I'm a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 17

Translator : Missme Editor : Aru

“I’m Cassius Yenhampshire Tigris, The 2nd Prince of The Tigris Empire. Please take good care of me.”

The golden eyes, which were revealed under the black hair, slowly looked around the classroom.

And when the eye finally turned toward me, it hesitated slightly and gave off a strange gleam of joy.

“I hope that we will see each other often and use informal language as we are of the same age. That’s all I want to say”

As soon as he finished his words, I closed my eyes with my right hand touching my forehead with a headache and irritation that came up from deep inside the body.

“Where should I sit?”

At Cassius’s words, Professor Frain looked all around the classroom.

There was an annoying vacancy next to me, too, and it was obvious where Cassius would come.

“There is an empty seat next to Miss Spade’s side. You can sit over there.”

With Professor Frain’s words, Cassius trudged without any qualms and sat next to me.

I didn’t pretend to know.

If I saw Cassius’ face now, I would get angry and want to give him a blow with fire magic.

‘If he wasn’t a royal family…….’

I should have just ended and cut off the relationship.

I never imagined that he would follow me to the Academy.

We cried and broke up like that. What would that mean if we meet again here?

“Then now that we’re all together, I’ll simply introduce the general rules–”

Prof. Frain’s words did not even come to my head.

On one side of the mind was devising the most effective way to tighten Cassius, and on the other side was the last remaining reason for holding and demanding me to calm my anger.

‘That bastard is a royal family……If I mess with him, the one who will be ruined would be me, not him…”

Only after dozens of times did the anger subside to the point where normal thinking became possible.

By then, however, Prof. Frain had almost finished what she had to say.

“Yes, that’s all. Please take a break and prepare for the first class.”

Later, she packed her luggage and opened the classroom door and went outside.

Even after she left, the students did not chat or move, either because they were awkward or nervous.

For a while, there was a silence that was hard for anyone to break.

Looking ahead, the students were glancing at the seat next to them. But no one was moving.

At that time, I could hear the sound of pulling the chair.

“Yerine.”

The voice that broke the great silence called my name.

Naturally, as soon as Cassius stood up and approached my desk, all the eyes of the students turned to me.

“The Prince and Miss Spade…….?”

“Do the two know each other?”

“As expected, 7 Imperial Families sure are different…….!”

No, it’s not what you think.

“…….”

I ended up with a fist in my left hand.

Perhaps if this was the Republic of Korea, not the inside of the novel, and if the person I was dealing with was not the imperial family, I would have flown him away from the fist.

I turned away and didn’t answer, thinking that he should figure out the atmosphere on his own.

Nevertheless, Cassius firmly called my name.

“Yerine. Look here. I have something to say.”

The remarks in question made the students more agitated.

“They must be really close…….!”

“Oh, my God, The Prince and………? But they really looked–”

“But are they two fightings now?”

It’s not.

Again, I don’t have any relationship with him.

‘Because this kid has been making misleading comments.….!’

“Yerine–”

In the end, I couldn’t stand it and said a word.

“Why are you calling me?”

I sounded in a harsh voice so anyone could tell I was angry.

The classroom, which was chattering, quickly quieted down.

The problem is that I failed to keep Cassius quiet.

“Yerine.”

“Why?”

I was shocked by his next subsequent remarks.

“You were supposed to speak informally from now on. Use informal language like when we were young.”

It was natural that the atmosphere of the classroom, which had cooled down, heated up again.

“Oh, they were childhood friends?”

“It’s so romantic–”

“Oh, well, The Prince said we need to talk to him informally so he and Miss Spade wouldn’t be too obvious –”

“Oh, but The Prince wouldn’t like it, did he?”

The growing buzz and the envious eyes that flew from here and there grew increasingly irritating me.

When I’m with him, I keep getting people’s attention.

I want to live a quiet life.

As I grabbed the desk with my trembling left hand, there was a sound of squeaking and scratching.

Nevertheless, Cassius kept repeating the same words, as if he had never noticed.

“Yerine, speaking informally–”

I eventually exploded.

I thought I’d have to shut the mouth right away.

“Hey.”

I heard Astra’s mouth shut, saying,’<i>gasp</i>‘.

In my voice, the students froze with a firmer expression than when Professor Frain was here earlier.

If it had been usual, I would have cared about my surroundings, but that day, the shock that Cassius gave me was so great that I couldn’t even care about other people’s eyes.

“You’re noisy, so go away.”

For the first time since Prof. Frain left, I said, gazing straight at Cassius, standing like a plaster statue, with a look he had never made before me.

Later, I heard from Rachel that I was spouting dark aura with a really angry face.

She said I was standing with a look of ‘I’ll beat you to death if you don’t shut up right away,’ I passed Casius standing absent-mindedly and went out of the classroom.

When I returned to the classroom after the first class bell rang, I took the class as if nothing had happened, and until lunch, Cassius remained silent and said nothing.

***

“Oh, come on. I’m really just going to blow that thing up, oh.”

I stamped my feet annoyingly on the roof of the building. In front of me, Cassius stood with his hands together and his head down.

After the morning episode, Cassius hasn’t spoken a word to me.

Not only that, but he was also so restless like a dog pooping next to me that I ended up talking to him first.

Of course, the biggest reason is not that I felt sorry for Cassius, but because I couldn’t capture all my anger with a very gentle swearing such as ‘<i>You’re noisy, so go away</i>.’

“Sorry……”

“Do you know what you did wrong?”

Then Cassius nodded still.

“Whoa, what the hell is this–”

I sigh feeling annoyed just like a mother because her disobedient son, Cassius raises his head and intervenes.

“By the way, Yerine……… Speaking informally-‘

“……are you crazy?”

Cassius bowed his head in a hurry after hearing my profane cursing as an agari fighter.

“That……I’m sorry……… but I missed you so much that……..”

Cassius’s eyes, gazing at me again, were swaying like a cat in the rain.

“So you ended up abusing your imperial power?”

“……sorry.”

I was dumbfounded and snorted with my arms crossed.

You’re abusing your imperial power in all sorts of places.

“No, you’re not even going to be an Imperial Wizard, and you followed me all the way here? And more than that, even if the royal family didn’t come to the Academy, they would have become the Imperial Wizard!”

“I’m sorry…….”

“And how could you come alone like this with no attendants! Did the palace allow you in the first place?”

Cassius nodded enthusiastically at the question.

“Yes. I said I wanted to experience life outside the palace, and both my parents gave me permission.”

“With no attendants?”

I asked back in surprise.

Of course, Cassius often used to go alone without attendants before, but it was different not to bring any attendant to this place where outside access is prohibited.

‘The prince of this country……’

But Cassius replied, tilting his head as if it were too obvious.

“I usually go around without any attendants. And parents have all their interest in my brother, so they’re not interested in me.”

Oh, wait a minute.

‘You know, if you come in here like this, I’ll feel weak.……’

My heart already weakened by his pitiful expression, I felt more sorry for him for getting used to growing up in the palace without getting any attention.

‘I’m not supposed to do this….. Oh, my….’

“Whoo.”

With a deep sigh, I looked at Cassius with a look of helplessness.

“That’s fine. It’s enough for today. Stop apologizing, Cassius.”

Then Cassius untied his hands, which he was holding together, and looked at me with his golden eyes.

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Immediately, Cassius’ face began to feel lively again.

I still can’t believe this man could give off such a scary aura at the appointment ceremony.

“By the way, didn’t you say you wanted to tell me something?”

“Oh, that. Actually, I think Yerine is going to be mad……… So I’ve prepared my own reconciliation gift in advance.”

“You knew I’d be mad, but you still did it, huh?”

Cassius smiled awkwardly at my words. Eventually, he laughed away and rummaged through his pockets, and took out a small bag after a while.

“This is it. Take it. It’s a reconciliation gift.”

What is this?

Looking at the size, is it like a snack?

“You don’t have to give me this….”

“No, take it. I give it because I want it, and I made a mistake. I thought about giving you something else, but I thought it would be good to give you something that you can use the most.”

The moment I untied the string that bound the mouth of the sack while listening to Cassius, a dazzling golden light greeted me.

“……Cassius………this……”

I thought it was like cookies or chocolate.

This lunatic brought a package of gold bars.

“I was thinking of changing it to jewellery, and I thought maybe you wouldn’t like it……… I think it would be nice to buy something you like with this one, and I would like it…….”

Now that I’m tired of turning my rational thinking circuit myself, I said to Cassius with a business smile.

“Thank you, Cassius, but I can’t take this.”

“Why? Is it too little? I thought I’d put enough for a spade, but I was wrong about it–”

“No, it’s not like that.”

Forced to lift the package in the hands of Cassius, I said to Cassius, looking at me with a regretful look.

“First of all, if you have a good sense, you can’t give this to me at the Academy. It can be lost, it’s heavy, it gets people’s attention.”

“Ah……it sounds true. So what do we do?”

I answered Cassius cheerfully, who tilted his head and listened seriously to my words.

“You should have sent it straight to my personal account.”

“……Send? What do you mean…….?”

“Oh, I mean, it would have been better if you put it in my bank vault. I’m not going to get it anyway.”

Then Cassius asked, again with poor expression.

“Then if I send it to the bank vault, will you take it?”

“No, I’m still not taking it.”

“Why?”

Smiling, feeling the cool breeze passing through my hair and cheeks.

“I’m feeling sorry to receive such a thing from someone who likes me so much.”

Cassius’s eyes, which had a blank expression in the dazzling autumn sunshine, were instantly made a vague expression. I still can’t forget it.

***

“Ah….!”

With a clatter of bumps, the pencil case poured down onto the gorgeous wooden floor.

“Oh, I’m sorry…..! Wait a minute!”

I had so many things to do these days that I was distracted.

After slipping through the crowded hall, I finally bumped into a student, and as a result, I came to the present situation.

After magically dragging a rolling writing instrument on the floor, I put it in a pencil case one by one.

“Oh, even if you don’t do that……..”

By the time the crashed student said so, I had already finished restoring the pencil case and naturally returned it to its owner.

“No, I bumped into you, I’m sorry. Here is your pencil case.”

The moment she smiled and handed the pencil case with her hands, the student pulled back with a “haha” sound.”

“Eung……?”

For a moment, as I did not understand the situation, I held the pencil case blankly, and the student, who had stepped back, reached out and took the pencil case back, whispered in a deafening voice.

“Thank you……. I, I’m sorry!”

At the end of the remark, she dashed off to the end of the hall.

With my mouth shut, I lingered in the hallway and looked at her from behind.

“No way…….”

Because she was Erica Blothea, the heroine of the novel and my favourite character.

————————————–