Chapter 9
It was directly mentioned in the novel.
「Karin is an expert at grasping the psychology of her opponent and manipulating their weaknesses.」
In fact, Karin, who noticed that the female protagonist was slightly different from ordinary humans, began to bind her with that as an excuse.
‘The female protagonist suffered a lot, but what about an extra like me in the early stages……’
It was dizzying just imagining it.
If it was revealed that I was a transmigrator, something truly irreversible would happen.
I clenched my lips.
My body was already trembling.
I decided to throw away any logical and rational attitude since I had done something suspicious.
‘The answer is a tantrum!’
Right now, I’m not an a*ult whose head spins well, but a child whose psychology is clearly revealed on her face.
I chose to act like a child.
“I wike Sir Viaton.”
“Sir Viaton and I teach different subjects.”
Since I couldn’t hide my hostility towards Karin, I decided to just reveal it openly.
“No. I wike Sir Viaton the most, the most.”
“……”
“Go over there!”
I expressed my will with tightly closed lips.
“Then does that mean Your Highness cannot acknowledge me as your teacher?”
“Yesh. Bring Sir Viaton!”
It wasn’t that I couldn’t throw a tantrum.
This body always craved tantrums, and I had suppressed them with reason.
Now, tantrum, give me the beat.
“Waaaaah!”
I started to cry loudly.
My instincts, which had been suppressed until now, erupted like an active volcano.
Karin just stared at me without any expression.
Those pink eyes were scary.
‘Oh, but, wait a minute.’
A thought crossed my mind.
In the original work, the one who stops Karin is Arun.
‘For Arun to awaken, I have to bully him, right?’
The original work is about the boy Arun, who was severely bullied by the villainess Isabel, awakening and becoming the strongest in the world.
‘But I’m not going to bully him?’
Then the male protagonist might not awaken.
Even if he does awaken, he won’t have any resentment towards the Sword Empire, so he won’t attack the Bilotian Imperial Palace.
‘Then? Arun won’t become the Emperor?’
The reason Karin confronted Arun was because Arun was the future Emperor of Bilotian.
Then there would be no reason for Karin and Arun to fight.
‘In the end, it means there’s no male protagonist to stop the final villain?’
If that happens, there’s a high possibility that my family will have to fight this final villain in the future.
‘Shouldn’t I just leave her alone?’
Like in the novel, she’ll gain power and appear as the final villain in the future.
Karin’s goal is to rule the whole world.
Whoever becomes the Emperor of Bilotian, they will eventually clash.
‘Maybe it’s safer to keep her by my side……?’
There are originally two strongest beings in the world.
One is my dad, and the other is the male protagonist.
However, Dad weakens after losing Mom.
‘If I live a good life, Dad won’t lose Mom, and then he won’t weaken, right?’
Dad is almost the only person who can confront the final villain, excluding the male protagonist.
A healthy Dad won’t stand by and watch Karin’s transgression.
‘Ugh, what should I do?’
Should I just pretend I don’t know?
Anyway, she’ll start her activities in earnest 20 years from now.
By then, I won’t be in this world anymore……
‘But still……’
I received a gift of 21 years.
I thought it would be nice to leave something behind in this world, even if it’s not something grand.
‘Okay. I’ve decided.’
I have to protect my family.
I thought that might be proof of the gift I received.
It felt like my life would have a little more meaning.
“It seems difficult to proceed with education like this. Magic is difficult to proceed with unless deep and intimate interaction between the teacher and student precedes……”
“I’m all done cwying.”
I calmly wiped away my tears.
‘Strangely, it’s well-controlled.’
When I thought about protecting my family, it was easier to control myself.
I smiled brightly.
‘A baby can deal with the final villain in a baby’s way.’
My actions seemed very unfamiliar to Karin.
“……Pardon?”
“If I wike teacher fwom the beginning, Sir Viaton will be sad.”
Hehe- I smiled brightly.
Even I thought my appearance in the mirror was really pretty and lovely.
I was truly born with a fantastic face.
“I wike pwetty unni.”
I held out my hand.
“Isabel will study hard. Teacher.”
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Viaton, who was eavesdropping outside, was covering his mouth with his hand and laughing.
“Hehehe.”
Isabel usually doesn’t complain. But she was crying, asking for Sir Viaton.
“I’m very happy.”
It would have been a little disappointing if Isabel had welcomed the new teacher without any hesitation.
He spoke to an attendant who was doing chores in the hallway.
“Did you see? Did you hear? Did you realize?”
“Pardon?”
“Her Highness is throwing a tantrum.”
The attendant didn’t have good hearing like Viaton, so he couldn’t understand what he was saying.
He just laughed awkwardly.
“Ha, haha! I, I didn’t……!”
“Her Highness is famous for not throwing tantrums. That means I’m that much needed by Her Highness.”
Viaton took out a gold coin from his pocket and handed it to the attendant.
It was his 3 days’ worth of salary.
Although his torn uniform was patched up, this feeling was a kind of joy that had to be expressed.
“Take it, as it’s a monumental day.”
The attendant, who tasted capital, immediately perked up his ears and opened his mouth.
“I saw and heard it clearly.”
“Right?”
“I remember Her Highness repeatedly saying she missed Sir Viaton.”
“Hehehe. That’s only natural.”
Viaton believed the tongue tamed by capital.
He moved his steps with great joy.
Viaton waved to the attendant and walked away. So he didn’t hear Isabel’s next words.
“Karin. No matter how great a mage you are, Her Highness’s heart is already mine.”
He muttered softly.
“I don’t have to k*ll you.”
Although no one saw it, the madness of his Sword Demon days flickered in his eyes.
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‘Why am I learning magic?’
I don’t know the reason, but Karin said she would teach me magic.
She said she was a carefully selected magic teacher or something.
‘Did Isabel learn magic in the original work?’
A princess of the Sword Empire learning magic.
It’s not that it’s impossible, but it wasn’t a familiar sight.
‘It won’t matter.’
In the past few days, I made up my mind.
I judged that winning the heart of the final villain, Karin, was impossible from the beginning.
Because a psychopath or sociopath without emotions is her basic setting.
‘At least I’m going to make her let her guard down.’
Fortunately, I was a very young child.
Even I thought I was breathtakingly cute.
As soon as Karin came in, I quickly ran and closed the door.
“Your Highness?”
I lowered my voice very softly.
I looked around and put my index finger to my lips, shushing.
“……”
“It’sh jelly. I shaved it. Peach fwavored.”
I smiled innocently.
Even I thought this melting smile was the most powerful weapon I had.
“I hid it to give it to teacher.”
They say that to gain favor, you have to give a gift first.
Starting with this, I asked Karin about this and that.
“How old are you?”
Karin was 22 years old this year.
“Why is your name Karin?”
Or,
“When did you start learning magic?”
Or,
“What food do you wike?”
Or so on.
I asked Karin many trivial questions.
In my own way, they were questions to gather information about Karin.
Karin answered all my questions with a good-natured smile.
Her tone was gentle, and her demeanor was always graceful.
‘Really, you can’t tell just by looking at her.’
Who would know that this unni is the final villain?
It was fortunate that I read the novel.
One day, Karin asked me.
“But I heard that Your Highness knows about the Mark of Narvidal?”
I thought, it’s finally here.
In the future, Karin uses the ‘Curse of Narvidal’ to put the female protagonist in mortal danger.
Although it wasn’t explained in detail, it was said that Karin conducted a lot of research related to ‘Narvidal’.
There was also content that she used many people as experimental subjects in the process.
Perhaps her approach to me was also for the purpose of researching ‘Narvidal’.
I answered with a little tension.
“Yesh. I know.”
“What is it?”
“It’sh when you become an a*ult, you d*e.”
“Do you understand what death is?”
“It’sh saying bye-bye to the people you cherwish.”
“Don’t you feel scared or sad when you think about that?”
“Hmm, hmm.”
I shook my head.
It’s a life I got for free anyway. It was a gift to me.
“Isabel ish wiving a gift.”
“……”
“So I’m thankful and happy.”
Karin’s pink eyes turned to me.
Wow, if you only look at her eyes, you would think she’s a good person.
I almost lost my composure without realizing it.
“Meeting Teacher Karin ish also a gift. So Isabel ish not sad.”
It was true.
Karin 20 years from now will be much more terrifying than she is now.
It was fortunate that I met her now.
“But if I weave, will people be sad? I don’t wike being sad, but I don’t wike it if they’re not sad either.”
“……”
“Ish Isabel a bad child?”
“……”
“Huh?”
But something was strange.
‘What’s wrong with her?’
Something that couldn’t happen according to the novel’s setting began to happen.
