I Became the Villain’s Trainer - Chapter 34

Chapter 34

He was happy that he was able to strike a heavy blow to those impertinent imperialists and was happy to cut the necks of those capital’s nobles who didn’t know their place. Carlisle left the Imperial Capital, leaving ten knights as Visten had written in his letter.

The knights headed towards the Imperial Castle, bringing the necks of the bodies that Carlisle slaughtered last night. Seeing the heads on the box opened in front of the Emperor, the attendants vomited and ran out of the hall.

“… Take it away. I have no piece of land to give to those traitors, so just throw them to be wild dogs’ food!” The Emperor spoke coldly.

“My Lord had ordered us to stay in the Imperial Capital to wipe out the remaining traitors, Your Majesty.”

“… I’ve already heard of it.”

The Emperor waved to them annoyingly. He already knew that those wolves wouldn’t follow the Emperor’s orders. After all, their only master was the Grand Duke Thersion. He doesn’t even have the energy to engage in a verbal war or unnecessary battles against them.

Treason? He never imagined such a disgrace during his reign. The Thersion Knights withdrew and the Emperor’s Grand Chamberlain entered.

“… What about the knights sent to the Grand Duchy?”

“No one has returned.”

The Emperor slammed on his armrest. All of the knights he had to infiltrate the Grand Duchy’s Knights Order died. Now, he had to plant another secret agent, but he couldn’t find any openings.

Thersion was closed, and even if he were to send human knights, half of them would die and only half would survive. But even those who survived have no access to the castle.

Then I need to send someone Carlisle wouldn’t be able to ignore…. 

“How old is the Ninth Prince again?”

“He is 14 this year.”

I heard that the Grand Duke’s only direct bloodline was 14 years old. Isn’t that pretty good? I will send the Prince to spy on him. As long as Thersion belongs to the Empire, he won’t be able to reject the Prince. 

‘It was said that they take off their masks at 16.’

(T/N: Masks = their wolf appearance)

If I send the Ninth Prince now, the Ninth Prince will feel instinctive fear when he sees a wolf-like beast cub. Rather than that, it would be more profitable to have him educated until the beast cub becomes human. We only have to endure two more years.

“Educate the Ninth Prince thoroughly. I will have to send him to Thersion in two years.

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

The Grand Chamberlain withdrew at the Emperor’s orders. It was naturally a bolt out of the blue for the concubine, Brianna, who gave birth to the Ninth Prince. And also, to the Ninth Prince Jeremiah.

‘… So the Emperor is sending me to my death.’

Jeremiah smiled sadly.

(T/N: Oh, I see another potential second ML… or maybe not we’ll see… what a poor soul)

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Karrolf admired Alexa’s willingness to learn two if she was taught one. She had already finished reading all the books he gave her, and even summarized the important points.

“Goodness. Alexa, have you been sleeping?”

“Yes, Teacher!”

Answering bravely, Alexa nodded her head.

Karrolf told her that she needs to learn about medicine while also studying about the ecology of wolves. The ecology of wolves here was similar to the dogs in Korea. Well, how would the writer know about the ecology of wolves? And so, she was studying while mobilizing all of her knowledge as Han Yu-hee and adding new knowledge to it. In addition, entering a veterinary school in Korea was akin to studying for the exam. Studying with such a habit, she studies meticulously and diligently.

She organized her color pens and marked the important points with colored pencils as her usual habit. Karrolf took a good look at her organizing her notes. Her notes, organized with cute doodles, were even better when Karrolf looked closely.

Karrolf breathed a sigh of admiration.

“Alexa, you did a great job. I’ve never seen a student study so hard in my entire life!”

Others were busy on practical practices, other practical practices or shouting, but none was concentrating on the basics. Karrolf’s eyes were shooting hearts. He put down the notebook and carefully held Alexa’s hand.

“Still, you can’t study too hard, Alexa. Understand?”

“Yes.”

Alexa laughed awkwardly. With Karrolf being like this, she wondered if he was really a soft and weak person. Though all the Grand Duke’s people were hovering around Alexa to the extent that it looked ridiculous.

“Anyway, you did really well on this homework, you have a very good understanding of the werewolf’s ecology.”

Karrolf shouted a perfect score of 100 out of 10 and started a new class. He placed two skulls on his desk.

“Ah?”

Alexa opened her eyes widely. With her loud voice, Ysildus, who was lying under her feet, pricked his ears. He then bared his fangs and glared at Karrolf.

“Ysu! Eat this!”

“Arf!”

Quickly forgetting what he should look out for, Ysildus pounced after the dried chicken meat. Alexa noticed that Ysildus was now concentrating on the chicken meat, so she focused on the book on her desk once again. Karrolf stared at Alexa then to Ysildus with a pleased face. Chicken. She said that it was chicken meat dried under the sun without any seasoning so it won’t strain Ysildus’ stomach. It must have been Alexa’s devotion that made Ysildus this healthy.

Later, after Alexa has fully learned everything about werewolves, it would be good to have her compile a book related to baby rearing. At any rate, putting aside his worries about her, Karrolf spoke.

“Can you tell the difference between the skulls?”

“Uhm… this looks like a human’s, and this one, does this belong to a werewolf?” Alexa said slowly.

“Why do you think so?”

“The shape of their canines is different. This one was sharper.”

My child must be a genius. Karrolf clapped. Surprised by the sound of the clap, Ysildus pricked up his ears. The door then with a thunderous applause and the Head Maid waiting outside rushed inside.

“Sir Karrolf! There is a problem –”

“There is a problem! Our Alexa must be a genius! Oh my god… you guessed it right too!”

“Ahem, ahem, Alexa reads a lot of books, so she is very knowledgeable. There’s nothing she doesn’t know.”

“Ah, I…” Alexa raised her hand to stop them complimenting her but lowered it again in embarrassment.

Alexa’s cheeks flushed as she bowed her head. It sounded like her mother’s compliment when she was seven years old when she got 100 on their dictation. Listening to it as a 16-year-old – no, an older soul than that, made her cringe. I think anyone could tell the difference if they have eyes…. Alexa fiddled with the skull.

“I have to let Baron Visten know this! He would love to hear about it.”

The Head Maid stormed out of the study room. Alexa let out an astonished sigh. She was afraid that by tomorrow, there would be a rumor spreading in the mansion that ‘Alexa became the youngest noted doctor’.

Karrolf managed to hold onto reason and resumed classes.

“Ahem, ahem, you are right. This is a human skull. The wolf’s canines were sharper as you have pointed out. And not only the skull, but the muscles in their whole body were all different.”

Karrolf put down the skull on the table and raised two human anatomies.

“About this week’s homework, Alexa. You just need to find the differences between these two anatomy diagrams and explain why such differences occurred. You also just have to find out which one was the werewolf. Can you do it?”

“Yes, Teacher!” Alexa nodded.

Karrolf stroked her head with a proud face for some reason. In many ways, this class was also very successful.

(T/N: I guess we will have anatomy class the next chapters lol)

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Selina stuck her head out of the pillar. Since Alexa was in the middle of her class, servants had to sneak around without speaking out loud. It was in accordance with the Head Maid’s instructions. In this mansion, only Ysildus and Terrun were allowed to roam freely while Alexa was studying.

“What’s so important about that girl studying?”

Selina gnashed her teeth.

There were naturally good things about it. The number of people who come and go decreases significantly when Alexa was studying, so Selina was a little freer to move around.

That abominable Alexa told Selina that she would help her. While Selina was busy mopping the floor and cleaning, Alexa studies wearing valuable clothes. But what will she do to help? 

“It was all fake.”

Selina clicked her tongue and sent a letter to Ruella, stating the details of what she had seen in this place during this time. Ruella told her that like a good kid, she is to find out what is happening in this place and send it to her through a letter.

Ruella is supposed to be her distant cousin and since she was an adult, there was nothing strange about Selina sending her a letter. So she sent a letter while there were no people. Ruella told her that she would send her a reply regularly. But I’ve never received a single letter from her so far…. 

‘Did she abandon me?’

Selina touched her bracelet and bit her lips.