The Villainess Whom I Had Served for 13 Years Has Fallen - Chapter 388
388 – The Times Consumed by Revenge -9-
– The perspective is adjusted…
A small voice that could not be heard brushed past my ears as my vision darkened.
-…You are a selfish woman.
– Ugly… selfish…
– A foolish person.
I couldn’t hear it.
Because it was a voice that was heard for a short moment, it couldn’t be captured in my ears. Only one word, which I could hear clearly, was.
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‘Selfish person…’
It was the word ‘selfish.’
‘Selfishness’
Sharutia, who couldn’t understand why the Blue Window used the word selfishness, frowned and fell into thought.
She didn’t think of herself as someone who sacrificed for others, but she believed she knew at least the minimum consideration.
‘Selfish…?’
As Sharutia tried to focus on the word ‘selfish,’ the Blue Window began to speak in a cold voice, telling her to stop her thoughts.
-Reading will begin in 10 minutes.
‘Sigh…’
With the words of the Blue Window, Sharutia squinted her eyes and looked around at the brightened view.
‘Why here…’
She didn’t expect the reading to proceed in this way.
She thought the ‘side story’ mentioned by the Blue Window would be shown as a ‘dream’ or ‘letters,’ but contrary to her expectations, the vivid scene left Sharutia momentarily speechless.
In the hallucination where she could feel everything – smell, sound, touch – it felt as if she was truly standing there.
As she sighed at the Blue Window’s ability to convey a vividness that couldn’t be achieved even with magic, Sharutia regained her composure and looked around.
It wasn’t an unfamiliar space.
Filled with desks.
This place with a blackboard was where she had spent more than three years together. She wasn’t greatly surprised.
The place where Sharutia opened her eyes was her own classroom.
It was utterly quiet.
She couldn’t hear the chattering of students walking down the hallway or the sound of a professor lecturing in the adjacent classroom.
Only the sound of her own footsteps echoed as she walked aimlessly down the hallway. No other sounds could be heard.
If there were a few strange points.
‘…It won’t open.’
The classroom door wouldn’t open.
‘I can’t see outside.’
-You can see the reason for the reading starting.
The view outside was blocked by an opaque barrier, making it impossible to see outside.
‘Sigh…’
Wondering what great thing they were trying to show her, Sharutia sighed and decided to slowly walk around the empty classroom where she was unintentionally trapped for 10 minutes.
If it was to show the future, then even in the changed classroom, valuable information could be taken away.
‘…Hmm.’
The potted plants in the classroom were the same.
The academy motto, “An Academy Equal for All,” was still well-hung.
‘…Nothing has changed.’
The classroom in the reading room looked no different from usual. Strangely enough…
‘Why the classroom…?’
It bothered her that she was being shown the inside of a classroom when she spent more time holed up in her office. If they wanted to show an impressive scene, the office would have had a greater impact.
‘Stop thinking…’
Shaltier decided to stop her complicated thoughts and looked at the clock pointing to 11:08.
Anyway, in two minutes, she would know everything.
What the blue window wanted to do, what it wanted to show, she would know if she waited a little longer. Shaltier sat by the window and waited for the time.
-Tick.
‘…’
-Tick…
‘Hoo…’
-One minute until the reading begins.
At the eerie voice of the blue window, Shaltier gulped and prepared herself.
She thought it was about to start.
She didn’t know what would be shown.
‘I’ll make the most of it.’
Shaltier was determined to absorb all the information the blue window would spit out. Even if it was her own tragedy. She would get it all.
-The reading begins.
With the starting announcement, she began to hear someone’s lifeless footsteps in her ears.
-Thud… Thud…
And then.
[The protagonist of the reading is coming.]
With the voice of the blue window, the door began to open.
-Bang!
Shaltier’s eyes widened as she saw the woman who opened the door. Because standing in front of her was someone who looked exactly like herself.
With clenched fists and holding back tears, the figure in the reflection roughly opened the classroom door and bowed their head.
‘Is that… me?’
Shalltear stood blankly, staring at the reflection of herself. It wasn’t a pleasant feeling to see herself looking so dejected.
‘It’s me…’
Even seeing herself in a normal state wouldn’t feel good, but to see herself on the verge of tears…
‘…’
It didn’t feel good at all.
The reflection, seemingly unaware of her presence, trudged towards the desk without any interest.
A voice was heard.
My voice, tinged with sadness.
“Why… why go this far?”
The voice in the reflection, filled with resentment, seemed to be holding back tears that could burst out at any moment.
“Why go this far…?”
It looked sad.
No.
The word ‘pathetic’ seemed more fitting. Like a hero returning from the battlefield only to be treated coldly by the king, the reflection seemed to be steeped in deep sorrow.
“I never said I wanted to be king…”
‘…’
“I never tried to kill other family members like my second brother!!!”
‘…ha.’
“I just wanted to live happily with mom, I just tried hard because I didn’t want to be treated coldly… Why…! Why…! Why are you doing this!!!”
Shalltear clicked her tongue, staring at the reflection with a hardened expression. She wondered if she would make such a face if she were to break down.
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She didn’t feel pity.
From the moment she decided to seize power, the future before her was more or less foretold.
But.
“Why take everything away? My mom… my life… why…”
It wasn’t pleasant to see herself broken by the grief of losing her mother.
The blue window had said.
The reflection bore the scars of losing her mother.
If.
If my mother had really left. I couldn’t imagine what kind of expression I would have now. I thought I might be making the same expression as the woman in front of me.
After a while of looking at myself with a lonely heart.
-Wowwwww!!!
Cheers were heard from outside the window.
Shartia frowned and looked out the window. No matter what, shouting so loudly at the academy was inappropriate.
But she was trying to ignore the outside while looking at herself in the reading room.
When Shartia looked out the window, she made a despondent expression at the sight in front of her.
[Congratulations on your seniors’ graduation.]
‘Huh…?’
Her heart sank at the sight of herself alone. It was clearly something that hadn’t happened, but my appearance alone looked so lonely.
With trembling eyes, Shartia looked out the window and heard the voice of the Blue Window.
-You, who had lost everything, were facing the academy’s ‘graduation ceremony’. Along with your peers.
-Your peers were enjoying this moment. Because the end of a long journey had come.
-But you, who couldn’t make friends, couldn’t find anyone to share this moment with, and there was no one to give you a bouquet.
-You were a coward.
-Because you were afraid of standing alone at a graduation ceremony with no one to be with.
-You thought it was better to be alone than to be in a place where you were not welcomed. You were holding onto sadness, thinking why only these things happen to you.
-The world was truly harsh.
“We will now have the final speech from the student council president.”
“It’s over!!”
“Student council president Leogard Theo, please come up to the podium.”
At the moment when the voice of the host calling an unexpected name rang out from outside the window, Shartia clenched her fist. And at the same time, the self in the reading room also bit her lips tightly and exhaled rough breaths.
‘Who… did you say?’
The Blue Window began to speak as if to solve Shartia’s question.
-From the moment Leogard Theo began to check you, many rumors started to spread.
-Rumors began to spread that the bad things that happened at the academy were due to your incompetence, and that you might be a collaborator of the heretics.
‘Don’t talk nonsense. Why would Theo become the student council president…’
-Naturally, you were removed from the position of student council president.
-Bang!
“Why is this happening only to me!”
You were finishing your academy memories alone in sorrow. In an empty classroom filled with sadness… you were chewing on solitude. There was no one to recognize you, who had done nothing but work hard.
‘…Ha.’
Shaltia, who was watching the reading, let out a hollow laugh and clicked her tongue. She thought it was possible if it was the crown prince.
Teo was a person skilled in eloquence. His bold personality would have greatly helped him in making allies.
‘…’
But.
‘It’s nothing special… Did you make me go through all that trouble just to show me this?’
What the blue window had prepared was much weaker than she had thought, so she was at ease.
Compared to the emotions she had felt so far, what was actually being shown was her ruined self, which was not funny.
It was a scene she had thought about alone several times. The situation when she started to clash with Teo in earnest and was defeated.
“…”
Of course, she felt bad. But they were things she could fully accept.
Shaltia silently watched herself and thought. Maybe this incident would stimulate her to work harder, she thought with a sense of alertness.
But.
Her firm heart did not last long. Because she was also a person who could feel pain.
-Creak.
The door opens.
Students who had finished the graduation ceremony were coming in to say goodbye.
The students had graduation caps on their heads and their faces were full of smiles.
Some were wiping away tears of emotion, and some students were touching the desks in the classroom with mixed feelings.
And then.
“It’s finally over!!!”
“Shall we go out for a drink?!”
“If anyone misses out, they’re dead!”
“Can I join? Even though I’m a commoner?”
“Ha ha ha!! Of course! Aren’t you a friend?”
Everyone was treating the self in the reading as a ghost.
(…I want to.)
A strange sound is heard.
(…I want to run away.)
The voice within the reading.
No.
The voice of a servile heart began to be heard.