This Three-Year-Old Is A Villainess - Chapter 92
‘So that’s Daymond Astra.’
Without realizing it, he swallowed dryly.
“Ah, Duke Astra.”
His calves were trembling. But he couldn’t just stand there doing nothing.
“Is it true that imperial search party is going to the Daymond jurisdiction? Since when did Astra comply so easily with the imperial requests? Don’t do this and…”
Somehow or another, he needed to stop the investigation of the Daymond jurisdiction. Marquis Boucherz wiped the sweat dripping down his forehead with the back of his hand, laughed, and continued speaking.
“It’s a disgrace for the family that a grandchild is cursed. I’ll help, so the imperial investigation─”
“No need for long-winded excuses.”
“Excuse me?”
“The investigation is nothing but an excuse to tear you apart.”
Duke Astra looked at Marquis Boucherz with a bland and apathetic gaze.
Startled, Boucherz clamped his mouth shut.
It was a gaze that felt like it was wringing out all his insides.
Duke Astra slowly walked over to Boucherz.
Standing in front of Boucherz, the Duke slowly began to speak.
“Let’s see how far your sister will go to protect you.”
“What, what are you talking about? I am the older brother of Othellia, the Imperial Consort, and the first prince of this empire is my─!”
That’s when Daymond, who had been quietly observing from behind, spoke.
“If you’re done talking, may I take care of my business?”
“Go ahead.”
Daymond strode up to Boucherz.
The moment Boucherz looked up at Daymond.
SMACK─!
Struck by a powerful fist, Boucherz tumbled to the ground.
It felt like a rock had hit his head.
Frozen in shock and pain, Boucherz clutched his cheek and looked up at Daymond.
Daymond, slowly massaging his neck, said,
“Get up. We haven’t even started yet.”
***
Around that time, as Marquis Boucherz’s face was turning pale with horror…
The imperial search party, commissioned by the Emperor, had set out for the Daymond jurisdiction.
As soon as they arrived, they began inspecting the garden, suspected to be where the curse originated.
The imperial search team included someone with the blessing of <Tracking>, capable of finding things ordinary mages could not.
Following the residual magic in the garden, it was quickly revealed to be the work of Boucherz.
Unable to deny it due to the testimony of the imperial search team, Marquis Boucherz couldn’t even pretend to be ignorant of it.
***
A few days later, in the Daymond jurisdiction,
I was groaning over a book, deeply engrossed in thought.
The garden had become a vacant lot in the process of removing the medium of the curse, and I was deciding which flowers to plant anew.
Heidi and Betty smiled as they watched me pondering hard, with fists pressed against my head.
Heidi pointed to a part of the open book and said,
“This lily is pretty, and so is this tulip.”
“What about something modest like a violet?”
‘Ahh, they’re all pretty.’
Lilies and tulips seemed colorful.
Wildflowers like violets seemed cute.
“Why not choose the flower you like the most, Young Miss?”
“What’s your favorite flower?”
Heidi and Betty asked in turn.
I still had my eyes fixed on the book as I answered,
“Wose.”
“Yes, then we can re-plant roses again.”
“But Oshua get huwt becows of wose. He feew bad when he see them.” (But Joshua gets hurt because of roses. He feels bad whenever he sees them.)
Hearing my words, the maids made a sympathetic face.
Then they both hugged me tightly.
“The Young Miss is so thoughtful.”
“So kind.”
The maids were completely smitten with me, it seemed.
I opened my eyes dimly and withstood their affectionate onslaught.
“Don’t worry anymore. The bad guy is gone. Marquis Boucherz committed sui─”
“Betty.”
Heidi frowned, and Betty quickly covered her mouth with her hand, saying, “Oops.”
‘I’m fine, though.’
I had already heard from Han Ji-hyuk that Marquis Boucherz had committed suicide.
He panicked and killed himself after it was revealed that he had cursed a member of the Astra direct line.
But I thought differently.
‘Grandfather and Father must have pressured him to that point.’
As evidence, Imperial Consort Othellia didn’t even attend the funeral.
And Boucherz’s name was removed from the noble registry, and the Astra family received a huge compensation.
There were quite a few who noticed the pressure from Grandfather and Father.
They must have thought House Astra was ruthless.
‘Ruthless about what?’
It was a child who suffered from the curse.
I think anyone who does such a thing to a child deserves to die.
‘Because of him, the evaluation of the jurisdiction that I’ve put my heart and soul into got ruined.’
The evaluation itself was nullified due to the uproar.
Ultimately, the budget was frozen.
‘Well, we received a lot of compensation from Boucherz, so it doesn’t matter to us.’
It’s the jurisdictions of the other second-generation members that would be affected.
Because of the incident with grandfather’s attack, the budget was greatly reduced, so they must have put a lot of effort into this evaluation.
‘Now that everything seems to be settled, shall I check the comments?’
While the maids were distracted by the book, I manifested my blessing.
Soon a familiar window appeared before my eyes.
