The Villainess Hides Her Wealth - Chapter 84.2

Chapter 84.2

When the people of the Primrose duchy came to use their power of blessing, it was called their ‘awakening’.

But Lilika herself knew better than anyone that the power she had was not a blessing.

‘Ah, if it was that blessing, I would have asked the people of the duchy.’

A power she didn’t know wasn’t a proper power.

How to use it, were there any side effects… She had to look into it and be careful.

“Do you think I came here to make a play on words? It’s not that power.”

“Even if you’re the daughter of the duke, you’re also a member of the Red River clan. How dare you speak casually to the head of our clan…”

“If you have a power, why did you come to us? Wouldn’t the normal course of action be to find a mage or a priest?” the head of the clan replied casually, leaning on one side to get up, “You are noble. I don’t know why you would think a clan like ours would know something you don’t.”

He stopped the person next to him only to spew out sarcasm himself.

“I vividly remember you saying you would never get involved when I said to contact us if you needed our help, and that if we pretended to know you, you would talk to your father and send knights.”

“…”

“You also made a cute threat that you would accuse the clan of all the dirty things we did. Hahaha.”

However, the only one regretting anything in this situation was Lilika.

She had to gently appease them so that they would tell her what they knew.

“That’s just something I said when I was a child.”

Lilika changed the subject, dismissing their accusatory words as a childhood matter.

“You have magical abilities. I’ve always heard of some kind of power descending on the Red River clan.”

“A young child remembered an important thing so well…”

He clicked his tongue. Lilika could see that he was acknowledging it.

As expected, she was right. Lilika found exactly what she needed to say.

‘I heard this as a child, but I remember it clearly.’

Just as children with power are born into the Primrose duchy, there is something similar in the Red River clan.

Though, of course, it couldn’t be called a ‘blessing’.

She knew that something was coming down.

‘It doesn’t seem like a good ability to show off.’

This was why she had not disclosed her condition by looking for other mages or shrines and chose to come here instead.

‘It was the kind of thing that people would call ‘peculiar’. Dreary, uncomfortable, frightening…’

There was also a reason for Lilika’s assumption.

‘I don’t know very well, but isn’t it because of such power that my mother was able to seduce someone like my father, a duke?’

For some reason, she felt like she could do ‘something’. She felt that way from the moment she realized that something had changed.

She didn’t know what it was, but Lilika made that assumption when she recalled her old memories.

Both her deceased biological mother and herself were relatively easily liked by people…

“I won’t ask you to say it for free.”

“Hm…”

Lilika held out the gifts she had received from Duke Primrose.

Although it was cracking a little lately, she had lived a life where she didn’t lack anything, so it was a considerable number of gifts.

It wasn’t for nothing that Lilika was someone who had been called the flower of the social world.

She attracted attention even among the most demanding young ladies, like a jewel.

Unsurprisingly, a greedy aura shone in their eyes.

Lilika, who smiled as she saw how their reaction was not the slightest bit different from her expectations, looked around again.

It could be easily seen that the environment where the Red River clan lived was filthy. Though it seemed like they got a lot of money from time to time for something illegal…

The head of the clan, who had been holding the jewel he received for a long time, straightened his posture.

“Well, this isn’t nearly enough, but we are a part of the same clan.”

Saying they were ‘part of the same clan’ felt like a mockery, but Lilika put up with it.

“I hope that when you find a way to use your power at your disposal, you won’t pretend to be oblivious to us like you did in the past.”

“Yes.”

“And… I think you will continue to need our help, even if you gain the means to use your power.”