Please Don’t Come To The Villainess’ Stationery Store! - Chapter 35

“Sir Angmond! Be quiet!”

“Even if you are leaving for a bit!”

“…excuse me, S-Sir Angmond!”

“Why? Ah, the Duke is here!”

Duke Hesman was looking at the senseless Angmond with a cold face.

“It’s noisy.”

His words chilled the atmosphere like cold water. He spoke up, standing in front of the big mana stone in the center.

I suddenly got up from my chair and looked at Dominique’s back as he opened the door. I thought there was someone outside the door, and it seemed to be true.

The identity of the man was easily revealed because Xion, who was by my side, smiled brightly and spoke.

“He’s my brother! He said he would come by earlier!”

“Hm…”

I looked over the door with a face that seemed to be interesting to Carat.

“I see, so he’s Xion’s brother?”

If he’s Xion’s brother, we need to seduce him!

I jumped up and got ready to shake his hand. A cute teenager will appear now!

I should treat him in a cute way. I’ll feed him a lot of delicious foods, play the castanets to the beat, and dance to win his favor!

As I watched Dominique turn around and walk over, I raised my body and brought my hand to the side with sparkling eyes.

“Oh my, our Xion’s brother ca…me?

However, the man behind Dominique was a burly man. Fine and soft silver hair that looked like silver thread and covered his eyebrows.

I soon got flustered when my eyes met his sea-like blue eyes.

He was not a teenager no matter how much I looked at him.

‘What the heck. I thought he would be a teenager at most, but a grown man came.’

If I shake his hand with sparkling eyes, then it’ll be very, very, very embarrassing, right?

He spoke in a low-pitched voice that seemed quite mature.

“…Long time no see. Princess Meldenique.”

I quickly lowered my hand and stared at the man coming in through the door.

Do we know each other?

‘His face does seem familiar…’

I squinted at his face.

“Sit down for now.”

I thought he was a child, so I prepared to welcome him, but since a sturdy young man came in, I got flustered. I coughed briefly to relieve the ruined atmosphere. Meanwhile, Xion ran toward the unidentified man and exploded.

“Brother! Do you know Mel? Are you two destined for each other?”

The audience quickly became embarrassed by the boy’s sparkling eyes.

Dominique was already sitting next to me staring at him. It’s like he was looking at something intrusive in his territory.

While the atmosphere was chaotic, the man sat on a chair and looked straight at me. It was the middle seat. Carat was watching the situation while maintaining his calmness and excitement.

A strange confrontation began at the round table in the narrow stationery store.

This man, dignified, an elegant attitude, beautiful proportions, and beautiful clothes… I’m sure he’s an extraordinary man.

‘Just where the hell have I seen him?’

I calmly recalled Meldenique’s memories.

I think I’ve seen him often. At the shipboard party hosted by Duke Hesman and the garden party held by Sheria…

‘Wait.’

I opened my mouth wide after carefully examining his face at the end of my thoughts.

‘That person, isn’t he Prince Cassian?’

Then…

That Prince Axion? The man who’s rumored to be sick and recuperating in a villa, not in the capital? The one who said he would become a knight, that rumored Axion? The youngest prince who is rumored to be favored by the old Emperor? That Prince Axion… who is jokingly said to be the most influential figure in the palace?

“Huh?”

“…I’m asking because I’m really curious. Are you perhaps, His Highness, Prince Axion?”

If he’s Prince Cassian’s younger brother, the boy I spoke to recklessly and played with in the dirt…

“That’s right! I’m a prince! Ah, I didn’t tell you?”

‘You didn’t tell me! Not once!’

The Emperor loves Axion, who was born in the early days. There were eight children in total, but only two were left as the rest died questionable deaths.

Among them, Prince Axion was the one who grew up with love. And I just said whatever I wanted to the Prince Axion.

‘What if I’m held for blasphemy? I already have a lot of enemies!’

To calm myself down, I drank my share of the slushy I had left on the round table. I felt a little relieved thanks to the cold drink flowing down my esophagus.

“…I also didn’t know Xion is Prince Axion.”

“I’m so happy! You can really get married! With my brother! You’re the perfect match!”

Crush.

The armrest of the wooden chair that Dominique was leaning against broke.

I glanced at him. Dominique murmured quietly and drearily.

“It was a mistake.”

I see. I don’t think he’s controlling his power.

I nodded and looked at Axion again. I tried to lift the corners of my mouth and laugh while looking at Axion.

“But I prefer Prince Axion?”

“H-huk…although everyone likes me, even Mel…”

Whatever he was thinking, Axion buried his red face in his hands.

I can tell just by looking at that. The cute prince must be smiling.

“…You must be on good terms with Axion, Princess Meldenique.”

“Yes. We met by coincidence-”

I stopped talking and Axion shouted with a big smile.

“She saved my life coincidentally, Mel did!”

‘Huh? It sounds so suspicious. It’s as if I saved him for his favor.’

Prince Cassian seemed to think so. He looked at me as if he were looking through me.

I smiled as harmlessly as I could. I already have a lot of enemies. This man should not be turned into an enemy.

I thought of some information about him in my head.

‘Prince Cassian was a capable supporting character in the novel. And Lenox and him have been friends since childhood.’

A prince born when the imperial power was too weak.

Lenox’s childhood friend, he was crowned Emperor after becoming the crown prince with the help of Duke Hesman’s family.

‘He wasn’t that close to Lenox. He didn’t even consider him one of his people in the first place. Maybe that’s why, later on, he had the role of having a one-sided love on Sheria.’

It occurred to me that there were a number of readers who felt sorry for his heartache due to Sheria.

He was loved that much by quite a few readers.

He graduated from the Imperial Academy at the top of his class, and it was said that he would’ve be the greatest chancellor of all time if he were born a nobleman, but in the end, it was due to a fatal flaw that he couldn’t attain his love.

But the person in front of me right now has not been named as the second lead, Prince Cassian, yet.

His sharp gaze began to pierce me.

I finished organizing my thoughts.

The second male lead, a perfect neutral and scheming figure who falls in love with Sheria in the novel, and the next Emperor.

‘I don’t want to get involved and I don’t want him to be suspicious of me.’

It would be better to seduce him because he will be powerful. However, there was a set point since he was close to Lenox. It could be poisoned chalice in many ways.

I looked at him.

‘I hope you don’t hate or like me.’

I grinned as I hid the look in my eyes.

“Would you like a cup of slushy first?”

“…yes?”

“It’s an ambitious invention.”

I pointed at the cup in front of him with my hand.

A friendly prince who is often mentioned in society and is popular among nobles. This man is a human electronic display that can advertise the stationery store before he is a dangerous person.

So…

“I’ll serve you properly, Your Highness.”

Welcome, electronic display.

No, customer!