The Baddest Villainess Is Back - Chapter 25
“Decided to be righteous and kind in this life, have you?”
Gerun asked with a laugh in his voice as they left the boutique.
The Fleur Boutique would close down a year from now, involved in some drug incident.
It wasn’t Fleur’s fault, but the nature of the case was so severe that she ended up closing shop.
The reason being, the merchant supplying her fabrics had been secretly smuggling drugs within them.
“I’ve always been kind.”
Roxelyn responded nonchalantly as he escorted her to the carriage waiting right outside the store.
He whispered quietly back.
“A kind person cannot kill.”
“Well, it’s precisely the righteous and kind who people should be wary of, actually. When their sense of justice and kindness is broken, they can wield a sword at any moment.”
And, as she climbed into the carriage, she thought to herself,
Nothing is more dangerous than blind justice and compulsive kindness.
“So, how was it, the feeling of dying?”
He asked abruptly as the carriage started moving.
“It was refreshing.”
In fact, she thought that she wouldn’t have to live anymore.
But the unpleasant Gerun had instead thrown her into this strange world.
Roxelyn narrowed her eyes.
“You seem quite fragile in this world.”
Gerun chuckled, amused.
“I was shocked to hear the ‘Stuttering Roxelyn’ rumor. Where else could you find someone as eloquent as you?”
Roxelyn remained silent at his remark.
Marquis Gerun’s residence was in a rather quiet part of the capital.
As they neared the mansion, Roxelyn, noticing the quiet surroundings, broke the silence.
“So, in this world, the Marchioness is still alive.”
“…”
Hearing those words, Gerun paused.
“Was that the relationship you wanted to change?”
Roxelyn didn’t just sit idly after arriving here either.
This world was different from hers.
She read newspapers constantly, gathered information, learned, and compared it to her world’s knowledge.
She needed to know this world to use the information from her world effectively.
She learned that the marchioness, who was destined to die of illness in her world, was still alive here.
“I heard there’s quite a buzz about the Marquis and Marchioness’s discord.”
She looked straight at Gerun.
“Did I hit a nerve? Why so serious? People only start regretting once they lose someone.”
She watched Gerun, his usual smile gone, and chuckled.
“You said I was too much of a villainess to kill, but we’re not that close, are we? We’re not exactly friends.”
Her voice held a dry laugh and a hint of resignation, despite the harsh content.
“So I wondered, why did you come all this way? And I think I found a plausible answer.”
“I never thought that far, but it seems you did,” he replied in a soft voice, lips curling into a familiar smile.
“And to think we’d end up in a parallel world. What happened to the original owner of this body?”
“Our travel criteria were worlds where the bodies we enter are already dead but physically intact.”
“Dead?”
Roxelyn muttered softly.
She knew from Lady Carmel that this world’s Roxelyn had attempted to take her own life, so she wasn’t surprised.
But Gerun Wilfred?
‘Would this man take his own life?’
She shook her head quickly. He wasn’t the kind of person who’d end his life.
‘Was Gerun Wilfred weak in this worldline?’
Just imagining it made her feel like throwing up.
“We’re just in one of many parallel worlds, similar to the one we lived in,” he continued. Roxelyn nodded in understanding.
“Your ‘Abyss’ was a tracking skill, right?” she asked, looking at him.
Gerun, now back in familiar territory, looked at her with an intrigued smile, regaining his composure.
“How did you manage to travel to a parallel world with a dead person?”
Roxelyn inquired as soon as they left the boutique.
“Well, what do you think?”
Gerun asked, provoking her curiosity.
Roxelyn shrugged.
“You seem to have formulated a hypothesis. So, pray tell. It should be enough to pass the time until we reach my residence.”
With a hint of amusement in his voice, Gerun prompted her to continue.
