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Episode 2:
I Am a First-Year Student Now
I, YULUCIA VON VERSENIA, JUST MOVED INTO our manor in the capital so that I may start my first year at the Academy of the Magical Arts’ main campus, and I just turned seven years old.
For the curious, things weren’t much different from my life back in Toure, since I was still surrounded by all the same people. The only real difference was that we only held my birthday party in the capital this time. Now that I lived here, we didn’t need to have multiple parties for me, which was how most people did things. I didn’t want to have my party at the castle—though I never minded throwing it at our castle in Toure—but unfortunately, our villa in the capital couldn’t accommodate the number of people who would turn up uninvited. Therefore, I knew all too well that protesting would be futile.
For some reason, all of the archbishops of every religion with a church in the Holy Kingdom brought curiously attractive young male priests to the party along with them to make a fuss over me! I typically kept my distance from them, so what the heck were they trying to do?
Now that I lived in the royal capital, I got to see Father every day. I guess I got to do more fun things more often, like play with Shelly’s soft hair, take compulsory lessons on etiquette with Betty, the unfortunate beautiful girl, and got to talk to even more people.
However, the Academy of the Magical Arts was a problem.
Е n̄u m а
I kind of knew what to expect after the “problem” that had occurred at the very beginning of my attendance there, but still.
I was attending as a regular student and, at first, my classmates kept their distance because of the difference in our social positions, but I slowly started to make new friends and we helped one another with our studies and traded food from our lunchboxes. Then one day, I accidentally got lost and wound up in a garden that only the upperclassmen were permitted to enter. My scary older sisters caught me, but after I endured some relentless bullying, this cool older student saved me, and then…
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Once, I had dreamed that my school life might be just like that.
But now it was time to see what reality had in store.
The din of chatter fell silent in an instant.
The majority of the students here at the royal capital’s Academy of the Magical Arts may have been nobility, but they were still all children.
Е̊n̄ů m.ӑ
Many had grown up receiving everything their hearts desired, so the academy itself had a shockingly lavish dining hall where students could chat freely. Yet here in this hall, the hundreds of children suddenly fell quiet.
All because they had noticed that I was here.
Clink.
“Oops.”
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It was in this bizarre moment that a girl who looked like one of the few commoners here accidentally dropped her silverware and it wound up tumbling into my path. The girl visibly paled, as did the students around her.
It felt like even time had stopped around us. Nia had an icy grin across her face while Tina remained completely expressionless as they slowly turned their gazes upon the girl.
Ё n ü ḿ ā
That alone was enough to cause the girl’s complexion to go beyond pale and reach levels of deathly white. She broke out into such a sweat that it made me wonder if she might actually be sick, and she was trembling too.
Yet she made no move to apologize for the offense. Nia started to emanate a dangerous presence just as Tina muttered, in this room that was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, “Insolent fly.”
And I…said not a thing.
This was not good, you know. This was very bad!
Why was this happening? Oh, right. It was my fault!
Officially, everyone was equal here at the academy; social status didn’t matter. However! I was not only a member of the royal family, but the Princess of the Holy Kingdom, who had the royal family’s favor! I was the first princess of the grand duke and possessed far more wealth and political power than any of them could ever dream of! Every single religion here in our pious kingdom believed that I might be the Saint! And it was because of my prodigious authority and magic that every denomination treated me like a tumor, so it made sense that no normal girl would dare approach me!
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If I were in her position, I certainly would never go near me.
Siiiiiiiiiiigh.
Now, onto the problem at hand. As the Saint and Princess of the Holy Kingdom, what options did I have available to me in this dramatic situation?!
Option one: I could just ignore the girl and walk by her while she was still frozen.
This was probably the best option, or at least the one that would cause minimal damage. But this was, y’know, the option that would lead to the common villainess route, right?! That would solidify my status of lone wolf!
Option two: I could smile as I picked up the silverware and handed it back to her.
Wе̄ b̂ ñо̊v̆ е l̇ Еǹ ú ṁа́
This was a good one—but wait. If I was unlucky, the girl might decide to set her sights on me, right? My school life was certain to be hellish in both a good and a bad way even without any extra hurdles.
Option three: Eliminate all eyewitnesses. Don’t leave a single survivor.
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This would be the easiest and simplest option—and it seemed to be what Nia was on the verge of doing right this moment! The girl had this huge grin on her face as she reached for her sword and even started emanating her arch demon aura. I went a bit overboard and karate-chopped her in the back of the head.
“Ow!”
Bam!
I decided to hold back at the last second, but Nia was slammed against the ground anyway since I had used the same amount of power I had once used to break through bedrock. She was sprawled out on the ground and there were enormous spiderweb-like cracks in the marble flooring under her.
Ẁ е̊ bñ о̀ ṽ е l̆ Е̃n̊ùmа
Shoot, I did it again!
The shock wave of the strike made all of the students within dozens of yards fall out of their seats and splattered them with tomato stew, but it would be my loss if I bothered to care about that.
I had truly intended to live like an ordinary human. How had things turned out like this?
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At any rate, Nia sure was strong. I imagined she must have used her powers of absorption to absorb the impact of the attack. Nia dreamed of becoming my guardian knight despite how rough around the edges she was, and now after she sat up again, she rubbed the back of her head while looking up at me with a pout.
It should be noted that Noah had the ability complementary to Nia’s, in that he could release what she absorbed. He had directly taken in the impact from his sister and was making a spectacle of himself heaving his guts out while Fanny rubbed his back.
En ů mа̇. і̌ d
Since it seemed like no one had been hurt…
“Sorry about all the commotion, ho ho ho,” was all I said as I made a quick exit before one of my friends could make a joke at my expense.
And so, an “ordinary school life” was far beyond what I could possibly hope for. I didn’t think I’d even be able to go to the dining hall ever again.
And when they were all gossiping about it, the responses were always…
“That’s our princess for you” with a sweet smile, or “That’s our princess for you” while shaking with fear.
Everyone had split into the two above factions and there were even arguments about it…
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Now then, it was time to put myself back together!
At the Academy of the Magical Arts—or to be more precise, at their main campus—there was a place to which only special students were permitted entry.
Regular students and even teachers were only allowed to go as far as the entrance to the place. To go inside, you had to have a connection to the royal family or be among the upper nobility who led the nation.
Basically, it was an upper-echelons-only salon. As the daughter of a marquess and the daughter of a count respectively, both Betty and Shelly were allowed access, but the majority of students at the academy who were lower than viscount could not, making it a waste of a massive building.
“Lady Yul, say, ‘Ahh!’ Go on, ‘Ahhh…’”
“Uh, ahh…”
Е̌ nû m̄ а́
As a result of that unfortunate incident, I couldn’t go to the dining hall ever again, so I had taken to having my food delivered to this salon.
Although neither myself nor my demon attendants needed to eat human food, Shelly and Betty had started eating here with me because they were “concerned” about me after hearing what had happened.
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Even though I had no appetite to speak of, Shelly held out a forkful of food to feed me. But for real, I didn’t want to eat food made by someone I didn’t know!
“Poor Yul! They just don’t realize what a nice girl you are!”
“That’s kind of you to say, Betty.” What about me would make anyone think I was nice?
Nevertheless, even Betty wanted to feed me. This unfortunate girl had only her appearance going for her, with her good looks and black hair, and here she had an iron grip on a gigantic lobster-looking shrimp that she then proceeded to try to cram into my mouth whole, shell and all.
Ӗ.n̂ǔ m̂ а́. id
I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t amused by such silly things.
Although we were in different grades, I had always longed for this experience of spending lunchtime with my friends, dressed in matching school uniforms—like in that dream of the world of light I’d once had back in the dark Demon Realm.
We each styled our uniforms slightly differently, but they were pretty much identical. It was a two-piece suit with a big ribbon tie as well as a skirt that showed off my calves, which was a first for me since being born in this world. However, it was improper for noble daughters to show off their bare legs, so I had to wear white tights underneath!
Shelly and Betty both looked really cute in their uniforms. Noble daughters of their standing went back to wearing dresses after sixth grade, so I had to enjoy this time of getting to see them wear their school uniforms while I still could (guess that’s my inner middle-aged man talking).
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At any rate, Shelly was being her usual self, while Betty was really excited and showed no sign of calming down. The reason being…
“The three of you are such close friends.”
E ñ u m̃ а́ . ì d̂
“W-we sure are!” Betty whipped around to reply…accidentally sticking the prawn’s antennae up my nose.
She was replying to the only boy of our group, my cousin Timoté, a prince of the Holy Kingdom of Talitelud. His gentle and easygoing aura was in fine form, as always.
He was thirteen this year, a rosy-cheeked pretty boy who took after his mother, Crown Princess Elea. While he was certainly a feast for the eyes, he seemed to be something more to Betty.
“Um, uh, w-would you like some tea as well, Y-Your Highness?!”
My oh my. Hee hee hee.
Members of the royal family were usually betrothed by the time they turned fifteen, the age children became adults and also the age we graduated from the academy. Royalty then typically got married around the age of twenty. So naturally, since Timoté was the first prince and all, it wouldn’t have been strange for him to have several potential fiancées lined up already. For some reason, though, there were not any rumors about a single one. If there were, the older girls of the academy would be in a tizzy. Although the prince was easygoing at heart, he was still a prince—and handsome to boot!
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Many girls fantasized about princes who looked like they had stepped out of a picture book. However, life was no fairy tale where a prince would fall in love with some commoner girl at first sight and make her a queen. A royal could only marry someone born to the family of a count or higher-ranking noble, so all of their daughters of close age to the princes had at the very least been given an education befitting a queen. Everyone except me, that was.
Betty was nine now, so while there was a four-year difference between the two of them, she just barely qualified to be in the running for the prince’s fiancée, and she must have been very aware of that fact.
Betty was closer to Timoté’s younger brother Rick in age, but she definitely preferred the older brother.
Nevertheless, there was a “cheat” that could allow for even a commoner to marry a prince: Do something so great that you surpass even the upper nobility. Basically, become the Saint of the Holy Kingdom.
Huh? Wait, does that mean that I qualify as a possible pick for fiancée too?
But the reason that Timoté hadn’t picked a fiancée yet was because…
Еn̈ u m а
“Yes, I think I shall join you,” Timoté said in a relaxed tone as he came over to our table. Up until now, he had been just keeping an eye on us younger kids like a good older brother.
The salon had a rule for usage: You had to take care of everything yourself.
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This rule was supposedly for fostering independence among the school’s pupils. However, the truth was that in the past, some idiots decided it would be a good idea to hog the space by bringing in dozens of attendants and followers, so even attendants were now banned from the salon and we were expected to take care of our own selves.
Even so, someone had prepared tea and snacks for those who would use the room, so all you had to do was put the tea leaves into a pot and add hot water. In this case, it was my job since I was the youngest, but I still wasn’t very good with my hands, so I decided to make Betty take over since she was so motivated.
Crash.
“Betty, let me do that.”
Е̂ńu mа.і̂ d̂
“Okay…”
Apparently, Betty had some kind of cursed skill of clumsiness, so Shelly wound up making the tea instead.
“Thanks. It’s really good,” Timoté said.
“Don’t mention it. I only did it for Lady Yul.”
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Wait, hold on, Shelly. I know you’re not interested in any of this, but he is our kingdom’s prince for the moment, so don’t say things like that so offhandedly and disdainfully.
“Ha ha ha! Everyone loves Yulucia so much.” Timoté sure was powerful, being able to laugh at that. People called him weak, but the royal family would likely be safe in his hands.
Ẃẽbǹо v ẽ l Еn u m̀a
“Oh, I’m sorry for making you accompany me like this, Big Brother Timoté.” Things were starting to feel awkward, so I changed the subject to something just as awkward.
Timoté was supposed to have brought me to the dining hall since he was older than me, but he had decided to accompany me to eat at the salon where we had no one else to wait on us instead. It was what it was, though!
“Please don’t worry about it,” he said. “I think of you like a little sister too, after all. But I wonder why they were all acting that way. Nobody seems that nervous when I go to the dining hall.”
Us girls all sank into momentary silence, with Betty and Shelly wearing halfhearted smiles on their faces at this innocent remark.
Damn it all!
Obviously, no one would want to be all friendly with me like they were with the gentle Timoté.
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While it was nice having such a kind big brother around and everything, sometimes I did have to wonder if he wouldn’t be better off looking for a fiancée his age rather than hanging around with kids like us.
Even though I knew that Timoté couldn’t read my mind or anything, he voluntarily told us why he was with us anyway. “I want to invite you all to come join us for a meal at the castle soon. Some people at the castle are very insistent that I talk more with Yulucia. I wonder why.”
“Yes, I think that’s very strange too,” I answered with a smile. I knew it. Some people at the castle had gotten some strange ideas into their heads.
Hearing this, Shelly raised an eyebrow, I could faintly sense Tina letting her wrath slip out from where she stood just outside the room, and Betty frowned with confusion.
Well, it didn’t matter anyway. Getting to see Timoté always had a healing effect on me.
Unlike his little brother…
W е̄ b̀ n̂o vе ľ Ënumа
While I had initially arrived at school with my attendants in tow, I couldn’t always have them waiting on me. Their magic had been too weak for them to pass the magical ability tests given to very young children, and so they had been enrolled in the courses for nobles at an ordinary school. But since they were my attendants and I was going to the Academy of the Magical Arts here in the capital, it wasn’t possible for them to go to that school. There was no leniency there.
However! For some reason, they suddenly awoke to powerful magic within themselves, and my good-natured parents—who were so worried about me—managed to get the four of them transferred to the Academy of the Magical Arts.
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Money and connections could get you anything in the world!
And so, Tina and Fanny had chosen the same subjects as me since we were all the same grade. This meant they could always be by my side as my attendants while also being students. However, my demon attendants just couldn’t manage holy magic no matter how hard they tried, so the only times I was without any of them was when I was taking classes related to that.
Once again, I found myself in a corner of the practice room using a table meant for six people all by myself.
But I wasn’t lonely or anything!
Wе b́ṅоvе̊ľ Еnū m̄ а
It was just that, when I entered the room, everyone else in the holy magic class kept glancing at me nervously, and even the teachers would check for my reaction after they were done giving their explanations.
I just could not stand any of this at all.
For one thing, classes in holy magic were pointless for me.
While taking the class, I learned that normal holy magic was quite rigid—the teachers explained the workings and effects of existing spells. The students then had to memorize and copy their demonstrations.
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However, my approach to holy magic was pretty much original and based on spells I had seen in books and games in that world of light. The practitioners of holy magic in this world had to use fixed spells with a fixed procedure, but in my case, all I had to do was imagine several spells like “multiple barriers” or “buff combat skills” and I could cast several spells simultaneously.
The clergy member who taught holy magic had wept. Something about what the hardships of their predecessors had all been for and whatnot.
Ë n u m̀.а
What kind of answer had they expected me to give? I was a demon bulldozing my way through using magic, so they would have to forgive me.
I had gotten wildly off topic, but as I said before, I was on my own for these classes until one day, he suddenly appeared.
“Yulucia.”
I’d been about to sigh with relief because class was finally over, but I didn’t even have the chance, because that conceited prick decided to show up to talk to me again.
“Big Brother Ludoric?”
I could hear people start murmuring among themselves.
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Oh, crap. I had accidentally mixed “Prince Ludoric” and “Big Brother Rick” together and now all the girls in my class were giggling and squealing.
Well, whatever.
It was annoying to call him different things in different places, and I had about reached the age where people would start getting the wrong idea if I called him “Rick” in public, so I would just call him “Big Brother Ludoric” from now on.
That being said, Rick was my cousin who was a prince and also Timoté’s little brother.
He was a fourth-year student, which made him three grades higher than me. He had just turned ten years old and seemed to be developing that same rough, egotistical personality that Grandfather had. Also, he was quite popular among the girls at the academy. No idea why.
“Heh.”
Е n̈û m̀а̀
“Why are you snickering like that?” Rick frowned as he looked at me.
That was what he was asking? He was really asking me that? I had a reputation for being quiet and amiable, so I wasn’t about to do something that would smash the dreams of all these girls.
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“Never mind that. Did you need something from me?”
“Ugh!”
What did he want from me? Didn’t he have his own classes to attend? Why did he always show up just after my classes were over? Where were his attendants? What if people started weird rumors about us?
And it was for that reason I gave him the “princess mode” smile I gave others. Rick let out a startled noise and then heaved a sigh. “Are you okay?”
Е̂ n û ḿa. ǐ d̆
I sank into a confused silence.
Was he asking if I was okay in the head?! No, surely he wouldn’t voice such a question out loud.
“Have I done something to worry you?” I put a hand to my cheek, calmly inclining my head to the side, unable to comprehend what he was getting at.
Rick grabbed my free hand in a somewhat irritated way. “You know that’s not what I’m asking.”
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“You’ve done it again, grabbing my hand like that.”
He had gotten better with age, but he was still as bossy as ever.
Ẁ е b̂ n_о vе l Е̂nu m̀_а̌
If we were simply a young brother and sister, this act wouldn’t mean anything, but we were the prince and princess of this kingdom, you know? Everything we did would be scrutinized, you know?
Even now, I could feel the intense stares of my classmates who were still in the practice room and people peering in from the hallway to see what was going on. I felt like I had taken yet another step away from ordinary people. I puffed out my cheeks and looked up at Rick slightly resentfully.
He flinched again and at last noticed everyone’s stares. “Come with me.”
“Ah—”
Rick headed out into the hall, still grasping my hand.
Perhaps he really had inherited his pushiness from Grandfather? While I did approve of us leaving, couldn’t he have asked me first?
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Rick had grown pretty tall these past few years. It kind of scared me to be pulled along by someone so much bigger than me.
I heard more squealing behind us as we left, but I had decided that caring about that sort of thing would mean defeat.
“You’re hurting my hand, Big Brother Ludoric.”
“Oh… Right.”
I called his attention to this fact once we were out of the corridor and reached a place where no one was watching us, but because he wasn’t used to my new way of addressing him, it took him a second to realize what I had said.
Hmm, the place where he had been holding my hand felt kinda hot. The human parts of me were so fragile from being pampered my whole life that being mishandled like this genuinely hurt.
Ѐ n̂ù m а̇ . ǐd̀
Rick noticed how I was frowning at my tingling hand and asked the weirdest question. “Has it been as hard for you as I imagined, then?”
“Huh?”
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“You’re often alone since you started coming to school here, right? People kept their distance from me too at first, but it seems different in your case.”
“Oh, that.” I see? Perhaps… “Are you worried about me?” I asked casually.
“Of course I am!” Rick shouted angrily.
Since my arrival in the Material World, people had worried about me, but few actually scolded me. I wasn’t used to someone coming at me head-on like this. Though I found it thrilling when people were directly antagonistic toward me.
Е̂n̈ um a .ìd̆
“I am quite fine.” I forced myself to smile as I answered, since I didn’t like being yelled at.
The situation didn’t actually bother me all that much. I had yearned for a certain kind of school life, but frankly speaking, it would have been bothersome to have to deal with random people—or rather, I was worried because it took such a great amount of effort to keep an eye on my attendants to make sure they weren’t up to no good.
“Yulucia…” He trailed off as he put a gentle hand on my shoulder, noticing I had dropped my gaze as I got absorbed in my thoughts.
Slow down there, Rick. You shouldn’t go around grabbing girls like that all the time. Is that your default behavior?
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“I’ll come check on you again later, okay?”
Huh? What was that “okay” supposed to mean? “Okay”? Did he mean that he intended to continue acting like a big brother to me?
Ŵ е b n̊ о̄ vе̃ l Еn ūm̌ a
Rick must have taken my dumbfounded silence for agreement, because he patted my head and then left with his attendants, who had just shown up to escort him.
Goodness, Rick sure was pushy. I was used to him doing whatever he wanted without asking for approval, but any normal girl was sure to become confused by such behavior.
I had to wonder if someone had been telling Rick to do things too, just like Timoté.
Power struggles among nobility were such a pain in the butt. In any case, Rick had managed to narrowly escape death.
“I apologize for my delay, Mistress.”
“It’s fine, Tina.”
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Tina had arrived just as Rick’s attendants had. I could feel her seething every time Rick touched me and had been afraid that she might strike him.
Because of the difference in our grades, we only saw the twins—the ones capable of stopping her—at lunch. There was also Fanny, but I couldn’t count on her to step in since she was too busy chasing after a bug. Oh, she just ate it.
In any case, it made me depressed to think that Rick would come to check on me every time I had my class in practical skills. It was going to be so annoying.
Rick had been acting a lot stranger lately. He was always doing weird things. Even though he was so crabby when we spoke, he was weirdly overprotective of me.
He reminded me of boys who tease girls they like…
Wait…
Ẇеb̈ň о́ v̌ е ĺ Ē ǹ ŭ m̃ а
What?
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The girl had been born to a baronet who worked as a civil servant in the royal capital and a commoner woman who worked as a maid in the royal castle.
People would have raised an eyebrow at the situation had his rank been higher, but it wasn’t uncommon for a baronet to marry a commoner. However, the girl’s paternal grandmother didn’t think too highly of her grandson’s commoner bride, so the girl grew up in her mother’s home until she was five.
“It’s a story out of a dating sim.”
Her fifth birthday. After her mother taught her about the country they lived in and how she was a noble, Martina looked at herself in the mirror. As she said the word “dating sim”—a term that didn’t exist in this world—she suddenly remembered her past life.
W̃è b̀ n̂о̀v̄ е̇ l̆ Ӗ n̆ ũ m̈ǎ
In her past life, she had been an employee at a trading company in a rural area. She had been playing a dating sim on her phone as she walked when a tractor driver who had been too busy staring at his own phone ran her over. As a result, she’d ended up reincarnating into this world.
And so, being reborn as a pretty girl with a noble for a father in a town that looked like something from the European Middle Ages in a magical world made her think she was like the heroine of a dating sim.
“No, that’s not right. I must have been reborn into the world of an actual dating sim!”
This assumption excited her.
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She made lots of wrong assumptions in her past life too, but it was partially due to her age in this life that she was even more prone to believing whatever she wanted.
From that day on, Martina used her knowledge of her past life to improve herself and started gathering information about the world she was now in. Since this was a dating sim, that meant that there must be a prince who was close in age to her. Because Martina had been born so pretty, she was sure to catch the prince’s eye. As for the main setting of her dating sim, it meant she had to go to an academy, of course.
W еb nоv еl̇ Ёń u.m̌ǎ
With that logic in mind, Martina learned from gossip that the crown prince of the Holy Kingdom was in his thirties, but he had two sons who were relatively close in age to her. It thus came as no surprise that once she learned that the princes attended a place called the Academy of the Magical Arts, she too began her studies in spellcraft.
Luckily for her, Martina had a talent for elemental magic. Her paternal grandmother tried to make her go to the academy’s local campus, since it was difficult for commoners to attend at the main campus, but Martina plotted to convince her father to let her attend the main capital branch—despite her flaws, it was very easy for her to lead her father around by the nose, since she had lived into her thirties in her past life.
Martina cared about her appearance and cleanliness and strove to eat food that was good for her skin. She got along with water elementals best, and used them to make her skin soft and silky. She used her cuteness and cunning to wheedle her father into agreeing. Her mother took one look at her daughter and sighed, as if wondering where she had gone wrong in raising her, resigning herself to let Martina’s father make the decisions.
“I knew it! I truly am the heroine of this world!” Martina shouted her belief, using her somewhat peculiar rich-daughterly tone of voice. When she started school at the Academy of the Magical Arts in the capital, she found that the two princes were stunningly beautiful boys—just what you’d expect in a dating sim.
The elder was kind and sweet while the younger was an egotistical pretty boy. Martina was in high spirits, wondering which boy’s route she would pursue—or perhaps she would pursue both at once?—as she tried to make their acquaintances. But being the low-ranking noble that she was, Martina was overpowered by the older girls at the school and couldn’t even get close to the boys.
Since this was real life and not a game, it made sense that people would be guarding him; however, Martina didn’t even consider that. Instead, she believed there was some kind of event that she needed to trigger.
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“I suppose running into him as I turn a corner in the hallway with a piece of bread in my mouth won’t work…”
That kind of rectangular bread she was thinking of didn’t even exist in this world, so Martina was trying to figure out if she could get the correct pan for it when she heard a rumor about how the “princess” of the country, who was a year younger than Martina, would be starting school at the academy.
Officially, the girl was the daughter of the grand duke who was descended from the current king. In other words, the girl ranked far higher than herself. And what was more, the rumors also said that the girl was now thought to be the Saint after saving the lives of many children during the demon-summoning incident.
“Why, of course—the villainess is finally going to be making her appearance!”
Martina concluded in her strange rich-girl way of speaking that the reason she hadn’t been able to play the boys’ routes yet had been due to the absence of the villainess who would be her rival.
Nevertheless, it would be difficult for someone of Martina’s rank to talk to a princess and people speculated that the girl probably wouldn’t even come to school every day. Martina pondered how she could get the chance to talk to her and it struck her that even if the girl only sat in the seats reserved for upper nobility, she was sure to come to the dining hall. With that in mind, Martina started her daily stakeouts by sitting close to the walkway to the dining hall.
Е̂n_u ḿ а . і̊ d
A few months of waiting for her chance later, the day finally arrived.
Martina’s “Make Contact with the Villainess Plan” was simple. She would drop her silverware on the floor just as the villainess princess passed by. Martina would jump out in a panic to pick it up, when, if she was indeed the villainess, the girl would criticize Martina, since she was the heroine.
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After getting yelled at so mercilessly, Martina would play the tragic heroine and earn everyone’s sympathy. Eventually, even the princes would hear of this. If this was indeed a dating sim, then it also wouldn’t be strange if the princes were there to witness this encounter directly.
“My plan is flawless!”
This plan was full of flaws. However, Martina was unaware of them, too utterly convinced that the Holy Kingdom’s princess would act as a villainess when she at last made an appearance at the dining hall.
“Eek!” Martina took one look at the girl and shrank back like a rabbit that had just come across an enormous tiger.
Е n̂ ũm̈ǎ .і d́
Hey, this isn’t how it’s supposed to be! Martina shrieked in her mind, feeling so nervous that she couldn’t even breathe.
The sight of the princess had been enough to silence the noisy dining hall. It was like a horror movie in a way, where even the people with their backs to her went quiet.
Silky hair like spun gold.
Long eyelashes that hid golden eyes filled with anguish.
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A cold beauty who looked like a doll molded by the goddess of beauty herself.
They would have looked upon her forever if they could. However, the students forgot to breathe as they kept staring at her, believing they would never be allowed to speak to this girl who was like crystallized beauty.
W е b n о̇ v̇ӗ l̇ Е̂ n̆ŭm â
Many of the students there were in a different academic year from her, and the fact that they were unused to her devilish beauty was their downfall. If the majority of the students hadn’t already been sitting, the ones closest to her would have likely genuflected before her divinity.
Clink!
Martina’s silverware dropped from her trembling hand and tumbled before the princess.
In a way, it had all gone according to plan, but Martina immediately paled and everyone around her looked like the end of the world was upon them.
N-no! I’m sorry! That wasn’t on purpose! she screamed in her mind, but her body was completely paralyzed with dread.
This would be a really awful game if this princess was actually the villainess. Martina had lost all motivation for pursuing the game’s routes and cursed the imaginary makers of this game for setting it to nightmare mode.
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Even the water elemental she depended on to protect her from danger was hiding under her clothes. It trembled in fear and kept murmuring what sounded like an apology.
“Insolent fly,”Martina heard someone faintly murmur, clearly directing the insult at her. That was when she noticed the princess’s attendants were emanating auras of bloodlust her way.
These attendants were also impossibly beautiful. The golden-haired maid and the girl knight were looking at her like she was some kind of worm. Martina realized she was going to die. She regretted ever being born in this world.
But although Martina was prepared to die, there was a sudden noise and the princess left, disappearing from Martina’s sight.
Martina couldn’t comprehend what had happened or how she had been saved. Although she had wet herself in terror, Martina did not have the willpower to move again until it had gotten dark and there wasn’t a single person left in the dining hall. The water elemental that had been her best friend returned to the Elemental Realm and never responded to her summon again, and Martina couldn’t blame it. Martina wasn’t sure how the silverware had been returned to her hand, but she held it tightly like a treasure and made a vow to the gods like a nun who had just received a divine revelation: “I shall live an honest life.”
And so, after much reflection on her life up until now, she decided to take the safe and stable path in life and start looking for a husband.
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