I’m a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 27.

Translator : Missme Editor : Aru

In an instant, the students began to chatter.

“What…?”

I muttered, looking at the student who pointed at me, shaking his hand as if he was having a seizure.

Inside the medicine bottle in my hand, the purple liquid twinkled and quivered thickly.

DXellaria, which the student referred to, was the name of a rare drug that temporarily increased the amount of magical power for several hours.

The wizard’s intake of the drug was, so to speak, similar to an athlete taking steroids before a race.

‘Who is it?’

I squinted at the students around me.

Such a trick is too obvious. By all means, the criminal is going to put it in my desk and say that my skills were fake and that all the games I’ve played so far have been invalid.

“DXellaria? Lady Spade?”

“Did Lady Spade really need to use DXellaria…?”

“Looking at Spade’s reaction, I don’t think it’s hers.”

Listening to the students’ voices, I looked at the student who pointed at me.

The student, who made eye contact with me, immediately dropped his head and avoided my gaze.

I could tell that. He must have been bought or threatened by the criminal.

The man, who shuddered and pretended to be innocent, turned out to be the one who used to be stuck with Boyleis.

‘I can understand the situation roughly.’

I glared at Boyleis, standing among the roaring students, pretending to talk to the student next to him casually.

All right, we’ll see.

“This is not what I brought. I’ve never seen this bottle before today.”

I spoke in a calm voice to the students.

“Well, it rolled off from your desk. If it’s not yours then who?”

Immediately came the sarcastic voice of Boyleis.

Standing with his arms folded in front of those who followed Eugene with him, he was making a cold laugh.

“You-”

“I saw you carrying the bottle this morning, and I’m sure there are several other people who saw it besides me.”

The Boyleis said while glistening his eyes at me.

In his words, several people around him raised their hands and helped.

“That’s right. I saw it, too.”

“Me too.”

All of them were followers of Eugene, who accompanied Boyleis.

‘Do you think you’ll be fine with such a shallow trick?’

On the contrary, as the trick was so obvious that my head was getting cold, I heard someone rumbling and kicking up the chair.

“Do you guys really mean that?”

The owner of the voice that clearly contained the meaning of the warning was surprisingly Eugene.

He was frowning and glaring at his followers.

“If what you’re saying turns out to be false, you won’t all be safe in my hands. Can you swear that you didn’t make it up?”

To be honest, I was a little surprised by his unusual charisma.

Since he, the master, had said it, the servants must have been feeling miserable. Their face colour changed at once.

However, I didn’t know where his confidence came from, Boyleis took a step forward and shouted out loud.

“Of course. How can I lie to Eugene-nim? I’m sure I saw her holding that purple DXellaria this morning.”

Eugene kept his eyes blue quietly and glared as if he had pierced at Boyleis. Even he seemed to think that his statement was likely to be false.

“How can I believe what you say in the first place, Boyleis? As far as I know, you seem to have a personal grudge against me since the 1st round.”

I clenched my fist and talked coldly toward Boyleis.

“How can you prove that you didn’t put it in the first place? You did blame me, not your skills, for losing the game that day, didn’t you?”

The majority of the students nodded at my remark. Obviously, this fight was going against Boyleis. And yet Boyleis smiled strangely and kept a different attitude from the day he lost to me.

“How can you prove that you didn’t eat DXellaria, just as you are? How can you prove that it’s not yours when it’s still on your desk?”

He deliberately straightened his shoulders to avoid showing weakness and recited his every word.

“Why don’t we run a drug test? Isn’t that enough?”

Then I took a step forward, with my red eyes raised, and looked straight at Boyleis.

“Let’s have a test.”

I could feel the heat slowly gathering in my left eye looking at Boyleis.

It was anger that I felt after a long time since I avenged myself on the Postade.

“But if the results show negative, you’d better throw away your stupid idea that you’ll be able to graduate safely in the future, Boyleis.”

I poured my anger into each word and said it.

Eugene, who was still listening to the words, held the desk tightly in his hands and murmured quietly.

“Rayl.”

When Eugene called his name, Rayl, who was fascinated by this situation, looked back at him in surprise.

Eugene spoke in a low voice, still glaring at Boyleis.

“You have the tools to do a drug test immediately, don’t you?”

Looking at Eugene with wide-open eyes, as if perplexed by his words, Rayl came to his senses a moment later and hurriedly moved and shouted.

“I do. It’s for liver use, but……… the precision test tool is in the dormitory and……..”

I looked at Rayl, who said so and said in a voice as soft as I could.

“I don’t care if it’s for the liver. I’d appreciate it if you brought it now, Rayl, please.”

In my words, Rayl bit his lips and nodded, then went out the back door of the classroom.

After a while, Rayl brought some reagents, flasks, spores and magnifying glasses, and paper.

“First of all……can you put this paper in your mouth and take it out, Yerine? That’s all you have to do.”

Immediately I took the green bandage that Rayl had given me and did as he said.

Receiving the paper with a look of great tension, Rayl put reagents around the paper and examined the paper carefully.

The diamond family’s speciality was making magic potions and drugs.

If I entrusted the test to Rayl, who excelled in the field of magic medicine, I could let everyone know that I didn’t cheat.

Everyone in the classroom was holding their breath while Rayl was conducting an examination.

Even Eugene, who would have spurred out of the classroom, said it would be useless if it wasn’t for me.

“Uh……. this can’t be happening……….”

In the midst of this, Rayl said in a trembling voice, with the paper in front of his nose.

“No…… once again…”

The words began to wobble me, too.

Are you saying that the results have come out strange?

As soon as I looked through the classroom in a subtle mood, I saw Boyleis mouth rolled up and made a mean smile.

‘What the hell is he so confident about?’

As I continued to feel something pungent, I could hear Rayl muttering again.

“Why on earth…”

The sound gave me goosebumps on my back.

I tried to cool my head and asked Rayl in a calm voice as I could.

“Rayl, what’s wrong?”

“Well, that’s…”

I had a hunch then. Boyleis had done worse in my back.

“…… tell me the result. It’s okay.”

“That… this…”

Calmly, silent, eye-to-eye on Rayl.

Then Rayl rubbed his hands around his anguished eyes and replied in a languid voice.

“It’s positive.”

The students began to whisper again.

“It’s positive? Did she really eat it?”

“But no matter how I look at it……… we had a pre-admission drug test, and there was no problem back then.”

“That’s right, she didn’t use drugs on the pre-admission test, then does that mean she had used them here?”

“But if it’s a drug test that Rayl-nim ran… The results couldn’t be wrong….”

Steadily glared at Boyleis, who was smiling like a demon. I had to come up with the best way to break this situation. As soon as possible so as to prevent rumours from spreading throughout the school.

“No way.”

Then Rachel shouted loudly.

I looked at her in dismay at the straight sound that caught everyone’s attention. Rachel was originally good-natured and careful about her behaviour. She didn’t even make loud noises. It was strange for me to see her standing up with bright orange eyes and talking to everyone.

“I was with Yerine until the fourth round today. Boyleis, you said you saw Yerine carrying DXellaria in the morning, and I was with her all morning. Of course, she hasn’t even touched a magical drug.”

said Rachel, glaring at Boyleis with a determined look.

“Not only me, but Astra also can prove it.”

Boyleis seemed a little afraid when the seven heirs, not anyone else, raised objections. But he didn’t back down.

“Well, the Academy will focus on the fact that spades ate DXellaria before the competition. Besides, who knows if you’ve kissed up the spades, too.”

I thought about what happened just in the morning. When I was able to feed myself DXellaria without even knowing it. When was it?

“Ah.”

Me, Rachel, and Astra, who sat at the table after having a meal, I remembered that they had skipped a menu and didn’t take it, and we left the meal for a while.

I immediately looked at Boyleis with cold eyes and said.

“You put it in, didn’t you? In my breakfast.”

It was convincing enough.

If it wasn’t then, I never had the chance to eat DXellaria, which I didn’t own.

Then Boyleis grinned back.

“Well. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Are You trying to hand over your fault to someone else?”

I clenched my two fists and ground my teeth. I didn’t mean to eat it. But, it was obviously cheating to take DXellaria before the competition.

It was difficult to refute the fact itself.

That guy must have caused this to happen, too.

“Since you’ve cheated, the results of the 4th round will be nullified, and the assignment of the actual class will be changed. Who knows? Maybe you’ve been eating DXellaria since the 1st round until 4th round, the right punishment will be only for you to be expelled.”

The Boyleis giggled merrily.

My hands were white because I clenched my fist too hard.

“Hey.”

I said quietly, turning over the flowing purple hair.

“Yes, it’s not my intention, but I can’t deny that I took DXellaria. I’ll report to the Academy and take the punishment sweetly.”

Some people shouted in haste at my words.

“No, Yerine……! you’re not even sure yet so-”

“I didn’t eat it because I wanted to eat it.”

With my head slightly lowered, I murmured.

“Rules are rules. I can’t help it.”

Then I raised my red left eye and glared at Boyleis.

And spoke with a low voice.

“By the way.”

Sitting on the desk, I approached Boyleis, who was crossing his legs, step by step.

Boyleis, who had been crawling with my movements before, slowly shrank back, and as I approached him, he sweated as much as he could.

“The beggars who’ve done this shit will regret being in this Academy.”

“What…?”

I growled at Boyleis, who was questioning.

“Be prepared to pay the price for touching the successor of the 7 Imperial Family.”

In an instant, the atmosphere in the classroom cooled down.

With his hands clasped to the desk and his body pulled back as far as possible, Boyleis shook with a look of dismay.

It was a moment when everyone was holding their breath.

But breaking the silence, a familiar, calm voice came.

“Wait a minute.”

Looking back, the owner of the voice was walking slowly out of the crowd.

“Give me that vial, Yerine.”

Cassius spoke slowly, shining his golden eyes.

I didn’t know what was going on, but in a sudden situation, I gave him the bottle of violet liquid without much thought.

Then Cassius, who was rolling the bottle around with those golden eyes, suddenly smiled a wry smile.

“That’s funny.”

“Yes…”?

I couldn’t understand what was going on, so I asked Cassius with a confused look on my face.

Then he answered.

“This isn’t DXellaria.”

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