Chapter 4: Chapter 4

"Lady Cassius, what are you doing?" Regaining his voice, the director immediately shouted, "Stop it!"

The girl looked at him coldly.

"I didn't do anything."

A faint murmur passed through the crowd of students beside me. Everyone was discussing the incident among themselves, but they were afraid to raise their voices so that she wouldn't hear them.

"Could this be the Rachel Cassius?"

"She's from the cursed duke's family, isn't she?"

"The headmaster of the academy must be crazy to think that we can study together with her!"

"Don't look her in the eye! My parents told me that if you do this, you will die!"

All these conversations merged into a general flow of words, which made it clear that everyone here was just fiercely afraid and hated this girl.

"Take him to the infirmary," the director ordered, and the guards immediately picked up the injured boy, dragging him in the opposite direction.

Then, exhaling noisily, but deciding not to make a scene in front of the freshmen here, the man said through gritted teeth:

"Lady Cassius, come to my office immediately. I'll talk to you after the ceremony is over."

"I told you I didn't do anything."

"That's out of the question. You don't want me to tell your father what happened, do you?"

The remaining guards surrounded her from all sides to escort her to the right place, and Rachel, even if she didn't want to, had to obey.

"Don't touch me. I'll go myself."

With an exasperated shrug, she turned and headed back into the building as everyone else continued to watch her every move.

The director began to urge everyone to go back to the classroom fussily, and the crowd eventually began to slowly disperse.

I was practically the last one to leave, and I couldn't stop staring at that spot in a dumb stupor.

Rachel Cassius... I couldn't even begin to imagine that I would meet her in this lifetime.

Also, I had no idea that Leriana and this girl went to the same academy!

The Cassian family has been considered cursed for several centuries. It all started with an old legend, which said that the ancestor of this family was a man who made a contract with the devil.

According to it, all the family members possessed superhuman beauty and strength, and lived much longer than ordinary people. But in exchange, each of them was born with a curse that brought harm to other people.

It was rumored that if you looked the successor of this family directly in the eye, you would definitely get sick and die. And if you touched them, its curse could be transmitted to you, and you would live in torment for the rest of your life.

Of course, it looked more like nonsense from the outside, and it sounded no more plausible than a child's story. But still, the people believed it, and so feared and despised the Cassians for many years.

Moreover, the members of the Cassius family themselves were exceptionally closed people, and almost did not come into contact with society. They had no friends among the nobles, and their enemies died very early. All of this added to their dismal reputation.

The blood-red eyes that all the descendants of this lineage possessed were also considered to belong to the devil. And therefore, it was deemed to be bad, and even dangerous, to look at them.

Whether good physical stamina and eye color were simply unique genes, or a curse, was still unclear. But even this "evidence" was enough for those people who believed that Cassias were deadly, and kill people to prolong their youth.

Despite their dark reputation, they still hadn't been banished from the kingdom because of the incredible strength and power of their bloodline. The Duchy of Cassius helped the king win many military conflicts and make him the strongest on the continent.

In addition, they were prosperous, and their wealth was even compared to the royal treasury.

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Given these factors, the Cassians have remained the most influential family in the country for many years now, apart from the royal family.

And it was the man from this family who was the second main character in "Bloody Camellia".

Robert Cassius, who had become Duke at a very young age, had a nasty personality that made him a worse tyrant than Razor.

No, it was definitely worse.

Razor was doing all this to get revenge on his brother and take his place on the throne, but Robert took incredible pleasure in all these murders.

As soon as he came of age, he immediately went to war, where all he did was indiscriminately kill people. Before meeting Britney, he practically did not leave the battlefield, and even at home, he mocked his servants in every possible way.

It was all because of his mother, whom he killed when he was eighteen.

Rachel never liked her son, and abused him as a child. All of this left its mark on his psyche, especially after he found out that Rachel was the cause of his father's death.

Eventually, he came after her and killed her with a poisoned blade as an adult. After that, the place of the duke passed to him, and Robert used his position in every possible way for not the best purposes, before the main character saved him.

Or rather, Leriana's daughter, Britney.

After meeting her, as usually happens in novels of this genre, he changed, because love healed all his emotional wounds.

At the end of the story, after defeating Razor, they got married and began to live happily ever after.

At least, that was how it was initially intended.

Because now, I was facing a big problem.

I wasn't going to have children in this life.

And, accordingly, there would be no one to save Robert!

After all, even if I avoided the love triangle between the princes and me, and lived peacefully in the coming years, I could still get the death flag.

If Robert grew up to be the tyrant he was in the novel, nothing could save this country from him.

I was sure that if not Razor, this guy would definitely be able to start a coup and massacre.

Considering that he already had a huge thirst for murder at the age of eighteen, it was scary to imagine what would happen to him in the future.

It was possible that he might even want to end the kingdom that had despised him for so many years.

If that happened, then Robert, like Razor in the original novel, would come after the lives of all the nobles, including mine.

Since the Ashfords were part of the three founding families of Zeroth, my father and I would definitely be the first to get our heads.

I should have prevented it by all means.

To prevent Robert from becoming a tyrant, I had to start making an effort right now.

Even without the main character, Robert could become a decent person if he had a good childhood.

And that meant...

I need to re-educate his mother, Rachel Cassius, first.

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