It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 14

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A corrupted heroine is overwhelmingly convenient.
#14
Q. Describe your feelings when you realized the gum you were chewing was actually rubber.
Daisy stared at the nameplate before her, her jaw clenched.
[Room 333]
Why on earth did room 333 come after room 5?
Finding room 5 in the first place hadn’t been easy.
Nameplates hung on spots that didn’t even look like doors, and staircases scattered throughout jumped two or three floors at a time.
When you climbed them, you’d suddenly find signs reading 17 or 260.
After finally stumbling onto room 5, the next one was 333—what kind of madness was this?
“This place is completely insane.”
Muttering curses at a school devoid of any semblance of convenience, Daisy gripped her neatly braided hair so hard her knuckles whitened.
Despite leaving early, the clock was already creeping toward 8:50.
“Damn it, where the hell is Magic Room 6…….”
At that moment, a faint tinkling sound came from the wall.
Daisy turned toward the sound and let out a vacant noise.
“Huh?”
She’d spotted an ancient brass plate, its mounting date unknown.
What the brass plate bore was this:
[→Magic Room 6→]
The brass plate, which looked as though it had been hanging there for several centuries, was now pointing her toward exactly where she wanted to go.
Daisy’s brow furrowed with an unsettling sense of déjà vu.
Yes, she’d seen something like this before.
Like this morning, when she was searching for the light switch and bathroom in her dormitory room.
Last night, when she was looking for a place to hide from that enormous Gregor in the labyrinth.
And before the entrance ceremony began, when she was hunting for an exit to escape.
Daisy’s brow creased with suspicion and doubt.
A brass plate that knows exactly where you want to go?
It was almost like being followed, which meant…….
“Magic navigation.”
Ah.
Daisy’s furrowed brow smoothed out with the ease of someone who’d reached a simple conclusion.
A perfectly reasonable deduction for a modern person accustomed to GPS but ignorant of magic.
Why not just place room 6 next to room 5 instead of going through all this unnecessary trouble?
Musing this sensible question, Daisy followed the brass plate’s direction.
Dong—.
A bell tolled slowly in the distance, announcing the start of class.
* * *
By the time the ninth bell began to ring.
Daisy had finally found the small door bearing the nameplate “Room 6”.
Wedged between room 49 and room 7477.
“I should murder the headmaster.”
Daisy considered it seriously.
But then she realized that killing the academy’s leader would require ability, and building ability required attending classes, so she entered the classroom without protest.
And Daisy let out a small gasp of astonishment.
“Wow.”
She’d expected the classroom to be small given how narrow the door was, but Magic Room 6 was surprisingly vast.
The first thing that caught her eye in the near-cathedral-sized classroom was a very ancient-looking gray stone wall.
Wooden shelves were crammed densely into the stone wall, each one varying in shape and degree of wear and fading.
It looked as though they’d been installed haphazardly, added whenever space was needed.
“I know what that is. It’s a giant detector.”
One of the new students spoke, watching a massive eye-shaped orb spinning ceaselessly atop one of the shelves.
“How do you know?”
“A giant hunter I met at the market explained it. It spins if there’s a giant within three kilometers.”
“But this one seems broken. There are no giants in the academy.”
“…….”
There are.
In the underground labyrinth.
But that had to have been a hallucination, right?
Daisy’s gaze lingered briefly on the orb, which bore an uncanny resemblance to the cyclops giant’s eye.
Surely not really…….
But Daisy shook her head almost immediately.
‘If that giant were real, there’s no way I could have knocked him down.’
Thinking this, Daisy glanced around the space.
Magic Tower Building 6 had entrances on both sides of the lecture platform and faculty offices, with desks arranged in a sloped formation facing the platform.
“Daisy!”
Daisy ignored the brown dog waving its paws frantically at her and made for the darkest, most remote corner of the room.
To avoid standing out.
And immediately, Daisy realized something.
Sitting in a corner didn’t mean you wouldn’t stand out.
“Is that Sable Heart? The student council president’s younger sister?”
Daisy had been a famous figure since her entrance exam.
Damn.
“Yeah! Before she even enrolled, the upper-classmen already asked the student council president to pass along letters, and he didn’t even refuse!”
Well, the love messenger who used to be a yes-man had already handed in his resignation and was off on a retirement trip to Hawaii.
“Really? Then should I ask too?”
“That’s different from what I heard. When Senior Decart asked him to pass along a letter…….”
Decart?
Right—that was the name of the person who cursed Kailan’s letter.
Daisy nodded, recalling the woman she’d met when she’d thought coming here was a dream.
She’d told him clearly back then.
“‘Don’t you have hands? Don’t you have feet? Pass it along yourself, you loser who can’t even confess with your own two hands!'”
“Wow.”
“Insane.”
“Classic Bear’s Labyrinth.”
No, she’d never said anything like that.
‘But I should have.’
Daisy was sighing with regret at having let off so easily someone who’d even cursed a letter, when—
Creak!
The classroom door swung open and someone strode in with long, sweeping steps.
A young man in a black cloak with an impressive height and hair a deep navy blue that fell to his neck.
In an instant, the man reached the lecture platform and turned to face the room.
Several freshmen drew in sharp breaths of surprise.
It was because the man’s face was even more handsome than expected.
A beautiful man with sharp, coldly honed features like a blade, wearing an expression of unparalleled arrogance, opened his mouth.
“Janet Hoer.”
As an introduction, it was far too brief.
But no one voiced a complaint.
Not because he was wearing an expression that said, ‘Any problem? I’ll kill you.’
It was because everyone already knew who he was.
Janet Hoer.
The youngest Archmage.
A madman whom both the Imperial Palace and the Magic Tower had simultaneously courted, only for him to reject all their offers and remain at the Academy.
Some said the headmaster had dirt on him. Others said he was simply lazy.
Both were wrong.
Janet Hoer was simply a discriminationist who wanted to indulge his prejudices with peace of mind.
「”Why don’t you want to become an Imperial Mage?”
“I have no desire to work for someone more foolish than myself.”
“Please, don’t say such things out loud.”
…….
“What are you doing?”
“You said don’t say it out loud, so I said it inside my mouth instead.”
“You crazy bastard… And why won’t you become a Tower Mage?”
“Because you shouldn’t exploit people without talent.”
“You do know the Magic Tower only gathers mages in the top 1%, don’t you?”
“Even without talent, with enough effort they could probably reach about 1%, couldn’t they?”
“Janet Hoer.”
“Yes.”
“Just teach the children.”
“Ugh… boring.”」
That was the truth.
Janet Hoer was a talent supremacist.
Regardless of class or wealth, she praised anyone with talent blindly and without reserve.
In other words, those without talent were treated like stray dogs passing by.
‘No desire to be courteous to the talentless.’
That was why she remained at the Academy—a place where she didn’t have to bother with courtesy.
As a note, the original Daisy was… something like a cocker spaniel, woof woof.
Though she wrote research papers and reports excellently, she had never shown particular distinction in actual magical ability.
As if to prove it, Janet Hoer’s eyes scanning the assembly were utterly unmoved.
Janet Hoer exhaled a deep sigh and spoke in a listless voice.
“What’s the most necessary thing for casting magic?”
“Mana!”
One of the first-year students cried out brightly.
Judging by the red nameplate, she was a student of the Tiger’s Tower.
Rather than answering right or wrong, Janet simply stared at the student.
A sturdy student clearly aiming for the Knight Faculty met Janet’s gaze with hopeful eyes.
“What?”
“Yes?”
“What exactly are you expecting? Don’t tell me you’re hoping for praise after giving an answer so obvious even a child could manage it?”
“Yes? Ah, no, that’s not it…….”
The first-year student, plainly hoping for praise, turned pale in an instant.
“Tiger’s Tower loses five points.”
“…….”
“…….”
“Idiots. If your heads are full of nothing but shit, then shut your mouths and stay quiet.”
The professor clicked her tongue and spoke in an even more irritated voice.
“Then, to feel mana, what’s required?”
“…….”
“…….”
The students—those with heads full of nothing but shit—kept silent.
“You worthless things dare not answer a professor’s question? All dormitories lose ten points.”
“……!”
“……!”
Shut your mouths!
Among the students bearing expressions of indescribable injustice, only Daisy alone remained calm.
After all, this nonsense would be over in a month.
Because Janet Hoer would accept the Tower Master position she’d so long refused and leave during this semester.
「”Why are you suddenly leaving before the semester’s even over? Didn’t you say you hated the Tower Master role because you couldn’t torment the talentless?”
“The sum of money was too large to refuse…….”
“Janet Hoer.”
“Yes.”
“Get lost.”」
And so Janet Hoer, whose eyes had been dazzled by the massive fortune, departed, and in the empty seat came a new professor… who was it again?
Daisy was making an effort to remember the original story when it happened.
Pop!
Suddenly, a long white taper candle appeared before her eyes.
“Startled me!”
“W-what?!”
Janet Hoer, who had been watching the confused faces of the frightened first-year students with disdain, opened her mouth.
“Well, in any case, they paid me to teach… so from now on I’ll show you how to feel mana.”
Finally!
The first-year students brightened, their eyes sparkling at the prospect of a real lesson.
For all the criticism, Janet Hoer was an Arch Mage.
She surely possessed remarkable expertise.
The eager gazes of the first-year students turned to Janet’s smooth lips slowly parting.
“Just feel it.”
“…….”
“…….”
Huh?

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