Rehabilitate the Villainess

5 – The Villainess Can Never Know

We checked each other’s feelings. Of course, it was clear that the heart was not love, but hate, and it was not something the two fiancés would normally exchange.

And now they were sending hot eyes to each other. It was a look that would misunderstand anyone.

However, this time again, these hot eyes were somewhat unique in that they did not express love, but contempt.

She glared at me. I also glared at her.

“⋯Is this a rematch after a teacup?”

“⋯.”

It was her eyes that answered my question. Of course, it was also my eyes that answered her eyes again.

It’s a completely unknown relationship.

The two fiancés competed over sound with teacups, and now they are having a snowball fight. I didn’t know that I would be possessed in a novel and do childish things like this with a villain.

Perhaps even young couples have never looked at each other as passionately as we do.

Looking at each other like that without saying a word. Some time passes.

Suddenly, my eyes hurt. This will be the same for Shael.

Still, the sore eyes didn’t matter to Sael and me. Because there was something more important.

The important thing is to win, and the reward is the opponent’s resentment. It will be such a sweet reward. So i can’t give up

“⋯Why don’t you just give up?”

“That’s what I want to say!”

I said it, and the villainess answered. But neither of them gave up.

Time passes again. The tea I was drinking lost its heat and cooled down.

Now I had been working so hard on my eyes that I had tears in my eyes.

I was thinking that it would be nice if the other person quit. But there was no way anyone would give up.

Now the cold tea was getting cold. Tears began to flow from Shael’s eyes.

What was strange was that it was the first time I had seen the devil’s tears. Of course, even though the reason for the tears was somewhat peculiar.

“⋯To make a lady cry, what a mean man I am.”

“Even you… The tears are flowing.”

“Is that so…?”

It might look a bit funny. Two twenty-year-old men and women are crying while having a snowball fight.

My eyes were half closed now. Of course, the villainess was still staring at me with her eyes wide open. As expected, the wicked woman is poisonous.

“Open your eyes fully.”

“⋯.”

“Let’s float.”

That’s what the villainess told me. I can’t help but open my eyes completely again.

Now my eyes were stinging. Even though there are tears.

Now there is silence. Because I couldn’t afford to concentrate on talking. I just endured while imagining a future that would harass the other person.

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What ended the silence was the sound of someone knocking on the door.

“Come in.”

That’s what I said. Because the villainess was paying all her attention to her snowball fight.

Then the ladies-in-waiting came in. It was for more dessert. It was nothing out of the ordinary.

Just⋯⋯.

The ladies-in-waiting’s expressions were different from usual. Because they saw something.

“⋯!!”

The silent clamor of the ladies-in-waiting. It was like that as soon as he saw Shael’s tears.

Ah, Sael has never shed a tear. The tears of the wicked woman were hard to see and very precious.

Of course. There’s no way a wicked woman would easily show tears to others.

Of course, now it has become cheap tears that can only be seen in a snowball fight⋯⋯.

The ladies-in-waiting went out with quick steps. It was a look that made me want to move my mouth right away.

Tomorrow, everyone in the ducal family will know this.

“Now rumors will circulate that you shed tears to hold me back, Shael.”

“⋯.”

The villainess still didn’t answer. She wasn’t because of the rumors that were going to spread.

It was because the fight was still going on, while shedding tears.

Is this really the vicious villain in the novel, or is it because of my mood that I’m thinking about it?

What erased my thoughts were the desserts brought by the ladies-in-waiting.

It wasn’t because it looked delicious. Because something strange happened.

⋯It was detected by poison search magic.

Looking at things like this, she was definitely a villain. To have this kind of food come out to poison yourself at home.

If you think about it, not only the protagonists in novels have trials. The wicked woman, Shael, also had many trials.

Of course, the book does not deal heavily with the content. In the first place, this is before the original work even started. In the novel, the villain’s past was not properly dealt with.

That’s why the book only mentions things like the villain, Sael, who also had this and that, but dealt with it alone like a vicious villain.

In the original work, the wicked woman must have avoided this poisoning in some way. It is highly likely that the method used poison detection magic like me now.

But now?

If I don’t put this dessert away, Shael could be found tomorrow with a cold body.

Unlike the original, I intervened. Furthermore, since he was the fiancé of the wicked woman, he must have had a great influence.

Perhaps the wicked woman in the novel sensed this through magic like me, but… Not now.

She doesn’t know how to use any magic. She even heard the Duke of Jespen himself say that she had never been taught.

Then it was clear what I had to do. It is to prevent poisoning and eliminate the culprit.

I’m trying hard to rehabilitate the villainess. ‘Cause I can’t let this go

I immediately brought the dessert in front of the villainess in front of me. I had to close my two sore eyes.

“⋯It’s a win.”

Of course, she was a villain who was still pursuing her own victory.

“Yes, it is.”

“⋯.”

As expected, the villainess will curse at me.

But my expectations were wrong.

It was just asking me in a questionable tone.

“Why did you take that?”

“Oh, it looks delicious.”

“⋯.”

Shael stares at me in bewilderment. The country seems to be like that too.

To bring someone else’s dessert because it suddenly looks delicious?

It’s an inelegant act that even a villainess wouldn’t do. Normally, she would have said bad things, but the villainess just stared at me.

But why was the wicked woman still? It wasn’t the time for her to think about that.

It is natural. It was because he had to find out who was trying to kill the vicious villain with her poison.

Once you find it, you have to decide what to do with it.

“I’m going somewhere for a moment.”

I held the poisoned dessert in my hand. Then he got up from his seat.

Drrr!

As expected, the sound of the chair spoke for how urgent I was.

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Shael saw the dessert. It was the dessert the ladies-in-waiting put in front of me. It was something I always enjoyed.

I just felt something strange. It was through poison search magic.

It was the only magic that she learned alone because learning her magic was somehow annoying.

It wasn’t because of the magic she thought would be necessary for her to survive.

But she had no choice but to wake up.

She said it was because she had already eaten poison several times.

Apart from the perpetrators, no one in the duchy knew about this.

It was because she overcame it alone. Even the poison was the same for Shael, who did not report her wounds and hid them.

The terrible villain did not tell others about her own suffering.

At first it was a weak poison. Of course, it was enough poison to kill a person.

But she overcame it. As she endured her pain, she secretly took all sorts of medicines.

The reason she was able to hide her pain without revealing it was probably because she was a wicked woman who was more toxic than that poison.

And she finally defeated the criminal alone. Of course she didn’t get help from anyone here either.

It wasn’t even a thing for the wicked woman to chase away her weak lady-in-waiting.

After that, there were several attempts. Of course, the evil woman was more poisonous than those poisons. She overcame all poisons.

After being poisoned so many times, she learned the magic of searching for poison herself.

In a way, it was natural. Because she was also the one with the Azbel family’s blood flowing through them.

So when Eran took her dessert, I was embarrassed.

Can you really eat it?

Of course not. Her own fiancé also had her poison-seeking magic.

It didn’t matter that he, a master of swordsmanship, even knew this type of magic.

The only thing that surprised her was why Eran had helped her.

Even though they said they disliked each other and even had a strange match, he was helping himself.

So even though she beat Ran with her eyes closed first, she didn’t seem to have won.

It was the same last time. This is what happened when the teacup was broken. Even then, as she was fighting her strange battle with herself, Ran healed her own hand.

For pity? It never was. It wasn’t because she liked herself either.

But I couldn’t figure out why.

So it was inevitable that the wicked woman would secretly follow her fiancee.

It was because the villainess was completely unknown.