I, the Villain, Want to Save Myself, But the Yandere Heroines Disagree-Chapter 29 - Self-Exposure

Downstairs, the reckoning continued.

“Your Majesty, although this is our family matter, if such a thing happened in any family, the handling would only be more severe, wouldn’t it?” Orson said this, turning his head to look at Duke François of Orleans.

“Duke François, considering the relationship between the Orleans Duchy and the Antica Duchy, just expelling Miss Mary from the ducal family, how does Your Excellency feel about this?”

“Why are you asking me?” François looked at Orson in confusion. “Isn’t this your family matter? Rather, even if Mary returns, I will not take her in.”

For François, Mary’s exposure meant the complete disappearance of her value.

This ambitious sister of his had used some minor tactics before he ascended to the title, wanting to seize the right of inheritance for herself. After failing to compete with him, she was married off by him, yet she still wanted to usurp the power of her husband’s family.

Frankly speaking, if Mary could truly achieve it, François wouldn’t mind helping her. But as it seemed now, Mary was completely a drowning dog. Why should he protect her? Just because she was his sister?

Among nobles, the strongest bond was kinship, and the weakest bond was kinship.

Especially for great nobles like François.

The inheritance law based on blood ties determined the order of succession, but the inheritance law could not arbitrarily strip others of their right of inheritance. This also meant that if something unexpected happened to him, the position of Duke might not fall into the hands of his descendants. This made nobles keep a close watch on their relatives.

While some nobles, due to close family ties, did not experience that kind of constant vigilance, for most nobles, it was normal to wish for their other relatives of the same generation to die out.

After all, keeping them would only make the price of rice in the world more expensive. frёewebηovel.cѳm

Mary raised her head and looked at her brother François. Back then, to eliminate her, this hidden threat, and also to gain an ally, he married her off to Duke Lucius of Antica, Lucius, who was twenty years older than her, old enough to be her father.

She was powerless to change the situation and could only let fate arrange it this way. She did not love Lucius. Lucius, who missed his deceased wife, also did not love her. For a long time, the two of them only maintained a nominal marital relationship.

She even married into Lucius’s family when his son Orson was only ten years younger than her. By age, she should have been his older sister, but she was forced to learn to become a mother.

She tried to resist fate. She wanted to seize control of the Antica Duchy’s power, and then take revenge on her brother.

For this, she did not hesitate to temporarily humble herself before her brother, silently transferring almost two-thirds of the Antica Duchy’s tax surplus to the Orleans Duchy through clever means.

She was like a rootless duckweed. Just one strong gust of wind could blow her to the peak of the nine heavens. But, she did not get the strong gust of wind meant for her.

A downpour started in the sky...

At this moment, she suddenly remembered.

Earlier, Lucius seemed to have half-warned her.

“If you truly feel you are incapable, then please yield your position to a more capable person.”

At the time, Mary only found these words very inexplicable. But now that she recalled them, there was only sarcasm.

Yes, Lucius had already warned her, but not only did she not give up, she even worsened her actions...

Thinking this, the tightly stretched string in Mary’s heart finally snapped.

“Heh, haha...” Mary stood up, looking somewhat deranged.

“You self-righteous people, do you really think you are all clean?!” Mary said this, pointing at Duke François of Orleans.

“Brother, why do you think I used the duchy’s finances to support you? To subsidize the financial deficit in your territory after you just inherited the title?”

“At that time, you wrote me a letter. If I needed help from the family, I should just speak up. You even mentioned that mutual help between family members is a duty and an obligation. You haven’t forgotten those words, have you?”

“Why are you telling me this? Saying it as if I made you do it.” François frowned.

“Heh, yes, you are good at kicking someone when they’re down,” Mary said this, smiling.

Then she looked at the others.

“Heh, I’ve been a Duchess for so many years. Can you guess if I have anything on you?”

Saying this, Mary pointed at Giovanni.

“Duke of Napoli, what your son Donny did at the Imperial Academy is no different from what you did back then, is it?”

Giovanni, who had been enjoying the show, was startled to see Mary suddenly expose herself like this.

“Lady Mary, for now, I will call you Lady Mary. Please mind your words and control your tongue.”

“Heh, so, you’ve done something wrong and don’t want others to know?” Mary laughed upon hearing Giovanni say this.

“As a Duke of the Empire, when the Antica Duchy was suffering, you only sent five thousand inside help! That’s the good deed you did, isn’t it?”

“Your Majesty, please handle this madwoman!” Seeing that he couldn’t reason with Mary, Giovanni turned his gaze to Odysseus.

Odysseus heard this and nodded.

“Guards, Lady Mary is experiencing some mental distress. Take her away.”

Hearing Odysseus’s words, the guards standing at the entrance were startled. After receiving Orson’s permission, they entered and restrained Mary.

“Let go of me! I’m not finished! And you, Ivan! How many illegitimate children do you have? Don’t you know?!”

“And you, Leon...!”

Mary was dragged upstairs and locked in her room.

If nothing unexpected happened, today should be the last time she would be in her room.

After Mary finished her outburst, the joyful atmosphere of the victory celebration completely vanished.

Instead, it turned into awkwardness.

No one had expected the Stranick family to cause such a huge scene.

After Mary was exposed, no one had expected her to expose even more information, intending to drag other nobles down with her.

Fortunately, she was later carried upstairs.

“Apologies for making you all witness this,” Orson said this, showing an apologetic smile.

“It’s alright. Who doesn’t have some unspeakable matters in their family?” William said this, stood up, came to Orson’s side, and patted his shoulder.

“It just so happened that this time, everyone was a little irrational.”

Hearing William’s words, Orson showed a grateful expression.

At this moment, the other nobles who had just been named by Mary all had somewhat awkward expressions on their faces.

Some things were indeed known to others, but they were simply not explicitly stated.

But some things were indeed unknown to everyone.

At this moment, many gazes in the hall were directed towards Giovanni, including that of Odysseus.