Stuck in a Time Loop: When All Else Fails, Be a Villainess Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 4] by Sora Hinokage

Author:Sora Hinokage
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Two: Guardian of the Moon

“Now please, enjoy yourselves everyone.” The ballroom filled with applause. Apparently the speech had ended.

“Time still passed...” I murmured to myself.

The king and his sister stepped off of the stage. I made eye contact with the boy. He grinned. What I’d just seen hadn’t been just a dream; both the sensations and his voice still lingered clearly in my mind.

“Though he looks like a child...”

He told me to forget it, but that was impossible. No one would be able to forget such a thing. I hoped that one day, I would have the opportunity to learn his true intentions.

The lights in the ballroom returned to their full strength. My eyes hurt from their glare. I wished it could have just stayed dark, but then all of sudden...

“Lady Vixent?”

A woman approached me, dressed in fine clothes and with a smile on her face. She was definitely talking to me, but I didn’t recognize her.

“Yes?”

“Congratulations on becoming head of house! My family has been friendly with the Vixents for many years. I’m looking forward to continuing our relationship in the future.”

“Yes...” Oh, I see. Suddenly more men and women I didn’t know began gathering around me. I didn’t know a single one of their names, though clearly, their goal was to have me learn them. They were jockeying to protect their positions by gaining the favor of one of the six heads of house.

The purpose of these parties was to deepen the relationships between families. Nobles outside the six supernatural families attended because they wanted to befriend us. Their machinations were incredibly transparent, and easy for me to spot.

There were others in the center of their own clusters. These people should be the heads of the other houses. I saw four other clusters crowded with people, and Etoile was in the center of one of them.

“As long as we have Lord Weldon, our kingdom will be safe!”

“Yes, especially with his Astromancy; he can see the future!”

“Thank you.”

His groupies were even more blatant than mine. Greed for his power and all of its influence oozed out of them. None of them wanted anything from Etoile himself; it was his power and protection they wanted.

This wasn’t new. And since I knew Etoile quite well, I had no desire to get to know him any further.

I turned my attention to the other three groups—the one closest to him in particular. In the middle stood a man with short hair.

“Feeling nervous, Sir Boden?”

“Excuse me. I’m not used to events like this. I actually don’t interact with people very much.”

The man had a muscular body and tanned, brown skin. He was tall—head and shoulders above the rest of the crowd. And he looked uncomfortable. He was Gordov Boden, guardian of earth and head of one of the six families.

“We heard you drove away a group of magical beasts the other day. Because of you, Sir Boden, we can rest easy at night.”

“I didn’t do anything special. I only did what any knight is required to do.

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