This Three-Year-Old Is A Villainess - Chapter 206
“Lies! It’s all lies, Father!”
“Why would I be crazy enough to do something like this against Astra? Noarizen is the one who tricked me into it.”
“Shut up!”
“He’s the one who proposed making the Teleportation blessing stones, and he’s the one who suggested offering them to His Majesty the Emperor so we could enter the Central Tower!”
“N-No, that’s not true—”
“He even sold off all of Lady Aisa’s mementos to make those stones!”
“Shut up! I said shut up!”
“I have plenty of evidence that we were seeing each other even when Lady Aisa was still alive!”
“Please, just shut up—!!”
Noarizen shouted at the top of his lungs.
Count Talos, however, paid no attention to him and continued to confess all their crimes.
It was utter chaos, with the two scoundrels beating their own drum, making a scene.
Grandfather quietly listened to Talos’s testimony, his gaze sinking deeper and darker.
“In my child’s castle, with my child’s money, you indulged in everything my child built, and you even did this to my child’s own son.”
“F-Father…”
Grandfather’s voice was low and biting as he spoke.
Noarizen trembled violently, clasping his hands and begging for his life.
“Please, please spare me! Please… I-I may have done something insane, but I am Blitzen’s father. I’m the one who took care of Aisa until she passed away…”
“Do not worry. I will not kill you.”
For a moment, Noarizen’s face lit up.
Of course, that was until Grandfather added,
“I’ll make you beg me to.”
Noarizen’s face turned deathly pale.
* * *
In the dim, early dawn, the prisoner’s carriage was scheduled to arrive by morning.
The intent was to drag Noarizen away in front of everyone.
‘It’s a warning that even the journey won’t be easy.’
Noarizen was now as good as dead at Grandfather’s hands.
But I couldn’t sleep at all and spent the night tossing and turning in bed.
‘I feel like I won’t be able to sleep until I see that bastard Noarizen being taken away…’
Just as I was thinking that, there was a knock.
“It’s me, Erylotte.”
It was Blitzen’s voice.
I immediately got out of bed and opened the door.
“Brother Blitzen?”
“Yes.”
“What’s going on?”
“…I want to go to the underground prison, but I need the permission of the master of the Daymond Jurisdiction.”
When he mentioned the ‘underground,’ I immediately understood what Blitzen intended to do.
Noarizen was there.
He was going to see him.
“It’s probably better if you don’t go.”
“I want to.”
I stared at Blitzen for a moment and then nodded.
“Alright.”
I accompanied Blitzen down to the underground.
The stairway leading down was still dark.
‘It’s a little creepy.’
I was glad I hadn’t let him go alone.
At the bottom of the stairs, there was a room blocked by iron bars, giving off an eerie atmosphere.
Inside the cell was Noarizen.
He was crouched down with his head hanging low, but he slowly lifted it.
“Blitzen…!”
As soon as Noarizen saw Blitzen, he crawled over frantically and clung to the bars.
“Save me. Please save me! Speak on my behalf. Tell them it was consensual, that it was an experiment agreed upon between us! I only experimented on you out of loyalty to Astra…”
When Blitzen remained silent, Noarizen became even more desperate.
“I had no choice. You know how hard it was for me, don’t you?”
“…”
“I truly loved your mother at first! Don’t you remember how happy we were?”
“…”
“Do you think I would have done those things to you if I had any other choice? It was all to raise you…! Yes! Meeting Count Talos was also for your sake…! To make connections for you because you were going to enter the Central Tower when you grew up…”
Now he was spouting nonsense.
Even while begging, Noarizen didn’t forget to manipulate and gaslight.
“You don’t know how hard it was for me to raise you here in Astra. That’s why I…”
I couldn’t stand it any longer.
I snatched the key from the guard and opened the cell door.
The moment Noarizen’s face brightened,
Bang!
I kicked him hard.
Because he had already been weakened by previous torment, he crumpled easily, even from the kick of a child.
“W-What are you doing…?”
“Cut the crap.”
“W-What?”
I bent down, looked him straight in the eyes, and spoke clearly.
“No form of child abuse can ever be justified.”
“…!”
“Because the child did something wrong? Because the child made things hard for you? Because you struggled to raise the child and it just happened once?”
“You…”
“No! It can never be justified! Brother Blitzen’s suffering is because he was unlucky enough to be stuck with the likes of you!”
I kicked Noarizen hard, again and again.
“Argh! Aagh!”
Noarizen, unable to dodge, took all the blows directly, crying out in pain.
I didn’t forget to kick that vile mouth of his that kept spouting madness.
Blitzen just stood there, staring at me.
He watched me intently, without a word.
