A Terminally Ill Villainess Refuses To Be Adopted

Clearwater splashed from his black hair.

“It’s completely black. The darker it gets, the more beautiful it is, Ray.”

“What do you mean beautiful? You should say I’m handsome.”

“That’s the same.”

“It’s not the same.”

I looked at his black hair and let out a little nostalgic admiration, then suddenly grabbed mine. I thought it would be gray, but what gray looks like this?

“Your hair is shiny.” (Raven)

“Right…” (Evelyn)

“…If you have that, don’t go looking at someone else’s hair.”(Raven)

“That’s up to me, Ray.”(Evelyn)

My silver hair shone properly when wet, It really looked like a thread made of silver.

I said in contemplation while looking at Ray, who was awkwardly holding his clothes I had brought.

“If I cut my hair and sell it.”

“Don’t do it. Why would you do that.”

“Well.”

But hair grows again, right…? I think this could be real money.

Raven, who was staring at the clothes like a rag that he was wearing on the first day, looked at me, sighed, and said softly with an awkward expression.

“Don’t worry too much.”

“Huh? What?”

“There’s a lot of money. My house.”

“……Huh?”

It was really the first time he had told something about his house on his own.

I was embarrassed, and for a moment I was oblivious to the words he added in front of ‘house’. 

Ray, unaware of my condition, continued to speak slowly.

“There’s enough for one of you… sigh, no. It’s nothing.”

Hold on, why is your face red again?

I came to my senses and looked at my little friend with puzzled eyes.

“Do you…have a cold?”

“No, it’s not that.”

His low voice seemed angry. After Ray answered that, he glanced at me and tried to get out of the water.

“Just play around here. Got it?”

“Oh, yes. I will. Don’t worry, Sir Ray.”

“Oh, don’t do that.”

“What?”

“Don’t use honorifics, and never use Sir Ray, too.”

“C-Come on, I was joking.”

“I know. I mean, in the future, whether it’s a joke or serious, don’t use it.”

I rolled my eyes, Raven was suddenly out of the water before I knew it, after he had gone completely out of the water I carefully looked at him and nodded.

As he went out and turned to look at me, Raven had a satisfied face.

I couldn’t make it obvious, but it was a little cute that his feelings went back and forth over nothing.

He is, after all, a child.

Oh, by the way, Ray was out of the water, so I started to carry out my operation.

“Ray, I brought this to show you.”

“What is it?”

The clothes were not everything that I brought with me.

“Six failed potions that I got from the noble potion maker for some reason! “

“Failed potions?”

Ray looked at me with curious eyes.

Hehe, Ray seems to know about this too.

There were many interesting things among the failed potions. They were made to be used as medicine, but there were also potions that made time-limited rainbows.

I took them out at once.

“This is why I came to the water. Ta-da!”

When the potion was sprayed in the air, a very clear rainbow appeared in place and started to grow longer.

“If it touches the water, it lasts a day.”

“Oh.”

His eyes were shining and his expression was a bit unfamiliar. A little bit, it felt like I saw another side of the Little Lord of the North house.

This was perfect for drawing attention. It started getting colder, so I showed the next potions.

The twinkling stars embroidered the dim lake with splendor. A very small baby dragon rode the rainbow and started to slide in it.

Even if it can’t make you move through space, the magic of this world was really beautiful.

“It seems that the person who made it has a knack for illusion magic.” (Raven)

I heard Ray mumble.

“Was his name Jade?” (Raven)

It feels like he’s talking to himself. Great, everything is going very smoothly.

I took out the last bottle and I read the name as if thinking it was also illusion magic.

“And now, this one! Summoning omnivorous monsters…?”

“…..”

And with a startling surprise, I dropped the bottle together with Ray’s old clothes, which he once said to be burned right away.

My plan was as follows.

First of all, the North family terrorist incident is caused by spies. The important thing here is that the spies were among those looking for Raven.

The Emperor’s dog who came to kill the spies was also with them. They had a time bomb on their body and a clear priority for the mission.

The first is to find Raven.

The second is to focus on terrorism if the boy could not be found.

The case in the original was the second one. If so, it was simple enough to induce attention to the first scenario.

Of course, it was a fake one.

“Hurry up and come out!”

At Ray’s call, I hurried out of the lake. 

There were two things to keep in mind in this plan. The first is that Raven must not be found here. The second is that the real North Family knights who are looking for Ray must not be fooled by his clothes.

‘I don’t have to worry about the second.’

The Knights of the North family are chasing Raven’s magic.

Even if you could call these rags, clothes, they were so old that no traces of magic were left behind, so they will know that the owner will be elsewhere.

But the spies were different.

They were secretly looking for Raven, and they were searching for material evidence, not magic.

‘All while sweeping the bottom of the lake around the <End Village> with magic.’

So if found, only the spies will get caught in it.

‘And the first thing to pay attention to was…’

Make sure no one knows we came here.

Because the clothes were spilled in the lake, it was solved. The potion that makes monsters flock was also dropped in the lake, so it got into the clothes.

There were no monsters in the lake, so the only ones who would find the clothes were spies.

And when they come out with the clothes?

“Huuh.”

Be it from joy, from worry, or from the cold, an unknown sound came out.

If this goes through, the wounded members of the North family will be safe, and if not, I did the best I could, so I did not intend to take any responsibility for this.

“Hold on, that’s not a failed potion.”

Raven glanced back in surprise.

The clothes didn’t seem to matter.

If the clothes were precious to Raven, I probably wouldn’t have used them, but fortunately, they didn’t seem to be. 

I trembled.

“Are you cold?” 

“No. I’m just a little surprised.”

In fact, it was planned to happen naturally, but it didn’t take away the creepy feeling of the situation in itself. If that bottle had been sprayed like illusion magic, all the monsters in this area might have flocked to the shore of the lake by now.

It was a little dangerous, but I think it was well worth the risk.

“I must have brought the wrong one. I think it was mixed among the ones that were close by.”

“Sigh. I’m glad nothing happened.”

I grabbed Raven who was white as a sheet.

Ray seemed surprised, so he tightly grabbed my hand and slid down. I laughed a little as we lay down on the dirt floor together.

“Uh-fu, huhuhu.”

As I started to laugh, Raven looked at me in disbelief and then began to laugh silly himself.

I guess this is why kids ride scary rides and laugh excitedly. After a cheerful giggle, I took a deep breath and took off my top coat with a refreshed face.

” …What are you doing?”

“I’m going to change. I’ll be in big trouble if I catch a cold.”

You don’t have to look at me like that because I’m going to leave a layer on and wear dry clothes above…

“……”

Raven looked at me as I was taking off the next layer even faster and then rolled over to the side as if lying down.

And he let out a sigh that showed how anguished he was.