The Queen of Villains - Chapter 6 part 1
Giovanni and Johann were in the city eating ice cream together under Killian’s orders. The café was filled with couples except for themselves. The good weather and the romantic music playing made Giovanni feel inexplicably melancholic.
“Are you thinking about how to pass the time?”
Johann took a bite of ice cream and asked. Unlike when he was eating with Emily, he ate very cleanly, with nothing on his lips.
“Yeah.”
Giovanni couldn’t even deny Johann’s sarcasm. He sighed and gulped down a cup of coffee as bitter as his life. There was no greater torment than sitting alone in a café with a seven-year-old boy, even if it was at the boss’s order.
Even more so if the kid had a sly personality.
“Tell me about Emily. I’m curious how Uncle got to know Emily,” Johann said.
“I really don’t want to talk about it.”
“If you don’t want to, I can always ask Uncle in front of Emily.”
Indeed, a cunning little brat.
“When it’s time to get married, matchmakers come around and set couples up for an arranged marriage. Those two met like that.”
Giovanni tried to change the subject and find an escape route. Speaking recklessly about Emily would only lead to his demise by the boss’s hands.
“But Uncle didn’t get married through an arranged marriage, did he?”
Johann’s words made Giovanni’s eyebrows twitch.
“What do you know?”
“I know that my uncle had Emily’s picture for years.”
‘When did he see that?’ Giovanni’s face twisted.
“You saw it wrong.”
“Oh, so Uncle carried pictures of another woman and married Emily instead? He’s a real scumbag.”
Okay. If he continues talking with Johann, he’ll end up with his neck on the line
“Do you need pocket money?”
“Give me 10 blens.”
[T/n: blens is the currency of the Bancent empire]
Giovanni made up his mind, pulling his wallet out of his pocket. No matter what the lord says, he’s going to bring Nox and shut this kid’s mouth. If he didn’t, he would soon find himself broke.
“But Giovanni, you don’t have a girlfriend?”
Giovanni narrowed his eyes at Johann’s question. It felt like he knew why the little kid was asking such a thing.
“Why? Trying to find my weakness with that?”
“Seeing how twisted your personality is, it seems my assumption was right after all.”
“What did you say?”
Giovanni was greatly annoyed by Johann’s words, but it was true that he didn’t have a girlfriend.
“Well, do you have a girlfriend then?”
Johann sneered at Giovanni’s confident question, as if he found it pitiful.
“I think my preference is outside the Academy. I have a taste for older women.”
“…How much older are they that they’re not even in the Academy?”
“I don’t know.”
“Ugh, I’m not curious either.”
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Translator note: Johann is so chaotic I love it <3 anyone else peep that he likes “older women” im dead. ~ Mae
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