KFBRV - Chapter 43


They say that they are such bitter enemies that it's hard to imagine that they would ever be in a relationship with a Transcendent and a Purifier.

It looks like you want to harass her in some way?

“And I don’t find that woman so ugly.”

Sion's voice sounded as if the words were strangling his own throat.

Yeah, yeah. I know. You must hate the sight of someone so much to speak in a voice like that. Sarcasm. Something like that.

Max ended up siding with the lord rather than the villainess.

In his view, it was a battle between pretty trash and pretty trash.

Well then, the friendly pretty trash should win.

***

[ Check the level of disgust towards 'Zion'. ]

[ Dislike level: 50 ]

'This dog is really.'

Odette ground her teeth inwardly.

She opened the necklace because she had a gut feeling that he was nearby, and as expected, the disgust level was confirmed.

The disgust level could only be checked within a 20m radius.

That meant Sion was inside this building.

'This fucking kid. He was right to put me here to torture me.'

Odette was physically and mentally exhausted from exerting her energy against the Fenrir clan all day.

Waiting in the waiting room for a long time was torture.

'That OCD brat should have left the moment he was even one minute late.'

She was waiting in case someone would find fault with her if she left first, but this is what happened in the end.

Odette, who was biting her lip nervously, checked the watch on her necklace.

It was long past time to return to the mansion, and she was just waiting until the end, thinking she should just stay at a nearby hotel.

What made her even more anxious was the status window that kept popping up every minute starting at 11:30.

[ 'Health Debuff' risk area. ]

[ After 14 minutes, you will enter a state of health debuff. It is recommended that you move to a safe area. ]

'Ugh. What did I expect?'

Still, they're not as bad on terms as they were in the last life. We also have something in common: comrades in revenge.

'I thought maybe meeting him in person was a favor to him... I was crazy.'

Odette rose from the velvet chair in the drawing room with a bitter smile.

Odette scribbled something on the envelope she had written and took a handkerchief out of her sleeve.

Then she looked down at the handkerchief with a bitter expression.

'Perhaps this will be enough information for Karl. Karl is not worth that much to Sion, and this handkerchief will mean something to him.'

She couldn't waste any more time. Rather than vent her anger for no reason, she decided to leave.

But when she went down to the stables and met the coachman, Odette couldn't help but get angry again.

“His Excellency’s orders were to never give out anything that a guest might say.”

The coachman said this to Odette, who was wearing her veil again. The loyal coachman said,

“To me, His Excellency’s orders are higher than the imperial mandate.”

He scratched her insides once more with those words.

'Are you crazy? What kind of kid is this?'

What a method of making someone wait indefinitely after blocking them from speaking the language they brought, and then never coming back.

If this isn't bullying, then what is?

Odette gritted her teeth.

'You made me wait. You're going to make me walk in the middle of the night. You little punk.'

It'll take an hour's walk to get to something resembling a hotel.

However, it took about 14 minutes until the 'stamina debuff'... It looks like Odette will be asleep on the street for a day.

Falling asleep on the street could be a bad thing. If even one person is unlucky enough to recognize her, the Count will inevitably find out that she is sneaking out of the mansion.

She couldn't go back to the bank though, because the status screen said it was a 'health debuff risk area'.

[ 'Health Debuff' risk area. ]

[ After 9 minutes, you will enter a state of health debuff. It is recommended that you move to a safe area. ]

It was then that a status window popped up as if responding to her anxious mind.

[ 'Health Debuff' Danger Zone ]

[ Would you like to postpone the deferred time?

YES / NO ]


'What is this?'

Odette carefully read the status window that appeared.

'I've never seen or heard of a feature like this?'

But this time, it looks like the hidden feature is going to help. It's not like it's hitting her in the back of the head like 'Karl's status window can't be checked'.

Odette chose 'YES'.

[ Searching for the nearest male protagonist… ]

[ Close-range male protagonist: Sion ]

[Would you pay Sion's 'favorability' towards 'Odette'?]


[ 10 minutes delay possible for every 1 favorability point ]

'Haa... Nothing seems to be going smoothly.'

How could someone who does this kind of thing have any feelings for me?

<Redemption> is a run-down game, so it has both positive and negative reviews.

This meant that it was possible to get 100 likes and 100 dislikes at the same time.

Because if you repeat the lies and take the <reverse harem route>, you can also see the bad ending.

Of course, since the male leads are particularly gullible to the female leads if only they stopped doing the extreme trolling that is typical of old characters, her disgust for them would quickly melt away.

'Then what do I do? Whether it's possible to coexist or not, there's no way Sion would feel good about me-'

[ There is a 'favorability' towards Zion. ]

'Really? Why?'

She felt like she was alive, but it was still unpleasant.

[ Since you selected 'Dislike' when the necklace was attached, you cannot check the specific level of favorability. ]

'What happens if the actual favorability is less than the favorability you are willing to pay?'

[ The favorability is displayed as a minus (-) and will be repaid with future favorability. ]

'Even if you spend more than you like, that debt doesn't add to your dislike, right?'

[ Yes, disgust and favorability are independent domains. ]

[ However, while the favorability you paid is not repaid and you are in a minus (-) state, the cost of using the necklace is doubled. ]

[ Debuff time doubled (24 hours → 48 hours) ]

'I should be able to get to the hotel within an hour at the latest.'

After finishing her calculations, Odette gave an order in her head.

'I'll pay 6 favorability points and delay by 60 minutes.'

[ Would you pay 6 favorability points?

YES / NO ]


There's no way I'd get a favorability rating of 6.

It was a waste of time to have to blow it up with a debuff for two days, but there was no other way at the moment.

[ Debuff start time delayed by 60 minutes. Stamina/Mental debuff applied from 01:00 (24 hours) ]

[ Favorability decreased by 6 (Remaining favorability not disclosed) ]

But contrary to expectations, the parentheses in the stamina debuff indicated 24 hours.

'What? It looks like there were exactly 6.'

She breathed a sigh of relief.

Odette doesn't know how that crazy guy came to have feelings for her.

'But that's fortunate. In fact, there was no loss.'

It was not favorability but disgust that had a direct connection to her death.

"Miss!"

The coachman called out to Odette, fidgeting, but she did not look back.

Today, Odette was really tired, having had a day full of all sorts of evil intentions.

***

Sion hasn't been able to sleep properly since witnessing Odette's sleep-talking.

It was because the woman of that moment appeared in every dream. And the ending of the dream was always dirty and messy.

Odette, who was smiling brightly, hugged him with a charming smile. Soon, he loses consciousness to the enchanting scent of peach blossoms.

After that... he commits a huge, disgustingly messy act. Something that even his obsessive-compulsive disorder could never have imagined.

'I'm not some kind of adolescent brat.'

In fact, he had never had a dream like this even during his adolescence. As a result, he wasted his already short sleep time every day.

That was why he couldn't go see her.


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