The Villainess Is Dead! Long Live the Empress! Redoing the Story After a Poisonous End: Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 6] by Tsuta Sonehara

Author:Tsuta Sonehara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, fantasy, adventure, romance, intrigue, j-novel heart, female protagonist, revenge, villainess
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Westalia was dreaming. She was dreaming about the boy she’d met almost ten years ago in the royal villa. They were sitting next to each other on a bench in a gazebo, staring out at the flowers in the garden.

“Are you always by yourself?” the boy asked.

“I have a number of teachers, and there’s the staff who bring me my meals. But...I don’t have anyone I trust. So, I’m alone in that sense, yes,” Westalia replied.

“I’m sorry...”

Westalia didn’t have any friends beside Lily. She confided in him that she wished she had a much larger group of friends to spend time with.

“Well then, I’ll be your new friend,” the boy said.

“But I’ll never see you again. I can’t leave this villa until I become queen.”

“A friend is someone you can be close to, no matter how far apart you are or how many years it’s been since you’ve last seen each other. Didn’t you know that?”

“No, I didn’t. Because I don’t have many friends.” Westalia pouted and the boy laughed. Westalia was to be the next queen, but she lacked connections with other people, meaning she lived in fear for her safety.

“Life here must be stifling. The palace is a place of intrigue and speculation, and you never know who might come to kill you at any moment,” the boy said. “But I don’t see any guards here.”

Although Westalia had several knights guarding her, they were actually the former queen Delphine’s dogs. They were ordered to keep an eye on Westalia at all times and report her every move back to the queen. Although they feigned obedience in front of Delphine, they often skipped out on their duties, allowing outsiders such as this boy to enter the villa.

“They must be basking in the sun somewhere. The weather is lovely today,” Westalia said.

“Basking... That’s dereliction of duties!”

The guards of the royal villa despised Westalia and neglected their work, but since they were under Delphine’s control, Westalia couldn’t punish or replace them.

“I’m completely unprotected if an assassin comes for me. I think I should learn how to defend myself in order to survive here,” Westalia said.

“Are you going to study self-defense or something?”

“Yes, I would rather train myself than rely on someone else to do it for me,” Westalia said, clenching both her fists together and mimicking the stance of a bodyguard. She was thin and weak, and had never exercised outside of dancing. The boy looked at Westalia and noted that she clearly had no talent for physical defense. He put a hand to his chin in contemplation.

“Even if you don’t work out, there are other ways to defend yourself,” the boy said.

“Other ways?” Westalia asked.

The boy plucked a cluster of the wisteria blossoms—the flower Westalia was named for—that were twined around the pillars and ceiling of the gazebo and placed them in her hand.

“Wisteria flowers are poisonous, and if ingested in large quantities they can cause abdominal pain and vomiting. Do you know why this beautiful flower is poisonous?”

“Maybe...to keep birds and animals from eating them?” Westalia guessed, tilting her head to the side.

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