It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 39

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It’s overwhelmingly easier when the heroine’s gone dark.
#39
“Lower your voice, Baron.”
Someone had rebuked the man in hushed tones.
“Who’s going to hear us?”
“We need to keep it down!”
The man called Baron paid no mind, raising his voice all the same.
“Have I said anything untrue?”
“Baron!”
“Didn’t the Count see it himself? That wasn’t a summoned creature at all! Since when do summoned creatures try to kill their own master?”
Daisy caught a glimpse of Felix’s face.
As always, his pale and composed features revealed nothing of his thoughts—nothing, except for the line of his lower lip, clenched so tightly his mouth formed a hard seam.
His lip was drawn nearly white.
Save for that, she could read nothing.
“This is no simple matter to decide! Surely you, too, received a gift from Eldvayne and understand how profoundly a summoned creature’s dissolution affects its master?”
“I suppose I wouldn’t know—my summoned creature has never tried to murder me.”
“Baron!”
“Regardless, I cannot allow such a dangerous thing to roam free in a school my child attends! It must be destroyed!”
“Why not simply prevent him from summoning at all?”
A woman spoke calmly.
“A sealing. That’s what I mean.”
“Would that even be possible?”
Another man’s voice carried doubt.
“We all know a summoned creature is bound to its master’s very soul. To seal it would put the master in danger as well.”
“If there’s danger, then just destroy it!”
The agitated man cried out.
“Has a reply come from Duke Arderon?”
At the familiar name, Felix’s pupils—the only darkness in his otherwise colorless eyes—contracted sharply with tension.
“It has.”
“What did he say?”
…….
The man fell silent for a moment before answering.
“‘Handle it as you see fit.'”
Ha!
The Baron let out a hollow laugh.
“So the rumors about him abandoning his child are true after all.”
“Such baseless rumors…….”
“Let’s be honest here. We all know the Young Duke has been neglected ever since the Duchess became as she is. And frankly, that makes this worse! If that boy has gone mad and releases his summoned creature, have you stopped to consider how many children could be hurt?”
…….
…….
Those who had been rebuking the Baron moments before said nothing now—as if they, too, had entertained that thought.
Daisy clenched her teeth.
They were all insane.
She wanted to stand up right then and there, throw open the door, and shout, “Take that garbage somewhere else!”
What was this—child abuse wrapped together with animal cruelty, all served up in one vile package?
Even knowing this conversation would become one of the pivotal moments that set Felix Arderon on his path as a villain, it seemed to her they had crossed a line speaking this way in front of the child.
“This won’t do.”
Daisy was about to stand when—
“I’m stepping out for a moment.”
“From now on…….”
Felix’s lips had barely moved.
Daisy turned her head, studying his face.
His expression was truly unreadable now—utterly blank, revealing nothing of what lay behind those eyes.
But…….
“Don’t pretend to know me.”
Daisy could have sworn she saw a spark flicker across his grey eyes—sharp, cutting.
“Don’t come looking for me on a whim. And above all,”
Felix met her gaze directly.
He looked genuinely angry.
“Don’t you dare bring me back to life on your own terms.”
Silence filled the space between them.
Daisy said nothing.
She simply stared at Felix’s grey eyes.
Felix was the first to look away.
He turned his gaze aside and bit his lip again.
His lips cycled from pale white to flushed red.
Watching this, Daisy’s lips parted slightly.
“Ah.”
She was beginning to understand.
So Felix Arderon was… ashamed.
Of being treated that way.
‘How did it go in the original?’
Daisy carefully retraced the original story.
But she couldn’t possibly guess what had happened to Felix around this time.
During this period, the original Daisy had been too busy protecting her own summon from the summoned beasts of the other children who bullied her, and the original Felix hadn’t appeared until much later.
Still, it was likely the original had unfolded similarly.
Whether Felix’s summon had been destroyed or sealed back then, she couldn’t know for certain.
But if that were the case…….
“I’ll help you.”
She just had to make sure it didn’t happen.
“What?”
“Your summon. I’ll help keep it from disappearing.”
“…….”
Taken aback, Felix could only stare at Daisy without speaking.
“All you need is to bring it back to its senses.”
Daisy spoke lightly.
“If you just prove it’s not a crazed summon, they won’t be able to destroy it on a whim, right?”
“…….”
“Right, if you can just make them see it’s safe, no matter what method…….”
Daisy, who had been murmuring to herself in a small voice, suddenly lifted her head.
Someone was reaching for the ward door’s handle.
“Ah, I’d better go.”
Felix finally snapped to attention, furrowing his brow to speak.
“I don’t need your help—.”
“If it works, you owe me one.”
“No! Where are you even getting,”
“Just do your best to buy time so your summon doesn’t get destroyed. Throw a tantrum on the floor if that’s what it takes, or run away—whatever. Got it?”
“What kind of—.”
“I’m going!”
Creak.
Daisy opened the window behind Felix’s bed and placed her foot on the sill.
Don’t even bother with words…….
Felix, who had been leaning against the headrest thinking as much, suddenly lifted his head as a realization flashed through his mind.
“Hey, this is the second floor……!”
“Here goes!”
The rest of his words were swallowed by the wind that rushed past his ear.
Tap.
“Hm, a teenage body really is light.”
Daisy landed lightly and walked away without so much as glancing back.
As if she had already done what she needed to do.
“…….”
Standing at the window without realizing it, Felix watched her go with a furrowed brow.
His expression was a tangled mess of annoyance and confusion, anger and bewilderment, yet he couldn’t tear his eyes from her retreating figure.
Daisy Sealbeart was truly strange.
Why wasn’t she afraid of him?
Why was she helping him?
What was her purpose?
No, more than that.
“How exactly does she plan to help me…….”
Felix’s voice was so quiet he could barely hear himself.
So he didn’t know.
That his own voice already carried hope and expectation he’d long believed himself to have lost.
It was then.
“Commander Arderon.”
The ward nurse’s voice came from behind him.
“The committee is here to see you.”
Felix slowly turned from the window, drawing his gaze away from the view beyond.
“Yes.”
As Felix answered, his face had already settled back into its usual impassiveness.
* * *
She hadn’t mentioned it to Felix, but Daisy had an altogether different plan.
‘This matter will be reported to the Sablehart Earl.’
The moment Daisy Sablehart heard those words from the headmistress, she understood.
That’s right—a quiet life at the academy and all that nonsense didn’t matter.
Well, of course it mattered, too.
But what good was it to graduate quietly?
When the Sablehart Earl, who didn’t even regard his own daughter as family, held the estate like a prime minister in an iron grip.
In the end, Daisy was certain she would live and die by her family’s sentence.
Bearing blame for crimes she never committed.
So it was better to run far from the Earl’s reach the moment she graduated.
She felt sorry toward the original Daisy who had longed for family, but she too would soon understand.
That this way was far happier than a meaningless, worthless death.
Sometimes a family that isn’t truly family exists nonetheless.
As was her habit, Daisy spoke to the original Daisy as she walked forward with long, determined strides.
What mattered most was this: escaping the Earl was far from easy.
Merely graduating from the academy alone—with no allies, no resources—she could never slip free from an Earl’s influence, one so wealthy, so vast in lands, so powerful in connections.
So Daisy made her decision.
She would find her ally herself.
That ally was Felix Arderon.

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