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Translator: Nonon
Proofreader: Silavin
In summary, what was written on the paper was:
‘You don’t have the right to be happy.’
‘You tried to make that person unhappy, so you should be unhappy too.’
‘It’s unforgivable for you to relax in front of a servant and smile.’
‘Unforgivable Unforgivable Unforgivable Unforgivable Unforgivable –‘
That’s mostly it.
Although the name of ‘that person’ hasn’t been mentioned in this case, it must be His Highness Vermillion. There’s something like ‘Even if he was your fiancé’ written too.
And to make you unhappy, I will make the people around you disappear. Words like that have also been scribbled down.
It’s said that if you hate someone, you’ll hate everything that is theirs, so that’s how Gray, who this person believes to be her servant, ended up being caught in the crossfire.
“…”
After reading the letters, I looked up from the paper, grabbed the edge of the table where the letters were left and destroyed it. The wooden desk was easily crushed and the sound of destruction echoed through the room.
— Calm down.
I feel livid. I also feel an urge to immediately go looking for Gray.
But first, I have to sort out the situation.
This letter was left in Lady Violet’s room and not at the entrance or the living room. That means the culprit didn’t expect me to find it. In other words, if I make a fuss, they might get provoked in a weird way.
They’re somebody who would write such a crude threatening letter. I don’t know what they might do if I provoke them.
This might be different from a mystery novel, but I must think about the ‘who had done it’ —《the suspects》.
Suspect 1: Ash
The reason is because he still hates Lady Violet. In that case, Chartreuse also becomes a suspect, but he’s… yeah, rather than do something so roundabout, he’s more of the type to directly pick a fight, so he’s excluded.
Ash is the type to completely corner the target that he considers an enemy. And he would do that without taking direct actions, instead intervening indirectly. It was to make sure that he would be safe from any consequences. He’s somebody who would neither kill his targets, nor let them live, instead literally keeping them until the end of their usefulness… according to my memories, that is.
There’s also a possibility that his plan was to tell somebody who resents Lady Violet that she’s in Shiki so he would have no need to get his hands dirty, but… I don’t think that’s the case.
Suspect 2: Ms. Nephrite
I don’t want to think about it, but if her words about wanting to talk with Lady Violet were a lie and she wanted to get revenge for the harassment she’d received at the school from the start, she might have gotten angry at being unable to meet her and decided to take action… if this is really what happened, she’s too scary. After all, this would mean that her words and her smile were all a lie.
‘It’s poisonous… but also a delicacy… one bite, just one bite… a-ahahaha…’
If even her expression of almost giving in to the temptation was a lie, she’d be an Oscar-worthy actress. I don’t want that to be a lie at least- no, in a way I want it to be a lie. It’s not uncommon for the heroine to eat poison and vomit, but I hope the sight of her shaking and breathing heavily while holding a poisonous plant in her hand was a lie. I feel like my sister in my previous life had a similar expression on her face whenever she discovered a new ship.
Suspect 3: Azalea academy students who came to Shiki
The so-called named students in Ring of Fire aren’t the only ones who hold a grudge against Lady Violet. There might be students who were unable to disobey her due to their statuses or those who experienced hardships because of the Valentine Family.
If Lady Violet was in front of them in her current state… in other words, as ‘Violet Valentine who has fallen from her former glory’ and it made them think that ‘right now they are in a superior position’, they might’ve taken advantage of the victim’s authority to act.
It’s true that the students displayed hostility and malice when they saw Lady Violet. So, it’s not strange for them to confront her.
‘Lord Heartfield, I would like to thank Doctor Ivory for healing my injuries, do you mind telling me where to find him?’
‘Baron Heartfield, the vegetables here are very delicious, so would it be okay if I took some soil back to grow them in the academy too?… I would also like to be introduced to somebody who would teach me how to grow them… would that be fine?’
‘Lord Heartfield?! Y-you have it wrong. I wasn’t trying to sneak into the hot spring… r-right! I was simply trying to make a hot spring egg… Eh, it’s fine even if I go into the hot spring? Yahooo!!”
But I don’t want to think that all those kids were full of malice.
Even if they were, I don’t want to believe that they would try to cause harm.
However, if I have to doubt them, all of them are suspects.
Suspect 4: Azalea academy students who didn’t come to Shiki
The academy doesn’t have all the information about what happened in Shiki yet, but just like how Ash got the information in his own way, somebody else might have also gotten the information about Lady Violet.
And they went out of control, because they didn’t know about Shiki’s internal affairs… that’s a possibility too.
In that case, it would be easy to catch the culprit due to their lack of knowledge of the terrain and the lack of cover-up due to the impulsivity of the crime, but there’s a high possibility that Gray won’t be safe because of the culprit’s agitated emotional state.
Suspect 5: Gray
A one-man show. A result of consulting Cyan.
In that case, I’ll lecture everybody for a long time, but this would be the best possibility.
Suspect 6: Ms. Schwarz
Ms. Schwarz’s counterattack. She kidnapped Gray as a start.
… Let’s calm down. It’s a possibility, but she wouldn’t have left a letter like this.
Just in case, I should also keep in mind that Gray’s disappearance and the appearance of the letters could be two different phenomena and if I include bandits who could do this for profit, the suspects increase even more.
However, there’s a possibility that Gray wouldn’t think that they were meeting for the first time and would create a chance for them to act.
“But still…”
I looked at the letters that I wanted to tear up right this instant and pretend that they didn’t exist.
From the middle, the writing became erratic as if it was casting a curse, but the characters at the beginning were thin and rather feminine. The text clearly showed their love for His Highness and their resentment towards Lady Violet.
Were they really unable to forgive Lady Violet that much?
You can hate anybody you want. I’m not mature enough to deny that. However,
“If you’re going to lay your hands on my family, you better be prepared.”
If you’re going to resent someone, don’t complain if you get the same attitude back.
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