Mad Rosetta - Chapter 41
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Mad Rosetta
Episode 41
The Villainess, the Rose, and the Ghost (7)
“Oh, I didn’t mention this. There was never any gift sent to Mother from the beginning, so don’t worry.”
“….”
“I just told a little lie so you could struggle in anguish for once too.”
As I smiled softly, humiliation quickly filled Vicky’s eyes that had been filled with fear.
She must be angry.
From the day of the Spring Stage until today. She must have been anxious for days, unable to find out anything.
Vicky would think that all the painful days she felt during that time were because of my lies.
“…How can you make such false accusations without evidence?”
So that’s why she’s glaring at me with such fierce eyes and talking back.
Vicky sneered as if it were ridiculous.
It seemed she thought that as long as they couldn’t find the powder on her, no matter what strange substance came from the necklace, she could just deny it.
“Evidence, evidence sounds good…. Then I should call people right now and order them to search your room thoroughly. For instance, if we look under your pillowcase, wouldn’t something come out?”
Sorry, but my informant is a ghost.
Vicky, who reflexively glanced toward the pillow, couldn’t even ask how I knew.
“If evidence is found in your room, you’ll be fired from your servant position today and probably beaten and kicked out.”
“Ah, Lady….”
“No household anywhere would take in a servant who tried to harm their master.”
A cat cornered with nowhere to escape only hisses as a final struggle.
Perhaps foreseeing her future, Vicky’s expression, which had been crumbling in frustration, had somehow turned vicious.
It was a look of resentment toward me.
“…Since it’s just the two of us anyway, let’s be honest.”
Yes, hate and despise me more.
And give me what I want.
“Why did you do this, Vicky?”
“….”
“Who made you do such a thing?”
“…No one.”
“…I see. Then you’ll take all the blame by yourself.”
“Ha! I really told you no one made me do it! I did it because I hate you! To make you suffer!”
“…Why? What wrong did I do to you?”
At that moment, Vicky suddenly got up from the bed and glared at me fiercely.
Oh, I was startled for a moment thinking she was going to hit me.
She seemed consumed by anger, unable to see anything, breathing roughly as she snapped.
“Why? You’re asking why now? Ahaha! Stupid Lady. All the servants of the Duke’s house probably hate you! Always yelling and getting irritated! No matter how much you pretend to have changed, who would like you, Lady?”
“…Don’t drag other people into what you alone think.”
“No? It’s true. How many servants do you think truly serve you because they like you? There’s a limit to delusion.”
“…Vicky.”
“Ah, right. Being so clueless and stupid, you must have lived being ignored by lowly people like us. Do you know what everyone calls you? Benitra’s scoundrel! Villainess!”
“….”
“That’s why even the Duke locked up his own daughter and pretended not to know, isn’t it?”
Vicky continued her harsh criticism as if she wanted to hurt me.
‘How well she babbles on.’
On the other hand, I was less emotionally affected than I expected, which was rather bewildering.
Was it thanks to taking the last antidote on the day I finished the banquet and returned to the townhouse?
Or maybe I had become numb from imagining this situation too much in my head.
‘I thought I might be able to get her to testify that Odette made her do it…. Should I be satisfied with this much?’
She was so consumed with evil that even her eyes turned red.
Since the crude criticism was boring, I cut off the noisy voice with a low sigh.
Seeing that I appeared unaffected, Vicky seemed to choke up and opened her mouth again.
“Since you’re so confident, my heart feels much more at ease. But stop there.”
“Ha! You really…!”
But I was just faster.
“I’ll let you say the rest to your heart’s content in front of Father.”
Vicky’s eyes, which had been twitching as she tried to grasp my intention, soon widened greatly.
Her pupils were shaking intensely, incomparably more than before.
Even though I heard footsteps, I deliberately didn’t turn around and stared intently at Vicky’s face, crushed by fear.
“Unless you’re mad….”
“Ah, ah….”
“How dare you spout such nonsense to my daughter.”
In her pupils, a man with the same purple eyes as mine was reflected brightly.
* * *
What exactly was this scene he was witnessing?
Rosetta’s father.
Aremis Soivan looked at Vicky’s face, pale as if she couldn’t believe it, and the back of his daughter’s head, who still hadn’t turned around.
– “There’s something I really want to show Father.”
It was right after Aremis had gladly served tea to his daughter who came straight to his study as soon as she arrived at the manor.
Rosetta said that with a serious expression.
Usually, what one wants to show someone would be a gift or something to be proud of.
But somehow his daughter looked reluctant.
So he simply went to the servant’s room on the third floor of Rose Manor at the time she mentioned.
“If things had gone your way, I would have been covered in rashes and couldn’t even attend the banquet. It was quite a good plan.”
Not knowing he would hear such an absurd conversation.
At first, he had difficulty understanding this situation.
A servant plotting to disgrace their master was beyond his common sense.
“Ah, right. Being so clueless and stupid, you must have lived being ignored by lowly people like us.”
But before long, Aremis could understand the situation his daughter was in.
The servant’s attitude of screaming in horror when told to try on the necklace.
Eventually hearing the shameless words confessing her crimes in anger….
He had no choice but to accept it, even if he didn’t want to.
‘That thing has gone mad.’
Aremis thought so.
How dare a mere servant go beyond the level of advice that could be given to a member of the Duke’s family, and to Rosetta whom he cherished terribly.
No, could that even be called advice?
To despise the master she serves, harbor insolent thoughts, and speak them outright.
It was absolutely impossible.
– “Really, Soivan…. Please put our Coco down. Children at this age need to learn to walk, so holding her all the time is actually bad for her.”
– “She won’t come down because she likes her father’s embrace. What can I do?”
– “Stop lying and put the child down, Soivan.”
His wife, who used to give advice saying the child was struggling, was still vivid to Aremis.
Rosetta, who was she?
She was a child he raised without her feet touching the ground when she was young, fearing that her delicate skin might get scratched.
When she ran to him with her cotton candy-like fluffy crimson hair flying and hugged him, he felt like he owned the world.
Most of all, until Rosetta gradually showed sensitive temperament after losing her mother Tabena Ariella, the servants in Aremis’s memory certainly always cherished her.
“That’s why even the Duke locked up his own daughter and pretended not to know, isn’t it?”
So when he heard those words, it was natural that he felt despair as if his heart had sunk to his feet.
The time when Rosetta, who couldn’t forgive herself for treating others poorly, finally cried and begged for house arrest swept through his mind.
Who would want to confine a child they love dearly?
If he left things as they were, it seemed like she would truly be ruined, so he had reluctantly accepted the request.
However, he had no choice but to acknowledge that to others, it appeared as if he had abandoned or neglected Rosetta.
‘Now, all this time I’ve endured such humiliation…’
He intensely felt the expression of blood draining from his entire body.
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