I’m a Villainess but So Popular

Editor : Aru

‘Crazy……’

As soon as the name “Tigris” came out of the glaring lips reflected in the blue flame, I realized that I had made a huge mistake.

It was a crime of treason to bring out flames against the Crown Prince, not anyone else.

‘I’ve been occupied by the second prince, and now because it’s not enough, the first prince also?’

Iker Tigris, who was the first prince when I first met Cassius, received the crown prince’s rebuke two months ago.

He was so famous that I knew him, too, as he was almost certain to succeed the current emperor.

Even though he doesn’t appear in the original story.

‘Why does it get worse as time goes by?’

I can’t believe I’m meeting the 1st Prince in such a bad way.

With my fists clenched, I shook and put out the flame, which had been burning with great force.

And said, with my head down as fast as I could.

“I’m pleased to see the Crown Prince.”

I tried hard to keep my head down, but my mind was so confused.

How should I deal with this situation?

It was different from when I attacked Cassius. When I first met him, I unintentionally hurt him with air magic, but Cassius liked me. So it was possible not to obtain contemptible charges, such as treason and the injury of the royal family.

Instead, I had to accept Cassius who came to my house every other day in return.

But no matter how hard I looked, this black man in front of me, far from favouring me, seemed to break my neck at any momentarily.

“What’s the use of doing that now? You tried to attack me.”

‘No. That’s because I didn’t know that you are the Crown Prince. If I had known, I wouldn’t have done that!’

I knew this would happen.

That man won’t get over it easily.

“I’ve been careful as much as I can, and I can’t come here and get my throat cut…!’

I gritted my teeth and calmly opened my mouth.

“Your Majesty, I know very little about you, and I haven’t been able to recognize your precious face–”

“That’s why I kept telling you. You’re going to regret it.”

The sound of his voice cutting off the lines I pulled to save my life cooled the blood of my whole body.

‘Oh, man. You’re not letting me say anything.’

“But it’s your fault you didn’t listen to me.”

“Yes, but if you will forgive me…….”

“Do you believe that your sins will disappear so easily?”

As I heard it, there was no sign of communication.

I felt as if I had been caught by a cult evangelist and had a conversation.

Eventually, with my upper body bent, I lifted my head slightly.

If I kept talking this way, the conversation would have only circled in the same place.

And I don’t know why, but the crown prince seemed to find me interesting because I wasn’t afraid of his appearance.

Once he said he is The Crown Prince, I’m polite, but a strategy of lowering my body will diminish his interest in me.

Sure enough, the moment I lifted my head slightly, his golden eyes glistened.

I didn’t know if it was a surprise or an interest, but it was clear that my choice was not wrong.

“Your Majesty, what do you want?”

The prince, who had been staring at my face for a while, replied with a burst of laughter.

“You’ll make a deal. This is what you mean right?”

With both eyes raised, I looked at the crown prince and replied.

“You know it very well, Your Majesty.”

The words have thinned his golden eyes.

His eyes, shining in the dark, had the same colour as Cassius’s.

Nevertheless, the crown prince’s eyes were thinner and cunning.

“What do you know?”

I smiled softly, looking into his snake-like eyes as if searching from head to toe.

“I know you won’t kill me.”

One of the crown prince’s eyebrows rose slightly in my answer.

But that was all.

He looked down at me with sharp eyes, as if not agitated at all and said in a low-pitched voice.

“Your pride is so conceited that it hit the sky. In the near future, only one thing will take your life.”

“But that one thing wouldn’t be Your Majesty.”

I said so and raised my head.

“Isn’t that right? Your Majesty, the heir of the lowest family of the seven families, will be as easy as stepping on and killing is if it is an ant on the street.”

But he won’t.

He could have revealed his identity from the beginning and reminded me of how much disrespect I had committed.

Or he could have called in a servant immediately and ordered him to kill me.

“And yet, isn’t it because I am the only one who can hear what you want?”

It’s only been a few minutes since we started the conversation, but I could tell.

Iker Tigress was the one who took it for granted that people would bow before him. Of course, it was natural considering his status as the crown prince.

Unless someone who is so intoxicated with status and noble status really wants something, there was no reason to talk directly to me, a freshman, nor to keep me alive.

‘The reason is …… maybe that’s it.’

I don’t know if it were someone else, but there was only one reason why Iker was interested in me.

The amount of mana that overflowed compared to ordinary people.

But I don’t know if it’s enough to ask me to come into the palace directly.

Anyway, Iker must have seen with his own eyes the possibility that other palace wizards and others could not see with their own eyes.

“It seems to me that you have chosen a complicated path to create an excuse for me to do your favour.”

As he listened to my story with his arms folded, the crown prince smiled and opened his mouth.

“You’re quick-witted. Again, too good to kill.”

Yes!

I sang a joyous song into my heart.

I wanted to hop around, but I tried not to.

“Are you forgiving my sins?”

Then the Crown Prince replied in a low voice.

“It was just a test in the first place. I just wanted to see if you were the one I wanted.”

I was very curious about what kind of person he wanted, but I didn’t bother to intervene.

‘By the way, I understand that you considered me worthy of the palace wizard as much as you could see with your eyes the amount of mana. Well, that’s….’

I don’t know why he desperately wants to scout someone who has enough mana.

If he has enough time to take them after graduation, if he’s a normal person, I’d think it’s better to take them after two years of training.

So no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t quite figure out Iker’s intentions.

“Your Highness, once again, I dare ask.”

When I spoke out, Iker nodded as if to talk.

Seeing the slightly shaky red hair, I tried to get my back straight even while looking at his brother shining like a beast.

“Really, what do you want?”

The silence continued as if he was dead for a while.

I had the illusion that Iker’s pupils were torn vertically like snakes trying to tighten the breath of prey.

There was a great chill wrapped around him, and his hair was thick in his eyes, which were as sharp as a tear in the heart.

Even though I decided I would never bend, I couldn’t help the cold sweat.

My red lips wriggled as I was still frozen and looking up at him as if possessed by the devil.

“Didn’t I already say it?”

Iker was standing right in front of me.

Bend at me, and make eye contact with me, he said with a low voice, as if a tiger were growling.

“For you to come out of the Academy and be my direct imperial wizard. That’s what I want.”

Then I decided my answer.

The moment I saw his golden eyes shining in the dark, I knew I had to.

“…… Your Highness, my decision remains unchanged.”

Iker came closer and closer then talked.

“You’re saying you won’t come?”

“Yes.”

I felt like his red hair would touch my cheek if I did something wrong.

Not only that. I gulped down because I thought he was about to show his fangs and bite the nape of my neck.

“I can promise you in two years. But I can’t right now. Your Highness.”

“Why is it impossible?”

Iker spoke with a frown.

His eyes were still chillingly sharp, but at any rate, it seemed that he would listen to me.

So in a slightly divided voice, I conveyed my meaning to him.

“Thank you very much for taking good favour for me.”

It’s a calm message. Humble and clear.

“But I’m very poor at learning to help you, and I’m not even a wizard yet.”

Honestly, no matter how much I think about it, it’s crazy to say that I’m going to just sit as the successor and as a wizard directly under the Crown Prince.

Iker himself couldn’t have known that.

“You also know how much my family’s status has fallen while I was vacant there.”

“So isn’t this the right time to raise the status of the Spades at once?”

“Everything has its order.”

It was a serious story, with one’s own sincerity.

No matter how much the Crown Prince talks, he couldn’t have forced me to accept his propose.

“Ha.”

I could hear Iker snorting.

Then he soon twisted his lips and froze in one of the words, which I could not tell whether he was talking to himself or me.

“I really like it……….”

Somehow I got goosebumps and asked back on the spot.

“Yes?”

It was just then.

The sound of someone’s footsteps running like crazy.

I and the Crown Prince turned our heads in the direction of footsteps at the same time. And I saw.

A man who runs in a hurry with a face soaked in embarrassment.

“Yerine!”

I opened my mouth to call his name, but Cassius was right in front of me before I knew it.

Then he breathed out a harsh breath, grabbed me by the wrist and hug my shoulders.

“Ca, Cassius?”

“Yerine, the professors are urgently looking for you…”

But Cassius couldn’t finish what he had said.

The strong hand wrapped in black gloves pressed his shoulder hard.

“Where are you going in such a hurry?”

The mean lips moved in a line.

“Cassius.”

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