I Became the Master of the Villain - Chapter 14

Bang!

“Argh!”

Uncle James let go of Kian with a cry.

He bent down hurriedly as if he really thought I’d hit him.

The knife had brushed my uncle’s head and lodged in the painting on the wall.

The knife pierced the gentleman’s forehead in the painting.

My uncle swallowed dry saliva.

He shouted to the blue daytime.

“Oh, Olivia···! You’re crazy. You’re mad as hell!”

‘I’m sorry. I can’t believe you only know that now.”

I warned, looking down at my uncle, who had fallen unseemly.

“This time, I deliberately missed, but don’t expect to be so lucky next time.”

If you touch Kian one more time, I won’t forgive you.

My uncle, who understood what I meant, clenched his fists with a face stained with humiliation.

He said bitterly:

“Olivia…. I will never forget this humiliation of the day.”

He left as if he were running away, leaving behind words like a third-rate villain.

When I saw my uncle running away with a loss of face, I thought it was a lovely scene.

I approached Kian, who had a hard time because of my uncle.

Even though I was by his side, I couldn’t stop my uncle’s tyranny.

I felt apologetic towards him.

I looked at him, asking if he was all right.

“I’m sorry. My uncle verbally abused you and was rude, wasn’t he?”

Kian calmly shook his head, his hair shining in the daylight.

“In principle, I am not supposed to eat with you. I didn’t hear anything wrong, so don’t worry.”

Said Kean, with a broken smile.

“I really don’t care,” he said, “I’m fine.”

When I saw him, who seemed to say that this kind of thing was trivial, my heart was blown again.

When he awakens as a wizard, no one would ignore him or treat him carelessly, but waiting a year for it to happen suddenly felt too long.

How much more humiliation does innocent Kian have to face?

The thought made me sigh loudly.

***

After calling in the servants to clear the floor, I invited Kian out.

We needed a change of mood.

There was a beautiful beach near my villa.

The fine sand sank under my feet.

There was a refreshing sound whenever the waves came in, bubbling up.

The sea was beautiful cobalt as if the blue paint was spilled all over.

I glanced at Kian walking beside me.

It bothered me that Uncle James had abused him.

‘Was coming with me in vain…’

I unintentionally sighed heavily. Then, Kian abruptly spoke out:

“Don’t worry too much about what happened before,”

Said Kian with a smile.

“We came to the sea…. but I hate that my master can’t rest because of me.”

I took him out for a walk to cheer him up….

But instead, he was worried about me

I smiled because I was grateful for his consideration.

Yes, we’re here, so we have fun and play properly.

Afterward, Kian and I spent a leisurely time dipping our feet in the shallow beach and relaxing under parasols.

As the sun tilted over the horizon, lights lit up one by one from the gas lamps.

In the streets, there was a pleasant sound of lively music.

Now that I thought about it I heard that there is a festival at this time of year.

“Since we’re out already, would you like to go to the festival?”

When I asked, Kian nodded.

“That’s a good idea.”

We headed for the square.

Listening to the chatter of people, I discerned that a parade was scheduled to be held here.

The square was crowded with anticipating spectators.

I searched the area for a good spot to view the event.

Said Sir Hans, my escort driver:

“Lady! I think this will be a good spot to view the parade.”

The place he found was a wooden platform.

It was relatively high, so I thought it would be perfect to go up there and look around.

Kian and I went up to the podium.

There are many posters attached to the wooden boards, perhaps a platform used as a bulletin board.

Among them, there were also wanted pirate posters.

Perhaps it was a children’s prank, and about half of the wanted papers, which had been ripped off, were dirty.

A little later, Kian raised his hand and pointed to the street.

“There is a procession coming.”

“There comes the procession,”

As he spoke, dancers in fancy costumes were seen dancing and marching down the street.

Behind the dancers dressed in dresses adorned with feathers and artificial jewels, a band followed by playing cheerful songs.

The procession continued. People in flower-decorated carriages sprinkled petals from baskets.

It looked like a colorful snowfall.

The heat of the festival filled the streets with vitality and excitement.

Everyone laughed and chatted as if they had forgotten their worries for a moment.

I watched enthusiastically, and when the parade was over, I felt hungry.

“Kian, would you like to eat something?”

“Yes, master.”

It would take too long to return to the villa, so I walked to a street vendor selling food.

Every street vendor had a long line, and the streets were very crowded; you were lucky if you didn’t step on someone.

It seemed challenging to stand in line, so I had the servants to buy food.

Now I’m waiting in a quiet place for the servants to return, but I suddenly felt an empty void next to me where I should have felt a warm presence.

I couldn’t find Kian, who was beside me just a second ago.

At that moment, my heart shook with numb fear and sank.

“Kian!”

I shouted his name, but there was no answer.

I looked around hurriedly.

I thought I could find his shiny silver hair would be easily visible anywhere and I could see him quickly but…······.

Kian was nowhere to be seen on the streets covered with crowds of people.

***

Kian was pushed by the crowd and heard something popping and falling.

The cuff of his shirt felt empty; his cufflink fell.

Kian hurriedly searched and scanned the ground.

Fortunately, a few steps away, the cuff as big as a thumbnail flashed.

It was a gift from Olivia the other day.

He bent down to pick up the cuff that fell on the floor.

The moment he reached out and tried to pick it up, someone had kicked the cuff, and it flew away.

The circular cuff kept rolling under people’s feet until it fell into a narrow alley.

Kian chased it into the alleyway.

He found his shiny cuff in the middle of a dark alley.

After brushing off the dirt from the cuff, I held it in my hand.

Maybe I’m too far from my master.

I have to go back to her side.

It was when Kian thought that he turned around quickly.

“……!”

A clunky hand popped out from behind his back and blocked Kian’s mouth.

The strangely scented cloth touched my nose and mouth firmly as I struggled.

“Stay still if you don’t want to get hurt.”

It was the voice of a man that I had never heard before.

Kian fought to get out of his sturdy grip, but the more he did, the more he lost his strength.

To make matters worse, my vision began to blur.

I feel like I’m being dragged into the deep sea…

Then consciousness was cut off as if the thread was snapped.

***

Kian disappeared.

As soon as I realized that, I mobilized the dukedom’s knights to rush into the search.

Starting from the street that I talked to Kian for the last time, I searched the neighborhood carefully, but it was all in vain.

Feeling impatient, I ran to the security guard building.

Being in a hurry, I rushed to the security guard building.

It was to make and post Kian’s wanted flyers.

It would have taken time to go through the procedures if it had been for another family, but this was the land of the Duke.

Under the authority of the Duke, Kian’s wanted flyers were immediately created and posted.

Wanted papers were immediately distributed throughout the city, including Kian’s description and 200 million gallons of reward for witnesses.

“A reward of 200 million gallons? This is no joke!”

“Silver-haired handsome? I think I’ve seen it somewhere….”

“Have you seen this person on this wanted flyer?”

Perhaps because the reward was so big, there were a lot of witnesses saying that they saw Kian as soon as the wanted papers were posted.

But everything was either false or wrong.

Time passed without any results compared to the number of reports, and my anxiety grew.

My mouth was parched every second because I thought I might lose Kian forever.

It has been several minutes since news broke out with nervousness.

At last, a new witness appeared. It was a girl in shabby clothes.

I beckoned the little girl to come near. “You said you saw Kian, didn’t you?”

“Yes, miss.” When I asked her to tell me what was going on when she saw Kean, the girl remembered.

As usual, she said she had been selling cheap souvenirs on the street.

Beautiful silver hair caught her eyes.

“I’ve never seen such a pretty person before. I kept looking at him and watched him go into a narrow alley. It’s a dead-end, so I wondered he was going to come out so I could see him again. But after a long time, he didn’t come out. When I thought it was weird, men with large sacks on their shoulders came out instead.”

“…….!”

I urgently asked,

“Did you see where they went?”

The girl looked at me and said carefully, “I was so scared that I lowered my head as if I hadn’t seen it. So that’s why I don’t know where they went, I’m sorry………”

The girl cried a bit, then pulled out what she had in her hand and showed it to me.

“I went back to the place where he disappeared…”

What the girl pulled out was the cuff button I had given Kian.

I clasped the cuff button painfully tight.

I ordered the guards to bring all the wanted flyers for the criminals in the neighborhood.

“Do any of these faces look familiar to you?”

I showed her each leaflet, one by one, full of faces of wanted criminals.

One, two, ten… suddenly the eyes of the girl who had kept shaking her head widened.

The girl shouted, “Oh.”

“This is the person!”

What the girl pointed to was a rugged-looking man with a scar on his right cheek.

The policeman explained.

“He’s a sailor of the Red Hooded Pirates. They are notorious for human trafficking.”

Human trafficking.

Then the purpose of their kidnapping Kian…

There was no time to dawdle here.

We have to quickly catch up with the pirates who are red hooded or whatever.

I immediately moved to the port.

The destination was the Coast Guard Office.

I swung open the door of the guard’s office.

With my sudden appearance, the look of boredom on the captain of the guard’s face erased in an instant.

He stood up in a fit of surprise. “Oh, Lady…! What brings you here–“

“Get the fleet ready.”

“What?” asked the captain of the guard stupidly.

He still didn’t seem to understand the situation, so I yelled:

“From now on, we are hunting pirates. Tell the whole navy that!”