Who is the Villain?

Chapter-47

"Lady Lucien, how dare you–"

*SLAM*

The lady who just yelled had her head now pressed on the cream cupcakes at the table which was placed on the plate. The blow on the table created a slight tremor, jerking all the food and utensils on the table.

*gasp!!!*

Lucien carefully breathes in and exhausts it out. Her hand finally lets go of the hair of the lady and leans back on her chair.

"It sure is infuriating to conduct like a decent person."

The lady who had her face smeared with the cream leaned back with the help of the other lady who was seated beside her.

"Lady Lucien, what kind of a behavior–"

"Shut up."

Just as Cresella interrupts who was as well stunned by her behavior, Lucien cuts in without a bother.

"W-what?"

"Did you not understand what I have said?" Lucien flips back her wet hair which scented sweet and sour now. "Or should I recite again the definition of shutting up one's clutter mouth?"

Cresella's cheeks turned bright red out of embarrassment and anger. She stood up slamming the table with both hands. "Watch how you behave, your reputation will reflect as a consort–"

"Blah...blah....blah.!! Are you finished with your oh! sweet righteousness lecture?" Lucien crossed her leg as she folded her arms across her chest. Her head tilted with an unamused gaze that was filled with nothing but mock and loathing.

Cresella couldn't respond to any words but tightly bites her lower lips in outrage. "If you dare to overreact, this matter will be–"

*thud*

The next thing everyone remembers was Cresella lying on the ground on her back. Lucien had just kicked the table hard with her feet, pushing towards Cresella who was sitting at the front. It hits her stomach making her fall backward, everyone was practically startled by the new behavior of Lucien.

"I may be a lady however I do know how to use my feet rather than my hand." Lucien threatens as she carefully crossed her leg. She stood up from her chair, tired of all the dramas and acts of being innocent.

Cresella was now crouching on the ground in pain while some other ladies helped her.

"You may do whatever you please.  Notify the emperor or whoever you believe is superior," as she spoke, she walks out of the table.

Just as Lucien was a few steps away, the lady whose face was covered with cream came rushing towards her holding a fork on her right, lifting it in the air.

"I WOULDN'T FORGIVE YOU!!"

Right before it landed on her shoulder, Lucien quickly held her wrist as she rapidly turns around. "And who said I would be forgiving you as well." Lucien stares right through the gaze of the other lady with an eerie look. Her gripped was hard that the fork on the lady's hand fell off to the ground.

Her body trembles with tears falling across her cheeks. Her pupil directed behind Lucien and back at her. "P-please...p-please...let me go. I-I don't mean any harm, L-lady Lucien. P-please..."

Her anger suddenly changed into a pitiful look but Lucien didn't unforeseen that sly smirk before her tears rolled down.

.

.

"Please let go of the lady's hand, Lady Lucien."

A familiar voice interrupted and Lucien was aware of who it was. It was no other than Ajex who seem to have arrived at an uneven scene.

'Oh, that's why.'

Lucien loosens her grip, letting go of the lady's wrist who had fallen on the ground. She was sobbing with a trembling body as she covers her face with both of her palms.

"My lady, are you alright?"

Ajex kneeled before the lady and hands her a white cloth.

"A-all I did was apologize to her for accidentally knocking over little crumbs on her gown..." She cries sobbing even more. Lucien didn't speak anything to defend herself. She simply stood still and stares down.

"Sir Knight, you came at the right time," one of the ladies spoke who was as well crying.

"We wanted to apologize to her and patch it up for whatever had happened in the past, however, she...she...kicked Lady Amera and Lady Cresella."

"We tried to stop her, however, she used vulgar speech threatening to harm us if we do."

"Not only that, s-she wanted us to flee away from this place."

"L-lady Lucien conducted so bizarrely. We were horrified to make a call for aid.."

"W-we only did was to enjoy our evening tea together. Was that too much to ask, Lady Lucien?" One of them half yelled in tears until the lady who was kicked in the beginning fell unconscious on the ground.

This created panic among them. Ajex quickly call for their maids and carried her off to the physician's room along with Cresella.

Rosetta as well rushed in when she hears the commotion. She was unable to get inside when it was restricted only to the consorts. When she tried to intervene noticing the state of her Lady, Lucien held her hand up for her not to.

"Lady Lucien, what do you have to say about this?" Ajex stood up when the lady who was crying was taken away. "Has whatever they have spoken a lie?"

However, Lucien reacted nothing. This only made Ajex weary of her behavior. Even when he repeated, she responded to nothing.

Ajex sighs and asked Lucien, "Lady Lucien, please apologize for whatever harm you've done to each of them and for destroying the evening tea."

"Yes, apologize...apologize..."

The ladies began to voice out one after the other.

"You dare to destroy the evening tea party and leave without an apology?"

"Lady Lucien, have some courtesy.."

"So noisy," Lucien mumbles under her breath and made her way to the table.

Everyone went silent when Lucien walks towards the table and stood in front of the chair she sat on.

"I have been accused of destroying the tea party and it would be a shame if I leave without fulfilling it." Lucien tilted her head and gently stretch her thin lips as innocently as she could. Even before the ladies could ask any questions, she grabbed hold of the chair, swiftly lifts it, and smashed it on the table hard.

Everyone screams fleeing away from the table. Ajex was startled by the sudden behavior. However, Lucien wasn't done, she continued to speak. "You should be gratified that I used a hand and not the knife on the table." She sends a sinister smile as her hand gently held her cheeks which were now covered in blood.  

"Lady Lucien, that's enough." Ajex half yelled making his way toward her and quickly held her wrist. "This isn't ladylike, a lady like you–"

"Then educate me on how to conduct like an ideal lady when you are pushed at the edge of where everyone wants  you to engulf in despise and abominate." Lucien wait no more to keep on hearing the word how to be a proper ladylike which she was now more enraged upon hearing every day.

Ajex notices the different look on her. It was a different her which Lucien hasn't revealed her true self yet. A different person Ajex never knew. And apart from all, what he noticed was her beauty. She was drenched in pulp fluid and smattered a little too much cream across her gown and not to forget the blood smeared across her cheeks. However, he couldn't ignore the act Lucien did right in front of his eyes and her behavior toward everyone.

"I have no answer to your question, my lady. However, you have to apologize or there will be a penalty for your behavior." Ajex responded which only made her scuff under her breath.

"Even if you have to put a sword at my throat right now or cut limps or arms away, I'll never regret my actions towards them and," she turns her head towards those ladies who were silent. "Filthy bitches like them will I never apologize. Everyone around here can go to hell along with this scum Galatians–"

*slap*

A hard slap hit across Lucien's cheek which as well led to tiny bleeding right through her lips. She smiled again not bothering the stinking pain. "I suppose I cross the line of using the name that should not be tarnished on one's lips."

Everyone was in gasped when they notice the act of Ajex using her hand to shut a lady's lips. "If you were informed you should have not committed it." His hands were clenched tight and finally, let goes of her wrist.

"Guards, take her away." He ordered. The guards came running towards them by the commotion. Lucien didn't resist but simply lift her hand to be chained. Rosetta was helpless at this point. Her lady had warned her not to interfere and she could do nothing about it.

Just as Lucien was being taken away, she halt her walk for a moment. "Oh right, right..." She turned towards the ladies. "I'll forever remember this lovely day and do not trouble, I recognize each and every one of you, what you have done and what you have spoken." She innocently smiled again which made everyone shutter from their spine.

The sky turns gloomy and lighting began to flash across the dark clouds. It was noticeable when the roof was nothing but covered with glass.

'If they wish for me to be the villain, I'll gladly be the worst villain for them.'