It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 36

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The corrupted heroine is overwhelmingly convenient.
#36
“It can’t be!”
Thirty minutes before now.
With the professor’s urgent cry, Daisy was engulfed in a blinding light.
“Ugh……!”
A groan escaped through her clenched teeth.
Dizziness washed over her, and bile rose in her throat.
Her legs trembled, and all strength drained from her body.
She thought that if she stayed much longer, fainting wouldn’t be far off.
“Miss Daisy! Right now… …danger…….”
Woom— woooom—!
The vibrations from the magic circle drowned out the professor’s voice.
Judging by the way his arms swung wildly outward, he was telling her to escape.
But Daisy did not move.
Rather, she could not.
Because this was her first and only chance to summon a familiar.
At Eldvine Academy, the privilege of summoning a familiar was granted only once, and that rule admitted no exceptions.
In other words, stepping out of the magic circle now meant it was over.
So instead of fleeing, Daisy gritted her teeth hard, planted her feet firmly on the ground, and endured.
‘I can’t let this chance slip away.’
For the sake of a comfortable life ahead, she had to hold on now.
Woom— wooooom—!
The greater the vibrations, the greater the pain.
But Daisy endured with all her strength.
What would emerge, she still couldn’t guess, but she could at least be certain it wasn’t a sparrow.
‘What was that, anyway……?’
As her consciousness grew increasingly hazy, Daisy recalled what had happened just moments before.
Black smoke had clearly erupted from the magic circle and pulled at the professor’s staff.
‘As if desperate to be summoned…….’
Wooom—!
In that instant, a deafening roar shook the courtyard.
And then,
“…….”
“…….”
Suddenly, everything stopped.
In the abruptly silent courtyard, Daisy slowly lifted her head.
The freshmen and professor stared at her with slack-jawed expressions.
Exhale.
Taking a shallow breath, Daisy slowly lowered her gaze to the magic circle.
Recalling the case of Boris Hagel, the summoned familiar should be bound in the center of the magic circle by chains of light.
Yes, like this—.
[Screech-screech-screech!]
The thing bound in the center of the magic circle cried out raucously.
Daisy, who had been staring at it intently, spoke calmly.
“Professor, what does that look like to you?”
“…….”
The professor, who had been silent for a moment, replied.
“Judging by its appearance… it seems to be a sparrow.”
“But why…….”
It’s black.
And its cry is strange too.
Daisy and the professor gazed at the bird in the center of the magic circle, shrieking with a voice that sounded hoarse and strained.
It had the unmistakable form of a sparrow, yet from head to toe it was jet black.
That was it.
Daisy had summoned a sparrow again.
The only difference being that it was black as a crow.
“Well, c-congratulations, then.”
“…….”
“The gift of Daisy Sable Heart, the black… sparrow!”
“…….”
“…….”
The professor nodded at his students and clapped his hands eagerly.
But Daisy heard none of it.
All that lodged in her ears was the strange, inexplicable cry of the black magpie.
[Screech.]
* * *
[Screech-screech!]
The black magpie.
The monstrous creature born from Daisy’s misfortune and Kwon Do-yo’s fortune suddenly burst between Daisy and the wolf.
Well, “burst” might be overstating it.
It simply popped out of her heart.
“Damn it! Get back in!”
Daisy cried out in desperation.
But the black magpie ignored her.
[Screech.]
It merely turned its back to Daisy and faced the wolf.
That small back should have been reassuring—except it was simply blocking her view, making it impossible to track the wolf’s movements.
“Move out of the way!”
[Grrrrrowl!]
The massive wolf bared its fangs at the magpie and snarled.
Whether Daisy knew it or not, the wolf was clearly saying the same thing.
The black magpie was the size of the wolf’s teeth.
One bite and it would pop like candy in its mouth.
“Hell…….”
There was no need to think about what this situation resembled.
A magpie that carried a letter knowing it would die.
A black magpie that stood before the wolf knowing it would die.
A summoned creature throwing its entire body forward to protect its master.
Perhaps no matter what effort one made… the great current would never change.
[Screech-screech-screech!]
The black magpie launched itself forward with its peculiar raspy cry.
[Snap!]
The wolf’s blood-soaked snout snapped open.
“No……!”
Daisy was about to watch her summoned creature—born less than thirty minutes ago—die.
And yet,
[Screech.]
The black magpie did not become a wolf.
A black wolf, grown even larger than the gray one, let out a cry.
[Screech.]
It nimbly dodged the gray wolf charging toward her and clamped down on its neck with teeth that were harder and far more enormous.
[Yelp!]
The gray wolf thrashed about in agony.
At that scream, Daisy’s eyes snapped open.
She had no idea what had just happened, but this was the moment—the chance she needed.
“Go!”
Daisy shouted to the black magpie—or rather, the wolf.
“Hold it tight!”
[Screech!]
With her small fists clenched with all her might, Daisy charged at the thrashing gray wolf.
She leaned back with her entire body and swung her small fist with every ounce of strength.
“Die!”
Thwack!
A sound far too crisp and heavy for a fist of such size rang out across the courtyard.
And then,
[Crack!]
Thud!
The gray wolf let out one final cry, its tongue lolling out as it stretched prone across the courtyard floor.
“Whew, that’s done!”
Daisy threw her hands up and spun around,
“Arderon, I just saw— oh no!”
She let out a gasp of shock.
“Ugh…….”
She hadn’t anticipated that Felix, who’d taken the summoned beast’s pain directly, would lose consciousness.
It was just as she scrambled to catch his sagging frame.
“We’re here, Vice Principal!”
People came flooding into the courtyard.
Leading the group was someone wearing a remarkably loud patterned quilted cloak.
“Good heavens!”
Vice Principal Orphelias Murdergus stared at the scene before him with an expression of utter shock.
A gray wolf, drenched in blood and collapsed.
Felix, similarly covered in blood and sprawled on the ground.
Daisy, her hands caked with blood, had seized him by the collar.
And…….
Tee-hee.
A small black magpie, perched atop the wolf with its beak open wide, grinning wickedly.
The Vice Principal, surveying the tiny black bird—no larger than the wolf’s teeth—turned to face Daisy.
The meaning in his wise violet eyes was unmistakable.
“Miss Sableheart, tell me what actually happened.”
“Yes?”
“Did you perhaps knock down Arderon and his summoned wolf with your fists, and then celebrate your victory with your summoned magpie?”
“This is truly unfair.”
The Vice Principal, his expression growing more troubled as he surveyed the courtyard, spoke slowly.
“……First, Arderon should go to the infirmary. And Miss Sableheart…….”
Daisy did her best to arrange her face into an expression of perfect innocence.
“Come to my office at once.”
Tsk.
* * *
“So,”
the Vice Principal began, pressing his forehead with one hand.
“Arderon’s summoned wolf suddenly began to rampage.”
“Yes!”
“And Arderon suddenly began coughing blood.”
“That’s right.”
“And the wolf—the one he had summoned himself—attacked him.”
“Yep.”
“But then that wolf… suddenly collapsed.”
“Um…….”
Daisy mumbled something vaguely resembling an answer.
Her conscience pricked at her relentlessly.
Ow.
Of course Daisy knew well enough that telling the truth would be the best course of action.
But she had no idea whatsoever how to put it into words.
‘The wolf attacked, but then my black magpie summoned suddenly turned into a wolf and bit it by the neck. Then I punched it and knocked it unconscious, and somehow Felix Arderon got knocked out at the same time!?’
She couldn’t begin to imagine what rumors would spread through the academy if she said that.
Clink-clink.
At that moment, a bright tinkling sound jolted Daisy back to awareness.
She turned to see the black magpie hopping about, pecking at tea leaves that had scattered from an overturned teacup.
Daisy pressed her forehead without thinking.
Come on, if you’re going to cause trouble, at least show some remorse, you crazy bird…….
No, wolf…….
No, wolf-bird…….
Damn it, what even are you…….
The Vice Principal’s gaze settled on the black magpie at that very moment.
“By the way, Miss Sableheart, your summoned beast is quite… unusual.”

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