章 23: "Why Should I?"

"Why should I?" Mariella asked Lizeth with a slight innocence in her voice.

The toddler even tilted her head, looking confused, but the others only saw a little demon who pretended to know nothing.

"L-little sister...Erick didn't mean to do that, h-he...it was only an accident! Yes!"

Lizeth shuddered under Mariella's 'innocent' look, already about to flee the hall.

Whenever Isabella used that kind of face, everyone knew that the tyrant's sadistic side was triggered.

After that, her violent tendency would follow, and everyone would be bullied to death.

But Mariella was calm as she eyed Lizeth from her tall throne.

"Erick didn't mean to slap me..it's all an accident, so he shouldn't be punished? Is that what you mean, big sis?"

Lizeth had no choice but to nod.

"Y-yes. So…"

Lizeth hadn't finished her words when Mariella suddenly laughed cheerfully.

Her voice was really cute, but to others, it was like a demon crawling out from hell.

"Then, if I accidentally strangle Erick or whip him to death, you will also forgive me, big sis? After all, I didn't mean anything bad. It will just be an accident! Really!"

Mariella's face was full of innocent smiles. She even moved her chubby legs and arms, trying to be 'cute'.

But the others in the room were spooked to death.

What did this tyrant say? Accidentally killing Erick, and then she didn't mean it?

The kid's words were so nauseating that the two maids behind Lizeth almost puked.

Right now, their faces already turned pale, and their bodies swayed lightly.

Even Lizeth's face was also pale to the point of looking like a fish's belly.

"L-little sister...d-don't joke around. T-that isn't good. Y-you can't do that– "

"But Erick can." Mariella immediately cut Lizeth's speech.

"Erick can slap me and go out unpunished, so next time he can also accidentally push me to an ice-cold pond, and it's not his fault."

Mariella rubbed her chin and grinned.

"It should be the pond's fault for being there, or my fault because I fall too easily! Isn't that right?"

Once again, Mariella's ability to turn things around was top-notch.

If she said the paper is black, maybe people might start to doubt whether a piece of paper is white or black.

Lizeth and maids were obviously overwhelmed by Mariella's innocent speech. Lizeth, in particular, already looked as if she was about to faint.

S-she didn't mean to sound bad, but how come in Isabella's words, she suddenly became the bad guy?!

"Y-your majesty…" Lizeth still wanted to plead for Erick, but Mariella had already lost interest in testing the protagonist' luck halo.

"No, no, I don't want to hear anything else, big sister. If you keep talking, I will feel bad for punishing Erick with a week imprisonment...and then…"

Mariella bit her lips, looking slightly aggrieved.

"And then I might let go of all the criminals in the jail. Those who kill others, break the law, and harm the innocent...maybe they also didn't mean to do that."

Mariella squeezed a teardrop down her cheek and sobbed.

"Maybe it's all an accident! Maybe we did them wrong! The victims should forgive these people and let them go because these people didn't mean to harm anyone!"

Mariella's voice was loud, and there were actually many people around the throne's room.

There were guards hiding somewhere.

There were maids behind the throne, and there were even commoners outside of the door, wanting to seek an audience with the queen.

When Mariella's words came out, almost everyone heard her loud voice.

The castle's soundproof system wasn't that good, especially when they were in an ancient western world.

Almost all people around the throne's room heard Mariella's words from start to finish, and most of them suddenly changed their expressions.

What is going on? Who is lying to her majesty, telling all that sick logic?! Is it Princess Lizeth? Her majesty said 'big sister', after all!

The commoners, the guards, and the maids never had a good impression on Isabella.

But now, when they heard the child innocently say those things with a sobbing voice, they suddenly thought they misunderstood the tyrant.

Did someone secretly teach bad things to the kid? Is that why she became just a bad child??

And the one people saw entering the hall just now was the rumored kind-hearted Princess Lizeth!

No matter what, people would always subconsciously side with the weak.

The queen wasn't weak. The princess was weak. But when the queen was five years old, and the princess was thirteen years old…

People would subconsciously choose the five-year-old kid.

After all, children are pure and innocent. But they're also easily affected!

Mariella knew there were a lot of people around the seemingly vacant throne's room because she had arrived earlier than Lizeth.

The girl slyly used this chance to smear Lizeth's name a little and clean Isabella's name bit by bit.

Mariella activated her oscar-worthy acting skill once more as she took out a silk handkerchief from her gown and blew her nose hard.

"Huhuhu. I'm sorry, big sis.I can't listen to you anymore. Dad– I mean Duke Fez said that I have to tell him everything if I want to decide on something. So...so…"

Isabella often threw tantrums like a crazy child, but she also often acted like this with a face full of mockery, especially when she faced the 'white lotus' Lizeth.

So, Mariella' current attitude wasn't OOC at all.

Lizeth and the maids were used to witnessing Isabella's one-man theater mocking Lizeth's timid and soft nature.

And so, even when Mariella really sounded innocent and obedient to the others, for Lizeth and her maids, the baby was actually humiliating them.

It was a slap to their faces!

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