I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? Ch 92

I intended for Rashiok to be there alongside at the interrogation of the blond bandit Valon. That man isn’t used to the existence of such a large beast. Rashiok’s presence alone should be enough to terrify and fluster him greatly.

However, Rashiok wouldn’t move from his position in front of Ratoka’s room. Since he’s much bigger than I am, no matter how much I pushed him, he wouldn’t budge. This rascal, I kept calling him various nas ntally. I couldn’t help myself and suddenly rembered a wide variety of colorful and vulgar swear words from my previous life. I glared at the draconis laying there casually, taking up most of the entire corridor while wagging his serpentine tail back and forth.

Will I have to give up on bringing Rashiok with ? I don’t absolutely have to have Rashiok with at the interrogation. The bandit’s spirit had already been weakened by the cold to the point that he was begging for his life. I thought about it and figured I could also use various other thods if I had to return the bandit to the dungeon, so I let go of Rashiok and was about to leave.

……At that mont, I fell flat on my face in the hallway. I’m feeling an intense pain and heat from my nose right now. Thanks to the carpet flooring, it didn’t hurt as much as it could have, but it still hurt. More importantly, there’s sothing else. There’s a terrible pressure on my back. I’m pretty sure it’s Rashiok’s front paw. I can also hear his breathing really close to , so his face is probably close to . He also seems to be holding onto the edge of my cloak so that I couldn’t stand back up, and he was the one who made fall over, what a rascal.

I raised my face a little and pressed my hand against my nose, feeling a warm liquid trickling down. My nose is bleeding.

“…………Rashiok.”

I managed to utter his na the best I could with my face to the ground, but the weight on my back wouldn’t disappear. I grudgingly wiped my nosebleed a little with my sleeve rather than letting it drip. While my clothes are rather expensive, the carpet is even more so.

Then, a small figure started coming up the stairs. It’s Ratoka, holding a book under his arm. What timing.

“Eh…… Huh?”

Ratoka seed to be more confused than anything else. Of course he would be. I could only imagine how different I looked from usual, with my nose bleeding as I’m laying flat against the floor with Rashiok’s paw pressing down.

“……Um, what are you doing?”

“What does it look like I’m doing?”

Hearing the frustration in my voice, Ratoka hurriedly ca over and knocked on Rashiok’s head a few tis as he was still sitting on top of . Then finally, the weight casually disappeared from my back.

That bastard. Once again, I cursed at Rashiok ntally. So this was his aim to begin with.

“Uh…… For the ti being, let’s stop your nosebleed.”

With an indescribable expression on his face, Ratoka opened the door to his room.

There was a bed, a desk, a chest of drawers, and a bookshelf with so papers and books on it. In the year since this room had beco Ratoka’s, nothing had changed except that there was now a bookshelf. It’s only natural since I haven’t given him any other furniture nor a salary. However, looking around the room while sitting on his bed, I couldn’t help but feel that his room seed so wide and empty and a little cold, and I wondered if I should give him a sofa.

“Here, a cloth to stem your nosebleed.”

Ratoka’s mouth was bent into the shape of the へ character as he looked to see how I was doing. As soon as he saw that I was still holding my nose with my tunic’s sleeve, he took out a clean cotton cloth for from the first aid kit on his shelf and also opened the window in his room for to get so fresh air. I obediently sat still for a while, and my nosebleed naturally stopped bleeding on its own. The pain from face planting is also fading. But if I leave right now, I have a feeling that Rashiok will do the sa thing to all over again.

I was montarily confused over what to say, but I ended up asking:

“How is Elise-sama doing?”

“She had a small seizure earlier today, and she’s now resting. Lately she’s been having seizures more and more often. Even though she’s been getting fevers less often than before, in this past year……”

Ratoka hasn’t had any work to do while Elise had been sleeping. He seems to be passing the ti by reading books, and he just happened to have gotten a new book to read when he returned to his room. Like Ratoka said, when Elise first ca here, she often did nothing but sleep as she lacked physical fitness and would always be getting fevers, but after staying a while in the more temperate climate of Kaldia, her physical condition improved and she was no longer bedridden like before. That’s why I furrowed my eyebrows at the report that her seizures have beco more common again.

“The doctor is examining the current situation, but it also seems like Elise herself agrees that she’s getting worse.”

“Please encourage her as much as possible. I’ll do what I can to visit her whenever possible as well.”

Elise’s seizures are also greatly influenced by her state of mind. If she feels weak ntally, she’ll have more seizures.

“Please do that. Ever since you’ve put here again, you haven’t visited Elise even once.”

“……Is that so.”

It’s Ratoka that I wanted to avoid, not Elise, but since Ratoka is still in charge of dealing with Elise for , I’ve been avoiding Elise’s room as well. I’ve been making the excuse to myself that I’m too busy with work to go see her, but actually I’m feeling quite guilty about not going to chat with her. When I just nodded without saying anything else, Ratoka just stared at .

“……I can’t even be myself and I have to use soone else’s na, I’m not allowed to use my own.”

His voice was strangely cold. I looked again at Ratoka in surprise. He seed to be expressionless, nothing but ice.

“Do you not even need anymore?”

He almost spat that at , then he seed to awkwardly deride himself.

“……The fact that you didn’t kill , I know that I’m supposed to be grateful and not think about it. But I’ve always been wondering. Just why you went to the trouble of giving an education, and keeping by your side. It seems that you like quite a bit. Are you just spoiling ?”

“That’s not it.”

Despite saying so, I was in doubt of myself. I could see what Ratoka is saying. Even I was slightly aware of it, that I had sealed off my emotions this past year.

“I don’t think I’m wrong. I think you’re overlapping with Kamil.”

My throat froze up. Even though I wanted to tell him to stop, I couldn’t say anything.

“You’re just using as that guy’s replacent.”

My head feels hot. Various emotions are running through to the point that my hands are shaking. My vision is flickering.

He knows. Better than I do myself, he’s seen into the inner workings of my heart better than I have.

“-Ah,”

A tiny sound escaped from the back of my throat. At that sa mont, soone knocked on the door to Ratoka’s room.