It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 49

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A Darkened Heroine Is Overwhelmingly Convenient
#49
The slow voice that sounded like “how fascinating” struck her more as bored than intrigued.
Gulp.
Daisy swallowed hard.
She’d recalled how Seardred in the original story had treated her as though she didn’t exist.
If she made a request, would he grant it?
This madman over two meters tall?
But second-guessing herself now was pointless.
Seardred was her only remaining option.
“I—”
“You’ve got that look about you. The one that says you need something.”
“Y-yes, that’s right.”
Daisy, robbed of the initiative, swallowed her words and nodded.
“You kicked down the Headmaster’s Office door and stormed in. And now you want a favor.”
“That’s not—”
There’s been a misunderstanding, I—
“Hmm.”
The Headmaster gazed down at Daisy intently.
Daisy met his gaze without flinching.
She hoped he could feel the urgency in her eyes.
His bronze eyes were every bit as peculiar as she’d heard.
They held an otherworldly quality that no pigment in this world could ever replicate.
At first, she’d only been trying to appeal to him, but gradually she found herself unable to look away.
Daisy, mesmerized, suddenly furrowed her brow.
Just now, that was—
“Well,”
The Headmaster drew out his words, parting his lips as a faint smile played across his face.
“Shall I listen?”
Perfect!
Daisy, who’d promptly forgotten what she’d glimpsed a moment ago at those welcome words, spoke urgently.
First, she needed to make clear that this wasn’t her problem.
She couldn’t afford to lose the Headmaster’s interest, hard-won as it was.
“It’s not actually my problem—it’s Felix Arderon’s problem!”
You know, the minor duke, Arderon—
She hadn’t even finished the words.
The Headmaster’s eyes went glassy in an instant, and he settled into the only clean desk in the office with a yawn.
“Ugh, how tiresome.”
“…?”
Daisy stared at the Headmaster in confusion.
Since when was there anyone more interesting than Felix Arderon?
A minor duke who’d even summoned a wolf—a Summoned Beast never seen before.
And yet the Headmaster’s attitude was as if—
“I was rather hoping to hear a request that was actually amusing.”
The Headmaster, making no effort to hide his disappointment, raised one massive hand and waved dismissively.
“Never mind. Off with you now.”
Surely not.
“Wait! It’s my problem too!”
Before the Headmaster could even finish, Daisy cried out desperately.
It was madness.
Why would he care about her problem of all things?
Yet astonishingly, at those words, the Headmaster’s eyes glimmered again, just as they had before.
“Is that so? What is it, then?”
Incredible. It actually worked.
There was no mistaking it now.
The Headmaster was intrigued by her.
Why, she couldn’t say.
But she couldn’t afford to let this opportunity slip away.
“The Parental Committee is trying to destroy the Summoned Beast that Felix Arderon summoned. They won’t even run a proper Verification.”
“The Committee?”
The Headmaster pronounced the unfamiliar word awkwardly, as though hearing it for the first time, then nodded slowly.
“Ah, yes… there was something like that, wasn’t there…….”
You should take at least a passing interest in school matters, you deranged peacock.
Instead of saying this, Daisy elaborated.
“I’m not asking you to destroy Felix’s Summoned Beast outright. But you ought to at least grant time for Verification and justification, shouldn’t you?”
“So you want me to go through all that tedious nonsense?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
Well, because you’re the Headmaster…….
She couldn’t very well say that, could she.
“Besides, it turns out this isn’t even my problem—it’s Felix-whatever’s problem. Honestly, kids these days have such long names it’s hard to remember them. Back in my day it was just John or Peter.”
But you’re Seardred Carcedine…….
Daisy bit back her rising complaints and spoke carefully.
“Felix’s Summoned Beast problem is my problem too.”
It wasn’t merely a matter of owing Felix a debt or not.
“I’m the one who named that Summoned Beast.”
She shouldn’t have done that.
She’d let her guard down because it wasn’t human.
At some point, Daisy had come to realize it.
That she was growing attached to Felix’s Summoned Beast.
Enough that a person who’d resolved to live selfishly, alone, had walked all the way to the Headmaster’s Office.
The Headmaster’s expression grew peculiar at those words.
As though recalling something distant, his gaze fixed on far horizons, and a low voice emerged from between his parted lips.
“A name… that matters.”
Then his eyes, which had briefly softened into something else, refocused on Daisy with sharp awareness.
“Very well. We’ll conduct a Verification.”
“Really?!”
Daisy, who hadn’t expected such an easy resolution, lifted her head sharply.
“Yes. But there’s a condition.”
“What… what is it?”
“Tell me the name of that Summoned Beast you gave it. If I like the name, then we’ll proceed with the Verification—steering toward the most favorable outcome possible.”
…….
Damn it, I should’ve put more thought into the name…….
Confronted with an unexpected obstacle, Daisy’s lips pressed tightly shut.
No, if I just come up with something brilliant and new right now…….
“A name chosen now would be invalid.”
Hell.
After a moment’s hesitation, Daisy gave up and let her shoulders sag.
In a situation where nothing better than a name like Sebastian came to mind, devising a new one felt hopeless.
Daisy drew a deep breath and slowly opened her mouth.
* * *
Ahahaha! Ahhk! Ah-hak! Gack! Cough-cough-cough… Uh-hehehak!
‘Just… stop laughing already…….’
Even with the door closed, the raucous laughter rang in her ears, and Daisy pressed her palm to her forehead.
Her face burned.
If she looked in a mirror, it would certainly be flushed crimson.
‘Sundoli.’
‘What?’
‘I named it Sundoli.’
All things considered, it had somehow succeeded.
At the half-hearted name she’d blurted out, the Headmaster had laughed so hard the office nearly shook itself apart.
He’d laughed while confirming the Verification, laughed while telling her to leave.
It was embarrassing beyond measure—infuriating, even—but regardless of how he felt, she couldn’t afford to miss this opportunity.
“Right then. Intensive training starts today.”
With the determination of a vow, Daisy swept down the corridor with energetic strides.
The Headmaster’s laughter still echoed behind her.
* * *
“Ah, I think my sides will split… ahahk… uhuh, uh-huhuhuk…….”
The Headmaster, Seardred, who’d laughed until he was half-weeping, wiped the tears clinging to the corners of his eyes.
“Sundoli… it’s Sundoli…….”
The fact that the Summoned Beast Felix had chosen was a massive grey wolf made it all the more unbearable.
Daisy had thought the Headmaster was unaware of Felix’s problem, but she was wrong.
He remembered most of what happened in the Academy.
He simply ignored it out of boredom.
What did it matter to him if a freshman’s Summoned Beast went mad and rampaged?
The Vice-Headmaster would handle whatever needed handling anyway.
And yet…….
Seardred’s bronze eyes followed the space where Daisy had been standing.
She was truly an interesting child.
It was surprising enough that she’d found the Headmaster’s Office in this Academy, or that she’d kicked down the door of the office where he’d personally placed an entry-prohibition spell.
“Looking me straight in the eye.”
When he recalled those emerald eyes that had stared unflinchingly at him—eyes that most people couldn’t meet for even a second—a pleasant feeling bloomed again.
“Daisy Sable Heart.”
Seardred repeated the name she hadn’t given him, barely suppressing a smile breaking through as he spoke.
“Children these days certainly have long names.”
* * *
“……Hand.”
……Jaw.
“……Good, job.”
[Growwwwl.]
“Both of you—pretty expressions.”
Daisy issued a warning to Felix, whose grey eyes were coldly narrowed, and Sundoli, whose teeth were bared.
In an instant, Sundoli’s face softened and the teeth disappeared.
Boss, I’m sorry!
Daisy spoke to Felix, who was watching the spectacle with utter exasperation.
“You too, now.”
“…….”
“How did you even get this opportunity? Your Summoned Beast will listen to you when you open your eyes nicely.”
“Soft eyes and a Summoned Beast’s aggression are unrelated.”
“How would you know? Have you ever tried?”
“…….”
“In any case, you need to at least pretend tomorrow.”
Daisy pressed on gravely toward Felix, who had fallen silent.
“It’s the last chance to save Sundoli.”
The last chance.
The moment she thought of it that way, her breath caught short.
Felix clenched his fists.
His heart raced.
‘A final Verification of the Arderon forces’ Summoned Beast is scheduled for one week from now.’
Daisy had somehow managed to overturn the dissolution decision and obtain a Verification date.
‘Since it’s an exceptional decision, I hope things proceed in a good direction.’
The Vice-Headmaster who said that much hadn’t conveyed the rest of the story.
But the news that there had been fierce protests from the Parental Committee had long since spread widely among the students.
‘A Verification for what?! Didn’t everyone see how extremely aggressive it was?! This mad Summoned Beast should be destroyed before it attacks the children!’
It was also notable that the Headmaster, who appeared unexpectedly, had silenced the protest with just one sentence.

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