The Crazy Villainess in This Area Is Me

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Magorit ran away to the annex and locked the door. Her first hunch was right. It was clear that Lobelia was planning to tighten her neck slowly like this.

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In frustration, she started throwing all sorts of things around her room. As a result, the scarf around her neck came loose and fell to the floor.

At that moment, she made eye contact with herself in the mirror. The blue scar left by the maid’s handprint was flashing like lightning. Magorit quickly picked up her scarf as the blue scar was scary enough to send goosebumps all over her body. Her harsh breath flowed between her lips.

Even though she made such a mess, not a single maid came to worry about what had happened.

“It seems like they don’t even know grace…”

Until now, she even treated commoners with respect without beating them. But how can no one follow her even though she already treated them like that?

“As expected, they’re things that didn’t need to be treated well.”

She chewed her nails and rolled her eyes. Somehow, she had to get out of this situation. It was when she was racking her brain for a while.

“Little Madam.”

“Ah, you scared me!” Magorit’s shoulders fluttered wildly at someone’s sudden voice.

“I-I’m sorry.”

It was none other than Jack who came inside.

“You didn’t knock!”

She seemed to be in a very bad mood.

“But I already knocked…” He barely answered in a crawling voice.

“

what’s going on? Have you already known what I ordered before?”

Only one day has passed now. He didn’t seem smart enough to already know the information she asked for. So, suspicious eyes turned to Jack.

“Ah, that’s not it… I passed in front of the main house and was ordered to deliver this.”

He awkwardly scratched the back of his hand and held out an envelope bearing a noble’s seal.

“…By who?”

“That, the head maid.”

As soon as Jack’s answer came out, Magorit gritted her teeth.

“They don’t even want to come to the annex to deliver the letter…?”

Even though she was kicked out to the annex, she was clearly the official wife of Marquis Hamilton. Magorit couldn’t bear to go through this humiliation.

“Yes?”

Without even thinking about opening the envelope, she clenched her fist. Then, as if she had finally remembered it, she looked at the envelope. The envelope was stamped with the seal of Duke Gracie.

“Duke Gracie?”

How could it be that at this time, the Gracie family, with whom she had never interacted, sent her a letter? Magorit puffed out her mouth and tore open the envelope in frustration. Inside it was a letter from Princess Gracie.

“Let’s have teatime?”

Let’s have a teatime at Hamilton March instead of Gracie Duchy.

She heard rumors that her illness was cured. Even though Magorit wondered if she was planning to become more active in society from now on, this letter was very strange.

A letter containing a suggestion that she would like to have tea time at Hamilton March rather than asking people to come to the duchy. It contained detailed reasons why this should be the case. Still, after hearing that Lobelia had been there, Magorit couldn’t help but be suspicious.

“…There’s nothing I can do.”

But there was nothing Magorit could do. Princess Gracie was someone she thought she must meet at least once. Anyway, she was just a newbie who couldn’t even make her debut properly because she was sick all the time. Even if she was up to something with Lobelia, she was superior in society.

Magorit took out a paper with one corner of her mouth raised slyly. She then wrote down in neat handwriting that she would accept the offer.  Soon after, with the letter in an envelope, she pressed down even the seal from when she was the daughter of Marquis Deiji. She then handed it over to Jack.

“Get this to Chelsea.”

“Ah, yes… I understand.”

Magorit’s complexion grew darker as she saw the letter in Jack’s hand. She accepted the offer, but since she didn’t know what was going on over there, she also had to prepare something.

She fell into deep thought.

“Then, I’ll leave now…”

At that moment, Jack came into his view, making her blinking foolishly.

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…?”

At the same time, a good idea crossed her mind. Although it was a very cruel and brutal method, it was a very effective way to break down Lobelia.

“Jack.”

“Yes, yes.”

“I have one more favor to ask of you.”

Magorit’s crumpled expression soon cleared up, and a bright smile appeared on her face. An ominous feeling crossed his mind for some reason, but Jack had no right to refuse anyway.

“Te-tell me.”

And again,

“Get me some poison. A powerful poison.”

His ominous feeling was always correct.

“…Poison. Powerful poison.”

“W-what are you going to use the poison for…?”

He stuttered without realizing it. He was so scared to even dare put those words in his mouth.

“E-even more, powerful poison…”

“…If you’re going to talk about it on the subject of being coachman, do it appropriately. Who are you ranting about it now?”

“Ma-Madam…”

“Can you bring it? Or you don’t have any?”

She forced a leather pouch over to Jack. There was a pile of brilliantly shining gold coins in it.

“Keep what’s left.”

“I-I’ll try… my best…”

“Something that can kill a person at once. Do you understand?”

Magorit beckoned him to leave as if she didn’t feel like explaining anymore. Jack stood there hesitantly but then turned around.

“Every commoner is stupid anyway.”

The word struck his heart like a dagger. Feeling the pressure as if rock was weighing on his shoulders, he managed to move his immobile legs. And at the moment he was about to close the door, her talk to herself came out through the door.

“That bitch’s only weakness is that child…”

His ears perked up when he heard the word ‘that child,’ but he closed the door first. A sigh escaped between his lips without him knowing.

His trembling eyes turned to the pouch in his hand. The pouch was full of gold coins. She even went so far as to say to keep what’s left in it. The amount of gold wouldn’t only be enough to cure his youngest child’s illness but also allow him to live wealthily without having to work for the rest of his life.

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Yes, he’ll be able to live richly. But can he live happily ever after? Can he be able to be proud in front of his children even though he brought poison that could have killed someone? But without these gold coins, what would happen to his youngest child?

His greed and conscience fought fiercely in his mind.

Jack bowed his head and put one hand in his pocket. With the clear sound of jingling, the silver given by Lobelia was caught at his fingertips.

“Silver…”

There were only two people that Marchioness Hamilton would harm. Lobelia, the marquis’s concubine. And her ‘child,’ which is her weakness.

If he had brought the poison himself, marchioness would definitely have used the poison he had gotten on that child whom he didn’t even know her face or name. Maybe that child is the same age as his youngest child.

He clenched his quivering lips.

Would he be naive to feel more towards her just because she gave him a silver coin, saying that he had done a good job?

With his conscience in mind, he clasped the silver coin tightly in his hand.

Anyway, his position was to be swayed by his superiors. If he had to live a life where he was swayed anyway, he at least didn’t want to hurt anyone. With that in mind, Jack headed towards the main house with a determined look on his face.