When the Nemesis Eats the Wicked Woman

e him.

Rixus glanced around, then naturally went behind the curtain where there was no one around, pulled Berylia back and hugged her.

“!”

Then he hit back as if threatening.

“……If you leave it as it is now, it bites, Miss.”

The tenacious gaze and his eyes that were darkened by his desire made Berylia’s heart beat rapidly.

She already knew where he liked to bite.

“Dogs live to see their master.”

His already thinned eyes narrowed dangerously.

“You have to give it a lot of love… and let it go for a walk without missing a day.”

His fine, sharp nose rubbed on the nape of her neck.

He whispered in an arrogant voice that was not at all submissive.

“On the bed, Master.”

“!”

For a moment, Berylia’s heart pounded as if it was about to fall out.

‘Have you ever seen a dog so impudent to ask for a walk in bed?’

Berylia’s face quickly turned bright red.

“…I’ll play with you when I get back.”

“I don’t know if you’ll think of me because you’re eating with a handsome man, Candy.”

“I’m mostly thinking of you.”

“….…”

That candid confession felt like it bruised Rixus’s chest for a moment.

Berylia whispered sweetly.

“I will be back.”

She made him adore her in an instant, then she slipped out of his arms.

“…….”

Rixus looked at her back and realized.

‘She keeps secrets.’

‘She always runs away and pushes away.’

…….The reason why he couldn’t help but love her so desperately.

* * *

“Your Majesty, I can’t believe you asked me for a meal so early…”

“……”

“I think the video stone has done its job very well.”

Johann couldn’t hide his happy face as he told me so.

It was clear that he had no idea what I had in mind when I got here.

“Yes.
It worked, Archduke.”

I sat down in the parlor calmly and continued speaking.

“I was so sick and tired after seeing that video letter, I wanted to finish the meals quickly.”

Johann touched his chest, reacting playfully as if injured.

“Ouch.”

“Am I being too honest?”

“Honesty is your strength.
Though it breaks my heart.”

Sitting across from me, he picked up a teacup, smiling softly.

I carefully observed Johann’s face.

‘He doesn’t seem like a really bad person.’

‘What secret is there to a man who can smile like such a gentle boy?’

He was a bit strict, but he had always been kind to me.

I glanced at ‘Innocent’ again.
I had been eyeing it since I came in earlier.

‘I can’t even see a corner of the holy relics.’

Innocent’s vivid leaves were beautiful, and the stems were very thick.

There were no traces of the yellow dried leaves that I had seen in the video.

However, the scene I saw in the video was clearly etched in my mind.

It was a scene that gave me a bad and strange feeling.

“……”

I stared silently into Johann’s black eyes opposite me.

‘……Why was it easy for me to believe him?’

It was not simply because he was described as a good character in the original.

One of the real reasons was that I was a ‘reader’ who enjoyed reading novels before my possession.

I knew very well how most novels flowed.

Due to the structure of novels, when the final boss died, no worse villain appeared.

I thought that I, myself… ‘Berylia’, she was the ‘final villain’ of the novel.

I never thought there would be another villain.

‘Even though I haven’t read to the end……’

Wasn’t that how novels usually went?

‘If you’re a minor villain, there’s no way you can keep hiding your identity.’

The minor villains were revealed transparently in the beginning.

If a character had been described as a ‘good person’ in the beginning, unless he or she was a very, very bad person, he would continue to be a ‘good person’.

The later the character was introduced, the more likely it was that he or she was a bad guy.

So I didn’t think that there could be a worse villain in the case where ‘Berylia’ existed.

Maybe I was arrogant as a veteran reader.

‘……But, if I didn’t understand the original very well.’

If I had misunderstood.

‘If Johann is really hiding something……?’

It wouldn’t be at a level that could be taken lightly.

‘He can be a vicious human being that I can’t handle.’

That was why, I, today…

I came prepared to reveal all of his identity.

Johann was expecting a meal with me, not anticipating anything else.

“I told them to prepare all the favorite dishes of Your Majesty the Queen.
Even the finest desserts.”

“Archduke Marquis.”

He looked at me normally, raising his eyes that were like the night sky under his black hair.

“Yes?”

I asked without hesitation.

“Has ‘Innocent’ ever withered in this house?”

Sharp questions were the most fatal when thrown at random.

“….…”

Johann’s dark pupils momentarily…

…remarkably expanded.