I Awoke as an Imprisoned Villainess-Chapter 30 - More competent than expected

More competent than expected

“Well, it can’t be helped. We’re running out of time”

Violet sama let out a sigh and sat down on the dreadfully dazzling golden couch. Her long legs crossed, she looked graceful and arrogant.

“First of all, I’ll let you explain to me what you’ve been up to these past three months. Claude, you’re aware of Johannes’s poor health, aren’t you?”

“…Yeah”

Claude sama nodded his head while raising his eyebrows.

“He has insomnia from nightmares and a poor appetite, although he does enjoy the pastries made by the Young Lady of Redgrave. —-Other than that, he also has headaches, vomiting, and aches all over his body”

“Well, I suppose”

“But, when I gave him the milk I made based on Sophia’s concoction recipe, his symptoms seemed to have eased...albeit slightly”

“Eh?”

Violet sama looked at me in surprise at Claude sama’s words. She blinked, and then gave Claude sama a faint look of suspicion.

“…That suspicion is disturbing, but I swear on my sword that I have never divulged the condition of His Highness myself. ...She saw that His Highness wasn’t in a good condition when he came to inspect the tower and asked me to give him some milk that would help him sleep well. Then, apparently, it helped with symptoms other than insomnia.”

“Oh my”

Violet sama looks at me again in surprise.

“You...You are a competent weirdo more than I expected”

“Eh!!??”

Weirdo... Weirdo?? How am I any weird...!?

As I was greatly shocked by the devastating insult, Violet sama raised her eyebrows and said, “It’s a compliment, you know”.

The compliment seems too novel. I wonder what kind of mindset the compliment came from...

I thought and thought until I came to a conclusion. The word ‘変態’ can also mean a change in appearance. It may suggest how I have gained weight.

“Um...That, I’m really sorry...”

“…? Well, okay, I see. So Johannes was doing better than I thought. I had thought he was one step away from being bedridden or even dying”

Violet sama turned her purple eyes to me softly as she said those shocking words casually.

“Right. You stopped it”

I gulped.

The way Violet sama looked at me, she looked regretful, relieved, angry, and most of all, sad.

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Maybe the look I saw earlier was just my imagination. “What do you mean?” The moment Claude sama’s face grew tense and he asked for an explanation, Violet sama’s expression turned back to that of the ruler she had been until a moment ago.

“I’ll put it simply. That woman is probably drugging Johannes with some kind of psychoactive, deadly drug”

“Psychoactive, deadly drug...?”

I recalled the symptoms of His Highness. I remembered his physical ailments and his clouded eyes. And that he became somewhat short-tempered.

Then, I assembled in my mind the efficiency, side effects, and commonalities between japanese ash and white sage which had worked well for His Highness’s symptoms.

Neither japanese ash nor white sage has any detoxifying properties.

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But if it was limited to some specific poison. There isn’t any such potency in combination...at least, I don’t know of any.

Everything I’ve ever read is in my head.

But no matter how I checked them against the poisons in my head, I could not come up with any psychoactive, deadly drug that would match His Highness’s symptoms.

While I was thinking impatiently, I heard the low, calm voice of Claude sama.

“…His Highness’s food, drinks, and pastries made by the young lady of Redgrave. Even the perfume she wore has been confirmed to have no poison by the chief royal apothecary and even the new apothecaries. They have also examined him and found no signs that His Highness has been poisoned. Several poison testers have also eaten, drunk, and sniffed the same food as His Highness in order to put them under similar circumstances. ...There is no abnormality”

Right. I don’t understand that either. The poison that doesn’t show any abnormalities in poison testers.

“You’re declaring that His Highness is poisoned under such circumstances?”

“That’s right”

Violet sama said, “The chief royal apothecary. —Even though he may be narrow minded, he is capable. He is rather a serious person”.

I don’t think the chief royal apothecary has committed any wrongdoing, Violet sama said.

“That woman has a drug that could fool even the chief royal apothecary’s eyes”

Violet sama looked straight at me, using words that had a slight catch to them.

“—The skilled apothecaries of the royal palace cannot see through it. I can think of no one but the Arbuthnot family who could make such a drug”

Translator’s Notes:

変態 means transformation, pervert. I used weirdo because pervert didn’t make much sense.

And I’m sorry for not keeping to my schedule. Adding one more novel made the load a lot bigger. Plus, yesterday, I was about to translate into late night, trying to update, but my electricity had to cut off at that timing. I always write my draft and upload it directly, so all my efforts go down the drain when the computer or the browser/tab close. I uploaded an extra Chapter so that you guys wouldn’t think I’m giving excuses.