The Villainess' Fate Defying Story - Chapter 7

In the school’s lecture hall, lectures and talks are mainly given by great teachers to the whole school.

Cassandra and her classmates, who have just entered the school, have only participated in the activities of this lecture hall for all students, but next week, classes for each class unit should begin.

From the main building where the specialized lecture rooms are lined up, a corridor leads north to the library, which is an independent building that is open to all students.

The library, which is open to students as an independent building, is said to have the second largest collection of books after the royal library.

Cassandra has been determined to visit the library ever since it was explained to her that she was free to use it.

Cassandra felt very good as she walked to the library with the triplets, the protagonists of this story.

As she walked through the corridor with the three of them, she was soothed by their harmonious atmosphere.

Even though she had told them in advance that they could talk to each other easily, it was difficult to get into the conversation, but just by listening to them talking about nothing else, she could forget her current situation.

At that moment, it is as if she herself is accompanying the protagonists, but if Ralph finds her like this, he is going to be very sarcastic.

If possible, she doesn’t want to be found, so she quickens her pace.

“I hate libraries.”

In contrast to Cassandra, who is very excited, Rita, the cheerful girl with the yellow ribbon, reveals her true feelings.

“Then you should have stayed in the lecture room.”

“I could not do that! After all, Cassandra-sama invited us!”

When she was immersed in the game playing the protagonist, she felt that her personality was not too distinct, even though there were differences in personality.

But now that she’s looking at them from the side, she’s amazed at the differences that emerge when she sees how much they look alike on the outside, but how different they are on the inside.

“The two of you, you are bothering Cassandra-sama by being so noisy. How about being a little bit quieter?”

“Rina, In fact, you are the worst when it comes to studying, aren’t you?”

Rize teases her triplet sister, who tries to admonish her with a strong tone of voice.

“……E-Even so!”

Her face turning red, Rina shakes her head.

“Rina, I wonder if you do not like reading very much? I may have forced you to come with me, I am sorry.”

What a surprise, even Cassandra gets in on the bad joke.

Even though she knows that.

“I like books, but…that……”

Rina looks down, fidgety and embarrassed.

“Her reading is slow and she’s basically a slow person, so she’s not very good at exams. I was surprised that she managed to pass the test.”

For reasons of the game’s setting, in essence, the protagonists cannot escape it, just as Cassandra behaved as a villainess until she remembered her memories.

Rina has a mysterious setting in which the parameters of grace are easy to increase, but the parameters of intellect are hard to increase.

Right now, she is suffering from the effect of that influence.

Not everyone who is polite is a wise man with knowledge, so it is not a complete contradiction.

Looking at Rina in this way, she can’t help but be surprised.

Although she seems to be a kind and nice girl, an honor student type.

“Rina’s fault is that she is too thorough in everything. She tends to demand perfection, so she gets stuck in the same places endlessly and inefficiently. ……She’s a hard worker, I’ll give her that.”

Hearing Rize’s blunt remarks, she remained looking down in embarrassment.

From the way she talks, she wonders if she means that Rina is not very good at getting to the point.

The exam is not about getting a perfect score; it is about efficiency, about understanding as many questions as possible and reducing the number of mistakes as much as possible, which is a truth she learned during her college entrance examinations.

Sometimes it is necessary to make a bold decision to throw away questions that do not suit you and that you cannot solve.

Ah, so she’s the type who can’t skip over the last item of a big question in the beginning and struggles with it forever……

Is it possible that her meticulous and careful nature might be a disadvantage for her in terms of studying?

She didn’t have that point of view, after all. Cassandra was satisfied with this explanation.

It’s only natural that if you’re not good at getting to the point, you’ll be less time-efficient.

As her initial parameters indicate, she is not good at what is called studying.

However, it doesn’t end there. Thanks to her serious nature and meticulousness, she has made an effort to learn the “manners” of the social world if she comes to this school, and the result is what she is now.

……Even if she is not good at memorizing, she practices and learns it repeatedly because it is necessary.

It is a self-serving character assessment, but looking at Rina’s profile, she doesn’t seem to be mistaken.

It is not something that can be done on one’s own initiative without the consideration that it is impolite not to conform to the customs here.

She thinks it is amazing that she has no trace of arrogance, which is something that people around her age might have, wondering why she has to go out of her way to accommodate the other person.

“Does not everyone have areas in which they are not good at? It is not something to worry about. I have always thought that the ability to keep up a steady effort is one of the great talents. Besides, listen carefully. Even if it seems that you are not good at something now, you can improve it as much as you want. I can assure you of that.”

Any protagonist of any personality can reach the uniformly high parameters required to become a queen.

The initial conditions are only a minor difference that can be blown away.

Of course, it is a difficult task to reach this goal, and it is not something that can be achieved if one spends one’s days in a carefree and random manner.

But they certainly have the potential.

They are girls who have the potential to become anything they want.

When she sees Rina nodding her head shyly, she realizes how special it is to be the protagonist of a story.

She had a vision of small flowers dancing around her.

After all, human beings are not only about facial features, but also about facial expressions, gestures, and atmosphere.

It did not take long for Cassandra’s cheerful mood to be tinged with fear.

She would never forget this shock.

She opened the door to the library and entered.

The moment she saw the scene, she was struck with an indescribable sense of foreboding.

Cassandra wandered over to the history shelves.

The triplets, their voices hushed, seemed to be once again exploring to see what kind of books they could find.

Rina glanced at her as if she was paying attention to the situation here.

However, perhaps out of consideration so as not to disturb Cassandra, she bows and follows the two together.

“The History of the Kingdom of Clores……”

As if drawn to the book, she picked up an appropriate thick book on the bookshelf.

The library is filled with thousands or even tens of thousands of books.

Cassandra realized that it was not so easy to say that this was a normal thing for a library.

She flipped through the leather-bound book.

The tips of her fingers grew cold and she felt her heart palpitate.

The book was a detailed account of the history of the kingdom.

“This is …… Ersian,…… but……It is all in Japanese?”

Not only Japanese, but also alphabetical characters, Arabic numbers, and often English titles could be found on the shelves.

Cassandra knows that the characters she has been using without a second thought are in a language called Ersian.

But this is Japanese.

And English, and even numbers are written in the script she knew from her previous life.

There is an unspoken agreement, a so-called promise, for games set in fantasy, especially for otome games.

Characters speak Japanese, their values are close to those of modern Japanese, and background text is written in the alphabet, numbers, and even kanji in some cases.

Of course, this is natural, because the game was made in Japan.

If the game is set in a different world, the complexity of changing all the settings from the beginning is not worth the effort and does not bring any benefit beyond difficulty and the creator’s self-satisfaction.

In the case of a real fantasy world, everything would be constructed and created from the beginning.

So that Japanese girls can enjoy it without any sense of discomfort.

So that they can enjoy romance in a fantasy world of swords and magic, royalty and aristocracy.

Why use such language? Why do you use the days of the week?

If you go into every little detail, the story will not work. If you are concerned about it, just enjoy a game set in modern Japan from the beginning.

It’s pointless to go into that kind of detail. If you care about it, you will lose.

Just immerse yourself in the game world as “that’s just the way it is”.

This game, ” The Twilight Kingdom: The Pure White Queen,” is an ordinary otome game for women.

The language spoken is Japanese, there are signs in the background written in the alphabet, and the concept of time and numbers are based on Arabic numerals.

This world in which Cassandra is now standing was created in order to be consistent with the game world.

She can only think that someone has created a history that adds up, taking advantage of the gaps and places that are not clearly indicated in the game.

The feeling of looking at a grand secondary setting, this feeling is very hard to describe.

What is told in the game is “clear fact and information”.

It is called the official setting.

In this game, there is a villainess named Cassandra, the protagonist girl is enrolled in the Royal Academy, and such obvious setting cannot be overturned.

That is a fact, and the premise.

But actually, there may be a setting like this behind the scenes that is never mentioned…

We didn’t see it in the game, but maybe something like this happened.

Did the two actually hold hands after that?

She wouldn’t be surprised if Sirius was jealous of this situation!

That’s not what Ralph said earlier, but… maybe this is what he meant?

She came up with a new interpretation and created her own setting.

She is not satisfied with it as it is, so she creates her own backstory to convince herself.

If it doesn’t contradict the official setting, no one can say that it’s wrong to imagine something that hasn’t been told.

It is one of the ways to enjoy the game, to imagine what you want to think and what is open to interpretation, and to supplement it with your own imagination.

She realized that she was literally doing it on a ‘global scale’, and this was the horror.

In Japan, if you look up the origin of hiragana and letters, you will find that the modern Japanese language has undergone many changes, twists and turns throughout history.

Language is the culmination of lifestyle and history.

Take the example of the Ersian language that Cassandra and the others are reading and writing with now.

The language has been transformed and morphed for thousands of years, and by chance has come to be exactly the same as the Japanese language.

This world has produced thousands of years of history.

Hiragana and katakana have been established in this world through these changes, so the use of them in the current kingdom is not strange, and it is natural.

The fundamental question of why the Japanese language is used in this medieval European-style fantasy world is solved by creating a history of the origin of the language.

The origins of the language were changed slightly so as not to destroy the setting. The language is not based on the Heian period (794-1185. Hiragana and Katakana emerged in this period.), but on a language created in another country at another time, for example.

It is too much of a feat of strength.

The language has the exact same reading and spelling as Japanese, but in “this world” it is called Ersian.

The script called English is also a language that developed in another island country. It is the current fashion to write it in katakana and mix it with the Ersian language.

Because we are using the Ersian language, it is not contradictory if the dialogue in the game uses Japanese or foreign words. Rather, this use of language is the norm in this country.

If they are asked to accept a history that is fabricated, or even constructed from scratch, they have no choice but to agree.

In this world, it is a historical fact and a reality, and the possibility of a language system in another world that is exactly the same as the modern Japanese language is not zero.

It is close to zero, but the world will create the circumstances and history of using Japanese in the game world. What a scary thought.

To supplement the unspoken setting, the world may have been created thousands or hundreds of years ago to make things make sense, and now it has come to this point. She had a frightening imagination.

This script was created, this culture arose, and so on. Everything was so coherent that the world itself was a perfect complement to the game’s world.

This was a big shock.

The origins of the world that perhaps even the creator did not think about.

She wonders if they think about it every time they create something.

The concept of rice, the concept of cooking, why things fall down when dropped from above, and countless other correlations are all considered when creating a new world story.

No human being can do it.

Kaori was reincarnated in the world of the game “The Twilight Kingdom: The Pure White Queen”.

Thus, she is living with substance.

In other words, this world is not a fiction, but a “real world”.

Cassandra is standing here by the power of someone who supplements the entire history of the world. She can live here.

She realized that everything is a historical supplement that does not contradict the in-game setting.

Without the intervention of someone, there is no way that a world with a slightly different history, similar to that of Earth or Japan, could exist.

The tens of thousands of books in the library not only record the past of this world, but also represent the history that was created in order to make the game world exist in reality.

There are countless examples of in-game setting that poke fun at the fact that Japanese is used even though the game is not in Japan.

This world cannot exist, it is a fiction, a figment of the imagination.

The game world is a place where many people deny the existence of such a world.

No, that’s fine, because it’s fun to experience a simulated dream world that doesn’t exist. Normally, it would be impossible for an extremely good-looking son of a noble family to fall in love with an ordinary girl and be united with her, but because it is fiction, it is allowed.

But this world is supplemented in order not to be denied.

This world is bending over backwards to say that it is natural to use the exact same expressions in this world as in Japanese, and that there is no contradiction whatsoever.

If we play the game of the numbers system, the concept of numbers, made up by some country similar to Arabia, came into the kingdom and came to be used.

All kinds of events are recorded as “history” and “knowledge” in tens of thousands of books in this library.

Are you kidding?

She understands that props are used to set up the stage and make it look the way it should look in order to shoot a drama.

But to create a new human history from scratch in order to make a game world “exist” in reality……

This is insane.

The “world” is supplementing the history on its own to make the game’s universe exist behind the scenes, which is not mentioned in the game.

It is horrifying.

To be able to do such a thing, it is truly the work of a God.

The image of Vadia, the creator Goddess, that she had seen during the day, quickly flashed through her mind and vanished.

What in the world is that game, “The Twilight Kingdom: The Pure White Queen”?

How in the world did such a game world come into being?

Why was she reincarnated as one of the characters in the game?

Or is this a dream…?