It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 19

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The female lead’s corruption makes things overwhelmingly convenient.
#19
“Kay! Kay!”
The corridor stirred in unison.
At the far end of the hallway, the crown prince came bounding toward them, waving his hand frantically.
Beyond the window, sunlight fractured into brilliance, and his hair—spun from the finest silver thread—gleamed as it caught the light.
Those who glimpsed the golden eyes blazing like the sun beneath his long silver lashes exhaled in a long, audible breath.
It wasn’t merely his status as crown prince; his very presence drew the eye.
But that admiration doubled in an instant.
The crown prince had stopped before Kaelan Seibleheart, the student council president.
His platinum-blonde hair, nearly silver in hue, was swept back neatly with hair oil, and he wore a cape emblazoned with the student council insignia draped across one shoulder.
His expression was somewhat austere and sharp.
Yet his considerable height, shoulders broadened by training, and the defined muscle beneath offset it entirely.
A beautiful crown prince and a handsome viscount.
Every student’s eyes darted eagerly between the two.
In a year, both would graduate and vanish—and this two-shot was something everyone secretly desired.
Everyone except Kaelan, of course.
From the moment the crown prince came running, Kaelan’s platinum brows had already arched upward in clear displeasure.
“Kay!”
“I’ve already told you—don’t shorten my name.”
“Just call me Ash, then.”
“I won’t.”
Kaelan replied flatly.
“What is it you need?”
“Oh,”
The crown prince let out a short exclamation, then asked with a mischievous gleam in his eye.
“Have you heard the rumors?”
“I have. The trade volume between Demiwood and Humbian has dropped considerably, it seems. The sea routes must be blocked. Likely….”
“No, not that!”
“…….”
Kaelan stared at the crown prince in exasperation as he struck his chest, then fell silent.
And what spilled from the prince’s lips was a name Kaelan hadn’t anticipated.
“Daisy—your sister!”
Twitch.
Kaelan’s platinum brow twitched convulsively.
Daisy?
Kaelan recalled his younger sister—so docile she was nearly invisible.
She’d never come to his attention unless assigned to the Bear’s Labyrinth, much less become the subject of rumors.
“Your sister did something in Macdowell’s beginner swordcraft class…….”
Macdowell’s beginner swordcraft.
Kaelan had taken it himself in his first year.
The class, which began by tearing apart the thick <Beginner Swordcraft Theory> textbook, was so grueling despite its name that it half-killed anyone not aspiring to knighthood.
“Did she collapse?”
Kaelan asked, settling on what seemed the most logical and reasonable conclusion.
“No! She tore <Beginner Swordcraft Theory> apart!”
“…….”
“…….”
With the crown prince’s words, the entire corridor fell silent.
“……What did Daisy do?”
“She tore it. <Beginner Swordcraft Theory>. In two. Riiip.”
The crown prince helpfully mimed the action of rending a book as he spoke.
In each student’s mind, the face of a certain girl they’d seen four days ago surfaced.
Disheveled, lifeless platinum hair.
Round, wide eyes—like those of a frightened fawn.
Limbs so frail they looked as though they’d snap at the gentlest touch.
A girl far too delicate and innocent to be from House Seibleheart.
By contrast, <Beginner Swordcraft Theory> was…….
“Wasn’t that an 800-page hardcover?” one student whispered softly.
Kaelan’s eyes, upon hearing it, turned sharp.

It was absurd.
“Ha.”
Kaeliun exhaled a short, mirthless laugh.
“You’re asking me to believe such gossip now?”
At those words, the students in the hallway flinched.
Of course they’d been ready to believe it as gospel.
Kaeliun recalled Daisy’s appearance before the entrance ceremony and found himself frowning without quite meaning to.
Her school uniform had hung on her frame in a way that was almost unsightly.
She was visibly thinner than when he’d seen her at the estate.
‘Maintaining one’s physique is a refinement every noble ought to possess.’
Unaware that the servants had deliberately made the uniform several sizes too large because they refused to alter it twice when it wasn’t their own money being spent, Kaeliun clicked his tongue in disapproval.
“Before you spread such idle rumors, I’d suggest you attend to your own appearance first,” Kaeliun said coldly.

“Don’t you remember that next year brings graduation? Once we return to the palace, there’s the preparation for my duties as crown prince—”
“Good heavens, here we go again.”
The crown prince shook his head as though exhausted, and Kaeliun fixed him with an unwavering blue gaze.
Should I really start in on it?
My apologies.
After that silent exchange, the crown prince let out a sigh.
“No, I wasn’t being serious about it. It’s just odd that such a rumor would spread at all, don’t you think?”
“What’s odd, Your Highness, is that you’re here at all. I understand you have a meeting with Professor Seville today.”
“Uh… wait! What time is it now?!”
At the crown prince’s urgent question, as though he’d suddenly remembered something, a student hastily pulled out a pocket watch.
“Ah, one twenty-four….”
“Oh no! I’m late! I’m going! See you at the dorm later, Kay!”
“Don’t call me that….”
Kaeliun watched the crown prince’s retreating figure grow distant with even greater urgency than he’d arrived, and clicked his tongue.
After pausing briefly as though considering something, he turned to the student council officer beside him.
“Vance.”
“Yes!”
“Find out who’s spreading such nonsense.”
Vance trembled at the frost in his voice and nodded quickly.
“Y-yes, sir…!”
“I understand everyone’s bored this early in the term, but tell them to keep it within bounds.”
“Yes!”
“Ah, it seems the name Seibleheart is thought rather lightweight….”
The quiet murmur that escaped him seemed less angry about his sister being mentioned in gossip than about the family name itself being dragged through it.
Whirl.
Kaeliun turned sharply and strode out of the hallway with quick steps.
Those who encountered him lowered their eyes, his expression terrifying enough to make the air itself feel scorching.
And so the rumor that ‘Daisy Seibleheart tore up her Elementary Swordsmanship Theory textbook’ transformed into ‘Kaeliun Seibleheart will tear you up if you don’t keep your mouth shut’ and spread throughout the academy.
Only two people in the entire school failed to hear that rumor.
Daisy Seibleheart, who lived by the motto ‘a life lived alone’ and….
Chapter 6. The Polar Bear
“…….”
Felix Arderon found himself frowning without noticing.
A chilling gleam flickered in his narrowed gray eyes.
But there was no one here who would be frightened by it.
In this forest, dense with trees on all sides, there was only him and—
“Where is it? Here.”
Daisy Seibleheart, who was lost.
Daisy, her expression troubled, stood on tiptoes as she surveyed the surroundings.
But there wouldn’t be a single spire in sight.
The forest, packed tightly with white semiour trees on all sides, resembled something from ancient texts….
“Dough.”
It resembled dough because… no, that wasn’t it.
Felix, pushing away the thoughts that had tangled themselves in his mind, turned his gaze back to Daisy.
Daisy stood in place, stroking her chin.
She wore what might have been a serious expression, but her docile eyes made it seem far from grave.
“Where exactly am I supposed to go?”
The rear garden was just a five-minute walk away, in the two o’clock direction from where he stood.
But Felix hadn’t told her that.
Couldn’t have, really.
He was currently standing behind a thick tree trunk, well beyond Daisy’s line of sight.
‘Damn it. How far has this rumor spread? No matter where I go, that’s all I hear.’
About ten minutes ago, when he’d caught the sound of a young, complaining voice drifting from a distance.
Felix had hidden himself behind a tree before he could even identify who it was.
He’d guessed what they’d whisper about if they saw him in the forest.
‘Good Lord, the blood of that mad Grennan is actually——’
‘He’s going to lose his mind soon too——’
‘We should send him away at once——’
Familiar voices droned on inside his skull.
Screeeee—
His ears went numb, and then came the grating, relentless ringing.
“Ugh……”
Felix let out a short groan and instinctively pressed his palms hard against his ears.
But even so, the ringing persisted—sharp enough to cleave his mind in two.
Every time this happened, Felix Arderon found himself thinking the same thought.
Perhaps they were right after all.
Perhaps he would end up like his mother, who’d been called “mad Grennan”—one day losing his mind entirely, slaughtering dozens, becoming a legend of madness.
If only that would make this unbearable ringing stop……
“…….”
His pupils were slowly sinking into darkness, still pressed against his ears, when it happened.
The deafening ringing stopped abruptly.
Daisy Seablehart had clenched her fists as if seized by sudden resolve and shouted aloud.
“I want to go to the Bear’s Labyrinth dormitory!”

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