I Am The Last Villainess He Has To Kill - Chapter 101: Cat Trap

Chapter 101 – Cat Trap

As the whole earth shook like an earthquake, people started screaming suddenly, but Bella knew right away what was going on.

‘This is when the magic runs out of control.’

It was an aura of magic that she felt a lot when she was in the demon realm… and its source was right under the Emperor’s seat.

“Kyaaaak!”

A large meteor with sparks rushed toward the entire imperial palace, and people began to panic at the sudden disaster. The next moment, a pillar of fire seething from the ground rose up around the Emperor and around him.

“…Kiehl.”

Rohan, who was by his side, protected the Emperor with his body, but Kiehl was left alone.

Bella ran the distance without giving any thought. When the podium he was sitting on gradually collapsed, she took his hand and pulled him into a hug.

“Kiehl!”

And when her feet touched her ground, the entire floor centered on her turned to ice, and a circular barrier came. As the pillar collapsed on top of the barrier, it collided together.

Bella made sure they were safe and turned to Kiehl.

“Kiehl, are you okay?”

“Yes.”

Letting go of his hand, she moved a little around him and asked again.

“Are you hurt anywhere? Are you okay?”

“…I’m okay.”

At those words, she sat down in relief.

“I thought… you were going to be in trouble…”

Kiehl quietly placed his hand on Bella’s cheek.

“…Thank you.”

How could she come to rescue him so consistently? In order to always win this love, he had to risk his life like this.

‘…How could I not love you.’

Even though Rinne said this method was risky, he said that if he didn’t get this love anyway, he was as good as dead. The cat, which had entered the trap with his life as bait, cried while looking at him with regretful eyes, not knowing that it was a trap yet.

“Kiehl, you must have hit something when you fell. You bleed here.”

“I’m okay.”

“What is okay? You always say you’re okay.”

Bella sniffed and looked to the side. It seemed that Rohan protected the Emperor with his own body and put on a magic barrier.

‘…Don’t you care about our Kiehl?’

Of course, he must have thought that the emperor was more important than the Crown Prince, but this situation was sad. She hated Rohan, but she hated the Emperor who was being protected behind him even more.

“No, shouldn’t you have protected your son…”

Kiehl also quietly looked to the side.

What he had felt ever since entering the imperial palace was that, after all, the Emperor was just a puppet. Rohan, a wizard, used to use magic instead of the emperor, who had no magical powers.

‘I expected it, but he really didn’t save me.’

Since the crown prince had not been in Rohan’s hands, it was only natural.

Besides, Rinne did a bigger job than he thought. She asked if it was okay to raise it just enough to be active, so he said yes. He didn’t know that he would play it so big that meteorites fell all over the Imperial Palace.

“Miss Bella! Me! Help me!”

When Rinne finally got her strength out, she called Bella.

“What… how can I help you?”

While Bella was looking at the sky in surprise, Jenkins approached and started nagging.

“That’s why I told you to study.”

“You are always so mean, even in the midst of this.”

“Imagine making an ice room, making it in the sky.”

Bella grunted and reached her hand back. As the cold ice formed around Rinne’s barrier, it embraced the meteorites that were about to break through.

* * *

The second contest ended in a very chaotic mess, and Bella’s day began and ended with Jenkins’ nagging.

“You know, I told you not to neglect magic practice.”

“Stop talking.”

This incident was similar to the magic explosion incident in the Fire Kingdom. The magic circle created under the Emperor was a kind of protective magic. The wizards expected that the magic would explode and called the meteorite and the pillar of fire.

Nonetheless, it was under investigation as to who and why used the magic circle under the Emperor. In addition, the Crown Princess contest was temporarily postponed until the investigation into the case was over.

There were many people who were injured.

“They say there are victims one after another because of the Miss.”

However, there were far more people who were injured by slipping on the ground frozen by Bella than the damage caused by magic explosions.

“It’s less common than dying together from a meteorite.”

“But still…”

“Ah! Shut up!”

Once Bella got angry, the ladies around her and the servants of the palace glanced at her.

So far, hoping the novel would go as it should, she had been quiet, but now, she couldn’t tolerate the presence of other people. It was because the novel had already become very messed up.

‘Though I can’t let Kiehl die.’

Even though she couldn’t stay still, not just because he was the male lead, it was because he was the one she loved, so she had no regrets about that action. Still, the consequences she had to accept were a bit cruel.

First…

“Lady Bella, do you have a lady in mind as lady-in-waiting?”

“Lady Bella is really like an angel who came down to protect His Highness with magic.”

There were many people who thought of her as the Crown Princess. If the previous hypothesis was ‘what if’ before, it had now become a fait accompli.

‘Ha…’

It was inevitable because after the situation had calmed down a bit, Bella was receiving overwhelming support from public opinion.

‘It’s driving me crazy…’

And the second one…

“I will take Lady Rosanne Psilia as a lady-in-waiting.”

It was that Rosanne had definitely fallen out of the secondary contest. All the people who failed in the second competition had to go home, so she had to be held in the Imperial Palace at least like this.

‘This is a position to be harassed by jealousy.’

Kiehl’s mother was also the Empress’ lady-in-waiting who secretly escaped the palace after having the Emperor’s child.

‘A lady-in-waiting… Kiehl will hate me.’

Even if he didn’t, he’d hate her inside.

As she thought that, Bella sighed and walked to Kiehl’s room.

“Oh, Lady Bella. Where are you going?”

“To His Highness’ room.”

“Ah…”

It was a rule that the ladies participating in the contest couldn’t meet the Crown Prince. As everyone hesitantly looked at her, she fired at them with her cold eyes.

“If you don’t like it, tell them to cut me.”

For Bella, it was a struggle to be eliminated, but most of them didn’t take it that way. The events in the contest were widely spread, and now, in order for another lady to become the Crown Princess, they had to achieve an even greater achievement.

Still, who could surpass it?

A great person named Bellatrice who came over from another world called the Animal Kingdom for the sake of the Crown Prince without magical powers.

* * *

On the other hand, it was difficult for the servants of the Cruelle family to hide their excitement. The Duchy had not achieved great achievements for several generations, but they stood in line and seized all wealth and honor.

Shuria smiled as she changed the towel for Herod Cruell, who was lying on the bed.

“Father.”

“…Shuria.”

“I told you? It’s time for the Empress to come out of the Cruelle family.”

Herod coughed violently.

“I didn’t say it was me. Brother thought it was me.”

“That…”

“This is a pact with His Highness, so I told you to keep quiet.”

Herod did not even have the strength to reply. About a month ago, his condition became serious, and it was difficult to speak or cough.

“Father favors brother until the end. Well, since your nature is similar, you must have liked him.”

“Shuri… cough…”

“I will only keep my people here.”

“….”

“This will be our last conversation.”

Shuria smiled at the end of those words and stood up. At the same time, even though Herod knew the cause of his recent deterioration, he could not say anything at the sight of that bloody smile.

‘As expected, she was the cause of the trouble.’

At one point, he felt sorry for Juan, who couldn’t forget his first love and was obsessed with black hair. So, knowing that Juan had molested one of the maids, he still stood by him and blamed Shuria.

— “How could you care about a maid.”

— “I turned a blind eye to whomever he touched, but he shouldn’t have touched mine.”

— “It’s a man’s pure love. You understand.”

At that time, Shuria’s eyes made his bed so cold.

‘…Is it cause and effect?’

* * *

As soon as Bella saw Kiehl, she let out a sigh.

‘Ha… Why is he so handsome today?’

Even though he usually wore a well-dressed suit, he was only wearing one pair of pants and a shirt today, and even that looked classy. Only Bella knew that the novel had changed so much, so she couldn’t be angry.

She said slowly, calming her boiling inside.

“Kiehl… It seems like people keep driving me to be the Crown Princess.”

Kiehl slowly poured the tea and paused.

‘Now is the time to feed her to make her feel at ease.’

If only she had known that this big trap of hers meant to send her to safety, not to trap her.

“Hmm… Bella, I’ve been thinking about it.”

“Huh.”

“I think being the Crown Princess is the greatest gift I can give Bella.”

However, it was really far from the answer Bella wanted.

“…What?”

“At first, I thought it would be nice to become the adopted daughter of the Cruelle family.”

Kiehl pushed the tea out in front of Bella and held his cup lightly as he continued, “Come to think of it, if you became the Empress, wouldn’t it give you the greatest power I could possibly give?”

Bella only blinked.

“Do, do I… have to accept the gift…?”

“If it wasn’t for Bella, I might not have been in this world anymore. I want to give you the best I can.”

“That, that’s…”

“Bella don’t like it? You don’t like me?”

‘…Don’t say things like that with a few buttons on his shirt unbuttoned and sounding a bit sexy.’

“That’s not it…”

“Then, what is the problem?”

Bella thought the situation was strange.

‘Does he think that the real Empress is just a tool?’

The same went for making a pact with Shuria.

‘…Then what about Rosanne?’

Did he really think that politics and love were separate like his father did? Bella hesitated to say the name, which she didn’t want to say out of her mouth.

“Ro, Rosanne failed…”

Kiehl put a smile on his lips as he took a sip of the tea. It was finally time to call that name and talk about it.

“Yes. I knew she would fall.”

At those words, Bella just tilted her head.

“Don’t you… like her?”

“I like her, but if she doesn’t have the ability, she will fail.”

It felt very cold because the nuances he was talking about were not objective.

“I can’t help it, because I’m not going to run the state affairs for my own interest. That’s why I can’t have Rio as an advisor either.”

…Was Rio and Rosanne on the same line?

“But Roseanne… loves you.”

Kiehl gazed at Bella deliberately in surprise before he spoke.

“Bella. Did you still think I liked Rosanne all this time?”

She stiffened like a statue.

Where did she go wrong?

…And at the same time, hidden greed tickled her.

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