It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 1

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A female protagonist who’s gone dark is overwhelmingly convenient
#Prologue

Kwon Do-yo, who had just finished reading in short, immediately opened the review window.
Then, after leaving one star, she began typing furiously.
└Insane (negative) novel
This was truly an insane novel.
└The entire novel is just one massive miscarriage of justice because the female protagonist won’t say “no”
Was the Academy really this desolate to begin with?
Of course it’s desolate—she just goes “yes, yes” to everything!
「”Daisy, could you deliver a letter to your brother?”
“Yes, senior.”
“Daisy, I’m swamped—could you do this assignment for me?”
“Sure, I’ll do it.”
“Daisy, excellent research. Could you explain it in detail? You don’t know anyone else who could help, right?”
“No, Professor.”
“Daisy, I love you. Will you marry me?”
“Sure, I’ll do it.”
“Daisy, we need you to protect the family name.”
“Yes, Father.”
“Daisy Sablehart, do you acknowledge your crime?”
“……Yes.”」
└I’m the one whose life is desolate for having read all this just wondering when she’ll finally say “no” instead of in the Academy.
After typing that much, Kwon Do-yo’s rage finally subsided, and she flopped back onto her bed.
The clock had already crept past three in the morning.
Ugh, in four hours I have to be at work. Is this real?
Her eyes grew heavy in an instant as Kwon Do-yo lay thinking.
Why did I read this trash right before work and give myself stress-induced illness…….
I wish I could go there and just tell her “no” for her, seriously.
Stupid Daisy.
* * *
That night, Kwon Do-yo dreamed.
She dreamed she had become Daisy.
“You’re Daisy Sablehart?”
A pretty upper-class student holding a letter asked gently.
“You’re Kailan’s younger sister? I have a favor to ask.”
She knew who this girl was.
“Could you deliver this to Kailan?”
The woman who had been rejected by Daisy’s brother Kailan and out of spite had cursed the letter before sending it.
That curse worked so well Kailan suffered throughout the entire novel.
“You’ll deliver it, right?”
And what happened to Daisy?
For the crime of delivering the letter, she became the endless target of Kailan’s resentment.
Now that I think about it again, it makes my blood boil.
Sigh.
Kwon Do-yo—no, Daisy—brushed her bangs back defiantly and lifted her head to answer.
“No.”
“What? Thank you— Wait, what?”
“I’d rather not.”
“What do you mean…?! You’ve delivered everyone else’s letters just fine! Why suddenly…….”
“I’m not doing it anymore.”
“Wait, hold on……!”
“If you love her so much, deliver it yourself.”
Leave me out of it, and the two of you can be wonderful enemies together.
After refusing and turning her back, Kwon Do-yo clenched her fists with her eyes shut.
Her chest felt just a little lighter.
And that whole day, Kwon Do-yo, living as Daisy, rejected everything.
Literally everything.
‘What’s your name?’
‘No.’
‘Want to grab dinner together?’
‘No.’
‘Will you come to the opening ceremony?’
‘No.’
‘I hope we end up in the same dorm!’
‘No.’
Wow, that was thrilling!
That evening, Kwon Do-yo returned to the temporary dormitory room and threw herself onto a mattress far softer than the one in her studio apartment, breaking into a wide smile.
And closed her eyes.
Thinking that after a dream this satisfying, she really ought to buy a lottery ticket tomorrow…….
* * *
The next morning, Kwon Do-yo opened her eyes in excellent spirits and noticed the canopy attached to the bed, which made her pause.
That’s odd… Why haven’t I woken up yet?
#1
Chapter 1. The Opening Ceremony
Of course.
She’d transmigrated.
“…….”
She wasn’t particularly shocked.
If anything, she felt as though something inevitable had finally arrived.
And well it should have—Kwon Do-yo had been waiting for an acceptance letter from Xgwart Academy since she was ten years old.
A magic school, you say?
Thank you, God!
This time I’ll have perfect attendance and top grades!
Physics never suited me, but I think magic will be right up my alley!
Xrmione? I’ll give that a shot myself!
But despite the aspirations she’d always harbored in her heart, the Kwon Do-yo staring back at her from the mirror didn’t look particularly happy.
In the mirror stood a girl with remarkably beautiful features.
Hair that shimmered like platinum, bright as a jewel.
Beneath long, delicate lashes, emerald eyes blinked wide and luminous.
A nose neither too large nor too small, and lips full and rosy.
Each element of her face seemed designed to draw the eye.
Yet she didn’t stand out particularly, thanks to her meek expression and the impression of being calm—almost bored.
Kwon Do-yo knew this girl well.
Daisy Sablehart.
The female protagonist—and victim—of “Was the Academy Always This Bleak?”
“Damn it.”
Kwon Do-yo gripped her hair roughly.
The beautiful girl in the mirror did the same, grasping the golden strands.
Oh God.
I never asked for Xgwart Academy.
Well, I did ask a little.
But Eldvaine Academy? Absolutely not!
Because at Eldvaine Academy, Daisy Sablehart…….
“Dies……!”
* * *
What kind of insane novel has the female lead dying?
This one.
Readers who’d been fooled by the lighthearted title “Was the Academy Always This Bleak?” had all left spitting blood.
Stay away… Don’t read it…
Intrigued by the sight of these suffering readers crawling across the floor, others came to investigate.
What’s this about? Let me just take a quick look!
They too spat blood.
What is this… something’s wrong…
Kwon Do-yo had been caught in this strange pyramid scheme where no one was selling but everyone kept buying—just like everyone else.
Help! The curiosity here is going to kill someone!
The novel’s premise was simple.
Daisy Sablehart, so good-natured she could never say no, enrolls at Eldvaine Academy, meets every conceivable scoundrel and villain, suffers every imaginable torment, and ultimately dies—falsely accused of crimes she didn’t commit.
All because she couldn’t bring herself to say a single word: no.
By the time Kwon Do-yo reached the ending, she no longer pitied Daisy—not one bit.
This one was mad too.
There’d never been a stubbornness quite like this.
Daisy.
‘Saying no’ doesn’t bring the world crashing down…….
But answer ‘yes’ and you’re the one who collapses…….
* * *
Before the mirror, Gwon Do-yo pinched Daisy’s youthful cheeks.
The last traces of baby fat compressed like mochi.
The skin… really is lovely.
“This is dying,” she said.
In the glass, Daisy’s pretty face scrunched and puckered, yet remained gentle as ever.
Of course, with Gwon Do-yo looking out through those eyes, the glinting emerald irises occasionally turned quite fierce.
When she lowered her gaze, the gentle expression dimmed slightly into something somber.
Gwon Do-yo felt a twinge of unease.
Had Daisy always worn this face when she said ‘yes’?
For all that she’d endured, she looked far too young.
“Right, the entrance ceremony is today, isn’t it?”
Yesterday she’d been too busy saying ‘no’ to everything to pay much attention, but today was indeed the entrance ceremony for Eldvain Academy.
After the ceremony came dormitory assignments.
And once the dormitory assignments were made… withdrawal was out of the question.
Because to withdraw from Eldvain Academy required a meeting with the dorm supervisor, then a meeting with one’s academic adviser, then a meeting with the department head, then a meeting with the vice-principal, followed by a brief period of reconsideration, and finally a meeting with the principal in the presence of one’s parents.
That’s right.
It was actually faster to graduate.
…….
Gwon Do-yo, pressing her temples against the distant throb in her skull, suddenly lifted her head.
“Wait.”
Did she actually have to enroll?
Gwon Do-yo thought back on Daisy’s family.
The Sable Heart Earl, for whom the family name meant everything in the world, and who treated Daisy as if she didn’t exist because she was useless to his ambitions!
The eldest brother, Kale, student council president who never lost top honors in his class, yet despised Daisy more than anyone!
The second brother, Chester, infamous for his dissolute ways, who picked fights with Daisy whenever he saw her!
This family arrangement conveyed precisely one message.
“No one would care if she didn’t enroll.”
She could say no.
So then?
To this academy: No!
Gwon Do-yo clenched her fist tight.
“In that case, I’m getting out of here.”
Survival rule number one for hellhole situations.
Escape from the wreckage.
Gwon Do-yo resolved to leave the villain’s nest that was Eldvain Academy and live quietly, alone.
Daisy pulled a black cloak over her shoulders and gathered every coin she had.
It wasn’t much, plainly, but she didn’t worry.
She was confident she could manage somehow.
Gwon Do-yo had lived that way all along.
“Good.”
Plan A: Slip out of the academy while everyone’s attention is on the entrance ceremony!
“Okay!”
Bang!
With determined spirit, Gwon Do-yo threw open the bedroom door, then immediately shut it again.
Crash!
Her heart hammered in her chest.
What was that? What just happened?
“Daisy!”
As if answering her inner thoughts, a cheerful voice rang out from beyond the door.
“Let’s go to the entrance ceremony!”
Plan B: Jump out the window and run for it!
Gwon Do-yo locked the door and rushed toward the window.
Bang.
Whoosh!
The sharp sea breeze swept in alongside the view of sheer cliffs dropping away beneath the window.
One misstep and it was a straight fall to death.
What kind of lunatic puts a building in a place like this?
“Daisy! We’re going to be late!”
…….
Plan C: Take out whoever’s standing in front of the door first, then proceed from there.
Bang!
Daisy wrenched open the bedroom door and found herself facing a boy.
Taller than her by half a head, the lanky youth had well-groomed sandy hair and striking amber eyes.
“Good morning, Daisy! You look absolutely beautiful today—!”
“Who are you?”
Kwon Do-yo asked without preamble.
The boy tilted his head at the question for a moment before answering.
“Don’t you remember? We met yesterday!”
“Your name.”
“S-Sedric Oscilth.”
Sedric Oscilth, then…….
Ah, now she remembered.
The mosquito bastard with the handsome face who used that charm to siphon assignments and notes from earnest, clever girls—a parasite in human form.
And naturally, who had he fastened onto first with his insatiable appetite?
Daisy, of course.
For the record, Kwon Do-yo had a name for him.
“This Sedric Mosquito you—”
“Huh? It’s Oscilth, not Mosquito.”
Sedric corrected her with a nauseating smile, waving his long fingers in a hurry.
“Anyway, we’re going to be late. Let’s go to the entrance ceremony together.”
At that syrupy voice,
「”Sure, let’s go.”」
Daisy would normally have flashed him a bright smile and said just that.
“No. I don’t want to.”
“What?”
“I’m going alone. Don’t follow me.”
She had no intention of letting this mosquito sink his straw any deeper into her.
Kwon Do-yo left Sedric standing there with a blank stare and made her way down the corridor.
Yes, that’s right—stay away from Daisy’s life forever.
Having shaken off the mosquito with ease, Kwon Do-yo threw a black cloak over her shoulders.
Now she just had to make it out of the academy.
She heard what sounded like a mosquito buzzing somewhere behind her, but she ignored it without a second thought.
* * *
Finding the academy’s exit was simple enough.
[→exit→]
Old brass plaques marking the location of the exit were posted throughout the academy.
‘For a place this insane, they’re actually being quite considerate…….’
Kwon Do-yo moved quickly, her footsteps silent.
As she rounded a corner, the academy’s exit came into view.
There wasn’t even anyone guarding it.
Without lowering her guard until the very last moment, Kwon Do-yo reached the exit and clenched her fist in triumph.
Thank heaven, thank you! So there was a conscience in this place after all!
That’s right—if you’re going to trap someone in an insane hellhole of a place, you’d better at least give them a way out!
With that thought, Kwon Do-yo stepped through the exit.
Whoosh!
As she passed through, her body dropped—and she felt something soft and plush meet her backside.
As if she’d just sat down in a chair.
Wait. A chair?
“……Huh?”
Kwon Do-yo’s head snapped up.
“What—what is this?”
A vast colosseum stretched before her, its stands filled with hundreds of seats.
“Why am I here……?”
“I was just looking for the way out……?”
Around him, a cluster of bewildered freshmen wore the same dazed expression.
In other words, Gwon Do-yo was currently sitting in the entrance ceremony hall.
Wearing a black cloak over his head.
“Chuckle, I got lost, you see.”
Someone laughed heartily at Daisy’s words.
When Daisy turned toward the sound, he nearly fainted.
‘Wings?’
There was an angel standing before his eyes.
Or more precisely, a glittering creature with wings.
And this was no metaphor.
A strikingly handsome young man with long, snow-white hair cascading to his waist truly did have wings thickly embedded with pale feathers, and his skin gleamed brilliantly.
Like a diamond caught in light.
The winged glitterer spoke, his violet eyes shimmering.
“The academy is quite sprawling, you see. The moment you get lost and wander into some strange place, a spell whisks you back to this hall.”
Damn.
“And whenever it’s time to begin the entrance ceremony, you’re summoned without fail. Let’s see, what time is it…….”
The winged glitterer gazed intently at his bare wrist and spoke.
“Right now, it is.”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
In that instant, a strange summoning sound echoed in quick succession, and empty seats filled instantly.
“Aaahhhhh!”
A boy who had been wearing a shower robe and shaking out his wet hair shrieked, clutching a towel over his gaping chest.
Snap.
The glitterer snapped his fingers, transforming the boy’s clothes into a school uniform, then winked cheekily at Daisy.
…….
It was then that he found himself staring at the scene with dull displeasure.
A man stepped onto the platform.
A frail-looking man wearing pointed green spectacles and draped in an orange cloak of microfiber like a blanket activated a volume-amplifying magical device.
“Good morning, I am Orphelias Murdergus, Vice-Principal of Eldvain Academy.”
The man’s gentle voice echoed through the entrance ceremony hall.
“Due to the Principal’s, ahem, difficulty in attending the ceremony, I shall relay the welcoming address via communication orb instead.”
Didn’t he just say that?
As the freshmen whispered among themselves, the Vice-Principal placed a round glass sphere before the volume-amplifying magical device.
Soon after, the glass sphere began shimmering with rainbow light.

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