The Circumstances of Being Chosen as the Villainess’s Favorite - Chapter 91
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Chapter 91
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Since the topic had come up, the two of them headed straight to the Imperial Curia.
And Larite once again came to realize the true power of House of Claudius.
“How about we cooperate quietly at this point?”
Dietrich, who had barged straight into the main building, made this suggestion without batting an eye.
“For the sake of a long-term and amicable relationship between Claudius and the Imperial Curia.”
It was almost like a threat.
At Lord Claudius’s sudden intrusion, the Deputy High Priest who had been summoned out of nowhere couldn’t hide his bewildered expression.
“But why on earth would the Ducal House…?”
“Well, Lady Ansi is my sister’s most precious friend.”
Dietrich answered calmly, as if stating a perfectly obvious fact.
“If Lady Ansi were to be dragged into some ridiculous marriage, Evangeline would be very sad. Also…”
Suddenly Dietrich’s voice dropped low.
“I would be quite displeased as well.”
“…”
An intense pressure that felt like a stranglehold.
The Deputy High Priest unconsciously swallowed his dry saliva.
Most importantly, the fact that Dietrich had directly mentioned being ‘displeased’…
‘Does Lord Claudius consider Lady Ansi that important?’
He had thought she was just an unremarkable Lady who had merely lucked into becoming the Duke’s daughter’s friend.
Cold sweat ran down the Deputy High Priest’s spine.
Dietrich shrugged his shoulders lightly as if to show off.
“I don’t particularly want to see someone connected to our family suffering hardships.”
“…”
Meanwhile, Larite felt her heart swell with emotion.
Someone connected to our family.
Those words themselves meant that the Claudius siblings considered Larite that close to them.
However.
‘Now is not the time to be getting sentimental.’
Larite quickly composed herself and spoke coldly.
“I’d like to check the marriage registration documents right now. Is that possible?”
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After that.
Larite filed charges against Count Gusto’s House for document forgery.
The marriage registration documents filed with the Imperial Curia were naturally missing the seal of the Nobility Council chairman.
House of Claudius directly appointed a famous legal team to help with Larite’s lawsuit.
The Emperor was furious.
“How dare they forge official documents that prove faith with the state!”
Official documents, taxes.
These were areas under the direct authority of state institutions.
Forging such official documents was tantamount to openly disrespecting the nation, and furthermore, the Imperial Family.
With the Imperial Family’s fury and the help of the capable legal team provided by Claudius, Larite was able to extract massive compensation.
Meanwhile, this lawsuit completely settled all of Count Gusto’s House’s marriage arrangements.
“You, you!”
Gusto Youngshik screamed at his sister with veins bulging in his neck.
“You’ve completely ruined our family!”
The Lionel Family had sent a letter breaking off the engagement, saying they couldn’t be entangled in marriage with such an immoral family.
Meanwhile, House of Bentner couldn’t escape punishment either.
At first, they claimed,
“I didn’t know either, Count Gusto secretly accessed the seal and stamped it.”
“If I had cooperated, wouldn’t I have stamped both marriage registration documents from the beginning?”
But here, Count Gusto, whose eyes had rolled back in fury, dropped a bombshell.
“Who was it that paid off Lord Raul’s gambling debts!”
Thus the two families engaged in a mud-slinging fight, each biting the other’s tail.
And walked together down the path of ruin.
Lord Bosejour clung to Dietrich with the desperation of grasping at straws.
“Didn’t you say you would show leniency!”
“Well, I showed leniency by not filing charges against House of Bentner myself…”
Dietrich shut the Marquis up with a smooth smile.
“Surely you don’t mean I should have silenced Count Gusto as well?”
This wasn’t the end.
In the midst of all this, Count Gusto’s House received the biggest blow.
“This is a vote on whether to permanently expel Count Gusto’s House from the Nobility Council.”
Dietrich, who had succeeded to the vacant chairman position, decided to completely expel Count Gusto’s House from the Nobility Council.
And the person who proposed the expulsion motion was none other than Dietrich.
“It’s an anonymous vote, and there will be no pressure whatsoever.”
Dietrich looked around at the nobles with a stern gaze.
“So please vote according to your conscience.”
The result was 95 votes in favor, 1 vote against.
Naturally, it was Count Gusto’s House that cast the opposing vote.
For a noble family, being permanently expelled from the Nobility Council was a tremendous disgrace.
The Nobility Council was where the Empire’s major and minor affairs were discussed, and participating in those meetings itself was recognition as a legitimate noble.
Being expelled from such a place was tantamount to officially declaring ‘we can no longer trust that family.’
“What, what is this…!”
Count Gusto, upon seeing the vote results, rolled his eyes back and struggled desperately, but he couldn’t overturn the voting results.
Thus Count Gusto’s House lost all its influence in an instant.
Gone was their arrogant demeanor, replaced by a truly pathetic ending.
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“Ha, how refreshing.”
Evangeline, having heard about the entire series of events, giggled with an expression of pure satisfaction.
“Why did they have to mess with Larit in the first place? Really, I should have given them a good beating.”
“‘Beating.’ Please use nicer language.”
Dietrich gave her a warning, but Evangeline opened her eyes wide and looked straight at Dietrich.
“What else should I call a beating but a beating?”
“Evangeline.”
“Oh, that’s right? They’re too disgusting to be called by the refined term ‘head.'”
While she was going on with such harsh words for a while.
Evangeline glanced at Dietrich from the corner of her eye.
“But what’s gotten into you? Brother taking on the chairman position and all.”
“Why? Is it strange?”
“No, not strange exactly. But you used to say you shouldn’t take positions like chairman, right? What was it…”
Evangeline rolled her eyes thoughtfully.
“That it wouldn’t look good for the Ducal House to have too much power. Right?”
Dietrich nodded readily.
“Well, that’s how it was back then.”
“Is there a reason your mind changed?”
Curiosity filled Evangeline’s face.
At that moment.
At that moment.
Dietrich suddenly recalled the image of Larite he had seen at the Imperial Curia.
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At the Imperial Curia, right when he had just received the marriage registration documents that lacked the officiant’s seal.
Drop.
A thick tear fell onto the marriage registration documents.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do this…”
Rather, Larite seemed even more flustered than Dietrich.
She hastily wiped her wet eyes and bit her lips, trying to hold back her tears.
But once the dam of her heart burst, it showed no signs of being contained.
She looked so terribly lonely.
As if she had been left alone in this world…
‘Lady Ansi.’
Dietrich unconsciously reached out his hand to her.
His hesitating fingertips touched Larite’s shoulder.
Larite, who had flinched for a moment, looked up at Dietrich quietly.
“It’s alright.”
Dietrich carefully patted Larite’s shoulder.
“It’s okay…”
At the same time, tears streamed down her white cheeks.
Larite covered her face with both hands and began to sob breathlessly.
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The sensation of those delicate shoulders trembling intermittently still seemed to linger on his hands.
“…”
Dietrich, who had been staring down at his palm quietly, clenched his fist tightly and opened his mouth.
“I just think maybe I’ve been thinking wrong all this time.”
Through Larite’s situation, he had realized.
That to protect precious people, one must not be selective about methods.
And so Dietrich now intended to greedily grasp everything within his reach.
The more he held onto.
The easier it would be to protect Larite.
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