Reincarnated Villainess Does Not Want Revenge - Chapter 100.2
“I’ve been restricting your movements. You might not be aware, but even your shadows were under my control.”
Then, Tia’s large eyes widened and she glared at Reynaldo.
“Really… What an unamusing child…”
“…. Any final words to your son?”
Reynaldo, who was thinking of Risel rather than Tia, asked.
“Not really. That child is going to be our judge, isn’t he? I have no interest in talking.”
With a petulant expression like a child, she was taken away without looking at Risel.
A few moments later, the audience chamber was left with only Risel, the anti-royalist faction’s nobles, and Reynaldo.
As everyone took a breather, a small cheer erupted. The tension subsided as the rebellion was successfully executed.
“Well, that was uneventful, wasn’t it?”
“Yes. It feels like the years of suffering were just a lie.”
Some felt relief, while others, with tears in the corners of their eyes, rejoiced.
However, Risel’s expression remained unyielding, and Reynaldo continued the conversation without any discernible emotion.
“Thanks to everyone’s cooperation, the rebellion has been accomplished. Things will get busier from now on. Please extend your help for Prince Risel’s coronation, the trials under the royal administration, and until the verdicts are delivered.”
In response to Reynaldo’s words, the surrounding people intensified their cheers.
Risel stood next to him, silently watching.
“Duke Rose.”
Without making eye contact and in a voice barely audible to those around, Risel called out Reynaldo’s name.
“I have something to discuss.”
That was all he conveyed.
Reynaldo glanced at Risel with his jade-green eyes for a moment before he spoke, his words drowned out by the cheers from the surroundings.
“Understood.”
That was his only response.
With the events wrapped up, Reynaldo went to Risel’s office.
The cheers from moments ago were replaced by an eerie silence, and only the sound of rain echoed in the room.
There was only a faint glow, and apart from Risel, there was no one else in the room.
Risel looked at Reynaldo with a troubled expression, seeming to be wrestling with his thoughts.
“What is it that you want to discuss?”
Reynaldo asked the prince in a calm tone.
“There are a couple of things I wanted to ask.”
“What do you want to know?”
“First is about the treatment of my father and mother. I heard about it from someone. You…”
Risel hesitated for a moment, but then decided to ask.
“They said that my father and mother’s punishment is set to be a public execution by hanging.”
The punishment was too severe.
Even though they had abandoned their duties to the kingdom, the punishment was extremely harsh.
“The amount of their crimes, even if they were to be atoned for with death, it would be too much to do so in public. It could instill fear among the people.”
“Do you consider it excessive? Yes, it’s excessive.”
Reynaldo’s voice was calm. He didn’t show any emotion, in fact, he even smiled slightly.
“Those excessive punishments, your parents imposed them on my beloved sister, you know?”
“….”
“I just want to return to them what they have done.”
Since the moment Reynaldo spoke of his parents facing the gallows, Risel had understood that it was one of his forms of revenge.
Nevertheless, Risel didn’t want to witness that conclusion if he could help it. If he were to be asked if this was just some residual affection for his parents, he wouldn’t be able to say yes, but he couldn’t say no either. Above all, carrying out an execution in front of the public would greatly impact the emotions of the people.
In the past, Rosemary Hubert was also executed in public. At that time, she was labeled a notorious villain recorded in history, and to this day, baseless infamy still lingers.
Reynaldo doesn’t say it publicly, but to avenge his sister, he probably wants to execute the King and Queen and leave them in history as one of the most foolish monarchs.
That way, he would replicate his sister’s fate onto them.
Yes. Reynaldo was repeating history.
The prince falls in love with a maid of a different social status.
Public execution by hanging.
Some of the nobles were exiled and stripped of their titles.
All of it was the outcome of actions orchestrated by Reynaldo.
“… Is there anything else you would like to ask?”
Reynaldo asks, and Risel’s palm tightens.
In both questions, Risel had a conviction. But he didn’t want to accept it.
At least for Risel, Reynaldo was one of the people he could trust.
“The other day, an unknown assailant attacked Marie Edigma, someone special to me. When I asked about the characteristics of the man who attacked her, she described someone very similar to one of my mother’s shadows.”
Risel’s anger rose at the memory of Marie being attacked.
“But you said earlier that my mother’s shadows had been under your control.”
“….”
The rain falls with increasing intensity.
“The one who attacked Marie…. It was you, wasn’t it, Duke Rose?”
Hi, I’m Tori, the translator of this novel! If you like the novel and would like to support me, feel free to click the button below to go to my ko-fi! (??`?) Or you can consider sending some love by adding it to your reading list or leaving a rating/review on Novel Updates! Have a good day ?