The Villainess in the Romance Fantasy Is Strange

28. Crazy dog in this district (3)

“Billion! Who, sister-?!”

“Keep, hee, hee, hee…” … !”

As if she had swallowed something wrong, Grace squirted the liquid she was holding in her mouth at the bartender. She looked at me and Leah in disbelief.

With Lia, I approached the liquor store where Grace was and casually exchanged greetings.

“Grace, long time no see. Hasn’t it been about two years since you haven’t seen our faces?”

I escorted Lia to her seat, and I sat next to her.

Grace, who had been coughing while covering her mouth with her hand, began to speak with a stutter as if she had slowly regained her sanity.

“Uh, how, here…… ?”

I mumbled as if I couldn’t bear to say anything behind my back, but I thought I knew what Grace was trying to say.

Vona Mana, ‘How did you know I was here and came here…… He must have been asking the question, ‘?

I smiled kindly and tapped Grace on the shoulder.

“Well, let’s just say there is a way to know everything.”

Actually, it’s just a coincidence.

“Seo, were you spying on me? No, it will…… ?”

Grace looked at the bartender and asked in a low voice that was barely audible to him.

However, I pretended not to hear and spoke while maintaining eye contact with the bartender.

“What is the best thing to do here?”

“Whoa… …. Champagne from Lewis, sir.”

“Then, for two drinks, this will be enough, right?”

A shilling, about 70,000 won in our money, was placed on the table. The bartender checked the coin’s value, opened his eyes wide, and politely bowed his head.

“Yes, sir. I’ll bring it to you chilled, so please wait a moment.”

The bartender entered the kitchen.

Only then did I leisurely bend his head and look at Grace.

“What are you doing here, Grace? I must have warned you not to do anything crap again.”

As she muttered lowly and touched the handle of the sword at her waist, Grace’s eyes trembled slightly.

“That’s not like that! Me, i just I came to get a drink from a younger brother I know, I wasn’t planning anything suspicious… !”

“How can I believe that?”

“Gee, it’s real! You know Cain too. Because I made an oath of mana with Lord Cain, I can’t harm civilians…… !”

I took my eyes off Grace, who was desperately making excuses, and glanced at Leah. Because Lia can feel the flow of mana. She can detect even the unholy mana that flows out when wizards lie.

I only asked with my eyes if I couldn’t feel something. Leah shook her head. That doesn’t mean Grace isn’t lying.

“Yeah, what. I’ll trust you this time and move on.”

“Ah, whew…” ….”

“…… However.”

I leaned my upper body with my handcuffs on.

Grace straightened up in surprise.

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“There are a few things I am curious about.”

“Yes, yes. Ask anything….”

“Here, Death Size Club. No, in the Under Club, what the hell are you plotting?”

“…… Yes?”

“Don’t pretend, I know everything.”

I met eyes with Lia.

Lea cleared her throat, then gave an explanation for me.

“In the past year, several of the clubs and organizations belonging to the Bern Academy have spent a whopping £784 at the Club Death Size in the name of dinner and liquor purchases. Considering that the most expensive champagne here costs five shillings a bottle, this is obviously an odd amount.”

11 Shillings is about a pound. In other words, even if you calculate that you bought 784 pounds of only the most expensive champagne, you can conclude that you bought 8624 bottles.

Not all of our students are severe alcoholics. Doesn’t this make sense numerically?

This is one hundred percent something. The expenses for dinner and liquor purchases are nominal, and in reality, the money has flowed elsewhere.

So I, along with Lia, went to the place where there was Club Death Size after asking around to find a clue.

Isn’t this why, as soon as you enter the club, there is a familiar yet secretly welcome face.

Club Death Size is one of the dark places that doesn’t appear in the original work, so I honestly didn’t know where to start researching it, but I was relieved to see Grace, who seemed to know the circumstances of this criminal club well, sitting down and opening champagne.

I waited for Lia to finish explaining, then she asked Grace.

“Grace, be honest. What the hell are you doing at the Death Size Club with all this huge money?”

“Oh, no. I don’t know, I don’t know I really don’t know…… !”

…… It puts out its flippers.

Going closer to Grace’s ear, he whispered softly.

“Is your military service over if you don’t know?”

“Yes, yes? What kind of life is it?”

“…… It’s a joke.”

I straightened my posture and looked down at Grace.

“Where is the unknown?”

“…… Yes?”

“If you don’t know, shouldn’t you find out?”

“Yes? Oh no. Why do I need to know….”

“Limbs.”

“I will, I will! I’ll find out! I’ll find out, so please leave my limbs alone…… !”

“…… Uh huh, what are you talking about? If anyone heard, you would think I was threatening to cut off your limbs.”

──Be careful with your mouth in front of Ria, if you really don’t want to be cut into pieces.

When she conveyed her inner thoughts only with the shape of her mouth, Grace nodded vigorously with her pale face.

-Kik.

“Sir, this is the San Luis Champagne you ordered. Can I give the other cup to the lady accompanying me?”

After giving her a chin gesture, he handed her an extra penny as a tip.

The unnamed bartender bowed her long head in gratitude and for some reason began to look at Grace with her admiring eyes.

It’s me, I don’t know the circumstances, so I don’t know what the emotions in that bartender’s eyes are.

I’m guessing, ‘Sister, were you friends with these great people…’? … Maybe it’s the look of ‘?’

“Grace, would you like a drink with me?”

From now on, he is a talented person who will work hard on our behalf, so wouldn’t it be difficult to buy him just one drink?

So I showed a really broad generosity and made a long-awaited proposal.

“Oh, no. It’s okay, it’s okay yes I’m fine….”

For some reason, Grace shook her head with a swarthy face.

* * *

Exactly one week after that, in the student council room.

──Kung!

The student body president of Bern Academy, Edwin von Edwards, is sitting on top of his desk. He stared at the huge stack of papers in silence, then turned his head away.

“Kain Reinhardt, what is it all about?”

“This is a handwritten report on the progress of the anti-corruption activities that Lia and I conducted for a week.”

“…… Are these all reports?”

“Yes, there are more originally. I thought it would be too many to submit at once, so I narrowed down the important ones.”

“Huh… ….”

Blink.

Edwin blinked his eyelids slowly, then slowly reached for the stack of reports.

Looking through the first chapter slowly, it is indeed Cain’s declaration. I wrote down the progress so far calmly and coherently using a sharp font.

“Mmm, yes. Good work, but…. By any chance, was there anything uncomfortable while working?”

“There were no particular inconveniences. I have a suggestion for you.”

“Suggestions?”

Edwin gestured with his chin, meaning to say something. Cain opened his mouth indifferently.

“A school duel. Couldn’t you make a new school rule that you can only duel a maximum of 3 times a week with the same person?”

“What?”

“That’s because there are a few people who are more persistent than I thought.”

As if Cain didn’t want to imagine her, she continued her words with a slight frown between her brows.

“There are people who fought a duel for the survival of the club, but they couldn’t accept it and kept clinging to it and asking for a re-duel. If this happens once or twice, I’ll get over it, but it often comes in during class and interferes with the learning of other classmates, so it’s not too much of a nuisance.”

“…… Oh, do you mean to guarantee the right to study for classmates?”

“Yes. Because one mudfish shouldn’t hurt other good people.”

“Okay. I will formally propose that agenda when the regular meeting is held. Anything else?”

“Yeah, nothing else. Thank you for caring me.”

“Well, yes.”

Cain Reinhardt, bowing her head and bowing her head politely, left her student council room.

Edwin looked at Cain’s back, then slightly looked away from her.

There, Edwin’s secretary, Rowen, always expressionless, was standing there.

“Rowen.”

“Yes, Chairman.”

“About the week you and I bet on, it’s already been a full day, right?”

“…… Oh, is that so?”

As if he remembered it belatedly, Rowen let out a dazed voice.

Edwin sighed as he looked at Rowen.

“Yes, I won the bet. Rowen has the right to say one wish to me. What do you want to have money? Honor? Or a title?”

“I want all three, so will you marry me?”

“That’s not possible, but even if you look at it like this, you have a fiance who promised you a future.”

Edwin shrugged her shoulders. Rowen still had a calm face, and she muttered one more word.

“Then, would you like to hang out with me after school?”

“Is that a date request?”

“No, I need to buy new fixtures. It is heavy, so it is difficult for me to lift it by myself.”

“To treat the crown prince of the empire as a midday porter is rude. Even the most benevolent country can’t forgive this…….”

“So, won’t you come with me?”

“I’ll meet you at the main gate of the academy at 18:00. I have a place I need to stop for a while.”

Edwin spoke briefly and stood up.

Rowen looked up at Edwin, who was a head and a half taller than he was, she said.

“I will accompany you, let’s go together.”

“No, I will go alone.”

Edwin sifted the first page of the stack of papers out of the file, and he waved them away.

-Report on drug trafficking charges at Club Death Size.

“What fearless man dares to eat some of my people. I have to see it clearly with my own two eyes.”

“… ….”

Looking at Edwin, who smiled with the corner of her mouth raised, but her eyes were not smiling, Rowen felt inside her.

Perhaps in the near future, in a place called ‘Club Death Size’,

“…… All right.”

The Crown Prince of the Empire, and terribly fond of his people. The bloody wind that Edwin drove will blow and shut up.

* * *

“Cain, did you deliver the report well?”

“Yes, I came to tell you. They liked how well organized it was.”

“Oh, really? It’s a pity, I’ll go in with you.”

“Then, why don’t you go in with me when I give you the next regular report?”

“Ugh, I hate that. Student President Edwin, your eyes are a little scary.”

“…… Mmm.”

Lea may not be saying it knowingly, but Edwin, the president of the student council and the first prince of the empire, is actually a scary person.

Is that the case, was it about the 3rd volume of the original work? As soon as he finds out that the person caught secretly distributing drugs in the borders of the empire was bought by the royal family of the other country, he persuades his father, the emperor, to start a war and make the land not grow.

…… This is not a figurative meaning, just a list of facts. That’s why I’m afraid of Edwin and his brother Bern.

It is said that the blood inherited from the emperor, who is both a tyrant and a great ruler, does not go anywhere, and since both of them are human beings with distorted personalities, they will lose their taste if Stella does not take good care of them.

This can be seen in the IF story, which is a separate narrative from the original, by looking at the actions of Edwin and Bern in the world line who did not meet Stella.

“… ….”

I won’t say anything about the fate of those two people and the empire. Honestly, just thinking about it again gives chills down my spine.

I rubbed the goose bumps off my forearm and looked at Lia.

“Oh, yes. Lia.”

“Yeah, why?”

“Well, I think it’s been about a week since we put the rings on. Didn’t Venus-sama say something?”

“No, you didn’t say anything. Perhaps you are contemplating which test to give?”

“Oh, is that so?”

According to the original story, now is the time for Venus to give Stella her first test.

I remember that the first test—which Venus called an ordeal—was supposed to subdue the C-class dangerous species, the ‘River Tyrant’, with the two of them.

Since Venus said he would give us an especially easy ordeal, there’s a high chance that he’ll subdue D-class dangerous species.

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A level D is like eating a piece of cake. So whatever it is, let’s get rid of it quickly and focus on finding out the members of the church-.

──My children.

At that moment, I heard someone’s voice. Lia and I looked at each other at the same time.

“Huh? Cain, just….”

“Yeah, I heard that too.”

──My children, the first trial has been prepared. Are you ready?

“Yes, yes! Please tell me, Lord Venus!”

–Yes, the two children will kneel there.

As Venus ordered, we knelt in his place and prepared to listen to his words.

──Baby, the first ordeal that will be given to you guys.

“Yes, what about trials?”

──It is classified as an A-class dangerous species by the human classification, and its nickname is ‘ruler of the sea’.

“…… ?”

“…… Yes?”

──To cut down the dragon’s wickedness and offer it to my altar.