The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 53
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53.
Chapter 15. Why It’s Annoying Even When Things Go Well
Karkin’s face turned pale.
His friends chattered in confusion.
“Younger brother?”
“Karkin had siblings?”
“This is the first I’m hearing of this.”
Lillian swept her hair to the side and smiled lightly.
Thank you, Gerard.
An ally turned enemy is truly frightening, isn’t it.
I didn’t know the Archive would reveal the Pavil Family’s dirty secrets to this extent.
“That younger brother. He’s the real child of your father and his late former wife, right? Your mother drove him out but kept him alive.”
“Stop it!”
“That child has a higher grade than you, doesn’t he? He’s receiving the same education you got.”
“Shut your mouth!”
“Why do you think he’s receiving such good education at the heir level?”
The surroundings became truly quiet.
Perniers wasn’t based on primogeniture.
In an Empire where ability grades mattered, succession could change at any time.
Lillian decided to slowly drive reality home.
“But you thought you’d become a Count just because you’re a Pavil, right? No. You were certain of the Count position because you were going to marry me.”
Because you were scheduled to marry Tillard’s Daughter.
This was another side of the world she hadn’t known until learning about her ‘previous life.’
“But I’m not going to marry you. So now you’ll have to work very hard, won’t you?”
“Lillian!”
Karkin urgently reached out his hand.
He was so angry he could have hit her without thinking about others watching.
But the moment he raised his hand, he gasped seeing his jacket sleeve smoothly disappear.
“Ahhh!? This is-!”
Slap, slap! Karkin’s face turned. Not once, but twice.
Lillian’s hand was much sharper than expected.
“How dare you lay a hand on someone? Want to get your face plastered everywhere for assault charges?”
“Ugh.”
“Your face will be plastered for other reasons too. I hope you can maintain your Count position until then.”
“You, you Lillian! Where are you going!”
Karkin cried out in humiliation.
“If not me, who do you think you’ll marry!”
“Hmm? Well.”
Lillian gestured with her chin toward a man entering through the main gate and smiled.
“For now, there’s my new fiancé. Say hello.”
“Huh?”
“You two know each other, right?”
Karkin was dumbfounded. That man is the Crown Prince!
Why is he in the Capital…?
And suddenly ‘Shadows’ rushed into Maison Merose.
Everyone knew they were under the Crown Prince’s command.
Karkin’s eyes trembled.
The Crown Prince. He always smiles, but there’s an unknowable chill about him.
Why is his unit here?
‘No wait. What can he do to me?’
Karkin forced a sneer.
He had the Second Empress as his backing.
The gambling den was a bit concerning, but so what?
But when Evren actually stood beside Lillian and smiled with his eyes.
“…!”
A chill arose as if all the blood was draining from his body.
“Ah, ‘this’ was your fiancé.”
“Yes, Your Highness. But you don’t need to greet him.”
“True.”
Evren stepped forward.
“Anyway, they’ll all have their lives ruined over the illegal monster summoning artifact case.”
“What…!?”
Monster summoning? What is he talking about? He gambled but never did such things.
Karkin looked to the side in surprise.
In the distance, Ramio didn’t even resist and quietly extended his wrists.
In an instant, the inside of Maison Merose became chaos.
Naturally, those who associated with this guy had to be searched together!
“…Damn it!”
Karkin used his ability to push away the Shadow trying to grab him.
“Kugh!”
“Get away!”
After spraying invisible poison, Karkin hurriedly fled from this commotion with help from Pavil Family knights.
“Huff, gasp-”
“Young Count, please endure a little longer!”
He had to escape from this place first.
If he could just return to the main residence, he could resist even if the Crown Prince tried to drag him out!
‘If I can just use the secret passage here!’
Karkin forcefully opened the door hidden by wall decorations.
But as soon as he opened it, pitch-black darkness was waiting before his eyes.
“Ahhhhh!”
He used his ability wildly due to panic.
But each time he used it, it was all swallowed up.
He couldn’t see anything!
“Uh, how, what’s happening-! Ugh!”
A fierce force struck down on his head.
Above the fallen Karkin’s head, a conversation between Lillian and the Crown Prince took place.
“I told you, didn’t I? He’ll definitely escape this way.”
“You know this quite well? Are you still interested?”
“Your Highness, I do have eyes, you know.”
What is this. What kind of relationship do these two have… that they can converse like this…
Karkin briefly lost consciousness like that.
* * *
That night, the Capital was turned upside down.
Knights in black uniforms along with security forces and reporters set up camp in disorder.
Nobles pleaded noisily.
“I don’t know! I don’t know anything about this! Let go of this, you damn…!”
“I was just invited!”
They would feel wronged.
These were people who had been urgently summoned to this place because they were invited by Karkin or were children of vassal families.
‘Why did he invite us…!’
‘He shouldn’t have called me for something like humiliating his fiancée!’
But he couldn’t bring himself to resent Karkin.
Instead, they quickly turned around.
The Shadows immediately began searching Ramio first, as if they had been waiting.
This was all a staged performance.
To make the artifact that summons demons appear.
“You, you…! You damn Tillard bastard!”
“Urgh!”
A nobleman who couldn’t stand it anymore beat Ramio’s face with both fists.
“If only you! If only you hadn’t had such an artifact!”
“Cough, urgh!”
“We wouldn’t have ended up like this!”
The reporters who witnessed this scene gasped while busily moving their hands to sketch.
Whatever it would be, tomorrow morning’s front page article was decided with this.
All the reporters thought the same thing.
They wished such amazing nights would happen more often.
* * *
However, unlike the reporters’ rising spirits.
“…Your Highness,”
The Shadows in the dungeon of the Imperial Palace were crushed by the atmosphere.
Elias glanced around nervously before finally speaking up.
“You must restrain yourself.”
“…Me? From what.”
“…Your Highness.”
“I’m not going berserk and staying quiet.”
Though his tone was light, Elias wasn’t fooled.
The floor of the Imperial Palace prison was literally sticky as if covered with a thin film of blood.
Evren was persistently focusing on just one person, enjoying himself by threatening his opponent with his annihilation ability.
“What do you think, Count Pavil.”
“Y-Your Highness.”
“Even when things flow quite nicely, there are times when your stomach churns, do you have those too?”
“I! I was called by Lillian-!”
“Yes, that’s the wrong answer.”
“Cough!”
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