The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 94

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Chapter 94

“….”

Oliver’s eyes widened in surprise. I said to him.

“How about it? I’ll try speaking to Duke Hyperion on your behalf.”

I could feel everyone, including Sion, staring at me as if I were absurd. Someone muttered quietly.

“As if talking would work. He’s not someone who’d be swayed by stubbornness either.”

That’s when it happened.

“Lady Aristina!”

Serene’s loud voice echoed through the guest hall.

She came all the way here?

“Lady Serene!”

“Lady Aristina!”

We briefly held hands and greeted each other warmly.

“I’m sorry, Lady Serene. We agreed to celebrate with drinks when everything was over, but I disappeared.”

“Not at all! You must have been so busy with family matters. We can make time anytime. I’ll be staying at the Imperial Palace anyway.”

“I see. Did your parents come with you as well?”

“Of course!”

Serene turned around and gestured.

“Father! Mother! Over here!”

“Yes.”

Following her, a middle-aged couple entered through the guest hall entrance.

Both had black hair and very stern impressions, but when they saw me, they simultaneously smiled brightly.

“Lady Rosen! Or may we call you Lady Aristina?”

“Of course! It’s a pleasure to meet you, Duke and Duchess.”

“Finally we get to meet like this. Our Serene said Lady Aristina was too busy to meet her, so she wouldn’t introduce us.”

“I should have visited you much earlier. Since I’ve met you like this, Duke, there’s something I’d like to discuss.”

I whispered quietly to Duke Hyperion.

After hearing my words, he turned his head to look at Oliver. Then he fell into thought for a moment.

“Hmm….”

Having finished thinking, Duke Hyperion strode over and stood before Oliver.

“Sir Oliver. In the past, when Duke Carnel Rosen tried to punish you, I pleaded with him not to and stopped it. But separately from that, I had decided never to forgive your rudeness for the rest of my life. I thought I’d never forget being called a cowardly liar. However….”

He smiled at the frozen Oliver and said.

“Now that I’ve aged and raised a daughter, thinking about life, I had an epiphany at some point. ‘Anyone can make mistakes. Don’t judge others too harshly.’ Seeing you, I think I haven’t done well either. Let’s forget about that incident now. I don’t want to be rude anymore to an excellent knight who has returned with merit.”

Duke Hyperion extended one hand as he spoke.

Oliver stared at that hand with a dumbfounded expression, then came to his senses, startled, and shook hands with him.

While everyone watched in surprise, Duke Hyperion returned to his place and asked me.

“How was that? Did it work?”

“Yes, thank you so much.”

I answered with a smile.

Everyone stared at me in amazement at this small incident.

But then, another group of aristocratic ladies appeared at the guest hall entrance.

They hesitated when they saw me monopolizing attention in the center. The lady at the front shouted.

“Lady Aristina! How could you do such a thing?”

The atmosphere in the hall immediately stiffened at her accusatory tone.

The next moment.

“This is really too much! We were waiting eagerly, thinking you’d naturally have your cousin’s formal wear made at our luxury boutique!”

That aristocratic lady, Lady Lillibes, ran over and grabbed me, expressing her disappointment. I apologized with a smile.

“I’m sorry. I was planning to, but Sion prepared the formal wear himself.”

“Is that so? As long as you didn’t have it made elsewhere, that’s fine, but we wanted to hear your feedback when you visited. Following your advice, I closed my eyes and flipped the table, and the arranged marriage talk really disappeared.”

“That’s right!”

The other ladies chattered excitedly too.

“I also succeeded in getting a refund. I didn’t say anything for 3 hours and just kept repeating ‘Refund!’ like a parrot until they finally gave up.”

“I also succeeded in firing that unreliable musician without any trouble! You’re truly amazing, Young Lady!”

I arrogantly flicked my hair with one hand and said.

“I’m glad it was helpful.”

People’s gazes became even more filled with questions.

Then.

“His Highness the Crown Prince has arrived!”

With the butler’s loud voice, the crowd in the guest hall parted left and right.

Far away at the entrance, the golden-haired Crown Prince appeared in splendid formal wear.

His clear, neat face was as beautiful as a sculpture as always, but his bright blue eyes were blazing unusually.

“Your Highness.”

Aldensis didn’t even pretend to notice the admiring gazes pouring from all directions and immediately approached this way. His momentum was so fierce it seemed like wind would blow.

“Young Lady! How could you do such a thing?”

Aristina’s brief glory was over. Everyone held their breath, thinking so at the Crown Prince’s voice tinged with subtle anger, but….

“Why do you keep ignoring my heartfelt handwritten letters? I decided not to get angry about such things, but being ignored twice in a row doesn’t feel very good. Don’t you think you’re being too harsh to me? How difficult do you think it is for me when you disappear like that?”

“…?”

Everyone’s faces turned completely bewildered. Their expressions said, ‘What did I just hear?’

Someone muttered quietly.

“To think they had that kind of relationship….”

“Please don’t make strange misunderstandings. His Highness has one very professional matter he absolutely must have me handle.”

Looking at the shadows under Aldensis’s eyes, I said.

“It seems you’ve been under severe marriage pressure for several days.”

“That’s right. Brother is the Crown Prince, after all.”

Zikren, who had appeared at some point, suddenly interjected. Today too, he wore clothes that showed off his physique, with golden eyes and canine teeth that looked quite lively and cheerful.

“I’m lucky. I’m the Second Prince. If I want to go somewhere, I can just leave. It’s time for us to travel again, Aristina. This time it would be good to go just the two of us.”

People’s eyes widened again.

“It’s business. Business. Last time you were uncomfortable being squeezed between knights packed in military carriages.”

While I was explaining, the entrance area became noisy again.

Bells rang, and the head of the Holy Order appeared in white robes and formal wear, leading Holy Knights.

Seeing him walking with his violet eyes flashing intensely, the aristocratic ladies who had been standing proudly until now brightened and quickly approached.

“Your Eminence!”

But he didn’t even look at them and headed straight toward me.

I had heard he would appear frequently at the Imperial Palace for a while.

Having met secretly all this time and suddenly meeting officially, my mind stuttered for a moment.

“What brings Your Eminence here?”

“When I heard a demon’s head had arrived, naturally I had to come examine it. But that’s not what’s important….”

He frowned and said.

“Young Lady, what happened to the promise you made with me? I waited expectantly, but was it perhaps a lie? It’s becoming hurtful.”

“He’s talking about donations, everyone. I promised to make a large donation but forgot about it.”

I snapped open my fan to block the gazes pouring from all directions and provided commentary.

All these people made my surroundings noisy. Everyone was just waiting for a chance to say something to me.

Aide Perdel deliberately approached and said worriedly.

“What should we do? As I predicted, everyone is making a fuss trying to grab Young Lady’s attention.”

“Exactly. This is why I didn’t want to come to the Imperial Palace.”

I spoke as if troubled while glancing toward Sion.

He stood there with an utterly bewildered expression. His widened eyes and slightly parted lips seemed to say:

‘What is this? Are they all conspiring to tease me?’

It was understandable that he’d be confused. According to his memories, Aldensis should be flashing murderous intent because I caused trouble chasing after him.

Zikren should be physically struggling to drag me away from the scene. And Ruellian should be coldly turning away, looking at this whole spectacle with contemptuous eyes.

Well, just a few months ago, the exact same scene that Sion had imagined would have unfolded…

‘Did you see that?’

I lifted my chin proudly.

This is what social life is all about. How much effort did I put in to crawl my way up here from rock bottom—no, from dozens of meters underwater.

‘I’m no longer the kind of person who could be suddenly murdered without anyone caring, like in the past. If I die, everyone would suffer some kind of loss. So abandon any foolish thoughts.’

As I was showing off my survival skills even more enthusiastically in front of Sion, Duke Carnel approached me.

“I was skeptical when I heard your reputation had improved somewhat, but seeing it firsthand today, it does seem to be true.”

He turned his gaze to glance over there.

Oliver had somehow joined the Holy Knights and was laughing with an awkward expression.

“After the incident with Duke Hyperion, Oliver learned to control his impatient nature and be more careful with his words, so that experience was good medicine for him. Still, I thought it was about time for him to break free from that, but everyone was so inflexible they didn’t know what to do. You stepped up well.”

“It was nothing.”

I said as if it was no big deal.

“Someone who gets so excited about their first Imperial Tournament that they don’t even realize they’re drunk must really love festivals, but to think he couldn’t properly enjoy them for over 20 years! As someone who goes crazy for parties, my heart ached and I just couldn’t let it slide.”

The Duke nodded.

“Yes. Well done.”

“Excellent, sister. You’re indeed much more thoughtful than I am.”

Sion quickly chimed in. He had already skillfully hidden his frustrated and disappointed expression, and anyone could see he had the face of an angel who respected his sister.

But…

Isn’t endurance also experience? Based on the analytical data I had accumulated in my mind from all the times Sion had gotten me, his gaze seemed a bit strange.

‘You may be smiling now, but you’ll be crying soon, sister.’

There seemed to be a 99 percent chance that’s what his look meant.

Was there something else he was thinking about? What could it be?

There was only one thing I could guess.

It must be related to the content of the Guild competition that we’d soon learn about, right?

‘What exactly has he prepared?’

Just as I was tilting my head in confusion, the Butler’s booming voice rang out.

“His Majesty the Emperor has arrived!”

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