening to his words suddenly brought a thought to my mind.

I approached Amon with gleaming eyes.

He backed away with wary eyes, but I didn’t care and asked.

“Amon. Is your ability by any chance an offensive type?”

The offensive ability I had been looking for!

Amon opened his mouth in bewilderment. I urged him on.

“You just said you’d burn me up. Can you lend me that ability too?”

[What?]

“Adam was able to lend me his ability! I’m asking if you can do that too.”

Amon, who had been dazed, frowned.

[…It’s possible. But why would I…]

“Yes! Jackpot!”

When I jumped up from my spot, Amon stopped talking and closed his mouth. I thrust my fist into the air and shouted.

“What a relief! Thanks to this, I won’t have to worry about the Academy entrance exam!”

Amon’s brow gradually narrowed as he looked at me with bewildered eyes.

[I never said I would lend you my ability.]

I stopped laughing and opened my eyes wide.

“Why not?”

Amon sighed briefly and raised one eyebrow.

[Because I don’t like you.]

“…And what’s the reason you don’t like me?”

Amon glanced down and looked at me with a frowning face.

[I don’t want to answer that question.]

“Ah, I see.”

I looked at him quietly, then crossed my arms and nodded.

“Fine then.”

Then I walked with big steps toward the fireplace in one corner of the room.

Though it hadn’t been used since last winter, the fireplace that Anna had maintained well was neatly stacked with dry firewood.

I picked up matches from above the fireplace and quickly struck one against the striker. A small flame sparked with a hiss.

When I threw the match into the fireplace, flames immediately blazed up.

I glanced back and stared at Amon who was frozen behind me.

“Actually, this works out better. I don’t really like people who dislike me either.”

After saying that, I smiled brightly and Amon’s mouth gradually opened.

[You, you… Don’t tell me you’re planning to burn me?]

I shrugged and waved the old book.

“Just a moment ago, Amon also said you’d burn me leaving only my mouth?”

[That, that was…!]

“It’s okay, it’s okay. We’re not going to see each other again anyway, so what’s the point of arguing over who’s right?”

I crouched down in front of the blazing fire with a relaxed expression. I could feel the warm heat on my face.

When I deliberately hummed, I heard Amon’s angry voice from behind.

[You’re stupid! Even if you do that, it won’t hurt me at all! The paper will burn and disappear, but the gem containing me will be perfectly fine…]

But his voice suddenly cut off.

I turned my head with wide eyes. Amon was covering his mouth with shocked eyes.

“…Gem?”

My narrowed gaze slowly moved to the old book in my hand.

Letters engraved in gold on soft red leather.

Looking closely, underneath it was a small jewel about half the size of a pinky nail.

[Cancel, cancel! I take back what I said about a gem!!]

But a relaxed smile had already spread across my lips.

“So the old book wasn’t the sacred object?”

I muttered in an interested voice. Then I gently pushed out the red gem embedded in the book with my fingertip.

Soon with a pop, the small gem settled into my palm.

“Amon was right. Burning it wouldn’t have worked.”

The sacred object wasn’t the old book but this red gem that had been embedded in it.

I pulled out the pendant from inside my clothes just in case.

Looking closely, there were small spaces on either side of the emerald crystal in the center.

When I fitted Amon’s sacred object into it, it clicked and the gem fit perfectly.

When I turned around, Amon was staring at me with a devastated expression.

I muttered leisurely.

“Adam told me. That I’m the only person who can see and talk to him.”

[…]

“He also said I’m the only person he can lend his abilities to.”

Amon stepped back hesitantly.

“But you said you and Adam are like brothers, right?”

[This, this… demonic woman…]

“Then you should be able to lend me your abilities too. Right?”

Amon clamped his mouth shut.

I smiled and waved the pendant that now had Amon’s gem embedded in it too.

“I need your ability, Amon. I’m taking the Academy entrance exam soon, and having an offensive ability would help me pass easily.”

[Never, never! I will never lend you my ability! You wicked woman!]

“Amon. Do you know what true evil is?”

I lifted one corner of my mouth in a smirk and let my eyes gleam sharply.

Amon flinched and his face hardened. His expression had already turned ashen.

“Go to the employee dormitory right now and get a hammer. Then with that hammer, smash!”

When I poked at the red gem embedded in the pendant with my index finger, Amon staggered in place.

I stood up from my seat. Having been in front of the fire for so long, my cheeks had flushed red with heat.

I muttered with a refreshed expression.

“Now our conversation should become much easier.”

A few weeks later.

On a day exactly one month before the Rision Academy entrance exam.

The Finiterus Salon, said to be the largest in the Empire, was bustling with dozens of nobles gathered together.

“Oh my, Miss Anita!”

At someone’s delighted voice, a girl with orange hair flowing down her back turned her head.

A smile immediately appeared on the girl’s face as she confirmed who it was.

“Miss Verain, Miss Janet! How wonderful to meet you here?”

The three of them laughed softly as they approached each other.

Then, suddenly feeling something was missing, they all fell silent at the same time.

Anita was the first to speak.

“Have you heard any news about Miss Meg?”

Verain and Janet shook their heads.

“We haven’t heard anything since she left for the monastery. So I was wondering if we should send her a letter…”

“What for?”

Verain closed her mouth at Anita’s nonchalant question.

“Pardon?”

“Miss Verain. It would be better to keep our distance from such people now. With only a month left until Academy admission, when we should be busy building connections with wonderful and remarkable people, why would we associate with someone like that…? You understand what I mean, don’t you?”

At Anita’s leisurely tone, Verain found herself nodding without thinking.

Janet, who had been quietly watching them from the side, spoke up.

“Well… since we’re talking about connections.”

Both Anita and Verain’s gazes turned to Janet simultaneously.

“Mother told me to try to become friends with Miss Seleneae at this party for prospective students. She said House Tigris has tremendous influence in the Empire these days…”

“You mean Seleneae Tigris?”

Anita asked back with a strangely irritated expression. Janet shrank her shoulders slightly and nodded.

“Janet, Verain. What’s gotten into both of you?”

Anita swept her hair back behind her as if exasperated and continued speaking.

“Since when have we been in such a position in high society?”

Janet and Verain fell silent with blank expressions and looked at each other.

Anita sighed and continued.

“If anything, Seleneae Tigris should be the one approaching us first. This is a gathering of Academy prospective students. It’s different from the outside world.”

Verain nodded at those words.

At least in this gathering of Academy prospective students, ability was far more important than family background.

“Ah, that would make sense, wouldn’t it? Since Lady Seleneae is unmanifested…”

“Exactly. Even if Miss Seleneae wanted to become friends with us and approached us, we’d have to think about it. We all have fairly high-level abilities, don’t we?”

Anita laughed softly.

Janet and Verain also showed awkward smiles.

“I wonder how that young lady even received her entrance exam notification? If she fails the test, there would be no greater humiliation. I wonder if the family’s honor would plummet again…”

“Who says that? That I’m unmanifested?”

Anita stopped mid-sentence and whipped her head around.

Janet and Verain had already covered their mouths.

Seleneae Tigris was standing right in front of them.

“…Miss Seleneae?”

“Who said that I have no abilities?”

It was the moment when Anita, who had been frozen like ice, quickly shook her head.

Seleneae slammed down the glass she was holding onto the table with a loud bang!

Anita’s face turned pale.

Amon floated around them, shouting as if he found it amusing.

[Very well done. That’s exactly what I wanted!]

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