It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 43

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A heroine who turned to darkness was overwhelmingly convenient.
#43
Was there anything easier than finding Felix Arderon?
All Daisy had to do was follow people’s gazes.
And then—snap!
There he was, Felix Arderon, eating breakfast.
‘……Is it really allowed to be that dazzling first thing in the morning?’
Daisy squinted at Felix.
With the morning sun at his back, Felix looked as though a halo blazed behind him.
His black hair gleamed with an opalescent sheen.
His forehead was smooth and refined.
His lashes swept outward with an elegant curve.
His lips held a pronounced cupid’s bow.
Even his jawline was sharp and defined.
Each individual feature was flawless, and while a perfect whole isn’t always easy to achieve from perfect parts, Felix Arderon managed it with effortless grace.
With his eyes lowered, Felix was poking at a pancake on his plate with his fork.
His gray eyes glimmered between long, dark lashes with a sorrowful depth.
‘A melancholy handsome man…….’
Daisy snapped back to herself mid-thought.
No—this wasn’t the time for that.
What mattered was that this moment would be the turning point for Daisy’s survival in this ruthless world.
Tap-tap.
Without hesitation, Daisy walked over and sat down directly across from Felix.
“Gasp.”
“What?”
Audible gasps rippled through the room.
No one could believe it.
Daisy Sableheart was sitting down in front of Felix Arderon?
That Daisy Sableheart—the one afraid even of passing bees, let alone mad wolves?
“Felix Arderon!”
And she’d actually spoken to him?
While everyone stared at the pair with wide eyes like lanterns, Daisy waited for Felix’s response.
“…….”
“…….”
But no answer came from Felix.
In fact—
he didn’t even look at her.
“Arderon?”
“…….”
“Felix.”
“…….”
“Hey.”
“…….”
She’d even risked a casual “hey,” but Felix still didn’t spare her a glance.
All she heard from the crowd was a synchronized gasp each time she spoke, like audience participation in a folk tale.
Then there was only one option left.
Only one way forward.
“Ricky.”
Bang!
The moment Daisy drawled out the nickname, Felix slammed his hand against the table.
“Never again.”
Felix, his gray eyes now dark and stormy, snarled at her.
“Never call me by that name again.”
The dining hall fell silent in an instant.
Gulp.
Someone swallowed hard.
It looked as though Felix Arderon might reach across the table and snap Daisy Sableheart’s slender, pale throat.
But it didn’t happen.
Because Daisy Sableheart didn’t even blink before saying this:
“Then answer right away when I call you Felix, and I’ll stop.”
Was he insane?
It was the moment when everyone thought exactly the same thing.
“Felix.”
Daisy called Felix’s name again.
And… surprisingly, Felix answered.
“……Why.”
Wow, this actually works.
As everyone thought that, Daisy produced a sheet of paper.
“Sign it.”
Snap.
Felix snatched it away with an irritated gesture instead of answering, then read through it.

1. Hereafter, Felix Arderon shall be referred to as Party A, and Daisy Sableheart as Party B.
“……’Party A’?”
“It’s just a designation. Keep reading.”
2. Party B shall find a method by which Party A’s summoned creature does not perish.
3. Upon success, Party A shall grant Party B one wish.
4. Upon failure… too bad.
This was really insane.
Daisy met his gray eyes, which conveyed exactly that sentiment, and opened her mouth as if aggrieved.
“In any case, it’s not like I’m the one destroying it! If nothing is attempted, it’ll perish anyway, so it’s only natural there’s no penalty for failure.”
“…Hah.”
Felix released a long breath, then turned his gaze back to the contract and asked.
“What is this ‘wish’?”
“Exactly what it sounds like. You just have to grant me one thing I want. Of course, I won’t ask for anything beyond your abilities.”
Just save me once when it looks like I’m about to die.
She didn’t say that out loud.
There was no point saying it now—he’d only think she was joking anyway.
She could see Felix’s hand tensing gradually.
As Daisy watched the contract crumple mercilessly, she found herself thinking, ‘Maybe getting a written commitment was the wrong approach after all,’ when—
Felix slowly opened his mouth.
“Do you really…….”
His voice, lowered to barely a whisper, was just audible to her.
“……think it’s possible?”
His deeper, more mature voice for his age trembled without strength.
‘Ah.’
And Daisy understood.
So even the world’s worst villain had moments when he wanted to grasp at straws.
Even if that straw was someone like her—a powerless first-year student clinging to life by a thread.
‘This damned school really is breeding villains, isn’t it.’
With that thought, Daisy opened her mouth with a serious expression.
“I don’t know either.”
She couldn’t lie, not when Felix Arderon had resolved to clutch at this straw.
From only a single encounter, Daisy didn’t truly understand how mad the mad wolf was.
She might have thought it fortunate if she could avoid serious injury, let alone tame him.
But.
“I’ll still do my absolute best to try everything I can.”
What Daisy Sableheart hadn’t been able to do when she’d sent away the cuckoo.
“Two of us is better than one.”
When no one had helped her.
“Doing something is better than doing nothing.”
Because she knew how great that pain could be.
……
Felix stared at the half-crumpled contract.
‘A wish.’
A compensation as cunning as the contract was flimsy.
He couldn’t predict what Daisy Sableheart would ask of him.
All his wealth?
The backing of his family name?
Or perhaps she was planning to become a duchess someday?
Is my summoned creature worthy of enduring all of that to rescue it?
Rationally speaking, it was not.
I could live without a summoned creature.
After all, it was only supplementary.
There was nothing lost in erasing a mad wolf from my life.
‘Dorothy isn’t a summoned creature—she’s a friend.’
If not for Mother’s words.
‘Rick, you’ll soon find a friend like no other in this world. When that time comes, treasure them the way you treasure Dorothy. You’ll receive far more in return.’
Felix reached into his bag.
He drew out a pen and scrawled his signature at the bottom of the contract.
He could be certain of one thing.
He would regret signing this absurd contract in the future.
But it didn’t matter.
There was nothing precious among what Daisy Saibleheart could demand of me.
Such things had long since vanished.
“Excellent!”
Daisy folded the signed contract carefully and glanced around the dining hall.
The students eating breakfast were staring at us and Felix with expressions of shock.
Ah, the stares are burning—time to make my exit.
I’d chosen this location specifically for witnesses, but now was the moment to withdraw gracefully.
“After class, meet me in Seamore Forest.”
Daisy whispered the words barely audibly and rose from her seat without hesitation.
Then she glided away through the crowd, which parted like the Red Sea.
……
Felix couldn’t tear his gaze from her retreating figure.
Long after Daisy had disappeared.
* * *
The contract was signed. The appointment was set.
At the thought of her perfectly documented ‘wish,’ laughter bubbled up unbidden.
Heh.
Daisy’s laugh echoed through the empty corridor.
Hehehehe…….
Though somewhat sinister.
But Daisy couldn’t help herself.
A wish token from the world’s greatest villain!
It was something she could only claim if she succeeded, but the fact that survival had drawn close was cause for celebration.
Of course, if she failed, the enraged villain might accelerate her arrival at death, but…….
“Never mind, I’ll think about that later.”
Daisy shook her head to banish the gloomy thoughts and was heading toward the classroom for her first lesson when—
Grab.
Someone seized Daisy’s arm forcefully.
Her body’s automatic response was only natural.
Whip!
Daisy pulled the captured arm toward herself and lowered her body.
She was about to lift with her shoulder and throw, just as she’d been taught.
But the one gripping her arm was no easy opponent.
He stumbled briefly, but regained his balance in an instant, released her arm, and stepped back.
“Damn it!”
A low curse spilled from the man’s lips.
“What are you?”
Daisy was bewildered.
“That’s my line…….”
As she said this and looked up at the man’s face, she fell silent.
Platinum blonde hair cut short.
A build that was solid yet sharp and lithe.
A face handsome but with an overall air of danger.
And a scar running across the brow above blue eyes.
All these elements pointed to only one person.
“……Chester Saibleheart?”
“What exactly are you doing?”
Daisy’s second brother asked irritably.

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