CH 228

The mastermind lady shows her true power.

Count Marsh was in the witness box. He seemed to be quite exhausted. I guess he's desperately trying to figure out how to escape. There's no way out, though.

“Let the trial resume!”

The presiding judge declared.

“Wait a moment please! Th, there must be some kind of mistake! Count Marsh is a kindhearted man! This… Oniisama, you are horrible!”

“Rosarin…”

“Stop it, come to your senses, Rosarin!”

“Milfilia!?”

The hero’s delayed entrance. Our Villainess hero Milfilia-sama entered the stage! Kya~ wonderful!

“Looks like I made it in time? I, Milfilia Laurel, denounce Count Marsh!”

The surroundings got instantly noisy.

“Silence! Silence! What do you mean?”

“I was scheduled to return to Christia before the others, but I was attacked by thugs on my way back. Count Marsh, they said you hired them to kill me.”

“I had nothing to do with it!”

“... Right… you couldn’t possibly know that I was to return on my own before everyone else.”

“... Surely not… I’m sorry, Milfilia. I spoke about it with Count Marsh. I told him that you were returning earlier.”

The gazes gathered on Count Marsh.

“Oh my! Then there’s no problem. You don’t know when to give up, Count Marsh! Why don’t you admit to your crimes already?”

“... If only, if only you weren’t here! You made everything go bad! If only you didn’t exiiiiiist!!”

The outraged Count Marsh attacked Milfy. Count Marsh was then blown away with a good sound of the harisen, spewing blood from his nose as he flew.

“Injustice!! What were you trying to do to my Milfi!!”

Yes, Milfy was just acting. I'm the mastermind! Alphage-sama and my Elder brother were laughing as Count Marsh got sent flying away. Moreover, my weapon of choice, the harisen (of course, it’s my transformed ring, so its power is amazing), was surreal.

“Hah?”

My demeanor completely changed, surprising everyone around me and Count Marsh. It was a little earlier than I planned, but let's spoil things!

“You would get caught even if Milfilia wasn’t here, you dumbo. You have fallen into my trap. I asked Milfilia to make herself look bad to incite hatred and anger so that I could gain your trust. You took the bait splendidly. Foolish fool.”

“Ha? Wha…!?”

“You shouldn’t have targeted Milfilia. It was a trap. I even told you about everything about her schedule.”

“Wha…!?”

“By the way, one of the paddy fields was already reported to His Majesty. In order to make you let your guard down, I had Leor-san pretend he didn’t know anything so that I could play with you.”

“Ah… ah…”

“And then, and then, you spoke about evidence, but… Rabisha!”

“Yes, Master. Here it is.”

Our Ninja-maid brought me the documents. I held them up.

“Secret accounts~”

I tried to say it in the style of Doraemon. You recognize these, right? They are your secret accounts. Ah, his complexion turned white.

“This is Rabisha, my personal maid who is extremely talented. I had her infiltrate as your apprentice. Thank you, Rabisha, for your hard work undercover.”

“I have more good news for you, Master. The merchant had corroborated. Here is the report. This ledger is definitely authentic. I also found the contract for the assassination of Lady Milfilia and brought it to you.”

“Ugaaaaah!”

Count Marsh plucked his hair himself. Ahhahha.

The presiding judge nodded his head.

“... So you already had solid evidence? Why didn't you produce it immediately?”

"To mess with him. It would have been boring to finish him off immediately, wouldn't it? I wanted to torture him to feel the despair from betrayal.”

The presiding judge smiled and fell silent. Silence is golden, isn't it? I’m going to ignore the fact that his face was a bit cramped.

Count Marsh grunted.

“I, I didn’t do anything…”

“... Yes, you didn’t do anything to me.”

“Huh…?”

“However, you have set up my friend’s father, seized his territory and imprisoned him for three years. You caused my friend’s family financial distress, and stole money from people with ill relatives. Doesn’t what I did to you seem cute in comparison to what you have done to those people?”

This plan was not opposed by my conscience, not even by Dirk. That's what I'm talking about.

“Mitchell-san said you were his friend, you know? Even after he realized that you set him up.”

“... Rosarin-san, that’s…”

That’s enough. Mitchell-san said. However, I am not satisfied!

“I refuse!”

“Eh!?”

“Stop joking, Mitchell-san! There’s no way I could forgive him for this, right! I will make him wish for death for baring his fangs against my best friend, Milfi! I will make him regret to his last breath! I will never forgive those who mess with my family!”

I won’t accept a retaliation that I made her bait myself either! We had no choice! Really!

And so I took out a certain file. Its name was “The Case File of Count Marsh’s Dark History.”

The contents were everything from his past that he wanted to hide! From the failure stories of his childhood, to his depressing youth period of being compared to Mitchell-san, and even about his memories when the woman he loved fell in love with Mitchell-san. There was even a small poem he made for her in his adolescence! It was fully loaded with his dark history!

“It’s wonderful. It pierced him right through the heart.”

“As expected of Rosarin…”

“Oh my, you even prepared something like this?”

Alphage-sama, Elder brother, and Milfi voiced their admiration. I worked heart! I even destroyed my sleeping schedule for this! Mitchell-san had a distant look on his face. While putting this case file together, I realized that Mitchell-san was a wall that Count Marsh couldn’t cross. They are close in age, so they were often compared… his severe inferiority complex got warped over the years, I guess?

“U… ugh… I won’t forgive you…”

Ah, Count Marsh finally started weeping. He was burning with anger, and glaring at me with loathing.

“W, whoahh!?”

Suddenly, the Evil influence flew out from Judas-sama and entered Count Marsh. Was it attracted by hatred? Perhaps it was because he was mentally torn apart, but the Evil turned Count Marsh into a rat demon.

“Milfi, Revelation!”

“Yes! Awakening Touch!”

Milfi kissed the back of my hand. Power instantly overflowed from my body. I changed into a white knight costume with my engagement ring. Then, the other ring turned into knuckles and I assaulted Count Marsh.

“Hey, hey, hey, hey!”

“Chuuuu~”

By the way, I had Chita bestow the ring a holy attribute. The effect was perfect! I turned Count Marsh into a punching bag. I don’t feel like losing!

“These hands of mine shine and burn! They roar and scream for the enemy to fall!”

I focused magical power into the knuckles. The magical power of the knuckles was then converted into holy attributes and became a golden flame. It's as if the knuckles were on fire.

“Explosive heat! Golden Wave of Unnamed Star, Golden Hamster!!”

The name of the technique was super random because the opponent was a rat, but the effect was perfect, and Count Marsh was cleansed clean.

I went to Judas-sama to make sure he was okay, but the Evil had apparently gone back into hiding. It hates me like a caterpillar. I pushed it to its limits with the curse of Kabaddi. I also gave Judas-sama a charm (read: threat) telling the Evil not to come out of hiding again or I would beat it up if it did.

“W, why do you all look at me like that…”

Count Marsh seemed to have been cleansed after I defeated the demon, and was just crying.

He was also tattered because I beat him up badly.

“Stop behaving like a child! You have a complex! You have brought this upon yourself! You should have worked harder to be as good as Mitchell-san, or improved on your other strengths! It's because of your selfish sense of inferiority that you brought others down with you!”

I took a deep breath. This is something you should tell yourself and the people around you.

"Count Marsh, you have insulted all of the nobility. You have done what a noble should not have done. If you are a noble, you must fulfill your duties. You must be strict with yourself because of your power, and you must serve your country... your people because of your privilege. Can you really be proud of yourself as a noble in areas other than your bloodline?”

“Ah…”

Count Marsh's eyes widened at my words. The place was quiet as if the ruckus of earlier had been a lie.

Michell-san approached Count Marsh slowly and spoke calmly to him.

“... I have always envied you, Meekil. You were sociable and even I followed you around. I didn't know that I was tormenting you. I'm sorry.”

“Ah… ah… aaaaaaaaahhh!!”

He finally seemed to regret his sins and cried out in a sad voice.

The presiding judge acted. His voice came through loud and clear.

"I pronounce the verdict! Mitchell Rattle is innocent! Count Marsh and his accomplices, the nobles, will be arrested as the true culprits, and will be judged at a later date!”

Thus ended the trial. Accomplice nobles? Of course, we punished them. How is a secret, but let's just say that Dirk stopped me halfway.

After that, the Wolfanean nobles who saw my series of punishments to Count Marsh and other nobles, had apparently made a mental note of, "Rosarin Rosenberg must never be offended. We must never lay our hands on her relatives.”