From Two-Bit Baddie to Total Heartthrob: This Villainess Will Cross-Dress to Impress! Volume 3 [Parts 1 to 12] by Masamune Okazaki

Author:Masamune Okazaki
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, comedy, reincarnation, cross-dressing, romance, reverse harem, j-novel heart, otome, strong female lead, gender-bend, misunderstanding
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Can’t Let Her Out of My Sight—Christopher—

I pretended to take the horse to the stable, but then I returned to the front gate and hopped onto Lady again. On her back, I rushed back to the manor.

I spotted my brother at the front of the house and rode over to him.

“Big brother!” I yelled.

“Hey, Christopher.”

“How’d it go?”

“You were right—someone must have tampered with the carriage’s wheel.”

Immediately, I felt all the blood drain from my face.

He’d told me that someone was probably after sis’s life and that we needed to keep a close eye on her surroundings. I hadn’t realized something was amiss until it was almost too late...and neither had anyone else at the manor.

The Burtons (especially the head of their family, the Honorable Duke) were known for being trusting people. In some ways, you could certainly argue that their nature was a unique asset...unfortunately, in the cunning world of the aristocracy, it also put them at risk of having the wool pulled over their eyes. Trust wasn’t enough to survive on.

That being said—actually, precisely for that reason—the family’s employees were oddly willing to do things that their masters would never dare. Most of them would go to any lengths necessary to protect the family. I considered myself one of them, despite technically being an adopted son. I was more likely to doubt someone than to trust them and more likely to deceive than to be a victim to it.

And yet...as watchful as I’d been, someone had managed to tamper with the carriage wheel right under my nose. That was extremely alarming.

More alarming still was that it was only by chance that I’d even noticed, in the end. It was all because of sis’s unusual decision to take the carriage earlier—she almost never traveled in it. I was struck with a gut feeling that I ought to double check everything was in working order. But that’s all it was: a gut feeling. And that was how I realized that something was off.

My father—my birth father—had died in a horse carriage accident.

“A faulty wheel isn’t the sort of thing that results in immediate death. It wasn’t like she was traveling by a cliffside either. In all likelihood, she probably would’ve just been a little late. Knowing Lizzie, she’d have figured something out. But...there’s still a chance she could’ve been hurt,” my brother said.

I nodded.

As far as I was concerned, sis was way too indifferent to her own safety. She was much more perceptive than most, but she apparently was oblivious to any sign that her own life was in danger.

To be fair, big brother and I—along with her friends—had kind of been hiding that from her...but it probably had more to do with the fact that sis wasn’t used to looking out for herself.

Instead, she was always looking out for me, big brother, or...literally anyone else but herself. She’d grown too strong, and she’d never been put in a position where she’d had to defend herself. She’d do anything to protect someone else, but she didn’t give her own safety a second thought.

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