The Baddest Villainess Is Back - Chapter 131
“Of couwse not.”
Roxelyn answered shortly.
“…No?”
“Yes. If I had weally thought about it, I would have left home alweady.”
Zerti’s shoulders flinched again.
He looked at Roxelyn with a profoundly shocked expression.
“I… don’t know what love is.”
“What? You say you don’t know what love is after doing everything with Mothew to bwing me into this world? That’s something a webellious teenager would say… mmph.”
Zerti, with an embarrassed expression, covered Roxelyn’s mouth with his large hand as she spoke smoothly.
“Where did you even hear such strange things…”
“It’s twue…”
Roxelyn mumbled as her mouth was covered.
Realizing he was covering her mouth, Zerti hastily removed his hand with a pale face.
“What kind of books have you been reading…”
He mumbled softly as he stepped back.
“Fathew, awe you perhaps talking about platonic love excluding the physical aspect…”
“Stop.”
Zerti reached out reflexively but stopped his hand mid-air, speaking firmly.
Roxelyn stared at his large hand hovering in the air and then grabbed one of his fingers.
“Fathew, it’s okay.”
Roxelyn smiled brightly. Zerti hesitated at her radiant smile.
“If you just control youw abilities pwopuhly, I won’t die.”
At Roxelyn’s blunt words, Zerti’s eyes widened.
He was about to pull his hand away from her grasp.
“If you don’t want to kill youw only daughter, contwol yourself. I’m going to cling to you every time I see you. You love me, wight?”
Zerti awkwardly nodded and opened his mouth.
“…Lo… lo… don’t say such mischievous things!”
…He tried to speak but fumbled.
It seemed his social skills were worse when he was younger.
Roxelyn sighed openly.
“And Fathew, you look much gloomier than I wemember. It’s embawwassing to walk awound with you, so it would be nice if you could spwuce up a bit.”
“…What?”
“I’m going to sleep now, so hold my hand until I fall asleep.”
The child lay on the bed, holding Zerti’s hand as she closed her eyes.
Soon, the large hand completely enveloped the small one.
* * *
‘…It really is my original world.’
Over the past three days, Roxelyn had looked into the past through newspapers and other means, confirming her thoughts with a sigh.
“Excuse me, did a peddlew come hewe today by any chance?”
“Yes, Miss. How did you know?”
“Just. If you bought anything from that peddlew, wetuhn it quickly. It’s all a scam.”
“What?”
“And, did I go to Fathew’s room in the basement and get scolded a week ago on my biwthday?”
“…Oh, that wasn’t because the Youngest Master disliked you…”
“I know Fathew doesn’t dislike me. So, I did go?”
“Ye… yes. Do you remember…?”
“No, I wemembuh. Tomowwow, don’t go outside. There will be a huge hailstorm.”
“Miss?”
“Is Grandfathew, who went to the duchy, coming back tomorrow?”
“Yes, that’s right! But according to the temple’s forecast, there’s a heavy rain scheduled for tomorrow, so I’m worried. He must come back safely before the meeting.”
“Oh, he pwobably won’t be able to make it on time. The valley will be flooded, and he won’t be able to cwoss.”
Whenever she had time, she stopped passing maids to gauge the period she was in based on her memories.
Since being sent to the parallel world by Gerun, Roxelyn had pondered a lot.
Although it was a parallel world, minor details differed slightly, except for the major events.
The gift received on her birthday wasn’t always a doll, and in one world it might rain on her birthday while it wouldn’t in another.
A shop that existed in Roxelyn’s world might not exist in another world.
Nevertheless, the major events remained almost identical.
If a war was destined to happen, it did, and if a country was fated to lose, it lost unless someone intervened.
As a result, Roxelyn deduced that this world was the past of her original world.
‘…What could it be?’
Roxelyn sat on the bed, crossing her short arms awkwardly and tapping her feet.
“Rox, your Abyss is the kind that can only awaken by dying.”
“…What?”
“It’s complicated to explain in detail, but think of it as a kind of resurrection Abyss. After dying, you return to the past and can live again in someone else’s body.”
Sansar called her Abyss a ‘resurrection Abyss,’ one that can only awaken by dying.
‘So, does that mean I did die?’