Rehabilitate the Villainess

15 – The Villainess is Heavy

A middle-aged man who looks exactly like me, Ezran Baslett. He was eating with him in an awkward atmosphere.

I can’t eat properly.

Ah, it might be better to be with Shael. No, I’m sure it will.

Eating in front of the father of the original owner of the possessed body doesn’t seem like something to do.

“Eran, it sounds like there will be a banquet at the magic tower this time.”

“⋯A banquet in the magic tower, you mean?”

“Yes, it seems that the mage tower lord is opening.”

I had no choice but to shake off my thoughts at once. Because I heard something very important.

A banquet held at the Magic Tower. It was the beginning of an incident that marked the beginning of the original novel.

It was also an incident where Shael and the main character of Ran into each other.

Even, this was the reason why Shael harbored ill will toward the female lead.

It was a rare opportunity to change the ending of Shael, the villain in the novel.

So, I have to find a way somehow.

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“If only. What if someone accidentally spills wine on you and stains your clothes?”

“⋯I have to punish you.”

I don’t know what level of punishment the villainess is talking about.

I only knew one thing.

It was the fact that if she left her as she was, things would go the same way as in her original novel.

The heroine of the novel, Clie Ruspela, accidentally spills wine on the wicked woman, Sael Azbel. All of a sudden, she was wearing the clothes she cherished as a villainess.

It was obvious what the wicked woman would do in that situation.

It was torturing Clie. She was a villainess who even harassed her fiancé, who only cared for her. So, in a way, she was natural.

Moreover, a commoner pouring wine on a son of a duke? It was unacceptable even if it was a mistake.

However, how could that commoner come to the magic tower banquet?

The reason was that her mage lord fell in love with her at first sight. Even the crown prince, who was disguised at the magic tower banquet, had a crush on the protagonist.

Then how will things go?

The villain, Shael, becomes a tool for the heroine to stand out. Her bad-tempered villain was a powerful tool that made her sympathize with the protagonist.

Of course, it was natural for Sael to be angry with the female lead, Clie.

Any high-ranking noble would be angry if a commoner spilled wine on his clothes.

However, in romance fantasy novels, it was not important.

The target readers are immersed in is Clie Ruspella, not Sael Azbel.

In the novel, everyone who came to the banquet at the Mage’s Tower pointed their fingers at Sael’s bullying to Clie, giving readers a sense of coolness.

It was unbelievable to do such a thing to the Azbel family’s golden jade, but it was possible because the Azbel duke and his wife were far away.

More than anything else, the Magic Tower Lord, who has great power, was also on their side.

Seeing Sael who has never danced her dance properly, she whispers, and her people even laugh at her when they see Sael who can’t use her magic even though she is Azbel’s son.

Perhaps this was also the opportunity for Shael from the original novel to properly learn her magic. Of course, even that magic, Sael roughly learned, but…

Considering that Sael now hated her magic, I could see how annoying this incident was to Sael.

However, no readers except me paid attention to Shael. After that, Shael only bothered her heroine.

She was Shael walking the path of a typical villainess.

Then, what can we do to prevent such catastrophe?

It was impossible to prevent her from going to the banquet at her magic tower. At the banquet in the Magic Tower, she had to come from Azbel’s lineage.

The reason was that the Azbel family was famous for magic.

Of course, the Duke and Duchess of Azbel had an affair during this time. They cannot attend Even now, they were going down to distant provinces.

It was inevitable that Sael had to go to the banquet. Never, she’ll never be able to stop it.

So at the banquet, she has to prevent what Shael will experience.

The heroine accidentally spills wine on Sael… I will be able to prevent it by sticking to her side.

But we don’t know what will happen. So what I decided was to prepare in advance so that Sael would not be laughed at.

She said, “I heard that she is going to a banquet invited by the Mage Tower.”

“You will do what you want.”

There were thorns sprouting from the wicked woman’s words. Apparently, she seemed to sense something ominous. Her intuition was correct.

“Let’s practice dancing, Shael.”

“⋯I don’t like it.”

The wicked woman hated dancing. Of course, I wasn’t the one to convince her of that.

-‘Yes, I like it.’

-‘I love you to death.’

“⋯.”

She looked at me as if she was going to drink these beads for how long.

“I will use it until I die. Please wake up.”

At my reply, she had no choice but to get up.

The Azbel family’s training ground again. She had lights on in her eyes, as if she was reliving the memory of the night she had been beaten by me.

⋯It was as if he was going to take revenge right away. Her group invited her to dance.

“Take my hand.”

It was an offer that would normally have been horrified and rejected.

However, Sael surprisingly did not refuse. No, she was rather grinning.

⋯It was a sign that Sael was about to start harassing me. What on earth are you laughing at?

Shael held my hand. Unexpectedly, the feeling when she held her hand was new.

I thought it was cold…

⋯It was heavy.

Since I was thinking about other things, Shael urged me on. It was a signal to come on and teach me how to dance.

“Please look at me and move your feet in the same way.”

Sael did as I said and moved her feet after me.

While dancing, a sound that was not suitable for hearing echoed.

It was the sound of her heel hitting the ground.

“⋯What is it?”

“What is it?”

A wicked woman who answers my questions with questions. It was an unknown situation.

⋯How can you hear a cooing sound when a person steps on the ground?

Moreover, the place she stepped on was right next to her feet. She was almost trampled on by the wicked woman.

“⋯No. Let’s start again.”

She resumed her dance, which had been forced to stop by Shael, who looked at me like an insane person.

“⋯.”

The sound of her heels stamping the ground continues to resonate. Its position was always right next to my feet.

The villainess kept targeting me. Are you trying to pierce a hole in my foot?

Finally, the heavy vibrating sound rang again.

The wicked woman threw herself down on her land with all her might. She somehow seemed to think she was a villain, that this time she would really be able to step on it.

Of course not. She must have thought she could hear my salivation, but she heard something different.

Ududuk-

It was the sound of her heels breaking. These shoes must have been made by the clothing wizard of the Azbel family.

That it broke… Was predictable how much force she put into her feet.

“Are you okay?”

“⋯No.”

It wasn’t because her leg was hurt when the shoe broke.

The villainess seemed not okay in a different way. Yes, it was clear that she regretted not stepping on her foot.

I lifted Shael from the floor. It was to sit on the bench at the training ground.

I tried to stand up while holding her, but it was the sound of her knees bending and collapsing.

⋯She was grotesquely heavy.

It was then that a memory popped into my mind. It was at an auction house. Yes, heavy pollen or something. Remember the auctioneer’s explanation.

ㅡ’This time it’s heavy pollen! When sprayed, the object temporarily gains weight. It’s also good to secretly spray it on nasty people. Let’s start with 500,000 gold!’

Aha, you sprinkled this pollen on yourself. It was clear that the villainess herself had made her body heavy so that she could pierce my feet.

After that, she must have asked the family mage to make sure that she herself would not be affected by the heavy weight.

Come to think of it, she went somewhere for a while before practicing her dance.

After thinking that far, Shael looks disgusted.

“It’s heavy.”

“⋯I am light.”

“⋯You must have gained weight.”

Shael stood up and glared at me, putting off the heel of her broken shoe as an afterthought.

“Looking at it now, it seems that the appearance has changed a little.”

“⋯.”

“No, it seems to have changed a lot.”

Shael maintained her silence. Her expression was even colder than before.

The expression on her face earlier was just because she was angry at being told that she looked like she had gained weight. But not now.

The change in appearance is probably not due to heavy pollen.

She will try to repeat in her mind that my words will be lies.

But what? She actually gained weight. Enough to fly, but very slightly.

Perhaps it was the food that relieved my unresolved stress. She, too, was aware of this.

“Come to think of it, dancing is a suitable exercise for losing weight.”

“⋯!”

That day, the villainess became her schoolboy and she learned to dance from me.

The villainess was surprisingly easy to handle.