I Only Raised Men for Revenge - Chapter 14

“Keu-heup.”

Stepping outside, Sesenia began to laugh like a madwoman. Lizbeth, who had been waiting anxiously outside the room, looked at Sesenia with a worried expression.

“M-Miss, are you alright?”

“Yes. I’m fine. I’m fine. It’s just so amusing.”

She laughed demonstratively in front of the room. For Sesenia, nothing could be more enjoyable than this moment. Not even when she learned of the family curse and turned back time, nor when her father, the Marquis, gave her the seed money, had she felt this way.

‘It’s really, really too amusing. Is God on my side? Otherwise, how could he send my sister back to this time?’

And she was still foolish.

‘I wouldn’t have revealed it like this.’

Sesenia, who had been laughing with tears in her eyes, slowly hardened her expression.

Rather, it was as if she had been given an opportunity. To make Elzer more nervous than before, and to let her know that the other party also knew the information she knew, so she would have to use other tactics. The sudden surge of tension was welcome.

‘I don’t know how I came back but I’ve learned something.’

Anyone can return from death.

“Let’s go back now.”

“Ah… yes, yes!”

Sesenia looked at Lizbeth beside her. Situations so favorable to her that she wondered if she was a child loved by God. But Sesenia’s expression hardened.

‘I don’t believe in God.’

A fickle God. She didn’t know when another unfavorable situation would arise.

No, it was already an unfavorable situation. After all, as Elzer said, capital was important in business. But Elzer had far more capital than Sesenia.

“Is that young lady alright?”

She looked at Sesenia with a worried expression.

“Of course, I’m fine.”

“But the cotton business…”

Sesenia shook her head as if to tell her not to say any more. Only then did Lizbeth close her mouth and follow her. After returning to the room, Sesenia whispered in Lizbeth’s ear.

For a long time. And the color of her face, which had been worried all along, brightened.

“Ah…”

“My sister will never succeed.”

“If she simply copied the Miss’s business, then that’s right.”

“So, don’t worry.”

Lizbeth was still worried, but Sesenia was certain. Elzer would never be able to make this business a success.

**

After Sesenia left, Elzer clenched her fist tightly.

“Why… why! Everything was perfect, so why is she back first…? I knew it! I knew it was different from the past, so this was the reason?”

Elzer began to throw things around her haphazardly.

“Aaaargh!!! Annoying. Annoying!!! I should have known… I should have known…! I should have realized from the moment she suddenly gave up on the Marquisate and asked for money to start a business. What should I do… what should I do…? No. No. In the end, the Marquisate will be mine. How much can she do anyway? In the end, I will be the one to save the Marquisate with cotton. I will have the Marquisate entirely…!”

Elzer, who had been making a fuss, belatedly stopped panting.

Elzer. She too had turned back time. She too had been killed.

The thought made her hands tremble.

“I… I will succeed this time. It’s all mine. Yes, what can Sesenia do? In the end, she can’t do anything. Only I can do it. This time, I won’t let that Emperor get away with it.”

Unable to control her emotions, Elzer clutched her chest and headed for the bed.

“Haa… my chest… my chest hurts.”

She quickly lay down on the bed and took a deep breath. That time, when she thought everything was over, came to mind. Elzer was filled with anger, but she felt like she would faint if she got any angrier, so she forced herself to close her eyes.

Then that incident came to mind.

[Everything was perfect. After Sesenia’s death, the world turned out as Elzer wanted.

The current Emperor, Rasidell, began to suspect her. In addition, because of the words Sesenia had said before her death, strange rumors circulated in the world. That the child Elzer bore was not the Emperor’s child. From there, the rumors went further, saying that the child she bore was not even of the imperial family.

Nevertheless, Rasidell embraced Elzer. No, he had to embrace her.

He had made his wife, the Empress, die, and now if he didn’t embrace Elzer, he would be a laughingstock. Thanks to this, his reputation plummeted, and other princes began to covet the Emperor’s throne.

But that was it. A hidden variable was lurking. After Sesenia was executed, the former Marquis, the father of the two sisters, returned as Marquis. Elzer, who had thought that she would naturally inherit the Marquisate, which she almost had when Sesenia died, was bound to be embarrassed.

In addition, the Marquis had a strange wariness of Elzer because of the words Sesenia had said at the execution ground.

‘Father. You’re old now, so I’ll take care of the Marquisate. Please rest comfortably.’

‘No. I must lead my family.’

‘No. I can do well.’

‘Didn’t you give birth to the Emperor’s child? You will soon be the Empress, and the Empress must think about state affairs. In addition, you were very overwhelmed when we decided who would inherit the Marquisate in the past. So, let this father do it. Don’t worry. This father is still healthy.’

No matter what she said, he wouldn’t listen. She had to depose the Emperor when he was in a precarious state, but to do so, she needed the Marquisate’s wealth and backing, but the Marquis had no intention of moving.

‘Then, Father. There’s someone I’ve seen this time, please support that person.’

‘Hmm? Who is it?’

‘He’s a prince, but…’

‘The Empress’s family supporting a prince is out of the question. If you do that, you’ll be caught up in strange rumors. The Empress must always be careful. I don’t want to hear any unnecessary rumors.’

‘Ah… Father. Still. Just trust me and do it once.’

In the past, the Marquis would usually take her side to this extent. But no matter what Elzer said, he wouldn’t listen. It was the same no matter how often she visited the Marquis.

In the end, after visiting the Marquis every day for a week, the Marquis began to suspect her.

‘I don’t understand why you’re doing this.’

‘Father. Can’t you just do as I say, just once?’

‘No, I won’t do it no matter what. Rather, it’s strange that you’re doing this. Sesenia, the words that child said before she died keep coming to mind.’

Only then did Elzer realize that her father was suspecting her, and she began to use tricks again. If her father died, the Marquisate would eventually return to her. So, like she did to Sesenia, Elzer poisoned her father.

After feeding him poison over several days without being noticed, the Marquis lost his life.

It was exactly two weeks after Sesenia passed away.

And finally, Elzer, who had taken over the Marquisate, tried to make her lover the Emperor. Everything was perfect. The Marquisate was in her hands, and the Emperor’s position was precarious. But the Emperor found out everything.

‘I investigated the sudden death of the Marquis because it was suspicious. Well, everything was strange.’

‘What are you talking about? What investigation? The funeral is already over, what investigation?’

‘It was too strange. According to the stories of the Marquisate’s family, the Marquis’s face had spots as if he had been poisoned. In addition, the funeral was held too quickly. So, I dug up the tomb and investigated it, and poison was detected.’

‘Oh my gosh. W-was that so? Who on earth did that?’

Elzer pretended to worry about her father belatedly so as not to be caught. But the Emperor seemed to know everything and smiled at her.

‘Didn’t you kill him?’

‘Me? Why would I kill my father?’

‘Because you needed the Marquis position. You were going to stick with my brother with that, right?’

‘Are you framing me now? There’s no way I would do that!’

The Emperor shook his head as he watched Elzer make a fuss.

‘Are you really not in any relationship with my brother, Ian?’

‘We’re not in any relationship!’

‘Well, I can’t believe it. Sesenia’s last words also come to mind. I recently investigated and found out that you were trying to support my brother, Ian?’

‘That’s…’

Elzer had seen too well what kind of life her brother lived. An Emperor who couldn’t resist women. Even if she became his wife, even if she had children, she would end up like Sesenia.

So she tried to seat Ian, who loved her and would do anything for her, as Emperor. That’s why… that’s all…

‘Even the child you said was my child is suspicious. Yes, Sesenia’s words may all be true.’

‘Are you, are you suspecting me now?’

‘It’s not suspicion, it’s the truth. So, I dug up the tomb of the already dead Sesenia. Although the type is different, poison was also found in her body. It’s weak because it’s been dead for a long time, but it’s definitely been revealed as poison. And the herbs you recently brought in are the same as the ingredients of the herbs that killed the Marquis and Sesenia.’

Her body trembled. Everything was done, now if she just deposed the Emperor, everything would be as she wanted, but she couldn’t end it like this.

‘Don’t frame me!’

‘Lady Sesenia said so. That you fed her poison. At that time, I thought it was just words to live… I really fed her poison.’

‘I said no, I said no. Are you trying to get revenge on me now?’

‘Revenge?’

‘Why. Did you get another woman? Are you trying to frame me like this because you want to get rid of me?’

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