I Became a Villainess in a Deadly Novel

First of all, I’d like to exchange these jewels for money. 

I came out of the dukedom and carried some jewelry belonging to Meliara. Unfortunately, even if the world would end tomorrow, I was hungry and needed money to buy food. 

Where should I go? If it’s a store in the main street, I think they’ll recognize my face. 

Since there was no need to make rumors, I thought a jewelry store outside the main street would be good, so

I went inside the alley to avoid people’s eyes. It was then. 

“Grrr, wooalf!” 

I heard a dog barking from behind. I turned my head because I liked dogs and I wanted to see the one passing by. And my eyes widened. 

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The animal that barked at me was a dog…with three heads. 

Ke, Kerberos? 

The first thing that came to my mind was the dog that protected the hell gate in both Greek and Roman mythology. It’s color was black and the eyes were blood-colored, so it was creepy. 

Is this a novel world in which that exists? 

I thought of the original.

I think the main couple made a lot of great scenes hunting monsters in the capital city…So is that a monster…? 

I didn’t know what to do, so when I was stiffened, the “animal” approached me. 

I know how to fight jerks, but I don’t know how to hunt monsters! 

Run away? No, they’ll catch up. Pretending to be dead? No, they’re gonna eat you anyway! You have to climb a tree……. There was no tree here! While thinking about 

all kinds of things, the “animal” was right in front of me. It seemed like a scream would come out, but I closed my lips in fear that a loud noise would provoke him. But it was then. 

“Wooalf! Wooalf!” 

The animal’s three heads barked one after another and rubbed their faces against my pelvis. Even wagging his tail gently! The movement of sticking out his tongue was somewhat cute, so I carefully stroked the head in the middle of the three. Then the puppy raised his front foot to me, barking as if he liked it

My body fell backwards under the sudden weight. Then the three heads rubbed their faces against my face and neck and licked my cheeks. 

“Oh, wait, wait! Ahahah! If you do it all at once, my face will get messed up!” 

“Woof!” 

Even in my protest, the puppy barked cutely and acted cute. 

You’re a dog with three heads, but are you foolish? 

There was no mention in the original book that there was an animal like this, but I couldn’t even explain anything that passed in the head of the writer! After concluding it was one of the common animals in this world, I pet the puppy to my heart’s content. Maybe he liked my touch because he even lied down. 

“You want me to touch your belly? Haha, yeah!”

I scratched its belly with both hands for the it’s happiness when a man’s voice was heard not far from us. 

“Kelber.” 

The dog’s tail stopped at the sound of that firm voice. When I looked up, a man was walking from the entrance of the alley. 

“Suddenly leaving the ranks. What are you doing?” 

At the low voice, the puppy jumped and hid behind me, whining. The dog’s pathetic whining made me hug him without realizing it. The man who came all the way to me looked down at both of us without saying a word. His golden eyes were intertwined with mine. At that moment, I stopped breathing in a different way than when I first encountered the three heads puppy. 

Are you human…? 

His appearance was awesome enough to naturally suspect him. A deep impression that creates perfect features, a spotless copper skin. Silver hair like the moon shining high in the deep night sky, and his sharp eyes gleaming like a jewel. He looked so dazzling that there was no way to explain it. 

“Are you the owner of this puppy?” 

I almost asked ‘Do you have a lover?’. I was weak to a handsome man… 

“Yes.” 

He frowned while answering. He looked alternately between me and the puppy called Kelber. 

“That’s unusual. Usually Kelber doesn’t like humans.” “Ahaha. I’m usually loved by animals.” 

It has been like that since I was young. The animals liked me, regardless of the tough street cats or the fierce pigeons. It has been more than once that I heard the words of the dog owners embarrassed by the sight of their dog running to me and hugging me, saying,”it isn’t normally like this.” 

I smiled and stroked Kelber’s neck.

“He’s such a cute dog. Each of the three has their own personality, so it’s fun. Hahaha.” 

Each head had a slightly different personality. The one who liked rubbing, the other who liked licking, and the last who kept blushing. 

“Three…?” 

All three of them were cute, but the man murmured in a strange voice. 

“Oh, is it weird to say three just because you have three heads?” 

He wrinkled his brows deeper when I said that. I was wondering why he was doing that and if I used any rude expression, but he suddenly grabbed my wrist. 

“?” 

It wasn’t rough, but he pulled me with a firm hand and grabbed me by the chin

with the other hand. 

“!”

I breathed briefly in the sudden narrow distance. His cool and refreshing scent stimulated my nose. My heart started beating fast because even his light scent was my taste. Embarrassed that my thumping pulse would reach his fingertips, I twisted to get my wrist out. However, he squeezed it more tightly and carefully looked at my face. It would have been normal to push him away, asking what he was doing, but I couldn’t push him away coldly because his eyes looking at me were desperate. 

“Maybe….” 

It was then when he was trying to say something…

“Your Grace!” 

Another man’s voice came from behind his back. The handsome man, at the appearance of the other one, quickly backed away from me. 

“Did you find Kelber?”… Oh, here it is.” 

The man behind him was a middle-aged man with gray hair. 

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Looking at his outfit…Are you the butler of this handsome man? 

No wonder he looked so luxurious in light clothes because you were a nobleman. I got up from my seat, shook my clothes, and nodded. The butler smiled and said hello. 

“You found Kelber. Thank you.” 

“No, I just met him while I was passing by.” “I want to pay you back. Is there anything you want?”

“It’s okay. I didn’t do much.” 

My stubborn refusal made him hesitate, so he took out two gold coins and held them in my hand. 

“But I can’t help you, so please accept this.”

“It’s okay….” 

I tried to refuse but stopped talking and thought again. 

No, even though this puppy came to me and acted cute, from their point of view, I’ve been keeping him well, right? 

In addition, given the clothes he was wearing and the butler’s, he was definitely a man with a lot of money. For two gold coins he won’t suffer so much. Anyway, the more he wanted to offer me, the better was if I wanted to save money before the empire collapsed. Yes, it wasn’t polite to refuse them! 

“I’ll take it well. Thank you.” 

I changed my words slightly and smiled. I quickly put the gold coins in my pocket just in case he changed his words. They quickly disappeared from my sight after receiving my greetings. Before leaving the alley, the handsome man stopped once again and looked back at me. 

The more I see him, the more he is my taste. 

That was all I could think of when I saw the man staring at me with a mysterious look on his face. I smiled and waved, but he stepped away at the butler’s call without a greeting. 

What a shame. 

He disappeared from my sight, but his subtle scent on my wrist stayed with me for a long time. 

*** 

“There you are.” 

After breaking up with her, Lecht, who was lost in thought, called and stopped a man who was passing by. 

“What…? Me, me…?”

The commoner came closer nervously at the cool aura out of control emanating from Lecht 

“How many heads does this dog have?” 

The man’s hands trembled when the men, who seemed to be ready to cut his head at any moment, asked that strange question. He was afraid that he might drag him to forced labor because he didn’t like the answer. 

“Ah, one.” 

“Are you sure there is one?” 

When he asked again as if it was the wrong answer, the man sweated and checked the dog he pointed at again. A large black dog showed hostility, revealing teeth fiercely. The man was horrified by the red eyes. 

“One is… Oh, no…?” 

“Hmm.” 

He just answered what he could see, but the man screamed as if he didn’t like it.

“I’m sorry…!” 

In any case, the man shook his head, saying that if he had offended the aristocrat, he was to blame because he was from the common people. The man was waiting for the disrespect that would fall on him but he heard a slightly different soft voice. 

“Your Grace, what else are you doing?” 

“…” 

“You may go.” 

At the words of the butler, the commoner said “Thank you!” and ran away. 

Tanma, a butler and an aide, looked back at his owner with a serious look on his face and asked. 

“What’s wrong with you?” 

“She saw it as three.” 

“What?” 

“That woman saw Kelber’s head exactly as three.”

Only then did Tanma realize why Lecht had a strange expression since earlier. 

“I can’t believe she had seen through the spell…” 

Lecht’s servitor, Kelber, originally had three heads. However, it was normal for an ordinary person to see it like a dog with a single head because of an illusory spell. But the woman saw Kelber’s true form. 

“Maybe it’s a demon or a contractor?” 

It was natural for Tanma to have this question, as anyone who signed a contract with a demon could see through the illusory magic. In response to this question, Lecht recalled the sensation of grabbing her wrist and the strange sense of disparity he felt through her eyes. 

“No. I didn’t feel that way at all.” 

If so, Lecht would have noticed. No matter how well you could change your energy, there were no demons who could hide from Lecht, the Demon King.

“You’re a human being, and you’ve seen Kelber’s true form?” 

“So am I not serious?” 

There was silence between the two. Tanma asked carefully, looking at Lecht’s eyes. 

“Is she…?” 

Lecht’s fingertips flinched at the question that seemed to have followed his thoughts. As Tanma said, the question of “Is it her?” dominated Lecht’s head. However, there were many reasons why the question couldn’t turn into a conviction. 

“It’s definitely not the way she looked.” 

One of them was her appearance. The woman he remembered had pitch-black hair and pretty eyes like black obsidian. It was far from the appearance he just saw. In his memory, she was shorter than the woman he had just encountered, so she was rather small. 

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“But just because the soul is the same there isn’t a law that the appearance is the same.” 

Tanma clarified Lecht’s thoughts.

“Shall we find out?” 

“As soon as possible.” 

To Tanma’s question, Lecht answered as if he had waited. 

“Okay.” 

He had more work to do, but Tanma didn’t complain. A human woman who could see Kelber’s true self through the illusory spell. Maybe she was the Lord’s long awaited woman.