I Took The Body Of A Villain 01
1. I will take all of you
“What did you just say?”
I didn't even dream that such a word would come out of his mouth. Manuela thought it would be a joke this time, and tried to fix her trembling heart.
“Stop joking like that, it’s not fun.”
Carl always did. He was a man whose daily routine was to throw jokes and jokes. Women liked him like that. In contrast, Lydel was always serious. How the two became friends was still a mystery.
“I don't have a hobby of joking about this.”
It was a serious face that was quite different from what she had known. As soon as I saw it didn't suit me, I even gave a beautiful gift. The scent in my arms was too strong to be a dream.
“You told me to marry me.”
“So I am waiting for your answer now.”
“Why do you want to marry me?”
Despite the obvious question, he held his breath for a moment as if panicked. It's as if it burns even shame. Fortunately, before Manuela pinched the ball because it was a dream, he returned to his original stupid appearance.
“Do you want to hear the words that you love?”
It was certainly not a line from a man confessing his trembling love. Then it is. It was only then that she knew that this was not a dream.
“I know it's not love. Look at the real reason you confess to me.”
At those words, he made a bitter smile.
“Why are you so sure? Can't I love you?”
“If you marry me, aren't you saying you're going to make a deal because you'll understand if you meet another girl outside?”
“Manuela, I have to tell you clearly.”
Carl closed his eyes for a moment and sighed. The eyes that opened again were filled with despair.
“I've never loved another woman before.”
“What?"
“I've never met another girl.”
“Who believes that? There are many women around.”
“I just pretended to be kind to everyone to get your attention.”
“What is that…...”
“It was because I wanted to show you well. You said you like a friendly man.”
My heart jumped quickly. Manuela could no longer meet his eyes. As she looked down, she found something in his hand. When he had just arrived at the front door, he was holding it crumpled. As soon as I saw him, he even hid it back. There was something I could tell, so I quickly caught it. It was Yeonseo. It was a kind of proposal that Lydel wrote down to her with trembling heart.
“That was it.”
My heart plunged endlessly to the bottom. It seemed that I now know why he suddenly confessed. Carl always wrapped around his friend Lydel and was on the lookout for anyone approaching him. No woman is going to win the castle of Carl.
“I’m not enough as the bride-in-law of my favorite friend?”
“…..What?"
“You're just offended that he confessed to me.”
It turned out that the flowers he gave were not usually used for proposals. He was a hobbyist who took teasing Manuela. I would have laughed it off normally, but this time I couldn't.
“What are you talking about?”
I have always dreamed of this moment. How long have you been praying for Carl to be like her? But do you play with something like this?
“Tell Lydel. I'm willing to be his bride.”
I spit it out. As a husband, Aunt Donna said that a friendly man is the best. Manuela decided to end her unrequited love and choose a man who loves her.
“Is that the answer to my proposal?”
“Okay. So look for another woman.”
“I really don't know anything about me. You wouldn't even want to know.”
“What does that mean?"
“If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be married forever.”
Terrible sorrow settled in his face. She brought the flower she was holding back to him.
“Take this flower back.”
“If you don’t want, throw it away. Whether it is a person or a flower.”
After that, he turned around. It was like a lonely person who was abandoned by someone who believed. A month later, Manuela married Lydel. It was a small wedding with only schoolmates, but the knife didn't come. I wasn't getting married like that. Lydel was certainly a good man, but marriage wasn't as easy as I thought.
. . . Two years have passed since he followed Lydel to the Charmante Empire. Married to him, but never became his wife. I have never been recognized as a family. Manuela knew what kind of family he was only the day before the wedding. A continent with five times the territory of the Archetia kingdom where she was born and raised. He was the very prince of the empire. I knew that if I tried hard, I could overcome the difference in status and be loved by his family.
— If only our hearts remain unchanged, we will surely be happy.
As soon as I stepped on the threshold of the imperial palace, I could see how easy it was. Manuela closed her eyes at a memory she didn't want to remember anymore. Cold water droplets fell over the closed eyelids. It looked like rain was leaking from the ceiling. After being imprisoned on the top floor of the tower, Manuela prayed to God every night.
‘I hope you won't wake up the next day because you scream all night.’
That was the only way to get out of this place. I was sitting blankly, but the maid came in with dinner.
“After the party, I stayed and brought some.”
“A party?”
“There was a celebration of the newly crowned Grand Duchy Hersen. He came to the empire half a year after he inherited the title.”
“So it was noisy outside.”
“The party at the Imperial Palace is now over, and only a few people say they have moved to the Grand Duke Residence in the capital.”
I was told that the Grand Duke, who inherited the title this year, was the grandson of the predecessor, and had never even seen his face. Even Lydel's cousin wasn't particularly useful for her situation. The maid gave her a cup.
“First, be a little lean.”
As I touched her mouth, the maid's apron caught my eye. There was a red stain on the white fabric. At the moment, Manuela paused from the glass. The maid, staring at her, swallowed gulp. For some reason, I felt depressed. There was a famous superstition in Archetia. When white clothes turn red, it is an ominous sign.
“What did you spill on your clothes?”
“Yeah? this…... Uh, when did you bury it?”
The maid shouted, feeling embarrassed, as if explaining.
“Oh, I ran into a noble Nari at the party earlier!”
Manuela looked down at the red wine like blood, then raised her head and smiled.
“Thank you. I'll drink well.”
Then she emptied the glass at once. As if she had finished her work, the maid walked back and went out as if running away. The door was locked again outside. . . . Not long after the maid left, an unexpected guest came.
“It's been a while, Manuela.”
“How did you come here?”
Karina lowered the robe hood over her head. The greedy platinum hair shined through the lamp, giving it a sunset glow.
“I want to see you one last time.”
“You mean the last?"
A friend I met after a long time told an unknown story.
“When the coronation is over tomorrow morning, you will be executed.”
The shock shook my leg. Karina sat on the floor with her friend about to fall.
— Wait. I will definitely come to get it.
Before being taken to the tower, Lydel said so. A month has passed since that day. He never looked for her. I tried to deny it, but it was a reality. Manuela was abandoned. It was only this that the price of choosing him after giving up all of her. Tears fell from collapse. When I was castrated by the imperial priests, I didn't cry even in the pain of breaking my whole body.
“Poor Manuela. Didn't you really think you could be an empress?”
I felt a laugh at Karina's words.
“You cannot be the empress. It's decided that way.”
“What does that mean?”
“You are a witch.”
Except for the priest, only death was for those who practiced magic in Charmante. I also gave up my dream of becoming a professor at the magic school in order to be with Lydel. Only enough horsepower remained in her body to spare her life.
“Not anymore.”
“But the magic was revealed in front of the ministers. There were no priests.”
“I'm not like that. I……”
“Know. I believe in you no matter what anyone says.”
She laughed Fooss.
“I did it.”
“…..What?"
“I have planned it all. If you sign a contract with the demons, you can use a simple magic.”
“why….. !”
Karina was the only one to be friends with her, who was treated as a devil in the imperial palace. The betrayer said the last word.
“If only you disappear, I will become the empress of this country as planned.”
It was the first time she heard it. As if it was petty, a small smile spread over her mouth.
“Do you think you married Your Majesty?”
“What do you want to talk about?”
“Do you know what they call something like you here?”
Red lips came close to my ears. She whispered low through her grayish green hair. I knew which words would hurt my friend the most. government.
“You said that there is no such thing in Archetia?"
“Shut up.”
“You cannot become an empress until the day you die. No, even if you die, you will be recorded in history as the sweetheart that the emperor played with as a child.”
“No!”
“Did you really believe that you could be your Majesty's wife?”
Manuela tried to raise her hand, but her body didn't listen. The skin was hot as if thrown into the furnace.
“If your Majesty had truly considered you a wife, he would have turned to the Pope for help.”
Karina said on her behalf, wiping the sweat from her forehead.
“Because the principle of Daeshinjeon doctrine is to have the first spouse the only spouse. If the Pope's approval had been dropped, you would have been recognized as a Crown Princess and by now you could be empress.”
Lydel never told me how to do it. In the end, she was the only one who continued the fight on the battlefield called the Imperial Palace. Even my husband was not on my side.
“Everyone wants you to die before the Pope knows about you.”
“No way that wine…... Is it your job?”
“The poison will spread more and more. At first, the body heats up, but at the end, it feels like a burning pain. I'd rather beg to be killed. You will die like that.”
I barely held on to my distant mind and said, as if she spit out her teeth.
“If I die, do you think I can have that person? Lydel doesn't love you.”
“I Know. Now you don't even know my face. Do you think it's different? Your Majesty has already taken all the affection from you.”
“Don’t be bullshit… … !”
“Who would have allowed me to get in here?”
Even the fierce faith disappeared. Manuela felt like she was thrown alone in a maze with no end. If Lydel had been involved in the assassination, there was no future allowed for her.
“But how would you like to see a woman you once loved getting her neck cut off the guillotine? So Manuela, die.”
[Karina's POV]
After saying that, Karina got up from her seat. I closed the door as I watched my lost friend's body hit the floor without force. . . . After a while, the maid came back in. She collected the Last Supper, trying not to see the corpse hit by her feet as much as possible. I hurried away and dropped the plate on the floor. Again, red sauce splashed on my apron.
‘When you get out of the capital, you should buy a suit first.’
When I was soaked in sweet dreams while picking up fragmented fragments, my spine became creepy. Something cold and sharp touched my neck. Before even turning back, the maid screamed in hell and died instantly on the spot. * * * There was a wagon waiting at the back of the Emperor's Palace after leaving the tower and turning around the corner. Karina cleaned her clothes, looked around, and carefully got on the carriage.
“Where will you take me, my lady?”
“Go to the grand co-working house.”
By now, it was the time when people were also getting drunk. It wasn't difficult to naturally fit into the seat like the person who was there. Everything was perfect. Manuela will be dealt suicide tomorrow morning. I didn't have time, so it was upsetting to me that I couldn't take care of the maid or girl.
“It’s not bad to have a day of death anyway.”
Looking out the window, she tried to sootheer impatient heart, but before she even left the Imperial Palace, a carriage suddenly stood.
“What is it?”
“I am a maid at the Imperial Palace. I know you and my lady......”
The trouble came on my feet. Looking at the maid standing under the shadow of a dark tree, Karina turned off the light inside.
“Let me in.”
The maid climbed in the dark where only the opponent's silhouette was visible. Karina encouraged her to sit across from her, and with one hand grabbed the poison bottle hidden in the cuffs.
“Did you take care of what you ordered?”
The maid nodded in a stiff posture, as if tense.
“I will pay the promised reward upon arrival at home.”
Karina secretly opened the lid of the poison bottle and, little by little, spilled over the frills on her sleeves. Suddenly, the poisoned frill became wet.
‘Wait…..Was the maid that big?’
She picked up the gaze from below and glanced up the maid's blessing. Even though I got used to the darkness, the maid was bowing her head, so her face was hard to see. When I reached out with a light, the maid's hand was faster. Fragments of cold porcelain popped into Karina's white nape.
“Did you think I would die quietly?”
“Yes, how do you…..!”
“You should have chosen a maid who can be more good in acting.”
Manuela wasn't as stupid and innocent as she thought she was. She confirmed that the maid had gone out and immediately spit out the solo liquor she had held. It felt poisonous as if a drop had entered the esophagus, but I finally got to my senses. The killer appeared at his own feet in the car in which she was inferring.
“what do you want?”
“All I want is to go back to Archetia.”
“What?”
“Okay. As you said, I don't deserve to be an empress. I never thought I wanted to be.”
“you……!”
“So if you want to be an empress, do it. That man, have you.”
Manuela confirmed that the carriage had completely escaped from the Imperial Palace and spoke again.
“Turn the carriage. I have to go to the port. If you do it, you pay the reward.”
Karina slowly nodded. As she reached out to the window on the side of the coachman, she quickly turned and rushed to Manuela. When she pressed her face with a damp frill, she, lying on a chair, began struggling with all her might to die.
‘little bit more… … little bit more!’
After a while, Manuela's hand, grasping her arm, fell to the floor without strength. Karina cleared the frill to make sure she was out of breath. At the moment, Manuela opened her eyes. Holding Karina's neck with both hands, she shouted a language she couldn't understand. Red eyes, like good blood, flashed like lightning.
“I will take your body. Ademphtum, Herdia!”
Karina's body was pushed back by some strong force. She fell on the floor with her back hit the window and lowered her head. Inside I was in a fuss and the coachman hurried to speak. When he got off and opened the door of the carriage, his owner, who was sitting quietly, turned his head.
“My lady, what happened……”
“What is it?”
The owner snatched her horse first. When he saw her casual face, the coachman thought he had heard hallucinations again. It was already the fifth this month. There was no family that would continue to use an old man with hallucinations.
“Now I’m going to the mansion. Shall we move to the back door?”
“Would you like to make a news in the neighborhood that you are now at the front door?”
Seeing the young owner's eyebrows frowned, the coachman hurried to shut the door before a larger fire command fell..... Suddenly, the wagon arrived at the destination. When the door was opened, the owner, who threw off her robes, got out of the carriage in a graceful manner.
“Here…...?”
The coachman, who quickly recognized my intention, shouted quickly.
“Of course, it’s not the back door of the Grand Duke! It was open freely on the day of the party, so I just confirmed that there is no manager at the back door.”
While the coachman drove the horse to the place where the wagons were gathered, the woman stepped into the mansion. Manuela slowly closed and opened Karina's eyelids. Taking the body of others was black magic that was forbidden even among wizards. There was no other way. Had she been still, she would have lost her life.
‘Why did you come to the grand co-work?’
The only Grand Duchy was the Vasily family of the Grand Duchy of Herssen. Only then did I remember the celebration of Grand Duchess Herssen today. If Karina was invited, she could avoid unnecessary suspicion by leaving her face lit for a while. As if he fell into a bog, her body grew heavier. Eventually, in the middle of the garden, my legs were relieved, and I went straight forward. I thought it was going to hit the ground, but it didn't hurt at all. Manuela opened her tightly closed eyes again. Someone was standing in front. Looking at her clothes, a noble man caught her falling.
“That….. Could you please let go of this?”
He gently lifted the arm he had wrapped around her shoulder.
“If it wasn't for you, I would have been seriously injured. Thank you. It's Karina Emerald.”
‘Nonsense. This is a dream......’
Couldn't he be here without a dream?
“The greeting is late. This is Calypso de Vasily.”
The man kissed the back of her hand with a charming smile. When I laughed, I liked the tail of my mouth that dries up pretty. I liked the bow-like eyes every time I met his eyes. I liked black and curly hair like the night sky. Like the southern sea of Archetia, I liked the clear and blue eyes. Manuela loved all of him back then. Another man who proposed to her 19 years old. The first love I couldn't miss even in my dreams. The sword was right in front of my eyes. Before even calling her favorite name, she just lost her mind.
[T/N: I'm not an expert translator. I'm also having a nosebleed while reading this story. I edit some words and fix it but some of the translations are not really accurate but I still hope that the readers will understand the story. By the way Karina is the villainess and she has a blonde hair and Manuela is the Female Lead with a black hair. Manuela took the body of Karina like switching souls. Lydel is Manuela's husband. I can't spoil you everything and Carl is Manuela's first love the one who she rejected. (T_T) V]
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