The Villainesses in the Romance Fantasy Novel Became Obsessed with me

Crunch! Crunch!

I silently ate the food on the plate.

It felt like suddenly ascending to heaven before dying.

‘Delicious… feels like I’ve barely survived.’

Meat, soup, bread.

As the food I couldn’t eat for three days entered my stomach, I felt like I had finally came back alive from the other side of hell.

But even though my stomach was full, I didn’t feel happy.

Worry filled my mind.

Right now,

It felt like my head was about to explode.

‘Now that the overall plan has been ruined. Then how should I take care of Nadia from now on?’

I looked at Nadia, resting her chin on the table.

She never took her eyes off me from the beginning to the end of the meal.

That means she watched me eat from start to finish.

She was very different from usual.

“… First of all, thank you for saving me. Thanks to you, I survived.”

“You don’t need to thank me. I just did what needed to be done. My duty is to protect my servants, isn’t it? It’s natural.”

Nadia said casually as if nothing had happened.

Even though she just killed two guards, there was no guilt in her behavior.

‘She probably thinks that it was a natural thing to be done from the start…’

A person can’t show such a bold attitude if they don’t believe it’s a righteous decision.

The guard didn’t give me food.

Nadia seemed to think he deserved to die since he didn’t give me food.

I carefully opened my mouth after placing the utensils on the table.

“Thank you for the meal. I have something to ask, My Lady.”

“Yeah, go ahead. Ask me anything, my loyal servant.”

“How did you know about the basement, and why did you ask?”

I asked a question to verify the accuracy of the novel’s content.

Nadia answered without much hesitation.

“Someone told me to go to the basement. And, it felt like I had to go.”

“Do you know who that person was?”

“I don’t know, they were a stranger.”

It was exactly like the part in the novel where Nadia awakened as a true villainess.

‘Nadia commits murder and truly touch upon the power of the family. And, she hears the ancestral call to go to the basement of Verdium Mansion…’

There, she hears something and gains all the power of the family.

The chosen one among the family members could only obtain supernatural power.

Maybe it was something like this.

The power that could quickly kill people like ants.

The supernatural power is passed down through generations of the Verdium family.

Nadia, who possessed the least desirable personality traits, inherited it.

‘So, it must not happen. The killing must stop here. She couldn’t go further as a villainess.’

Even for the sake of my parents waiting for me.

Clench!

I firmly grabbed Nadia’s hand on the dining table.

And, with a more assertive tone than usual, I said, “My Lady, can you make one promise to me?”

“A promise? Are you asking me for a promise as my servant right now?”

“Is it not possible?”

Nadia stared at my hand and replied.

“Still, because it’s you, Darmian, I’ll listen to you specially. What promise do you want?”

“It’s just my feeling… It might sound out of line, but please don’t go into the basement.”

“Why?”

“I have a bad feeling about it.”

“Hmm.”

Nadia slowly began to stroke the hand I was holding.

Though she seemed deeply troubled, her expression had softened considerably.

After a while, she made a ‘condition’ to me.

“I understand the promise. But in return, you have to do something for me. Promises aren’t made alone.”

She was indeed clever.

It was a brain that wreaked and devoured half the continent, after all.

I cautiously asked what that condition was.

“What do you want, My Lady?”

“I want Darmian to be my family.”

“… What? Family?”

It was biologically impossible for me to become her Mom.

Being the Dad was legally impossible.

Then the only one left was…

“A husband…? Are you asking me, your servant, to marry you…?”

“Yeah, marry me. Let’s get engaged first since you’re not of age yet.”

“…”

This was too sudden.

I cautiously asked her for the reason.

The answer was somewhat logical and reasonable.

“If I marry you, Baron Medeus won’t ask me to marry somebody else. And if I bring you in as a son-in-law, the Verdium bloodline will continue, so the servants will be on my side again. Ultimately…”

I don’t need Baron Medeus anymore.

“That woman is not my family. She doesn’t truly care about me. Unlike you, she wouldn’t risk her life for me. Thanks to you, Darmian, I realized that. Thank you for clearing my fog, Darmian.”

Nadia smiled dangerously as she stroked my cheek with the opposite hand of the one we held, marking me with her touch, ensuring she wouldn’t let me go.

‘This is driving me crazy..’

But what was even crazier was that the plan she mentioned actually made sense.

‘After Medeus is expelled out, Nadia promises not to go into the basement, and then the servants will shift their allegiance to the empowered Nadia.’

If that happens.

Nadia would no longer hate the world and wouldn’t become a villainess.

Even if she became a murderer, she wouldn’t become a mass murderer.

Although she might have been born with psychopathic tendencies, she wouldn’t become a mass murderer due to the bad environment.

Except the fact that I have to go to another villainess, it was a perfect plan.

‘But it’s still too ambiguous to make a definite decision now. Let’s take some more time to think.’

I hardened my expression and pretended to ponder.

“Well… It’s difficult to say right now…”

But that action seemed like a rejection.

“Why? Don’t you want to marry me?”

Crack!

Nadia started to exert force on the hand she was holding.

It hurt terribly.

“It’s not that… I-I just need some time to think.”

“You’re my servant. I’m offering you a promise. You said you genuinely care about me. Don’t you like me, Darmian?”

Her eyes were intimidating.

Nadia was trying to elicit an answer from me through fear.

But even if my hand were to break, I would disagree right now.

I had to leave this place anyway.

I needed time to think.

“Even if you break my hand… I’ll answer later…”

“Really? Then answer. Do you have any intention of being mine or not?”

“Um, I’ll try to think… positively…”

“… I like you like that, Darmian. Even if captured and tortured by enemies, I don’t think you’d ever reveal secrets because of me.”

Slide!

Nadia released the hand she was holding.

‘Phew, my hand almost broke.’

I shook my hand once and met Nadia’s gaze.

She was looking at me with a satisfied expression.

I felt like escaping the mansion right away.

“Now that we’ve eaten, I’ll return for now. Please wait in the drawing room while I change clothes.”

“Sure, hurry back.”

Don’t go anywhere else.

Nadia added coldly as a final word.

But I had to go somewhere else.

‘Medeus… It’s better for you to leave before you die.’

And before they leave the mansion.

They had to explain to me what happened while I was imprisoned.

That, too, in great detail.

***

After being dressed neatly in servant attire, I headed to Medeus’ study with various documents in hand.

And most importantly.

My new plan was also ready.

“I’m coming in.”

Bam-!!

I kicked the door and entered.

There sat a tired-looking Medeus in a messy state.

‘She must have already heard about what happened in prison.’

Medeus looked at me and shouted in anger.

“You, you bastard…!! How on earth did you manipulate Nadia…!! She didn’t even listen to me and started rebelling…!!”

I also want to know how I manipulated her.

I wanted to give ‘trust’.

But it was not my fault if the recipient interpreted it as ‘affection’.

Anyway.

I confidently approached her and handed her the documents.

“Please read this first. I investigated it alone, so it might be helpful.”

Initially, I planned to prepare more and definitively expel them.

But if I didn’t expel them now, they would cause trouble.

Nadia would not tolerate that behaviour and would respond with action.

‘If too many people are killed, she’ll end up in the basement. Regardless of my promise.’

It is not over until it’s over.

Plans could be adjusted as needed.

That was why it was earlier than initially planned.

I decided to expel the Medeus Family from the mansion.

“T-This damn servant-!!”

Medeus read the documents and yelled at me.

“Why…!! Why do you have these documents…?! I-I would’ve torn them all to pieces…!!”

“It was so hard to rummage through the trash every day and stick them back together. And it was too much trouble to pay the garbage handler.”

Forged documents.

And various corrupt documents.

Medeus had been embezzling money from the family under the pretext of urban development.

And the documents were labelled as ‘miscellaneous expenses’.

Of course, that was the label used for accounting, and there would be no trace of it in the document storage now.

I only had that trace.

“So.”

I slammed the desk-!

“Get out of this mansion right now. Don’t even think about coming back.”

“W-What if I refuse…?”

“I’ll scatter these documents around the city. And, I’ll gather everyone related to this matter using My Lady.”

Then…

Shing!

“Based on the prison guards you encountered this morning, I think you know the answer.”

Medeus trembled at my presence.

“Y-You came into the mansion for this…? How far did you plan…?”

“My plan halfway failed, so this is the new plan I came up with today.”

“Don’t lie…!! Don’t speak kindly for no reason…!!”

She was making a fuss even though she knew.

But as long as I held the knife.

Medeus also had a dagger with which to retaliate.

“So, what are you going to do about that…? You, you took money from me and sold Nadia’s information. What are you going to do now that you’ve even written a contract? If I expose everything, you won’t get away unscathed either.”

Collusion.

To enter the mansion as a servant, I sold Nadia’s daily information to Medeus.

I lied, but I told more truth.

And quite a few people witnessed that collusion in the mansion.

‘If Nadia, who trusts me 100%, finds out about this, she’ll feel betrayed.’

I might not get away unscathed, either.

But ironically…

“I’d appreciate it if you told me. I’m curious to see how it’ll turn out.”

That was the action I was hoping for.

Medeus was unable to sway my decision. She fell silent with her mouth wide open.

I pushed the documents even closer to her face.

“So what’s it going to be? Do you want the documents to be spread out and cause chaos, or do you want me to hide them and speak up only when I want?”

“…”

The snake is filled with overwhelming ambition, aiming to devour Verdium.

Baron Medeus.

Nadia’s aunt.

“…You know nothing about the Verdium family.”

Medeus said as she tucked the documents into her chest.

Ultimately, she valued money over her children and life over money.

She was a wicked woman who knew that money was useless if she died.

I received an explanation of what happened while I was imprisoned and Medeus’s promise to return home.

According to Medeus, Nadia’s transformation occurred over five days.