I Will Quit the Entourage of the Villainess

Once I crouched down, my legs didn’t move easily.

”Ouch.”

“You okay? Where does it hurt? …Your legs.”

Perhaps it was caused by the release of tension or the pain in my feet that had been damaged by running barefoot.

“I was barefoot…”

If you look closely, the soles of my feet are quite bruised and began throbbing as soon as I become aware of them.

Seeing my frown, His Highness picked me up in a heap.

”Uhiu….put me down, please! I’m fine! It’s okay!”

“I don’t think it’s all right. You’re going to the place with me now.”

“Hiii…”

I haven’t had someone pick me up since I was a baby.

My diet has helped me lose weight, but what if they think I’m too heavy?

My face burned up with embarrassment.

While I turned over to avoid looking at His Highness’s face, he got into the carriage lightly.

When I asked him to drop me off at the carriage seat, I saw a smiling Remias in the seat across from me.

”Remias! You’re safe!”

“Yes. Is Cosette the one in charge? I just heard that you were kidnapped. Are you otherwise injured?”

“I’m alright, except for the soles of my feet. Alfred-sensei said you were locked up. You lost so much weight. I’m sorry I didn’t recognize you sooner.”

Remias’s complexion was pale, unhealthily pallid and with dark circles under his eyes.

I wondered if he hadn’t been fed satisfactorily, and my heart ached.

As I stared at him painfully, Remias shook his head loosely.

“They didn’t do anything rough to me. He still had compassion for my father, even though he was locked up. The food was also brought to me properly. But… I’ve lost my appetite.”

I nodded.

If I was trapped for two weeks, I would lose my appetite.

I would have been mentally trapped.

“Ah! Speaking of which, if Remias is here, what about the coup…?”

“Ah. Remias confided in me. I was just about to report it to the King.”

His Highness, sitting next to me, nodded with a serious expression.

”So, Cosette. You said earlier that you were with Alfred-sensei, but you’re sure it was Marquis Alfred Grandshil who kidnapped you?”

“Yes. It was Remy-sama who took me out of the ballroom, but she was only being used. By having me brought to the Duke’s house, he wanted to make Master Remias guilty of kidnapping. After that, I believe he secretly transported me to Alfred-sensei’s residence.”

I tried desperately to defend Remy-sama after that. That it was all masterminded by Alfred-sensei and that she had just been used for good.

I don’t know why Remias-sama was complicit in this kidnapping.

Was he being blackmailed in the same way as the Duke of Dorange?

However, if possible, I didn’t want Remias-sama to bear a serious crime.

His Highness, who had been listening intently to my desperate words, suddenly asked me curiously.

“I understand your desire to help Remias, Cosette. But you were quite frightened, weren’t you? Don’t you have any desire to punish Remias?”

At His Highness’s words, I ‘hmmm’ and think.

Then I stared at their faces in turn so that Remias, who was watching with bated breath, could hear them as well.

“My bump hurts, but I’m alive. I was scared, but they saved me like this. And besides…”

“”Besides?””

“I love Remias-sama! Aha!”

They laughed as if they were deflated.

His Highness the Crown Prince promised to make Remias’s sins as light as possible, and Remias was in tears as he said thank you to me and His Highness.

While we were talking about this, the carriage arrived at the Royal Palace.

His Highness and Remias are now going to warn His Majesty the King about the coup.

I thought I should go too, but I was told to rest for now, as my face and body were covered in mud.

They said they would report back to me the information I had received from Alfred-sensei.

They said they would contact my parents, who must be very worried about me, so I decided to take a bath while waiting for them.

My dress is in shambles, and my first ballroom debut was a disaster.

I worked so hard to get ready for it!

I hate you for ruining it!

I’m gonna make you pay for this! I made up my mind to go to the bathroom with my maid of honor.