The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 67
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67.
Chapter 19. On the Necessity of a Leash
So she almost let her guard down.
‘Asking if I dislike holding the leash, when you ask a question like that, isn’t the answer already decided?’
Warm iced americano…
Even while smiling as if uninterested, if you’re too greedy, big trouble will come.
It would be troublesome if all that accumulated after the imprint was released.
So Lillian firmly nailed it down.
“Don’t worry. I actually don’t want anything more from Your Highness than what I have now.”
“…You don’t want anything? Really?”
“Yes! I absolutely, definitely, completely have no intention of doing anything with an ability user’s leash.”
Now, please understand Lillian’s sincere heart that has not a single point of greed.
Lillian gripped a small, cute mining tool like a torch.
It looked like an axe, but it had a hook attached to the end.
‘I only need to scrape off some brick fragments… Ah. Let me ask the villain for help.’
His physical strength is probably S-rank too, so why am I doing this.
It’s a bit unfair, isn’t it?
But just as Lillian was about to turn around to ask for labor substitution.
“…!”
He approached from behind and placed one hand on the wall, half-trapping Lillian.
Even though their bodies weren’t touching, the mix of human body heat and scent made his presence a bit intense.
So much so that she was pointlessly scared this person might explode at this rate.
The villain’s voice whispering by her ear was also rough as if burned.
“…Lillian.”
“Mm, yes.”
“If you dislike holding my leash.”
“Yes, yes, I really dislike it. I’ll definitely return it to you.”
So please be assured and don’t go on a rampage.
“Do you like other humans’ leashes?”
“…?”
“Hm? If another human had imprinted on you, would you have felt good holding their leash.”
Another human?
I’ve never even heard of imprinting happening like this?
“I think I mentioned this before. I never loved anyone in the first place-.”
“What are you two doing here?”
Hah…
Lillian stopped speaking mid-sentence and deliberately turned her head away.
Why did the original male lead have to come now of all times…
* * *
“Now you don’t even know shame, it seems.”
Kail burst into hollow laughter at this absurd situation.
His mother, the Second Empress, had caused an uproar in the palace.
‘Lillian has disappeared. Along with that bastard Evren.’
Being a perceptive person, she seemed to have sensed something strange.
So he too joined the search and looked everywhere.
And somehow his steps led toward this sanctuary.
But to see her being held from behind by that bastard Evren.
Lillian Tillard… no, she doesn’t even have a family name now.
That lowly woman who only spreads lily scent…
“You two. What are you doing here.”
His throat naturally turned red with anger.
How dare they do such impudent things in such a place.
Lillian, who had been in Evren’s embrace, finally turned her head.
The way she sighed deeply looked utterly arrogant.
“Your Highness Kail. If you’re so happy you could die, you can enjoy the thrill too.”
“What?”
“I’m sorry for doing this in the sanctuary. But when people who are about to be engaged are like this, could you please step aside…”
“Ha!”
“Everyone here is an adult, at an age where we’re fully aware, so why are you acting like this.”
Kail opened his mouth wide.
How could she say such vulgar words.
But then Evren pulled Lillian into his arms even more conspicuously and sneered.
“Lillian is saying the right thing.”
“Evren!”
“Kail. I don’t know what possessed you to come all the way here.”
“…!”
Evren was smiling above Lillian’s head.
But if looks could kill, it would be like that.
“You shouldn’t interfere. Right?”
At the coaxing tone as if an adult was handling a child, Kail’s earlobes turned red hot.
When he made eye contact with Lillian, his anger was about to surge even more…
“Your Highness Kail. I understand you’re envious of the beauty of love. If you’re going to be like that, why don’t you go to Iris instead?”
“You, how dare-!”
“Or ah, shouldn’t you be concerned about the results of Carkin’s punishment?”
“…!”
“After Our Highness punished him last time, he went to the provinces as planned.”
Lillian smiled brightly.
“How tiring it must be waiting for a cousin who can’t return to politics.”
Kail bit his lips.
Those words were terrifyingly accurate. No matter how dissolute he was.
Having grown-up maternal relatives active together was a great help in many ways from politics to social circles.
Kail had lost everything, but Evren still had Elias’s side left, didn’t he…
Why does that woman seem to know everything?
‘When she was Carkin’s fiancée, she didn’t feel like this.’
If that woman had actually awakened a bit earlier in childhood…
Kail ground his teeth as he turned around.
“…At least know some shame.”
* * *
When they returned to the Second Empress’s party.
The looks directed at Lillian and the villain were all either ‘good for them’ or ‘eyesore’.
All sorts of nagging in a world where contact reduces mental contamination.
Lillian listened appropriately and then returned to the carriage with the villain.
The villain casually asked Lillian.
“It’s a shame we couldn’t get the Nightfall? Just aim for later.”
“Hm? No, I got it.”
“…”
The villain seemed momentarily speechless at Lillian’s competence.
“…When exactly?”
“Then! Earlier when you held me from behind, you used your strength, didn’t you?”
“…”
“The force magnificently hit the brick wall behind me, didn’t it? Thank you.”
“….”
Hmm, he must be impressed indeed.
Telling him to be more impressed, Lillian opened her palm.
On top were sharp black onyx-like fragments.
I quickly grabbed these when leaving Kail behind.
‘Good. With this, I can make an artifact to release the imprint… wait.’
This is strange.
‘The Tower of Seclusion was built with Nightfall that absorbs abilities, right?’
Could it be… that it doesn’t work on S-rank level?
“If, by chance, Your Highness were trapped in that Tower of Seclusion.”
“If trapped?”
“What are the chances you could escape on your own?”
The villain hummed and briefly assessed the distant tower.
“I think I could just come out.”
“…?”
Then why was the villain in the ‘original story’ confined in that tower?
‘I really don’t understand the mind of a future prison escapee.’
And during the engagement ceremony preparations, I think about it even more intensely.
* * *
Hmm….
As the ceremony day approaches, I become more and more bewildered.
Lillian held her forehead and looked down at the boxes filling the room.
“Marguerite.”
“Yes, Miss?”
“What is all this? Yesterday too, and today new gifts keep coming in.”
“Ah, about that!”
Marguerite pulled out a notebook entirely.
“Yesterday’s gifts were sent by the Princess of the Kingdom of Tenebryn.”
“I know that, but why again today—”
“These are from Duke Baltazar and the young duke.”
“Someone go teach those two about budget management.”
They must be crazy.
‘Lord Elias, if you’ve risen to the position of young duke, you should pay more attention to your own budget.’
Are they mistaking the engagement ceremony for an actual wedding?
Engagements are really conducted modestly, even royal engagements.
Or does Baltazar’s side have some special standards?
Just thinking about the jewelry and clothes pouring into this room was enough to give me claustrophobia.
‘At this rate, we could have over 20 engagement ceremonies.’
I was grateful but it was too troublesome.
As a self-employed person, having received payment, I felt tremendous pressure to sell the goods.
“How to organize all this… ugh.”
“Oh, Miss. His Highness is waiting. He says he wants to review the attendee confirmation replies together.”
“…Tell him I’m not here.”
“…! Miss, surely not breaking off the engagement? Did, did His Highness do something wrong—”
No….
Recently, the villain has started giving lectures about the necessity of leashes.
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