I'm A Villainess, Can I Die? - Chapter 116
Translator and Editor: Effe and Tea
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Chapter 116
Ha, real life is really a coincidence. Jane, you are right. Soil and cocoa powder theory…… Our Jane could be a university professor.
“Priest, by any chance……. When is your birthday?”
“What? Mine is in November.”
“November?”
“Yes. Ah, but……. Actually, this is the birthday set by the orphanage. I don’t know much about it other than that my actual birthday is in winter.”
Ding. It felt like a bell was ringing.
The feeling of a huge bell ringing in my head. The shock reverberated through my bones.
It was Ian. The best and last sacrifice that the High Priest was aiming for. That would have been Ian.
The High Priest made Ian a ‘sacrifice’ in the original work. However, because the birthday was wrong, the magic failed, and he died.
There would be no offering as attractive as Ian, so the high priest must have been impatient for him. After his birthday passed, he must have rushed to work.
Then, it is understandable that the plan had advanced in reality.
If Ian was the best sacrifice, perhaps the high priest would have tried to proceed with some plan after absorbing Ian’s power.
But, since I brought Ian, everything has gone wrong.
The high priest must have moved the plan forward because he was impatient with the wrong plan.
My head was dizzy at the thoughts that were like lightning bolts striking in an instant.
I can’t be confident that this is the complete truth, but it’s still a huge possibility.
“Thank you for the treatment, priest.”
I got up. My knee didn’t hurt at all, whether it was thanks to Ian’s treatment or the excitement after discovering the shocking truth.
I started walking back the way I came. I couldn’t bear to tell Ian that the high priest seemed to be behind it, so I just walked away.
When I glanced back, Ian’s eyes followed me with a puzzled face.
I pretended to ignore him and just nodded and walked forward again.
“Miss, why are you coming …… Did you fall?”
On the way back, I met Aiden. At a place about five paces away from where we parted earlier.
I stopped for a moment and looked at him. Aiden looked around me with a concerned face.
It seemed that he had concluded from the dirt on my clothes that I had fallen.
“I fell. But, I’m glad I fell.”
Thanks to that, my mind has cleared considerably.
With Aiden behind me, I headed straight for Brother’s office. Sir Alogen is probably there, too.
I paused before the door, then knocked with a short sigh.
“Brother, it’s me.”
There was one reason why I hesitated to enter.
How do I explain this?
If I say ‘I’m suspicious of the High Priest’ and the reply is ‘Why?’, how do I answer? That I read some of the stories of this world in the book?
In the midst of Brother’s busy life, he may have to look for a psychiatric hospital.
Without giving me time to worry, the door opened wide. Seeing Brother’s face, who always greets me with an unchanging smile over the past year, I grew a little bit more confident.
I glanced back, confirmed that Aiden was following me, and took a deep breath.
As expected, Sir Alogen was in the room. We nodded lightly to each other, and that was the end of our greeting.
“Please sit down, Selena.”
Brother turned to the sofa. I gave a small nod and headed for it, then stopped abruptly.
“What’s the matter?”
To sit down and talk, something like that.
Wouldn’t it be easier to get it out if we had to stand and talk? Even if Brother doesn’t believe my theory, he’ll just throw a joke at me.
When you sit down and start talking, it feels too earnest.
I looked at Brother’s face without answering. The blue eyes similar to mine were looking back at me.
Oh right. What if he treats me like a crazy woman? What if I end up in a mental hospital? I’ll just have to do it.
It wasn’t just Father and Lucas who went to the battlefield. The duke’s territory, the empire where the duke’s family is rooted. And the many people who stay in it…… it’s just too much?
Anyway, at least for my family who always smiled on me, I wasn’t afraid of a miserable end.
“The high priest is suspicious, Brother.”
I opened my mouth while standing still, and the room was instantly enveloped in silence.
I blinked and looked around at the people around me. The three of them were positioned like a triangle, looking at me standing in the center.
Receiving the three gazes, I opened my mouth again. The content was the same.
“Please investigate the high priest.”
“Why did you think of that?”
My brother had been looking at me without speaking for a long time and finally asked in a friendly voice. The unwavering eyes were more serious than ever.
His appearance of not being taken aback by those sudden words was indeed suitable for the next Duke.
He only quietly closed his mouth and thought in his head.
What should I answer? My heart was in a hurry, so I ended up coming here straight away…… I should have thought more before coming.
“By any chance…….”
The voice was someone else’s, not mine. Because I was still thinking of an excuse.
When I turned my head to where the voice came from, Aiden was looking at Brother with his mouth open.
“Is it because of the day Sir Lucas ran into Bell?”
“What?”
What was he talking about? I asked back, rolling my eyes. But somehow, everyone except me seemed to understand what he meant.
No, I am the one involved.
Anyway, I nodded my head. It’s not bad to jump on the bandwagon.
“Yes…… that’s right. It’s because of that day.”
“Well, that day the High Priest stopped Jane, so the maid named Bell came to your room instead of Jane.”
Ah…… Come to think of it, yes. I honestly had no idea.
I thought it was just a coincidence…… Originally, human history is a story made up of a series of coincidences. Or a plot under the guise of coincidence.
“Yes, and there are more.”
I decided to add a comment. After hearing Aiden, I remembered things that I sometimes felt were strange when meeting the high priest.
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