The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 131

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131.

This would become very rare video footage in the future.

Video from a monster’s first-person perspective.

– Knock knock, Iris. Could you open this barrier for me?

The perspective was from when the monster ‘Markus’ first attacked the Original Male Lead’s party.

‘Back then, it targeted non-knights first.’

Iris’s face, who was protecting them, filled the center of the screen.

That expression brightening with such joy.

The smile showing she was so happy to meet them she could die was all over the video.

– It’s an Oracle!

Since monsters have good hearing, even whispered voices could be heard clearly.

The video continued mercilessly.

‘Though not merciless to me, of course.’

To Iris.

– Belliel said you’d help us, right? You’re still on our side?

– What? Ah-.

– You didn’t abandon us because you want to become the Second Prince’s consort, did you? That would hurt my feelings, Iris.

– Of course not…!

Pained groans could be heard from the Second Prince’s party.

“Ha.”

“How could he say such things…”

They would know too.

‘That the Second Prince and Iris aren’t madly in love.’

But since they were knights, they actively stepped forward when their lord’s fiancée was being slandered.

‘All of that became futile.’

So they could only send murderous glares.

– Then open this barrier for me, Iris.

And at the monster’s request…

Iris swept away the red line drawn on the ground.

‘As expected, she opened the barrier like that.’

Since it was an S-rank Controller’s touch, even a high-grade barrier had no choice but to open.

The hostages watching this, namely the reporters who had followed here, went into an uproar.

“How could she do such a thing!”

“After calling us here-!”

Since they were already prideful people, their anger exploded at being used.

Among them, one person was even pointing accusingly at Iris.

‘That person was Viscount Pelton, wasn’t it?’

He was the human who acted most arrogantly when first warned.

‘But he is a famous journalist nonetheless.’

If Madame Rochette was an artifact critic, this one dealt with political situations.

“Ha! The Tillard Family begged so desperately for me to accompany them! To offer me as a sacrifice?”

“Viscount Pelton, there’s a misunderstanding-!”

“Iris Tillard, I will make your crimes known throughout this entire Kingdom! No!”

Viscount Pelton was almost breathless.

“The Lands of the Strait and the entire Continent! Must know what you’ve done!”

Iris made an expression of disbelief.

She probably didn’t expect to be caught like this because of the people she brought.

‘Or maybe she expected the family’s money would be effective.’

Iris frantically looked around.

“No, everyone saw it, how much…! How hard I worked to rescue the people trapped here!”

This can’t go on any longer.

“Iris. Stop making excuses.”

Since I finished with Caspian, let’s wrap this up here while I’m at it.

“You brought these people here to offer them to the heretics.”

Iris was good shackles to bind with Kail as a pair.

But since she did such trashy things, she has to pay the price.

“If that bastard had regained his original power, you knew full well how difficult this subjugation would have become.”

Lillian had no interest in the humans who followed Iris.

Safety insensitivity is their own disease, not some chronic illness of Lillian’s.

But casually using people’s lives is different.

“You’ll go to prison when you return home, Iris. By my command.”

“Me, me in prison. What are you talking about…”

Iris stammered.

“Prison is, prison is where bad people go!”

“…? Offering people as sacrifices to monsters isn’t a bad thing?”

Is there a problem with my common sense?

Kail, who had only been watching, intervened.

“Saint, this is overstepping your authority. Wasn’t Ramio Tillard also imprisoned following proper procedures!”

“The situation then and now are a bit different, Your Highness.”

Ramio was captured by the Imperial Knights because of the monster summoning artifact.

“But Iris conspired with monsters for the heretics, so in such cases…”

Let me humbly place one hand over my heart.

“I can arrest Iris representing the Central Temple.”

And the reporters were frantically writing down everything Lillian said.

They were annoying for not listening to others, but they were also ghostly quick at times like this.

The Holy Knights grabbed both of Iris’s arms.

“Sister. Don’t do this. We’re both women of the Tillard Family! If you put me in prison, the family’s honor will be shaken…!”

Iris looked directly at me.

It was a gaze that loved only herself with surprising purity.

Only then did I feel I understood the other person better.

“You’re really consistent.”

“What, what-.”

“You really think you’ve done absolutely nothing wrong.”

Self-preservation comes first, and she thinks nothing she does becomes a problem.

‘Because she lived her whole life receiving only love as an S-rank Controller.’

That’s why she treats people around her like tools and thinks it’s okay to abandon them.

It’s okay to humiliate her cousin Kuern in front of everyone when things don’t go her way.

It’s okay even when her real brother Ramio was seriously injured.

‘Iris, please…! It hurts so much, please remove this…!’

“…When you abandoned me, I also pleaded so much.”

“What? When, when did I abandon you, sister?”

Lillian just stared at the dazed Iris.

Memories of being covered in blood in the collapsing palace came back.

‘Please come back! Is no one, no one there? Please help me-.’

…Sigh. Enough, enough.

If I go that far now I’ll seem like a crazy person, so let me just talk about what happened this time.

“You cut my hair, locked me underground.”

“…!”

“After starving me for days and nights, you brought me out and told me to design artifacts.”

“That’s, because sister was good at it- the hair thing is some misunderstanding-.”

“Even then, I did call you family.”

“Sister! Sister…!”

“So I’ll make sure you get your meals.”

Since family is family, as she insists.

Lillian didn’t bother telling the wailing Iris what kind of punishment awaited her.

She could find out about that after returning to the Empire.

‘Wow, I really want to go home now.’

Lillian looked at the man waiting for her.

“Lilly, come here.”

He extended his hand.

They’d held hands countless times before, but suddenly she felt embarrassed.

This is strange….

Her face was getting hot and she couldn’t lift her head.

But when she took a step toward the Villain and the Shadows, she unconsciously hesitated.

“…? Ren.”

Lillian looked back and forth between the Villain and behind him.

“Weren’t you standing back there just a moment ago?”

“Was my face so unpleasant to look at from the front?”

The Villain smiled brightly.

Lillian wisely gave an immediate answer.

“No. Absolutely not.”

“I’m not angry.”

“I suddenly felt like speaking formally.”

Ever since she confessed to inducing the ‘divine punishment,’ she knew that when this person smiled, it wasn’t a real smile.

‘But I definitely smelled the Snowy Forest earlier.’

Is there another person here who has that phytoncide scent…?

Was I mistaken?

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