It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 48

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A corrupted female lead is overwhelmingly convenient.
#48
Seaedrid Carcedine.
A great mage and headmaster of the Eldvaine Academy.
And… a mad peacock.
└The mad peacock showed up again.
└Is this a side character?
└That’s not what it means.
└Then what is it?
└Insane peacock.
That was right.
Seaedrid Carcedine was called a mad peacock by the readers.
The reason was simple.
She was beautiful and insane.
People said that looking at Seaedrid Carcedine made one’s eyes feel as though they would go blind from her beauty.
Teal-colored hair cascaded down like a waterfall to her ankles.
Once mesmerized by hair that shimmered blue or green depending on the angle of light, one’s attention turned next to her eyes.
Those strange bronze eyes resembled an ancient key, a freshly unearthed artifact, and simultaneously a dull blade.
Her unblemished skin was pale.
Some claimed to have glimpsed faint blue scales rising across her skin, though no evidence ever surfaced.
Yet despite such dazzling beauty, Seaedrid’s antics proved shockingly outrageous.
Missing the entrance ceremony because of a hangover was hardly surprising.
Folding the Emperor’s confidential letter into a paper airplane and flying it away.
Switching all the expensive tea leaves the nagging vice-principal had collected for dried mugwort.
Blowing up the eastern spire because the headmaster’s office view wasn’t good enough.
Mixing the 92-proof spirits from Doglum with the 97-proof spirits from Baraw and drinking them to avoid attending an academy headmaster’s conference, falling into a coma for four days.
Setting an unquenchable fire in the mage tower director’s room for speaking unpleasantly.
Placing a spell that makes firecrackers explode loudly whenever a disliked professor opens their mouth.
Disguising herself as an ordinary professor and teaching forbidden magic to freshmen.
And most of all,
‘Treating the parent council committee as invisible.’
└She really is the mad peacock. Look how she ignores the parents.
└Will Daisy ever see a better day ㅠㅠ It wasn’t even Daisy’s fault ㅠㅠ Those *** stole Daisy’s assignment and copied it, so how did Daisy end up being involved in grade manipulation ㅠㅠ
└Mad peacock, you can do it.
After it came to light that students who had secretly copied Daisy’s assignment received A+ grades, Daisy was disciplined at a meeting of the parent council.
When the headmaster Seaedrid happened to learn of this fact, she remarkably took Daisy’s side.
That is to say, by treating the parent council committee as invisible.
「”Headmaster!”
“…….”
“Headmaster! Please respond!”
“Vice-principal Orphel, where is a dog barking?”
“…….”
“No! How dare you! Do you know who I am! Vice-principal! Please do something!”
“……Sigh.”」
Apart from the vice-principal’s deepening worries, Daisy was able to graduate without facing discipline thanks to the headmaster.
Readers, including Gwon Do-yo, thought Daisy’s miserable life would finally improve.
After all, she was the female lead!
‘……But I never expected the headmaster to treat even Daisy as invisible…….’
The headmaster’s intervention only helped that one time.
After that, the headmaster continued to act as though both the parent council and Daisy didn’t exist, and Daisy lived as a fool until graduation, when she married Jern Blight.
What happened after that is… omitted below.
By the way, during all that time, Count Sablehart did nothing.
「『The Count’s word is to refrain from bringing shame upon the family.』」
All he received was a single letter from his steward.
In any case, setting aside the problem of even treating me as invisible, the headmaster was the ideal person to block the parent council.
And since this matter involved Felix Arderon rather than myself, the headmaster would certainly listen earnestly.
The problem was finding where the headmaster’s office was…….
“Damn it.”
Daisy stared down a corridor so endlessly long it seemed like a gaping black mouth and swore under her breath.
Finding the headmaster’s office in this chaotic hallway would surely take longer than finding a needle in a haystack.
But there was no time.
According to the student serving as an information broker, the summoned creature’s disappearance would happen tomorrow.
“Damn, disappearance, really…….”
Even the most heinous criminal wouldn’t be put to death so abruptly.
Daisy grabbed her hair roughly once more and raised her voice into the empty corridor.
“I’m losing my mind. How am I supposed to find the principal’s office in this godforsaken sprawl of an academy!”
Ding.
Right then, a clear ringing sound she’d forgotten about echoed through the hallway.
A small, worn bronze plaque gleamed from the corridor wall.
[→Principal’s Office→]
Right, there’s a navigation system here…….
* * *
Knock knock.
Arriving at the principal’s office, Daisy knocked politely.
There was no answer.
Thud thud thud.
Wondering if the door might be thick, Daisy knocked harder.
Still no answer.
Bang bang!
Daisy pounded the door with her clenched fist.
Still nothing.
At this point, she was genuinely getting worried.
If the principal wasn’t in the principal’s office, how was she supposed to find him?
Even asking the vice-principal didn’t seem likely to get her anywhere…….
In that moment, what caught Daisy’s eye was the bronze plaque navigation system.
Could the navigation system possibly find people as well as places?
“Where’s the principal?”
Daisy asked.
[↓Principal↓]
The brass plaque that had been floating directly above the principal’s office shook with a loud clatter, and in an instant its display changed.
[↓Principal’s Office↓]
“Oh.”
Clink clink!
Though it continued shaking somewhat nervously, the brass plaque stubbornly kept pointing toward the principal’s office.
Having discovered that the brass plaque navigation could find people too, and that the principal was in his office, Daisy regarded the office door with suspicion.
Could he be sleeping off another drunk again?
Already skeptical of the principal who’d lost her trust at the opening ceremony, Daisy carefully turned the doorknob.
“Principal, may I come in?”
Click.
The knob turned easily—the door wasn’t locked.
But the door wouldn’t open.
“Principal, I’m going to push harder, okay?”
Pushing with force, the door budged slightly.
The door seemed to be stuck.
For the principal’s office of what was supposedly the largest academy in the empire, the maintenance was abysmal, wasn’t it?
With that thought, Daisy applied more force.
Crreeeeak.
The office door opened with a sharp sound, gaping only a fingernail’s width.
The first thing visible through the crack was a red carpet with an exotic pattern.
Scattered across it were empty liquor bottles, cushions, snack bags, and books strewn haphazardly without any order.
The largest object rolling about the room was a cast iron pot.
The pot—large enough that Daisy could have used it as a bathtub—had dried, unidentifiable green slime crusted to its sides.
Now Daisy could be certain.
The principal was definitely passed out drunk.
Pushing the door open a bit wider with another surge of force, Daisy gauged the effort needed to fully open it.
One hard kick should do it.
“Principal, I’m going to kick the door?”
Ignoring the still-absent response, Daisy stepped back five paces.
And then.
Slam!
Daisy rolled forward lightly and dashed toward the principal’s office.
She had planted her left foot firmly on the ground and was raising her right leg to kick when it happened.
Crash!
The brass plate mounted above the office door rattled loudly, then came to an abrupt stop.
Whoosh.
With a sound she’d come to know well, a teal-colored mane of long hair fluttered through the narrow gap as the door opened.
So that was… teleportation.
Which meant the principal had just appeared in her office.
‘Damn it! Why didn’t I get accurate intel?’
Daisy cursed the brass plate and tried desperately to brake.
But her right leg, already committed to its forward momentum, paid no heed to her will.
Bang!
The office door swung wide open with a thunderous crash.
“My, my…….”
And above the head of Daisy, who had tumbled halfway through the entrance, came the unhurried voice of a woman—the same one she’d heard at the opening ceremony.
“Quite the entrance.”
Daisy lifted her head to see who had spoken.
She kept lifting.
And kept lifting still.
By the time her neck began to ache, Daisy finally found herself staring at a small face.
And she understood.
The original narrative had been largely accurate, but there was one detail it had omitted.
For instance, the fact that Seardred Carcedin stood over two meters tall.
‘I suppose that was the one thing worth leaving out…….’
The peacock-like beauty could not hold its ground against the imposing presence of a frame exceeding two meters in height.
The principal, Seardred, looked down at Daisy with an expression of visible indifference and opened her mouth.
“……Intriguing.”

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