The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 58
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58.
Lillian’s blood relatives placed an advertisement on the front page of the newspaper.
<‘Incompetent’ Lillian, Expelled!?>
You must have really wanted to announce that you’re no longer a noble.
Childish and petty?
‘But that’s how the world works.’
<The Tillard Family has officially removed Lillian (formerly Tillard) from the family lineage….>
<“She’s no longer part of the Five Great Families”>
It was an act to ensure no one could adopt Lillian.
Marguerite was furious beside Lillian.
“What is this! How can they do this!”
“Well, it’s what I expected….”
“Miss’s face is prettier than this illustration!”
“…?”
Was that what she was angry about?
“Even when I was wary of Miss, I was sincere about Miss’s face…!”
So she was indignant about the illustration that failed to capture her pale, slender face and hair that had become even more lustrous from protein-rich meals.
Lillian answered awkwardly.
“Th… anks?”
My maid is really strange….
“They’ll regret this so much later!”
“Mm-hmm, maybe they will.”
“Really, they’ll beat the ground in regret, really!”
“Hmm.”
The Tillard Family was a family obsessed with human resources.
So if they knew Lillian was a bizarre ‘infinity’ symbol Controller, they wouldn’t leave her alone.
She really didn’t care.
But on the evening the newspaper came out.
“Congratulations on your severance, Miss!”
Confetti cannons went off in the dining room.
Lillian removed the confetti stuck to her head with a puzzled expression.
“…?”
No matter how you looked at it, this wasn’t something to celebrate.
But the Duke, Elias, and the Shadows swarmed around her.
“Expulsion? What nonsense!”
Duke Baltazar roared.
“Those worthless people are the ones you abandoned. Elric Tillard, that bastard has had his eyes buried in the dirt since he was young.”
“…You’re right.”
With the two of them agreeing, the subordinates also made a fuss.
Jeanne stepped forward.
“Miss, to celebrate, I’ll show you wine bottle juggling!”
Her skill was tremendous.
Seeing her juggle six bottles, I couldn’t help but clap.
“Hey, you move aside! Have you ever seen someone pass through flaming rings?”
Their alias was ‘Shadow’ but they were truly lively and cheerful people.
I had no idea why they were all being so dramatic.
However, Lillian let them continue filling her wine glass.
* * *
After the family abandonment celebration ended, Lillian was left completely drunk and asleep for Evren.
He naturally carried Lillian and walked down the corridor of the residence.
“Can’t even handle alcohol well but drinks everything they give you.”
He was annoyed at everyone who offered drinks, regardless of whether they were close or distant blood relatives.
Lillian woke up drowsily in his arms.
“…Your Highness.”
“Did you drink a lot?”
“Yes….”
Lillian blinked slowly.
He expected her to ask to be put down, but surprisingly she stayed quietly in his arms.
“Your Highness, not the room but the garden….”
“Don’t tell me you want to be taken to the workshop while drunk-.”
“I don’t live that diligently….”
She lies well too.
From what he observed, Lillian only looked calm on the surface but was actually bustling around busily.
He went to the swing hanging from a tree in the garden.
Since the swing was wide enough for Lillian to lie down and sleep, it wouldn’t be difficult to ride while holding her.
Lillian became absorbed in putting her pinky finger through his shirt buttonhole and twirling it around.
“When Your Highness takes poison.”
“Do you want to poison me?”
“…No, you said the poison gets neutralized, who are you trying to make into a criminal right now?”
“If you become a criminal, I’d have to go to prison with you.”
Since she had to follow his lifeline, it wasn’t wrong.
But being locked in prison together didn’t seem too bad.
Forgetting the bothersome reality for a moment, it seemed like it could be quite fun.
“Ugh, how terrible….”
However, Lillian objected with full force even while drunk.
Evren asked with slight mischief.
“Ah. You mean being with me is that terrible?”
“I hate prison. I hate dark places.”
“The royal prison is decent. The lighting is fine too.”
“Says the warm iced americano….”
“You’re talking nonsense again.”
“Then does the alcohol effect get neutralized too? Aren’t you drunk at all from what you drank earlier?”
“Yeah. That’s right.”
“What’s the point of living life like that. Really. Live long.”
“Haha!”
Evren laughed listening to Lillian’s drunken rambling as the alcohol made her feverish.
He had always just laughed to fit the mold.
Like this, without murderous intent… without the desire to destroy….
This was the first time he had burst into genuine laughter.
Everything is new when I’m with Lillian.
However, he soon stopped laughing and asked quietly.
“So, why did you drink so much today? It’s not simply because you were happy.”
Because sadness was rippling like transparent waves in his heart.
Why?
Shouldn’t she be happy to have escaped from that detestable family?
“I wanted to forget….”
“What do you want to forget?”
“…The moments I tried so hard to be loved by those people.”
Lillian quietly rested her head on his shoulder.
“When they’re in front of me, I’m really fine. Because they’re annoying and worthless.”
“You’re so amazing.”
“That’s right. But it’s strange.”
Evren slowly pulled Lillian’s head closer to himself, embracing her.
Lillian didn’t resist and murmured.
“When I’m alone, I suddenly become so ashamed and hate myself…”
“….”
Emotions he had never felt once in his life came pouring out.
Transparent sadness and sticky, muddy self-loathing.
What if Lillian gets swept away by those emotions and breaks down?
At that thought, he couldn’t breathe easily.
Evren spoke without blinking once.
“Just tell me.”
“…?”
“To erase all of those things from this world.”
He could do that.
In fact, he wanted to do it.
Regardless of all inefficient results and gains and losses.
Evren spoke again.
Or perhaps he was pleading.
“If you say so, I can gladly follow through.”
“….”
“If you want, those mouths too, those fingers too, one by one where you can see-.”
But then Lillian shook her head against his shoulder.
“I don’t like that… That would be exactly like last time.”
“But-.”
“If you keep acting scary, I’m going to sleep…”
Evren frowned but closed his mouth.
The sadness that had filled Lillian’s heart began to drain away.
‘Really hard to understand.’
She shook her head at his words about killing them.
But hearing those words still made her feel better?
He stayed quietly on the swing for a long time, holding Lillian.
The drunk Lillian clutched at his shirt collar.
“Later…”
Lillian murmured.
“I need to have a talk… with Your Highness’s wardrobe attendant…”
“Why? Should I get rid of him?”
“…He dresses you so improperly. But he has good taste in choosing perfumes…”
“I’m the one the perfume suits, so why does he get the praise.”
“I’ve ruined my life over this scent…”
For someone who claimed to have ruined her life, Lillian fell asleep more soundly than expected.
When her pink hair leaned completely against his shoulder, and Lillian came into his arms.
Ah. This is it.
Evren vaguely recalled.
Why, in his childhood, he had wanted to hold that pink rabbit in front of Mother.
Completely forgetting the fact that life dies when it touches his white eyes.
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