With a face that would say it’s a drug that melts bones and muscles…
Love potion?
Alas, I understood immediately. It must be something to make people drunk, like alcohol or hallucinogens.
“Um, I see.” I nodded as if I knew it.
“If someone drinks it, they must be mistaken for falling in love.”
There were people in every life who fell in love with that stupid feeling and said they would dedicate all their family’s wealth to you.
“Then you will be able to manipulate someone who drank it.”
The appearance of Vallentin with pink liquid was sufficient. He could even make someone be like that without having to use that, right?
“Manipulate…?” Then Vallentin muttered. “Why should I do that?”
Pardon?
“Love is truthful.”
Whoosh— There seemed to be a cold wind between him and me.
“You want to treat them better, forgive them, and take care of them.”
“…”
“That’s what I call love.”
I couldn’t say anything. It wasn’t because his definition of love was so touching.
How can he be soulless? He was talking about love but never felt love, just like someone who only learned from books.
Vallentin Decilio The illegitimate son of Decilio. A slave who was deprived of his identity, trying to poison his siblings. A monster who would cut his father’s throat and ascend to the throne in the future. However… his destiny was far from the romantic word of ‘love.’
“So, are you really making it for true love? What are you going to use that for?”
Where does he want to use that?
“I want to be loved.”
…Want to be loved?
There was a gap between the words that were heard in my ear and the Vallentin in front of my eyes. He said it with a dry tone and cold eyes. I thought it would be much better if he said, ‘I’m going to kill everyone.’
“From who?”
“…That’s.”
Vallentin lifted the bottle and shook it slowly. “From Princess.”
In the meantime, our eyes met.
“If I’m loved by Princess.”
In the pink liquid, his eyes turned mysteriously.
“I don’t have to be stuck in that filthy cage, right?”
So Vallentin was referring to me now.
“I can train outside; I won’t be harassed…”
He’s trying to use a ‘love potion’ on me.
“Like my brothers and sisters who were loved by my father.”
Father. The tip of my tongue shook by itself. If it’s his father, he must be talking about King Decilio, the king who would be cut on his neck by him later.
<…Father, you know why I have to kill you, right?>
At the same time, a useless ability to see the original work was triggered.
<Because I love you so much. If you love someone, you want to be remembered by them. This is the love you were talking about.>
“I wanted to use it on Princess.”
The back of my neck became stiff.
As expected… The love Vallentin thought was very different from love we used to say.
How would you react when you hear a guy killed his father because he loved him?
This is a crazy novel.
Vallentin, who was looking at the liquid in the glass bottle, smiled brightly. “You have to love me so that you will keep your word back then.”
Back then?
“You’d better think about who will let you go back to your kingdom.”
Ah… I remembered it.
“That’s why it should work like that, right?”
“Well, I’m not sure. Not yet.”
Vallentin looked at me. “Do you want to try it now?” Unlike his rosy words about wanting to be loved, he looked so cold.
“I watched you earlier, and it looked like it lacked ingredients.”
It would need a few more things, so I approached him.
“It can give you a stronger effect. Instead, I’m not sure how this lovely pink potion will transform in my hands.”
“You can mess up as much as you want.” He tilted his head with his arms crossed as if he had become interested.
“If you want to make it more powerful.” I looked at the cabinet where flowers and herbs were arranged. “You need a flower that means love.”
Fortunately, this side was familiar.
Isolde that allowed one to defy death.
Nemorino that concealed love.
Nessus that could reverse a fickle affection.
There was a king who chewed these roots and fell in love with his enemy. There was also a wife who had these petals under her husband’s pillow to monopolize his love.
I cut all the ingredients into the potion that Vallentin had made. Tuk, tuk, tuk. Adding that defy death, adding concealed love, and adding reverse a fickle affection. The pink liquid foamed several times and swirled.
“…Wow.”
Vallentin’s gaze became strange. It was because the pink potion quickly turned black like muddy water.
The result of love, powerful love, even more powerful love… It wasn’t a shinier pink color, but black, like muddy water. As if the result of love without contentment resembled a tainted obsession.
“What should I do about this?”
I already knew what would happen if I mixed these flowers.
The king who loved his enemy, in the end, committed suicide. And the wife, who tried to monopolize her husband’s love, poisoned her husband.
I patted on the glass bottle that had become muddy. “Sorry, I messed it up in the end.”
“…Um.”
I’m sure he got it. What is the difference between obsession in the name of love and love.
“I like this better.” But Vallentin smiled. “To the extent I want to drink it.”
Oh dear. I was going to teach him the true meaning of love. But I realized once again that he wouldn’t be able to think normally.
“Here. I came to give this.” I had no will to explain further.
Eat this. I handed over the chocolate I brought.
“What…”
“Is this your first time seeing it? It’s a famous chocolate in the Decilio royal family.”
It would be hard to buy him with a candy, so I chose chocolate. I bought it on purpose because it’s chocolate enjoyed by the Decilio royal family.
“I don’t know because I’ve never eaten it.”
“Didn’t you eat it when you were a prince?”
I asked and paused. They didn’t even teach him how to use a sword, but did they discriminate against his food too?
“I’ve seen it. It was always in my brother’s room.” Vallentin replied calmly. “But if I desire what my brother has, I’ll be locked in the cold palace…”
All I could do was sigh.
“And yet, do you want to go back?”
“Yes.” He answered, tucking the chocolate into his mouth.
What’s good about those who locked you in a cold palace just because you’re greedy for chocolate?
“It’s bitter. But it looked delicious.” Vallentin slowly gave a comment. “But it’s not that good when I actually eat it.”
Then he crumpled the wrapping paper and looked at me. “Enough of this… please let me know the answer.”
I’ve saved it at best. His personality is really different compared to Redian, who quietly received the candy.
“What answer?”
“How will Princess send me back to the kingdom?”
The change in his eyes made it feel like he was a different person now.
“I can’t go out of the underground castle by myself. In recent years, all the security has been loosened…”
He looked all over the room. Only me and Vallentin were in this medicine room.
“It will be easier now.”
In other words, he could kill me and escape if I don’t give a satisfactory answer.
“Even if you escape from this underground castle, how will you cross the border?” I looked at him with my arms folded. “you would have been deprived of your status in that kingdom and became a slave anyway.”
“…”
“I guess you’re asking me what kind of help I can give you.”
I realized every moment like this.
“I can bestow a new title and name upon the one who becomes my personal knight.”
I must buy the emperor’s trust. And I need to get closer to the duke. After all, power is the best!
“If I tell my father to promote you to the official knights in Felicite Duchy, I can change your status.”
So he can enter the kingdom with a new name and status. Since it was a new status from the Meteora Empire, even the royal family of Decilio had no authority to deny it.
“This is my answer.”
“…Um.”
My eyes collided tightly with him in the air.
“What can I do for you?”
Now we could have a conversation.
“I heard you’re good at dealing with magic solutions. Can you create a detoxification solution for mana stone?”
“I may not have received formal training…”
Vallentin’s lips curled into a faint smile.
“But I’ve created a poison that kills, so why can’t I make ones that save lives?”
That was the perfect answer. Again, it was a perfect deal.
“What is true love?”
As expected, love or whatever, all that was just an attempt to know me.
“Ah, and one more thing.” Vallentin opened his mouth.
What’s more in there? I would be satisfied with a deal like this. He looked quite clever, so I guess he’d ask for evidence or a contract.
“Redian, more than that brat.”
He emphasized with a look that said, ‘If you break your promise, you’ll have to give up your head.’
“Please adore me more.”
…Huh?
Yandere #2 enters the stage.
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