The Villainess Is Dead! Long Live the Empress! Redoing the Story After a Poisonous End: Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 7] 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 arrived at Marquis Petrov’s mansion just in time. She met the nine other candidates in the mansion’s spacious drawing room. They were all beautifully dressed, and smelling of perfume.

Soon after they got settled, sumptuous sweets were brought in. The other ladies were busy talking, and ate the sweets without regard to their manners, since they were the only ones present at the moment, but Westalia was the only one to taste them in a dignified way.

The hostess had not yet come into the room, and the atmosphere was becoming increasingly hostile.

“Hey, you, I told you to drop out!” one woman said.

“I will do no such thing!”

It was an hour after they had all gathered, and four of the women had been fighting the entire time. Apparently, the brother of one of the women had recently committed a scandal, and she, his sister, was being criticized as not being qualified for the empress selection. It seemed to Westalia that no matter where you went, people would try to tear each other down. In order to reduce the number of competitors, the other candidates were eager to pounce on this woman and drive her out of the competition.

“You’re just the impudent daughter of a low-ranking family,” one of the women said.

“Don’t talk to me like that...” the woman said.

Westalia was quietly watching from the sidelines, but when she saw the cornered woman start to cry, she let out a sigh. “It’s disgraceful to gang up on her like that,” she said.

“What?!”

“One less competitor won’t make much difference. Everyone here is your enemy. If you want to be chosen from among them, it would be more meaningful to think about how to make yourself more attractive. You all look very unseemly right now,” Westalia continued, smiling at them provocatively, holding a mirror up to their actions. The women’s faces turned bright right.

Westalia set down the teacup she was holding and narrowed her eyes. “The second round has already begun, isn’t that right, Lady Petrov?”

The reason why the noblewoman had yet to make an appearance in the room was likely because she was watching them from the salon in the adjoining room, which had been unnaturally partitioned off by a curtain. She was keeping a close watch on the conversation of the ladies and their behavior as they ate the sweets.

As soon as Westalia said this, the curtains to the adjoining salon were opened. A young lady appeared from the back of the salon, accompanied by several attendants.

“You saw through it all, didn’t you, Lady Cordata?” Standing there as Lady Petrov was a girl who looked shockingly familiar to Westalia. It was Lyra, the escaped slave who Westalia had rescued in the Kingdom of Slidd.

“What are you doing here?!” Westalia asked.

“It’s good to see you again. Thank you for everything you did for me,” Lyra replied. It was clear she didn’t want to talk about the details of what had happened right then. The tea party proceeded, with only question marks filling Westalia’s mind.

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