The Villainess' Fate Defying Story - Chapter 16

Even so, it turned out to be a terrible thing.

All three girls chose the opposite of their original compatibility.

It was hard to accept what they said when they told me suddenly.

But that’s the truth.

She returned to the villa and pinched her cheeks, but only left a red mark in vain.

…She took the initiative to make their love come true, but…

She had a headache when she thought of the difficulties that would come.

When she was playing the game, the protagonist she was operating was one.

It was the first time for her to proceed with three people at the same time.

And she was assigned the role of the villainess Cassandra in the game.

Looking back calmly, it was too difficult.

“……Let’s write down as much as I can remember……”

As time goes by, memory fades.

Even in the world she was addicted to playing at that time, she noticed that her previous life’s memory was flickering in places because the essence and activity of Cassandra were there.

If she was too relaxed, she would lose her only advantage.

She wrote down all the important events, added the parameters related to them, and decided on the training policy.

She was supposed to be living in reality

But this is like a provisional note before a new round in the game …!

She shook her hand holding a feather pen at the desk, and Cassandra was speechless at the surrealness of it.

And it’s even more absurd that it’s not her own schedule, but the schedule of the three protagonists.

But she had to modify her actions according to the voice of God’s advice to some extent, or she would have a high chance of getting a regrettable ending.

Of course, this is not a digital world where everything is determined by parameters, so-called numbers.

In reality, people have their own hearts and act according to their own thoughts.

How effective is the knowledge she has now?

She can’t say that it was useless after making such a big show.

Not only the matter of choosing lectures, but Cassandra should be able to support their feelings as a member of the student council.

She would cooperate with them in every way possible, secretly and openly.

It’s hard to judge how to push their backs from what direction, because Cassandra is hated by the targets like a snake.

But maybe it’s just right that she’s hated so much.

The noble ladies who are usually with her would not feel good if she were hanging around in front of the men they like.

She was an extremely annoying character during the capture, so the protagonists might start to find Cassandra annoying…

She would rather have them show an aura that they don’t care about her than get into such a situation.

She didn’t want to ruin her relationship with Rize and the others, and it was more frightening to be misunderstood by the Prince.

Yes, the problem is the Prince.

She tapped the paper with the tip of her little finger of her dominant hand.

She shook the feather pen and a drop of black ink spilled, blurring the unfinished sentence.

She could understand everything about Jake and Ralph’s situation, if the game content was reflected.

She knew all the things they were dealing with, without having to ask.

It would be easy for her to choose the right answer if she could pop up a choice to raise their favorability.

…What does the Prince like and what is he interested in?

Prince Arthur certainly said that he would come to see Cassandra waiting in the backyard next week.

She couldn’t spend all that time questioning him.

He said that he was bad at talking to female students, and left with a strong defense line.

It implies that even if Prince Arthur doesn’t talk to Cassandra at all, it’s because he’s bad at talking, so it can’t be helped.

So she wanted to have a topic that would interest him in advance.

It would be no problem if she could talk about herself, but if he had no interest in her at all, it would be counterproductive.

It would be a big mistake to fail the topic at the stage of closing the distance between them, and it seemed that it would become completely impossible to capture.

…It’s very scary.

She didn’t know the right answer, and she couldn’t redo it. It was so scary.

She didn’t want to be hated.

But in order to know more about him, she needed to accumulate conversations and events.

What on earth does the Prince like?

If she was told to talk to Ralph, she could probably kill time by remembering the dog she had at home and endlessly bragging about it. Choosing a topic that suits the other person is very important.

It’s hard to imagine in Cassandra’s current appearance.

…If she can’t ask him directly, she has no choice but to ask his close friend…

Friend…?

If it’s the Prince’s friend, that would be…

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There are many problems that can’t be solved no matter how much she worries.

She sighed at the height of the wall again.

At lunch break, she finished carrying a pile of papers to the student council room and noticed the presence that entered the room right after her, and turned around in surprise.

“Oh, Jake-sama. Do you have something to do?”

It’s strange that there is so much weight in the student council documents alone.

She was fed up with the reality that the student council had to take charge of all the events that took place in the academy.

What are the teachers for, what are the advisors for?

The intention to let the Prince experience governing a small society before he gets involved in politics is definitely running wild.

They are supposed to be students themselves, not people on the management side. Why do they have to do everything from events to ceremonies…?

Even though the student council is nothing more than an errand boy when the Prince is not enrolled for most of the time.

This is a time when there are many donations from nobles all over the kingdom and the funds are abundant. How should they use them?

One of the executive officers, Jake.

He is also a person who can freely come and go in this room, but it is rare for him to show up until lunch break.

“I saw you coming in here.”

The tall male student, Jake, who casually says something outrageous.

He doesn’t carry a sword because of his uniform, but his arm is so strong that even the king praises him.

He is not only good at swordsmanship, but also at spear, horse and archery. He has a basic impression of being a muscle-brain, which is not wrong.

But he’s not stupid. He can act like a noble son where adults can see him.

“Oh, what do you want from me?

I was sitting with you earlier, you could have asked me at lunchtime.”

She wondered if her voice was cracking.

It’s not unreasonable for her to be on guard about what he would say to her here, when she had given him nothing but the opposite of a good impression.

Jake, who tried to frame Miss Daisy and trip her up.

She couldn’t relax when she remembered that story.

Cassandra couldn’t afford to fall here and be expelled from the academy.

“No, I can’t ask you in front of them.”

He put his hand on the back of his head and sighed.

He looked a little embarrassed and stared at her.

Should she fight back if he picks a fight or tries to start a fight? Or should she run away without resistance…

She felt something was wrong, and it was because his words and actions were very casual.

She had never had a chance to talk to him alone before, so Cassandra only knew Jake who was outwardly oriented.

He spoke in a blunt tone that could be called a normal male student.

Why is he showing his true self now…?

“Cassandra, you’re pretty close with the triplets, aren’t you?”

Did he come to tease her just because she was talking to the commoners?

There was no way that being close to them would be a weakness for her.

But the dark clouds hung over Cassandra’s heart because it hurt her to be asked if she had no ulterior motive for them.

Even if she didn’t intend to use them, it was a fact that she was with them for her own purpose in the end.

Jake had no way of knowing that, but she would be flustered if he tried to probe her.

It was not a strange story that they were suspicious and wary of why the villainess was friendly with the commoners, and came to hit her with a light jab like this…

“Yes, I’m on good terms with them, but does that bother you, Jake-sama?”

She couldn’t decide how to act.

But she tried to keep calm as much as possible and faced him with an attitude of knowing nothing.

“No, that’s not it.

I came to ask you to help me out a little, since you’re close with them.”

….

!?

She finally realized the reason for Jake’s actions.

…He’s the same as the triplets!

He was asking Cassandra to mediate for him to advance his relationship with the person he was interested in. Is he sane?

The triplets wanted Cassandra to know the information about the targets through the student council connection.

Jake chose a way to contact the triplets through Cassandra, who was friendly with them.

Why me? He doesn’t have to do such a roundabout thing. He can just contact them himself.

Unlike the protagonists, they are not restricted in their words and actions in the academy.

If he has something he wants to ask, he can ask them face to face.

There is no need to involve the villainess Cassandra.

“I want to talk to them properly, but they seem to be avoiding me.

You’re close with them, so you can provide me with a place or two, right?”

He didn’t seem to realize how convenient what he was saying.

Cassandra felt dizzy at Jake’s request.

Jake, who had been acting accordingly in the academy without hiding his hostility towards her as Rendall’s daughter.

He asked her to be a bridge between him and the protagonists?

She wanted to tell him to stop talking nonsense, but Cassandra thought with a thin smile of courtesy.

Jake, who was talking to her with a casual attitude, must have felt some humiliation.

Just the other day, he made fun of Ralph in front of everyone with an attitude of “something like the triplets”.

Of course, he couldn’t ask for Ralph or Sirius’s help, and he had no friends he could consult with because of his usual attitude of not caring about women.

She remembered the report of a trouble that occurred in the school at the beginning of this week.

A love affair between students, a senior tried to steal a woman who had been approached by someone else, and so on.

It might have been a matter of male pride for them, but a stupid fight broke out.

There was a scene where it almost turned into a big fight with grabbing and punching each other, but Jake stopped it and reported that nothing happened.

It was lucky that no one raised their hand. If either of them had been injured, it wouldn’t have been settled with a punishment within the student council.

Of course, it was brought up as a topic in the student council, but she felt like her body and soul were frozen by the blizzard storm that came from Sirius at that time.

He said that such a low and tasteless cause for a fight was unacceptable.

He was so furious that he might have asked the principal to expel them if Jake hadn’t stopped them.

In his academy life, being in love and having a relationship with the opposite sex was a crime.

He argued that this academy life was not a place to fish for the opposite sex, but a place to polish oneself.

No, his argument was terrible.

In the noble society, this academy life was the last bastion for students who didn’t have a partner.

And yet he forbade them from having anything to do with love. If it wasn’t Sirius who said that, it would have been out of control with complaints and dissatisfaction.

Of course, violence is not good… but banning it completely is too pitiful.

He was a man of basic reason and decency, so she had a hard time capturing him.

Cassandra looked at Sirius, who was calmly angry, with dull eyes like a dead fish.

She wished the meeting would end soon. She didn’t want to encounter him at such a time.

The officers issued a strict warning to the students to prevent the parties involved in the fight attempt and the spread of strange rumors.

He must have guessed that he couldn’t say to his classmates today that he wanted her to help him because he was interested in the triplets, no matter how thick Jake’s face was.

He was aware that the protagonists were especially close to Cassandra in their current class.

Otherwise, her wouldn’t have asked her such a thing.

“I had no idea that Jake-sama liked them.

I didn’t know at all.”

He must be desperate to ask for help from Rendall’s people.

She shouldn’t tease him too much. She thought the same thing when it was Sirius.

Not only them, but being rude in matters of love would greatly lower the other person’s trust. A stock crash that is impossible to recover from.

But the way the protagonist and the target are led is nothing but fate.

They moved him so much even though he hadn’t spent two weeks with them.

“They seem to have fun when they’re with you.”

That was a nice thing to say.

She thanked him and he shrugged his shoulders exaggeratedly.

Geez, that’s what she should say.

She didn’t expect it to affect her.

But he was the hero of this world.

Like the protagonist, he was born to be attracted to each other and have a wonderful love, a veritable embodiment of a love warrior.

He asked her for something he didn’t want to ask, exposed his weakness, and wanted to advance his relationship with the girl he liked!

It would be heartless to cut him off and say that she didn’t care about Jake, the enemy.

But it was also annoying to cooperate with Jake, who had always been hard on her, treated her as a vixen who deceived the Prince, and had never met and talked with her properly.

And it was also a problem who Jake was aiming for. At this point, it seemed to be Rita eight or nine times out of ten.

If Jake’s wish came true and he and Rita got closer, it would be easier for Cassandra in a way.

She was already interested in Jake from the beginning, so they would probably get along without her doing anything.

No, no, no.

Rize was curious about Jake and came to Cassandra first for advice. They have their own feelings.

By accepting Jake’s request, she would also betray Rize’s feelings.

Besides, Rita is currently interested in Ralph, not Jake. He should blame himself for failing his encounter event.

…Hmm…it’s getting complicated.

What should she do?

Cassandra wanted to be on the side of the protagonists in love.

“I see…

Jake-sama, you say triplets, but who do you want to talk to?”

He was clearly flustered.

He had been blurring the focus by saying “triplets” until now, but suddenly one shadow emerged here.

A slight redness appeared on his cheeks.

He should stop making a shy face. It’s too destructive.

He has a good face. They all do.

“Sure, she had a yellow hair ornament.”

So it was Rita.

She knew it, but it was a difficult situation.

“As Jake-sama said earlier, the young lady with the yellow ribbon, Rita-san, still regrets being rude to Jake-sama and is afraid of him.”

“What…that was my fault, and it’s over!”

“But if she suddenly finds herself being called out by Jake-sama one-on-one, I think Rita-san would be very troubled.

As Rita-san’s friend, I ask you.

How about letting the other two join you as well, not just Rita-san?”

“Hmm…”

He seemed to be thinking with his arms crossed.

He couldn’t do something like setting up a one-on-one situation with Rita, and it was true that Rita was afraid of Jake.

“I know I’m asking for something convenient for me.

I don’t mind that.”

Very well, very well.

She felt sorry for Rita for treating her like a human sacrifice, but she would follow up with her later. Please forgive her.

…She didn’t want to miss this opportunity.

“Then Jake-sama, let’s make a deal.”

“Huh? What’s that out of the blue?”

“I promise to provide you with an opportunity to talk to them.

In return…”

The Prince’s friend.

Cassandra hardly knew anyone who knew him well.

He might know, since he came to this academy as the Prince’s close aide.

Just like Jake wanted to get close to Rita, no, more than that.

“Please tell me about the Prince.”

She couldn’t afford to care about appearances either.