Surviving As The Villainess
Chapter 100 - Reason (Zion's POV)

I had a severe shock once that made me have a fever. At that time, I was very young, I was only a dozen years old and I was still a child.

For the first time in my life, I experienced something that really shook my mind.

I never meant to say anything like that.

The words seemed like the shackles that bound our hearts and our souls. I, who was still immature, could not withstand the impact. It all happened so fast and no one could stop it.

I'm just upset and disappointed.

Why did they come into our very happy lives.

My mother kept crying and locked in the room for days. I tried not to care what happened but when I saw my mother crying, I couldn't hold back my anger.

The words just came out of my mouth.

Not long after, this terrible incident happened.

I fell ill for a few days in shock and when I was sick, I saw a dream that felt so real.

My instincts say, it's a vision of the future. I didn't know how I could have such a dream but when I first started to feel better, I immediately found out the truth of the dream I saw.

Two years later, the evidence I'm starting to collect shows a pattern.

The dream I saw, the chaos of the city of Elishien and also...

Ravenray Destruction.

I saw it clearly. The city of Elisien was covered by black smoke soaring into the sky and a red sea blazing from all corners.

Something big has happened and in the Chaos, Ravenray has collapsed.

I had thought that it was just nonsense, there was no way Ravenray would collapse. The number two large family in the Elishie city could not possibly fall just like that.

I didn't want to believe it but my instincts told me it was the truth. It will happen and I must prevent it.

I started looking for clues that might be related.

Then one day, it happened.

"Viewers, reporting from the scene. The recently opened Havelian Park amusement park was attacked with a bomb. The perpetrator has now escaped and is on a quest."

Hearing the news just now, I couldn't turn my face away.

It was like an alarm was going off in my brain.

'This is an important clue.'

I rushed towards my secret room and wrote down the incident just now, trying to figure out what really happened.

Here I was, standing in front of one of the amusement park workers who was being shut down due to the incident.

"What do you want from me young man?" The man in the shabby shirt asked me.

He spoke quite politely, probably knowing that I was not a child carelessly looking at my nature.

People have always said that I have a cold nature but you are charismatic and can make anyone follow me.

Of course, I never really thought about such a thing seriously.

My nature has been shaped since I was a child because my father always said, "Come with people who have value."

He's not a bad father. He loved me and taught me many things. Even so, for some people he is not a good person.

In this world, nothing is really good and nothing is really evil. I believe in that.

"Do you have a list of Havelian Park visitors over the past week?"

The man scrunched his forehead hearing my words.

I don't blame him. If a young man in his teens suddenly came and asked such a thing, anyone would feel strange.

"I don't have it."

She lies.

He turned his gaze and held his hand in agitation. It was the movement of someone lying.

I'm not that stupid. To read someone lying or not, I've learned it a long time ago.

I took my phone and typed in a nominal.

My phone was held right in front of the man and I made sure he could see the numbers I wrote clearly.

The man looked surprised yet he was undaunted.

"The visitor list is secret."

I added again the nominal to double and showed it back to the man.

His two eyes looked slightly rounded looking at the magnitudes I offered and in the end he succumbed to temptation.

"I'll give it to you, but don't spread it to anyone else."

"Just calm down, I won't."

The man sent the Havelian Park visitor data in the form of a pdf file. After that I sent the bribe through m-banking.

I went home to the Ravenray residence with the data and started checking one by one the names with the laptop in the room.

Tok..

I heard the door of my room being knocked and stopped my activities for a moment.

"Zion, why don't you go out for dinner?"

"I don't want to eat."

"Are you sick?"

"No, I just want my own time to study."

"Alright, Bi Ina left you dinner. If hunger comes down and heat it."

"Good."

After the sound of Ibuki's footsteps was heard, I began to continue my search.

This is a gamble. I don't know if a visitor to Havelian Park was one of the reasons for the bombing or not but my instinct told me to find out.

I searched several pages, but I did not find the names of important people. I watched from the day the incident took place and then retreated until one week before.

Both my eyes were focused on the laptop screen. There's a name that I've been hearing for the past year, Liyuna Aria Castris.

The name was listed on the Havelian Park visitor list, a week before the bombing.

I never thought that he was the target because the bombing distance and the visiting distance were very far apart. But after looking through the list for hours and researching one by one, only the name can attract criminals to come.

The only daughter of the Castris family as well as the prospective main heir. Anyone who knows of his existence would want to catch the child.

That's not something strange. Families like ours are always exposed to crimes that no one else has ever imagined. Especially as a potential heir, many parties want to get rid of a family by destroying their prospective heir.

Although there was still a little doubt, I still wrote his name on the yellow sticky notes and stuck it on the wall.

For the past two years, my search has been bright. Cold accidents that often occur among elite families are just a cheat.

The target was Liyuna Aria Castris.

From then on I kept looking for evidence, no matter how long it would take.

Until at some point where I auditioned for the last year of High School, I found an old article about the Castris family who had an accident many years ago.

That was news that surprised me.

News that should never have been lost, has been erased from a wide variety of sources. No one knew the truth of the source because Castris had buried her deep.

Finally my departure from the country arrived. I, who had not been able to continue the investigation, decided to stop for a moment to study.

Four years later I'll go ahead and uncover what's really going on and also find out what the dream meant.

Dreams are real. Something's going to happen at Elisien and I want to stop it.

At that time I did not know if my decision to delay the investigation would lead to the death of my mother.

And the investigation I've been doing, has ruined my family faster than it should.

TB

[A/N: Here we are shown the reason why Zion has been investigating for a long time. From the initial chapter it has been shown that Zion did an investigation into minor accidents that befell other elite family-owned businesses but it has never been discussed why she did so. Here we are shown Zion's point of view on this. I'm sorry, for those of you who are waiting for Zion's point of view on Allen. Later when it is time it will be revealed.]