It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 24

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A corrupted female protagonist is overwhelmingly convenient.
#24
Cedric Askilt—alias “Mosquito”—had sucked the blood of the innocent Daisy Sable Heart in the original work by this method.
“Daisy Sable Heart, right?”
“Huh? Um, y-yes…….”
“Nice to meet you. I’m Cedric Askilt. Call me Rick.”
“Okay, Rick.”
“Since we’re in the same class, let’s be good friends.”
“Yes, let’s……!”
First, he pretended to be friendly.
It would’ve been better if she’d just fallen for his face.
The Daisy in the original fell for those words alone: “let’s be good friends.”
If Daisy were offered candy, twenty out of ten would follow him.
The remaining ten would follow him without the candy.
Damn it.
But until now, Kwon Do-yo had trusted Cedric Askilt.
Sure, even if Daisy’s life story had its share of cheap drama, it made sense she’d have one handsome, good-natured friend like him.
She should have trusted what she trusted.
“Daisy, that’s not it. You need to extend the sword with more force. Right now you lack conviction. Put more strength into it, like this. Honestly, what would you do without me?”
Cedric’s lines began to sound increasingly off.
“Nobody else would teach you things like this, you know?”
Daisy went back to the early chapters of the novel and spent a long time searching to see if Cedric actually had the setting of being a possessor.
It was almost certainly some readmitted student from his university days—same department—who had possessed him.
“Conviction is what matters. Everything starts from there.”
That was it.
From some point on, Cedric Askilt began acting like he knew everything.
Well, it made sense that he’d butt into sword technique.
After all, Daisy was terrible at physical labor, and Cedric had become quite an accomplished knight.
But if that were the case, she wouldn’t have thought of that readmitted student at all…….
“Magic is the same way.”
For a guy who couldn’t even sense mana to say that—wasn’t that illegal?
But saying it a hundred times outside the book was useless.
Daisy, who already thought of Cedric as an irreplaceable friend and a wonderful teacher, was listening intently and nodding seriously.
Only I, the reader, was getting angry.
“Okay, I see.”
“It’s not just about memorizing. You have to read the flow. Mana is all about the flow, you know. Don’t forget that.”
“Okay, thank you……!”
In other words, Cedric’s words were like a dog barking.
Woof, woof, woof!
Except now it was barking in human speech…….
I know it all! What would you do without me! Passion! Conviction!
Pretending to be close and pretending to know.
When these two methods combined brilliantly to transform into trust, friendship, and devotion, that’s when the snowball started rolling on its own.
“Of course you’ll team up with me, right?”
“Yeah, I will!”
“Oh, but I think I’m going to go to an academic conference with the professor this time…….”
“Don’t worry. I’ll try to handle it alone.”
“Really? Thank you. I’ll finish it when I get back. Don’t forget what I taught you.”
He meant he’d do everything, and she’d just sign her name to it with her own hand.
“I’ll learn hard at the conference and tell you about it.”
He meant he’d act like he knew even more.
“Just you.”
He meant “you” as in about a dozen people.
“This is studying too, you know? I’m bowing out for your sake.”
Woof, woof.
“See you next class then!”
“Okay!”
Kwon Do-yo opened the comment section and read the top comment.
└ Isn’t Cedric Askilt actually Kim Cheol-su Askilt? Sounds like that readmitted student I know
Wait, what. Same school?
Suddenly spotting a comment from a classmate, Kwon Do-yeo paused to read through them carefully, lost in thought.
What riches and glory could he ever enjoy while reading such rubbish?
Why had Cedric, with that handsome face of his, swallowed Kim Chul-su whole?
When would Daisy ever say no?
No answer came.
He should have folded then.
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“The most important thing when igniting a flame is having confidence in yourself. If you hesitate or are too cautious like just now, the mana won’t gather.”
If he’d just listened, he wouldn’t have had to watch this mosquito brat yapping with such vivid clarity.
Bubble.
Something boiled up inside Daisy.
A hot mass that began in her chest crawled up through her neck, scorched her head, and then spread through her entire body.
Anger…….
No, this wasn’t grand enough to be called by such a lofty name.
She was just fed up.
The hot mass gathered at her fingertips.
Daisy looked up at the candle.
“So the way to do it is…….”
Meanwhile, perhaps thinking she was listening obediently, the mosquito’s voice grew increasingly forceful.
“You put in a bit more mana, kind of…….”
“Mosquito.”
Daisy spoke calmly.
“Huh?”
“Move.”
“What do you——”
Daisy reached out sharply with the small candle that had been hovering around the mosquito.
Craaaaaack!
A pillar of flame erupted from the thin white wax candle.
That was it.
A pillar of flame.
“Gasp!”
“Look at that!”
“Insane, who did that?!”
Bewildered voices of new students erupted from all sides.
Then, spotting the one who’d cast the spell, their jaws fell open.
“Is that Daisy Seableheart right now?”
“What? Daisy?”
Even Lydia, who’d been holding a candle flame the size of a mere fist in front of the professor with help from both her arms, widened her eyes.
In the meantime, Cedric shrieked loudly and slapped his forehead in panic.
“Aaah! Fire, it’s on fire!”
That’s why I told you to move.
Daisy spotted Cedric’s carefully set bangs curling as they burned and pressed her lips shut.
She nearly burst out laughing.
But now wasn’t the time to laugh—she had something to say.
“How do I look? How do I look? Did my bangs burn a lot? Come on, look!”
Daisy called out to Cedric, who was frantically asking the friends around him.
“Mosquito.”
“Oh, Daisy, I-I was startled…….”
Cedric looked up sheepishly, then was startled all over again.
Daisy’s large emerald eyes blazed with an intensity never seen before.
Shifting mysteriously from pale green to deep green, then to a near-black dark green, her gaze seemed as though it would pull him in at any moment.
Just as Cedric’s mouth began to open slowly as he stared into those eyes——
“If you want to teach me about magic, first get a candle lit.”
Whoosh.
At Daisy’s words, Cedric’s face turned as red as a pillar of flame.
‘There. Mosquito extermination complete at last.’
Daisy grinned and turned her head.
And…….
…….
…….
Why am I forever blind to what lies one step ahead?
Daisy met the stares bearing down on her and her mind raced through the possibilities.
1. First, extinguish the pillar of flame.
2. Then act shocked, gasping theatrically.
3. “Oh! What on earth just happened! I had no idea it would—”
4. The students, thinking it mere accident, lose interest.
5. Class ends peacefully and quietly.
‘Okay!’
It was precisely as Daisy was drawing air from deep in her lungs to extinguish the candle flame—massive as a human head—that it happened.
“Exactly!”
“Puff, cough! Hack! Hack!”
The sudden cry startled her mid-breath, and Daisy erupted in a fit of violent coughing.
“Who on earth—”
She turned toward the source of the voice but couldn’t finish her sentence.
To her shock, Janet Hower was approaching with a flushed, animated face.
“That’s it!”
“Yes?”
“Good—now focus. I want you to extract the flame the way I just showed you.”
“Me?”
“Yes, compress the fire and reshape it!”
“How am I supposed to do that?!”
“You can do it!”
Don’t encourage me like I’m a normal person!
“Focus. Think of drawing something long out.”
I wanted to say I couldn’t.
“If you say you can’t, I’m deducting a hundred points.”
What a petty bastard.
Daisy stared at her own candle flame with resignation, as if swallowing bitter medicine.
The flame had shrunk to the size of a human face and still burned brightly.
‘Drawing something long out…’
Daisy recalled what the professor had pulled forth moments before.
It had looked rather like rice cake…
Wait. Rice cake?
Daisy gazed at the massive flame.
It looked just like red, glutinous dough.
As if it would stretch if she pressed hard enough…
The instant she grasped how to compress and reshape magical energy, Daisy found herself thinking like a rice cake vendor.
“That’s it!”
Janet Hower’s voice rang out with excitement as a strand of flame slowly drew forth from the whole.
“Now grab it!”
The professor shouted.
Daisy looked at the flaming rice cake, burning brightly.
Right.
From the way the professor was talking, it clearly wouldn’t burn the caster.
Snap!
“Ow, it’s hot!”
Daisy flung the flaming rice cake away.
“It’s burning, Professor!”
“It’s fire—of course it’s hot! Endure it!”
“Pardon?”
“Push through and grab it, you’ll be fine!”
…
…
You sound just like mothers who open a boiling pot lid with their bare hands, Professor!
Daisy turned her eyes back to the blazing rice cake.
“Damn it!”
Come what may—Daisy seized the flaming rice cake with both hands.
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This should be said upfront.
Kwon Do-yo’s skill with the brush was abysmal.
‘A pig?’
‘It’s a dinosaur, actually.’
‘This is a monster!’
‘It is, actually.’
The teachers hadn’t immediately recognized what Kwon Do-yo had created.
And the same held true for what Daisy had made while possessed by Kwon Do-yo.
“That’s a chicken.”
“It’s a phoenix, actually.”
“You made a chicken.”
“A phoenix…….”
Daisy felt wronged.
But she couldn’t protest forcefully.
And with good reason…….
Cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck.
Because there, waddling across the training ground with a vacant expression, was an unmistakably plump chicken with bright red feathers.
“A spicy chicken…….”
Someone in the training ground muttered.
Everyone except Daisy thought it was quite the fitting name.

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