The Villainess' Fate Defying Story - Chapter 22

A new week begins.

She decided to get up early this morning and go to school.

She left the villa thirty minutes early and moved along the deserted street.

In the carriage, Cassandra gently stroked the surface of the bag on her lap.

What she had hidden in that bag was a letter to Prince Arthur.

She had wasted many sheets of paper yesterday and wrote a letter.

People would generally call it a love letter, but she didn’t think it was that heavy.

As short as possible, and with a sentence that wouldn’t burden the other person.

She took it in her hand in the gap of her busy time, and glanced at it quickly.

She was able to meet the Prince last week because she was able to sneak a letter into his seat in the student council room.

It was one of the few successful experiences for Cassandra, who had thought about it herself.

She couldn’t rely on letters alone, but now that they were strangers to each other and couldn’t even talk to each other at school.

As a result of considering ways to appeal herself somehow, she settled on the act of handing over a letter.

She didn’t want his reply or expect any special changes.

She just wanted him to be aware of her, and understand her existence with all her heart.

In her previous life, she liked to anonymously talk about her impressions and thoughts on the books she read and the games she played, to a large number of people.

But how nervous it was to write for a specific person, thinking only about that person. And not even someone she trusted, but her fiancé who she didn’t know well.

She wanted to convey her feelings and thoughts to only one person.

She couldn’t push a heavy self-appeal document from the beginning.

She kept in mind to be concise, just like last week.

A seasonal greeting, and that she was looking forward to seeing him today.

She would be happy if they had the same elective lecture starting this afternoon.

She just wanted him to glance at it.

……

She brushed away her long blonde hair that hung over her shoulders with the back of her hand, and Cassandra couldn’t suppress the warm feeling that welled up in her and let out a smile. In other words, she was grinning.

Fortunately, no one noticed her like that and she reached the door of the student council room.

Very few students pass by the Student Council room in the morning.

“……Oh?”

Something was wrong.

Somehow there was a human presence in the student council room, which was deserted in the morning.

No, that’s not it.

If you listen carefully, you can tell it’s a voice.

Whose voice is that!? Cassandra’s curiosity is aroused.

She checks her surroundings, then bends down and sticks her ear to the door.

She feels like mocking herself for being a reincarnated spy.

‘Hey, hey, what’s with this early morning call?

You’ve been acting weird since a while ago, I don’t remember being glared at?’

This voice is Jake.

He sounds impatient and irritated, she can easily imagine his expression. He must have his hands in his pants pockets and a scowl on his face.

Who called Jake out…?

‘I heard a rumor that caught my interest.

Jake, you met with those triplets yesterday, didn’t you?’

This voice is Ralph…?

It’s different from his usual gentle voice, it’s low and makes her flustered.

A rumor, has the incident with the triplets already spread…?

She hasn’t received a report yet, so Cassandra doesn’t know what happened at all.

She was acting out of curiosity until now, but she’s suddenly brought back to reality and frowns, concentrating her nerves to not miss the conversation.

She can’t make an excuse if someone finds her.

Please, don’t let anyone pass through this corridor!

‘So what?

I just happened to see them in the square and called out to them.

What? Do you want me to ignore them and go home?’

Jake is still in a bad mood.

He sounds tense, she thinks.

Jake, Ralph, Sirius, they all have different cover ranges or different ways of expressing their personalities. She thought they wouldn’t clash normally.

They don’t fight easily, and she’s never heard of them arguing before.

They’re a trio of childhood friends who don’t antagonize each other.

If Prince Arthur is included, maybe they’re a quartet.

Why are they so hostile…?

Well, yeah, Jake likes Rita, who has eyes only for Ralph.

Is it because they’re rivals in love? Hmm?

But she doesn’t think the situation has progressed enough to create such a prickly atmosphere.

It’s only April.

It’s still the beginning.

She doesn’t think it’s time for them to fight over their respective crushes.

‘That’s not what I want to say!

You let Miss Rina get hurt, didn’t you?’

What a decisive way of speaking.

Cassandra, who can’t see the whole situation, swallows hard.

She wasn’t there in front of them or Jake, but should she have secretly watched them?

But this…

How can she hide herself in that place when she stands out so much?

It would be more serious if they found her in a disguise to hide her identity.

‘…Huh?’

‘I’m disappointed in you, Jake.

You let a female student get hurt while you were there.

And you call yourself a knight.’

‘You’re saying whatever you want, there’s no way I could have done anything about that!

Besides, it’s just a scratch, it doesn’t count as an injury.’

The argument starts again.

She quietly removes her ear from the door, crosses her arms and thinks silently.

This is…

A real battlefield!

She wipes a drop of sweat from her forehead and decides to leave before they notice her.

She can’t mediate, she doesn’t know anything.

If she barges into the student council room without hearing the report from them, she might get burned by their anger.

It’s not the time to talk about sneaking a letter to the Prince.

She quietly kills her presence and decides to go to the classroom.

Even if it’s dangerous to argue about female students in the dormitory, can’t they do it in their own room?

Why are they like this at the beginning of the week?

She felt dizzy from their incomprehensible fight.

Jealousy and triangles are irrelevant to her, so she can objectively feel excited.

She learned the reality that it’s not a good thing when she’s actually in danger. She didn’t want to experience that.

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Cassandra was shocked by the fact that she couldn’t deliver the letter she wrote for the Prince, spending most of her precious time on Sunday.

She sits down on a chair and elegantly brushes up her golden hair that falls on her forehead.

She couldn’t help it that her hair was messed up from sticking to the door until a while ago.

It would be a scandal in Cassandra’s academy life if she was seen in such a pathetic state, it was really lucky that there was no one around.

Gradually, students gather in the classroom.

It was fifteen minutes before the start of school, when the classmates enjoyed chatting with each other.

“Cassandra-sama, good morning!”

A cheerful voice echoes from the back door of the classroom.

A cute girl with a yellow ribbon, Rita, spots Cassandra and waves her hand.

She leads the way, and Rina and Rize enter the classroom as well.

Zap!

Is it just her imagination?

She feels a sharp gaze from all over the room as they enter the classroom, and feels uncomfortable.

It’s as if a tense thread is spread all over the room like a spider web.

She doesn’t see any big changes in the ladies who enjoy their trivial chats.

But for sure, something is different today.

She has a bad feeling all, but she doesn’t know what it is.

“Good morning, everyone.”

She glances at Rina for a moment.

“Ah, Rina-san. What happened?”

As Ralph said earlier, Rina’s left leg was wrapped in a white bandage.

The sight of the bandage on her thin leg is painful.

“Actually, I tripped in the square yesterday.

I’m so embarrassed.”

She looks perfectly ashamed and hangs her head.

Her walk doesn’t seem strange either, and the expression “scratch” is probably not wrong.

She feels a silent appeal that says don’t ask any more questions.

She can’t talk about it in detail in this classroom, especially where many people are listening, so she nods.

It’s not a light-hearted talk about cute love in the classroom.

They think that love and romance are directly connected to marriage.

There are many female students who are devoted to finding a marriage partner.

Cassandra is fine because she already has a fiancé, the Prince, but if she compares it with the common sense of this world, she understands why the girls are desperate.

If they can’t find a good match in this academy, they have no choice but to leave it to their parents to arrange a marriage.

They have a high chance of being married off to a much older nobleman or becoming a second wife.

There are more ambitious ladies who want to catch a better gentleman.

And there are ladies who hate the fiancé chosen by their parents and want to fall in love with someone they like.

The ladies who act gracefully also have different situations.

Of course, if they have a public fiancé from a childhood promise or an agreement between their parents, their attitude is completely different.

More than half of the ladies have a guy who has already made a promise.

Ladies who are not like that, especially second or third daughters, or even fourth or fifth daughters. More so, children of concubines often have trouble getting married.

They are basically eldest daughter and eldest son supremacists.

Sirius, who hates excessive love affairs, has some very bad news, but ideals and reality are different.

Fishing for the opposite sex in the school is not good, it goes against the philosophy.

Don’t try to contact the Prince or us unnecessarily.

But if you think about it, it’s the best time to find a fiancé. If you miss this chance, you’ll be in your twenties in no time.

If a nobleman’s daughter marries in her twenties, unless there are special circumstances, it is nothing more than a late marriage.

No matter how much they are restrained by the student council, it’s also a survival academy life for the ladies.

An academy life where they bet their lives on finding a partner.

It’s not enough to just study and get good grades, this is part of a proper social world.

Well, let’s take Sirius’s warning as saying don’t cause any trouble with your head in the clouds if you have a strategy to move in the academy. Surely that love exclusivist doesn’t intend to produce unmarried generations either.

It could be said that Jake and the others who don’t have a fixed fiancée are the ones who are wrong.

Even though it’s an unreasonable situation for Sirius and the others, the ladies who become their legal wives are the winners.

They can walk the road of glory, the victory Road.

A woman’s life is greatly influenced by men, unlike men.

There are few strong women who deny that and carve out their own path. That’s why they admire them.

She recently realized that the students’ feelings toward the scholarship students, who are commoners, are complicated.

At first, they looked down on them as just commoners, or in the case of the triplets, they were curious and didn’t hide their interest because of their rarity.

But gradually, their eyes change. They envy the academy life that is truly free.

Envy can also turn into jealousy and resentment.

If it becomes known that they are close to the sons of the top three families, it wouldn’t be surprising if there was a movement to exclude these girls by force.

She was relieved from the bottom of her heart that Rina’s bandage was not caused by a third party.

“That was unfortunate, Rina-san. I hope you get well soon.

You went out to the square, did you have fun?”

“The lake was beautiful!

Cassandra-sama, let’s go together sometime.”

Rita’s eyes sparkle and she smiles brightly.

She desperately suppresses her urge to ask what happened with Jake.

She’ll ask them more at lunchtime.

And after lunch, there’s an elective lecture, and then…

She might be able to meet the Prince after school!

She feels her expression loosen when she thinks about it.

She’s worried about Rina’s injury, but what about the relationship between Rita, Rize and Jake?

Even though there are so many things she doesn’t know, she was overjoyed.

“Rize-san… did you have fun too?”

She tries to gauge her situation.

The eldest of the triplets with the red ribbon.

Rize is quiet and looks spaced out.

She doesn’t seem depressed, but she’s not here mentally.

She feels uneasy about Rize’s absent-mindedness, and when Rize finally notices her gaze, she lifts her face.

“Ah, yes.

It was fun, very fun.”

She nods once.

She’s worried that her tone seems weaker than before.

But she had fun, so that’s good.

She wasn’t treated badly by Jake.

She breathes a sigh of relief; she was only worried that he, who has no sense of delicacy, would hurt Rize.

She thought there might be a situation where a battlefield would happen here too, after the exchange in the student council room this morning, but it seems like a needless worry.

She’s looking forward to hearing their report more and more, Cassandra waves her hand to each of them as they scatter.

…..

“Rize-san is… gone?”

She couldn’t suppress her excitement and spoke to Rita and Rina, who were talking seriously outside the cafeteria at lunchtime.

But they looked around anxiously.

“Yes, she was definitely with us until a while ago.

But when we noticed, she was nowhere to be found.”

They looked confused and gloomy.

Cassandra’s heartbeat also sped up.

The aggressive gaze in the classroom.

Rize, who was out of it.

The hostile atmosphere between Jake and Ralph.

She didn’t know if they were related or not.

Cassandra couldn’t move because she didn’t know the situation.

Because this situation wasn’t in the scenario.

She was restless.

“I’m sorry, both of you.

Could you please explain to me what happened yesterday so that I can understand?”

Cassandra was impatient to gather some information.

Daisy, the daughter of Viscount Cardo, came up to her with a worried expression and made her even more pale.

“Cassandra-sama, I apologize for interrupting your conversation, please forgive me.

I saw Rize-san with a few female students earlier.

But she looked strange, and I was very worried…”

She looked like she was being taken away, surrounded by everyone.