It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 38

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The dark-hearted heroine overwhelmingly suited her role.
#38
Chapter 10. Annihilation
This year’s Eldvein Gift Festival had, unusually, stretched across two days.
The grandest present by far was Arderon’s grey wolf.
The rumor that Felix Arderon had received the wolf spread quickly through the academy.
Or rather, that she’d received a “mad wolf,” to be precise.
“Did you hear? It tried to attack its own summoner.”
Whenever students clustered together, they gossiped about Arderon’s summon.
“You heard they called an assembly?”
“Right in front of them she summoned it, and the professors had to use every spell they knew just to contain the mad wolf.”
“So they’re going to annihilate it?”
“Come on, you can’t just erase an Eldvein Gift like that…….”
“True. If you annihilate a summon, the backlash hits the summoner too. That’s why even the assembly can’t decide easily.”
“Backlash, my foot. People just miss having it around. Honestly, I wish they’d just get rid of it. It creeps me out.”
“Fair point. And it’s Arderon, of all people. If she snapped like her mother and let the wolf loose during class,”
Thud!
“Ack! What the—?!”
“Oh, I’m terribly sorry.”
Daisy, who had appeared like a bolt of lightning and thrown a body check into them, apologized without a trace of concern.
“I didn’t realize anyone was here.”
Some dog barking sounded from somewhere nearby.
Daisy bowed low to hide her face, then slipped away quickly.
“Hey, what was that?! Who are you! Stop right there! Hey!”
Would you stay if you were her?
Daisy put distance between herself and the ranting students with swift, efficient strides.
Once she reached a quiet hallway, she clicked her tongue.
“Going on about annihilating it or not, as if they have a clue.”
If Arderon alone were being mocked, Daisy would have stayed out of it.
What did she care what happened to that girl?
I just want to keep my head down and live quietly.
But she couldn’t bear hearing Arderon’s summon slandered.
Whether the wolf had genuinely tried to attack her or was simply mad as the rumors claimed didn’t matter.
“Speaking about a summon’s death as if they understand what it means…….”
In the original story, Daisy’s summon had been struck down by arrows fired by knights.
After that day, Daisy had been bedridden for three days straight.
Not from grief alone at losing her summon.
A piece of her soul had been torn away, and the pain of it was indescribable.
That was how Daisy described what she’d experienced.
When Baepsae died, an invisible flame had erupted from Daisy’s feet and burned her, again and again.
And when Daisy rose from that spot, she had become someone entirely different.
Someone who had surrendered all hope and expectation, waiting only for the day death would come.
That was what losing a summon meant for Daisy Sablehart.
Losing your only friend, your family, your parent, your sibling all at once.
It was something that made even rage and resentment feel like luxuries.
It was something that made you abandon everything to the current and drift.
Daisy’s footsteps slowed as she walked the hallway.
Her emerald eyes, which had once gleamed with light, deepened into a dark green and sank.
“……Damn it.”
Without thinking, Daisy raised her hand and gripped her hair as if to tear it out.
Why was she suffocating just from recalling something she’d read in a book?
She had never once thought of herself as having exceptional empathy.
Yet somehow the pain of losing a summon felt unbearably vivid.
It was as if a piece of her heart were actually aching.
Like phantom pain in a limb that no longer existed.
And perhaps Arderon was experiencing the same thing…….
……
Daisy bit at her lips.
Blood welled from where her fangs had torn the skin, but she didn’t stop.
In the midst of pain that drifted between reality and imagination, her mind grew just slightly clearer.
“……….”
Damn it, this is a genuinely terrible idea.
Daisy chided herself with measured restraint.
Hadn’t her original goal been to spend this storm-tossed academy life quietly and peacefully?
And to achieve that, the last thing she needed was to become the subject of rumor.
Perhaps, in a way, things had worked out for the better.
For days now, her name hadn’t been mentioned once.
Despite summoning a new species of familiar—a creature with blackened magical circles and something the vice-principal himself called an “anomalous raven”—no one had noticed.
What happened afterward was simply too shocking.
So if she simply remained buried like this, everything would surely resolve itself.
Daisy, utterly unremarkable, and Arderon, the world’s greatest villain.
A perfect ending.
But……
“Ah, I’m losing my mind!”
Bang!
Daisy drove her fist into the unyielding stone wall.
Crunch.
Stone dust cascaded from the fractured surface.
Frozen in place for a moment, Daisy finally seemed to reach a decision, her stride carrying her purposefully down the corridor.
Daisy didn’t know.
That someone was watching her from across the hallway, peering through the window.
“Hey, wasn’t that just now—the wall—wasn’t that Daisy Seabright?”
“……….”
The boy didn’t answer his friend’s dim-witted question.
Instead, one corner of his mouth twisted upward as he watched the direction in which Daisy had vanished.
“……Really interesting.”
The boy murmured softly to himself.
“Huh? What? Sorry, I didn’t catch that.”
“It’s nothing. You don’t need to know.”
“Oh, ah. Right, I suppose……”
His friend nodded sheepishly, responding to the cool words delivered in that gentle voice.
The boy turned sharply and strode away with long steps.
His friend hurried after him.
Then, turning back suddenly, the boy offered a warm smile and asked a question.
“By the way, your father is on the Eldvain parent committee, isn’t he?”
“Oh, that’s right!”
His friend answered with a proud voice, delighted that the boy remembered.
“He’s actually the chair!”
“Mm, I see.”
Not that he cared much for committees like that—mere pretexts for idle nobles to wear impressive titles.
“Would it be possible to meet your father sometime?”
“Huh! Y-yes, of course! Anytime!”
His friend’s face brightened instantly as he nodded.
His father had been nagging him to befriend this boy by any means necessary.
And now the boy himself was asking to meet him!
Such an opportunity would surely never come again.
Withdrawing his gaze from his nodding friend without hesitation, the boy looked through the window once more.
Daisy had already vanished, leaving only the fractured stone wall behind.
“……….”
The boy’s lips sealed, his crimson eyes—Jern Blight’s eyes—glimmered with fascination.
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“……….”
“……….”
A vast ward lined with dozens of empty beds.
From the single occupied one, a very long silence stretched forth.
Felix Arderon, unexpectedly receiving a visitor, gazed at Daisy sitting in the chair beside his bed.
Hair the color of platinum, oddly disheveled.
Green eyes cast downward, timid.
Lips crusted with scabs.
The way she cradled a book as large as her own frame like a doll.
But why were his hands so red?
Felix raised one dark brow with a slight flicker of displeasure, and found himself clicking his tongue before he could help it.
Every visible detail told the same story.
Daisy Sablehart was exactly as the rumors claimed—timid, docile, and naive.
But Felix Arderon knew better than anyone that appearances deceived.
Daisy Sablehart was truly strange.
The way she’d appeared without warning, saying nothing, lost in thought—it was odd.
She murmured something to herself, nodded, furrowed her brow, tilted her head as if disagreeing, and then, as if seized by sudden resolve, lifted her eyes to meet his.
In that instant, her gaze—so timid moments before—blazed with sharp clarity.
‘What on earth is she about to say?’
Felix’s frown deepened at the unfathomable purpose of her visit.
“Um…”
But Daisy’s words never came.
“Preposterous!”
A loud voice erupted from just outside the ward door.
It belonged to a man of middle years, and it was thick with indignation.
“Of course it must be eliminated!”
……
……
In that moment, Daisy and Felix found themselves meeting each other’s eyes.
They understood all too well what the man’s words had been aimed at.

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