1. "Ice is something that melts typically, yes?"
2. "Until I undo the magic that binds them."
3. "Those sculptures will endure in silence, not uttering a word..."
4. "I'm not especially good at this hobby... But I do enjoy making ice sculptures with my magic."
5. "But..."
6. "I rather like their laudable persistence."
7. "I suppose now isn't the time for my artistic musings."
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
1. "I am suspected of fraud, correct?"
2. "You ladies are here because..."
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
1. The investigation we carried out as members of the secret service was going well.
2. Our plea bargain strategy was going swimmingly.
3. "Bribes were demanded..."
4. "Who was it that demanded a bribe from you?"
5. "So, tell us..."
6. "By dole françois and salas lilium."
1. "And so, you have now come to speak to me directly."
2. "Father. I don't want to believe these accusations."
3. "However, based on the testimonies from other nobles..."
4. "It is the only conclusion... That makes any sense."
5. "As well as all the circumstantial evidence we have gathered..."
1. "Yet, you have no concrete evidence. Is that correct?"
2. "I am exhausted after all this questioning."
3. "The time has come for you to leave."
4. "Girls."
5. "Claire."
6. "We will take our leave here, father."
7. "Correct."
1. "I really thought you were smarter than this."
2. "I cannot find any discrepancies in this ledger."
3. "Thank you for your cooperation in this matter, chancellor."
1. "It contains confidential information relating to government and foreign policy."
2. "That safe over there is off-limits."
3. "Authority to conduct a financial audit, yes."
4. "We have been granted full authority to investigate."
5. "Records related to matters of the government can only be accessed by order of the house of lords."
6. "You three do not have the authority to view documents relating to government matters."
7. "If you wish to examine it no matter what..."
1. Which means the evidence of his fraud is inside.
2. But, as long as he continues to stress their secrecy, we can't make a move.
3. "Feel free to go and acquire the necessary permission to view those documents."
4. "Miss claire, cardinal lilly."
5. "Let us call it a day."
6. "Any more time spent here would be a waste."
1. "What is it, lilly?"
2. "Father..."
3. "B- but... After all the research we've done, we know."
4. "You have a point. It's true that we have no objective evidence."
5. "We know you and master dole are corrupt."
6. "Before they are exposed."
7. "I pray that you confess your crimes..."
1. "You truly do love the spirits."
2. "Lilly..."
3. "Hmm? W-well, of course, I do."
4. "Then, as your father..."
5. "Let me give you some advice, Lilly."
6. "Prayer alone gets nothing done."
7. "You must not fear getting your hands dirty."
8. "If you wish to succeed..."
1. "Lilly..."
2. "You are a pitiful child."
1. "Well, I expected it would be like cutting off a lizard's tail."
2. "I see."
3. "To think our own fathers would utter sharp parting remarks like that..."
4. "It also caused a rift in our families."
5. "They're plotting to shift the blame onto the lower-ranking nobles and flee."
6. "Direct confrontation was a reckless plan."
7. "Cardinal lilly has gone so far as to crawl into bed and refuse to leave."
1. "Whoa?!"
2. "Eeek!!"
3. I thought that having their own daughters confront them might make them come clean.
4. "I said I was sorry, okay?"
5. "Gotcha!"
6. "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."
7. "I'm fine, rae..."
8. "Are you unhurt, miss claire?"
9. "Yeah, this must be why people say the spirits of the mountain are angry."
10. "Ahem!"
11. "There have been many rumblings lately."
1. "Actually, it's entirely feasible."
2. "There's no way an actual eruption would occur..."
3. "Those are nothing but rumors, though, correct?"
4. Something like this occurred long, long ago.
5. According to records, mt. Sassal erupted...
6. Several hundred years ago, and it wrought devastation upon the city.
7. "There's a small village located at the foot of mt. Sassal, yes?"
8. "Master rod."
9. "......"
10. It occurred during a time when the capital suffered from rampant misrule.
11. "Th-th-that's just a legend and nothing more!!"
1. "Rumors aren't enough to get them to move."
2. "But those people's livelihoods are based in that town."
3. "If mt. Sassal erupts, they will suffer a direct hit from the flow of magma."
4. "You should have that village evacuated."
5. "I guess it wouldn't hurt if we considered all the possibilities."
6. "I mean, well..."
7. "Hmm."
8. "I know that you would be able to persuade them, master rod!"
9. "Pleeeease!"
10. "All right."
11. "If you insist, I'll give it some thought."
1. "Hooray!"
2. "I just..."
3. "Yes. We have plans to meet with her outside of the castle."
4. "Uh..."
5. "So, is the cardinal in a separate room?"
6. "I guess now is the best time to ask you."
7. "Since you're here..."
8. "Instead, I'd prefer it if you stay."
9. "?"
10. "Oh, then you can, too, claire..."
11. "Ah, but maybe not."
1. "Rae taylor!"
2. "Would you do me the honor of marrying me?"
1. "Wh..."
2. "What is it about rae that you like?!"
3. "Have you gone mad, master rod?!"
4. The trigger!
5. Where?!
6. "What about her? Her personality and abilities."
7. Where did I trigger this event?!
8. I made sure not to do anything to trigger the rod proposal event!!
1. "When you line them all up, they make a substantial list of achievements."
2. "You resolved the ghost ship incident in euclid."
3. "Blah blah blah"
4. "You caught manaria off guard."
5. "You saved the aurousseau family from execution."
6. "You cured thane when he was poisoned."
7. "You preemptively prevented an assault on the school."
8. "You're an amazing woman, rae."
9. "You resolved a complex problem that the palace had been wrestling with for years."
10. "What really decided it for me was yu."
11. "Not some dull noble lady who grew up coddled by a rich family."
12. "I need someone like you at my side..."
13. "When that day comes..."
14. "One day, I will become king of our nation."
1. "I decline."
2. "Together, you and I will lead this nation--"
3. "You little...!"
4. "I really don't want to, honestly."
5. "Rae?!"
6. "What was that about, miss claire?"
7. "You come with me right now!"
8. "Wha?!"
9. "Mnnngh!!"
1. "Huh?!"
2. "You must accept master rod's proposal."
3. "H-hold on a second, miss claire!"
4. "It is an honor that I couldn't achieve even if I wanted to!"
5. "You would become queen!!"
6. "I don't want to become a queen!"
7. "What nonsense are you uttering now?!"
1. "If you do..."
2. "But... Individual desire is irrelevant to marriage."
3. "Imagine how happy it would make your parents... To learn that their commoner daughter was marrying into the royal family."
4. "Then I will remain unmarried until I die."
5. "Not to mention, women are not permitted to marry each other."
6. "What will you do if I marry someone else?"
7. "Allow me to make things crystal clear."
8. "Rae."
1. "And I think I rely on you a bit too much."
2. "You are a reliable confidant..."
3. "I care for you greatly, too."
4. "That is precisely why... I am so perturbed by this."
5. "I don't know how I am..."
6. "Supposed to move forward in my relationship with you."
7. "H- hold up!"
1. "Are you two dating?!"
2. "W-wait a second here!"
3. "I heard everything you two said."
4. "Sorry."
5. "Master rod..."
6. "I have no plans to interfere in your relationship."
7. "All I wanted was for her to be my political partner and lend me her strength."
8. "Listen."
9. "But what I want from rae is a queen in status only."
10. "You two left before I was finished."
1. "Claire."
2. "About this, too..."
3. "I was thinking of telling you..."
4. "Would also become closer to the royal family."
5. "It'd be two birds with one stone as the françois household..."
6. "To not allow these talks to fail here and now."
7. "Please take care..."
8. "Urk! S-sure?"
9. "I am going to be stepping away now."
10. "Master rod."
11. "Rae."
12. That I was finally starting to understand you.
13. I thought...
1. "Agh. I'm really sorry about that."
2. "But now..."
3. "I realize how little I actually do."
4. "You're not to blame, master rod."
5. "No."
6. "I was confident that you two were...you know..."
7. I...
1. In dependence on me.
2. As the people she treasures leave her side one by one...
3. Miss claire has been forced to turn to me for emotional support.
4. But for right now, this relationship we have...
5. Is incredibly convenient for me.
6. The reason being...
7. That my goal hasn't changed since things initially began.
1. From her fate of ruin.
2. I will do whatever it takes to rescue miss claire...
3. "Yes, master rod. We are just fine."
4. "But are you two okay? I know I have no right to comment..."
5. "Psst."
6. "Rather..."
1. "Now is the perfect time... For me to inform you of something."
2. "Miss claire."
1. "Cardinal lilly?"
2. "Heard everything from lady yu the other day."
3. "How do you feel?"
4. "Is it all right for you to be up and about?"
5. "...!"
6. "She told me... How you used to adore master thane."
7. "I..."
8. "W-well, that's rather..."
9. "Is it true...?"
1. "F-for now, I don't think a single thing about anyone!"
2. "I-I don't know what it is I have!"
3. "But now, I have..."
4. "Yes, I may have felt something for him in my younger days..."
5. "...!"
6. "I have..."
7. "H-how cruel you are!!"
1. "Because I couldn't do anything about you being her number one, miss claire!"
2. "But that was..."
3. "I was satisfied with being rae's number two!"
4. "And tell rae to marry a man?!"
5. "And then you go..."
6. "If I were in your place..."
7. "Y-you overheard our argument?"
8. "If it is with rae!!"
9. "And more..."
10. "I am prepared to kiss..."
11. "Rae would never suffer like that!"
1. "Don't you dare!!"
2. "If you are saying that you don't need rae..."
3. "Then I will become rae's number one!"
1. I only want to wish for rae's happiness.
2. I was right.
3. But I feel this aching sensation when I think of letting her go.
4. There is something off about me.
1. I wonder just what it is...
2. That I wish to become with rae...
3. "Okay."
1. "And misha was attacked?"
2. "Remember when we were investigating the town with the knights..."
3. "When she was..."
4. "She said she saw something."
5. "Misha isn't sure, but she said she caught a glimpse of the face behind the black mask..."
6. "In the moment it broke..."
1. "She said he looked just like master thane."
2. To be continued...
1. "Things really haven't been going my way lately!"
2. "Mega-mess up JERK"
3. "I really blew that."
4. "God..."
5. "I haven't managed to maneuver a single thing how I wanted."
6. "Good at catching himself when spiraling."
7. "What the heck is it that I'm lacking?"
8. "Ah-choo!"
9. "Nothing about me has changed one bit!"
10. "I just don't get it."
11. "Has something else changed?"
12. "Hmm."
13. "But I think someone's talking about me."
14. "I'm fine."
15. "Are you all right, Lady Yu?"
16. "The unaware fool."
1. The person who taught me that was none other than my mother.
2. "Individual desire is irrelevant to marriage."
4. "Does that mean you and father were never in love?"
5. "Th- then..."
6. "Hmm."
7. "To be honest, I don't quite recall."
8. "Everything was chaotic when I first married your father."
9. "And every single day was hectic."
10. "We would often debate in the house of lords..."
1. "But I do know that love is when you want..."
2. "Even I don't understand what feelings of love are like, claire."
3. "But it hit me that it was love."
4. "The other person to know happiness."
5. "I won't ever forgive the man who doesn't make you happy!"
6. "And I love you, of course, my dear claire!"
7. "Eeek!!"
1. THOSE WERE THE WORDS MY MOTHER SPOKE TO ME...
2. "YOU'LL EVENTUALLY COME TO LEARN WHAT LOVE MEANS."
3. "I THINK I WILL REQUIRE..."
4. "I have no intention of marrying anyone other than you, Miss Claire!"
5. A BIT MORE TIME BEFORE I FULLY UNDERSTAND JUST WHAT "LOVE" IS.
2. Hello everyone, this is Inori. Thank you for purchasing Volume 9 of I’m in Love with the Villainess.
3. How do you feel after reading the first half of the palace arc in this volume? Did you enjoy it? I’m sure fans who have read the light novels will notice, but original scenes were added to this manga adaptation yet again. We’re employing the flow of the light novels but making the manga more interesting and dramatic. The revelation at the end of this volume was decently shocking, don’t you think?
4. I oversaw the creation of the original material added, but they are almost entirely thanks to Aonoshimo-sensei’s talents. Please enjoy the incredible work that they have done for this volume, too.
5. Next up is Volume 10. Things are really going to heat up as the story also heads for its climax. I hope you’re looking forward to what’s coming next.
6. Thank you, Aonoshimo-sensei and all the wonderful assistants, for creating yet another fantastic installment in the series!
1. "Show me more of your teeth when you do!"
2. "You need to smile more, miss claire!"
3. "Rae..."
4. "Who the heck is tokugawa yoshimune?!"
5. "Just what in the world have you been babbling about?!"
6. "Correct!"
7. "As members of the secret service, we need to know how to act??"
8. "This time, the story I'm referencing is about poetic justice!"
9. "To put it simply, watching evil be defeated is always a hit with the commoners, too!"
10. "Cut!"
1. "You've never seen this sakura blizzard before!"
2. "I won't let you say..."
3. "So you should be able to display the same presence miss claire does!"
4. "You've learned this performance..."
5. "I can't do it! It's simply too embarrassing!"
6. "What happened to the vigor you usually have?!"
7. "You're up next, cardinal lilly."
8. "Me too?!"
9. "I have a feeling that she's trying to cajole us."
10. "I knew it! You are toying with us!!"
11. "All right, next up is the inner palace parody."
12. "Fine, fine."
13. They ended up parodying mito komon.
14. "W-well, you've finally learned how to speak up for yourself..."
15. "I-is that so...?"
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3. Rae has been stripped of her status as a student following the events of the Harvest Festival. King l'Ausseil appoints Rae as an officer of the Secret Service and tasks her with a duty to expose the misdeeds of powerful nobles. Rae begins her investigation with Claire and Lilly at her side, but they soon uncover something they never expected!