Voyage Of The Villainess

'So this is the Kingdom of Baslon.' Malaya eyed the city they just entered. Then she looked at the clothes she was wearing with delight.

"Wow, these clothes are pretty nice," Malaya said as she observed the clothes. It was a blue dress with long sleeves and at the waist, there was a dark purple belt stash with some jade stones. It complimented Malaya's dark blue hair and light aquamarine eyes. Plus she has a blue fan with a beautiful mountain landscape design. " It looks like these clothes fit me well."

While Hyun Jae was also wearing the same kind of dress. The only difference was it was the color of purple with the embroidery of white lily in the hem and sleeves of the dress. Then Oliver was wearing a light green tunic matching his green hair.

"I feel like I'm back in Korea again. I'm happy to wear something similar to Hanbok. It reminds me of my World" Hyun Jae said as she looked with nostalgia at the surroundings. The houses were made of roof tiles with beautiful wooden columns and paneling.

"Korea?" Malaya asked with oblivious though she already knew about it. That was the country where Hyun Jae lived back on Earth. 

"Oh! Did I still not mention that before? that is the country where I lived back then." Hyun Jae said as longing flashed through her eyes. But then she let out a radiant smile.

"I see, if you said like that, looking at this place. It is certainly beautiful. How I wish I could see personally the world that you lived in."

"Young miss," Malaya turned around to see Seth with the ticket she asked for. "I have acquired the ticket you asked for."

"Thank you for this," Malaya said with a smile. While Seth just moved his head as a response to her.

"Are you certain that the first thing you will visit here is the auction house?" Oliver asked. 

"Well, I promised Seth that if he wants to help us here, we must set all the slaves that were going to be sold in the auction house here."

"Yes, though I don't trust you yet. You must promise me that you will buy all the slaves and freed them." Seth said as he looked at them with seriousness. Compared to his disheveled appearance before, his long black hair was now tied neatly at the back. And he was wearing cleaner and decent grey attire right now. He looked like some scholar at the moment.

"Thank you for giving us an opportunity," Malaya said. "By the way, what time will the auction happen?"

"At exactly seven in the evening."

"I see," Malaya raised her head to bright sunny skies. "We will still have more time left."

"Do you have all of the money for that?" Oliver whispered to Malaya. "And besides, even without him we can find out of this place by ourselves."

"Well, who knows hahaha." Malaya laughed. "But it is appropriate right now for my get-up. I'm an extremely rich foreigner who loves to exploit her money in extravagances." 

"Your plan is sometimes really full of loopholes."

"Well, it would be fun if it was always perfect."

"Ah! Where are you looking at wench?!"

Both Malaya and Oliver immediately looked at the cause of the commotion. There was a girl on the ground with fallen flowers surrounding her. And another woman who had extravagant clothes was now fuming in front of her.

"Do you know who I am?!"

"She looked more extravagant than you?" Oliver commented.

Malaya rolled her eyes, "I have my own style." 

The child trembled with the screaming of the woman. "I'm the eldest daughter of the Minister of Finance! And you ruined my clothes, commoner!" 

"Flog her fifty times!" The woman screamed and the guards at her back matched forward towards the trembling girl.

"Please, forgive me, Milady!" The girl knelt down with tears dripping her eyes.

'My, my,' Malaya opened the fan she had and covered her mouth. 'Flogging a child for fifty times? Is that already asking someone to kill the child?'

"Stop..."

A fast wind passed Malaya and Oliver and Seth didn't even finish his sentence when Hyun Jae stepped in front of the child. 

' Ah Hyun Jae, here we go again, the leading lady needs to be a hero'  Malaya thought.

"How can you be heartless over a child?!" Hyun Jae screamed back.

"Another mere commoner?!" The woman screamed. "How dare you defy me?!" 

"Flogging a frail child like that will cause her to die?!" Hyun Jae retorted back. "How can you be so ruthless?!"

"You must also be seeking to be punished as well! Hold her and bring me my whip! This lowly commoner will not know their place if not taught properly." Two seemingly maids of the woman held Hyun Jae.

"Hey, are you not going to help your friend?!" Seth said with worry. " It seems she needs your help."But when he looked at the two both Malaya and Oliver were releasing an ominous aura.

"That woman. She said she is the daughter of the Minister of Finance here?" Malaya asked. "Is the minister of finance, a high-ranking noble here?"

Seth was a bit startled by her sudden question but answered nonetheless. "Yes, he is the third most powerful authority here."

"I see, third powerful hmm interesting" Malaya closed the fan she was holding. "You heard that Oliver, let's try not to make this a very problematic scene when we still need to look for our other friends."

"I will try to hold myself," Oliver said.

Malaya simply grinned as she walked towards Hyun Jae's location. 

"Here is your whip, Milady." The woman accepted the whip and grinned wickedly at Hyun Jae who was struggling against the other two maids.

"This will teach your place!" The woman raised her hand holding the whip in the air. Hyun Jae closed her eyes for the impact but moments later, nothing hit her. When she opened her eyes, the woman was struggling to pull her whip. 

"Does my sister look like a commoner to you?" Malaya said as she let go of the whip. Due to the unexpected release, the woman stumbled on the ground. The maid holding Hyun Jae let her go and went to their lady to help her.

The guards also standing with the child dropped down as Oliver electrified them.

The woman tried to stand up but she froze to see Malaya's menacing gaze. Not only that her clothes were not really something any commoner could afford. But as the first daughter, Myoung, Ji Hye of the Prime Minister of Finance, she was aware of every high noble in this kingdom. That was when her eyes went to Malaya's blue hair and eyes. 'Even those kinds of hair color and eyes, would not certainly belong to common people. My father told me that there will be foreign delegates arriving soon. Not only that, that guy over there used magic.'

"This is not the end!" Myoung, Ji Hye stood up. "Let's leave!" Then rushed away from the scene.

"Hmm...That is quick. To be honest I didn't expect that  I thought she would cause more scenes. And do the famous satisfying face slapping in this kind of scene." Malaya whispered to herself and looked completely disappointed.

Seth who was near her stepped a few backs.

Seeing that she left, the crowd watching the scene already dispersed.

"Malaya!" Hyun Jae gave her a tight hug. 

"Are you alright?" Malaya asked. 

"Yes, I'm fine Malaya. Thank you but the girl." When they looked at where the girl was, surprisingly there were no signs of her now and only the fallen flowers remained.

"She left when you were talking with that noble lady," Oliver said.

"I see," Hyun Jae looked with worry. " I hope that she was okay." 

"You don't have to look glum anymore," Malaya said. "The important thing is," she started picking the flowers one by one until nothing remained. "You and that child were not hurt."

"Seth, do you have anything to do until the auction?" Malaya asked which startled the quiet Seth who was watching them. 

"No,I don't have any," Seth said.

"Then gave this to that child," Malaya handed him a silver coin that she got. "Tell her that the kind lady who helped her bought her flowers."

Seth looked a bit skeptical but still accepted the coin. "Then I will look for her." He bowed down and left.

Malaya opened her fan and looked at her surroundings. "Now then, let's continue our interrupted exploration." She said, 'This fan is quite fun to use.'

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Meanwhile, a man clothed in a dark flowy robe and had half inverted black in his face was watching the entire scene. He was certainly not an ordinary person and released an aura of someone with high authority.

"Those three, they don't belong to any of the foreign delegates visiting the kingdom. Acquire every information about them."

A man clad in black as well behind him disappeared after he said those words.