Charlotte stopped thinking and pulled the arm of Baroness Lirald.
Though she followed Charlotte without resistance, her vivid and eerie smile had faded into an ambiguous expression.
‘Good. It seems it hasn’t fully grown yet.’
Charlotte thought. Suddenly, a sense of relief washed over her.
It had been growing rapidly, sucking something—she didn’t know what—from the gathered people, but she had managed to separate it at the right moment.
“I haven’t finished my story yet. I haven’t yet…”
The body of the Baroness being dragged along started to become heavier. The demon parasitizing her body was struggling.
As the Baroness began to resist like a stubborn child, Charlotte was on the verge of being pulled back instead.
When she pulled harder, the Baroness’s feet, which seemed firmly stuck to the floor, wrinkled the long carpet.
“I said I haven’t finished my story yet! I’m going back! I’m going back! I’m going back!”
“Oh, crazy.”
As she saw the Baroness’s face slowly changing as she started screaming, Charlotte’s neck prickled and the hair all over her body stood on end.
If left like this, someone would come running, and then this demon would surely slip out of Charlotte’s grasp while pretending to be the Baroness…
“I’m going back!”
“Don’t be ridiculous.”
Charlotte, growling low as if in warning, rammed her shoulder into the Baroness’s body.
Stumbling from the sudden attack, Charlotte pinned down the fallen Baroness, pressing her shoulders to prevent her from struggling.
“Let go! Let go! Cowardly Lottie, liar Lottie! I hate you! Hate you!”
“Who likes you?”
Charlotte, gritting her teeth, pulled out a small tincture bottle from her leather pouch.
Seeing it, Baroness Lirald, or rather the demon that had eaten into her, began to struggle more violently.
However, Charlotte paid no attention and removed the cork stopper with her mouth, then roughly grabbed the Baroness’s cheek with one hand.
“Open your mouth obediently. If not, I’ll make you look even more terrible.”
“Ugh, uh…! Su…!”
Between the protruding lips, the tincture from the bottle began to flow like a waterfall into the hole that gaped like a cave. Unlike ordinary tinctures, it was completely transparent like water, but it had a bitter smell along with a unique fragrance.
‘The parasitic demon won’t be able to stand it and will pop out.’
This was a demon-treatment tincture that only Charlotte could make.
It doesn’t harm the human host, but it causes intense pain to the demon that has eaten into the human.
Charlotte poured every last drop into the Baroness’s mouth without leaving any, then tightly covered her mouth.
“Ugh…!”
The Baroness’s eyes bulged as if about to pop out, and something began to writhe and throb from her tightly constricted abdomen.
Her chest swelled and her ribcage expanded greatly as if someone had forcibly injected air into her body.
When Charlotte removed her hand blocking the mouth, the Baroness vomited a whitish, sticky substance with an unpleasant sound.
Among the mucus that looked like the trail of a giant slug, there was something black and shiny that looked like a bug.
It was struggling as if hit by insecticide, curling up its six or eight legs.
Charlotte opened the flat case she always carried and trapped the bug, then looked down at the panting Baroness with indifferent eyes.
“Oh my, Madam!”
Good, Charlotte thought. She appeared at the right time.
She put the case into her pocket faster than the eye could see, then covered her mouth as if about to sob while looking at the unconscious Baroness and the maid running towards them.
“Please help! The Baroness suddenly collapsed. She was fine until just a moment ago…”
“Madam, Madam! Oh my! Madam, please come to your senses!”
“I’ll go call for people. Please move the Baroness to a nearby room. Hurry.”
“Yes, miss!”
The maid struggled to carry the collapsed Baroness on her back and scurried away.
Charlotte heard the sound of other servants running, the sound of doors opening and closing… She watched as the mucus left on the floor dried up white, turned into very fine powder, and slowly disappeared.
Then she slipped out of the corridor as if nothing had happened.
She had no intention of gathering people as she had told the maid who appeared at the right time.
Other servants would have already taken measures anyway, and above all, the maid would have almost forgotten Charlotte’s face the moment she turned away.
‘Good, now I’ll go to Taemi…’
Charlotte’s steps, as she was about to cross the bustling hall and slip out, came to an abrupt halt. Someone’s hand had grabbed her arm.
“What…!”
Charlotte’s brow furrowed slightly as she turned her head sharply with a frown. The person who had grabbed her was, of course, Matiel.
“Where are you going? As far as I know, our agreement isn’t over yet.”
Oops, I forgot about this man. Charlotte grumbled inwardly and looked at Matiel as if something was strange. His focus didn’t blur, nor did he make an awkward or bewildered expression while looking at Charlotte.
This time, she had to admit it. Her magic didn’t work on this man. It was certain.
‘Why? This man, I can’t even feel a barrier or anything. Is he carrying something? Or…’
Matiel, who had been watching Charlotte lost in deep thought, said,
“If you’re thinking about how to slip away, I should tell you in advance that it’s useless. A promise is a promise.”
A promise, huh. Charlotte let out a short sigh and rolled her eyes. He was right.
A promise was a promise.
Keeping promises was important to everyone, but it was an even more crucial matter for magicians like Charlotte.
Although she had also promised Taemi to go rescue that merchant’s or nouveau riche’s daughter, if she had to choose between the two, Charlotte’s priority was to keep her promise with Matiel.
Her relationship with Taemi couldn’t be categorized within the range of ordinary relationships—like family, friends, or lovers.
‘Besides…’
Charlotte couldn’t deny that he had played a big part in her being able to pull out the Baroness at the right time.
While it would have suited her temperament better to brazenly brush him off and turn away, unless she could discreetly escape his sight, she had no choice but to help him in this situation.
Charlotte said,
“I won’t run away, so let go of my arm. Unless you’re a scoundrel who grabs any woman.”
Matiel raised one eyebrow and obediently let go. As Charlotte fully turned towards him, Matiel asked,
“So… what about the Baroness?”
Charlotte replied,
“She vomited out the demon and collapsed.”
“Surely nothing bad happened to her?”
“I’m not some sloppy novice. Nor am I a fool. She’ll be fine. She’ll wake up feeling very refreshed tomorrow morning.”
While she spoke with a snort, Matiel kept his gaze fixed on Charlotte’s face.
Something seemed to be catching his attention… but he couldn’t tell what it was.
Matiel said,
“Good, that’s great. Now let’s go catch the thief.”
“Do you have any plan? A plan to lure out the Baron, I mean.”
“That fellow is right over there. Can you see?”
Charlotte glanced at where he was pointing with his thumb. She could see Baron Lirald, who was constantly rubbing his small head and looking around.
Whether he knew or not that his wife had suddenly collapsed in the corridor, his face was flushed as he continued to drink.
Charlotte looked back at Matiel.
“He looks quite drunk.”
“Right. He must have been nervous and out of his mind. If you cooperate, it won’t be difficult to draw him out.”
“In what way do you want me to cooperate?”
At that moment, Matiel’s fingertip pointed to the center of Charlotte’s forehead.
Charlotte looked up at him with a displeased expression and pushed away his finger with a gesture that lacked force.
“How rude. Why are you suddenly pointing your finger?”
“Pushing away my hand might be the ruder action. You seem to have forgotten, but I’m a duke.”
“I don’t care if you’re a duke or a prince. I hate it most when someone points carelessly. If you do it again, I’ll make sure you never point your finger recklessly again.”
A smile resembling a sneer flashed across Matiel’s lips.
“Really? What do you plan to do? Break my fingers? I’m not sure if you can even apply proper force with those tiny hands of yours.”
“You seem to have forgotten too, but I’m a magician. Do you think a magician who can make even demons that eat into human bodies vomit out can’t break a single finger? I can make each joint bend in a different direction, so if you want to see it with your own eyes, try it one more time.”
What an interesting woman. Matiel thought.
Usually, he would have been angry at Charlotte’s reckless attitude… but strangely, he wasn’t now.
Maybe because he was the one at a disadvantage now.
“It would be quite inconvenient to wear gloves, so I promise not to point my finger. Now, anyway, it’s your turn to step up. You remember what I said, right? I said it would be meaningless unless we bring Baron Lirald himself to that scene.”
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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