Please Don’t Come To The Villainess’ Stationery Store! - Chapter 49

“Thinking about it, Duke Vaveloa is like a child.”

Dominique handed me a letter. I opened the letter with an indifferent expression. The letter, roughly, was bullsh*t.

[Meldenique. You’ve probably reflected on yourself by now. When will you return to the family? I’ll forgive you because its you.

And is it true that you can use illusion magic? Did you become a wizard? I thought you couldn’t use mana?

Reply as soon as you see this.]

“He’s talking nonsense.”

I tore up the letter and threw it in the trash.

“Read this and improve your mood.”

Dominique comforted me lightly and handed me a newspaper article.

The article seemed to be written by an upper group who were unhappy with Duke Vaveloa’s monopoly.

[Duchess Hildegart Vaveloa, will the Vaveloa House be deprived of their power?]

Seeing the aggressive title of the article made me feel better.

In the past, when Meldenique went out of business, Madame Hildegart used to manipulate public opinion about her using gossip.

‘Now you’re tasting it.’

“What a pity.”

I fluttered the newspaper without a look of regret.

“Look at the article below.”

Dominique signaled at the bottom of the newspaper.

[This Month’s Hot Keyword, <Mel’s Stationery Store>]

There’s someone who’s done something no one’s ever thought of.

It is the story of Lady Meldenique of Duke Vaveloa, who founded <Mel’s Stationery Store> in front of the Academy.]

Below it was an article about the ‘Happy Dream Candy’ I created.

“Ho…”

Happily, I was the one who became the most famous during the Petit Debutant.

I stretched out my legs and laughed happily.

‘It really was a perfect promotional period.’

Ladies’ letters flew in here all night after that night.

Starting with ‘Is it true that you overcame the curse?’ and even letters saying ‘I want to buy things anonymously at the stationery store’, as if they were scared of Madame Hildegart.

It was natural because it was such a rippling event called the ‘Meldenique Rebellion.’

People asked about the principle of the mana amplification and said that they would order a large amount of happy dream candy.

‘At this extent, I think there’s a lot of word out there.’

And this was, by far, the best gemstone out of them.

An invitation to the ball!

“I was invited to the ball.”

“Isn’t that a good thing?”

“I’m usually a guest who wasn’t invited to the ball.”

I was completely isolated as Sheria took control of society and Madame Hildegart’s power grew.

‘It was my daily routine to enter a ball uninvited and create a ruckus.’

Some wonderfully curious lady invited me to the ball.

‘But what a surprise. Aren’t you scared of Vaveloa?’

I read the invitation to the ball again carefully.

[Lady Meldenique Vaveloa,

I’d like to invite you to our Supia Academy’s masquerade ball. Please come with a wonderful partner.

-Sincerely, Moodcella Maxson.]

My heart swelled.

In fact, I had never thought about Supia Academy until now. They were a pretty conservative group of people of all ages.

However, despite of Vaveloa’s and Hesman’s eyes, I must’ve given somewhat of a favorable impression, given that they openly sent me an invitation.

‘Well, the Maxson’s are royal figures, so they wouldn’t care about Vaveloa or Hesman.’

Dominique glanced at the invitation.

“Where exactly is Supia Academy for you to make such a happy face?”

“It’s a prestigious Academy for women.”

The Supia Academy produced a number of outstanding female figures, which, along with Maltend Academy, became one of the two major mountain ranges of prestigious academies.

However, it was a very closed and conservative place, so I thought it would be difficult to get access.

‘Maybe they’ll make a request at the ball!’

I clenched my fists as I recalled the rumor that Lady Moodcella liked unusual things.

“I must go to this ball.”

“Did you decide?”

“Yeah!”

I carefully picked up the quill and wrote a reply.

Anyway, everything was flowing perfectly.

‘If there was one problem…’

“I have a problem. I don’t have a partner to go to the ball with.”

I don’t have a partner to go with.

I looked at Dominique eagerly to see if he could help, but he raised his hands with a determined expression to widen the distance from me.

“I can’t dance.”

This meant that he’s not going to the ball.

In fact, I couldn’t ask Dominique because I had overworked him.

“Yeah, you don’t even have an identity yet… Don’t dance and take a rest.”

I collapsed on the table and rubbed my face.

Even if I searched through my head, there was no noble to participate in the ball with.

Unfortunately, Meldenique was an isolated villain without a single aristocrat friend. Lenox Hesman, because she was crazy about him.

‘Shall I use the escort service from the errand guild?’

It would be slightly awkward, but that’s about it.

As I pondered, I came up with another reason why I had to attend the ball.

“Come to think of it, I think I can show everyone at the ball that I am completely separated from Lenox.”

“How?”

Meldenique had always continued to ask her fiancé Lenox to be her ball partner, who was uncomfortable.

At the ballroom, there was a time when Lenox was humiliated because he made eye contact with another Lady.

“I can’t take Lenox Hesman. I need to find a man to go to the ball with me. Fortunately, you can go to the ball with a partner who’s not your fiance.”

‘By the way, the ball is a ball, but my skills are the most important to receive a request.’

Although I summoned a devil who was good at illusion magic…

Such a lucky opportunity will not come again. Now I’ll have to compete with my real skills.

I stared at Dominique’s sword.

‘Thinking about it, the devil-filled sword, it’s like a treasure trove.’

“What exactly are those devils capable of?”

I asked, scanning the sword with a greedy look.

“I know as much as you know. I don’t know what the remaining two devils will be like.”

Dominique was wary of me and responded slowly.

“Hm…”

Actually, Dominique knew very little.

I scratched my head and looked at the magic sword.

Everytime I see a long sword that doesn’t vibrate at all, my heart becomes black. A black heart to collect all four of those devils and make them mine.

“I need mana for alchemy, and mana for summoning devils…”

I sighed.

Mana was continuing to face limitations.

‘In the end, it seems that I have no choice but to increase the mana inside me.’

I lacked mana.

That was my ultimate problem.

“I don’t even know how to increase insufficient mana…”

Since there is no teacher, I don’t know how to train mana.

In fact, finding a teacher was a problem. Alchemists were so rare that it’s hard to obtain one.

“Besides, I don’t know why the curse on this blood was suddenly lifted.”

Dominique, who was listening to my frustrated voice, patted my shoulder and suddenly pricked his ears.

“Uh, someone’s coming from outside, Mel.”

“Who?”

“Him. The baby.”

Baby?

“The little Red Radish.”

Are you talking about Carat?

Before I could ask, the door opened with a bang.

“Mel!”

It was Carat’s cheerful voice.

As Dominique said, Carat really arrived.

Unlike usual, Carat wore a black suit, a white shirt, and a necktie. He was dressed as a little gentleman.

He even held something like a pink letter in his hand.

I looked at Carat with a puzzled look.

“Carat? What happened?”

“I have something to say, so I came here.”

“Something to say?”

Carat swallowed gulp.

I looked at the child and tilted my head.

‘What happened?’