I’m a Villain, but I Want to Live a Long Life - Chapter 92

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“You know Lady Anita well too, don’t you? I’m talking about Lady Meg Cline.”

At my words, Anita’s complexion turned coldly pale.

The investigation into Nicolas’s embezzlement case was still ongoing.

That meant the bribes Meg had received were also being newly revealed whenever one might forget about them.

Given this situation, it seemed Anita wanted to hide the very fact that she had been close friends with Meg.

“I don’t really know such a person.”

As expected, Anita crossed her arms while openly showing her discomfort. I widened my eyes.

“Oh my, is that so? I thought it might be the influence of your friend Lady Meg since you ladies were speaking ill of me.”

Anita flinched in surprise and looked around. However, she soon frowned deeply.

“When did we ever speak ill of you…”

“You three. Weren’t you just discussing me until a moment ago?”

When I tilted my head, Anita stared at me intently. After a long silence, she let out a small sigh as if annoyed.

“…Well, yes. But it was just talk among ourselves. I guess our voices were a bit too loud. We didn’t mean for you to hear.”

It was a more composed reaction than I expected. As I blinked blankly, Anita lifted her chin slightly and said.

“I don’t know if you’re aware, but it’s rare for someone who hasn’t manifested to receive an admission notice from Rishion, so we were a bit surprised.”

One corner of Anita’s mouth curled up smugly as she said the word ‘unmanifested.’

For someone caught gossiping, she was quite bold and shameless. Beside me, Amon muttered coldly.

[An excessively arrogant insect. I should have smashed her head earlier after all.]

I quickly approached Anita, worried that Amon might do something strange again. Then I smiled and said.

“Lady Anita. I think you’re misunderstanding something.”

Anita chuckled and tilted her head sideways, looking directly at me.

“Misunderstanding?”

I smiled brightly.

“I manifested my abilities quite some time ago.”

Instantly, all the commotion in the salon came to a complete halt. Anita also froze in place, startled.

With a calm expression, I recited exactly what I had heard her say earlier.

“What should we do? It seems there won’t be any ‘failing the exam for being unmanifested’ or ‘bringing shame to the family honor.'”

Anita’s complexion grew worse and worse.

Janet and Verain, who were behind her, also looked at each other awkwardly.

I watched their expressions and smiled sweetly before saying.

“So please apologize.”

“…What did you say?”

Anita asked back with a stiff expression.

“I said apologize. You insulted me with inaccurate information, didn’t you?”

Anita’s face grew darker and darker. I sighed inwardly and thought.

‘Just do it quickly. Let me hear an apology and wrap this up!’

Even while I was doing this, Amon was still standing firmly behind me.

He really was a persistent human… no, angel.

‘I just want to get an apology and end this quickly…’

I didn’t want to cause any more commotion or draw attention. But as always, things wouldn’t resolve so easily.

Instead of apologizing, Anita, who had been keeping her mouth shut, responded as if she was dumbfounded.

“As I told you earlier. It was just talk among ourselves.”

I looked at her seriously and barely swallowed a sigh.

“Then you should have made sure I couldn’t hear it.”

And I continued coldly.

“You didn’t even follow basic etiquette, yet you’re quite brazen. Is this what they call turning the tables?”

Anita’s hand gripping her skirt tensed slightly. I stared at her like that, then shrugged as if doing her a favor.

“…Fine. Then come to me when you feel like apologizing. I’ll wait until then.”

“What?”

“You’ll feel sorry toward me before the party ends, won’t you? No, you should.”

I turned around, leaving behind Anita with her bewildered expression. Amon asked in a low voice.

[What? Is this the end?]

I sighed deeply inwardly and thought.

‘I can’t do any more than this. I might really be called a personality disorder case.’

[But that brown insect won’t budge with just those weak words. She’s not the type to admit her mistakes.]

‘…Amon. Please, let’s try something called compromise. Do you think I like Anita? I’m worried I might be buried in high society before I can properly use your abilities…’

“What ability is that?”

Just then. A sharp voice flew from behind.

When I stopped walking, Anita was approaching me with determined steps, still with her arms crossed.

“If you want to get an apology, explain properly first.”

It was a voice full of mockery, as if she was challenging me.

“Manifestation generally occurs between the ages of ten and fifteen. There has never been a single person in the Empire who manifested abilities after the age of seventeen.”

“…”

“But you’re saying you did that? And relatively recently too.”

I tilted my head sideways with a frown.

“So what?”

“Then you should properly tell us what ability you manifested. It would be even better if you showed us.”

As I opened my mouth, Anita stared directly at me with cold, gleaming eyes.

“You know what the purpose of this gathering is, don’t you?”

The real purpose of this gathering?

Of course I knew. Did she think I attended without knowing that?

The entrance exam for 【Rishion Academy】 had always been conducted in teams.

That meant the success or failure of admission depended on who you teamed up with.

So this gathering held before the exam was actually nothing more than a preliminary investigation venue for prospective students to scout teammates and seek alliances.

“If you’ve manifested abilities as you claim, there’s no reason to hide them, is there? You need to show your abilities to team up with impressive people.”

Anita continued speaking with her head tilted sideways.

“So show us. That ability you claim to have manifested.”

My expression gradually hardened.

Her expression and tone, desperate to bring me down somehow…

Reminded me exactly of the Department Manager from my previous life who used to torment me relentlessly.

‘Really, does she think I can’t answer?’

Finally, I slowly opened my mouth.

“Fine. Since you’re so curious, I’ll tell you.”

The salon was enveloped in silence.

“I manifested a protective-type ability. I can create tangible and intangible barriers and absorb most offensive-type abilities.”

Anita’s eyes widened. I could hear Verain’s surprised gasp from behind.

“…My goodness. It’s exactly the same as Lady Anita’s ability?”

Janet glanced at me and shook her head.

“Well, not exactly the same. Lady Anita can only defend against physical attacks so far…”

There were many people with similar abilities in this world.

However, the level of abilities varied drastically depending on the amount of mana one possessed and their capabilities.

It seemed Anita’s ability was at a level inferior to mine.

Sure enough, Anita asked incredulously.

“You can handle barriers? And absorb all types of offensive abilities?”

I smiled sweetly at Anita.

“Of course. Otherwise, how could I have survived among six assassins?”

Anita flinched. I widened my eyes.

“Oh my. Did you not know this either? That Meg Cline, who was your friend, sent assassins after me. Six of them, no less.”

“…”

“If I hadn’t manifested abilities, I would have been helplessly buried in the ground by now, wouldn’t I?”

As I chuckled, Anita closed her mouth. Then she muttered lowly with a displeased expression.

“…It’s hard to believe. That you can handle such a level of protective barrier ability so soon after manifesting.”

“I’ll gratefully accept the compliment.”

Anita gripped her skirt tightly. I watched her with a leisurely expression.

‘This is more satisfying than I thought.’

It was the moment I was chuckling inwardly like that.

“Wh, what?!”

“Kyaaah—!”

Suddenly, screams came from the left side.

When I turned my head, I could see something sparkling in the distance.

It didn’t take long to realize that it was an unfamiliar object rapidly approaching me.

“…?!”

My eyes widened and when the swoosh— sound of cutting through air came close to my nose.

[Child!]

Adam instantly blocked in front of me and deployed a barrier.

Right after that.

A blue light flashed before my eyes.

Whatever hit the barrier bounced far away with a sharp sound and stuck deep into the floor.

It was a knife used for cutting steak, with a well-sharpened blade that gleamed blue-black despite being tableware.

I turned my stiffened body and stared in the direction the knife had come from.

Someone was slowly walking out from among the pale-faced prospective students.

“This is really fascinating. It seems it wasn’t a lie after all.”

“Hanod?”

Anita muttered with a surprised face. I froze for a moment.

‘Hanod?’

Come to think of it….

Curly honey-colored blonde hair and amethyst-like purple eyes.

The boy across from me confirmed my expression and burst into laughter.

“Oh my, sorry Lady. I couldn’t contain my curiosity after hearing that.”

The boy who had approached right in front of me reached his hand toward the knife that had fallen to the floor.

Then the knife floated up and spun around above the boy’s hand.

“I wondered if the Lady might be lying. But I was a bit surprised that it was true.”

Hanod Riubon.

That boy, who was the same age as me, was Hanod Riubon, the second prince of the Kingdom of Sorad who was scheduled to enter Rishion Academy this year.

I barely managed to open my lips.

“What… are you doing right now?”

Hanod approached with a grin.

“Ah. Please don’t be too angry, Lady. I really had no intention of hurting you. If the Lady hadn’t blocked it, I would have controlled it myself.”

My expression naturally turned fierce.

“Controlled?! What you just did…!”

Recalling the sharp knife that had bounced right in front of my nose made my mind go blank. However, Hanod smiled leisurely.

“But if I hadn’t done this, you wouldn’t have shown your ability, would you?”

Is this guy completely insane?

I gritted my teeth while swallowing the rising indignation.

“…Someone could have gotten hurt.”

“It’s fine. We can just call a doctor.”

“What did you say?”

The curses I had been swallowing were about to spill out of my mouth.

Grrrrrr—!

Just then, I suddenly felt a massive vibration from behind. I turned my head in shock.

“Wh, what, why is there suddenly wind?”

“It, it’s not an earthquake, is it?”

Not just me, but everyone looked around with surprised faces. However, the source of this vibration and wind was visible only to my eyes.

[How dare this insolent….]

Amon was making an expression more terrifying than any demon from hell.

Glaring at Hanod as if he would kill him.

[This human dares to do this to someone he doesn’t even know who she is!!]

As his roar echoed throughout the entire building, something unbelievable happened.

Dozens of forks, knives, and tableware on the tables all rose into the air at once.

And then with a swoosh— sound, they simultaneously aimed in Hanod’s direction.

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