I'm a Villainess, Can I Die?

Despite Selena’s determination, her mind couldn’t easily figure out what the cause was.

This was the obstruction of some kind of great dark force… Or not, and it was just that the reason was so trivial that Selena couldn’t remember it.

Like the butterfly effect, for example.

Just as a small flap of a butterfly’s wings could bring about a typhoon, a very small change brought about this situation.

How easy was it to guess how many flaps of a butterfly’s wings could bring about a typhoon?

Still, Selena was still trying.

She called Ian, a character who did not appear in the original work, and looked at him all day (in the end, Ian shrugged his shoulders and asked, “What did I do wrong?”), and the day’s event ended. One day she called Aiden and asked if there was any magic to improve memory.

A table summarizing the difference between the original story and reality and the changes that resulted from it was written down so many times that it had already filled a notebook.

When she felt the exhaustion from the family she occasionally bumped into at the mansion, she would struggle to find out what was causing it and couldn’t sleep well.

Truly, it was a tremendous effort for Selena, who only did breathing exercises.

However, her life didn’t always go her way.

Yet, that didn’t mean that hard work didn’t always betray you.

Even the hard-working guy sometimes got betrayed.

Despite Selena’s hard work day after day, wasn’t it proof that she was still in the same spot without finding a cause for this?

On the other hand, unlike Selena, who was walking in place so diligently, the other characters were proceeding to deal with the monster incident step by step.

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“Lucas, is this all the reconnaissance papers for the Knights?”

“Yes. Oh, and I put the paperwork about the monster that appeared in the square last night at the top.”

“Thank you, I can do it thanks to you.”

Lucas was helping Aaron deal with the monsters in his office.

He was the Duchy’s deputy, and at the same time, he was treated like the Duchy’s adoptive son… Shouldn’t he take the lead when something like this happened?

The job as Selena’s escort… It hurt him, but after handing it all over to Aiden, he was currently only focusing on dealing with the monsters.

And if the estate was peaceful, Selena would also be protected.

Lucas, who laughed lightly because he thought he was funny, rubbed his tingly forehead a few times.

Aaron glanced at Lucas and opened his mouth.

“How many hours did you sleep last night?”

“I went to the square last night. About an hour or two.”

“The other day, you asked if I was going to die soon because I slept for 3 hours, but I think you’re the one in danger?”

It was time for a fleeting joke.

In times like these, they had to force themselves to have time for jokes like this. Otherwise, it would be easy to be consumed by fatigue.

Lucas, noticing that Aaron was deliberately joking, put the paper down from his hand and looked at Aaron leisurely.

“How many hours have you slept?”

“Me, three and a half hours?”

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After getting a satisfactory answer, Lucas’s eyes widened. He looked at Aaron and nodded slowly, then he spat out in a voice that sounded amused.

“Even if something went wrong with me, I won’t be lonely because you’ll be buried next to me.”

Aaron glared at Lucas with quivering eyes, then let out a fuss and smiled.

The time for short jokes ended like that, and work began again from then on.

Aaron was reading a report about the monsters that appeared in the plaza last night.

The name of the monster, its characteristics, the situation at the time, the eyewitness accounts of people around it, the amount of damage, etc. It was a very detailed report.

“The monsters that appeared yesterday were the same as before.”

Aaron muttered after reading all the documents.

Lucas had already read the document once, so he nodded his head in agreement.

‘It’s similar to what has been up until now,’ Aaron said, referring to the strange behavior of the monsters that started appearing in the territory.

At first, they were not aware of the sudden appearance of monsters that had been quiet for about 10 years, but as time passed and the frequency of appearances of monsters increased, they discovered something strange.

Aaron dragged a blank piece of paper from the side and scribbled something with a pen.

‘1. Monsters disappear in about 10 minutes.

2. Monsters simply return to places where there are no witnesses.

3. Among the damage inflicted by monsters, there is no damage such as stealing food.

4. There were occasional casualties, but there were no casualties in places where there were only one or two witnesses.

5. The movement path of monsters is unknown.

6. Red beads come out of the bodies of dead monsters.’

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Lucas stopped what he was doing and read the characteristics of the monster that Aaron had written down. Aaron and Lucas had already talked about it a few times before so they knew everything about it.

It was a strange thing.

The reason monsters used to come down to the village was to find something to eat.

Unfortunately and shockingly, the monsters’ prey also included humans. As a result, human casualties were frequent, and food was extorted or crops were dug up.

However, these monsters did not do anything.

The monsters appeared and made a fuss, then disappeared quickly. Thanks to this, there were quite a few damages such as stores collapsing or things being broken, but there were almost no human casualties or damages to food, which was a problem in the past.

A better explanation for this anomaly was the eyewitness account at the early stage of the monster’s reappearance.

In the early days, monsters mostly appeared in the outskirts, so only a few people saw them. In the past, in this case, people would probably have been found dead.

However, even with such a small number of encounters, the monsters only showed a threat to humans, and eventually disappeared without harming them.