The Villainess Strikes Back

Chapter 19

"You can make it in this way too, you know. With the left side on the bottom."
Rose carefully moved her hands as she tilted the wooden box in an expert manner.

"But then the sunlight won't reach the plant." Martin frowned as he pointed at the Italian vase on the corner of Eleanor's bed.

"Ella, help us."

Martin turned to look at the eight year old beauty, sitting beside the window, a warm smile on her face as she pats the sparrow on her hand.

Today was Eleanor's birthday. Not a big deal for her, but absolutely for the whole Empire, including Ruda.

He had visited Rael a few times now, first to take back her memories of Eleanor then when she refused to give it to him.

"Why are you all so excited for my birthday? You should be at your Manor right now, you know." Rael said to both of them, clearly indicating about the coming of age ceremony tomorrow.

COA ceremony is like the coming of age ceremony for people of eight years old, where they debut into the society and get put in different groups according to their magical abilities.

The villainess was originally declared as a "nil", someone with no abilities, so Rael already knew her destiny. Which didn't make her curious at all.

"Yeah, but you are our friend, Ella." Rose rolled her eyes like in an obvious way.

"How can you say your my friend?"

"Well of course, other than both of us, no one calls you by your nickname, even not the Royal family." Martin replied in almost a smug way making Rael raise her eyebrow at him.

"Why do I get a feeling that your insulting the Royal family?" Rose and Rael said in unison.

Both looked at each other in surprise, then, Martin burst out laughing, jumping down in Rael's bed, followed by Rose and Eleanor, who too started laughing and threw themselves at the bed.

"Both of you, you really like to gang up against me right?" Martin said, laying down on the the bed.

" Well, I'd rather not answer that." Rose replied and they burst out laughing again, not other knowing why they were, on the first place.

Don who was outside the room peeked through the hole and looked at the Princess's face. Tears of joy fills his eyes as he whispers happily," Empress, the princess looks so happy."

Rael never let's guard down, except with Don, Rose and Martin. Only then, she laughs and shows her true emotions.

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*Thud* Monte fell down on the ground. Again. Trying to get up, his back pains.

"Ahhhhhh." He groans, while touching his back with his left hand, and asking for help with his right.

Rael grabs his hand and helps him get up, while putting down the sword on the ground.

Both of them, have been sword fighting since afternoon, and clearly it was the fifteenth time Monte lost.

" Damn, I'll win next time." He cursed jokingly at his sister.

"Of course your highness." Rael replies tonelessly, in her normal self, but the hidden joke behind her words were hard to miss by Monte.

"Why do I get a feeling that your insulting me?" Monte smiled at her, his handsome face shining in the field.

"How could I, your highness." She replied, before turning around and greeting a red haired man that was approaching them.

The man was in his mid forties, good built, with a once handsome face, like that Emperor.

"Princess, you are becoming more and more perfect with each day!" Captain Morgan, the general of White knights, and the father of another target capture.

Bowing humbly, Rael replied in her monotonic voice," thank you, Captain Morgan."

"Of course Morgan, Eleanor has to be good, she is my sister, you know." Monte grinned at the Captain, as he places his hand on Rael's shoulders.

Used to it, Rael doesn't say anything, and just goes with the flow.

The Captain laughs out and says," Anyways, I'd like to introduce my son to you, Your highnesses." He steps back and signals out for a soldier, and asks him to call his son here.

"Father? Did you call for me." A blue haired person comes up later then a minute, and looks at the people around him.

He stops as he lays his eyes on the Princess but the princess doesn't even seem to be paying attention to him.

So this is the girl that made the great Noah Sibestian lie in his room for three months.

"Greet them, Karl." His father nudges him and he bows and greets the Royal.
Monte just stares at him in distaste, as he thinks that this "karl" is interested in his sister too.

" Hey, Morgan, how about a match between these two?" Monte speaks up a plan coming into his mind.

"That would be great, your highness!" Captain Morgan's eyes lit up at the idea, completely unaware that this was all some plot of Monte to keep Karl out of Eleanor's reach.

"What do you think, Eleanor?"

"I'm fine with anything." Eleanor replied looking properly at Karl for the first time.

Wow. Is every love interest in the novel that handsome?

The blue haired boy with the same shade of blue eyes, had sweaty beads falling off his face, that only made him more attractive for a ten year old.

"Then it will be my pleasure, your highness." Karl bowed, low enough, not to let anyone see the smirk on his face, wondering what in the world can a "soon to be" eight year old do?

He never knew that it was going to be one of the greatest mistake he had ever made.