I'm A Villainess, Can I Die? - Chapter 106
Translator and Editor: Effe and Tea
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Chapter 106
I immediately turned my head back.
I’m not a turtle, and I can’t keep elongating my head out forever. I fumbled with my fingertips for no reason and muttered as if answering Aiden’s words.
“Wizard…….”
Earlier, when I asked Aiden about memory-related magic, Aiden shook his head saying he didn’t know.
However, by any chance…… Would a high-ranking wizard know something?
Well looking at things like novels, aren’t there some secret books that are circulating only among important people?
Even if Aiden might be talented, in terms of his career, he is no different from the bottom.
No matter how talented a new employee may be, the company doesn’t open up everything.
There needs to be a reasonable period of time and a reasonable amount of trust built up.
Well, trust in Aiden would be higher than that toward a Lady who was reputed to be a villain in the past. Still, I can try it first.
“Why didn’t I think of that sooner?”
“What?”
“No, I’m talking to myself. I’ll have to go in first. See you later.”
I turned my back without waiting for an answer from him.
I heard a voice behind me call my name, but I didn’t want to turn around.
I walked toward my destination with the most courageous step in my life, no…… It wasn’t the most, but that was enough to be in the top 10 of my life.
The place I headed was Brother’s office.
A tightly closed door. The wooden door, which looked like a great person doing great things no matter who sees it, never changes.
I stood in front of the door and took a few deep breaths. It was not easy for me to face my family, pretending nothing was wrong while I was in an unstable state.
After flinching in front of the door several times, I gulped again and knocked on the door.
“Who is it?”
A slightly shrill voice came from the room.
Oh my, it looks like I’m not the only one tired. I also have a lot of dark circles because I haven’t been able to sleep lately, and if anyone sees them, they will laugh at me saying that the siblings are equally tired.
Oh, I had covered my dark circles with makeup so it didn’t show.
“It’s me, Selena.”
I opened my mouth after continuing my useless thoughts.
After a while, various noises were heard in the room. The sound of a chair being pushed back, the sound of footsteps that sounded a little quick. And soon, the sound of the door I was facing opening.
Brother greeted me with a bright smile. It was the same as usual, just like Brother’s wooden door.
Brother took me to the sofa in the office and brought me a teacup from the small cupboard in the room.
The other day, just like Mother, everyone seems to have an extra teacup ready in the room.
Is there a teacup in my room, too?
Brother asked me while pouring tea into the teacup he had prepared.
“Selena, what’s the matter? Are you unable to sleep? You look tired.”
When I go to my room later, I’ll have to destroy all my cosmetics. What makeup cannot cover one dark circle?
Thanks to that, Brother noticed all of my dark circles.
Well, but now this wasn’t such a bad situation.
In other words, it took a very small effort to accomplish the purpose of my visit to this room.
So, uncovering these dark circles meant that it could be an effective device for my life.
“Yes, a little. The time is approaching, so I’m worried.”
As I expressed my concerns without hiding, Brother pressed his lips together.
A slight sense of guilt filled his eyebrows that curled down, but…… That won’t do. I couldn’t back off now.
Is this just for me? No.
I must take time today to talk to wizards absolutely, no matter what.
After today, there are only six days left. If that happens, those who participate in the war will have to spend a really busy day. Although they already do. I could still hear the faint sounds of cheering from the distant training ground.
In any case, it was safe to say that there was almost only today for me to have an opportunity to catch a wizard and ask him a personal question.
The question I want to ask would be too absurd for a crazy me, an untrustworthy lady, to stop a busy person for.
I glanced over at Brother, then continued with the next words.
“So by the way…… Can I attend the event where the wizards are coming today?”
Brother’s eyes widened. They were filled with shallow trouble, coupled with his questioning how I knew the wizards were coming today.
Right, that would be difficult
When I read a novel, too, there were some people that made you wonder, “Why are you involved at this time?” Brother would feel exactly the same way.
Why are you here?
Well, actually, I can wait outside the door and grab hold of a wizard who is about to leave and ask my questions.
However, doing so increases the odds that the other person will set a boundary.
Didn’t I mention it? I am an untrustworthy lady.
But, what if I also attended the meeting and listened to the story?
The Lady attending the meeting must seem a bit trustworthy.
“Selena…… Today, it’s about the subjugation…….”
“Please, Brother. I won’t do anything. Just let me hear the truth from the side. Not being able to do anything, not knowing anything and just wasting time…… It is so terrible.”
I interrupted Brother and made a slightly emotional appeal. I may have appealed emotionally, but I meant the content.
It’s so terrible to spend time doing nothing, not knowing anything.
Contrary to the emotional appeal, my voice was very much the same as usual, but fortunately Brother’s expression gradually changed.
The troubles disappear, surprises, worries, and finally……guilt.
Stupid, why did he feel guilty? I was the one who caused this. Without knowing anything.
“Please. Brother.”
My last words were mixed with sincerity again without even realizing it. Brother who felt guilty like an idiot is so stupid again.
I bit my lip, unable to utter the words that were running through my head.
So let me help you finish this matter, too. If this is the case, if someone gets hurt or dies…… I will be suffocated to death.
“Aiden, it’s been a while.”
“Yes, Master. Welcome.”
Aiden and his teacher Alogen embraced lightly. Alogen was a middle-aged man with a long beard.
He was of average height, with wrinkles around his eyes, but there was something sturdy about him that gave him the aura of a wizard.
Even a passer-by could see him, then think that he might be a wizard…… He had that kind of look.
All of the wizards including Alogen and all of the Duke’s residence exchanged greetings and soon started talking in earnest.
“Actually, the reason I came to see you today is to tell you about our Magic Tower along with the red marble.”
Alogen’s grave voice echoed through the parlor. The heavy voice had the effect of making listeners concentrate.
Alogen was not actually a wizard heading for the subjugation.
However, since he had something to say about the subjugation, he only contacted and visited the duke’s residence along with the other wizards.
“Anything new about the red marble?”
Aaron asked, and Alogen nodded slowly.
Witnessing this, people gasped in unison. If the secret about the red marble was revealed before the subjugation, it would be a great advantage.
“Not completely, but it turns out there is something. I told you that magic power was detected in the red marble. But, it’s not just one.”
The air in the room suddenly became heavy. Everyone quieted at the shocking announcement.
In the silent atmosphere, only the wizards of the Magic Tower, including Alogen, moved their eyes to check people’s mood.
“Then…… Does that mean there aren’t just one or two people behind it?”
Aiden awakened from the daze first.
With Aiden’s calm question, a moment of pride passed by Alogen’s lips.
“Khhm. No, nothing like that. If we’re going to talk about this, first of all, everyone, please look at this.”
Alogen spoke, then he fumbled in his sleeves and pulled out a book. An old black-covered tome. Above it was written ‘Black Magic.’
Everyone who read the name of the book widened their eyes. Isn’t black magic largely forbidden?
Besides, I thought those books were all burned a long time ago…….
“This is a book that was kept deep inside the Magic Tower. There were originally two copies, but fifteen years ago, one was stolen. This is another book.”
After a brief explanation, he set the book down on the table. Everyone’s eyes followed Alogen’s hand in unison.
To be more precise, they followed a black book exuding a strange atmosphere that was held in his hand.
“Then, do you mean the one controlling, the one behind the monsters is using…… black magic?”
Alogen’s head moved up and down to answer Aiden’s question. Soon he reached out his hand and turned over the first page of the book he had brought.
Flip.
At the sound of paper turning, the eyes of those who were immersed in their own thoughts returned to the book again.
Flip, flip, flip.
Alogen turned the book slowly. In the meantime, the people gathered, including Selena, read the names of the spells written on the pages.
‘Offerings, black flowers, ……, red marbles.’
The place where Alogen’s hand stopped was the ‘Red Marble’ page. Red Marbles. Everyone opened their eyes wider when they saw a familiar word in an unexpected place.
Only Selena, who only heard that there was a red marble at this place now, was asking…… what is it.
“The other day, while additionally researching the magic-detected marbles, I discovered that many people’s magic is condensed into it. Could this be black magic……I wondered. So I tried to find and read this forbidden book. As expected, it was black magic.”
Alogen stopped to catch his breath.
“Isn’t it possible even without black magic to contain the magic of many people in an orb?”
Aiden asked a question while Alogen took a breath. Alogen lightly nodded his head as if he had a point and stroked his beard once.
“That’s a good question. You’re right. As Aiden said, it is easy to put the magical power of several people in a marble. However, this is a little different from that. To put it simply, when making magic tools, wizards engrave something like a small magic circle to imbue them with magic. Rather than pouring out their own magic, it would be better to create a magic circle using magic and let it use its own power.”
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