I Reincarnated As An Evil Duchess - Chapter 120
Translator: Nabi
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Chapter 120
“How, how… Rupert! You told me I’m precious! That I’m needed, that you want me by your side…!”
The sight of Rupert cruelly trampling over Louise’s feelings with his gaze and demeanor was ruthless.
Min-ha’s eyes were filled with mixed emotions as she stared at Grand Duchess Blaine, who couldn’t even speak properly due to the shock of her cherished feelings being trampled in an instant. To the point where she sympathized with her, someone she had hated until now.
She helplessly watched them, unable to intervene in the brutal atmosphere created by Grand Duchess Blaine, who was shedding pearl-like tears from her eyes while screaming, and Rupert, who was spouting off a string of vitriol.
Please, I wish he would stop now.
His words, who had lost hope of being with Minase, were a constant stream of sharp and vicious remarks like razor blades. Looking at her, Rupert responded to the weeping Grand Duchess with a mocking tone.
“Yeah, I needed you. I needed you to be by my side… to bestow upon Minase all the wealth and power of this empire and to make the Emperor suffer even more.”
“W-What does that mean?”
“Someday, when your child becomes the crown prince and on the day when that decision becomes irreversible, I was planning to reveal to the Emperor your true identity and the emotions you harbored for me, along with the content that would make him suspect the father of your children.”
“H-How, how could you… to me…!”
“If that were to happen, then perhaps the Emperor would be devastated, realizing that the lineage of the crown prince he raised with his own hands and the heart of the woman he loved were mere illusions. Haha! I should definitely be there to witness that sight by his side.”
With maniacal laughter, Rupert ridiculed Grand Duchess Blaine and the Emperor, causing tears to stream down the Grand Duchess’s dazed face.
Though Louise knew that his heart didn’t fully belong to her, the words pouring out from his mouth were painful for her in every way, especially since she had at least hoped that she would be next in line after Minase.
She muttered in a half-demented voice, with her cheeks wet from tears.
“So what I did was… what was the point? I thought if only that woman, if only she disappeared… I told that woman that you love me. I thought at least you loved me as a second choice… That’s why…”
“What?”
“….!”
“So, it was your doing after all? Did you say such things to Minase? Hoping Minase would decide to leave me… is that what you orchestrated?”
Rupert’s chillingly cold expression changed dramatically upon hearing Grand Duchess Blaine’s murmurs. On his face that had been mocking and ridiculing Earl Blaine until now, sudden intense hatred and venom surged before a strange smile suddenly appeared.
With a smile that sent chills down the spine of not only Grand Duchess Baline but also everyone else in the room, he spoke quietly.
“Morgan.”
“What is it, Viscount?”
“The right heart you asked for from me, can I substitute it with the right heart of that woman?”
Morgan, who had been startled by the sudden return of the subject to herself, coldly chuckled at Rupert’s following words and replied.
“Of course.”
“….!”
“Then, let’s start the contract as we discussed.”
“Understood.”
The moment the response fell, Minha, who had been holding her breath for fear of breaking the spell, took a sharp intake of breath. In other words, it meant that Rupert would continue to use Grand Duchess Blaine to fulfill his own purposes until the end.
No, she couldn’t let it happen. Although there was a need to thwart that vile intention of using Grand Duchess Blaine in his place, above all, she knew very well that such an attempt itself was meaningless.
Morgan, with an eerie smile, raised a blackened hand and gestured towards the Grand Duchess.
“Argh!”
In response, the Grand Duchess, who was attempting to escape with a shocked expression, was hit by Morgan’s spell and fell to the ground. At the same time, Min-ha stomped her feet in frustration as she watched Rupert slowly approach the fallen Grand Duchess Blaine.
‘No! How many more people need to suffer with this soul-swapping thing!’
“This…!”
Shaking off ‘his’ grip that was restraining her, Min-ha jumped between Rupert and the fallen Grand Duchess Blaine, shouting.
“No! Stop this useless nonsense right now, Rupert!”
At that moment, the magic was broken, and Rupert, who had forgotten about Louise’s presence until now, glared at her with a fierce gaze as she stood between him and Grand Duchess Blaine.
“…What a tenacious woman. You came back again? How many times do you need to try before you go back to your original world?”
“I’m not going back! No… I can’t go back! No matter how much you try, I’ll stay here, and Minase’s soul won’t return!”
“What the hell do you know to blurt out such nonsense recklessly?”
“I know everything! When I lost consciousness earlier, I met Minase and came here!”
“…What?”
Rupert’s expression went blank at the story that came out of her mouth.
As if she was even more wary of Rupert, Min-ha held Grand Duchess Blaine and stepped back as she shouted.
“Right now, she’s living her life happily, forgetting about someone like you! And me, too… At first, I was taken aback and struggled with thoughts of my family in that world, but now, I have someone precious here, and I’m happy living in this world! So, please, just leave me alone!”
“…Ha. What nonsense.”
“What?”
“Who’s forgetting? Is Minase forgetting me?”
As if questioning the nonsensical words she was speaking, Rupert, with a mad glint in his eyes, let out a hollow laugh and slowly closed the distance that Min-ha had created. Then, he extended his impetuous, vein-ridden hand towards her body and mumbled with a chilling voice.
“….Since you’re stuck in this body, Minase probably can’t come back.”
“…What?”
“Then, if I get rid of you, won’t Minase’s soul return?”
“….!”
“…Right. That should work.”
“…Are you in your right mind?”
As Rupert’s crimson eyes, filled with a malevolent emotion as if he had completely lost his sanity, drew closer, Min-ha’s legs froze in fear, and she desperately stumbled backward in retreat.
Even though she knew he wasn’t in a normal state, she didn’t realize his rational judgment had deteriorated to this extent. She glanced around for something to use as a defense against Rupert, but there was nothing suitable at hand. Moreover, ‘he,’ who had been standing in the direction she had come from just a while ago, was nowhere to be seen.
‘Is he not going to help? Where on earth did he go?’
Min-ha frowned with a look of frustration and trembled with growing fear while the distance between her and Rupert grew narrower.
While it would have been better if she had managed to escape quietly when the presence-blocking spell was cast, the thought that another person might get hurt right in front of her caused her body to move involuntarily, driven by a fear she couldn’t control.
‘…I hate Grand Duchess Blaine, but what about those kids? If something happens to that woman, they’ll lose their mother.’
Despite the fact that Min-ha knew she had no reason to worry, the moment she saw Grand Duchess Blaine’s face filled with betrayal and fear, the faces of those children came to her mind.
And more than anything else, she didn’t want to witness anyone getting hurt or dying anymore due to the entanglement between herself and Minase. In hindsight, it felt like she had needlessly acted self-righteous, and she regretted it, but that regret was now a belated form of self-reproach.
‘…In the end, it ended up like this.’
Eventually, she made the decision that she’d count one, two, three before sprinting towards the door.
“Perhaps it’s time to stop forcing things, Viscount.”
“….!”
As ‘he’ appeared with a smooth voice, Rupert’s legs collapsed simultaneously.
His face was dazed as he sat down helplessly in front of Min-ha, like a marionette whose strings had been cut. It was not because the voice he had heard a moment before belonged to the faithful ‘Judith,’ who had been working like his limb.
‘An auditory hallucination… is it?’
Yes, it must have been an auditory hallucination. What else could it be? It seemed that the woman from the other world had done something, otherwise, Judith wouldn’t have said that to him.
Rupert initially believed that what he heard was all a misconception. However, contrary to that thought, his gaze didn’t follow Min-ha, who was distancing herself from him but instead followed the voice that had stopped him.
“I’ve temporarily immobilized your legs. It’s not like you won’t be unable to move forever, so don’t give me that look, Viscount Rupert Guinivis.”
The moment turned his head in search of that voice, he could see that the ‘auditory hallucination’ that had stopped him was indeed Judith’s voice.
‘That was what it was. Judith had stopped him…’
Realizing this fact, Rupert shouted in astonishment.
“You, how could you…! How—!”
“Can I betray you?”
“…You, you traitorous b*stard! How dare you stop me? Quickly return it back to normal!”
“Oh my. A traitor, you say. It’s too soon to lament betrayal for something as minor as this, Viscount Guinivis.”
“…What?”
“And there’s no reason to hear such a thing from you because I had this thought from the beginning.”
Judith, or rather, ‘he,’ continued to smirk at Rupert, who was pouring out blame towards him.
Seeing this, Rupert gritted his teeth and tried to rise to his feet. With a gaze filled with hatred and anger, as if he wanted to kill that arrogant individual then and there, he pounded his motionless legs with his fists and twisted his body several times though his legs remained completely immobile.
“D*mn it!”
Given the circumstances, there was only one person who could help him. Rupert’s gaze urgently turned to her, and he shouted.
“Mo, Morgan! Morgan! Hurry and release me!”
However, the sight of Morgan that met his eyes was somehow strange.
Morgan, who had been chuckling oddly as she imagined what she would gain from the contract a moment ago, was now staring at ‘him’ with a completely contemplative expression on her face. As if she couldn’t have imagined it, the emotion that surfaced on her face as she gazed at ‘him’ was fear.
Still, he shouted at her, who was frozen in place as if plagued by overwhelming fear, as if she was being strangled.
“What are you doing, Morgan? You, you fool! Help me up immediately, and deal with this d*mn thing!”
“Haha. I’m sorry, but she doesn’t seem to be in the right mind to do that right now, Viscount Guinivis.”
To Rupert’s words, ‘he’ responded with a laugh as though he was having fun before speaking briefly in a lower voice.
On the other hand, Morgan looked at ‘him’ with even more astonishment, sensing her persistent gaze as ‘he’ slowly approached her. Then, ‘he’ removed the hood of his robe, which had covered his entire face except for his mouth.
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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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