I Stole the Heroine’s Holy Grail

“I, I’m sorry…..
Young lady Sorne.”

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I stared blankly at the young girl who suddenly burst into tears in front of me.

Hestine.
She is the main character in the novel I possessed.

And I am the villainess who persistently harassed the main character Hestine.

The owner of this body tormented Hestine so viciously that just the sight of me makes her tremble in fear. 

It was really upsetting.
I wanted to change my relationship with her.
I wanted to get rid of the mistakes this body had made.

I didn’t mind trying hard.
I want to have a common interest with Hestine, so I change my taste in tea.

I also frequently sent her expensive gifts.

I even regularly sent donations to the orphanage where she grew up.

However, the results were dark contrary to my expectations.

I wanted to get close to her, but my actions just turned into thorns and scratched Hestine.

The eyes of people looking at me became sharper as the days went by.

“Hey! Hestine!”

“Hestine!”

“Damn it! Call the Doctors and priests right now!”

I couldn’t do anything as I watched Hestine rolling down the stairs from the altar.

Why?

I didn’t do anything.

Ironically, the culprit who made Hestine roll down from the altar was me, as if it were natural.

I realized it then.

Ah.
No matter how hard I try, in the end, I can’t escape being the villain.

I’m Adelia Sorne, the villainess forever.

As soon as the efforts I’ve made so far went down in vain, everything felt empty.

***

“Go to the convent.”

A man’s voice that didn’t even feel warm pierced her ears.

I laughed and asked in a tone that I couldn’t accept the man’s words.

“You want me to go to the convent?”

“Yes.”

“I…”

“If you don’t go to the convent, you’ll be excommunicated.”

Harsh words, I repeated the word excommunication dozens of times in my mind.

Perhaps this was already planned and could not be changed.

I quietly closed my eyes and  recalled the past.

Everything began when I possessed the body of a wicked woman in the novel . 

When I first possessed this body, I immediately realized that I was the villain. 

Adelia Sorne, the evil woman who is hated by everyone.

Even her family didn’t like her very much.
They treated her as if her existence itself was a mistake.

On the other hand , Hestine was loved by everyone.

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The moment I saw Hestine, I noticed that she was the main character even before I heard her name.

A person who shines even when she’s standing still.
The main character, that if she shed tears it will make your heart break and make you want to hug her.

The problem is that the reason why she shed tears was because of “me.”

Hestine was scared and intimidated just by the sight of me, shedding jewel-like tears.

Then, as if it was natural, all sorts of glares fell on me.

I was not given the opportunity to correct it.
Because what I’m appealing will only sound like an excuse.

In the end, my only option is to run away.

I desperately avoided Hestine.

However, whether it was God’s trick, I and Hestine had no choice but to keep running into each other.

Whenever that happened, I had no choice but to become a villain who harassed the soft and good hearted heroine.

It was unfair.

Of course, I can’t undo what Adelia has done in the past, but since I took possession of Adelia’s body, I haven’t really done anything wrong.

Why do I have to shoulder Adelia’s karma…

Then one day this incident happened. 

It was a day when a festival was held in the empire and an oracle came down after a long time.

Everyone thought that Hestine was the saint who would defeat the evil spoken of in the oracle.

There was nothing special about it, we were at the temple and Hestine was called to the altar of blessing as a prospective Saint. 

However, Hestine sprained her ankle on the way up to the altar and rolled down the stairs.

Later, it was revealed that Hestine had a problem with the shoes she wore that day.

Coincidentally, the maid who handed the shoes to Hestine was a child who worked for me.

The maid, who was pointed out as the culprit who tried to harm Hestine, said I was the main culprit in everything, and she was just threatened.

“What the…”

Of course, what she said was a black lie.

Since I beat the maid, I’ve never seen or mixed her with her.

In the end, I was brought up to the judging table as a natural procedure, and the maid became a pitiful person tormented by a villain, and was able to escape from the judgment.

I shouted my innocence earnestly.

But there was not a single person who listened to me.

A childhood friend, a nanny, an academy classmate, and  fiance.

Even my father, Marquis Sorne, did not believe me.

Since there was no evidence other than the maid’s testimony, so fortunately, direct punishment was avoided.

However, I had no choice but to be completely excluded from the social circle.

Marquis Sorne knew that what I did would cause a noble girl to be shunned from the social circles.

The Marquis Sorne had to choose.
Will he cover for me, whose value has fallen, or will he throw me away?

The Marquis’ choice was the latter.

He chose to cut me off relentlessly.

Maybe it was natural.

Because Adelia was a foreign entity in the Sorne family.

The Marquis viewed those bound in the name of family as mere instruments of power.

Adelia’s brother, Sizelon, who resembles the marquis, also treated Adelia coldly.

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Furthermore, he was thinking that Adelia was the cause of his mother’s death.

Naturally, Sizelon’s gaze on Adelia was inevitably colder than that of the Marquis.

For this reason, Adelia longed for her family’s affection and eventually became twisted.

The only time the family paid attention to her thinly was when she became the center of gossip.

Adelia was bound to be more ruined.

‘That’s pathetic and also stupid.’

I couldn’t sympathize with Adelia’s struggle to get her Family’s attention until she ruined herself.

As an orphan, I didn’t have anything to call a family.

However, one thing I can be sure of is that they are not a good family.

I opened my closed eyes.
And I looked at the Marquis.
His eyes were still extremely cold.

Convent and excommunication…

Normally, I would choose a convent.
But I couldn’t, having read the original book and knew what was going on in the convent.

The convent was a place where various forced labor was required in the name of service to God.

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