Chapter 54: Volume 5 - CH 8

“Are you asking me…… to tell lie?

“Yes. Is it hard?”

Franz’s eyelids trembled in response to my audacious retort.

‘That is a magnesium deficiency.’

Because there were no supplement pills available, I was considering what to feed Franz to compensate for his nutritional deficiencies.

“……I… I’m nervous.”

“What are you nervous about?”

Looking directly into my staring eyes, he put one hand on his chest and said.

“I have always wanted to try to tell lies.”

“……”

“Not a white lie for the temple, the priest, or the high priest…… Just a shameless lie to deceive others.”

Franz emphasized the word “shameless.” He seemed to be very sincere.

“Thank you, Lady Selina, for giving me this opportunity. Let’s go.”

He took the initiative, his fist clenched.

Franz stated that when he was very young, he joined the temple as a training priest and continued to take the elite course, eventually promoted to a high priest.

Maybe that’s why he got so excited whenever I suggested derailment.

‘He is so cute yet cunning.’

If I could, I’d slap white-acorn Franz on the back of his head.

‘He can easily visit Count Crawford’s castle, so why is he taking his time?’

It was at this point that I remembered the ridiculous reply letters he sent through Charles. I giggled.

‘If I knew, I should’ve told him to come to lie for me before this.’

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“So I prayed for the Crawford family’s endless prosperity and bright future.”

“As per my request.”

“Yes, at Lady Selina’s request. I didn’t realize it was dawn until I heard his dignified voice……”

The carriage arrived at the castle’s gate as the two of us diligently made up our lies.

Franz became tense from that point on.

‘Phew, what a cute guy.’

As I looked at him with satisfaction, I realized that the guard had moved strangely.

“Please return! The Lord is unable to greet any visitors today!”

To make matters worse, the guards who saw the temple’s carriage also told us that.

So I pulled up the carriage curtains and showed my face.

“Ah…… my lady!”

“Please excuse my impoliteness!”

Thud, thud, thud!

Franz was astounded to see the security guards kneeling one after the other.

“W-w-what happened?”

As if on cue, the guards raised their heads and responded one by one.

“There’s a problem, my lady!”

“The commander has collapsed!”

“It happened at dawn this morning!”

I opened my eyes wide, pretended to be surprised, and reacted in the most obvious way possible Selina would have been.

“Oh, my lady!”

“Lady Selina passed out!”

“Come on, let’s get her in!”

While being held by someone, I secretly burst into laughter when I saw Franz running with me in contemplation.

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“Argh, sob sob, u-u-uncle……!”

When I saw Cedric lying like a corpse with blue lips, I barely woke up and fainted again.

And William escorted me to my room.

I didn’t open my eyes until William placed me on my bed.

Franz was praying for me, his face contorted as if he was about to collapse.

“La-lady Selina!”

“Ssstt.”

I hastily shut up his lips, afraid that he might shout and call someone.

“I usually fall down like a scarecrow, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

“There’s nothing to worry about!? How can you say such irresponsible things?”

Franz, who scolded me angrily, looked at me with serious eyes.

“Are you even eating properly, Lady Selina?”

“Of course.”

“I heard a rumor that the countess has been abusing you and didn’t even give you a piece of bread. It seems that the rumor is true, isn’t it Lady Selina?”

“Oh, is there such a rumor?”

It was actually me. I was the one who spread that rumor.

Along with telling Charles about the Old Count Granson’s case, I told him to spread the rumor that Camilla was upset to give me a piece of bread.

To meet the rumor, I purposefully ate only half of my meals these days.

Little by little, the already slender body got smaller. It was no surprise that Valhail was constantly nagging me……

‘I still wonder why only my chest and butt are the same……’

I’m curious how far the heroine’s buff will go.

“Even the condition of Count Crawford is also bad.”

Franz sighed and spoke as if it were a spectacle.

“Lady Selina is so vulnerable, Lord Crawford is poisoned and wandering through life……”

“There’s nothing to worry about.”

Cedric took the medicine I gave him after I pretended to faint.

What I gave Cedric yesterday wasn’t an antidote.

It was a small amount of poison that I diluted in water.

‘He’d be poisoned by Camilla eventually.’

It’s better for me to feed him than to wait foolishly for when the poisoning going to happen.