Rehabilitate the Villainess

52 – The wicked woman is conscious

Shael crumpled her face. It deserves it. What Shael had just inhaled was ⋯ the juice that smelled bad from her.

“⋯⋯”

“Are you okay?”

“⋯No.”

There’s no way it’ll be okay. My head hurts from being drunk. She even hated what Shael wrote in the first place.

“I’ll get you some water.”

“Not water, that.”

What Sael pointed out was the box I gave him. She meant to ask for dessert.

To beat the bitter taste with dessert instead of water!

I can’t understand the way of thinking. First, I handed a cupcake to Shael.

“Here you are.”

Shael hurriedly ate the cupcakes. After some time passed, I asked Shael.

“So, what was that strange liquid just now?”

She was in fact a question she would never answer if she were Sael. No matter how drunk you are, you will instinctively do it.

Contrary to my expectations, Sael responded quickly.

“Juice.”

“I don’t know that? I meant what kind of juice it was.”

“⋯What, more⋯⋯?”

It wasn’t a clumsy performance. Indeed, it seemed that Shael had forgotten this. Shael said, agonizing as she placed her hand on her head for a moment.

“⋯⋯Ah! The sap of the tree of obedience.”

Booze of the Tree of Obedience? It is a familiar name. Because I saw Shael buy it at the auction house.

Since Sael drank it, it means that Sael has no choice but to obey my words.

So you will have to answer my words without lies.

“Why did you try to feed that to me?”

“⋯⋯.”

Shael seemed reluctant to answer. But she had no choice but to open her mouth. Because she had been drinking the juice of the tree of obedience.

“To find out if you love me.”

“Yes?”

Absolutely incomprehensible words. Did you give him the juice to find out if you loved him?

To be honest, I am embarrassed. She’s not what the wicked woman said, she was cheesy.

“Why did you suddenly wonder about that?”

“⋯Looking at the book, I think you like me.”

What bullshit? It seems that the words come out strangely because he is drunk not only with the juice of the tree of obedience, but also with alcohol.

First of all, I asked Shael more.

“Aside from that, was there any other reason?”

“Yes.”

I looked at Shael in silence. In the sense of waiting for an answer. Shael replied.

“To see if he’s cheating on you…”

“⋯.”

To see if he’s cheating? I frowned. What the hell kind of nonsense is this?

But it wasn’t long before I noticed. Clearly, Clie became the reason.

No matter how much I drew my sword in front of Clie, I couldn’t completely erase his doubts.

If you heard me and Clie communicate through the bracelet.

So it was necessary to tell Shael the truth.

“I’m not having an affair, so you don’t have to worry.”

At my words, Shael nodded her head. Things seemed to be over for a while.

Sael gets drunk with her alcohol and strange juices, and her mind wanders back and forth, and I remain silent as I watch Sael like that.

While the silence continued, I was the first to speak up for her.

When he was tied up by Sael. It was because he wanted to retrieve the snake orb that had been stolen by Shael at that time.

“You must give me the snake beads you took back.”

“⋯⋯Yes.”

Even though she was drunk, Shael frowned at my words. However, she had no choice but to accept it due to the juice she drank herself.

“Here.”

“Good job.”

I activated the snake orb that Sael gave me. But no sound was heard.

The reason could be easily guessed. If it was Sael, she would of course have erased her dark history.

It’s a bit of a waste, but it doesn’t matter. All you have to do is re-record it.

I said with an evil smile.

“Since I have to record, would you like to tell me that you like me?”

I feel sorry for Shael, but…

This is all for Shael’s sake. Because when the villain commits her misdeeds, she needs a way to stop them.

In preparation for unforeseen situations, we need more preparedness measures than just desserts.

To put it bluntly, I also wanted to bully Shael.

“I like you.”

“Good job.”

I put Shael’s voice into the snake’s beads with a smile.

If it were Sael, she might try to steal the snake’s orb, but she doesn’t seem to realize that the situation is going against her now that she’s drunk.

But this is not enough.

“Tell me that you love me too.”

“I love you.”

This was also stored in the snake’s orb. As a result, the countermeasures to prevent the wicked woman’s evil deeds have become more solid.

The next action was for the health of the evil woman. Because Sael eats a lot of sweets.

There were herbs in Shael’s room. As soon as she saw it, she laughed out loud.

Because Shael, who doesn’t like herbs, brought her herbs into her room, and she seemed to know why.

“No way, did you bring it to feed me?”

Shael nodded her head. Before I could ask further, Shael spoke.

“If you feed me the juice… I brought it to get revenge for drugging me the other day.”

“I see.”

I tried to feed him because he was worried about my health, but Sael seemed to want to feed me because he wanted my pain.

I’m sorry. But it’s okay. Now, it was Shael who should feel the bitterness.

“Please eat it all.”

Sael spent such a long time eating her herbs. She added to Shael, who was eating herbs, she said.

“I don’t think the dessert I brought will be good for your health, so I’ll give it back to you later.”

This time, Shael opened her mouth as if to retort. No matter how drunk she is, doesn’t she want to lose dessert?

However, Shael’s mouth did not open. Because her mouth had been opened before him.

“I will not accept objections.”

The juice from the tree of obedience seems to be better than I thought.

A lot of time has passed.

The clock was telling me it was time for me to go. As soon as he confirmed this, he said to Shael, who was not thinking of falling onto her chair.

“Please go out with me to the hallway.”

Originally, it wouldn’t be like that, but⋯⋯. Shael had no choice but to obey.

In front of the door of the Azbel family’s mansion, where Shael and I came together.

Just as I was about to tell Sael to go back to his room, Duke Jespen appeared.

“⋯!”

Duke Jespen opened his mouth in amazement. It is a matter of course. Because Shael always sent me out alone.

At the same time, Duke Jespen joked.

“⋯Shael, but Eran made it all the way here⋯⋯.”

Something is ominous. And that ominous feeling was always right.

“How about a hug?”

As soon as I heard those words, Shael hugged me. At a rate that I find hard to deny.

“⋯!”

Duke Jespen looked at this in awe. It was the same with the maids who were far away.

Looks like rumors are going around again in the Azbel family.

* * *

Shael hurried back to his room. Because she’s fucking tree succulent. It’s a big deal if you ever meet someone.

I was able to do that because my drunkenness was gone from what happened just before, and I was able to make normal judgments.

“⋯Ah.”

Shael let out a sigh when she was finally left alone. She did something stupid.

She even gave her damn fiancé her weakness.

What caught Sael’s eyes at that time was the honey water and dessert box placed on her table.

Earlier, when Ran left her Shael for a while and went to her bathroom, it was clear that she had brought her honey water from the warehouse then.

He said as if he took the dessert, but fortunately he seems to have left it.

ㅡ It will help with a hangover, so please don’t drink it.

It was written on a note. Shael drank the honey water. She actually didn’t want to drink it, but she made Sael drink her honeydew juice from the tree of obedience.

At the same time, I thought while looking at Eran’s notepad.

⋯Who is this all about?

It’s because of Eran. Because of Ran, she was doing the actions that were listed in her book to herself.

Shael was unfair.

She didn’t achieve her goal after all she drank and ⋯⋯.

Even Eran’s words made her do strange things.

Shael recalled what happened just before. She remembers when Eran made her say strange things.

-‘I like you.’

-‘I love you.’

Those words ⋯ were even recorded on the serpent’s beads that Sael stole from her road. That wasn’t the end.

-‘Eran came all the way here… How about giving her a hug?’

After chewing on Duke Jespen’s words, Shael let out a sigh.

The tree of obedience reacted to her words, and she hugged Eran.

Shael’s face turned red with shame.

Today’s disgrace will never be forgotten. Somehow, Eran will pull out her revenge.

And then.

Something came to Sael’s mind. It was… An explanation of the juice from the tree of obedience that Shael had just eaten.

ㅡ ‘Finally here! Obedience Tree Sap! Of course, it’s impossible to make a target do something it completely refuses… But you can make it do something else!’

“⋯.”

Obviously I don’t have a good memory, but I remember that explanation clearly.

It’s impossible to make the target do something they completely reject?

-‘I like you.’

-‘I love you.’

Then what about those words Sael said?

What do you mean by those words that were dismissed as purely due to the juice of the tree of obedience?

At the same time, he remembered the book that tore all the pages in Shael’s head. A love advice book that had a lot of things that overlapped with Sael’s actions.

Shael shook her head to get the thought out of her, then lay down on her bed. Shael was sure. I’m tired now, so it’s clear that I’m having strange thoughts.

I hugged the doll that I always kept next to me like a habit. However, Shael was frightened and had no choice but to shake off the doll she was hugging.

This is also the doll Eran gave me.

The damn fiancé was deeply infiltrating Sael’s life before he knew it. I couldn’t even guess how deep it would be.