I Became the Villain’s Master - Chapter 99

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Chapter 99

“That way, I can stay by your side.”

“No. I’m not a mage. You invited me to the Magic Tower last time, but….”

“It’s dangerous here. The Magic Tower will be safe.”

A long finger ran down the back of my hand, fiddling with the ring I was wearing.

“I can’t be reassured by this ring alone. You almost got hurt again. Of course, this was there… but I’m going crazy.”

Eyes that felt unusually red looked at me.

“Huh? Mistress.”

I barely managed to stop myself from saying that I should live in the Magic Tower.

‘Calm down, my heart!’

What am I supposed to do when my heart races just by looking at him?

I thought about it rationally for a moment. It doesn’t matter if I visit the Magic Tower because I already talked about it before going to the Imperial Palace banquet…

“Or, Mistress. You can stay at the Magic Tower for the time being. Until the mastermind is revealed and everything is okay.”

“…Should I?”

Yeah, it was good to stay in the Magic Tower because dangerous things kept happening to me. But what should I do!

What will the mages think of me?

Was I considered parachuted in?

Thanks to good connections, ordinary people usually could only visit the Magic Tower!

For now, I couldn’t find any reason to refuse because it was a good thing. So I nodded my head absentmindedly.

“I’ll do that.”

“Good.”

Kiris, who had been smiling brightly since earlier, grinned.

Something seems wrong with this, but nothing will happen, right!

“But there’s a condition.”

“Anything.”

“I’m going to take Mary with me.”

“….”

What about Mary! If I go to the Magic Tower, Mary will become unemployed.

It didn’t make sense to abandon Mary, who was happy to serve me and whose life’s joy was being with Snow.

Just like Louis denouncing Kiris as an evil boss, I could be that way.

It was something I should never say, however.

At my words, Kiris frowned and pressed his temples.

“Yeah. There was a maid.”

Then, after thinking for a long long time, he nodded.

“If you want, Master. You need someone to help you.”

“Okay.”

Snow can return to its astral form whenever it wants.

I smiled as I looked at Snow, who was comfortably sleeping with its eyes closed in front of me now.

“Then I’ll get ready. I have to tell Helena too. Louis too….”

“Don’t worry about that. I’ll take care of the escort now, and Louis won’t be able to come back for a while.”

“Louis?”

“Yeah. He’s been assigned an important mission.”

At Kiris’s nonchalant words, I thought of Louis, who was crying and calling him an evil boss.

‘He’s going through a lot.’

Is it okay for me to be sucking up to him like this?

“But Mistress. Do you need to prepare? The Magic Tower has everything.”

And with that, he took my hand.

“Huh?”

“I told Celia, who gives you work, that you wouldn’t take it anymore. And….”

Kiris, who smiled charmingly, continued.

“The maid must have already gone home to pack.”

“…?”

Come to think of it, Mary took a leave of absence yesterday, saying she had something to do at home.

Have you already made a plan to take me to the Magic Tower?

I felt a little betrayed by Mary, but tears welled up in my eyes when I thought of her being threatened or pressured.

“Then.”

When Kiris took my hand familiarly and spoke, I felt a sense of unease.

“Wait a minute!”

But my scream scattered into the air.

* * *

The mysterious Magic Tower, was no different from the collection of all the mages in the world. However, most of the mages who were said to be doing research and were never seen, were a little different today.

“What’s going on now?”

“How would I know? The Tower Lord suddenly called us.”

From the mage with dark circles under his eyes to the mage stroking his abundant white beard.

The expressions of the robed mages were filled with bewilderment.

It was only natural, as there had never been a gathering at the Magic Tower before.

“Is he going to talk about Etude Magic Research?”

“I think so. Ugh. I don’t know if he doesn’t trust me. If I had been researching during this time, I would have already finished it and had some left over.”

“Isn’t that a bit much?”

“Shut up.”

As they murmured among themselves, someone came with new information.

“I think I know why the Tower Lord called us.”

“What is it?”

At the question of the white-bearded mage, an unbelievable answer came back.

“That… he brought a noble lady.”