Rehabilitate the Villainess

28 – The Villainess Plans

Shael and Clie faced each other. It was Shael who spoke first.

“What are you?”

“⋯⋯ Yes?”

Clie tilted her head as if she didn’t know why. At Clie’s reaction, Shael glared at me.

⋯What should I say? It was clear that the opportunity to try Clie had passed by.

So getting out of this situation was the priority.

“It is not as you would suspect.”

It was true. Even though I deliberately followed Clie, it wasn’t because of what Shael would think.

Sael let out a sigh and glared at Clie. Then she took my hand and turned around.

Shael started dragging me. It was the time when she tried to follow her as Sael wished. I heard Claire’s words.

“⋯⋯Ah. You dropped this bracelet!”

Cli was handing a pure white bracelet. However, the one the bracelet was pointing at was me. I don’t wear a bracelet

I couldn’t help but stand out in my eyes when I checked the bracelet properly. The bracelet Clie was holding was a bracelet that looked quite familiar.

A unique snake-shaped bracelet that could be seen on the cover of a romance fantasy novel. I was able to remember the details because it played a pretty important role.

A bracelet of holy power that will appear in the mid-to-late half of a romance fantasy novel.

Her was a bracelet that would give her enormous holy power and become its source. What’s more, it’s a tremendous thing that even holds various mysterious energies.

It served as a watchdog, and could imprint various magics. Even if the bracelet was far away, Clie, the owner, was able to get it back.

Anyway, it seems my assumption was not wrong. Clie must have returned. Otherwise, there is no way I would have had this bracelet at this point.

I looked at Clie. She had a sly smile.

⋯I made a mistake. I had to manage my expression properly. The reason was simple.

This bracelet is a big topic because of the owner’s decision. It’s a bracelet that allows you to gain enormous holy power, so it’s natural.

Clie, who is loved by the crown prince and the master of the tower, will eventually take possession of this bracelet.

And the owner of the bracelet was decided before Eran Baslett was killed by Shael in the novel.

Eran Baslett in the novel should have known about the existence of this bracelet.

So I immediately understood why Clie handed me this bracelet. After she regressed, she must have felt a change from Sael and me.

Clié was looking at me.

I wonder if Clié thought that I, too, would return with her for some reason.

If I accept this bracelet, it will be like admitting that I, too, have returned to Clie. Of course I’m not the one who came back… But…

You can take it away because it’s not mine. But it seemed that it was already too late. Clea, who had a good sense of humor, was convinced of this.

I couldn’t let things go without any knowledge. I don’t really want to intervene in the original novel, but it would be natural for Shael to get caught up in it again.

If you have this bracelet, you can try anything.

Talk to Clie, or find another way to do it through the bracelet. That would have been beneficial in many ways. I received her bracelet she was handing.

“⋯Yes, thank you.”

“Yes!”

Clie answers with a bright smile. I turned to her and lowered the corners of my mouth against her.

Fortunately, I was able to get away from the suffocating Clie because I couldn’t figure out what the action was. Shael looked carefully at his bracelet and said.

“⋯What is that bracelet?”

“Ah, this is a bracelet I happened to get. I think I dropped what I was wearing.”

It was an excuse because the clothes I was wearing didn’t have pockets.

⋯Are you suspicious of a bracelet that suddenly appeared? However, it was Shael who would not be of much interest to me.

Didn’t you just focus on sweets while the duel continued? So I was able to gloss over it.

“You weren’t here before?”

“There was.”

However, the villainess continued to be suspicious. So what I had to do was attack. Like you’ve always done.

“⋯⋯By the way, what are those powders in your mouth?”

“⋯?”

I personally wiped the powder off Shael’s mouth. Then he said to Shael.

“Could it be that…you ate my desserts secretly?”

“⋯.”

“Looking at the reaction, it seems right.”

Shael was silent. As if reflecting, she was speechless.

Why is the shameless villain reflecting on things like this? Well, if I get mad, I won’t be able to eat those desserts anymore.

It was a very eccentric reason.

Even then, the self-respecting villainess glared at me out of the corner of her eye, as if the situation was not to her liking. She said then she said

“⋯⋯Are you just going with that?”

As expected, she was like a villain with a trashy personality. Stealing mine and spitting out such words? She had an absolutely incredible mindset.

I immediately punished him.

“I won’t give it to you for a week.”

“⋯⋯Ah.”

At those words, Shael took his glaring eyes away from me. She just moaned and put on a sad face.

Okay. In order to somehow get Sael and Clie to meet, there was a setting called a dessert shop that Sael would have loved to death.

However, perhaps the sadness was so great that it couldn’t compare to what I thought, and Shael opened his mouth little by little.

“⋯⋯Sin⋯.”

Perhaps I meant to say I’m sorry. But the words did not carry on to the end. It was only one word, sin.

It was just a surprise. No matter how sweet things were at stake, she tried to utter words of her reflection.

Even if it stopped half way, it was a big deal. I guess this could be useful.

I arrived at the bleachers and took out a box. Still, he felt signs of remorse, so he planned to give even one cupcake to Shael.

But the box was empty. Surely there must have been quite a few of them? Then the culprit was obvious.

“⋯⋯I won’t give you this month.”

“⋯.”

At my words, Shael was just silent.

*

Shael looked at her fiancé, lost in her thoughts. He was staring at the nasty woman.

She spilled her wine on herself and acted brazenly, a woman named Clie.

Eran was staring at such a woman in her anguish.

Sael, quick-witted, immediately knew the reason. The prince sitting next to Clie.

Eran was jealous of the crown prince. It was evident that Eran was bewitched by her woman, Cleera.

“⋯⋯Where are you looking?”

Eran was startled by Sael’s words and looked at Shael. Shael pointed at Clie and said.

“I think I just looked at that woman.”

“⋯⋯I was just curious about how the crown prince and the owner of the mage tower are friends.”

Eran answered while answering Shael’s words. She was sure that wasn’t true.

“It wasn’t that kind of look.”

“Are you jealous right now?”

Shael sighed at Eran’s words and looked away from her. Are you jealous? Not at all.

I just couldn’t see Eran happy. She Eran had to suffer from herself all her life.

Moreover, if that woman was the one to be happy with Eran, it was terrible.

She

She was a woman who spilled wine on herself and acted strange.

She had to block that much, thought Shael.

Shael began to organize her thoughts by eating her sweets. Ran, who was nagging Shael, suddenly took out her cupcakes.

She then handed the tooth to Shael.

After receiving her cupcakes from Eran, Shael started to eat them.

⋯⋯ Delicious.

She was different from anything she had ever eaten. Something was strangely delicious.

I felt like it should be natural that this is delicious. So Shael asked Eran.

“Where did you buy it?”

“I made it myself.”

You made this delicious thing yourself?

There are more reasons to torment Eran for the rest of his life.

At that time, Eran suddenly stood up. He was heading to the bathroom. Feeling uneasy about something. Shael felt like he had to follow Eran.

She quickly opened Ran’s box, stuffed her dessert into her mouth, and started walking.

⋯Ah, delicious.

Shael walked while savoring the desserts. Then, what I saw was Eran and Clie.

It was as if they met secretly, avoiding Shael. There was no way Shael would let this go unnoticed. Shael immediately interrupted them.

Then she took Eran’s hand and tried to avoid her seat. However, Clie was handing the bracelet to Eran.

A bracelet Eran dropped?

It didn’t seem like it at all. Shael had never seen that bracelet before. Clie used that as an excuse to hand over the bracelet to Eran.

It was obvious that the gift was intended to be given to her secretly, avoiding Sael’s eyes. Shael thought as she turned to her bleachers.

While Eran was talking to herself, she was in anguish. Anyway, the situation might be a little dangerous.

A scene flashed into her mind. Eran was smiling happily while hugging Clie.

It was terrible.

I couldn’t open my eyes to see Eran doing well. But it was too late to prevent this. She exchanges her bracelet in front of Shael’s eyes.

As for Shael, she had to come up with some kind of plan.

A plan to torment Eran for the rest of his life. Shael began to think seriously. Before long, she was able to come up with a great solution.

A simple yet difficult way to put the shackles on Eran.

It was a marriage.

It was a way of thinking that would surprise anyone. But Shael didn’t care.

In the first place, Sael had no interest in marriage. Even after she marries Eran, she will haunt Eran. Of course, she has no way of giving affection to Shael and Ran.

The Azbel family and the Baslet family need a bloodline to carry on the family line, but it didn’t matter to Sael.

Shael was planning to throw away that enormous responsibility.

So she had nothing to lose. Wouldn’t the future be similar to the life so far?

On the contrary, she had a lot to gain.

A toy that will haunt you for the rest of your life, and a servant who will cook you delicious desserts you’ve never eaten before. And Eran’s misfortune.

He could have laughed at Clie, who had taken Eran from him.

Sael even thought about what, in her case, Ran would ask her to divorce her one day. She will give him these words.

ㅡ You don’t like it?

Marriage has great significance in this world. An easy divorce was impossible. Even more so if he had the status of a duke.

The villainess started planning a strategy.

The name of the operation was… ‘Scam Marriage’.