Rehabilitate the Villainess

58 – The Villainess Leaves Desserts

I saw a familiar path. I saw Shael next to me.

“⋯⋯ Why are you like this all of a sudden?”

“⋯.”

A golden pearl given by Ruel. It was a pearl that allowed me to stay in the past for 3 days at a desired point in time.

Using this, I returned right after the fireworks festival in the Fleurin Territory. Exactly 3 days ago.

Even if we go back to the distant past, Clie will already have holy power. So he decided it would be a good idea to go back to the nearest point in time.

If you go to the distant past in the first place, the future might change drastically.

Fortunately, as Clie wrote in the novel, such a serious thing as me being two people doesn’t seem to have happened.

“Why…”

I unconsciously hugged Shael. Because what happened a while ago is still not forgotten.

“⋯What⋯⋯!”

“This is the price of the stolen dessert.”

I wondered if there were people like this, seeing Shael on the verge of getting annoyed.

How to defeat Clie. All you have to do is break the bracelet or prevent Clie from curing the disease.

However, it is impossible to prevent the treatment of the disease.

In the original novel, the seemingly insignificant earrings that the crown prince presented to Clie with a large sum of money after being scammed cure Clie’s illness.

The effect of the earrings, which were said to cure any disease, was not a lie.

As expected of a romance fantasy novel… Clie’s illness is cured by the combination of the male lead’s favor towards the female lead and an absurd coincidence.

To be honest, I wanted to leave a comment asking what kind of sudden development that was.

And now, maybe Clie has earrings. He even thought of a strategy to go back to the distant past and get the amulet from me, but…

To begin with, I don’t know where those earrings came from.

So the best way to defeat Clie was to break the bracelet of holy power. The bracelet of that holy power that is still in my magic bag.

Of course, that was impossible now. First of all, the reason Clie suddenly attacked the Azbel family. Need to figure it out

“Have you done anything strange lately?”

“⋯⋯?”

Of course, the reason must be with Shael. So she started questioning Shael, who was staring at me blankly.

“I don’t do weird things.”

“What did you do yesterday?”

“⋯⋯You’ve been together the whole time.”

It is true that I spend most of my day with Shael. But that doesn’t mean it sticks around all the time.

As I urged her to speak, Shael opened her mouth.

“After I spent time with you, I stayed in my room the whole time.”

“⋯.”

I kept changing the period and asking, but I couldn’t get any answer. So this time I changed the question.

“Then, have you been out of Azbel Street without me lately?”

After thinking for a moment, Shael nodded her head. She still seems to have been out of the Azbel family.

“Only once. I was out.”

“What were you doing then?”

I listened. Hopefully I can find out something.

“I went to the auction house, why all of a sudden?”

Why the hell are you asking this? Shael tilted her head. The question was lightly ignored.

It’s an auction house. Could it be that you met Clie there?

“Who did you meet at the auction house?”

“I haven’t met anyone.”

The next question was obvious.

“Then what did you buy at the auction house?”

“⋯⋯ Why are you asking that?”

I didn’t bother to answer Shael’s question. Instead, it only touched Shael’s weakness.

“If you tell me, I’ll go to Baslet Street and make you a lot of dessert.”

It was to seduce Sael, and at the same time to keep an eye on the Baslet family so that Sael would not be exposed to the same danger as before.

“⋯⋯Do you think I will listen to you because of that?”

However, Shael’s behavior was quite different from what she said. Before she knew it, her hand was pulling something out of her pocket.

“I bought this. ⋯⋯Keep your promises.”

“I heard you won’t follow me, but your behavior is different.”

At that, Shael glared at me. Ignoring this, she shifted her gaze to her hand. What Shael took out of her pocket was ⋯ a small pill.

It must have been a while since I bought it, but judging from what I’m carrying around, it seems to be a medicine that has something to use.

“What drug is that?”

“⋯⋯.”

Desserts and pride. Shael, who was conflicted between them, said.

“⋯No medicine⋯.”

At first glance, it was a lie. After letting out a sigh, I spoke to Shael.

“If you don’t say it right, there will be no dessert.”

“⋯.”

“Ah, the snake beads are also played in the Azbel family.”

Shael said with a disgruntled expression.

“⋯⋯ A drug that will knock anyone out.”

“⋯.”

Why did you buy that? I do not know. A drug for brutal use. Looking at me at the same time… Gives me goosebumps all over.

At first, it wasn’t that important.

“⋯⋯Didn’t you buy anything else besides that?”

At my words, when Shael brought out something of hers again. I felt short of breath, choking.

Earrings seen in the illustration of the original novel. And, an earring that will cure Clie’s disease.

Because above all else, what was most important to Clie was in Sael’s hands.

“That, why do you…”

“Would you like to eat?”

Shael held out her earring to me. Why on earth did Shael have earrings that the prince should have bought and given to Clie?

No, I don’t even know why Sael bought this in the first place. Even that crown prince must have bought the earrings with a lot of money.

“⋯⋯ Why the hell did you buy that?”

“⋯⋯Ah. ⋯Just.”

For no reason? At first, he nodded. It was because the wicked woman often bought strange things.

First, I headed towards Baslet Street.

* * *

Me and Shael came together to Baslett Street under the pretext of dessert. After leaving Shael in my room with dessert for a while, I came out alone.

I hid the magic bag with the bracelet in a secret place so Clie wouldn’t see it, and entered the room where Duke Ezran was staying.

“What happened?”

“I need help.”

Duke Ezran looked at me as if asking me to say more.

“⋯⋯Please lend me your strength. There are things that must be broken. Unless it’s the Baslet family’s aura…”

It was to break Clie’s bracelet. I needed a way somehow.

Even if I were to give her an earring to cure Clie’s disease, I don’t know how things will turn out.

I don’t know if the reason Clie attacked the mansion in the first place was because of the earrings.

And Duke Ezran was the best person to break the bracelet. When it comes to applying large forces to small objects, Duke Ezran would have a superior advantage over Duke Jespen.

In my opinion, it is difficult to break the bracelet with the power of Duke Jespen. Usually, magic was weaker than swordsmanship in terms of instantaneous cutting power.

So, Duke Ezran was my last hope.

“No.”

Duke Ezran shook his head. I earnestly asked him back.

“Can I ask why?”

“I would have said I couldn’t use auras.”

“⋯.”

Even with that resolute statement, I couldn’t easily understand. The duke of the famous swordsmanship family couldn’t use the aura.

It was an aura that even Eran Baslett in the novel would have used. No matter how much I thought about it, there was no reason why Duke Ezran couldn’t use his aura.

“So, go out now.”

“⋯⋯Yes.”

But I couldn’t say anything to Duke Ezran. He was so adamant.

It was to the point where I thought that maybe I couldn’t really use my aura.

In the first place, his expression seemed to be sincere rather than false.

I left Duke Ezran’s room and headed to my room where Shael was to be.

I thought I had already eaten all the desserts, but surprisingly, there were still desserts left.

To the extent that even more than half of it remains.

“⋯⋯Could it be that you left my share?”

“⋯?”

Shael shook her head as if asking something like that. She said, there’s no way the villainess would leave me dessert.

“Were you eating sparingly?”

Oops!

At those words, Shael cleared his throat.

Looking at the reaction, it seems to be the correct answer. I think I’ll have to struggle mentally and physically.

Someone is sitting and eating dessert. So, it is true that power is lost.

But the next thing Shael said to me made me regain my strength.

“⋯⋯I’ll give you at least one cookie. Because you said it didn’t contain much sugar.”

I’m only saying that I’ll give you one cookie. It makes me feel proud as strange as it is strange.

If it was the original evil woman, she wouldn’t give anything away to others. A lot of things in Shael have changed thanks to me.

That’s funny. One cookie. No, even the one cookie I gave you… Convinced me that I was doing well.

At the same time, I thought while eating the cookie Shael gave me. Absolutely, she doesn’t want to lose Shael.

“⋯⋯Come. I need to practice my aura.”

There is not much time given. 3 Days. No, maybe even shorter than that. At least if you can’t break the bracelet by tomorrow…

I have to run away with Sael. That way I don’t know how things will turn out.

So, before that. I had to awaken the Baslet family’s aura that any object could be cut in two.

If the strengthening scroll was not used in the Bracelet of Holy Power, it would be worth trying if it was at least the Baslet family’s aura.

“Do you want to come?”

“Yes, I have to go to practice right now.”

Shael asked, tilting her head.

“⋯⋯ Still can’t use it?”

“⋯.”

Do you think it’s easy to put an aura into a sword? I was even told that if the Barslett family had blood, it would take a lot more effort.

Instead, an aura worthy of the effort will be born.

“⋯⋯Isn’t it just a matter of swinging it around?”

“Sounds that make sense.”

I blurted out what I was trying to do to bruise Shael. I don’t know why, because I heard Sael’s words familiar.

ㅡWhat if the person who is famous for swordsmanship ⋯can’t use Aura yet?

ㅡFuck, what to do when you see me doing something wrong.

ㅡWhat are you saying right now?

My words sound harsh. Even so, it didn’t feel cold.

ㅡI won’t give you dessert if you mess with it, so why don’t you shut up.

ㅡThat’s, Absolutely not.

A conversation that comes to mind. Have you had this conversation with Shael?

I don’t know. Grabbing her throbbing head, she walked toward the Baslet family’s training ground.