The Villainess’ Beloved Plan: The Struggles to Avoid a Doomed End - Chapter 54

‘Calm down, Sophia. Don’t worry, this is not Cyril’s route. The game hasn’t started yet. Besides, I’m already married to Randall, and I’m Sophia, not Keira, so there’s no way I’m going the Cyril route.’

Sophia was holding her knees in a small bathtub in the inn.

She had to hold her knees in the bathtub, because it was too small to fit her entire body.

The innkeeper had kindly provided soap, probably because Sophia was sticky from the sea water, so there were bubbles floating in the bathtub.

A refreshing scent like jasmine filled the bathroom.

After Cyril asked her to pretend to be his girlfriend, Sophia decided to take a bath before hearing more details. She felt sick and sticky all over, she smelled of the sea, and most of all, she wanted to think about the situation alone for a while.

‘The one to whom Prince Cyril does not want to be betrothed–if the game’s story is still the same, would be Princess Carnelia.’

Carnelia is the second princess of Saladora, a neighboring country northeast of Verhund. The two countries have always been friends, and both have always been fond of each other. Princess Carnelia has been fond of Cyril, whom she has known since she was a child.

However, Cyril has always had a hard time with Carnelia, and he wants to break off this marriage proposal that the princess has requested at all costs.

If the game story played out as it should be, the background of this case would be something like this.

However, this was two years later in the fall, and it is Keira who will be forced to play the role of Cyril’s lover. And there was no storyline involving D’Artagno before he became a righteous pirate in this case.

‘Oh, God, I don’t understand it anymore!’

Sophia washes her hair a little wildly, halfway through. Perhaps because it was soaked in seawater, her hair was squeaky and entangled in her fingers, making it difficult to wash

‘Anyway, I’m not going to be released until I pay back what D’Artagno says I owe him.’

She didn’t know why this happened, but Sophia now owes D’Artagno a debt for saving her life. To repay the debt, she must pretend to be Cyril’s lover and break off his engagement to a woman he does not want to be engaged to.

The thought of it was too much to contemplate.

Sophia can’t even join Randall and her friends without fulfilling Cyril’s wishes at the earliest opportunity.

‘…… You’re worried about me, aren’t you?’

She couldn’t imagine the look of worry on Randall’s face, but at least Orion and the others must definitely be worried. She wanted to let them know she was safe as soon as possible, but Sophia had no means of doing so at present.

‘Ha, I got caught up in something strange. ……’

Sophia poured hot water over her head to rinse off the bubbles, then got out of the bathroom and put on a linen one-piece dress that she borrowed from the innkeeper.

Thinking about it is not an option, because there is no way for Sophia to escape this situation.

Sophia decided to make up her mind, opened the bathroom door, and went to the room where D’Artagno and Cyril were waiting for her.

“Is that woman really okay?”

As Sophia left the room to take a bath, Cyril gave D’Artano a suspicious look.

The woman D’Artagno had brought, Sophia or something, had shaggy hair, a wrinkled dress, and was covered in sand, looking like she could have been a slum dweller.

The woman Cyril is trying to ruin his marriage proposal with is not a simple person, but rather a troublesome woman who is difficult to talk to. So, he asked him to prepare a beautiful woman who wouldn’t make a noise, but D’Artagno brought “that”.

“Sophia is a beautiful woman, and her dancing and manners are fine. The way she’s dressed, well, it’s more because she fell into the sea. ……”

“Fell overboard?bHow did you get into that situation?”

“I didn’t see that coming either! I don’t why, but Miss Sophia was dropped into the sea. I don’t know, but is she in danger　She was on her honeymoon, poor thing.”

“What? Honeymoon? So that means Sophia is married?”

“Yes, but what’s the problem? I was told to bring a woman, but I was not told that married people are not allowed.”

D’Artagno laughs and says that Sophia’s husband is not here and that there is no problem, which makes Cyril want to hold his head.”

But Cyril had no more time to waste. He didn’t have time to start looking for a new woman now. D’Artano was right, Sophia’s husband was not here. If Sophia had fallen overboard, it might have been rather fortuitous. Sophia’s husband probably thinks she is still drifting in the sea. Or maybe she sank to the bottom of the sea. It would never occur to him that Sophia was pretending to be the lover of the first prince of Verhund. If the search is focused on the sea, Sophia’s identity should not be known, at least for the short time that Cyril has to fulfill his objective.

“So what do we do? Should we continue as planned?”

D’Artagno asked, just as the door to the room opened with a clunk.

Cyril turned around and looked at Sophia, who had changed into a linen one-piece dress.

Her skin is tanned and slightly reddish, but still white like china, and her blonde hair is damp and flows along the contours of her face. And large eyes that are a beautiful green, like emeralds.

‘Sophia is now clean and refreshed – I see, she is quite a beauty, as D’Artano said.’

Cyril put his hand to his chin and chuckled. ‘Not bad.’

“We can go on as planned. We’ll continue as planned”. he said

‘I don’t care who she is. I don’t care if she’s married or not.’

(This would shut Carnelia up.)

Cyril smiled slightly, thinking of the face of the princess of a neighboring country;Carnelia, he had known since he was a child.