The Circumstances of Being Chosen as the Villainess’s Favorite - Chapter 98

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Chapter 98

Evangeline had her own excuses to make.

Not just anywhere else, but in her own ducal domain.

Who could have known that Evangeline, the sole daughter of the ducal house, and Larite, a close friend whose status Evangeline vouched for,

would be nitpicked with demands to verify their identities!

But then.

“If it’s identification papers you want, here they are.”

A cold voice rang out.

Larite, who had pulled out her identification papers from her bosom, held them out to the vigilante members.

The vigilante members, who had received the identification papers in bewilderment, checked them with sour expressions.

“House of Ansi?”

“Where’s that?”

“Never heard of it.”

These were vigilante members who had spent their entire lives stuck in the countryside.

There was no way they could know all the noble families of the Empire.

And so the situation began to get even more tangled.

“These identification papers… are they real?”

“They could be forged, couldn’t they?”

The vigilante members’ eyes filled with suspicion.

In fact, they had their own reasons.

First of all, not all nobles were the same kind of nobles.

Nobles with territories, and nobles with only hollow titles without territories.

The starting line was different from there.

Also, forged identification papers were known to circulate among the Empire’s citizens.

After all, there was a difference in the rights that could be guaranteed between nobles and ordinary commoners.

Of course, if caught by Law Enforcement, they would face severe punishment.

But there were always people who couldn’t give up those sweet benefits and carried forged identification papers.

And the vigilante members assumed Larite was one of those people.

You know, those vain and immature girls who yearn to be noble ladies.

The Patrol Youth glared with wide eyes and roughly grabbed Larite’s wrist.

“Stop talking nonsense and come with us quickly!”

“Let go of me!”

Larite tried to shake off his hand urgently, but the youth’s grip was like iron and wouldn’t come off easily.

“La, Larit!”

Evangeline raised her voice in panic.

At that moment.

Crack!

A long, elegant hand suddenly gripped the youth’s wrist tightly.

At the same time, a cold voice rang out.

“What exactly is this supposed to be?”

A man with an expressionless face looked down at the Patrol Youth who had been intimidating Larite.

He was a beautiful man that not only women but men too would turn to look at, ten out of ten times.

Facing that handsome face carved like white jade, the youth furrowed his brow sharply.

‘What’s with this pale-faced bastard?!’

A man should be manly!

Even so, the youth couldn’t help but feel a little tense.

For a man, not a woman, to have such delicate features

meant he was a wealthy person who didn’t need to do manual labor outside.

‘Well, he’s probably just a low-ranking noble at best.’

There’s no way high-ranking noble lords would be coming and going in this remote countryside.

For the youth who had lived his entire life in this village, the lowest-ranking administrator from the Ducal Residence was the most noble person he had ever met.

Besides, the identification papers that girl Larite had presented earlier were just from some unheard-of marquess family.

But strangely.

‘What is this?’

Like a mouse before a beast, his whole body stiffened with unease.

The youth gritted his teeth.

“What are you supposed to be?!”

Annoyed at his own cowering, the Patrol Youth raised his voice instead.

“Me?”

The man, Dietrich, gestured with his chin toward the frozen Evangeline.

“I’m her brother.”

Meanwhile, Evangeline swallowed her dry saliva.

…Brother looks extremely on edge.

And for good reason, since if it had been the usual Dietrich, rather than openly using informal speech and provoking the other party like this,

he would have preferred to handle things quietly.

“So then, what are you people

that you’re threatening my sister and my sister’s friend to come with you?”

Force gradually entered the grip around the wrist.

The youth tried to shake off Dietrich’s hand.

But the hand gripping his wrist only tightened further.

Intense pain rushed through him as if his wrist might break.

“Ugh…!”

The youth’s face turned bright red, then blue, then deathly pale.

“L-let go!”

The youth had a fit.

Dietrich, watching this spectacle, raised the corner of his lips crookedly.

“Let go?”

“M-my wrist, it’s going to break!”

The youth foamed at the mouth from pain.

But Dietrich didn’t seem to have any intention of letting the youth go.

“And yet, when Lady Ansi asked you to let go,”

Dietrich tilted his head lightly.

It was clearly an attitude meant to mock.

“…did you let her go?”

At this point, the other Young Men watching couldn’t just stand by.

“Look here, that bastard really!”

“Let Peter go right now!”

One of the young men rushed forward and swung his fist.

Thwack!

But instead of Dietrich getting hit, the jaw of the youth he was holding turned sharply.

“Gah!”

Dietrich had quickly pulled the youth he was gripping by the wrist and used him as a shield.

It was truly amazing reflexes.

Then he pushed the youth forward in return.

“Ugh!”

“Urgh!”

The Young Men who had been rushing at Dietrich tumbled to the ground like falling dominoes.

“That bastard…!”

The youth who had been sprawled on the ground gritted his teeth and tried to get up.

However.

“Gah!”

He mercilessly kicked them in the stomach, and they ended up rolling on the ground.

“Urgh….”

“Ugh….”

Groaning sounds filled the surroundings.

The young men couldn’t regain their senses and crawled on the ground like insects.

Dietrich looked down at them like they were filthy trash, then pulled out a square identification plaque the size of his palm from his coat and dropped it onto the young men.

“The identification plaque you were so desperately looking for.”

Dietrich muttered in a voice filled with contempt.

“Take a look.”

The young man who fumblingly grabbed the identification plaque was so shocked his eyes nearly popped out.

“…Huh? Wh-what?!”

“What’s wrong?”

“This, this…!”

The young man couldn’t finish his words and trembled with shaking shoulders.

Inside the golden identification plaque, the name Claudius was clearly engraved along with the family crest.

A sword and rose.

The symbol of Claudius.

“Living on my land, my subjects.”

Over the heads of the three frozen young men.

An ice-cold voice fell down.

“How dare you threaten my sister and my companions?”

My land?

My sister?

…Could it really be that this man.

Is Lord Claudius?!

Cold sweat ran down my spine.

“We’re sorry, we’re sorry!”

“We were wrong!”

“Please show mercy just this once…!”

The young men pleaded while crying and sniffling.

Dietrich glanced at the young men with a gaze as cold as the north wind.

That look in his eyes was murderous, as if he would tear the young men apart right then and there.

But that was only for a moment.

“Lord Claudius.”

A delicate voice called out to Dietrich.

At that moment, the murderous intent flickering in his blue eyes completely disappeared.

Dietrich closed his eyes tightly, opened them, and turned around.

“…Are you alright?”

“Yes, thanks to your concern.”

Larit quickly nodded her head.

Her face was somewhat pale, perhaps from being startled, but she didn’t seem to be seriously hurt or anything.

Dietrich let out a sigh of relief and whipped around to look at Evangeline.

“Evangeline, what about you?”

“Uh, huh? I, I’m fine too.”

“Well, it’s good that you’re fine….”

At the same time, Dietrich’s face twisted menacingly.

“What on earth were you thinking, going around without even your escort knights! Are you out of your mind?!”

His thunderous shout rang out as if it would burst Evangeline’s eardrums.

“What would have happened if something had gone wrong!”

Actually, Evangeline felt wronged.

This was all to help push her brother and Larit together!

But she had enough sense not to shout ‘This was all for your sake, brother!’ here.

“I’m sorryyyyy….”

Evangeline obediently shrank back.

Dietrich deeply furrowed his brow and glared at his troublemaker sister, then finally shook his head from side to side.

“Let’s go back to the villa for now.”

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