So what is revenge?
I will dedicate my life to getting revenge. I don’t care if I have to ruin my life for it!
It was something from an adventure novel Sephiel liked.
Again, ever since learning to read, Sephiel had devoured books endlessly.
“Yeah, there’s no such thing.”
Of course, it wouldn’t be enough to hit every one of those damn family members on the head!
‘Living well is the best revenge, isn’t it?’
If one wasted their life fueled by hatred and revenge, wouldn’t that just be a second form of suffering?
‘Cut them off, just cut them off!’
That kind of revenge wasn’t Sephiel’s goal.
‘I’ll grow up, and I’ll live so happily that it’ll make them jealous.’
Sephiel in her previous life was timid and fearful, but she wasn’t stupid.
‘I’ll find my way out first, then, I can think about revenge.’
Sephiel gritted her teeth and then became serious.
‘Okay. I have to escape first.’
Sephiel thought, biting her small lips.
‘The Kingdoms’ Alliance of the Four Monarchs. Most of its territory is under our family’s influence.’
The Four Monarchs. The Grand Duke of Remdragon, the King of the Magic Kingdom, the Grand Duke of Fuller, who was from Margraves, and lastly, the Grand Duke Sarihan who ruled over the Free-City which held most of the market.
The Union of the Four Monarchs was ruled by the four heads of the monarch families.
Two Duchies, a city-state, and one Kingdom.
So, almost all of the Kingdom Union is under Allegro’s influence.
Escaping without a plan, she will be caught right away.
‘I need someone more powerful than my father, stronger than the king.’
Sephiel remembered what Heron had said.
There was something about…
‘A grand Banquet is held to select a political marriage partner for the young master of the Duke Remdragon.’
The Grand Duke of Remdragon.
Daihan de Remdragon, the Grand Duke, and also King of the Duchy, which was a small country ruled by people who had blood mixed with dragons.
‘The Remdragon Duchy once shook the entire continent with their terrifying massacres three hundred years ago.’
It was creepy to think about that.
‘And they are very violent and scary people, right?’
However, it is a family that meets the conditions that Sephiel wants.
‘And within the Kingdom Alliance, it is a family that is on bad terms with Allegro.’
That was right. And…
‘If I remember correctly, the banquet to select the Remdragon young master’s fiance happens around this time!’
It matched what Heron said.
The conditions for attending the bride’s selection banquet was for one to be a young girl, who had the blood of the Three Monarchs, even if it was just a little bit, excluding those who had Remdragon blood.
‘In my past life, the one chosen for political marriage was someone completely unexpected.’
The fiancée of the young master was a girl named Mitara.
A distant relative of Sephiel.
‘I heard that everyone was surprised when Mitara was chosen because the relationship between the Grand Duke Remdragon and the Royal Family of Allegro was known to be very bad!’
Then, years later, Mitara suddenly returned to the Allegro Kingdom.
‘Right, Mitara…. She got divorced then and came back right before I was dragged into the research lab.
The people had been curious about her return.
<You got married when you were young and I haven’t heard from you since then. Why did you come back?>
<I was used!>
Mitara said, crying loudly.
<They didn’t care who the bride was. As long as she had the blood of the Three Lords, that’s all that mattered!>
And the truth was exactly that.
Grand Duke Remdragon.
A lineage mixed with the blood of gods. Three hundred years ago, they had fought alongside humans to eradicate their mortal enemies—the demons.
But because they were too powerful, they had to form peace treaties with the existing human rulers to settle in the human realm.
So, Remdragon made several promises to humans.
The most famous of these promises is…
‘Will free the Kingdom territory from the demons.’
There were also promises like <We will not invade other nations without reason>
But one promise had never been fulfilled.
The Marriage Pact.
<The Grand Duke or direct heir of the Remdragon family must enter a political marriage with a daughter of the Three monarchs bloodline>
That promise kept getting postponed.
‘Because there were so few of them. And they live far longer than humans, right?’
Indeed, after all that time, only two direct descendants of mixed dragon blood had been born in Remdragon.
Then, finally, five years ago, a young master was born to the Remdragon family.
With that, they decided to fulfill their last promise.
‘If they don’t, they’ll be stuck in the human realm forever.’
So they would complete their last promise and then…
Goodbye! We’re off to the land of eternal happiness. Have fun in the human world!
They would joyfully ascend to the divine realm.
Since dragons were half-divine beings, they could live in the divine realm.
‘But what had Mitara looked like when she returned, abandoned by the dragons?’
In a word…
<They dumped me in an isolated mansion. No one ever came to see me!>
Mitara’s face had been glowing with health, her body plump from luxury.
<For over ten years, I was completely alone! I ate only the finest food and had a hundred dresses, but… they left me in the forest to play by myself!>
<And I never even met my husband! Forget the first night, I never saw his face!>
People were astonished.
No tea parties? No grand banquet?
<That’s abuse!>
<Poor thing, she must have been so lonely. Those dragon hybrids are so cruel.>
Sephiel was allowed to attend a banquet or tea party once or twice a year.
The prophecy of the Allegro royal family and the existence of Sephiel are top secrets known only to the direct royal family, some members of the council of elders, and a very select few.
So at public events, Sephiel had to act like an orphan the king had taken in for charity.
Orphan girls usually worked as maids.
That day happened to be the New Year’s Banquet, and there she was serving the family as a maid.
‘What kind of abuse is that?’
At that time, Sephiel thought.
That was nothing short of…
‘Isn’t that a honey job, a honey workplace, a honey pot hidden by God…?’
Sephiel thought that she could live that life ten times over.
But Mitara didn’t think so.
<I’m going to sue them. I’ll never forgive them. They ruined my life!>
Mitara took her family to the Grand Duke’s house to protest several times.
As a result of the loud protests, violence broke out among the knights of the family.
‘And in the end, Mitara’s family… yeah, they were completely destroyed.’
After causing trouble over and over again, their lands were utterly crushed by the dragons themselves.
If you interfere with the dragons leaving for the world of happiness, the future will be very dire.
‘If she had just agreed to divorce, nothing would have happened.’
Besides, it was over ten years later that Mitara got divorced.
By then, she would have been fully grown and free to go anywhere.
<Do you think I’ll let them off after receiving such a huge sum of alimony? I’ll take all the remaining assets of the Grand Duke’s family.>
That’s right. Mitara muttered several times as she left the palace.
‘Maybe… I should get alimony too?’
Sephiel had only read about that term in books.
Lacking real-world experience, she wasn’t sure what it meant.
What is alimony…..
‘Oh, divorce compensation!’
‘Oh, I see.’
‘I guess I can just lend them my name and then receive my retirement pay.’
There has never been a better place in the world.
Sephiel’s heart thumped in excitement.
‘How much will the compensation be?’
Having kept a secret ledger for a long time, she knows the value of money and goods.
But, since ‘alimony’ was an item that had never been recorded in the ledger, it was hard to imagine.
If the alimony is a large sum, it may be enough to buy food every day even as an adult.
They said that in the outside world, you even needed money to buy clothes.
‘Maybe I could buy new clothes every season.’
‘Maybe…even a doll too.’
A doll she had only imagined in her dreams. Even if it was small and old, that would be fine.
And perhaps, sometimes, she could buy something sweet to eat.
‘Oh my god,’
Sephiel swallowed hard.
Among her family from her previous life, Sephiel’s grandmother, the Grand Queen, always said:
<Don’t be greedy. Know your place and behave yourself.>
<You should be grateful just to be alive. How can a girl be so selfish? You’re utterly spoiled!>
Eat little, serve others, and always be grateful. And live a good life.
These were words Sephiel had heard countless times.
Sephiel had never eaten three full meals a day in her entire life.
She didn’t even know that sweets like candy existed.
As a child, her meals consisted of plain porridge, and as she grew older, she was given dried fruit and tasteless bread, which she soaked in water to eat.
Later, she ate even less, constantly wary of her family’s eyes, and her stomach grew weak.
‘I’m going to eat three meals a day now!’
Shamelessly!
Using someone else’s money!
Just by lending your name under the name of marriage!
‘I’m completely evil now.’
‘How dare I desire three whole meals a day?’
Of course, all of that depended on the success of her plan.
* * *
That night, Sephiel lay on the floor, thinking about various escape methods, scribbling notes in her old, tattered notebook.
“Hmm….”
As she was thinking about it, her chubby butt and small head were unconsciously making slow movements.
‘Stealing the guard’s keys, pretending to faint from illness… Worst-case scenario, using the demons who will come to kidnap me in a few years.’
Sephiel was locked up her entire life and read every book she could get her hands on.
Perhaps it was self-defense to avoid going crazy.
Among them were many tactics books and incredible adventure tales.
Ideas for applying those methods popped into her mind one after another.
‘Oh….’
Sephiel decided to write the Revenge Note to strengthen her evil.
It was a kind of death list, listing the names of people she hated and who had tormented her in her past life.
‘Alright, I’ll name this… Death Note.’
And at the very top of the list…
‘There are too many candidates for first place!’
Her family. Each one of them was terrible in their own way, making it hard to choose the worst.
Besides, it wasn’t just her family who had tormented her.
‘But the highest rank has to go to my father, Wittegar III.’
At that moment, a loud shout accompanied by swearing was heard from outside the prison.
“You filthy little pest! How dare you do that to the prince?! No food for you for a while!”
It was Sephiel’s guard, Lotto.
‘Oh, right, I shouldn’t forget about you either.’
Sephiel wrote Lotto’s name in second place.
Then, clenching her tiny, chubby fist as tightly as possible, she forced a villainous expression while gripping her pencil with all her might.
‘The biggest cause of my miserable childhood!’
Lotto, the guard who would often yell at Sephiel and sometimes even hit her.
That Lotto banged on the iron bars.
“Aren’t you coming over here? The second prince ordered me to punish you for being rude to him.”
One corner of Sephiel’s lips went up. It was the small growl of a small dog.
‘Yeah, now I…..won’t forget the grudge.’
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