This Three-Year-Old Is A Villainess - Chapter 126
In any case, this spelled trouble.
If she were to fail in finding the hidden prince this time, she couldn’t predict what would happen to her.
“Madam Gonalon.”
“Y-Yes, Your Highness…”
“I do like you. You are a competent woman.”
“I am deeply honored.”
The Imperial Consort was smiling as if making small talk, but Madam Gonalon knew.
It meant that if she was not competent, she would be discarded.
The Imperial Consort was a ruthless person.
The one who had killed her own older brother and disguised it as a suicide…
Madam Gonalon clenched her forehead, closing her eyes.
She had received business funding from the Imperial Consort.
If she failed this mission and was discarded, everything she had worked for…
Bang!
She slammed the table and clenched her teeth.
Today, she managed to send the guard out to the shopping district under the pretext of showing them around the Astra estate.
But if an ‘escort knight’ goes out every day, people will start suspecting.
“There’s not much time. We must find the prince!”
“What about Erylotte Astra, Madam?”
“I’ll look into that child myself, you hurry downtown.”
“Understood.”
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Now that I’m back in my room, I started reading the comments.
but why did erylotte help the prince?
isn’t it a bit too soon for a girl to be sticking to him
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ when will the dearly beloved daughter make an entrance tho?
└ after we got all those backstories about the emperor, the empress, the empress dowager, the ducal family, the marquis family, the count family, the viscount family, the baron family, of worker 1, of worker 2……. up to worker 1231 that’s when it’ll aaaaaallllll get revealed~
└ exactamundo. but at least ML already appeared ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ no one knows if he’s the male lead yet—it wasn’t long ago when we all thought grandpa michelan was going to be the male lead too
‘Alexis must have arrived safely.’
I nodded and stood up from my seat.
Then I opened the drawer and began to organize some items.
Things to bring to the fairy tea party happening today and…
That’s when I heard it.
Knock, knock.
Someone’s at the door.
The butler entered.
“Young Miss, Madam Gonalon requests a meeting with you.”
I slammed the drawer shut.
‘She made a move.’
I knew today’s incident would reach Madam Gonalon’s ears right away.
The moment I revealed myself as the daughter of Daymond Astra, my identity was exposed.
‘Though, I had no choice but to reveal it.’
Han Ji-hyuk and I couldn’t possibly stand up to a skilled soldier.
Revealing who I was seemed the most effective way to scare him off.
‘The moment I revealed myself as Young Miss Astra, it would lead directly to me.’
After all, I was the only Young Miss Astra with blonde hair and red eyes.
So, it was better to emphasize that I was ignorant enough to reveal my identity to the trackers.
“Can we meet in thwe pahlow.” (Can we meet in the parlor?)”
“Yes, understood.”
After the butler left, I went to the parlor and sat down.
Soon after, the door opened with a knock, and Madam Gonalon entered with a smile.
“Good evening, Young Miss.”
“Hewwo, Madum Gonalunn.”
Madam Gonalon, who slightly nodded, took a seat across from me.
“The moon is quite beautiful tonight. It’s perfect weather for the fairy tea party.”
“Yes!”
“You’re so spirited.”
Madam Gonalon exchanged a few more surface-level pleasantries with me.
The typical ‘small talk before business’ that happens in high society.
In the Kalsoi Empire, it’s usually considered mannerly to engage in small talk for about thirty minutes before getting down to business.
But…
“Your dress is different from this morning. Did you go out?”
She got to the main point in less than five minutes of small talk.
I chuckled inwardly.
Madam Gonalon, who valued social manners enough to be invited to Astra as an instructor, was obviously eager to get down to business.
“Ywes, to thwe shoppin’ distwic.” (Yes, to the shopping district.)
“The shopping district… What for?”
“Fow twoday’s faiwy tea pahtee. We need tea weafs.” (For today’s fairy tea party. We needed tea leaves.)
“The shopping district of the Astra dominion is remarkable. Did you enjoy yourself?”
Despite trying to appear casual, her eyes were full of impatience.
I leaned back against the sofa.
“Shouldun we both stowp thwis cat-and-mows game?” (Shouldn’t we both stop this cat-and-mouse game?)
“……!”
Madam Gonalon’s face stiffened.
Understandably so.
No one would have expected such words from a young child like me.
I smiled sweetly.
“Who exactly are you, Young Miss…?”
Madam Gonalon’s lips trembled, seemingly shocked.
I placed a pouch I had prepared from the drawer earlier on the table.
“Wes wesowf thwis easiwy, shaw we?” (Let’s resolve this easily, shall we?)
When I pointed at the table with one hand, Madam Gonalon opened the pouch.
Upon seeing what was inside, the noblewoman gasped and covered her mouth.
