The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 85
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85.
Lillian looked at this situation and closed her mouth with a satisfied expression.
The retainer continuing the meeting cleared his throat.
“Then, will Your Highness the Crown Prince recommend the priest from Silvain Temple?”
“Yes.”
Evren answered smoothly.
Thud.
However, seeing the documents he set down, Lillian’s eyes widened.
The thickness of the documents was quite substantial, showing signs of long preparation.
‘But when?’
I don’t remember preparing something like this together with this man?
The noble mediating the meeting asked a question.
“Your Highness. What is the content of that?”
“Children abandoned because their rank is low or nonexistent.”
Evren lowered his eyebrows.
“Priest Ambrosio will create an institution for such children. The imperial family will also invest in it under the name of patronage.”
“…!”
“If he is elected as high priest, this will be carried out in temples throughout the entire Empire.”
Kail tried hard to disparage it.
“What useless work. It would be better to sponsor the training of holy knights with the temple’s budget-.”
“We’re already pouring money into holy knight training, little brother. As much as the annual production of Pavil Manor.”
Evren smiled with his eyes curved like crescents.
It was a threat that he knew all about your maternal family’s wealth as well as the temple.
“And even if he’s someone who does useless work, he seems like a much better personnel choice than Sandro Ortez?”
“….”
Kail made an expression of suppressing his anger.
But Lillian just stared intently at Evren’s profile.
‘This wasn’t in the original story.’
Grandfather Ambrosio becoming high priest was mentioned.
But there was no mention at all that he would create such an institution.
‘…Then he discussed it with the villain?’
Such a thing, when?
Why….
‘Why is this happening?’
All her fingertips were tingling, and her stomach was churning in an inexplicable way.
It was a strangely ticklish churning, different from when she used to feel nauseous after eating grass long ago.
* * *
After the meeting ended.
Bang!
Kail slammed the meeting room table after everyone had left.
“Are you joking right now.”
“….”
“Answer me, Duke! Kuern!”
The duke held his forehead, and Kuern couldn’t say anything.
Kail’s reason for recommending Priest Sandro Ortez included Tillard’s investigation.
However, the high priest selection ended as Evren’s clear victory.
“Not knowing about that bastard’s corruption, fine. Let’s say that’s my fault too.”
Since the ‘Archive’ no longer moved according to the Pavil family’s will.
They pushed Sandro without even having time for cross-verification.
“Why does the Crown Prince’s Controller know about Sandro’s corruption!”
“….”
“If that woman knows, doesn’t that mean it’s something you should have known too!”
Even if they didn’t know, Duke Tillard should have thrown himself forward to defend.
“Why have you been acting like this since last time. It’s not like rat poison got into the well!”
He expressed the question of whether they had all taken drugs in a princely manner.
Kail threw down the documents and left.
Kuern looked at the documents fallen at his feet and trembled.
“G-Grandfather….”
“….”
“Earlier, I could have explained-.”
“Shut up. This is the first day I’ve ever wished so much that I had another direct heir.”
“…!”
“You useless fool.”
Duke Tillard left Kuern behind and walked out of the room.
He had never thought of him as a completely satisfactory grandson from before.
But he still thought he was at least average.
‘But why has he collapsed this much?’
It felt like discovering that what he once thought was gold bullion was actually rotten wood.
But this misery deepened when he turned the corner of the corridor.
The Crown Prince, the House of Baltazar party, and Lillian were having a friendly conversation.
Duke Tillard couldn’t bear it and approached them.
The granddaughter was the first to notice him coming.
“Lillian.”
“…Duke Tillard.”
“You see me and don’t even acknowledge me?”
The duke glared at Lillian’s attire.
She seemed to be properly favored, which was quite good. But he had also dressed and fed her expensively when she lived at Tillard Manor.
Because he needed to hand her over to Karkin Pavil.
But why does her complexion look so noticeably brighter now than it did then?
“Even though the situation has come to this, you’re still my granddaughter. You’re the child my daughter bore.”
“….”
“Whatever misunderstandings there may be, there’s a bond that cannot be severed. Yet you embarrass your brother-.”
“When you sent this child away, when was that, and why are you acting so generous now?”
Duke Baltazar stepped forward in front of the group with sarcasm.
Lillian had said she needed to go to the Imperial Palace’s Underground Library with Evren.
Buying time with an argument was nothing at all.
Rather, it was what he wanted by nature.
“Aren’t the bloodlines you placed living well and intact? Kuern, Iris, Ramio Tillard.”
“Enoch Baltazar…!”
“They’ve grown up so splendidly. Taking after their grandfather so perfectly.”
Duke Tillard’s white beard trembled.
Grown up splendidly?
The ‘perfect Tillard three siblings’ he had been proud of until now were crumbling.
“Ha.”
Duke Tillard’s mouth corner twisted.
“Do you think my granddaughter is a substitute for your daughter?”
“No matter how foolish I am, I know that’s not the case.”
Duke Baltazar responded nonchalantly.
The wound existed, but he wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.
“…Your granddaughter. Lillian is a wise child.”
Blinded by hatred and despair, he was brainwashed.
So he gave Elias orders to kill Evren and trained him.
As if he had a natural right over his grandson’s life and death.
“That child is wiser than even me. Regardless of whether he has abilities or not.”
“What good does all that do!”
Duke Tillard’s face contorted.
Before a Controller, an Ability User’s lament was nothing but an empty shell.
Because of the lifelong inferiority complex of being in a position that couldn’t shine without Ability Users.
Duke Baltazar sneered.
“That’s why you’re a worthless bastard.”
“Enoch…!”
“So go ahead and measure that child’s worth your way for a hundred days. Keep weighing the blood and flesh of your own kin until your head splits.”
Baltazar turned his steps away.
“Then you’ll know who will remain by your side in the future.”
Though the answer seems already clear.
* * *
Meanwhile, while Duke Tillard was being interfered with by Duke Baltazar.
Iris, who was in the women’s lounge, overheard an unexpected conversation.
It was the sound of conversation from retainers who had left early after the meeting ended.
“…This selection went according to Crown Prince’s support?”
“Hehe. Who would have thought the person the Pavil Family recommended again would commit such corruption.”
“Lady Lillian is quite sharp indeed.”
“To think they were buying and selling holy water…”
Her heart sank with a thud.
Lillian did something at the meeting?
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