The Villainess' Fate Defying Story - Chapter 8

Let us calm down a bit.

She stopped flipping through the pages of the heavy book that was resting on her arm.

She took a deep breath to calm her agitation and closed the history book with a thud.

She pushed the thick book into the gap between the other books on the shelf.

She was in a terrifying situation that could have caused her to panic, but it would be worse if she screamed something incomprehensible and caused a commotion as if she had gone mad.

She didn’t want to be advised to take a mental rest and be confined to a remote territory.

First of all, this world was still a real world, and Cassandra had been reincarnated by some mysterious power. That fact wouldn’t change.

It wasn’t like this world was a fake, and all the books she picked up were blank, pure white!

If it was just a background in the game, and that situation was revealed. That would make her spine freeze even more.

She felt there was no salvation if her consciousness had only flown to a fictional world. At least, this world was real. She consoled herself that it was better than nothing.

She had no choice but to live as Cassandra in this world.

She couldn’t change the history that this world had walked through.

She could stomp her feet later while saying that there was no such convenient world.

What was written was just a follow-up of the ultimate convenience for this world to fit into the current situation without any contradictions.

There was no point in being shaken at this point.

She had been reincarnated as a character in the game.

Cassandra was here, and in this world, there were magic and miracles.

Based on that, she had to reconfirm her guidelines for her future actions.

First of all, she had to find out what the “Seed of Malice” was.

She also had to investigate more thoroughly about the demons and the saints, not just superficially.

Cassandra hoped that she would eventually find the information she wanted to know about if she dug through the books.

She had been living as Cassandra for fifteen years, but she had never heard anything about demons.

There were things like civil wars in some regions, or poor harvests in the borderlands, or tense relations with the country that bordered the east. It was all real things.

There was no way that such topics as demons or goddesses would come up at balls or tea parties. The aristocratic society was more afraid of human relationships than demons. After all, living humans were much more scary.

It would be troublesome if she was found out collecting such dangerous information.

They might suspect that Cassandra was trying to summon a demon or something, and put unfounded accusations on her.

She had to secretly gather information and watch the prince’s behavior while trying to stop him from committing atrocities.

She couldn’t handle it alone as a mere villainess named Cassandra, and if she considered cases where the power of the saints was needed

She couldn’t ignore the triplets either.

If there were three of them, one of them should awaken to the power of the saints.

If possible, she wished they would all awaken at the same time.

Cassandra’s life that couldn’t be reset, she needed some means to deal with the demon at least or else the future of the country would be doomed.

It was a game world, so she couldn’t deny the possibility that it might loop over and over again somehow, but she thought that humans were only “alive” when they had continuity of memory.

If she forgot everything and started over, it would be the same as dying.

If she wanted to keep living as Cassandra without disappearing, she had no choice but to do something herself in the end.

She shouldn’t worry about unnecessary possibilities and despair on her own.

It was as futile as looking for a way back to her previous world, which was impossible to verify.

Don’t waver.

Let’s look for it.

A way to prevent the prince from becoming the last boss.

But it was also a fact that it wouldn’t end overnight if she tried to find only the target words from these too huge materials.

It was hard enough to look for books with relevant themes by checking their spines.

Thanks to them using the languages that were was used in Japan, there were many books with English titles as well.

This English was also a language adopted as an official language in some island country.

That island country had a more advanced culture than Clores, so many scholars in the kingdom admired it, and advanced papers-like texts were written entirely in English. It was a terrible reality that spread out before her eyes.

Cassandra had never felt anything wrong with the language system until now because it had been “made” according to exactly the same thing in both her previous and current lives.

So naturally Cassandra could also read and write English, or Fabre language as it was called in this world, as one of the foreign languages…

But translating paper-like stiff texts was impossible for her.

Let’s leave them alone.

She decided to ignore the foreign language titles for now and checked the Japanese titles one by one.

Maybe they weren’t on the history shelf, in that case she had to look through the religious shelf as well.

But Japanese was convenient. Thanks to the kanji, she could visually grasp what the words meant. It was a wonderful language.

She tried to sweep through the books on the bottom shelf, but she couldn’t find any titles that seemed relevant.

Maybe they weren’t on the history shelf after all…

There was a thud, as if something had fallen to the floor.

She was agitated right now, so she mocked herself that it was because of that that she heard a hallucination.

“…..”

Immediately after, she heard voices from where the noise had come from.

It was right behind the bookshelf where she was checking the spines, on the other side.

Cassandra stared at the towering bookshelf that far exceeded her height.

She lost to her curiosity and pretended to pass by the next row of bookshelves and glanced at them.

“Here is a library, be mindful of your surroundings.”

She gasped.

She didn’t know when he had come, but her guess was right and Sirius, the son of the prime minister and the prince’s aide, was standing there with his arms crossed and scolding them.

It seemed that he had caught the triplets whispering to each other and came to warn them. She had stumbled upon the scene where he was admonishing them.

The moment she saw him in her sight, she reflexively pulled back.

Dangerous.

She hadn’t been noticed yet… probably.

It would be very troublesome if he found out about her.

She had thought that Sirius would definitely come, but it was still surprising to see him actually come.

Was this a scenario, or should she call it a force of fate?

But…

She kept her distance from him as much as possible and hid her self.

She pretended to read a book near her hand, but her mind was completely focused on them.

He should have just warned them once and let it go, but he seemed to be in a bad mood and repeated his admonitions over and over again. That’s why he was annoying.

He liked to preach righteous arguments, and he seemed to think that he could say anything he wanted if the other party was wrong.

Basically, he was smart but sarcastic and cynical. That was his first impression, so it couldn’t be helped.

“Are you Sirius-sama?”

The triplets had identical voices.

But she could tell them apart by their tone of voice, intonation, and way of speaking.

She confronted Sirius without flinching. This was Rize.

“Hmph… Don’t misunderstand that I’ll overlook you because you’re a scholarship student. Who do you think you are without even introducing yourself?”

“Excuse me. My name is Rize. …I’ll ask you again, are you Sirius-sama?”

“Rize…?”

He seemed to change his reaction slightly.

“Do you remember the entrance exam? I was very confident. Especially in arithmetic, I thought I was close to perfect. I never thought there would be someone who scored higher than me. At that moment, I thought the world was wide. I’ll work hard for the next exam so I won’t lose to you. If you’re done with your business, please excuse me. Come on, Rina, Rita. Over here.”

She took another quick look at them and saw that Rize seemed to be shielding her sisters behind her as she faced Sirius.

She tried to escape from his scolding by taking their hands and leaving in front of him.

“Wait! What is that insolent attitude of yours!”

Sirius seemed a bit flustered and grabbed Rize’s shoulder as she tried to pass by him quickly.

He wanted to hear more details from her. She could tell that much.

He had never seen anyone who acted so defiantly against him in this country. He had been scolding them, but before he knew it, she slipped away and tried to escape. He was surprised by her actions.

But Rize made such a disgusted face that she wouldn’t make even if a caterpillar fell on her shoulder when he grabbed her shoulder.

Cassandra decided to show up in front of them pretending it was a coincidence because it seemed like it was a big deal.

“Good day, Sirius-sama. I wonder just what are you doing?”

She smiled sweetly and asked him that, and he seemed to finally realize what he was doing.

He moved away from Rize with a very agile movement that didn’t seem like him who was bad at sports.

She muttered in her mind that it would be nice if he could move that fast in swordsmanship or physical education classes.

“Miss Cassandra, why are you here?”

He had been seen by the worst person in the worst situation. He tried to smooth things over somehow even in that situation.

She had a hard time holding back her laughter when she noticed that his glasses had slipped a little.

If she wasn’t wearing a uniform, she would have spread her fan and covered her mouth.

She covered it with the tip of her palm.

“This is a library, isn’t it?”

What was wrong with being in a library that was open to all students?

She narrowed her eyes slightly.

She wondered what to do as she saw Sirius clearly flustered.

“Hm… That’s true. I was just scolding a student who was making noise without being mindful of the place they are in.”

He said as if there was nothing wrong with him at all.

He adjusted his glasses that had slipped a little and coughed deliberately.

“Oh my, oh my, so it was like that. You are truly Sirius-sama, the one who is a model for all students. So you were warning them and telling them that they must be careful about whispering in the library. They should understand, after all, it is a warning from Sirius-sama himself.”

She wanted to confront him directly about what he was trying to do by grabbing Rize’s shoulder.

But she hadn’t witnessed the encounter between the triplets and Sirius, and she couldn’t rule out the possibility that there was a serious flaw on Rize’s side in the initial exchange.

It would be troublesome if she provoked Sirius and made him more hostile than before.

She pretended she didn’t see anything and tried to sell him a favor.

“I was worried because I lost sight of them. Come on, let’s go.”

Sirius averted his eyes from her and walked away to the corridor behind him.

It was often the case that the person who said “shut up” was louder than the person who made the noise.

But if there was a reason for him to scold the triplets severely, she would also think that they did something bad to Sirius.

Well, what happened?

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“Rita dropped several books from the shelf and we were picking them up and checking where to put them back when that glasses… I mean, Sirius-sama came up to us with a sour look on his face. He started to pick on us and it was annoying. I tried to get away with some vague words but I didn’t expect him to use force. Thank you for saving us.”

After they left the hallway, Rize sighed and told her what had happened before Cassandra asked for confirmation.

It seemed that her first impression of Sirius was the worst because of his sour face.

What are you doing, Sirius?

I didn’t do anything but you tripped yourself over at the first impression stage.

“I am sorry~! It was my fault for being careless. Rina, are you okay? I missed it earlier, but is your foot red? It didn’t hit the corner of the book, did it?”

Rina gently stroked Rita’s head as she hung her head down.

Rize had high intelligence parameters at first.

But even so, she didn’t expect her to get so close to Sirius.

Come to think of it, she didn’t have to choose learning-related things in the initial schedule because she had high intelligence parameters. She should have been able to get into the top 10 in the final exam of the semester anyway.

She was about the same as Sirius at the entrance stage.

No wonder he was surprised.

He seemed to be concerned about a girl who could do well in school entering.

Of course, it was just an initial parameter. If she didn’t care about it, her rank would plummet in no time after the second semester.

The numbers were cruel.

It was a big advantage for Rize that she didn’t have to put learning-related things in her first schedule. She could use her schedule to adjust things like charm or physical strength.

It was hard to raise physical-related things and she struggled in the swordsmanship tournament, but it wasn’t a problem for now unless she aimed to be a musclehead.

She got more favorability from not only Sirius but also Jake and Ralph if she did well in the semester exams, so it was better to have a high rank.

She was pretty blessed.

“I’m really sorry for having you accompany me. I’m glad you weren’t hurt. I apologize for his words and actions as a member of the student council. Please forgive him.”

She bowed deeply to the three girls.

She was able to complete the mission of going to the library for now.

She had to go there when she had time

Rina apologized humbly and respectfully.

Rita looked around and tilted her head wondering why Cassandra apologized.

And after thinking silently for a while,

“I don’t want to be bothered by him again. Cassandra-sama, can you come with me when I have something to do at the library? It’s very reassuring.”

Rize said brightly.

She was happy to be invited.

She was very happy, but…

Cassandra wanted Rize to get along with Sirius as much as possible. So it was a very complicated feeling for her.