Please Don’t Come To The Villainess’ Stationery Store! - Chapter 44

After a while, I was able to take confidence in my guess. Viscount Telin began to spread flyers widely, including inside and outside the Academy.

He purchased a large mana stone that amplified children’s intelligence and mana and upgraded it with his magic.

The name was Phantom Stone.

If you wake up at the end of the ten-minute terrible nightmare, it will increase the learning ability temporarily.

To be exact, you can see the effects in three things: concentration, intelligence, and mana.

It would be good to use during the test period, and it was said that it didn’t matter because the nightmares could be forgotten soon.

Of course, there were some voices concerned about the children’s health.

However, the parents’ reactions to the idea of increasing intelligence, concentration, and mana at the same time were huge.

‘They’re thinking about experimenting at the Petite Debutant.’

Of course, society and the academy went crazy. And I was the same.

‘For a slightly different reason though.’

I can’t believe you’re developing something that would give children trauma to increase their intelligence! Such a thing was nothing more than rubbish.

‘Someone like that has to die.’

But how can I kill him. The only thing I had was a fluffy cloud-like cotton candy.

‘Besides, I’m lacking mana. So I can’t go straight forward.’

I was lost in thought.

‘Is there anything that can help children while blocking Viscount Telin? But I can’t make the same exact thing because of my abilities…?’

I looked at the pink cloud-like cotton candy and pondered with my hand on my chin.

“In words, there are blessing and mana in the phantom stone.”

I think I can think of a good method if I sleep.

I poked Dominique’s rib and asked him,

“You can summon the devil for only three seconds still?”

“Yeah.”

It’s like a knife.

But if you think about it, three seconds will be enough.

Just four days from now, I thought of what I could do.

***

Four days went by quickly and the day of the Petite Debutant dawned.

The huge hall was packed with children, parents, and observers to see Viscount Telin’s phantom stone.

It was the most nervous day for all the elementary school children. It was the day to show off the most beautiful and rare thing they had.

A colorful chandelier hung over the ceiling. After a while, all the academy children gathered in the main hall of the academy.

The huge hall was very extravagant. The soft carpet on the floor was engraved with antique patterns of foreign countries.

The fancy graphite table and chairs, decorated with angel patterns, overwhelmed the spectator.

The children sitting at the tables prepared for each one exclaimed as if they were amazed.

“It’s so shiny!”

“My feet don’t touch the floor…”

“It’s natural for your feet not to touch the floor.”

“It’s dazzling.”

The children’s likes and dislikes were clearly divided.

But most of the children there were aristocrats. They were children who thought that being extravagant and adult-like had the highest value.

“My mother is happy too!”

“She is.”

“Then I’m happy too!”

The children whispered and looked toward the VIP seats where their parents sat. It was a kind of custom for parents to attend the debutante stage for their young children.

On top of that, wasn’t it Hesman and Vaveloa who set up the debutant this time? It was natural for the wives of various families to flock.

The parents exclaimed as soon as they entered the hall.

“My goodness, how much is that jewel?”

“It really is amazing!”

“There’s Princess Hesman.”

The adults greedy eyes turned toward Melissa.

The little lady in the pink dress looked more gorgeous with her hands full of roses.

Everyone wondered who the beautiful princess would give her roses too.

Of course, they didn’t mean to wonder.

“Who do you think those roses are for?”

“Wouldn’t it be for my son?”

“My God, if he marries Princess Melissa, the dowry will be large…”

“She’s been intimate with my child.”

“When the Duke was Alice, Princess Melissa’s marriage was appointed with my family.”

Melissa let out a deep sigh.

‘These adults.’

Whenever they saw her, the eyes of the parents with sons flashed.

But she didn’t even care about it.

Melissa stared across the hall. The girl’s eyes became cloudy.

‘My Unni… I prepared flowers for you, but why aren’t you coming?’

The owner of the roses that everyone was curious about was Meldenique.

‘Unni looks really good with roses.’

She wasn’t interested in talks about fiancés or undulated boys.

She liked the cool adult-like Unni.

‘When will Unnie come?’

After her shoulders drooped, she looked around and agonized.

She was even more nervous because she didn’t hear from her.

Her brother sent a rose stone necklace through a servant as an apology for not being able to attend.

But Melissa didn’t feel so good, looking down at the necklace.

It meant that the Hesman family was more important than her.

‘Whatever. I’d feel more comfortable if he didn’t come.’

Then, a nicely dressed Axion approached her with a grumpy face.

“Melissa! I don’t see Carat, and where’s Mel?”

Axion’s expression was filled with discontent.

Melissa was able to read the suspicious complaints on his face: ‘Did the two go do something fun and eat something delicious without me?’

‘He’s such a typical worry-free elementary school student.’

“Let’s wait a little longer.”

She teased Axion as if she were an adult.

Axion clicked his tongue and kicked the table cloth under the table.

“Okay.”

Ding, ding-.

The bell of the academy’s clock tower rang loudly. Finally, the academy’s biggest event, the Petite Debutant, began.

***

‘What happened?’

After the first break, Meldenique did not arrive.

“After part one and the introduction of special objects, we will proceed with part two.”

‘Why isn’t she coming?’

Listening to the host of the debutant, Axion and Melissa stamped their feet in nervousness.

Originally, they were going to introduce their product in the second part. But it worried them that Meldenique didn’t arrive yet.

In the meantime, lower nobles began to share the items they brought.

“What I want to share with you today is a jewelry box.”

“We brought a 4th circle wizard from out house!”

Melissa and Axion became nervous whenever a child introduced what they brought.

“Mel…will come, right?”

“Of course. I trust her.”

Melissa bit her lips hard.

Mel will keep her promise. She was completely different from Melissa’s brother, Duke Hesman.”

Melissa glanced at the door.

“The door is going to be worn out.”
(T/N: Meaning she stared at the door a lot.)

“But if she doesn’t come now, she can’t enter at all…”

Axion’s expression showed anxiety.

“Look at Duchess Vaveloa’s and Viscount Telin’s face.”

On the podium, they already looked excited.

Look at the huge table in the middle of the hall with the phantom stones!

They were sitting side by side on the platform, pumping their pompous jaws that the gray-haired president of the academy.

Without even looking, you could tell they were already trying to take advantage of this power trip.

Axion clenched his fist.

“Something didn’t happen to Mel, right? Don’t tell me she couldn’t come because they bullied Mel.”

It certainly made sense.

“If that happened, the cheating man, and those people, I’ll never forgive them.”

Axion clenched his fist.

Melissa nodded as if she agreed with him.

“Assassinate them.”

“No, I don’t intend to assassinate…”

“Castrate them.”

Axion, who felt Melissa’s cruelty, blinked.