Though I Am an Inept Villainess (ふつつかな悪女ではございますが ～雛宮蝶鼠とりかえ伝～)

What great weather.

A perfect day for farming!

SHU CLAN MAIDEN - SHU KEIGETSU

It has already been four days since our swap.

Life here has been the best!

Food and herbs grow so much, I find it amusing.

And even if I devote myself to farming day after day, I don't collapse at all.

It doesn't trouble anyone when I stay up late.

The meals are so tasty!

Being healthy is so wonderful!

Oh, Great Ancestor, am I allowed to be this happy?

These long limbs are easily strengthend

just by doing the exercises I incorporated.

Such ecstasy! Muscles!

This is power!

I'd like to get a six-pack as well,

but I think that's impossible with only three days left.

By the Ghost Festival ritual in three days...

I'm sure my probation will be over and I'll be able to see Lady Keigestu again.

I can't allow that!

I haven't heard anything from her ever since our chat in the dungeon.

I wonder what Lady Keigetsu is thinking?

Inevitably, I must see her at some point.

What are you mumbling so early in the morning?

SHU CLAN COURT LADY - LEELEE

Oh, Leelee. Good morning.

You're sure up early today.

Says you, who woke up earlier than your court lady.

Since that day, Leelee has been eating and sleeping next to me.

I'm glad she's been able to spend some days living here.

Huh? What is it?

Nothing.

I'm looking forward to what kind of day it will be today!

Let's do this with a bang!

THOUGH I AM AN INEPT VILLAINESS

Then, let's have some breakfast.

Oh, hold it!

I've had enough potatoes already.

Don't worry. I'll flavor it differently.

That's not what I mean!

Bees?

This girl.

She's been in such a good mood ever since coming here.

Take this!

Oh, sweet earthworms!

Please go and till the soil some more!

Oh, here are a spider and a centipede, too!

Huh?

Curse you!

Oh, scissors and...

this is perfect for a pincushion!

I can do some sewing!

Huh?

So stinky. I'll make her cry for sure this time.

Take this filth!

Perfect for fertilizer!

Wha?

I'm harassing her every day, but it's not working at all.

But still, I wanna get out of the Shu Palace.

Today will be the day!

But what do I do?

Leelee must be thinking about how she'll harass--

I mean, how she'll serve me today.

If possible, I would be delighted

to receive something like a kitchen knife or some dye next.

You must be thinking something terrible right now.

Oh, of course not!

Bee friends, thank you for the wonderful blessing.

Leelee, do you prefer salt to honey?

I don't care.

Can people change this suddenly?

Such a despicable girl...

wakes up at the crack of dawn before her court lady, tidies up the garden.

Now it's done!

She works so hard and even helps me out.

Besides, she used to hate insects,

but she held them with her bare hands the other day.

I don't have enough containers,

so spider and centipede can go in together!

If you do that, they'll end up eating each other!

That itself is a law of nature.

Time to eat.

Oh.

Leelee, you're still growing, so you should take the larger one.

Oh.

Thank you so much!

Oh... I'm so happy.

Right now... I'm thinking she is cute.

No, no!

-Get a hold of yourself! -I'm sorry.

You must have your own reasons.

Recently, how you've been acting against me is because of that, right?

It would have been nice if I coughed up blood

or shed tears of blood out of terror as a reaction.

No. If you know that already, I don't know what to do.

If so, why don't you stop it now?

You are an honest, wonderful court lady.

I'm sure your heart would rejoice

if you went about your usual court lady jobs with everything you have.

What's up with that?

After all the mocking you did to me, you're going to compliment me now?

That's--

I'm attending a criminal in an abandoned building!

You're the one that put me in a situation outside my usual court lady jobs!

If I were to wholeheartedly serve you,

would you guarantee my position and benefits as a court lady?

That's...

s-something I cannot do at present.

See? Then don't open your big mouth!

Nope!

I'm not wrong!

This is a fair way to get revenge!

Leelee! Where are you--

Shut up!

You tortured me for all this time!

Why did you make a face like that?

Stop.

L-Lady Gayou?

We're supposed to be meeting at twilight.

I am quite disappointed in you.

Huh?

I heard the rumors.

I have been rewarding you, as I had believed in your reports.

But I hear Shu Keigetsu spends her days laughing.

That's...

Why is someone who's being harassed seemingly having fun?

Can it be that you lied to me?

No, nothing like that!

I really was harassing her!

I swear to the Great Ancestor!

Oh, so you swear?

So you really have no more loyalty to Shu Keigetsu?

Without a doubt.

And Shu Keigetsu hasn't won you over?

Of course not.

All right, then.

I will let things slide this time.

Thank you very much.

However, use this next time when you go about it.

Go about what, may I ask?

It's your job to figure that out.

It's fine, as long as we have proof that we can submit to Lady Seika.

You can slash whatever you want.

Her garment, her hair...

even her heart.

However, harassment and bloodshed are completely different!

If I harm a Maiden somehow, I would be executed!

And what of it?

Huh?

You really don't know your place.

Ever since you accepted the hairpin, your life has been in my hands.

If you can't do it, I'll just bring you before the Eagle Eyes Captain.

for the crime of stealing a hairpin from the Kin clan.

No way.

I am of ivory silk. You are of washed scarlet and a foreigner.

I wonder who they would believe?

H-However--

You're nothing more than the daughter of a dancer who's only good at seducing men.

Be quiet and just do it.

Please hold on!

Don't touch me.

You get your feed after you do your job, Ms. Rat.

CROWN PRINCE - EI GYOUMEI

Can you do something about that boring look on your face, Shin-u?

CAPTAIN OF THE EAGLE EYES - SHIN-U

I am terribly sorry.

I have to attend the visits with Lady Kou Reirin day after day,

and how much I tire of it is showing on my face.

Don't pick a fight and make it sound like an apology.

That's the look you had in your eyes when we first met, too.

So you're my younger brother.