Given That I’ve Become a Villainess, I’d Like to Live Freely

It's been months since I started living here. [M] Besides her, I've gotten a lot used to Allen, the Dukes of Winsley and the servants here. It soars when there is still a good Gatai man nearby, but his whole body is no longer trembling like it was before.

She'll be by my side the whole time, and I'll be like, "It's okay. I'm not scared." I feel very relieved because it caresses my head and back.

I heard the Duke was looking into the dark auction, but I can't believe I'm getting caught again... and this time with her and Allen...

Another dark room then... but this time I have both her and Allen. And there are several other children of nobility and civilians who have been caught, and later children of the same beast man as me. I wasn't alone like I was before.

"We're not going home today, and our usual squire will report us to your father and mother, so they'll find us soon.... and if we don't find Daiyuan holding the Dark Auction by then, we'll be on the run again.

She behaves so modestly. But I saw my hands trembling a little and I looked frightened and hugged her. Let her tremble stop at all...

"This is the only door I've got, and... I think I'll wait here until the auction starts. But if they sell it at auction, it doesn't make sense... why don't we come back for another pair of single-cell idiots?"

"Dear Rosé, what was the two single-cell idiots earlier?

(single-cell... idiot... you're probably talking about those guys earlier. Rosé says that, too. But I'm glad because it kind of boils down to intimacy)

We became friends with someone a little older than us named Will, and we worked out an exchange of information and an operation to get out of here.

Thanks to her, Allen made a successful escape outside.

(I'm the only one here right now, so we have to protect Rosé!)

Until help came... even when I came, I was determined to stay beside her the whole time.

On the day of the Dark Auction, her father, the Duke of Winsley, and the knights, captured no one left behind.

The Duke took her and me to a certain room.

"This is His Highness William, the first prince of this country.

(Shh. I knew you were... I thought it was noble because the tricks were sophisticated, and because they smelled and looked different, I was thinking maybe...)

And he told me something terrible.

"... you don't think it's under my two. My face is still young but I don't think the contents are very 6 years old. I want to be my brother Eric's fiancée. He's a little... arrogant..."

(This, fiancée!? This guy's brother's... I don't like it! Absolutely not. I don't like it when Rose becomes someone else's.... but what do Rosé and the Duke think?)

"... there are terrible things about people like me being royal fiancées.

"Your Highness, even from me. That... Roselia is still 6 years old, so I was wondering if it was too early to talk to her fiancée, etc.

"Come on, Duke, you just don't like your cute little daughter being someone's thing, do you? Well, you don't like the fact that they're Eric, either?

"... well, if it's indeed His Highness William, I'd like to think about it for a moment, but His Highness Eric... I want Roselia to be happy, so I'm sorry.

"Pfft, you're being honest. Well, I know exactly how you feel. However, the Duke of Winsley family is important to the royal family. And I have this work to do. Your Majesty will not remain silent.... you'll be invited soon.

(Good thing... both of us are negative. But if this becomes an order from the king of this country, it will be irrevocable. Rosé becomes someone's thing... I can't do it like this. I just want to be around Rose a little bit more... but I have to stay... strong and smart!)

"Roselia... no, let me call you Rosé. So call me Will as you did earlier. [M] I miss being taken a step back knowing I'm a prince.... I guess the same goes for the young prince there.

He gave me his last glance. And my circumstances. And it was such a sharp sight to be seen through to my heart.

I was relieved that the last word didn't seem to reach her ear. It's lonely and sloppy for her to know she's a prince and take a step back, as he says... I hate it when you stop stroking me like you always do.

I'm going to have a long relationship with him in the future. And I got his gaze on it. [M]