It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 20

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The female lead’s corruption makes everything overwhelmingly convenient.
#20
“…….”
“…….”
Remarkably, nothing happened at all.
Daisy gazed at the quiet forest, then muttered something incomprehensible with an embarrassed expression.
“The brass compass navigation doesn’t work outside the building, it seems.”
And Felix,
“…….”
He realized that when she looked this foolish, his tinnitus stopped.
The world where his tinnitus had ceased was remarkably quiet and serene.
Like someone who had been drowning and was suddenly pulled above the surface, Felix gazed at Daisy beyond the trees.
Her large, round eyes blinked, casting a bright green gleam in the pristine Saimere forest.
‘A strange person.’
Truly, Daisy Sablehart was a strange person.
Perhaps from the very beginning.
* * *
‘Arderon…….’
‘Yes, madman…….’
‘Dunbarun Forest…….’
Those who met her grey eyes at the entrance ceremony split into exactly two categories.
They gasped and averted their gaze, or
They scanned her with base eyes and whispered.
All of it was because of that damned rumor.
But not Daisy Sablehart.
‘…….’
‘…….’
Daisy did not avoid her grey eyes.
She merely gazed at her quietly.
It was neither a frightened look nor one colored by vulgar curiosity.
As if looking at what was naturally meant to be seen, Daisy regarded her with that gaze.
And it was she—surprisingly—who looked away first.
Because the longer she held that gaze, the more her breathing grew ragged.
It felt like she was losing, and her face hardened on its own.
The sensation of defeat was unfamiliar.
What troubled her more was that she couldn’t tear her eyes from Daisy regardless.
From the end of the entrance ceremony, to entering the dormitory hall, to the very moment she found herself trapped in the maze.
‘Puppy! You jump well?’
‘Count to three and then jump.’
Sending away the classmate she had just met that day first, then seizing Daisy’s hand as she fell beneath the collapsing floor—that had been an impulsive choice.
It was pathetic.
That she would let someone else go ahead while failing to protect herself.
What if she actually died?
What was she thinking then?
But she could not question her on it.
‘……Felix, Arderon?’
Because Daisy Sablehart had known her name.
The moment her name flowed from between those crimson lips, her entire body tensed.
Her eyelashes trembled without her notice, and she forced strength into her eyes.
Then Daisy rolled down from above her.
‘Hey. It was you who pulled my hand, wasn’t it?’
‘Yes.’
‘Why?’
‘I was stupid.’
Daisy Sablehart was foolish.
‘Thank you!’
Foolish enough to offer thanks to her, who bore the blood of the madman Grennan.
* * *
“Damn it. I wasn’t supposed to just twist the path any which way to avoid people…….”
Daisy Sablehart pressed her forehead and muttered in an irritated voice.
Despite her appearance, she had a sharp tongue.
“I mean, I can’t exactly walk through crowds of students babbling about torn books, can I?”
Ah.
Felix finally understood why Daisy had come all the way here.
She’d fled to this place to escape the whispers of other students.
Just like he had…….
‘No.’
That made no sense.
Felix immediately discarded the thought that had surfaced unbidden.
The youngest daughter of the renowned Sableheart family could hardly be compared to someone like him.
“God, I just wanted to live quietly, but then I had to lose my temper at the worst possible moment…….”
Felix’s gaze drifted to the thin arm pressed against Daisy’s forehead.
Today, Daisy Sableheart had torn a thick book in half with that very hand.
That was rather surprising.
He’d thought there might be something unusual about her since she’d escaped the Labyrinth so quickly, but he hadn’t expected it to be raw strength.
“No, it’s not my fault either. This is all…….”
Daisy swept her hair back with the same hand that had been pressed to her forehead, muttering as she spoke.
“Jern Blight’s fault.”
Her emerald eyes gleamed with malice.
“I really should kill him.”
“…….”
Kill… whom?
While Felix’s face contorted in confusion, Daisy—who had just casually declared the intention to murder a duke of the Empire—nodded to herself.
“That’s right. Besides, there’s no one who would come looking for me if I disappeared anyway.”
“…….”
No one at all?
As Felix fell silent, stunned by this unexpected statement, a flash of intelligence lit Daisy’s open face.
In that same moment, a voice thick with resolve echoed through the forest.
“Then I’ll simply push forward.”
Daisy began walking toward the path ahead of her.
“…….”
Wrong direction.
Felix watched Daisy’s receding figure grow steadily more distant from the dormitory and revised his assessment of her.
Daisy Sableheart was simply… directionally challenged.
* * *
What a dreadfully long day it had been.
Ever since the swordsmanship lesson, whispers followed her every step.
Fortunately, like all rumors, they had begun to fade as time wore on.
‘Sableheart…… tore it…….’
‘Yeah…… I definitely…… saw it…….’
Yet the sound of ‘Sableheart’ still lingered constantly on the students’ tongues, and it was unbearable to hear.
So she’d wandered about avoiding crowds until, before she knew it, she’d arrived in this forest white as flour dough.
With no sky or buildings visible, this dense woodland offered no way to gauge direction.
She’d walked far enough that another space should have appeared by now, but the forest seemed endless.
How could the Academy even contain a forest like this anyway?
Daisy clenched her fists in frustration, but it solved nothing.
She remained alone in the forest, and the white woods emitted only a pale glow without even the darkness settling in.
At last, Daisy Sableheart accepted the inevitable.
“I’m… sleeping rough tonight.”
The plan to reach her room quickly, soak in hot water, crawl into a comfortable bed, and kick off the blankets while recalling today’s accumulated humiliations had been a complete failure.
“I never slept outside even in the Labyrinth, and now I’m doing it in a forest…….”
Tsk, tsk.
Even as she clicked her tongue at her own foolishness, Daisy continued to walk forward, step by slow step.
There was no choice.
That was simply how people were—forever thinking, ‘What if I go just a little further?’
It was while she walked in that state of exhaustion, both body and spirit worn, that it happened.
Rustle.
She heard footsteps somewhere nearby.
Daisy’s face brightened as she looked up sharply.
Whoever was beyond those trees would certainly know the Academy’s geography better than she did.
“Excuse me there.”
Daisy approached the source of the sound, adopting the gentlest, most harmless tone she could muster.
“I seem to have lost my way…….”
Let me pause here and clarify: Daisy Saibleheart was not being careless.
Of course not.
Everyone knows you should be wary of strangers met in the forest.
In other words, while Daisy Saibleheart spoke gently, saying “Excuse me,” her hands were gripping the textbook she’d torn in half that day.
was an 800-page brick of a hardcover book, measuring 28.2 centimeters wide by 44.4 centimeters tall, its cover solid and unyielding.
Rustle, crackle…….
Something made a terrible noise beyond the trees, then fell silent just as abruptly.
“……Excuse me?”
And then,
Roooaaarrr!
Something pale and enormous as a spruce rose up on two hind legs, its arms spread wide.
Shaggy white fur!
Black paws the size of cauldron lids!
A body over two meters tall!
“What the hell!”
What was a polar bear doing out here?
Roooaaarrr!
Without hesitation, Daisy hurled at the bear’s head.
Thwack!
A direct hit.
The polar bear staggered backward from the impact of the massive hardcover brick.
This was her chance.
Daisy spun and bolted.
“Gasp, huff! What the hell! This insane academy!”
As Daisy crashed through the dense spruce trees, she suddenly spotted someone standing ahead of her.
Catching sight of the jet-black hair standing out like an ink stain in the white forest, Daisy cried out.
“Felix Arderon!”
Felix turned slowly, regarding her with pupils black as pinpricks.
“Run!”
“What?”
Roooaaarrr!
The enraged polar bear’s roar erupted from behind them.
There was no time to explain.
“Move! Run!”
Grab.
Daisy seized Felix’s hand and began to run.
Daisy didn’t know.
What the polar bear following behind them, blood dripping from its nose, was shouting.
[Kids! Kids! Don’t run, it’s dangerous! Walk!]
She would only learn this much later, long after enrolling in the elective course “Polar Bear Speech I.”

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