Chapter 2

I Left The Duke Without Saving Him

Episode 2

<She’s A Little Villain> 

In short, “SLV”*(1) was a fictional novel in which the protagonist, who was an ordinary Korean citizen, accidentally became a villain named “Christine.”

It has such a development that after transmigrating into the sub-villain’s body, she struggled around to survive, and unexpectedly got entangled one after another with the female protagonist, male protagonist, and the grand duke of the original work.

It has a good plot, but the people online said that the only flaw the story has is the age range.

Here’s a brief description of the story before the protagonist became Christine.

Catherine (the original heroine), the imperial princess of Noah, who was born for the first time after 500 years, has a coronation ceremony at the age of 10. Christine (before the transmigration) and the main characters who gathered together at that time are caught up in an unexpected incident.

The temple guide, who was ordered by someone during the banquet, deliberately refluxed the mana of the young Duke Janus (the original villain) causing an explosion.

It could have turned into a serious accident, but the case was closed with the arrival of a powerful knightess, Count McEuena’s daughter, Lady Christine McEuena (the original secondary villain).

Afterward, Christine became a knightess to the Duke of Janus, condescendingly stacking and stacking karma, and a month before becoming an adult, suddenly committed suicide, saying she wanted to get the Duke’s attention.

Then, she really died, and the protagonist of “SLV” came to transmigrate into her body.

‘No, but why would the lord be here when he’s supposed to be at the Imperial Palace!’

Thirty seconds after dropping the duke into the well, my mind spun faster than ever.

The man that Christine should have saved is in a well.

I couldn’t understand how the original work, which I believed would flow completely unrelated to me, went wrong, but now it wasn’t important.

‘I, is the lord dead?’

There was no way that the great Duke Janus would have died after being hit by an empty wooden pail.

Looking into the dark well, I swallowed my saliva.

The gray thing in the well seemed to move slowly.

‘Even if he didn’t die, he would have gotten hurt somewhere.’

I knew an old man who was imprisoned for giving a small scratch to a Baron’s arm when I was living in my hometown village.

He was tortured in a horrific way and died for injuring the body of a noble by a commoner.

If he were alive, he would somehow crawl up from the well and try to find me.

‘For you to never find me… I have to kill you.’

I held the large iron kettle and carefully tried to weigh it.

‘Ah, my simple but sound plan for the future, goodbye…’

I was worried for a moment.

In novels with villains and extras like this, it is the norm to help the female lead, the male protagonist, or the villain.

I know the original, too. Since this happened, let’s help and seduce the villain like the protagonist after transmigrating into the body of Christine.

Even if I can’t completely accomplish it, he might let his guard down for a while until I run away.

‘Well, the Christine after the transmigration said something to this guy.’ 

「 I like the Duke the way he is. 」

Thanks to those words, this crazy duke appeared in the middle of the night.

「 You said you like me the way I am. I love you, too. You will never leave my side, 

right? 」

Phew, he’s hopeless.

Just die.

I closed my eyes and threw the heavy iron kettle into the well.

“Urg!”

I ran fast, leaving behind the heavy sound from the well.

Now I’ll run away and never come back here again.

It’s a common name that is so common that about ten people would look back if you shouted ‘Betty!’ from behind, but I’ll change the name.

Meghna Ann. Something like that.

I headed to the servant’s passage through the back door and went straight up to the attic, the dormitory of the lower maids.

It was a busy time, so no one paid attention to me.

In the empty room, there were bedding and clothes that were not organized by the lazy maids.

First of all, I packed the envelopes of my salary that I had saved up so far.

And I searched through the clothes one by one that are scattered.

You may be surprised at how I could steal other people’s things, but I had to start my life again at the age of ten without any connection.

I wasn’t in a position to build a good sense of morality.

‘There is a risk that jewelry will be traced later, so I should mainly take cash.’

While I was taking every single coin.

“You’re a kid with no blood or tears.”

Somewhere, a large hand grabbed my head by the chin and pressed it.

I shouted reflexively.

“Argh! I’m sorry!”

In an instant, an arm popped between my armpits, and my feet lift off of the ground. And his red eyes met mine.

The red eyes facing him in a darkened room where the lights weren’t properly turned on were already creepy, but he looked even more vicious as he was bleeding dark red blood from his head.

‘You monstrous bastard, I should have killed him more definitely.’

I was shivering, swallowing lines like a rogue villain inside, and he asked me as he looked closely at me.

“How old are you?”

I swallowed my saliva and replied with a calm voice as much as possible.

“14…”

It was a lie that wouldn’t work.

But there was a reason why I stuck to the number of 14 even if I died soon.

According to imperial law, no matter how commoners were, children who could not exceed 14 were unable to work.

The law was made with the aim of saving children from labor exploitation in its own way, but most of them were nominal laws to deceive their age and find jobs like me.

However, there was no way that a noble like Duke Janus would know this situation.

“You’re 14?”

When he asked back sadly, I corrected it with a crawling voice.

“No, thi, thirteen…”

“……”

“12…?”

“……”

“Ele…ven.”

“……”

“Ten…”

“Who told you to count backward? Say it right.”

Even though I went down to my real age, he couldn’t stop doubting. I protested with a little loud voice.

“I’m, I’m 10 years old!”

“You’re as big as a rat. What do you mean 10 years old?”

Then Meg opened the door and nagged out of nowhere.

“Betty! I got scolded by the chef because of you! I sent you to bring water and this is real…”

Meg’s face, which was full of doubts, quickly turned blue as the boy turned his head, wiping his white hair that was clogged with blood. It had been a long time since she had seen the lord, but the situation was quickly understood.

Meg quickly bowed her head. He put me on his side as if I were a pimp and walked out.

While clinging to the air and struggling, I could see Meg quietly stepping back to one place and nodding.

“Bring the butler.”

“Ye, yes!”

The man, who was only 15 years old, growled like a beast.

‘It was okay to see the main characters from afar, but that’s canceled.’ 

I was so scared that I couldn’t even see how pretty the main character was.

With tears in my eyes, I rummaged through my pockets and pulled out my paycheck. And, in case of emergency, I quickly put the dried poisonous herb in my mouth and chewed it hard.

According to the only pharmacist in my hometown, I could die as if I were just sleeping. It was better than being beaten until I died because of injuring a noble.

“Hey! What are you chewing? Spit it out, quickly!”

The duke, who I thought had his visions narrowed because of anger, found me mumbling on his side and quickly put his fingers inside my mouth.

“Why won’t you spit it out! Spit it out when I’m still asking nicely. Aren’t you going to spit it out?”

“No!”

Uwehh.

His fingers went deep and stimulated my tender throat, causing me to retch repeatedly.

I wanted to bite the hand of the duke who came into my mouth, but it was not easy to close my mouth when the boy held both of my cheeks and forcibly opened my mouth. After enduring in tears, I finally sat down on the floor and vomited what I ate.

Except for the dried poisonous herb, I only ate a piece of bread, so only gastric juices came out.

If this disastrous life ends, I will go to the end of hell and kill the person who reincarnated me.

I didn’t have anything more to spit out, so I eventually hit my head next to my vomit and fainted.