The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

- Night. Everyone's asleep, midnight.

In a small room in the back of the rear palace, the battle lid was cut and dropped.

"Mia, what is it you want to talk about? At midnight like this."

"I'm sorry, Master Sarah. Please take the time to step up."

In a dark room, two lights. Mia lit an indoor light as she walked to the wall in front of the softening sheriff.

What illuminated and floated there were multiple figures. The female chief's complexion changes.

"-, is this...!?

"Welcome, Chief."

"Mia, what do you mean!?

"Oh, I don't like that. Change your blood."

It was Deanna who stood up with a tickling laugh. The makeup is full, and the dress is red like blood. It is a fully equipped 'Villain Lady'.

Acknowledging Deanna's appearance and looking back at the door, the chief woman finds out that she lost her escape after seeing Rita in formation in front of the door. To refrain beside Deanna are Yuri and Luli.

- The chief woman realized at this moment that this narrow space was dominated by the 'Red Rose'.

"- This is Red Rose. What the hell can I do for you at night like this?

"Sorry about that. I just signed up for a proper visit, and I didn't know when I'd see you."

"... I'm sorry, I couldn't help but get my hands on preparations for the New Year's Eve royal palace event,"

"That's a lie, isn't it? I asked the royal maids to prepare for New Year's Eve more later."

"No, because this is how the rear palace became gorgeous this year"

"Another new event planned? I wonder if that must take precedence over the preparation of the Garden Club, which His Majesty has decreed."

The situation is clearly unfavourable to the female chief. Did she find that out too, the spear pointed at Mia on her right arm?

"Mia, explain! What are you talking about?

"The Red Rose told me she wanted to talk to the Chief of Staff, so I had a place for her."

"... yes, that's the thing"

For a moment from behind the seemingly harmless lady, an ugly face stained with greed appears and stares at Mia. I was impressed by the thickness of the skin on the surface, which turned back to Deanna as if nothing had happened since then, through fright.

"Excuse me. Now let me ask you something."

"Mia told me everything."

"Well, what should we do?

"That you are secretly molesting and embezzling the books of the public money that is being given to the Back House. that they are selling off expensive equipment to darkers and purchasing very similar fakes for a low price to nostalgic the difference. that it manipulates the personnel of the posterior chamber for its own convenience;... Should I mention it yet?

"I don't remember"

"Oh, really?

"I don't know what Mia has said, but even if you're unhappy with the way things are going, you're planning on falling for me. If you're a bright red rose, you know what I mean."

It's a big Obasan. Deanna is heartfelt.

Although it is as unpleasant as the chief lady does, the reason why she was appointed chief lady in this difficult phase is in a way inexplicable. I didn't expect you to choose the behavior that best suits you in judging the situation and even let the haters spread their love if necessary. Only good procedure and acting skills, I see, are extraordinary.

Do we ride here? Deanna tilted her little neck gently.

"What do you think I know?

"Dear Red Rose. There's no way you can do that, either, like embezzlement of public money. All the backyard budgets are under strict control, right? At least I can't do it."

"... I see"

"If you can, at the stage of actually producing the documents, it's just to falsify the numbers. But my role is only to see if there are any deficiencies in the documents that I can make. - Paperwork is the role of women officials."

"Yep. I mean?"

"If you're a woman, unfortunately, embezzlement of public money is possible. Yeah, it's Mia there, for example."

Named Mia changes her expression slightly. Deanna approached the chief woman as she slept thinking.

"Yes. In short, you say that it was done by a female officer, not yourself, for having facts of embezzlement of public funds. Is that what you're trying to say?

"I'm sorry. It was poorly supervised. … I have a few people in mind right now."

"I'll ask."

The name the chief woman named was almost as expected. Yuri writes it down on paper.

"... So, what other injustice did Mia tell you?

"When declaring false wrongdoing, it is best to name what is actually being done in order to make it feel real. Maybe you're using my name for times of need. Don't let the name on the paper fool you."

"You're saying it's all about Mia and the other ladies going?

"Wherefore thou wilt impersonate me with sin. These are my daughters."

The chief woman stares at Mia. Mia turned to Deanna.

"No, no, Red Rose! I never told you a lie. It's an injustice committed by the chief lady, and there's evidence!

"Shut up! Bad round-the-clock times over this period. There can't be any evidence of evil that you didn't do."

"Please check the Chief Clerk's office. There's the back book, it's true!

"Come on! Dear Red Rose, may I not be confused by the remarks of such a dwarf. There are no books or anything like that. The Red Rose would know that there is no way I could have bothered to make something to prove my wrongdoing by giving up 100 steps."

Compare Mia to the chief woman with no expression. The chief woman embarks on herself with all the mia, anger and honesty that is going to cry out now.

... I see, with a face like this, it's even hard to suspect.

Deanna let the chief woman snort.

"- Right. If you think calmly, you're right."

"Dear Red Rose!

"Let's be left. I trusted that the Red Rose would understand."

The chief woman laughed gently and sunny. Mia sits up and begins to sob.

"Come on, I'll take care of it later. Red Rose is not welcome back to your room."

"Oh, I was jumped by crap rumors, too, huh?

"You may be angry, but if things go public, we will also involve the outer palace. Please calm your heart and leave it with me."

"Dear Red Rose! Me, I'm not lying!

Here. Deanna got in the mood and let her smile gently.

"... yes. Then let me just hear this. What do we do with Mia's disposition?

"Naturally, I will expel you from the rear palace. A sin that has reached a national treasure, even a death penalty."

- I caught it.

Deanna grinned, grinning in full, perhaps from all around her, that she must work evil.

"... yeah, right. If you're so guilty, death penalty would be reasonable. Perhaps we can destroy the house."

"You're the one on the left.... Come on, Red Rose,"

"......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... You still don't realize?

The chief woman gets a bewildered look. Deanna took a step.

"- I said, 'Sell away expensive equipment', but you didn't say a word about it including 'national treasure'?

Deanna has never witnessed a moment when a person's complexion changes so dramatically. The werewolf chief takes a step back.

"... Yes, yes, it is,"

"I'd like you to give me a satisfactory explanation, as you did earlier. How did you know Mia had a hand in the national treasure?"

"Ko, it's Aya the Word!

"That's pretty painful. Normally, the terms equipment and national treasure would not be immediately associated. Although it is true that some national treasures are kept in the rear palace, it is literally a 'treasure', because it should be treated with care"

Deanna again, takes a step forward. The chief woman lagged behind for that matter.

"If you're right, if the national treasure is sold off and replaced by artifacts, that's a hell of a thing. It should be necessary to notify the outer palace at the time of discovery and search for the whereabouts of the national treasure. If you knew the treasure was a fake, but you didn't hit anything, it would be a dereliction of duty for an exonerator."

"Yes, it was important, so we searched secretly."

"Oh, Chief, didn't you just say that you said" expensive equipment "was a national treasure," Aya of the Word "? That means, in short, you're wrong, right? If so, you wouldn't have known about the national treasure."

One step, one step. Talking, slowly. Deanna moves on with her steps. The chief woman slipped back and finally put her back on the wall.

"There is only one interpretation that can explain this contradiction. After all, you knew that the national treasure was taking its place. Knowingly he did nothing, and he tried to cut through the sledge, even when he was questioned by me. Because... you sold out the national treasure.

"No!

A raised voice clings indoors. The chief woman waved for the first time.

"No matter how many red roses you have, you have some disrespect. I am the head of the woman who sums up the inner chamber. I'm in a position to supervise your side room. Without solid evidence, Madam Chief, you will immediately report your suspicions to Your Majesty and consider their disposition!

"... aren't you just going to plead guilty?

"Have you said it yet? Something like this, something that wouldn't be weird if your neck flew instantly."

"Just one more time, I'll tell you.... Admit it, you did it yourself, wronged me."

"Without such facts, we should have said earlier."

Deanna and the chief woman's gaze intersect. We don't look away from each other, we don't give in.

One, two, three. Silence descends. Painful tension dominated the scene.

"- Okay."

Heh, and it was Deanna who pulled out of the force. Looking back and back to the chair.

"Lurie, give me that one"

"Yes, Deanna."

Lurie, who had not uttered a word until then and had not made it slight, showed movement there for the first time. Take out a bunch of paper from under the apron and hand it to Deanna.

"Go ahead."

"Thank you.... Well, Chief. Look at this."

"It's no use trying to drop it with evidence of a lie."

"You can tell if you're lying or not."

A bunch of paper I offered. When the chief woman looked resolute, she received it from Deanna and flickered.

The first one was a plain view, chief lady. But as the second one and the third one turned, his complexion gradually became worse, and eventually his hands trembled, smugly. The paper-turning hand gradually quickened, and the moment I finished reading the last page, with the face that stopped me from fixing it at the earliest, I grabbed a bunch of paper and crushed it.

"By the way, Sole, it's just a copy. The original and supporting evidence are under strict control at a different location"

"Impossible!

"If I submit it all to Your Majesty, perhaps you shouldn't be exonerated, Chief."

"Shut up, you bitch!!

Rita and I were exasperated from behind the ceiling. And I mean it.

Deanna smiled bitterly and finally decided to enter a confrontational position with the chief woman who expressed her nature.

"Which female fox? Food the treasury and privatize even the national treasure all you want, any woman or samurai who does not conform to her will will will be bullied out and kicked out, citing all their sins to his men to seek lizard tail-cutting. Though I think it's a nicer fox swing than I am."

"No, no! Impossible, there can't be any evidence left, no concrete evidence to show that it was my work or anything else!

"You know, the people are tenacious. A nobleman like you knows as well as to try to cut ourselves off when we're in danger. When you're about to get cut off, there's no way you don't have insurance to protect yourself."

Once the Crestors have laid down a 'target' to beat the dust for real, they will not forgive you any. Turn your hand from the back from the surface and expose it thoroughly, to smudge. Pick up rumors that flow to the social world (this time it took a rush, so I dived in for a social place where rumors about the chief women and the women seemed to be flying around, and increased the amount of information by directing topics with skillful talking skills), organize and connect purchased rumors, and explore for inconsistencies.

If you can find any inconsistencies, the next step is the role of 'back'. It was already a potato ceremony once we activated the information network and searched for the personal residence of the chief woman, the stores with deals, and the stolen goods trading routes connected from there. Whispering that I'm going to miss you in exchange for a sign that the chief woman is involved, he's got all the evidence as funny as it sounds. I know exactly how she wasn't trusted.

Of course, the Krester family divided these tasks among all the ladies and samurai working in the backhouse in just about ten days. From there, he determined to some extent his connection to the chief woman and what kind of relationship he had, and even looked up whether or not his parents and relatives were involved. Naturally, Dualis' efforts are hidden there, where he fought an enormous amount of investigative reports in the library day after day.

A paper bundle that summarizes the results in a straightforward manner was shown to the chief woman earlier. The first sheet shows the irregularities that have been carried out in the rear palace, while the second sheet shows the inventory of evidence in a skewed line. It only revealed injustice in the rear palace, which lasted about two years, and the number naturally became a bundle.

- Well, now, I turned it into a piece of paper.

Deanna spoke quietly to the chief woman who gripped the scraps of paper and stood up flashly.

"Your evidence of injustice was gathered with the cooperation of the people. What sums it up is noted there.... Still going to insist that you don't know this?

"... this, this can't happen. Assuming there was evidence, how could that be so aligned? Yes, yes, this is a trap too!

"You still don't believe this? A lot of the equipment you sold has been discovered one after the other, and the artisans who made the artifacts have confessed."

"Can you believe it! Bullshit that people who can't even get out of the backyard talk about!

- You're pathetic.

I thought as I looked at the desperate chief woman. Apply to desire, run wrongfully, and drown in power. Even if I am exposed to that truth, I cannot face the sins I have committed. The stupidity, very, very human.

Looking at her, Deanna slowly, slowly, extended her right arm up.

Bhassari.

- From the dark space, tearing the air, one booklet falls. I got it with my right hand. Besides, Deanna glanced all the way through.

"... decisive."

"It's...! That's why we're here!

"That's the back book you were wearing. I found it in your office. The handwriting belongs to you."

"Stupid, why not!?

The chief woman advances. He flinched and turned behind her. Hunting down while controlling the female chief looking back.

"I see. Sure, there's no way the killer would bother to leave evidence of wrongdoing. I guess I was going to take that psychology upside down and run away when they suspected me. The higher the amount of twitching, the more the back book becomes mandatory for twitching."

"Why, how the hell,"

"I don't care how, besides going into the office and looking, there's a way to get it?

The chief woman's jaw fell.

"Duh, thief cat!

"Oh man, I'm not listening. Don't worry, we haven't recovered anything but evidence of fraud."

"... you are. What the hell are you,"

- Deanna Crester.

Sounds high, Deanna walks out. Where the chief woman was frightened, she folded up.

"I am the Countess Crester. Do you have any idea what that means?

"The Shadow Emperor who cows the kingdom from behind". That's what everyone knows about the Crestor family if it's an upper-class person.

"If you hang it in our hands, there's not as much work to do as reveal your vices. - You've seen too much sweetness," The Crestors. "

"Ah, ah...!

And the sheikh trembled, but the next moment fell flat. The air in the room changes.

"Forgive me, Red Rose! Please, help me with all my life!

"Oh. Wasn't the sin of laying hands on a national treasure enough to make it a capital crime?

"If you want, I will give you whatever Red Rose wants. Yes, beautiful jewelry, etc."

"I won't be shy. Such a bribe, something you don't want."

Totally truncated, the chief woman crawled over crying.

"Don't miss it. I was also used by those above me. To the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Finance"

"So, I guess. There's no way that all that fraud, the Home Office or the Treasury, won't be suspicious. Because the person who was helping me with the books in the Home Office noticed so much. You won't be able to connect with ministers unless you're connected."

"If so!

"Too bad, though. We haven't found any physical evidence that you and they were connected so far. One of you has complained of their involvement, and the circumstantial evidence is not the only way to end it."

"I will be my witness!

"With just one witness, you're weak on evidence.... Hey Chief, you already know that, don't you?

It doesn't even make the sound of clothes rubbing, Deanna gives in. In the female chief's ear, she released the clasp.

- You were a lizard tail, too.

Sacrifice those who are lower to defend themselves. For the first time now, people who have sacrificed have turned to the side to be sacrificed. Do you mean cause and effect go around?

"Wow, I..."

"Is there no more escape for you? It's only a matter of time before you get caught."

From the matter of national treasure, it is possible to uncover the problem now. If the country moves to find the killer, we'll get to the chief woman, soon enough. Even if you're looking for lizard tail cutting, as much as Deanna moves to protect 'tail personnel', including Mia, you'd understand if you were a female chief.

- The chief woman, she packed it perfectly.

There is a rattling noise. The sheriff's tremor is transmitted to the decorations, playing the floor and snoring music.

Deanna stood up completely.

"My demands are threefold. If you keep it, I promise you I won't expose your crimes."

"Yes, yes, Red Rose! Please tell me what it is!

The chief woman moved very quickly. He looks up and looks at Deanna with his eyes as if she worships even God.

"One. After this, to respond promptly to requests from the 'Red Rose'"

"Yes!

First gate clear. This will smooth the preparation for the park games.

"Two. Not to give any kind of hand to a maid, a lady with a 'red rose'"

"Absolutely."

I don't trust the chief lady's words at all, but this clears up the second one at once. A woman or a samurai in a position that can be seen directly by the king should be a threat to the chief woman. A cornered person doesn't know what to do.

"Three. Nothing else to say about today"

"My pleasure."

Although the chances of being consigned with 'Peony' are low (hard to imagine that Liliane will shelter the chief woman until she crosses the dangerous bridge), it would be troublesome in case the Marquis Landrose moves. Now, I still don't have enough cards to confront that father.

"Please strictly observe the above. If I make a mistake, I will accuse you of wrongdoing at that point. You're free to run from the rear palace or move people outside, but you don't know where the 'back' eyes are. I think it would be better for you not to do anything extra."

"Wow, I get it..."

Taking the chief woman's word, Deanna laughed. Best, clearest ever.

"It's good to have a meaningful time. Nice to see you again, Chief."

"- Yes, Red Rose."

"Rita, drop off the chief woman."

"I'm in awe"

Rita takes me and the chief woman leaves the small room. Waiting for the footsteps to disappear completely, Deanna finally lost her power.

- Shall we go home, too?

The samurai clearly seemed relieved by her usual grin.