Death Is The Only Ending For The Villain

Chapter 166

My mind went blank for a moment.’Why does the Duke come to me at this hour...?’ As soon as the thought came to my mind.Hnock, knock.-He knocked one more time. "Penelope, may I come in?" "Ah, yes, yes. Come on in."I couldn’t keep the Duke outside forever, so I hurried. Click.-The door opened right away. As he entered the room, he suddenly stopped walking when he saw me. The Duke’s eyes shook slightly."...Father?"When I called out to the frozen Duke, he soon closed the door and entered completely.The Duke went to the table in front of the window and sat down, exactly like when he came to talk about the transfer of the mine the other day. Standing in front of the desk, I followed him and sat on the opposite side.When I tried to deal with the Duke in an unknown situation, I felt like I was in a quandary and hopeless. I took several deep breaths to calm my trembling heart. And when my breathing became a little calmer, I opened my mouth.Visit lightnov/elpub[.]/c/om for the best novel reading experience"...Shall I ask for some refreshments?" "It’s fine."The Duke dismissed me briefly. An awkward feeling settled in the room. When he showed no sign of speaking first, I reluctantly spoke again."What...brings you here?"At my words the Duke made a rare embarrassed face."Didn’t you ask me to come and greet you on the morning of your coming-of-age ceremony?" "Ah."I did ask him to do that, yeah. That’s what I said before the heroine appeared. I had forgotten. It didn’t actually mean it that much.At that time, I was a little sad for the Duke who was about to lose his foster daughter, who pretended to be mature for a while, and I was still hopeful that I would be able to escape today.’I don’t know what’s going to happen now...’Of course, now that I think about it, it’s all bullshit. I answered casually, trying not to show my prickly feelings.This content is taken from lightnovel/pub[.]/com"Thank you for listening." "Today..."The Duke hesitated a little."You are very beautiful today, Penelope."The Duke wasn’t originally able to express the feelings of praise. So I was a little surprised by his praise, which he had unexpectedly said, but soon I became a little wretched."Thank you, Father."The appearance of a grown Duke was indeed overflowing with grand aristocratic dignity. Looking at the black jacket with the Eckart’s silver pattern clearly engraved, I answered in a dull, dry manner."Father looks handsome today, too.""I’ve never seen this dress and accessories before... You said you didn’t want to get it through the Empress’ tailor, did you buy it separately?""...Yes.""Yes, I got it as a gift." "Gift? From whom?""The owner of the weapons shop that I went to, sent me a magic necklace to celebrate my coming-of- age. It’s the place where I bought father’s amulet.""Oh, there. That’s a pretty good service. I’ll have to buy my arrows there next time." Fortunately, the Duke readily accepted my response."But I don’t think it fits the dress you’re wearing today.""But I’m going to wear it because of the sincerity behind the gift."Of course I didn’t mean to. I was going to take it off as soon as the Duke left. "...You have a good heart."But his reaction was strange. ’What’s wrong with him today?’I looked up at him with strange eyes and asked him carefully. "...Do you have anything to say to me?""No, not really. I just wanted to do what you asked me to do...""It was right after the hunting competition.""...""Renald came to see me. He said he had something to confess." "What is it?""Do you remember what happened not long after you came with me to Dukedom? The reason why we closed the third floor.""Yes, of course"The real Penelope could never forget, not even myself. The injustice she felt at that time, the misery, she had no choice but to call him Duke, and not Father."Renaldtold me about what happened then. In fact, he said that you didn’t steal Yvonne’s necklace."I opened my eyes wide. I never imagined it would happen. "Doyou know everything?"Even though I didn’t personally experience it, a seething anger soared up my throat in that moment.In the game, Penelope was to blame until she was died. Otherwise, she could not go through the routes and throw herself out of the quest, turning in terrible corpse."That I didn’t do it...but Renald who did it all...?"My trembling voice asked. The Duke nodded with a dark face. "I want to punish him right away. What’s more."I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I shook my head. The Duke spoke slowly."...I couldn’t punish him properly. All I could do was make him train intensely." "...""I wanted to beat him with all my might, but I suddenly wondered if I was the one who deserved it." "...""...Penelope."The Duke stared at me with reddened eyes full of remorse and regret."When I first saw you, you were so small and skinny. You came to me with barren eyes to beg for something to eat, those were not a child’s eyes. Somewhere I kept getting caught myself for fear that Yvonne had to go through the same as you did."For more, visit light//novelpub/[.]/com"...""Sometimes whenever you came to beg, I tried to get you to eat something, but one day you got a gold coin and you smiled for the first time. It was so pretty.""...""I couldn’t leave you, who was starving to death beside your dead mother. So I decided. I’d take you away so you wouldn’t starve."It was the first meeting between Penelope and the Duke I heard for the first time. It didn’t even appear in the game."But I was stupid and impulsively brought you here when I didn’t even know how to take care of you. Not only you, but Derick and Renald.""...""So at that time, I just thought you wanted accessories too. As a Father, I thought I should cover up for your faults.""...""If I had known you’d call me the Duke for six years after that, I wouldn’t have done that." The Duke muttered in a lonely face as if recalling that day.’Why now...’I bit my lips hard, it’s already too late. That’s when the first meeting with sons of the Duke went wrong, and Penelope was abused, and she got out of control and ended up with the worst ending.When I looked at him vacantly without saying anything, he managed to open his mouth again. "...I’ve forgotten about it for a long time. But the look you were looking at me that day is still clear." "...""And a few days ago, when you saw the guy who brought Yvonne, you had the same look on your face.""...""At that moment, all I could think about was getting him far away from you.""What... kind of facial expression did I make?" "That..."The Duke glanced at me and couldn’t speak properly. "...You didn’t make any expression."Visit lightnovelpub[.]/com for the best novel reading experienceHe hesitated and struggled to spit it out."Since you were a child, you have often been angry, but when your anger reached its limits, you would rather shut up and erase your feelings."I was a little surprised. Because I was originally trying to kill my emotions. If I held my breath until I oppress the things that pop out, and suffocate until I stop choking, everything would disappear a little later, and peace came.As if he was recalling that time, the Duke glanced at me and looked confused."But your eyes... are like as if they are fading away, and they become strangely lifeless..." "...""That’s when it feels like as if you became a dead person..." The Duke frowned and couldn’t finish speaking.’Ah.’At that moment, a violent realization like lightning, came to me. I could instinctively know.Penelope was already dead. To kill her feelings, she held her breath, held her feelings, and endured it, until she finally died from it.In the game where the villainess lost her life, I came to possess her body.

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