I Reincarnated As An Evil Duchess - Chapter 114
Translator: Nabi
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Chapter 114
Rupert’s behavior of spewing venom at her but not physically harming her was somewhat expected after seeing the magical circle. Min-ha glared at him, as well as Judith and Morgan, who were standing in a circle around her.
“Do you think this is going to bring Minase back? Wake up, she’s not coming back!”
“That’s something I’ll just have to wait and see.”
“Why do you think Minase left? It’s all your fault! Not only did you deceive and use her from the beginning, but you also played with her feelings! You cruelly toyed with someone’s life and betrayed them, and now you’re calling her back? What are you going to do when she returns? Hurt her again? Or do you have more plans to exploit her? Is that it?”
“Shut up! What do you know?!”
As she criticized him, his expression quickly turned fierce, and he growled.
Min-ha trembled with fear the moment she realized that Rupert, who had previously maintained a calm demeanor despite her defiance, had completely lost control of his emotions.
At that moment, a certain thought came to mind.
‘…Rupert can’t harm my body anyway because it’s the vessel where Minase’s soul will return.’
If so, wouldn’t it be better to provoke Rupert to stall for time? Before being taken out of the prison, Judith mentioned the changing of the guards’ shift. By now, the guards would have likely realized her disappearance and the news would have reached the Emperor’s ears.
In other words, Seth would also know that she had disappeared, and it wouldn’t be long before both the Emperor and Seth would be searching the capital for her.
It would take time for them to find her, and in that case, the more time she dragged on, the more time she would buy for them, so it was advantageous for them.
And there was one more thing.
She wanted to uncover the truth about Rupert’s long-running plan, the people involved in it and gain another perspective on the memories of Minase that she had seen in her dreams. Only then could she find the key to bring down all those involved when everything was revealed, and understand why she ended up in this world.
‘Let’s delay the time… as much as possible.’
After quickly reaching a conclusion in her mind, Min-ha shouted towards Rupert, who was glaring at her.
“I know that to some extent, because this ‘body’ showed me Minase’s memories!”
“…What?”
“In my dream, Minase was crying! She was frustrated and struggling because of what you did! How could you do that…? How could you ruthlessly take everything from her and trample on her completely? Is that your idea of love? Is it not enough for you to corner your partner but to torment them to the point where they want to die?”
“Shut up! Who are you to judge my heart!”
Rupert shook his head vigorously at her remarks and shouted in an exasperated voice.
Glaring at him, who had broken off the calm line of reasoning that had been going on, Min-ha continued her words against him.
“Your denials don’t change the fact that you deceived Minase. Do you think she didn’t know? She knew everything. She knew that you deliberately caused her father’s death, ruined her family so she couldn’t become a princess, arranged for her to marry Seth, and planned to take the alimony from her divorce so that you could start a new life with another woman, the Grand Duchess, over there! Grand Duchess Blaine came to Minase and told her everything.”
“…What? Louise, is that true?”
Upon her words, Rupert turned towards Grand Duchess Blaine with a shocked expression, while the Grand Duchess, now with her mask removed, stared at Min-ha with a contemplative expression.
Rupert’s face had a vacant expression as he saw Grand Duchess Blaine, who was frozen in place with her face ashen as if someone had exposed all the hidden secrets she had kept secret from the world.
Min-ha alternated her glances between the two of them and scoffed. The whole situation was absurd. They claimed to be on the same side, yet they couldn’t even properly keep each other in check and only looked out for their own interests.
So, she opened her mouth sarcastically.
“…Seeing that reaction, I guess it was all true?”
“N, no!”
“It’s one thing to have made a hundred concessions that led to the downfall of her family, or to have intervened in her arranged marriage or divorce… Of course, I don’t understand but Minasewas trying to understand even that about you. But you know what finally broke her? The fact that you were in love with another woman!”
“No… that’s not true! The only person I’ve ever loved is Minase!”
“Lies. How could you do that to the woman you love?! It would’ve made more sense if you honestly admitted you had feelings for someone else, wouldn’t it?”
“Shut up! Louise, whatever that b*tch had said, isn’t true! The only woman I love is Minase!”
Rupert yelled at her with an appearance of complete madness in response to her sarcasm. His eyes flickered with mixed emotions as he glared at her, desperately proclaiming that Minase was the only person he had ever loved.
Min-ha could perceive the anger and desperation in Rupert’s gaze as he stared at her.
That gaze indicated that Rupert, in a state of extreme agitation and lacking rationality, was superimposing herself with Minase Persen. Otherwise, there would be no reason for him to desperately make excuses to her like this.
‘Even if he knows that we are different people, it must be harder not to overlap when our appearances are the same.’
Even more so now that she was even acting similar to ‘Minase Persen.’
‘…Then, wouldn’t it be possible to take advantage of this situation now?’
Recalling Minase’s tone of voice from her dream, she turned to Rupert, who was confused as he persistently chased her with his eyes.
“Tell me. Why did you do that to ‘me,’ Rupert?”
“….!”
“Why did you betray me? Why did you push me to the brink after I devoted everything to you?”
“Rupert, don’t be fooled! That woman isn’t the Duchess of Persen right now, but a witch from another world!”
Despite Grand Duchess Blaine’s shouts to not be deceived by Min-ha’s actions, Rupert, who had already fixated his attention on her, seemed oblivious to those words. He was solely focused on desperately trying to justify her inquiries.
“…No, it’s not like that, how could I—”
“I believed in you, I loved you, I could understand anything you did. At least if you really loved me, I could have been an even more wicked woman, and I would’ve no reason to abandon this world, even if it meant using a forbidden half-soul spell… so why did you betray my love? Why?”
“No, no! How could I forsake your love?!”
As she uttered the same words from Minase in the dream, Rupert walked to the center of the circle where she sat and caressed her cheek, tears streaming down his face.
At his appearance, Min-ha sneered and avoided his touch before shooting back in a sharper tone.
“…Don’t make me laugh. If your heart was sincere, why did you let my father die and bring down my family? Ah… she told me in great detail why already, didn’t she? What did she say, that it was because the Emperor liked me enough to make me the ‘scarecrow empress’?”
“That’s right, but…”
“Why? If I were the Emperor’s favorite, it would be easier to manipulate him, just like that woman. Have you never thought that if I had become the Empress, I’d be many times more effective as a ‘tool’ than she is?”
Saying so, she defiantly made a mocking gesture towards Grand Duchess Blaine.
While Grand Duchess Blaine clenched her fists with an expression filled with insult and shame, Rupert clasped Min-ha’s face with his two hands and made her gaze fixed on him before he shouted.
“Yes, you would’ve been many times more useful to my plans than Louise! St-still, still… I couldn’t make you do that! I couldn’t see the Emperor love you, or you live with him as a real couple!”
“….!”
“…What?”
“You are mine, you are mine! I couldn’t bear the thought of you living and having children with a man who isn’t me!”
“So you originally handed over the ‘role I was supposed to play’ to Grand Duchess Blaine and arranged me a political marriage to the Duke of Persen because he doesn’t love me?”
“D*mn it, yes! I didn’t think you’d be taken away by that lowly b*stard!”
Seeing Rupert screaming as he ruffled his hair roughly, Min-ha let out an incredulous laugh.
It was quite surprising that the sole reason he had prevented ‘Minase Persen’ from becoming the crown princess and, ultimately, the Empress was simply that. Grand Duchess Blaine appeared to share the same sentiment, judging by her even bluer expression than before as she gazed at him.
‘Did it mean that his feelings for Minase were sincere enough to such lengths?’
Then, why wouldn’t he have done that in the first place? What was it that he wanted so desperately to make the woman he truly loved feel that way?
And as for Seth, what kind of confidence did Rupert possess to assert that he wouldn’t fall for her?
As this question crossed her mind, without realizing it, Min-ha blurted out the words that had been brewing in her heart.
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Translator’s Note: Hello, it’s Nabi! I’m the translator of this novel ପ( ๑•ᴗ•๑ )ଓ♡ If you like the novel and would like to support me, please feel free to click the button below to go to my kofi~! Thank you so much for always supporting the novels I work on, even if you don’t buy me a coffee, I really do appreciate it a lot. ❤︎
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