The Baddest Villainess Is Back - Chapter 163
Arma’s face flushed as if it was about to burst, and Roxelyn looked displeased while the scolding went back and forth several times.
After the chaos calmed down a bit, Devon Bellion opened his mouth to bring order.
“So, Roxelyn. May I ask why you suddenly brought up Lily?”
Roxelyn looked at him and nodded.
“This boy is Lily… that is, Aunt Lily’s son.”
“…That’s ridiculous! At most, he can’t be more than twenty years old…”
“He’s nineteen.”
“Oh, right. How can a boy who’s only nineteen be the son of a sister who died more than twenty years ago!”
“She didn’t die.”
Ian Bellion froze at Roxelyn’s words.
He looked at her with a face that had turned ghostly pale. His expression seemed frightened.
“W-What nonsense are you talking about? What crazy things have you been saying since earlier? Who are you… What are you… How do you know all this…? Answer me, Roxelyn Bellion!”
Roxelyn stared at Ian Bellion with wide eyes.
“Do I still look like your niece? Am I Roxelyn Bellion?”
“…What?”
Ian Bellion’s lips turned blue from how pale he had become.
Seeing Ian Bellion stumbling back with his lips trembling, Roxelyn smiled even brighter.
“Puh, puhahaha!! Our niece is driving me crazy.”
Aegis Bellion burst into loud laughter.
“Roxelyn, you shouldn’t mess with adults. Only your second uncle is allowed to be like that.”
“…Hey, your words are weird.”
“He’s too dumb to distinguish between jokes and seriousness, so bear with him.”
At Zerti’s words, Roxelyn blinked once.
‘I’m serious…’
Strictly speaking, Roxelyn wasn’t their real niece, Roxelyn Bellion.
“Say something that makes sense! How can a kid who was always cooped up in her room know all this!”
“I heard she awakened her Abyss.”
“Abyss, my foot! What kind of Abyss can see the past without being told and predict the future?!”
Roxelyn looked at Ian, whose words were surprisingly sharp, in silence.
“How can she use such a great Abyss without any cost or side effects, without even wearing a control device!”
Despite Ian’s shouting, Roxelyn said nothing.
The boy, who had been looking away as if he wouldn’t cooperate, met Roxelyn’s gaze and widened his eyes.
‘This boy’s Abyss must be truth discernment.’
The ability to determine the truth of what someone says.
That’s why, when invited to Makruxa, he, along with the King, was seated wearing a skull mask.
Makruxa had offered Roxelyn two things.
One was to become the Queen of Makruxa.
The other was to become the wife of the next Duke.
She had thought it was nonsense, but then she heard the explanation.
That the one who acted as a Reaper was the last bloodline of the Bellion Ducal House.
So the King of Makruxa planned to bring the Bellion Ducal House to ruin and make the Reaper the next Duke.
Right.
When she fell off the cliff, Lily Bellion did not die.
She was in a coma, and the Captain of the Imperial Guard intended to use her, had a child, and raised that child as an assassin to control the Ducal House.
One of the reasons Roxelyn couldn’t leave Makruxa alone was because of this.
Makruxa had crossed a line.
They had gone far beyond what Roxelyn could accept or understand.
The Captain of the Imperial Guard’s anger was understandable, but he had committed an unforgivable sin.
Currently, the most loyal person to the King in Makruxa was this young Reaper.
In Roxelyn’s world, the real King was never captured.
The only ones who knew the King were the boy who had served him his whole life and another brainwashed boy.
And the woman who was a fugitive.
Suddenly, Roxelyn’s eyes widened.
‘So that’s it.’
One thing became clear.
The reason the Captain of the Imperial Guard revealed his face and told Roxelyn all these facts.
‘Because he intended to kill me anyway.’
