Villainess X Villain: They are obsessed with each other!-Chapter 14 -: 13 Let’s steal some opportunities.
"Okay, goodbye, guys!" Julius waved at them as he walked out the door.
Creak! He closed the door behind him.
The moment Julius left, Iagano’s face changed. His eyes turned cold. He stood quietly, thinking hard.
The black-haired, brown-eyed boy walked up to him and spoke in a serious voice.
"Leader, that was Julius Augustus Hayes..."
"You think I don’t know that?" Iagano frowned and stepped back.
"He is at the top of our elimination list. But after what he just said... it’s very difficult now."
Their mission was clear: find all possible human leaders and kill them.
Right now, the main targets were Rosalina Valentina and Julius Augustus Hayes.
But Julius had walked straight to them and revealed that he was one of them.
’I can’t even ask him to show his real face,’ Iagano thought.
Their appearance-changing technique needed the real face to work.
If he showed his true face now, he could never change back to it safely.
Even Iagano himself was wearing the face of a student he had killed before entering the academy.
So asking Julius to reveal himself was impossible.
"Haa..." Iagano let out a long sigh and walked back to his desk.
Julius even knew about the Great Sanachi and their deepest secrets, things only the highest leaders of the Zlycons were supposed to know.
When Julius spoke earlier and showed no respect, Iagano had almost decided to kill him right there.
In the Zlycons, higher-ups were treated with great respect.
But the moment Julius mentioned the Great Sanachi correctly, Iagano changed his mind.
After all, The Great Sanachi was a very high-ranking figure.
Even their own master had to bow in front of him.
If Julius was really his disciple, then everything Julius said suddenly made perfect sense.
Iagano thought quietly for a while, then sat down in the chair behind his desk.
After some time, he turned to the black-haired, brown-eyed boy and spoke.
"Kagano, Later, send a message to the master. Ask him to confirm Julius’s true identity."
Kagano looked at Iagano and answered respectfully,
"Leader, we are very far from home. It will take at least six months for any news to come back."
As he spoke, Kagano’s face showed confusion. He kept staring straight ahead for some reason.
Iagano frowned.
"I know that. But we have no choice. If we harm Julius and he really is the Great Sanachi’s disciple, all of us will die. Do exactly what I said."
"Yes, Leader," Kagano replied. He bowed and walked to the side.
Iagano stayed silent, lost in deep thought.
A girl stepped out from the back of the room. She looked very anxious.
"Leader, what about the thing he asked for? It’s very difficult. If we get caught..."
Iagano let out a long sigh.
"For now, we can only do what he says. If the Great Sanachi really wants that treasure, we must help him get it."
Everyone in the room nodded in agreement. They looked serious and then went back to their tasks.
Meanwhile, Julius walked out of the club building.
He stopped, turned back, and stared at it for a moment.
A small smile appeared on his face, but it didn’t reach his eyes.
"They must be wondering about my real identity right now," he muttered quietly.
"They’ll probably send a letter to their master to confirm who I am."
He looked away from the building.
"But we’re on the three floating continents," he murmured softly.
"Any news from the four stationary continents will take a very long time to arrive."
"Before that happens, I will finish my job," he told himself as he started walking toward the main gate of the academy.
"That treasure is very important to me," Julius continued muttering under his breath.
"But stealing it alone would be almost impossible. There are too many powerful professors guarding it. Some of them have even reached the Void Core stage."
He kept walking.
"And then there’s the dean. He’s at the Void Core stage of Bodily Ascension. He has already passed two heavenly trials in the Domain Manifestation of Soul Ascension."
Julius’s eyes twitched slightly when he thought of the old man.
That dean was incredibly strong.
In the original story, the dean had helped the hero a lot after being impressed by his hard work and determination.
Julius finally reached the gate.
A black carriage was waiting just outside. Alfred stood in front of it, waiting respectfully.
When Alfred saw Julius, he quickly opened the carriage door.
"Good afternoon, Young Master."
Julius stepped inside without saying a word.
He was completely lost in his thoughts.
Alfred closed the door gently, then walked around and climbed into the driver’s seat.
He started the carriage and guided it toward the mansion.
Inside, Julius stayed silent, still deep in thought.
’The competition is tomorrow. That isn’t much time...’
Julius thought quietly as he sat inside the moving carriage.
’I just need to score high enough to get placed in the same class as my Rose. But when that trash arrives, Rose will be in a very difficult position.’
’She will lose the student council president election, and she already has a deep grudge against that trash’s family.’
He narrowed his eyes.
’The reason my Rose became the villainess in the original story was because of what happened to her mother, my mother-in-law.’
’She came from that family, but the Thornes killed her.’
’They wrongly believed she had leaked their family secrets to the Valentina clan. In truth, those secrets would only be revealed much later.’
’But my Rose would never believe that. She would want revenge. She would want to destroy them all.’
’And of course, I will help her. I have my own debt to settle with that trash. In the novel, he manipulated my stupid past self into killing my Rose. I won’t let that happen again.’
Julius frowned deeply.
’But that trash’s system is the biggest problem.’
Whenever he thought about that system, his expression turned sour. It was a complete cheat.
It gave him daily rewards for doing almost nothing. And the skills it provided were even worse.
For example, he could become invincible for one full minute.
During that time, no one, not even a spell caster at the Infinite Core stage, could touch him.
And if someone actually managed to kill him?
Boom. He would go back in time. Regress.
In the original story, Julius had killed him many times, outsmarting him, trapping him, striking perfectly.
But every time, that trash would return to the past with all his future knowledge and change everything.
Julius clenched his fist slightly.
’That system has to be dealt with. Somehow.’
The carriage rolled on smoothly toward the mansion, but Julius remained lost in his dark thoughts.
As he thought about these things, the scenery outside the carriage began to change. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
’We aren’t far from the mansion now,’ Julius realized. He looked out the window and recognized the familiar road.
Children were playing happily by the roadside while their mother ran after them, laughing and calling their names.
Julius watched them quietly. For a moment, his thoughts drifted to his own mother.
"Fortunately," he muttered under his breath, "I told that trashy author to make Julius’s parents the same as my real ones."
A wave of melancholy passed over his face.
His parents had died in a terrible accident when he was only thirteen.
After their death, he had slowly gone a little crazy.
There were other reasons too.
When grief made him stop going to school for a long time, his so-called friends forgot about him completely.
When he finally returned, they acted like they had never known him at all.
’Were they only friends with me because of my parents’ money?’
He never found the answer. But after they abandoned him, the darkness inside him grew even deeper.
"Haaa..." He let out a long, tired sigh.
He was about to look away from the window when his eyes suddenly caught a small girl, around seven or eight years old, standing a little apart from the other children.
His eyes widened slightly. Something from the TST clicked in his mind.
"Yeah... she should be here, right?" he murmured to himself.
Without hesitation, excitement and urgency filled his voice.
"Alfred! Turn the carriage. Go east. Now!"
"East?" Alfred called back through the small window that connected to the driver’s seat.
"Young Master, east is—"
Julius cut him off sharply.
"Just go."
Alfred didn’t argue.
He gave a quick nod, pulled the reins, and turned the carriage toward the east road. The horses picked up speed.
Julius leaned closer to the window, his gaze locked on the small girl in the distance.
A cold, determined smile slowly formed on his lips.
"Let’s steal some opportunities..." he whispered to himself.
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A/N: We will use TST for ’The Severed Thread’
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