Taming The Villainesses novel Chapter 259

(EP-259.2) #1

259 – Fight Fire With Fire #1

“As you said, Elga-nim, the problem is that they would want to support me. They would definitely get overzealous and escalate things. That would lead to an uncontrollable situation.”

The reason I hadn’t told Mirna was precisely because of this. If Mirna, who was loyal to the Angmar royal family, learned about my existence, she would undoubtedly stir up trouble, saying, “Drive out the usurpers!”

Elga seemed to understand this, nodding, “That makes sense.”

Then, she slowly spoke again.

“Then, just to be sure, have you touched Aira or that elf professor?”

“Unfortunately, not yet.”

“Yet? Yeett? That means you plan to eventually... You’re completely crazy!”

Elga clicked her tongue.

But my stance was firm.

“There will be no change in my plan for revenge. Once I set my path, there’s no turning back. This is my way as a man and my royal way.”

Perhaps she was awestruck by my impressive speech, Elga stood there with her mouth slightly open, eyes wide. Then, as if nothing had happened, she scoffed.

“Heh, what a remarkable avenger you are. If it were me, I wouldn’t have done that.”

“Then what would Elga-nim have done in my position?”

“If I had to take revenge, I would kill them all.”

I could hardly believe my ears at her immediate and unhesitant response. Kill them all? Wasn’t that too cruel?

However, Elga continued to explain her view as if it were the only correct one.

“If the Lioness family were utterly destroyed, I would make the others suffer the same fate. Otherwise, I wouldn’t get my justice. That’s what revenge is!”

She had a point.

The notion of ‘family revenge’ carried the scent of a blood-stained dagger rather than a pacifier. Perhaps revenge was inherently meant to be that way.

However, I was both Theo and the human, Lee Seong-eum. As I wore the mask of Theo, I performed that role.

Yet, at heart, I was still Lee Seong-eum, an ordinary person. I had no reason to carry out such cruel revenge, nor did I have any ill feelings. But explaining all this would be complicated and time-consuming.

Moreover, if I were to say, “This world is actually a book, and I am Lee Seong-eum, not an Angmar,” Elga might actually rip my head off.

“Ah fųck, I don’t know either!”

Elga spat out a curse and then stood up.

“You, I’ll be watching you for a while...”

* * *

A few days had passed since Opal’s execution.

The Bellhawk family members were massively prosecuted, causing the entire kingdom to be noisy and tumultuous.

Sitting quietly in the palace garden, you could hear people whispering everywhere.

━That crazy nymph raided the sugarcane farm and stole all the crops! The already high sugar prices might go up even more.

━Won’t that affect the desserts supplied to the court...? The Queen has only just started to seem a bit better these past few days...

━I heard the lion spiders are causing trouble everywhere too. Those Bellhawk scoundrels! They really know how to cause big problems...!

The fortunate thing was that the public sentiment and opinion about the Bellhawk family were also bad, so it was much easier to arrest and issue warrants for them. We also received a lot of cooperation.

Seuk-.