CH 53

“What”

“You’re cute.” Damian smiled, pinching my cheek slightly so that it wouldn’t hurt.

Ding!

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[It’s now!! Kiss him!!!!]

If I did such a thing to Damian’s meaningless skinship, my end would be assassinated by him. I didn’t even want to kiss him in the first place.

“Look. You’re making a blank face again.”

This wasn’t a blank expression but an expression of looking at the support window with an absurd remark written on it. I couldn’t explain it like that, so I just looked down at the magic book.

However, Damian wasn’t tired of playing with my hair and occasionally talked to me. “You said you were going to the Sun Palace this week, right? Aren’t you nervous?”

“It’s natural to be nervous.”

I’m afraid I’ll die.

Today was already Friday, and two days later I had to see the emperor. The thought of facing the crazy tyrant alone distracted me from reading the magic book.

It’ll be fine. It’ll be fine.

I was fine being in front of the archdemon but in front of the human emperor… I didn’t think I would be okay. Huhu. Since I received the invitation, I couldn’t avoid attending it.

I relaxed by studying magic that was useful in practice as much as possible in case of an unexpected situation. Damian got up first as I put the book in my bag.

“I think it’s almost time to start the lecture. Shall we go?”

“Yes, let’s go.”

When I got up after him, Damian held out his arm with a mischievous smile. “Link your arms around me, Lady. I’d like to escort you to the main building.”

I couldn’t help laughing at the sudden prank. Indeed, whatever the handsome men did was interesting. But apart from the pleasant feeling, I refused, pushing his arm away.

“No. Being seen by Mimosa will only hurt my head.”

Due to things like the student council and escort wizard these days, Mimosa was barking at me like an angry wild cat.

“Aah.”

Damian dropped his gaze obliquely as if he was contemplating something with a smile on his face. That was an expression of contemplating how to deal with an annoying opponent. And usually, when he made that expression, his choice always leaned toward the direction he was comfortable with, that is, to get rid of the annoying things.

Oh my. I quickly linked Damian’s arm to protect Mimosa. “On second thought, I don’t think I need to be troubled as I’m receiving an escort from my escort wizard.”

As I clung to his arm, Damian erased his gloomy eye and smiled brightly as if he had been given a sedative.

The emperor is not the only problem. This guy and that guy are all problems. It was my sin to make them like that. 

* * *

I stared at the olive-colored carriage with a dazzling presence from afar with cold eyes. If anyone sees it, they’ll think the imperial family has visited. I heard that the carriage itself had become legendary in Valhalla, not just a famous one.

In front of the legendary carriage, Libby, who was born as a noble lady, was surrounded by male students.

“What are you doing this weekend? Would you like to come to my house to play?”

“No, let’s go to the lake with me. It’s a nice day to go on a picnic.”

“Take this flower. I bought it because it looks like you.”

“When are you going to give me an answer to my confession?”

It looked like the side characters were having a war.

I got up close to them with an upright posture. Then Libby, who was troubled but still making a friendly expression, found me and was very happy.

“Sister!”

The male students shrugged their shoulders at the same time and looked at me stiffly. They looked so hazy that no one could be compared to Libby.

As I mentioned before, the protagonist is a being that requires an enormous amount of work cost. Of course, the work cost included labor costs. Naturally, my labor is included! It’s even tremendous!

Were the side characters, who were automatically generated, trying to seduce her even without knowing their subjects?

The male students hurriedly backed away with pale faces, probably reading my eyes full of murderous intent.

“I-is your sister here? Then I’ll be on my way!”

As they left in a hurry, Libby tilted her head and soon approached me with a bright smile. “This is the first time we’re going home together like this!”

“Yes.”

I climbed into the carriage, watching the surroundings with a wary eye for anyone trying to approach Libby. “From now on, if any annoying guys approach, use me as an excuse. Most of them will back off on their own.”

At a time like that, you have to use Theresa’s notoriety. When else will you use it?  

Libby laughed as if she thought I was joking.

Come to think of it, the current Libby can love someone even if that person isn’t necessarily the male protagonist.

Honestly, the male protagonists have the charm of wanting to make you conquer them in the game. Still, in reality, they were characters who made your life difficult when you got involved with them.

So I became curious. “Libby, do you have any ideal type?”

“Ideal type?”

Maybe it was an unexpected question, but Libby tilted her head and put on a serious, worried expression.

“I like someone who is honest, quirky, and friendly.”

There aren’t any male protagonists like that… All of them were gloomy and tyrannical guys hidden behind their masks.

“Really? But I don’t think there’s anyone like that…”

When I mumbled troublingly, Libby replied cheerfully. “There is! It’s Sister. I like someone like Sister.” Then she laughed about what was good.

I narrowed my brows. It’s a big deal. Libby’s eyes are really worse. Theresa wasn’t honest but rude, she wasn’t quirky but downright bizarre, and she walked a completely opposite path from friendly.

Ah. Is she referring to me after possessing Theresa? Even so, looking back on what I did when I was with Libby so far, I wasn’t different from Theresa. I showed her nothing but bickering with my father and fighting with my friends.

It was when I threw my eyes out the window in confusion. “…Giuseppe?”

Outside the window, I happened to see Giuseppe surrounded by boys taller than him. I knocked the carriage to stop before I could even think about what the situation would be like. It doesn’t look like a good situation at all.

“What’s going on, Sister?”

“Giuseppe is there.”

There was no time to explain further. Just looking at the atmosphere, it seemed that one-sided bullying would happen at any moment.

As I approached the boys, I began to hear them arguing with each other in high-pitched voices. I tried to call Giuseppe.

“You’re not close to Princess Theresa.”

Until the boys mentioned me.

Do his friends have to talk about me when they’re fighting? As I approached them curiously, I heard their words more clearly.

“They said you would be the next duke. How are you going to beat your older sister, who controls the magical creature? You can’t even purify the monster!”

“Shut up!”

“My dad said that you will be kicked out if the princess becomes the successor. Everyone knows that Princess Theresa hated her new family so much!”

“I told you to shut up!”

Giuseppe finally tried to cast magic, and the boys responded as if they had waited.

Many nobles saw this situation as it was a shopping district with high-end shops. Things would get out of control if the shopping district or nobles got caught up in this fight.

I put my index finger on my lips. “Shh.”

This was a magic spell that destroyed the existing form. In order to use magic as simple as setting a hotkey, it had been improved as simply as possible through a few actions and short language.

“Ub? Uub?!”

The boys were confused when their lips, which were about to chant a spell, suddenly stuck together.

“Now, cancel everyone’s magic.”

And this was the second method I was developing. To use magic as if talking straight away.

Existing magic had to give specific commands through the most precise language. In order to use the same magic conventionally, an incantation such as ‘O magical power, cease thy creation and disappear!’ was required.

This method also works in practice.

I approached the boys and moved my fingers from side to side. “Attention. You can talk now.”

“…Oh, I can speak now!”

Giuseppe was also controlled by my magic, so as soon as he found me, he shouted with a furious look. “What are you doing! Release me right now!”

“No. If I release you, you might fight again with magic.”

After saying that, I smiled at the boys, who were staring at me with a stunned look. “Hi?”

The boys looked at me with bewildered expressions and burst into admiration.

“Uh…”

“Wow…”

Just then, Libby came to my side. “What’s going on?”

The boys looked at Libby and made another admiration.

Ding!

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