How To Survive As a Villain on the Verge of Death

Fortunately, the snow stopped around dawn. As soon as Lana stopped her eyes, she ran to the warehouse she was using as a rendezvous. The middle-aged lady-in-waiting, who gave her medicine, came first and was waiting for her.

“I guess I put it in little by little so it wouldn’t be noticeable?”

“I did as I was told. But what is it?”

Lana asked in a nervous voice. Unbeknownst to her, her voice was rising.

“As soon as the princess ate it, she suddenly made a fuss about her head hurting, so I was scared and thought she was going to die.”

“It’s a concentrated medicine from the leaves of the coran.”

“Couldn’t the princess die like this? They said that the princess is not even calling a doctor because she fears that her wedding will be disrupted.”

The other party heard that and laughed.

“Don’t die. She will have severe headaches for several days, but rest assured that her life will not be affected.”

She was glad she didn’t die.

“I’ll give you the money in advance, so leave after the wedding as promised.”

Lana accepted the heavy money bag. It seemed to her that the amount was more than promised. With a large sum of money in hand, her anxiety eased a little. She was just about to close the pockets in her arms. Loud footsteps rushed into the warehouse with the sound of her opening the door.

In an instant, Imperial Knights soldiers surrounded the two.

A young silver-haired knight came in next and gave orders to the soldiers.

“Arrest both.”

“Hey, what is this?”

The silver-haired knight glanced back at Lana with a cold face. She felt the shock of Lana realizing who he was and getting her head beaten. He was Sir Mikhail Sheldon, vice-captain of the Imperial Knights. Why was this man here?

Mikhail commanded the soldiers in a firm voice.

“They are criminals who tried to harm the princess. Take care not to do anything stupid.”

“What, what?”

Before she could know what was happening, the soldiers rushed in and captured all of the handmaidens including Lana.

“Ah!”

Lana was tied to a rope and dragged outside.

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“It worked out just as I thought.”

She drank hot tea to her satisfaction as she listened to Mikhail’s report. Mikhail nodded his head with a serious expression.

“Everything was handled as the princess said.”

All she did was Lana figure out when she put her poison in and she lay there pretending to be sick. The reason was simple. Because she had to make the scene she saw in the vision come out. She knew where to meet, but not exactly when to meet. However, there was one hint in the foreknowledge. 

Snow piled up on the window sill. And there was no snow outside the window. So at least it meant after the snow had stopped and before the accumulated snow melted. As expected, Lana brought the drugged tea as it snowed heavily. So she drank it and pretended to be sick. Only then would she go to see the person Lana gave her vial to, and she would be able to raid the field on the spot. 

She gave Nell an order that as soon as Lana slipped out of the princess’s palace, she gave Mikhail the contact. Lana’s role as her new handmaid, Chloe, was to monitor her movements.

Mikhail led a few soldiers to the warehouse she pointed out and listened to all the conversations between Lana and the unknown woman. All the soldiers listened together, so there must be enough witnesses. After that, both were said to have been arrested. Shortly after hearing the news, Nell and Chloe, along with the other maids, searched Lana’s room and found her medicine bottle. A small vial was hidden deep in a crack in the wall behind the bed.

“Did you find out the woman’s identity?”

The woman who came out of her vision, gave Lana a bottle of medicine and handed over the money. Who was she? It was the first time she saw that person.

“You don’t even have to find out,” she says.

Mikhail looked at her with a complicated gaze and answered.

“Who is she?”

“…She was Her Majesty’s close aide.”

That said, she was also a little surprised. She expected her to be the Empress, but did she send her maid herself? Should she say this was stupid? She didn’t know if she should call it bold. It wasn’t something she couldn’t understand.

Eve had been such a fool up until now, she must have been very wary of the Empress even when she did things like this to Eve.

“Okay. Did you catch both of them?”

Mikhail looked at her quietly and answered.

“Yes, as you said, I locked it in the basement of the princess’s palace.”

As usual, they would have to be taken to the headquarters of the Imperial Knights and interrogated. But she told them to lock them up in the princess’s palace for now. She didn’t really believe in a place called the Knights Headquarters. Mikhail was only the vice-captain of the Imperial Knights.

Sir Guyen, the leader of the knights, was the emperor’s closest aide and right-hand man. It’s okay since Mikhail secretly took care of the matter this time alone, but he didn’t know what the knight commander would do if he sent him there.

“For now, keep both of you safe.”

As he said that, she felt a warm gaze on her face. Mikhail was looking at her with strange eyes.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Did you know that the culprit was Her Majesty’s maid?”

“No, I had no idea.”

“Why did Her Majesty the Empress…”

“There is no need to go too deep. If anyone asks, just say you did what I told you to do.”

She took out Sorel’s necklace that she had been keeping in the drawer and handed it to Mikhail.

Mikhail looked at the necklace for a while and said.

“If anything like this happens in the future, please let me know. You don’t have to pay anything.”

At first glance, the voice was calm, but somehow it contained complex emotions. Could it be that he sympathized with her? Well, Mikhail was the type who was sympathetic to the weak. That’s why he became close to Sorel in the first place.

Sorel, who had just entered the imperial palace, was a weakling who could not receive help from anyone. She seemed to feel similarly compassionate and protective instincts.

‘I thought she was a wicked woman, but now I see that she is a pitiful princess who is abused by her stepmother.’

No matter what Mikhail thought, if he was kind to her and helped her, then he didn’t do anything bad for her.

“Thank you. I’ll remember that.”

Mikhail calmly bent over him and went outside. After Mikhail left, she put down the teacup and beckoned to Nell.

“I must go to His Highness the Crown Prince.”

She immediately sent her maid to make an appointment with him and left her palace to see the prince. The destination was the prince’s office. It was still before evening, but darkness was already falling over the snow-covered garden. Perhaps because it was late, the prince’s office was very quiet. In front of the entrance stood two ladies-in-waiting who looked like the Empress’ ladies-in-waiting.

“Greeting Her Highness, the Princess.”

“Is the Empress also inside?”

She also told the Empress and asked her to come here. Normally, the Empress would have asked what was the matter first without listening to her, but now the situation was different. She should have known by now that his maid was gone. She belatedly found out the maid’s name and reported it to the Empress. Although she added a little lie to create some confusion. She said that the prince wanted to see her about something related to that lady-in-waiting. As soon as the Empress heard that, she must have rushed here without even having time to ask. 

As soon as the door was opened, the voices of the empress and the prince were heard.

“How dare you take my handmaid without my permission…!”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, Her Majesty the Empress.”

The conversation between the two stopped when she entered. Everyone’s eyes were focused on her.

“You came first, mother.”

The Empress’ beautiful face distorted in an ugly way at the sound of ‘mother’ she heard again. Arentine, on the other hand, let out a sigh as soon as he saw her.

“Did you ask Her Majesty to meet you here?”

“Yes, I did. I have something to tell you two.”

She slowly entered the room and took a seat between them.

“Actually, it’s not different that I asked to see you two…”

She put the two of them in front of her and started talking.

“Because yesterday my lady-in-waiting caught her trying to put medicine in my food.”

“You said she was trying to put drugs?”

Arentine seemed shocked by her words. The Empress had a similarly shocked expression. The beautiful face of the Empress turned pale as a sheet of paper.

“Yeah, as for how that happened…”

She explained the circumstances in detail to both of them. Of course, she couldn’t say that she saw it with her visions, so she mixed a lie in moderation. The suspicion started because of the suspicious behavior of one of her maids, Lana. She said it was because she had accidentally discovered that Lana was hiding a suspicious bottle of pills in her room. The lady-in-waiting immediately informed her of the incident, and she then confirmed her suspicions were true, as she found a suspicious drug in her car that Lana had brought with a crystal she had received as a gift. did.

“I knew what the new lady-in-waiting was using. It is like an herb.”

From that day on, she pretended to be sick and had Lana watch over. Lana watched the princess’s palace with an impatient expression, but she sneaked out of the palace. She saw that and called the Imperial Knights soldiers to come after Lana.

Lana met the stranger maid in the shed and after a conversation about her medicine she got the money, circumstantial that he gave her money and told her Lana to take her medicine. It was clear.

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