It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 12

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A corrupted female lead is overwhelmingly convenient.
#12
“Now that we’ve seen the dormitory hall, let me show you to the bedrooms!”
Sparkle pointed toward the entrance as she spoke.
The shabby door with its crooked nameplate had somehow transformed into a weighty, antique portal adorned with ornate gold plating.
Of course, the interior was still a labyrinth.
But unlike the maze through which we’d wandered in frantic confusion, the path here was remarkably straightforward.
Gregor was nowhere to be seen, and the humid, damp air had given way to something clear and crisp.
Though it was still dark.
Daisy observed the crystal lamps stationed throughout the corridor, the soft carpet underfoot, and the exotic ornaments placed at each turn, and found herself wondering.
What on earth had they sold to afford all this?
Eventually, as we crossed the once-treacherous corridor—now peacefully navigable, free from the monsters that had pursued us—a massive door came into view.
“This is the dormitory’s common room,” Sparkle announced proudly.
She opened the door with a flourish.
And at the sight that unfolded before us, Daisy’s group…….
“…….”
“…….”
“It’s truly magnificent!”
The dormitory common room was just as resplendent as the hall.
A dazzling chandelier.
Antique leather sofas.
A marble table so polished a fly would slip on it.
Even a black fireplace with purple flames crackling and dancing upward.
It was less a space for teenagers to relax and more the kind of atmosphere where underground mafia dons would sip whisky in perfect comfort.
Still, that much was fine.
For all its strangeness, it was undeniably beautiful.
But when Daisy’s eyes fell upon the enormous tapestry hanging where a window should have been—a fixture conspicuously absent in an underground space—she had to close her eyes for a moment.
A wave of dizziness washed over her.
The tapestry depicted Ursus and his companions vanquishing the monsters of the underground labyrinth.
The monsters of the underground labyrinth.
Yes.
And there, life-size, was Gregor himself being cleaved in two by Ursus’s blade.
“A splendid tapestry indeed! A master craftsman stitched every thread!”
So why stitch a 180-centimeter teacher stitch by stitch, she wanted to ask.
“Now, time for bed!”
“…….”
“…….”
Winged Sparkle beamed at the children, whose faces had gone pale at the sight of the tapestry.
“Both sides have bedrooms. The left is for boys, the right is for girls.”
“Can we go explore?”
Milo Everett raised his hand and asked.
Winged Sparkle answered with a warm laugh.
“I’m afraid I have sad news for you. One student who ‘mistakenly’ mixed up the boys’ and girls’ dormitories has been locked in the underground dungeon for twenty-eight years.”
“…….”
“…….”
“So the girls’ dormitory is on the right?” Daisy asked calmly, double-checking.
She needed to be absolutely certain.
“Indeed it is. The bedroom doors will have nameplates. Two students per room,” Winged Sparkle replied helpfully.
Then she clapped her hands together and spoke once more.
“You’ve all been truly remarkable and I’m so proud of you! Now get some rest.”
Clap clap clap clap.
As Winged Sparkle applauded, Daisy and Monica headed right, while Milo and Straud headed left.
“Ugh, I’m exhausted…….”
With each step closer to bed, drowsiness crashed over her in waves.
Daisy’s room was just next to Monica’s.
“……mm.”
Monica lingered awkwardly in front of her door, the memory of their final confrontation in the dormitory hall seeming to linger in her expression.
Daisy paid it no mind and opened her own door.
Either way, now that she’d found a bed, sleep was all that mattered…….
“Seableheart.”
“Hah, what is it?”
At that moment, hearing her name called, Daisy couldn’t hide her annoyed expression and turned her head.
“…How did you know?”
“Know what?”
“That I had to stay in the collapsing dormitory hall like that.”
Daisy looked at Monica.
Monica’s dark eyes, free of any drowsiness, held a hint of embarrassment warring with overwhelming curiosity.
It was a bit uncomfortable, but there was no reason not to explain.
“I lost the poker.”
“The poker?”
“Yeah, I dropped it the first time the hall collapsed. But since it wasn’t there, I figured there had to be something underneath the collapsing dormitory hall.”
“That’s all?”
“That’s all.”
“And if there had been nothing?”
Monica frowned as she asked.
“If I would’ve just been crushed?”
Daisy looked at Monica, whose hair hung disheveled and whose school uniform had turned to tatters, and spoke.
“Then I would’ve been crushed, that’s all.”
“Both of us too?”
……
Daisy fell silent for a moment.
Right.
She hadn’t thought about it then, but Monica’s question had struck a nerve.
Why had she wanted to drag them along too?
They didn’t care whether they traversed the labyrinth again or not—all she needed to do was throw herself into the collapsing dormitory hall alone……
“Well, that answers my question anyway.”
Realizing Daisy was deliberately avoiding a direct answer, Monica shrugged and spoke.
“At least we made it to the dormitory because of it.”
Then, after studying Daisy for a moment, she continued.
“You’re strange.”
“Suddenly picking a fight?”
“It doesn’t match the information I have. Why is that?”
“You probably gathered your information wrong.”
Daisy replied curtly.
But Monica stubbornly shook her head.
“No. According to the information, Daisy Seableheart was never like this. You’re like… a different person entirely.”
This girl’s sharper than I thought……
“But you can’t be a different person. That would mean the information was wrong, but where could the error have come from……”
Having asked herself and answered her own question, Monica sank into deep thought, murmuring something inaudible.
Daisy, watching Monica rattle off incomprehensible words about data contamination and obsolescence, let out a long yawn and turned away.
“Whatever.”
It was over anyway.
They’d happened to meet in the labyrinth and had traversed it together, but she had no intention of continuing that relationship.
Don’t forget.
‘Live quietly and ordinarily, alone.’
With a firm resolve to leap into the collapsing dormitory hall alone next time, Daisy went into the bedroom.
“God, I’m exhausted.”
The seemingly infinite stamina of her teenage years had long since run dry.
Daisy scraped together what little energy remained, washed up, shoved her school uniform into the closet, and collapsed face-first onto the nearest bed.
I wonder if he passed too……
As her face sank into the soft pillow, a firm chest suddenly came to mind.
Large hands.
Eyes of pale gray.
A beautiful yet austere face.
“Felix Arderon……”
With that soft murmur of the unfamiliar boy’s name, sleep crashed down upon her like death itself.
Chapter 4. Basic Magic Lessons
Beep! Beep-beep-beep-beep! Beep-beep-la-beep-beep! Beep-beep-la-beep-beep! Beep-beep-beep!
Hack.
Jolted awake by the ear-splitting alarm, Daisy bolted upright.
He buried his face back into the pillow.
“Ugh, I’m sore all over.”
His entire body ached as though it had been beaten.
Beep! Beep-beep-beep-beep! Beep-beep-beep-beep…!
Daisy reached out habitually to silence the loud alarm, fumbling across the nightstand.
His phone….
But his fingers caught on nothing.
Did he leave it behind?
“That doesn’t make sense….”
He’d definitely finished that miserable overtime yesterday….
….
In that instant, a flash of realization struck him, and Daisy’s head snapped up.
Right. He wasn’t working late—he was wandering a Labyrinth.
It was a sentence that defied all sense no matter how he thought about it, yet it was true.
And not just any Labyrinth, but one where Gregor Samsa himself was chasing him.
A lunatic academy.
The words tumbled out almost habitually now, and Daisy looked around the room.
The bedroom had no windows, and darkness pressed in.
“Where’s the light switch….”
That was when it happened.
A small brass plate he hadn’t noticed began to glow brightly in the darkness.
[→Light Switch→]

There was something oddly familiar about it.
As if he’d seen something like that before….
“….”
As he stared at it motionless, the brass plate gleamed as if to say, “I’m here.”
Daisy slid down from the high bed and moved toward where the plate shone.
Sure enough, there was a light switch right beside it.
The brass plate glimmered with what might almost be called satisfaction.
Wait—satisfaction?
Daisy rubbed his eyes and immediately shook his head.
He must have been seeing things.
Click!
The ceiling fixture blazed to life, and the bedroom revealed itself.
The opposite bed stood empty.
His roommate apparently hadn’t made it through the Labyrinth yet.
The high bed was dressed in silk sheets and hung with heavy brocade curtains between the posts—a deep purple hue.
The design was antiquated, hardly suited to children.
Beside the bed sat a small table, and next to that stood a heavy oak desk.
Again, the furnishings seemed far too old-fashioned for young students.
Daisy spotted a piece of paper on the desk and picked it up.
It was a schedule.
(Monday, 1st Period, 9:00—12:00)
Foundational Magic, Professor Janet Hauer
Magic Hall 6
“….”
His heart began to race.
The dream of Hermione that he’d forgotten in the chaos of the Labyrinth came rushing back.
Magic… what if he turned out to be really good at it?
Then came a voice.

A voice so cheerful it was grating for this hour of the morning suddenly echoed through the room—Sparkle’s voice.
He really should have taken care of that yesterday….
Heedless of Daisy’s sincere regret, Sparkle continued in an even more buoyant tone.

This wasn’t a military barracks.

Sparkle’s annoying smile—with those ridiculous wings—came through in the drawl of her voice.

Click.
The connection dropped.
“You’re saying I’ll come out? What do you mean by—”
Then, suddenly, Daisy remembered the boy who had appeared at the entrance ceremony in a shower robe.
“Damn it, where’s my new uniform—!”
[↓New uniform↓]
A small brass plate gleamed atop the wardrobe, as if it had been waiting all along.

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