Chapter Six - My New Life As A Demon Villainess

Due to my nervousness, I spaced out while looking afar to the end of the corner of the ballroom.

When suddenly the duchess slowly pulled me away from carrying me.

No. Don't let go of me!

She then slowly turned me around as she assists me in sitting in her lap.

Ah!

"..."

I smiled nervously when I once again saw the people.

My eyes widened as I made a face saying I don't want to be here as I can also feel my body shivering.

T-The heads... so many heads... so many different faces!

This is torture! Ahh! Don't look at me.

Why are they so many?

I'm not used to the attention and I hate getting attention. Back in the modern world, I was always this very shy and quiet geek even though I kind of change in the middle year of high school.

Still! Even though I changed... a little I still don't like the attention of others.

Too busy complaining about how nervous I am I just noticed how big the ballroom is in the duke's mansion.

Even though there are so many people, there are still more spaces left, which means it's a surprisingly huge ballroom-

Wah! It's food!

My eyes widened by the sight of the foods placed on three long tables at the corners of the ballroom.

When I took a glance at the food they serve-

What-? S-Such delicious looking foods~

Wow, they have those here? In my past life, I only saw them at a restaurant that's very expensive like in just one dish It costs so much, that one dish costs me my 3 months of allowance!

And here they're serving them to the people for free!

This... this is heaven!

Ahh! just looking at them right now from here, I'm already drooling.

But the problem is I am still a baby, an infant and I'm still not allowed to eat those kinds of food.

Why?! Why must I suffer?

Food...

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I have something to announce"

What I heard was a low voice from a guy.

Sitting in the duchess lap, I glanced at the owner of the voice- I stopped breathing after I looked up.

It's the duke!

H-He looks so young! Now, I can see why the maids admire the duke and the duchess.

So, it was because of their visuals.

His brushed up dark blue hair, his masculine jawline, and admirable black eyes. A face that's gentle to others, they must have thought that the duke is so welcoming that even his face reflects a kind and responsible man.

He and the duchess are such a perfect pair!

Am I finally blessed to have them as my foster parents?

In the novel, I indeed imagined them as beautiful people but now looking at them in real life...

Seriously! Why do people like them only exist in novels?

All of a sudden, most of the people here bowed their heads a little.

I look at the duke he just smiled at them and told them it is okay.

Just looking at him with great confidence and devout I am in awe for him having such power.

Looking at the audience, trying to calm myself down.

I flinched when I hear footsteps coming.

W-Who is this?

Why is everyone suddenly being quiet?

I jumped a little when I saw a figure brushed against my shoulder, I slowly turned my head to that person.

I saw the duke with a huge smile on his face, crouching down to look at me at my level.

What the- I thought I was about to have a heart attack.

Heck, it was just the duke.

What I thought a while ago really is true, that all the people in the duke's mansion are weird.

Look even the duke himself!

I raised my eyebrows in confusion when his hand suddenly went close to my face.

Due to shock I Immediately closed my eyes, I don't know what he was going to do to me-

Huh?

I then felt a hand ruffled my hair.

Surprised, I quickly opened my eyes as I was welcomed by a warm smile from the duke he then stood up from his place.

Ah...

"I'm here to announce, that this beautiful young child is officially a member of the clentaz family making her our first daughter"

He sounded proud when he declared that. He was replied by applauses and chants from the people.

I remembered that they're this kind of family, a warm family that accepted jazaila, the one, and only villainess. They also spoiled her by showing their love for her.

Do I deserve to be accepted in such a warm family?

I think jazaila also has thought of that.

I do not know but I feel a little happy when I heard him said that.

Announcing to the people that I was accepted to their family.

It somehow satisfied me.

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Aaahhh...!

It's now boring!

After the duke's speech, all of them returned to what they were doing.

And here I am still sitting on the lap of the duchess, nothing to do, nothing to eat just staring at strangers smiling and greeting the duchess and me.

I know I said that a toy would not satisfy me, in the body of an 8-month-old baby and the mind of an 18-year-old teen.

But right now, I want something to play with! It's so boring...

"I can't believe the duke held such a huge occasion just for an adopted child"

Huh?

"Right, that child is not even their blood she's just a child that they picked up"

Oh...? This, this is what I was expecting.

As expected, there certainly are people like this.

In a novel about romance, there are always people who bring out rumors and bad insights of that certain character.

Despite being just a side character, their roles are like the villainess'.

This is good... I thought I was going to die out of boredom, but this looks like a good drama here, even though it is me who they're talking about.

"Blue eyes and black hair, it's obvious that she's far from this family, I even think she doesn't suit being part of the duke's family"

The woman keeps spreading bad insights as I noticed the people started to talk quietly.

Oooh~ this is good! I sense a great drama here.

It seems like the people started to talk quietly because they are secretly hearing the ladies' conversation then here the word passes on and everyone will then talk about that matter.

Hm, what's this?

Just now my predictions were correct.

Everyone began whispering, and I even caught several glances at me.

Oh, how I miss this kind of feeling!

In my past life, I only got this feeling when I sat in front of my tv and watch a drama about a wife and a mistress fighting over their husband.

(*sigh)

I miss those days.

"An adopted child? Do the duke and the duchess even know the background of the child?"

Hmm~

I heard that from a noble-looking lady whose dress has plenty of accessories even plenty than my accessories, a gift by the duchess that was put in a long box and it was surprisingly full.

I can sense that this drama is about to reach its climax.

I can't help but to close my small hands and shook them in excitement.

"What if the child was actually from a family of... slaves"

Here it is! This is it-

Huh-?

I can feel something is shaking a little, I quickly looked up to the duchess-

And Woah, that's some scary face she has there.

I can see her body shaking a little and there my heart starts to beat faster when I saw she clenched her jaw as she shot bloodlust eyes to the ladies.

She's a totally different person from the warm mother vibe a while ago.

But I can see this is something to worry about now.

I then saw her raising her hand, maria then slowly walks beside her.

"Kindly please take jazaila"

Wait... S-She's still speaking with such a soft voice. But that can't compare to the face she's making right now.

"Yes, your grace"

Obeying the duchess order Maria quickly carries me as she stood beside the chair duchess was seating.

I look at the duchess in concern and my eyes wandered to her hands, even now she's still shaking? I gulped when I saw she clenched her fist...

"sh-shus" I heard her muttered

Oh oh...

"Shut that imprudent mouth of yours!"

My eyes widened from shock when I saw her shout so loud as she gets up.

I didn't expect her to be involved in the drama, but this makes the drama even more exciting!

Maria! Fetch me some popcorn!

Oh yeah, they don't have that in this world.

"Maria"

Ickk! Such a deep voice.

How did she suddenly change her voice?

I look over to maria who's now making a face saying she's doomed.

"y-yEs! Your grace?"

I know it's bad to laugh now but heck I want to laugh right now! maria's face looks so funny.

This is the climax- no over the top climax of the drama.

This is so~ exciting!

"Get jazaila out of here for a moment"

WHAT-?

"Y-Yes, your grace"

W-What? No.

My jaws dropped at her words when suddenly maria turned around walking away quickly.

N-Noooo! The drama!!!

Maria Immediately opened the door that leads us outside the mansion.

Drama...

My smile dropped when I saw we've arrived in the garden outside the mansion.

That was so mean of her... things were just getting interesting, yet I was brought outside.

Why do you have to follow her, maria?

Oh right, she's a maid.

Aahhh, such a bummer!

Now it's boring again.

"(*clip-clop, clip-clop)"

Hm? Wait. That sound...

I looked at the gate-

Woah! Horses! It's my first time seeing one!

Ah, I didn't notice there was a carriage behind it.

A huge number of horses rode by knights, slowly moving forward, my gaze went to the huge carriage behind it, A yellow exterior with an expensive-looking lamp placed outside the passenger seat.

Hmm... It seems like it's from a rich family.

Oh! I thought there was only one, I noticed I was wrong when another carriage with the same design came out of my sight.

What is going on there?

Since I began to find it strange, I became curious about it.

I quickly tugged maria's uniform that made her look at me, I then pointed at the horses.

"Oh, are you curious whose horses is that?"

I nodded at her question.

As expected of her, she understands me well.

"Those horses are from the neighboring kingdom"

Neighboring kingdom?

So that explains the carriages looking so expensive, it somehow looks like gold.

"The royal family of the Neighboring kingdom is here to visit the king and the young crown prince"

I flinched when I heard her say, the crown prince.

The male lead...

I completely forget about him and the rest of the main characters.

I was using half of my time thinking about the life of jazaila that I forgot about the people whom I should avoid.

But did she just say, royal family?

Why are they visiting the king and the crown prince?

"Young lady, look they're inside those carriages right now"

She pointed at those carriages, I tried to turn and look back at the carriages-

Wait...

What's this?

Somehow, I feel something inside my body like something flowing, I don't quite understand it.

(*throb * throb)

Suddenly I can hear my heart beats faster, as I then felt goosebumps all over my body when I felt like something pass by me.

Looking at the carriages, I'm so confused about what I'm feeling right now.

Why am I feeling like this-?

Wait-!

W-What's that?

My eyes widened as my face was filled with horror when I saw something- no not something.

A b-black smoke?

"..."

That I saw was no doubt a black smoke, but since I'm not from this world I don't know what it is called.

It's like a black cloud of smoke it's so huge and the aura of it feels the same as when I was in my father's castle.

That black smoke... what is that?

And why is it surrounding that last carriage from the neighboring kingdom?

Panicking, I quickly tugged maria's uniform as I pointed to the black smoke that was around the last carriage.

"What is it, young lady, horse? Do you want to ride a horse?"

What?

"I'm sorry, young lady but you have to grow up first, hmm... maybe when you turn 10 you can ride the horse"

I looked at her in disbelief when she just genuinely smiled at me.

I tugged her uniform again she then raised her eyebrow in curiosity I shook my head to what she said earlier as I pointed the smoke following its direction when the carriage started moving.

"... Abab! Abab! (above! Above!)"

I tried to speak my best.

Please maria, understand what I said.

"Above? Above that last carriage is what you meant, young lady?"

My eyes glisten when I finally had her understand me.

I quickly nodded as a reply. As I look at her anticipating her reply.

"Hmm? But there's nothing there"

"..."

What?

"Oh, do you mean that royal seal behind that carriage? That is placed at the top?"

No... why-

"That's their royal seal, young lady our kingdom's royal family also have a seal"

"..."

No, that's not what I meant.

Why can't she see it?

For me, I can see it and it's not just above the carriage, but it surrounds every corner.

This is strange why can't she see it?

Why only I can see that black smoke?

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