The Caliginous Villainess

Chapter 26

A/N: Happy new year! I'm sorry for not uploading on last Wednesday. I was planning to publish 3 chapters today as a gift for the new year 2022. Hope you enjoy it!!!

 The next morning, Carlisa and I had tea together and I relayed the incident. She gasped and her teacup almost fell out of her hands.

"Count Vien!?" She asked me.

"Yeah, that's what the men told me."

"Count Vien was the one who brought Lily back!" Carlisa screamed at me.

"Yes, I know." I told her, calmly.

"But...but, why aren't you worried?"

"He must have wanted to get rid of me before presenting Lily out into society." I told her with a devilish grin.

"This is outrageous! How the hell did that clown even..."

"Slow down, we have a plan, don't we? Even my pinkie finger will be safe."

"You are still going to run away, aren't you?"

"Actually..."

"Yes, yes???" She egged me eagerly.

"It seems that I would have to visit the Southern areas for a wholly different reason."

"I don't get what you are trying to say."

"My spirit guardian has a small problem. He can't contact the southern area monsters and so we have to check it ourselves."

"Monsters?" Carlisa asked me with a suspicious look.

"Oohh...uhh..." I stammered. Me and my big mouth!

"Rose, spill it! You are the worst at secrets!" I hate her honesty and bluntness.

'Well, it was your fault!' My rationality pointed out.

"Since I can't hide anything, I'll spill the tea. Remember, my sword act? I pulled some strings some while ago and now I'm a dark user." I confessed.

"Holy shit! I knew it! You had a crazy powerful aura when you were fighting Alvin. And Alvin is considered a prodigy." Carlisa surprisingly took it well.

"Aren't you gonna banish me, future-empress?" I scoffed.

"As if! You can be my right hand man!"

"You cunning fox!" I screamed and threw a biscuit at her.

"You're the legit devil!" She screamed back. We fell into an unending laughter fest.

"So, you will be taking a temporary leave?"

"Yep and honestly, I feel good about it. I want to have some time for myself to sort out my messed up thoughts."

"That's great! I'll make sure that you will want to stay! I swear!" Carlisa jumped up with excitement. I hate my hypocritical nature but during the past few days, the sense of comfort that I felt cannot be ignored.

Now, wherever I go, I hear happy cries from the knights, most of the maids and my lovely new family. Mum and I go gang up on Robert sometimes on his silly mistakes. All of us have dinner together every single day as a request from our Father.

There, we always joke around and tell everything that one went through their day. I even had a game of chess with my father in which I won twice and Father gained only one win.

I remember being so smug and bragging to my Mum and the knights. They made me smile. This family did! So, I want to protect it at every cost. I want to stay!