The Baddest Villainess Is Back - Chapter 165
“That’s nonsense…”
“What do you call people who ruin others’ lives because their only complaint in life is being born illegitimate?”
“The people who treat living humans as shadows are the bad ones! You wouldn’t understand because you have everything! Being born, abandoned, forgotten, and living in fear of dying at any moment!”
Roxelyn quietly watched the boy shouting as if narrating his own story, while spouting brainwashed information.
“So, destroying the lives of people who are living well, killing them, making countless people jobless and driving them to suicide— You’re telling me that’s a good deed?”
“A sacrifice of the few is for the sake of the many!”
“Do you want to know what happens if your plan succeeds?”
Roxelyn, crouched in front of him, spoke with a blank expression.
“The Bellion Ducal House will lose all its technology. Duke Bellion will weaken from an incurable disease, then be assassinated along with the butler. The Young Duke will suffer from poison and die slowly. Lady Carmel will take over the house as planned.”
“….”
“Oh, before that, Ian Bellion will be used by Makruxa, get wrongly involved in a drug scandal, and be executed by the Emperor.”
Roxelyn dryly drew a finger across her neck in a slashing motion.
“Aegis Bellion previously turned down the position of duke’s heir due to the marriage of convenience that comes with it and subsequently left the household. But he will eventually come back, but it’s already too late. He’ll understand the situation, and reluctantly become the Duke. He will ask his last remaining relative for help.”
Her leisurely words were in stark contrast to the grim content.
“Of course, that cold-hearted relative will refuse his plea for help. And not long after, she will die in an assassination disguised as an accident.”
Roxelyn slowly closed her eyes and opened them again.
“In the meantime, Makruxa’s plans will succeed, spreading a plague throughout the empire. Following the plan of the King and his half-brother from Kaluta, the empire and Kaluta will wage a great war.”
In the oppressive silence where even one’s breathing couldn’t be heard, Roxelyn continued, still crouched in front of the boy.
“Both the empire and Kaluta will be nearly irrecoverable.”
The Crown Prince will be busy capturing and executing all the criminals to restore public confidence.
“In that future, someone loses their lover, someone else loses their husband, their son, their only child, and the empire is filled daily with mourning for the lost families who could never return.”
“No…”
“The First Prince becomes the emperor as planned, and you… as the substitute King of Makruxa, will be executed.”
As Roxelyn’s calm words continued, the boy’s eyes widened.
“That’s right, a sacrifice of the few for the many.”
It was a clear case of countless sacrifices for one person’s greed.
“So, say it, the King of Makruxa is irredeemable scum. That will break the brainwashing.”
By making a definitive denial of the brainwashing, it could be broken.
Roxelyn slowly stood up.
When she looked around, she saw Arma staring at her with wide eyes. His gaze was filled with all sorts of emotions, including fear and shock.
“Roxelyn… What on earth are you talking about?”
Roxelyn slowly turned to look at her pale, frightened father.
“What I’m saying is… I am not the Roxelyn Bellion you loved.”
She would eliminate Makruxa in this world and remove all the threats.
She would see to it that the Second Prince marries the Princess of Kaluta for peace between them.
And when all that was done…
She would leave.
“Of course, I am Roxelyn Bellion. Just not the Roxelyn Bellion of this world.”
“…Then, my daughter.”
“Coincidentally, she must have died before I entered. I heard I can only enter a body that has died.”
“Lies…”
Zerti Bellion staggered backward.
Roxelyn was used to being hated.
Maybe that’s why? She tried to smile brightly as she always did.
But her lips wouldn’t lift as easily as usual.
