F-Rank Puppeteer!! But I'll be Queen, and I'm not a narcissist!!!!! Chapter 33: ’Pet Pest’

"Esther-sama, the Demon King is requesting the presence of everyone imdiately in the throne room," the maid says as I read a paper, a paper that my spy collected when Evelyn went out.

She bought dresses, was attacked by so random assassin, and that’s it, there was nothing extraordinary really, while even that maid was studied by other maids who serve .

Summarizing, Evelyn’s maid is just a nobody, the only one worthy of note is Eve, who ca out of nowhere, but has a strength to be considered, and if she gets stronger, she may co to cause problems.

’The last report indicates that that maid was shocked by Eve’s presence...so she didn’t know,’ It seems Evelyn has her secrets very well hidden.

"What a greedy hamster," I murmur as the maid looks at in confusion.

"Esther-sama?" She questions, saying only my na without understanding.

"Forget about it," I say, getting up and throwing the papers on the table as I think about why my Father would call everyone, there can only be a few reasons.

And one of them is that human who ca here to try to make peace between the species, this honestly doesn’t matter to , and I don’t expect anything from humans, they are a greedy, lying, and lascivious race.

Of course, demons are not so different in any way, I slightly adjust my dress and go to the door of the room.

"Clean my room, and burn all the papers on the table," I tell the maid as I leave, closing the door, but I don’t imdiately leave, I wait patiently in front of the door, holding the doorknob until about 1 minute has passed.

"...5...4...3...2...1..." I open the door and ashes fall near , but without touching my dress, while my room is empty, I go back in, going to the table and picking up an artifact that was stuck under the table.

"Next ti you try to collect information from , try to be smarter and not leave it so obvious," I say to the ashes on the floor as I leave the room and close the door.

"Fool," I murmur, calling Marie a fool, if she thinks a re maid is enough to steal from , then she really has no idea who she’s dealing with.

’So...predictable’ Any traitor, liar, or deceiver who tries to take sothing from has the most obvious fate of all death, it’s not that easy to deceive when the universe is always favoring .

"..." I start walking through the corridors, going to the throne room, but as soon as I turn the corner, soone bumps into , falling to the ground.

"Ow!! Why don’t you watch where you’re going, can’t you see my huge beauty from a distance and...oh-h...s-sister..." As soon as Evelyn realizes who she’s talking to, she seems extrely nervous.

’Again, this reaction...’ At the banquet announcing the competition for the throne, Evelyn also looked more at than at the others, and every ti we bump into each other, her reaction is like this.

It’s not just fear, it’s more of a suspicious nervousness, as if she knows sothing terrible about and is afraid I’ll kill her for knowing too much, which makes curious.

"S-Sorry, I should have paid more attention, it was my fault," She speaks the complete opposite of before, before she accused of being the one at fault, but now she changes everything.

"You should pay more attention to where you’re going...but I’ve already told you that before, and you made the sa mistake...how...amusing don’t you think?" I say without any expression of amusent or real excitent.

The silence that follows my irony makes it clear that she understood that this is not funny at all, it’s just inconvenient for us to keep bumping into each other like this.

’How strange...why does she bump into ?’ This doesn’t make sense, the universe favors even in such things, normally if Evelyn bumped into , she shouldn’t hit , at most she would trip over my foot.

However, this is the second ti she’s hit head-on, it’s not like my power isn’t working, the fact that she’s always the one who gets knocked down proves that my power is working.

But it’s also as if the universe is forcing her to hit by surprise in this way, but it’s not my fault, so it’s her fault.

’Is this a pattern?’ I stare at Evelyn being lifted by that girl nad Eve who is identical to Evelyn, ironically the data my spies collected indicates that Evelyn gets involved in many "minor accidents".

Whether it’s tripping in places, bumping into people out of nowhere when turning corners, getting lost, and even other minor things, nothing that’s too exaggerated or notable, but that undoubtedly occurs.

"You...have a lot of bad luck," I say, looking her straight in the eyes, her eyes tremble as she averts her gaze to the ground.

’Blessing and Curse...a power that cos with an equivalent price’ I deduce that this is Evelyn’s curse, and she seems to have noticed that I’ve realized it, it’s actually quite simple to notice this.

Just look at how often it happens in a way that is no longer a coincidence and combine it with the fact that she is a candidate for the throne, these two things practically scream that her curse is sothing related to misfortune.

And of course, most of us try to hide curses because they are weaknesses and if they know about them, they can have advantages.

"W-Well sister, I have to go see our father, you know how it is, right? He called..." She speaks in a way that tries to be casual, but is obviously rigid.

"You know we’re not siblings, right? That’s...just a term, we have no connection to each other," I say to see her reaction.

"Y-Yes...I understand E-Esther..."

"Repeat it," I interrupt her.

"I-I said I understand E-Esther," She speaks nervously.

"...I don’t like the sound of that, don’t call Esther, I prefer you call sister for now," I end up letting this pass, even though we have no bond that makes us sisters, it’s better than her calling by na.

"S-Sure..." She seems uncomfortable while quickly trying to move forward, but since we’re going to the sa place, all that’s left is for to follow her, and out of courtesy she ends up having to slow down, causing us to walk together.

"W-Wanna play a ga?" She speaks nervously as I stare at her coldly for a mont.

’Well...if it’s to pass the ti, it shouldn’t matter, I’ll win anyway’ The universe wouldn’t let lose after all, this is my blessing.

"It can be," I confirm for her to start it soon.

"O-Okay, how about rock-paper-scissors?" She speaks as I think about this ga, it’s simple, fast, but nothing interesting.

"Okay," I say as I prepare my hand, at least I can play while we walk, so I don’t have to stop, soon she starts talking, she’s so slow, it’s obvious I’m going to win.

"..." I look at the results, she played scissors and I played paper.

’...I...lost...no...I never lost a simple ga like this...’ I look at my hand and then at hers.

"Again," I order her to play again, she nervously plays again, she plays rock and I play scissors, resulting in her winning.

"...Again," I say, soon she plays paper and I play rock, resulting in her winning again, I tighten my fist.

’I lost...once is a coincidence, twice is luck...three tis...’ It doesn’t make sense, the universe has always favored , a simple ga like this would never result in being the loser.

"..." I look at Eve behind Evelyn and then at Evelyn, both too weak to cheat without noticing, in fact Evelyn is so slow that I was sure she would play sothing and even so it was different.

"Another ga," I say as Evelyn seems to think.

"How about the forbidden word ga?" She speaks as I just nod, this is obvious that I will win and that there is no way she can cheat in any way since she can’t read my mind.

"Luckily I have paper with , I was doing sothing before being called and didn’t have ti to leave it there, so I brought it with ," She says, taking a paper and writing sothing with her nail.

It’s not perfect, but anyone who wants to see will notice what is written, she shows the poorly made but understandable engraving, it’s written ’sister’, so I nod.

"You can choose the first word," I say as she thinks of sothing and puts it on the sheet.

"Okay sister, go ahead," She speaks with a confident smile.

"Void," I say the word and she shows the paper, clearly engraved [Void], which makes widen my eyes, I never thought she would choose a na like that.

"..." I lost at the first try, the first word I spoke caused my instant defeat, not only in rock-paper-scissors, but even in the forbidden word ga I was defeated.

"I-Is sothing wrong?" She asks as my expression hardens into a completely cold one.

"No, I just don’t want to play anymore..." Defeats in two different gas, gas where she couldn’t cheat because she was extrely weaker than .

’So this...is the feeling of losing...’ I must say I don’t like it, I’ve never been defeated before, so having her, who was considered the failure of the family, defeat even in a silly ga is shocking.

It’s not like I underestimated, I was watching the movent of her hand, it was slow, predictable, and nothing special, but for so reason I just didn’t win even though the universe should have made win.

"...This...is new..." I murmur, looking at Evelyn, who is completely focused on the path ahead.

’Probably a skill...’ That’s the only thing that could explain it, a skill that doesn’t depend on magic, this puts a smile on my face.

"A greedy hamster can end up getting the short end of the stick in the end, Evelyn," I say to Evelyn, who looks confused, she was quite bold in using a skill to cheat against .

And...I like that, I’ve always used my ability in things that are not obvious or are simple, keeping my ability hidden, so having others use their abilities in silly things like this is fun.

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"A greedy hamster can end up getting the short end of the stick in the end, Evelyn," Esther says to out of nowhere, and I’m confused.

’Hamster? The animal? What is she talking about!!’ I just want to disappear, Esther is soone I didn’t expect to et on the way, and we’d even play childish gas.

Fortunately, I was able to test that silly ability of always being the winner in any childish ga, if I beat Esther, it shows that the ability is "good" enough.

[Esther’s Favorability 10 (Total = 1/100)]

’W-WHAT!!?’ Out of nowhere, I gained 10 favorability, making the negative favorability of -9 that I had beco 1, I don’t even know why, but this gives a small smile.

’What luck!’ Not bad coming from , 10 points in a single conversation, maybe I have talent in the end.