I Reincarnated As An Evil Duchess - Chapter 119
Translator: Nabi
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Chapter 119
“…What?”
“Of course, I meant the right one, not the left.”
“…I have no idea what you’re talking about, but okay. Fine. Whatever you want.”
“No, you can’t!”
Grand Duchess Blaine, once again, was the one who stopped Rupert without hesitation from accepting Morgan’s proposal. This time, she held Rupert’s waist from the front, preventing him from pushing away, and pleaded while crying.
“It’s your heart! Rupert, are you crazy? If you give that to that woman, you’ll die! No, you can’t do that!”
“Louise, didn’t you understand what she said? Morgan meant the right heart, not the left. The side that keeps a person alive is the left, that’s what I taught you. Did you forget?”
“I know! Still, Rupert, the right heart traditionally symbolizes a person’s emotions! Don’t you understand the significance of giving it to that witch?!”
“…It doesn’t matter.”
“Rupert, please!”
“Shut up! Don’t bother me anymore!”
“I can’t do that!”
He desperately struggled, trying to free his waist from her grasp. The strong force eventually pushed the Grand Duchess back, but she quickly stood between Rupert and Morgan again, raising her voice as Rupert tried to push her away.
Even though Rupert glared at her with a stern expression, she stared back as if she would never back down.
‘Oh, my.’
Judith, who had been watching the spectacle from a step behind, scoffed lowly. Then, without making a sound to avoid alerting the two people confronting each other, who were enveloped in a hostile atmosphere, he walked back to where the magic circle had been drawn and gently tapped Minase twice on the shoulder with his right hand as she sat dazedly in the center of it, only blinking her vacant eyes.
All of a sudden, life returned to her green eyes that had been completely void of light. Like a well-crafted doll, vitality returned little by little to her face, and strength surged through her previously weak and limp body.
‘Min-ha’ blinked her eyes as if waking up from a daze and glanced around.
When she saw Grand Duchess Blaine and Rupert glowering at each other, and Morgan sitting on the floor, she unintentionally let out a sound.
“…Huh?”
“Shh—”
“….!”
It was Judith who covered her mouth.
Although she tried to scream and struggle to remove his hand, it was futile. Just like when Morgan had cast the spell on her earlier, no sound came out. In addition, her hands and feet were still bound, making it impossible for her to remove his hand from her mouth.
As soon as she regained consciousness, Min-ha thought to herself, “What is going on here?” She focused her eyes and glared at Judith, who was smiling faintly, and he whispered into her ear.
“Wait a moment. It’s going to get very interesting from now on, so just stay quiet, black-haired lady.”
“….!”
Not only that those words were something she had heard in her dream before, but it was also a familiar voice.
When she heard the voice that she had always associated with Judith but now sounded lower, as if it belonged to someone else, scenes from her dream came flooding back to her mind, and Min-ha’s eyes widened in surprise.
‘You, were you the wizard who was in that dream with Minase…!’
“I’ll untie your hands and feet because it might be uncomfortable.”
In response to her words, Judith, or rather ‘he,’ spoke again in Judith’s voice and casually waved his fingers towards her. The next moment, the ropes that had bound her hands and feet were released as if by magic. With her wrists suddenly freed, Min-ha fiddled with them briefly before grabbing the hand that reached out and rose from her seat.
After helping her to her feet, he placed one hand familiarly on her shoulder and looked at Rupert and Grand Duchess Blaine, who were confronting each other, with an interested expression and spoke.
“If you wait a little longer, you’ll find out what you want to know, black-haired lady.”
“…Yes?”
“Shh—. The presence removal spell will break the moment the other party hears your voice, so if you want to hear more, stay quiet.”
“….!”
“Well, to be honest, I want to enjoy this situation a little longer. After the crucial part of their conversation passes, we’ll quietly slip away.”
Min-ha, who inadvertently replied to his words once more, quickly nodded her head as he placed his index finger to her face and told her to be quiet. Her eyes then followed his gaze, which was watching the situation with interest, to Grand Duchess Blaine and Rupert, who were still in a heated argument.
“…I told you to step aside, Louise.”
“No, I can’t do that. I can’t let you have your way with this one.”
“D*mn it! Stop bothering me any further and get lost! Are you deaf or something?!”
“No, I can’t! Yes, it’s better this way! Let’s just send that woman back to the underground prison again! Once was already enough! We don’t even know what that witch wants! Why on earth would you sacrifice something to bring her soul back to this world? What’s the point of bringing that arrogant, haughty woman who is of no use to you? Even if we brought her back, she wouldn’t be of any help to our plans! Her leaving was actually better for us!”
“…What? Better for us?”
“After all, the person you truly love and need is me, right? Let’s just frame that woman as a witch! After that, we can bring down Duke Persen and drive away the powerless crown prince and Empress to the neighboring empire… and everything will be fine! Then…then you can achieve your revenge, and I can be happy by your side!”
Min-ha looked at Grand Duchess Blaine violently and poured her emotions towards Rupert, who was pushing her away, with surprise in her eyes.
She never knew that behind the perfectly crafted porcelain doll-like facade of the Grand Duchess, there was such passion hidden. Moreover, she was astonished to learn that Grand Duchess Blaine held feelings of love towards Rupert.
‘That was why she was hostile to me before knowing who I really was.’
Now she could understand a little of Grand Duchess Blaine’s actions of hating and opposing her without any apparent reason when they first met each other.
As the Grand Duchess continued to assert that they should deal with her, Min-ha couldn’t help but sneer. However, amidst her thoughts, a sudden thought crossed her mind, causing her to furrow her eyebrows.
‘No, but… I heard they were cousins.’
While Min-ha jokingly pondered if this world was such a world where marriage between cousins was possible, Rupert’s face, who had been listening to the Grand Duchess’ words with a smirk on his face, twisted into a malicious expression as he glared at the woman in front of him.
“Listen to yourself. There’s nothing you can’t do, Mary Therese.”
“…Rupert!”
“Deal with whom… Minase? Ha! So, you’re telling me to accept this d*mn reality of not being able to meet Minase anymore?”
“I’m saying you don’t need to sacrifice yourself for that woman! You have me, and you still have revenge that you haven’t achieved yet!”
“Ah, yes. Revenge, There was revenge… but you know what? In reality, my revenge is already over.”
“…What do you mean?”
Grand Duchess Blaine looked surprised at Rupert’s words.
Similarly, Min-ha gazed at Rupert, who was slowly closing the distance between themselves with a wicked smile, with an anxious expression. She was curious about why he referred to the Grand Duchess as ‘Mary Therese’ and what he meant by ‘revenge,’ but before that, she felt like she had to stop Rupert, who was approaching Grand Duchess Blaine with an intense momentum.
However, ‘he,’ who was standing by her side, intervened by grabbing her shoulder. Min-ha glared at him with a displeased expression, as if asking if he was really going to just watch, but he pointed at the two with his finger.
Fortunately, Rupert stopped right in front of Grand Duchess Blaine and spoke in a sweet voice different from before.
“Just because the Emperor saw descendants from a lowly woman like you and raised that child to the Imperial lineage.”
“….!”
“Could it be because his mother-in-law isn’t of imperial descent but merely a princess from a small kingdom, which made her subject to subtle discrimination? That d*mn Emperor was obsessively fixated on noble lineage, so he wanted the Imperial line to consist only of descendants with noble blood… He even refused to acknowledge someone like me, born from a commoner like my mother, who was an illegitimate child of the Resitia family, and the result of a short-lived love affair with her.”
“Rupert, that means…”
“Do you know the feeling of being denied your very existence by your father as soon as you were born? My mother, who loved the Emperor despite him treating her as nothing more than a plaything, gave birth to me, his son… but he discarded both me and my mother, throwing us away with the useless guise of ‘Viscountess Guinivis.’ My mother, who hoped for nothing more than acknowledgment, was left in an opulent mansion that was all show and no substance, waiting for the Emperor, who never once came to see me since my birth, slowly driving herself insane. When she protested to the adoptive father, he silenced her by giving him a single high-ranking position.”
“….”
“And yet he acted as the most benevolent father in the world to the current Emperor after abandoning and discarding me like that! Ha! He’s the most disgusting human being! I grew up with a mother who went insane as an abandoned illegitimate child amidst mutterings and whispers among the relatives of the Imperial family… while that Emperor grew up surrounded by loving family members and those who fawned over the crown prince!”
“…Rupert.”
“So, I made up my mind that I would seek revenge to the former Emperor and the current Emperor in the most heinous way possible. I would raise a woman and a child of even lower birth than me, someone from a lowly background that could never ascend to the Imperial throne. Yes, someone like you and your children.”
“….!”
“Without realizing that, the Emperor acknowledged you and your children and elevated you to the imperial lineage! The noble lineage that the former Emperor wanted to protect so dearly and the Imperial line they carried down has been tainted! Hahaha! I wonder how furious he must be in hell right now!”
Rupert’s voice, which was sweet enough to melt one’s ears, gradually became wild and rough as he erupted with intense madness.
On the other hand, Grand Duchess Blaine looked at him, who was laughing uncontrollably with a crazed look in his eyes, with a trembling gaze. Then, with a voice that quivered because of her trembling body, she asked.
“…Is that why you stop Minase from becoming the crown princess? Is it because she’s from the old imperial lineage?”
“Yes, but that wasn’t the only reason. As you heard, Minase couldn’t become the Empress. Because unlike you, I couldn’t let her belong to any man other than me.”
“What…?”
“I never thought I would come to love her so deeply. At first, I just wanted to steal the heart of Minase from the former Emperor, who had marked her as a candidate for the crown princess for his son, and make her an empty shell of an Empress. I wanted to prevent the former Emperor from having the direct descendant he so desired… but I ended up falling in love with her. So much so that I couldn’t possibly bear the thought of giving her to another man.”
“….”
“That’s why I needed you, Mary Therese. You have a low status, and even if you disappear, there’s no family to look for you. Most importantly, a foolish woman who could be so infatuated with me that she would marry a man she didn’t love, just because I asked… Yes, you.”
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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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