Rehabilitate the Villainess

65 – The Villainess Appeals

“⋯⋯Don’t cheat on me.”

I was silent for a while at those words of the tearful Shael. Don’t flirt It was a laugh out loud statement.

“I will have an affair.”

I was trying to tell Sael what reason to cheat. But my words did not carry on to the end.

Because Shael shoved one of her cupcakes into her mouth.

I feel prickly. At the same time, Shael’s harsh voice was heard.

“Close your mouth.”

“⋯.”

I can’t even open it anyway. It was thanks to someone putting sugar-covered cupcakes in their mouths.

It was so sweet that I frowned. How much sugar did you put in?

Now that I put it in my mouth and feel it, it seems that Shael has added not only sugar but also other seasonings without my knowledge.

I can feel the strange taste that cannot be expressed in words.

Because of that, I couldn’t speak any more. For now, I listened to Shael’s continued words.

“There were times when we went out together.”

Shael began to complain about her resentment. Her reason was simple. In Sael’s mind, I’d be the cheating bad fiancée.

By the way⋯⋯.

Have you ever gone out together? Even though it’s true, it makes me laugh. It was because Sael was talking as if going out together was possible only if they were in a special relationship.

Said Shael, barely swallowing the cupcake she had shoved into me.

“Originally, if you are a normal person, you go out together even if you are not in a special relationship.”

“We are not normal people.”

That’s right. Because the evil woman’s way of thinking is far from that of ordinary people.

If it was Sael, he would never go out with anyone other than her family. No, maybe even the experience of going out with her family can be counted on one hand.

But she couldn’t figure out why I was included in it. Shael added.

“I even hugged you.”

“⋯.”

I did that a few times. Shael, whom she hugged in Azbel’s garden, suddenly pushing me against the wall. Next, Shael, who unexpectedly hugged me when I woke up from fainting.

At that time right after Sael hugged me, I was like that too.

I couldn’t say anything this time because it was true. Just waiting for an opportunity to know when to tell my truth.

I wonder if Shael took my silence as my failure to refute her words?

He continued to spit out random words. It was a remark that would make her face red if anyone heard it. Shael’s face was already blushing.

“⋯⋯We’ve spent one night together.”

It was fortunate that Baslet Street had good soundproofing. Of course, what Shael said was true. But I felt unfair.

“I didn’t do anything.”

“⋯⋯ Lie.”

I looked at Shael with a question about why I was lying. Shael said confidently.

“⋯⋯You slept hugging me.”

It was the opposite. Shael mistook me for her doll and hugged me. It’s not that I hugged Shael.

It was Shael who tried to beat me with a really selfish mindset. The problem is that even that felt cute.

I seem to have transferred that mindset to Shael, who has a strange way of thinking.

Since I was laughing, Shael said urgently.

“⋯⋯You heard my confession.”

“⋯ Yes?”

This is something that has never been heard before. Has Shael ever confessed to me?

It can’t be. That would also be the case, if Shael really confessed to me… There’s no way I’d ever forget it.

Shael answered my question. Exactly, she acted. Before I knew it, my magic pouch was in Shael’s hand.

“⋯.”

-‘I like you.’

-‘I love you.’

What Sael took out of her magic bag was a snake orb. While Sael was prepared for her shame, she was activating the snake’s orb.

She leaves the snake’s beads on by herself, then turns them off in annoyance. And Sael looked at her as if he wanted an answer from me.

“Is that… a confession?”

Shael nodded her head. It was the juice of the tree of obedience, and it was a word from my command.

It’s an absurd statement to call it a confession.

Are you saying anything because the slave who will cook dessert for the rest of your life is about to escape?

I said to Shael.

“That is not an ordinary confession.”

With those words, I looked at Shael. A fact that even Shael can’t deny. But the Shael I’m looking at.

It looked really unfair. I was taken aback and listened to Shael’s words.

“⋯⋯Did you play with me?”

A bloody atmosphere. I wondered if Shael would tell me the truth about what I misunderstood…

It wasn’t like that. In the first place, I wanted to convey my true feelings in a perfect atmosphere. If I said it now, I thought that Sael would dismiss my words as lies.

Instead, I spoke to Shael.

“How can I do that? I approached you with a serious heart.”

It has been like that since the beginning. Even when she cursed at the wicked woman.

How can I meet Shael with a soft heart?

I waited for Sael’s words. Shael, who was holding her breath, spoke to me.

“⋯⋯ Then, you met that love here with a heartfelt heart.”

I wiped my forehead at Sael’s words. In Sael’s imagination, the Baslet family’s female knight had become a real person before he knew it.

I spoke quickly to clear up Sael’s misunderstanding.

“I have never had an affair with a female knight.”

I was able to understand one thing through Sael’s words that immediately followed. There was a loophole in my hastily spit out words.

“⋯⋯If you’re not a female knight⋯, are you a maid from the Bar or Slet family?”

Of course it can’t be. So that Sael couldn’t misunderstand anymore, I told him straight up.

“Lately, I haven’t talked to any woman except you.”

It was real. Because he was splitting up his time and using it, he had never talked to any woman other than Shael.

Except for the time I met Sael, my routine was really frustrating.

Training swordsmanship, training magic. Cooking for Shael, reading books for knowledge.

Except for Clie before the pearls, I hadn’t really talked to any woman. Conversation with Clie was a serious matter for me and Sael’s survival.

So I was proud. Thought at the same time. Maybe through these words, Shael didn’t realize my true intentions?

I’ve never had a conversation with any woman except you. Then who would be the woman I love?

But Shael didn’t notice.

“⋯⋯I guess so.”

“⋯ Yes?”

I had no choice but to question Sael’s words. That’s right, Rani. It was as if Sael took it for granted.

Eventually, I could understand the reason from the girl Sael showed me.

The Ring of Control. It was also the ring Shael and I shared.

A ring that allows you to set as many restrictions as you wish so that you cannot communicate with the opposite sex, except for the person wearing the other ring.

“It’s not that we didn’t talk, it’s that we couldn’t. It’s because I’ve put a restriction on talking to any woman.”

I’m at a loss for words. I never dreamed that things would turn out like this. Who would have predicted this situation.

As expected, no one will.

I was silent with a puzzled expression on my face. Then Shael spoke.

“Because of this, are you talking to me about the woman you love?”

Because you won’t be able to take the ring off without my permission.

I felt as if I could hear what Shael hadn’t said yet. She looked at Shael. Now, I could see the wicked woman’s sneer at Shael.

That ridicule you showed when you bullied me. It was a smile I hadn’t seen in a while. Shael’s mouth opened.

“⋯⋯Don’t worry.”

“⋯.”

“Because I will never allow it.”

Then she shows off the sneer of a wicked woman. No, it was quite different from usual. A foolish wicked woman’s ridicule. Before I knew it, it had become a grin like a snake.

If I was the villain’s nemesis in the past, not now. Right now, my nemesis was Shael.

“⋯⋯No.”

In the mood and all, she opened her mouth, determined to tell the truth. The woman I love is you

I was going to say that…

I couldn’t. Because Shael shoved a cupcake in her mouth.

She hurriedly chewed the cupcakes and tried to tell Shael my true feelings. But she couldn’t.

The cupcakes Sael gave me were overly sweet. Even more so than the cupcakes she ate earlier.

“⋯Water, some water⋯⋯.”

Coughing continuously, she drank the water Shael handed her. She barely managed to straighten her mind and tried to tell Shael the truth.

The woman I love is you.

But this time, too, my mouth did not open.

Because I was suddenly drowsy. Shael, smiling at me, comes into her eyes.

It was then that one memory came to mind.

-‘What kind of medicine is that?’

-‘⋯⋯A drug that will knock anyone out.’

I had a hunch. That the water I drank had the medicine in it.

Isn’t that too harsh for someone who fainted for 15 days? Well, I did play a joke on Shael first.

But fortunately, it’s the medicine I bought at the auction house, so there shouldn’t be any problems with my health. I must have heard that certainty, Shael must have given me medicine too.

But that’s all. I watched Shael’s snarl-like smile and fell in love with her attack.