The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 63

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Chapter 63

Anyway, this works out well for my current situation, doesn’t it? Everything in life somehow ends up being helpful.

I pushed the portrait far to the other side of the desk and said.

“Well. He does seem to have some charm, but honestly, he’s not my type.”

“Type…”

Ruellian nodded.

“Type is important. Who in this Empire doesn’t know that the Princess’s type is the classic, traditional handsome man with blonde hair and blue eyes? Eunice, the Duke’s chief aide, naturally knows this too. But the reason she still deliberately approached Prince Istan is because he has one more secret weapon.”

“What’s that?”

“Every royal of the Kingdom of Neplesia can possess one treasure of the gods retrieved from the depths of the sea. Among them, the treasure Prince Istan possesses is the ‘Arrow of Enchantment.'”

“What’s that supposed to be?”

“Literally, it’s the heart-shaped tip that fell off from the arrow that the god of love shot to connect humans to each other. If you secretly attach that arrowhead to someone of the opposite sex, they fall into a powerful state of enchantment and will unconditionally follow one command from the arrowhead’s owner. For example, ‘Right now, cry out that you love me and remove your heirloom necklace to offer it to me.'”

“…!”

The leisurely smile on my face that had been thinking ‘You won’t be able to seduce me with looks’ felt like cold water had been poured over it.

The scene Ruellian just described vividly appeared before my eyes.

‘A foolish Princess whose only romantic experience is a 10-year one-sided crush completely falls for a foreign playboy prince, offering her heirloom necklace as a token of love while begging him to accept her…’

To people, this wouldn’t be an impossible story. Especially for the stupid, stubborn Aristina.

Goosebumps rose on both my arms.

“I would have been in big trouble if I didn’t know! Using such a fraudulent method! Should I wear full-body armor under my dress?”

“That would be a good method too, but…”

Ruellian looked at me with his arms crossed and said.

“It’s not the best countermeasure.”

“What’s the best countermeasure?”

“Taking this opportunity to strike them from behind and properly destroy them.”

He replied.

“What if the Princess uses her head to thwart this scheme? Realizing that this level won’t work, Eunice will devise an even more elaborate conspiracy. Can the Princess’s situation then be the same as it is now?”

…That’s right.

I shouldn’t be satisfied with just avoiding the crisis.

This current situation of making information deals with the owner of the Master Guild is a rare opportunity.

I need to use this advantageous situation to strike down and destroy Eunice. Before she comes with an even more upgraded conspiracy.

“You’re right.”

I slowly nodded.

“I need to strike her from behind while Eunice is being careless and underestimating me like now.”

She was definitely not an easy opponent. Isn’t she someone who has completely controlled the household based on Duke Carnel’s deep trust? If I miss this opportunity, things could become very difficult.

“‘The trusted chief aide threw the Duke’s only daughter to a low-quality playboy and helped steal the heirloom.’ It needs to be at least this level to take her down in one blow.”

I fell into thought.

“How should I use their scheme?”

Ruellian looked at me like that. Seeing a slight smile appear on his lips, it seemed he had already thought of that method too. I asked urgently.

“What? What method do you have?”

“You’re quick to catch on, as always.”

He said bluntly.

“I’d like to just tell you out of kindness since the Princess’s situation is pitiful and all. But my current situation isn’t particularly good either.”

His gaze turned to the scale on the desk.

“I’d be very grateful if you could give me just a little more information. Just what kind of curse is lurking in my body.”

Well, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. What would be Ruellian’s reason for investigating so diligently like this? It’s because of the trading manners that have continued since primitive times – if something goes, something comes.

I was planning to give him a hint about the identity of that dangerous curse soon anyway. I’d be grateful if he gives me something in return.

“Fine.”

I opened my mouth.

“It seems you couldn’t find even a clue despite searching the Information Guild thoroughly, and that’s natural too. The identity of the curse hiding in your body is something humans can never know. Its name is ‘Dragon Speech Magic.'”

At that moment, the plate with my card tilted down significantly.

“‘Dragon Speech Magic’?”

Ruellian mulled over those words. As expected, it seemed to be a concept he had never encountered before.

Good thing there’s a scale. Otherwise, he might have thought I was just making up random words, right?

With that thought, I stared intently at Ruellian.

“Now you’ll tell me too, right?”

When I attacked with earnest eyes, he immediately snapped out of his thoughts.

“Ah. Here.”

He pushed a small box on the desk toward me.

“Open it.”

I opened the lid.

Inside was an unexpected object. A small heart-shaped magical metal.

“Isn’t this an arrowhead?”

“That’s right.”

“Don’t tell me this is that ‘Arrow of Enchantment’?”

I looked at Ruellian in surprise.

No matter how I look at it, it seems like that, but why is the Arrow of Enchantment that Prince Istan is supposed to have here?

“Was there another identical one?”

“No. As far as known, there’s only one.”

“Then…”

His other profession suddenly came to mind very meaningfully.

This person is that famous thief, after all.

I asked with wide eyes.

“Don’t tell me you stole it from the prince?”

Ruellian replied leisurely.

“Well. Simply stealing would be a method only amateurs use, wouldn’t it?”

“Then?”

“I switched it. I put a fake in the prince’s possession.”

“…”

I was momentarily speechless.

The situation formed in my head again.

Prince Istan, who deliberately approached the naive Princess, secretly attaches the Arrow of Enchantment to her body as planned.

But that was fake, and the real one was in the hands of that foolish Princess. When the prince realizes this fact, the real arrowhead has already been attached to his own body. The Princess commands the flustered him.

For example, something like this.

‘Right now, in front of my father, show all the evidence and loudly confess whose orders you received and what conspiracy you plotted!’

In a different sense from before, goosebumps rose all over my body.

‘This is really amazing, isn’t it?’

Imagining Prince Istan confessing Eunice’s conspiracy in front of father already made me feel refreshed.

As expected, coming to find Ruellian and deciding to make a deal was an excellent choice.

Praising myself, I closed the lid of the box.

“But didn’t you say this arrowhead is a divine treasure used by royalty? Is it okay for me to just use it?”

“Good question. I was just about to talk about that.”

Ruellian said as he stood up.

“I looked into it, and if you have divine power, there seems to be no problem at all in handling this treasure. Therefore, I’m going to share some of my divine power with the Princess.”

The sect leader giving me divine power?

Sharing the highest level of divine power – I had no reason to refuse. I immediately stood up.

“If you would give it to me, I would use it gratefully, Your Holiness.”

Ruellian walked around the desk with big strides, came right in front of me, and raised one hand.

‘What? A blessing?’

He lowered that hand toward my head. As if to place it on my forehead.

‘I guess this is how it’s transmitted.’

I closed my eyes, preparing to receive the Empire’s strongest divine power with a reverent heart.

But….

Even after waiting a moment, nothing happened.

What?

Finding it strange, I moved my eyelids just slightly to peek through half-opened eyes.

“….”

Ruellian’s hand was just frozen in mid-air. His gaze fixed on my face.

On his face that had been indifferently and coldly delivering information just moments ago, a somewhat troubled expression seemed to have appeared.

‘What? Is his divine power suddenly not working well? That can’t be….’

Something suddenly came to mind.

There’s some kind of purity-like rule that the leader of the Holy Order shouldn’t carelessly touch anyone other than their partner.

‘I guess that applies when transferring divine power too?’

I knew that side was strict, but it really is a rigid rule.

It seems like because of that rule, he’s trying to transfer divine power while maintaining distance in the air….

‘Even that doesn’t seem very familiar to him?’

The next moment.

Around the temples of that marble-carved face before my eyes, I could see a slightly reddish hue spreading.

I thought I might have seen wrong, but his ears were also turning reddish along with it.

‘No way….’

I was about to become flustered myself at this unexpected sight.

‘He seemed fine back then though?’

Such a thought suddenly occurred to me.

In the exhibition hall trap where attacks had poured down. Didn’t he embrace me without any hesitation to protect me there?

“…!”

Ruellian’s expression wavered slightly. He too seemed to have followed a similar train of thought as me and recalled that incident.

“….”

I pretended not to remember anything.

“….”

He also pretended not to remember anything.

He seemed to have somehow collected his thoughts. Soon after, divine power in the form of pure white light began pouring in.

But the reddish hue that had occupied part of his face still hadn’t disappeared.

‘You’re human too.’

That black-haired, dark-eyed face that looked arrogantly fearless of anything in the world looked very different at this moment.

So even I started feeling strange.

Even though the fact that he has an alibi has been proven, he’s still a dangerous person.

Especially that face. His skin is really nice, his nose bridge is a work of art, no wonder he has that supremely arrogant personality… such friendly thoughts kept arising naturally.

While desperately chasing those thoughts away from my head, I shook my head back and forth.

‘That face is too dangerous to get close to.’

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