This Three-Year-Old Is A Villainess - Chapter 2

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Fast forward to three years later, today.
I crept up on the chair with a gloomy look on my face.
‘I couldn’t go back to the original world again.’
Yesterday was the day of the lunar eclipse.
I expected so much that I thought it was the last way, but I failed again this time.
Far from going back, I stayed up all night
I’m dying because I’m sleepy.
‘You can’t, you can’t.’
I shook my head and grabbed the crayons.
Right now, I was taking a class at the ‘Twelfth Tower’ where the Astra household’s branch families’ children stayed.
I started living in this tower as soon as I was born because I was far from my grandfather’s favor even though I was a direct relative.
If it’s reported that I’m lazy, I’d get taken out completely.
I looked at the teacher with the crayons in my hand.
Our table, where people under the age of seven gathered, was currently learning letters.
“Now then. Let’s use a little bit of a difficult word this time. ‘Distant’.”
I wrote on paper as I was told.
[Distant]
It was a very crooked handwriting because the small muscles weren’t developed yet.
‘Uh-huh. Good.’
I can use the imperial language roughly now.
I thought so and suddenly looked around. I could see the letters written by the children sitting around me.
[Disstan]
[Deestand]
[Dun-no o o]
“…”
I furtively covered my paper and added some letters.
[Disztundt]
This was a skill that I’ve built up over the past three years.
I shouldn’t be too bad, but I also shouldn’t be too good.
‘Because I can’t stand out.’
Only then could I move freely.
I was able to use various methods to return to the world because I was free.
The teacher looked around at the children’s writing and nodded.
“It’s a difficult word, right? Compared to spelling ‘distant’, last time we wrote the spellings for ‘top’ and ‘rod’, so—”
In the middle of a class.
The door opened, and a servant’s short and quick steps walked in.
“A message has arrived from the central mansion. Tomorrow at noon, the children are to be present at the central mansion.”
“We shall prepare.”
No wonder it’s been noisy for a few days, so tomorrow must be the designated day to go to the central mansion.
‘It’s that day already.’
The day when the main family and the branch families’ children would gather and take the test.
The test was very important.
‘This will determine the ranking.’
In Astra, a terrifying villain family, everything was ranked.
Everything from pocket money to room to future job.
Therefore, everyone had no choice but to be eager for the test.
‘Well, no one’s gonna be interested in a kid like me.’
How can kids who can’t even spell take the test?
Only a few people would go there.
But the children were excited.
“Will we be able to meet direct descendants? Lord Richmond, Lord Joshua…!”
“I like Lord Balzac the best. So cool! The youngest aura user!”
For children, immediate family members were like celebrities.
“I don’t know how scary they are.”
In ‘Grandvill’ Erylotte almost died several times because of her immediate family.
It is even an opportunity for Erylotte, who was originally timid and easygoing, to turn evil.
That’s what I was thinking, but something pushed the chair I was sitting on.
“Hey, dogfur.”
When I turned around, a slim boy was smirking.
That lanky has been bullying me.
There’s a rumor that I’m being neglected by the main family, so he’s been trying to step on me.
He was obviously a typical extra.
I can almost guess what to say.
‘I heard your mom is a commoner.’
“Your mother is a commoner, right?”
‘Lowborn.’
“Lowborn.”
Not a bit different from what I expected, so I had cold eyes.
The lanky kid smiled crookedly and raised his hand. Now it was time to press down on the head with the fingertips.
As I said, ‘Wait a sec’, I grabbed the kid’s forefinger. Then, I raised my other arm.
“Tweachew, thwis kid’s buwwiying me! (Teacher, this kid’s bullying me!)”
As soon as that happened, the eyes of adults gathered at once.
The lanky kid got incredibly flustered.
Usually, I’d have pulled on the edge of my skirt, quivering as I cried, but because I snitched on him instead this time, it’s only natural that he got flustered.
The teachers came at once.
They examined the situation and soon narrowed their eyes.
“Bothering a child who is taking a class with you. What a disappointment, Mr. Timothy.”
“I’ll take note of this. You should reflect.”
The lanky kid was scolded a lot, and he wrote ten letters of apology.
I sobbed and hummed watching him writing a letter of apology.
I know because I’ve experienced it all when I was Yoo Hyemin, but it’s best to reach out at times like this.
‘And you think I haven’t done anything for three years?’
Of course, the original goal was to return to Earth, but I prepared some countermeasures just in case.
“How are you, are you feeling alright?”
The teachers asked with an incredibly benevolent look.
“Ywes.” (Yes.)
“That’s a relief.”
“Y’know. My gwandfather. I heawd that inveshting in the Pwena Compwany is gonna mwake you a wot of money. (You know. My grandfather. I heard that investing in the Pena Company is going to make you a lot of money.)”
Then the teachers lifted their notebooks with their eyes shining brightly.
“The Pena Company.”
“The Pena Company…!”
Help from adults was essential for any child to live.
So I won over the teachers by releasing some big-time information about the stock market.
I’m glad I remember the story.
“How can you be so clever?”
“Candy. Should I get you some candy?”
“Ywes!”
