The Villain’S Daughter-In-Law Is Inherently Powerful [EN]: Chapter 13

“Did that thing just laugh at me?”

“Young Master Gerd, you mustn’t refer to the Little Mistress as ‘that thing.’”

“If he had ears, he would have heard! That thing is mocking me right now!”

Ugh, this is driving me crazy.

Honestly, the way he’s trying to act like an adult and putting on airs is hilarious. Plus, from my perspective on top of that huge John’s head, he looks like a complete kid.

“Can’t you come down here right now? Are you, an albino who wouldn’t even be a dancer in Richenbium [a city known for its dancers], laughing at me?”

Gerd huffed and reached out towards me. He was so angry that he didn’t seem to notice that Kiraxus’s magic had made him call me ‘nim’ just now.

“That won’t do, Young Master.”

John, who was assigned to protect me, dodged Gerd with little effort.

“Please stop.”

“Agh! That thing keeps laughing! How dare it! How dare it mock me, the second son of Richenbium!”

I tried to hold it in, wagging my tail, but I ended up bursting out laughing.

I grabbed onto John’s hair, hiccuping, and almost rolled off.

It was only after a while that I stopped laughing and realized the boy was trying to think of words that could hurt me.

What, is he going to call me lowly now?

“Y-you… with a family! And a noble background, too!”

“…Pfft. Pwahahaha!”

I burst out laughing again because it was exactly what I expected. No matter what insults he throws, he can’t get through Kiraxus’s filtering magic.

‘How can he be one of the male leads!’

Barely wiping away the tears, I tapped Pompom’s head twice.

“Pudding culprit?”

– Are you the one who threw the pudding that came out as a snack today into the trash in front of the cooks?

Gerd was momentarily thrown into confusion.

‘W-what? How does he know that?’

He tried his best not to show it, but he couldn’t stop his face from turning bright red.

The reason he came all the way to the floor where the lower servants stayed was because of a report from a cleaning servant he had bribed in advance.

He intended to establish dominance over the lowly albino, known as the Little Mistress, and make it clear that he would be the master of the house.

Gerd, who had lived in Richenbium until last year, had only ever met commoner albino dancers. But the ‘Little Mistress’ albino he actually met was completely different from what he had imagined.

‘If this were Richenbium, you wouldn’t even dare to look me in the face!’

Now, wasn’t he looking down at him from on top of his guard, Sir John Grizzly’s, head? This was truly unbearable.

‘Everything from the food to the room is already displeasing!’

Enraged, he chose another word to lash out at the lowly thing.

“Once we’re married, I’ll divorce you and lock you in the spire. You’ll spend your whole life begging for my love!”

The king, his father, in Richenbium had many concubines. After a certain period, those concubines were dragged to the spire, where they had to beg for the king’s mercy, never able to leave.

‘How about that? Are you scared now!’

He lifted his chin triumphantly. But the reaction he got was not what he expected at all.

“Pu, Pwahahaha! He, he’s going to lock me up!”

“Your words have crossed the line, Young Master. I will report this to the Lord, so be aware.”

Why?

The lowly thing was laughing, and Sir John Grizzly, whom he wanted to impress, was stiffening his face with a serious expression.

Gerd couldn’t understand it at all.

‘I know what that kid is thinking.’

I could see right through Gerd. How much had he been pampered as the king’s son? It was a great blessing for the kingdom that he wasn’t the eldest son.

After laughing to my heart’s content, I put on a cold tone. The laughing was funny, but I had to scold him.

“Hey.”

“!”

“Who said they’d marry you?”

“Wh-what?”

“There are many other candidates besides you, you idiot.”

I shouldn’t be swearing at the precious prince, but the insults I’ve heard are much worse.

‘Either way, this situation will be fairly reported to the Lord by John.’

I only laughed, but he got angry and said things he shouldn’t have.

“Don’t, throw, pudding.”

– Do you know how much effort people put into making that one pudding that goes into your mouth? Don’t treat food carelessly.

Pompom translated what I wanted to say perfectly.

The boy, looking back and forth between me and Pompom, gritted his teeth with a boiling face.

‘Oh? Really?’

If he holds back here, he might have some potential.

‘Or maybe he wants to attack but is holding back because of John.’

Most people are weak to the strong and strong to the weak. But the Lord of Driblane shouldn’t be like that. Who would buy weapons from someone so lacking in gravitas?

“Let’s go, John.”

“Yes, Little Mistress.”

I turned my head away primly.

‘Ugh, what an eyesore.’

Still, it seems that a kid with such yellow sprouts will become an Alpha [a dominant personality type] later on.

‘It seems the kingdom is forcibly helping him awaken as an Alpha somehow….’

Okay, I’ve decided. Let Lahin save Gerd.

I didn’t want to steal Gerd’s redemption story at all. Just let Lahin have him…….

“Kkyuk!”

But in an instant, I felt my body floating and screamed.

“Little Mistress!”

John, who had been robbed of me in an instant, turned around with a bewildered face, but I was already in Gerd’s grasp. With only my tail dangling!

“How dare you humiliate me?”

Oh my, he’s gone crazy.

I wondered how he grabbed me faster than John’s reaction speed, but a large bird peeked out from beside Gerd.

The bird, wrapped in a subtle light, looked extraordinary at first glance.

“That’s, isn’t that a wind spirit! How dare you use spirit magic against the Little Mistress!”

John, who had turned pale, immediately approached, but Gerd stepped back, using the spirit as a shield.

“I need to teach this one a lesson, so stay there.”

“Please stop. You’ll really get into big trouble!”

“Oh, really?”

Smirk. The twisted corners of his mouth turned upwards. At the same time, an enormous pain was inflicted on my tail.

‘It hurts!’

Even so, Gerd is thirteen years old. I’m just a small and fragile baby weasel.

But when Gerd grabbed me with determination, it felt like my tail was really about to be pulled out, it was so painful.

“I can’t possibly marry an albino like you, so go to the Lord right now and tell him. Tell him it was a mistake to designate you as the future mistress, and that you’re going to stop!”

“Kkyuk!”

Hanging in the air like hunted prey, it felt like my small brain and organs were all turning upside down. I saw John draw his sword, thinking it couldn’t go on any longer.

Even if it’s a spirit, Gerd only summoned a mid-level wind spirit. There’s not even a jewel on his forehead, which is proof of a contract. It’s not a personal spirit, so it’s probably a spirit in a protective artifact given by the royal family or something.

“I have been ordered by the Lord to protect the Little Mistress’s safety as the top priority. Therefore, I will forcibly return the spirit.”

“Tch. Alright, alright!”

Gerd clicked his tongue at John’s stern warning and then got rid of the spirit. Then, he threw me onto John’s hand.

“Little Mistress, are you alright!”

I’m not alright.

‘I’ll get my revenge!’

You’re going to hurt me like this?

I jumped up and glared at Gerd with a fierce look. To think that not being able to transform into a human would be this upsetting!

‘No. There are also ways to get revenge since I’m in animal form.’

I clenched my chestnut-sized hands and focused all my strength on my hind legs, shooting forward.

“Little Mistress!”

Before John could stop me, I reached the enemy’s shoulder, opened my mouth wide, and bit down on his chubby ear.

“Aaaagh! You beast!!! Let go!!!”

Hmph, do you think I’ll let go? You didn’t let go of my tail either!

“I said let go! Aaaagh!!!”

The taste of blood fills my mouth. It was disgusting, but I didn’t let go of my teeth even as I was being shaken back and forth.

Serves you right!

John knew he had to stop me, but he couldn’t bring himself to pull me off, so he was fidgeting.

Gerd was screaming, and all sorts of people began to gather at the screams.

“What is all this chaos?”

And finally, a person who could resolve this situation appeared. It was Lapiren.