I'm A Villainess, Can I Die? - Chapter 99
Translator and Editor: Effe and Tea
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Chapter 99
This…… This……. is saliva. The wetness in my hand was transparent, as I expected.
Ah. Right. I must have thought that I was in a bit of pain and jumped too far.
In the first place, my lifespan was set in three and a half years…… disease.
I took a napkin from the desk and wiped my hands. Even then, I felt uncomfortable, so I went to the bathroom and washed my hands with water.
My sleeves and dress front were wet because the water poured like an explosion from the faucet.
I looked at it a little in vain, then just lifted my head.
It would be easier to just ignore it……. Just ignore it and go to sleep.
A brief impulse shook me, but I decided to just change my clothes.
Even if I’m not wet with faucet water, I was already wet with sweat…… It is better to change clothes.
I roughly put the pajamas I was wearing on a chair near the tea table, opened the closet door, took out the extra pajamas hanging in the corner, and changed my clothes.
Soon my headache and nausea subsided.
It all felt like a dream that I had been gagging nonstop during the night. Nothing strange happened.
I suddenly started to feel sick……. And suddenly getting better?
I grabbed the candlestick and walked to the window and opened the curtains. After checking the room lit by the pouring moonlight, I extinguished the candle and replaced the candlestick.
Ah. From now on…… Let’s just open the curtains before going to sleep.
I sighed and sat on the bed. The bed sheets and duvet were still damp from my sweat, so I didn’t want to lie down again.
As expected, I felt it was wrong to sleep again.
“It’s past the appointed time.”
The man glanced at his watch and drank the wine in his hand at once.
A long line of wine flowed from his lips, just like blood. The man nervously rubbed his mouth and buried his back in the sofa.
‘It’s always this late. That cheeky fellow.’
The man bit his lip nervously and tossed the wine glass from his hand.
Crash, the crystal glass shattered with a loud sound.
“Ho.”
His anger didn’t seem to subside easily even after breaking the wine glass, so the man took a deep, hot breath.
It wasn’t until the sound of his excited, rough breathing repeated several times that the person the man had been waiting for appeared.
In the closet.
The closet was their secret passage. To be precise, a secret passage that could only be used by this man who had just appeared.
The hole in the back of the closet, which looked like it had been ripped open, slowly closed like a healing wound as soon as the man had completely moved into the closet.
Marquis Lachapelle, a man who stared at the strange and reluctant sight every time he saw it, briefly clicked his tongue and then spoke.
“You are late.”
“I’m a little late to make a doorway in a new place.”
The man replied to the Marquis in a calm voice. If anyone heard it, they might misunderstand that the late person could be the marquis instead.
“A new place?”
The Marquis replied indifferently to the calm man’s answer then immediately jumped up from his seat with his eyes completely wide open.
“A new place? So, did you succeed in entering the Duchy?”
The Marquis’ eyes burned red with desire.
There was a small silence before the man could answer. The Marquis could not stand that moment and called the man and urged him to answer.
“High Priest!”
When called by the man so overflowing with greed that he did not hide, the High Priest slowly nodded his head.
“Yes, it worked.”
The two were business partners. They were working together to achieve what they wanted.
The relationship between the two was not a hierarchical one, but an equal one.
The excited Marquis took out two crystal glasses from the cupboard in his room.
One glass for himself and another for the high priest.
Vanessa looked at the broken glass on the floor with a smile and accepted the glass.
[T/N: The high priest’s name is Vanessa. It showed up as Vanetsa in earlier chapters, but that seems to be a typo error in the original.]
‘An idiot with a fiery personality.’
“Yes, you entered the Duke’s residence…… Now things will be easy.”
“Yes, that’s how it is. Marquis…… As long as you do a good job.”
The Marquis had been drinking his wine and slowly stopped moving to fix his gaze on the high priest.
The greedy smile had disappeared from his face.
Sharply raised and curled eyebrows, and the red eyes nestled in them.
If an ordinary person saw it, it would have been enough to make them gulp just meeting his eyes, but the High Priest just smiled as mildly as before.
“It sounds like…… I’m not working.”
“…… no way Just, like the last time, please be careful if someone runs away…… That’s what I meant.”
The Marquis’ eyes became more ferocious at the relaxed and calm tone.
The Marquis’ hands were shaking with rage. The High Priest only rolled his eyes to check the Marquis’s trembling hands, and then he sneered.
Crash.
Two glasses had already been smashed by the Marquis today alone.
“Ha, don’t you even think about your failure? The priest named Ian was also taken away, and the attempt to steal information about the Duchy using the man named Jacob also failed. You’re not even doing anything right!”
It was as ferocious and loud as the sharp eyes.
However, the High Priest did not flinch at the loud voice and just pushed the fragments that had splattered near his feet with his toe.
“Please say it correctly. In the first place, we wouldn’t even have to use the man if the Marquis’ daughter had kept her friendship. And, pointing out the man named Jacob…… Isn’t he from the Marquis? I just came with a contract.”
The High Priest’s reply was not wrong, so the Marquis had to shut his mouth, chewing at his lips in anger.
“Didn’t I help the Marquis’ plan that failed right away? Didn’t I show you a bigger goal? However…… If you blame me in this way…….”
The eyes that had been hidden thanks to the gently folded lids gradually revealed their true selves.
The usual blue eyes turned red from the bottom, and soon were fully red and turned toward the Marquis.
“It is difficult.”
Extremely cold red eyes and extremely hot red eyes collided in the air.
The two met several months ago.
The Marquis had one ambition that he had cherished for a long time. That was to weaken the imperial authority.
Originally, during the reign of the former emperor, the empire was divided into anti-imperial and pro-imperial factions.
Between the two groups that were in a tense confrontation, the Marquisate was in the same position as the head of the anti-imperial faction.
Being the boss was a sweet spot indeed.
The anti-imperial faction nobles offered all kinds of gold and valuables to grovel at his feet, and the pro-imperial faction also had to pay attention to the Marquis. Oh, even the Emperor.
The taste of the incoming wealth and power was great. Yes, it could be said that those days were the golden age of the Marquisate.
However, that golden age soon began to crumble.
After the incompetent former emperor died and the current emperor ascended the throne, the imperial authority began to rise to such an extent that the name of the anti-imperial faction could not be dared spoken.
The reason was very simple.
The Duchy, which had always been neutral, openly supported the Emperor.
A traditional noble with military strength, intellect, and outstanding economic power, as well as a long history in one corner of the empire.
The Duchy was feared by the nobility, but at the same time, it was also an object of envy and desire.
‘If I hold their hand, I will surely succeed.’
The nobles had been neutral and yet volunteered to enter the imperial faction just by the fact that the Duchy belonged to the imperial faction.
A bias began to occur between the anti-emperor faction and the pro-emperor faction, which had always maintained a similar ratio previously.
As the situation progressed, the nobles of the anti-emperor faction gradually began to turn their backs. There would be no one who will continue to live in a house that is being torn down.
The Marquisate’s golden age ended like that, and the marquis was furious.
He couldn’t sleep at the thought that everything he had gained was taken away.
So, the Marquis made up his mind.
He would bring down the duchy and lead the world of the anti-emperor faction again. That’s how he would regain the golden age of the Marquisate.
Initially, the Marquis used his own daughter in this scheme. Of course, his daughter knew her father’s goals, and she willingly jumped into this plan.
Be friends with the Duchy’s bad daughter, steal information from the Duchy, and secretly manipulate that idiot to bring confusion to the Duchy and noble society.
And taking advantage of that opportunity, they hit the Duchy.
At first, the plan seemed to work. His daughter became friends with the Lady, and their personalities matched very well.
However, one problem arose.
The Lady’s character lost her memory due to an accident and changed.
The idiot who had no ability but was only emotional had disappeared, and she became a strange person whom they could not understand what she was thinking.
And as the Lady changed like that, she drew a line before Mia and made it impossible for her to come over.
To think that a human relationship that lasted for years could go wrong in an instant……. So unexpectedly, the plan went awry. Burning inside, the Marquis immediately devised his next plan.
‘If you can’t be friends, you should at least have a lover…….’
Just when he was about to find the right person for that idea, HE came.
The High Priest.
The day before, at the meeting of nobles held at the Imperial Court, the Marquis had been ignored and was in a low mood.
Angry, he broke everything in the room and laid on the bed, when the butler mentioned the high priest’s visit.
The Marquis cursed a blue streak and tried to send him back…. Then the butler supplied the reason for the visit and made the Marquis change his mind.
‘A person named High Priest came and asked to see the Marquis. And what he said is…… He promised to give you what you want…….’
Whether it was true or cheeky nonsense, it was worth listening to.
The latter was more likely, but in that case it would have been enough to give him a good beating.
He already had a lot of stress,so if he beat the high priest, he’d feel better.
The corners of the Marquis’ mouth went up crookedly.
“Greetings Marquis.”
The Marquis’ first impression of the high priest sitting in the parlor waiting for him was that the high priest was a man with a gentle expression.
Of course, within a few minutes, that first impression was shattered.
After a short greeting, the conversation began for real.
“So, you know what I want and you want me to hold you in my grasp?”
The high priest smiled at the Marquis’ mocking question.
“Well, but whatever it is, I will be able to help the Marquis.”
The high priest answered in a sweet voice and took out a book with an old black cover from his sleeve.
By the time the corners of his mouth went up, and it made the Marquis feel creepy because they were no longer gentle, the high priest opened the book and started talking.
The book that the High Priest brought was a book banned in the current empire, no, in the whole country.
‘Dark Magic.’
The contents of the book with that concise and direct title were literally about black magic.
The High Priest watched the Marquis’ eyes twinkle with curiosity then began to speak in a quiet voice.
“I obtained this book 15 years ago. It was brought by a guilty wizard to confess his sins to God.”
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