I Reincarnated as a Mob Villain in a Game World I Had Been Playing~ Using My Knowledge of the Game, I Lived a Carefree Life but for Some Reason I Became Famous Everywhere~ - Chapter 45 - A Certain White-Haired Sister ③

Chapter 45 – A Certain White-Haired Sister ③

While the carriage was being escorted home by escorts on all sides…

“Hey, hey, did Nina hear it too? You heard it, right!? He said that I’m better when I’m just me! It’s the first time a man has ever said that to me.”

“Sister, if you don’t lower your voice a little more, people around you will hear you, you know?”

“I’m fine like this.”

In the carriage, Nina said to Marie, who was in a very good mood,

“…Even though your legs were wobbling before we met Sir Jet-black.”

“Hmm? I don’t want to hear that from someone who was happily rattling the front door key.”

“!”

The sisters began arguing, as if to embody the saying, “The more they fight, the better they get along.”

“Anyway, give me the key. I’ll hold it.”

“Eh!? No!”

“This is not the time to say no.”

“This is what Sir Jet-black gave me.”

Nina clutched the key to the mansion with both hands and showed her determination to protect it. She was certainly not doing anything wrong, but Marie was not urging Nina to do so for no reason at all.

“Hah… Then Nina should take full responsibility when she loses the key, okay? Even though you seem reliable, you have a clumsy side.”

“…T-Then please.”

“It wouldn’t be funny if you lost it.”

Nina’s resistance, which had some basis, quickly came to an end.

Holding out the key with both hands, Marie took it firmly.

By showing an older sister-like act, Marie erased the anxiety factor of ‘losing the key’’ and returned to the Jet-black topic.

“…By the way, looking back at it calmly, that guy is really something else… He saw through me in an instant. I thought he’d never find out, but he’s so observant…”

“Didn’t Father also say. ‘It wouldn’t be a surprise if he could see right through you.'”

“That’s true, but I was really skeptical, you know? If I hadn’t heard ‘Always obey when prompted’, I would have definitely made a bad impression on the Ansage family.”

At first, Marie tried to cover it up, thinking that ‘there’s no way he’d find out.’

“Just for the record, did I do anything that would make him suspicious?”

“I thought Sister was perfectly well behaved.”

“Right? Seriously, how did he find out…”

Saying ‘feel at ease’ is one form of social etiquette, but if you repeat it several times, the meaning changes.

In the case of Jet-black, the meaning changed.

It was as if he said, ‘I already know, so there’s no need to pretend.’

—If Marie hadn’t obeyed those suggestive words of ‘feel at ease,’ she would have been seen as bothersome. She might have left a negative impression.

It would’ve been a disgrace to the Ansage family if they let the people they owe so much to feel that way.

“Also~ Don’t you also feel like he had accurate information about the new religious group?”

“That’s what I thought too.”

“Maybe that person knows all the information about this town?”

“…In other words, it might be Sir Jet-black who leaked the information about the new religious group?”

Nina said confidently while smiling happily.

“It was anonymous because it came with ‘I can’t be responsible if I’m wrong.’”

“Oh, that’s why he was hiding his face with the armor too, because there was a possibility of it being exposed!”

—The man himself must be aware of the fact that information on the Jet-black is circulating in the city. 

In other words, he was working with his true face in order to exert the effect of anonymity. 

“Father may have thought so too, and that’s why he took the measure of luring them out today. It was obvious that there was something going on, because the person who has that much information said he didn’t want our parents to come.”

“It makes sense, but it can’t be today, can it?”

Marie got goosebumps for a moment, but she denied the possibility.

“If he knows that much, doesn’t that mean he has infiltrated from the inside? And on top of that, he’s someone who just arrived in this town. He might be perceptive, but in reality, that’s just too unbelievable.”

“When he saved me, it was also through infiltration, though.”

“……”

The argument that would normally have a 100% success rate was crushed by Jet-black’s actual achievements.

“T-There’s no need for him to go to such lengths, seriously…”

Next, Marie talked about it from an emotional point of view.

“If he went to such great lengths, it’s like he’s a saint or something, don’t you think? After all that effort, anyone would want to receive this heirloom, right? “

“Sir Jet-black is not the kind of person to accept gratitude.”

“……”

Again, Nina’s objection crushed Marie, but it was just as Nina said.

He returned half of the money they prepared, asking them to use it meaningfully.

He meant to say, ‘I want you to support the orphanage.’

“…That person is ridiculous. Seriously…”

Thinking back—Marie was told this by the flawless Jet-black,

‘You don’t need to hold back here. You can make yourself comfortable and I prefer it that way.’

“……”

Even though she didn’t know his appearance, only his personality, Marie’s cheeks somehow turned warm.

“You were saved by a good person, Nina. Really…”

“Fufu, how many times have you said that?”

“Well, I just thought so again.”

The sisters exchanged peaceful banters, smiling at each other.

After a few minutes passed since the carriage started on its way…

“Hmm? Wait, it looks like something dangerous is going on.”

At the entrance to the Holy Church, a large number of guards had gathered as if on high alert.

“What happened…”

“S-Sister. I’m scared…”

“It’ll be fine. Don’t worry.”

As Marie hugged Nina tightly, she caught sight of one of the escorts asking about the current situation.

And she heard,

“—Thanks to the thorough measures that were taken, we were able to handle the matter without spreading any false rumors!”

“!!!”

Those were words that gave instant relief.

“As of now, we have progressed to the stage of gathering information on the mastermind from those who engaged in the demonstration act in order to charge them for their crimes, including defamation!”

It could be said that it was Jet-black that managed to crush the root of this evil.