It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 50

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The darkened heroine is overwhelmingly convenient.
#50
‘Vice Principal, where is that dog barking?’
While Vice Principal Orpel bore the brunt of the angry parents’ protests with his entire body, Felix met with Daisy every day and threw himself into training.
He still couldn’t understand why placing a paw in his hand was supposed to demonstrate obedience, but……
Felix gazed at the thick wolf’s foreleg resting on his palm.
It was a success, if you could call it that.
The wolf was reluctant, yes, but it did place its paw down at his command “paw.”
Yet Felix remained skeptical.
Could all of this work even when Daisy wasn’t here?
[Bark, bark.]
“Yes, yes.”
The grey wolf, which had drawn close to Daisy, was rubbing its head against hers.
A sea of obedience and reverence crashed into Felix’s chest.
An emotion that made clear this summon belonged to someone other than himself.
It was absurd, and yet in some way he understood it.
Daisy, stroking the grey wolf’s fur without hesitation though it towered above her own height, embodied the ideal master.
Radiant with certainty and confidence in herself.
A quality he could never hope to find in himself.
The grey wolf had clearly seen it too.
So it made sense that it would serve Daisy Seableheart rather than him, when searching him wouldn’t turn up a shred of worth as a master.
“Hey.”
What if, in fact, nothing was actually wrong?
Felix’s grey eyes darkened with shadow.
The vice principal said this had never happened before, that something seemed amiss and he’d investigate.
But what if the investigation turned up no cause?
“Hey! You really…….”
What if he simply wasn’t fit to be its master?
What if a summon desperate to kill its own master had been bound to him?
Did any of this effort even matter?
Being bound for life to a summon that wanted to kill him?
Perhaps…….
“Felix Arderon!”
In that instant, a sharp cry pierced his ear and Felix snapped his head up.
Without thinking, he drew a sharp breath.
[Grrrrr…….]
The grey wolf was thrashing.
Saliva, nearly viscous, dripped through crude rope wound around its muzzle.
Its forehead was streaked with blood, as if it had slammed its head into the tree again and again.
Blood ran from its claws as it tore at the earth, and the rope Daisy gripped pulled taut as if the beast might break free any moment.
Sharp teeth clicked and clattered inside the muzzle.
Faced with a wolf that seemed caught between agony and complete madness, Felix instinctively drew his dagger.
“Daisy!”
He was about to order her to step back behind him at once.
Except——the grey wolf’s eyes didn’t meet his.
[Grrr… Growl…….]
“…….”
The yellow eyes glistening with tears held nothing but resentment.
Only then did Felix understand.
Just as he suffered from the summon’s aggression, the summon suffered from his doubt.
“Felix.”
Daisy called his name again.
Felix, standing with confusion written across his face, turned toward her slowly.
“Stop thinking like that.”
‘Foolish child.’
Looking at Sundo’s state, one could only guess what was going through Felix Arderon’s head.
He must be thinking he wasn’t Sundo’s true master.
Because Sundo obeyed Daisy Seableheart more readily.
But listening well to someone and truly following them as a master were entirely different matters.
“Sundo is your summon.”
Daisy stated it plainly.
“What if the master denies it?”
‘A summoned beast changes according to how diligently its master refines itself.’
Daisy recalled something she’d heard from the headmaster long ago.
When she’d first heard those words, she’d thought them just routine nagging.
But they weren’t.
“A summoned beast transforms with its master.”
That was likely why the training hadn’t progressed beyond “Sit” and “Down.”
“You have to acknowledge Sundol as your summoned beast for Sundol to acknowledge you as his master.”
Even as the boy thought he had to save Sundol, he’d never truly accepted him as his own summoned beast—and now his lips pressed thin and bloodless.
[Grrr…….]
Sundol, pain draining the strength from him, snapped his jaws together with a grinding sound.
Yet the muzzle seemed to irritate him, and he kept raking his bloody foreleg across his snout in frustration.
The rope was so frayed from his pulling that it looked ready to snap at any moment.
Felix watched the gray wolf for a long moment, then slowly moved toward him.
“…….”
He’d had no chance to feel joy at having acquired a summoned beast.
From the instant he’d gained one, Felix’s heart had ached terribly.
People had demanded he annihilate his summoned beast, insisting that everything was the fault of “Felix Arderon.”
‘That mad woman’s child—what else would you expect.’
‘It’s bound to go mad too.’
‘Of course. It’s “Felix Arderon,” after all.’
Not even Daisy Sablehart’s training had changed the situation.
It had only confirmed that this summoned beast’s true master was not him.
Yet he didn’t resent Daisy for it.
He’d simply thought: if this gray wolf had a true master, it would be someone like her.
But then.
‘Sundol is your summoned beast.’
That certainty in her voice had shaken something loose inside him.
‘You have to acknowledge Sundol as your summoned beast for Sundol to acknowledge you as his master.’
His heart, which had been pounding so loudly, began to settle.
As if finding its proper place at last.
As if making space for a great wolf to finally lie down.
“…….”
[…….]
Felix gazed at the gray-furred wolf—a creature whose coloring matched his own eyes—and slowly extended his hand.
If this truly was his summoned beast.
If it didn’t disappear tomorrow.
If it would always remain at his side, whether he wished it or not.
‘……I want to treat it well.’
So that was it.
Only then did Felix understand.
He wanted to treat his summoned beast well.
[Bark!]
The wolf barked loudly, wary of the hand drawing near.
But Felix didn’t stop.
Instead of touching the blood-soaked foreleg, he began carefully untying the tangled muzzle rope.
“…….”
[…….]
Conflicting emotions rose within him—or within it.
The urge to attack warred with the urge to accept everything as it was.
He couldn’t tell whose feelings they were.
So instead of puzzling it out, Felix simply stroked the fur gently.
The long, thick gray coat flowed through his fingers.
Soft strokes.
Beneath that tender touch, the heart-pain that had become everyday began to ease.
The gray wolf’s head—its eyes now closed—was slowly tilting toward Felix’s hand when it happened.
“Ugh!”
Sharp, pointed aggression flashed across his vision like lightning.
As if someone had issued an irrefutable command.
‘Attack it.’
Something was wrong.
‘Attack that thing.’
The wolf’s muzzle yawned open impossibly wide with a high-pitched snarl, as if to tear Felix apart.
In that instant, as their eyes met, Felix felt a jolt of shock.
The wolf’s wide-open eyes seemed reluctant—as though it didn’t want to do this.
He felt the wolf’s sharp teeth sink into his arm.
Felix clenched his jaw, bracing himself for the pain that would follow.
Bang!
In the next moment, a sudden, shattering impact struck his head, and Felix staggered.
Clutching his temples in disbelief, he turned and spotted a grey wolf sprawled motionless on the ground.
Standing beside it was a small figure: Daisy Sableheart.
Though now her delicate fists were clenched with grim purpose.
“…….”
[…….]
“Understand now?”
Daisy, who had been muttering something about “didn’t want to abuse animals” or whatever, continued in a tone that sent chills down his spine.
“Sundol doesn’t follow me because he thinks I’m his master.”
He follows me because I’m just that strong.
“…….”
Felix thought to himself that this was the clearest, most convincing explanation he’d ever heard in his life.
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“Fel-whatshisname.”
“Felix Arderon, Headmaster.”
“Kids these days have such ridiculously long names.”
Felix swallowed dryly, watching the grumbling headmaster.
While the headmaster’s appearance was certainly unusual, this wasn’t the moment to study it.
“Ahem.”
“Not that looking at it changes anything…….”
Seated before him were the headmaster, the vice-headmaster, members of the parents’ committee, and a magic professor and fencing professor summoned for safety purposes.
“Vice-headmaster, is that a dog barking somewhere—”
“Mister Arderon! We shall now begin verification of your summoned creature’s disposition.”
The vice-headmaster drowned out the headmaster’s grumbling with a loud voice, wiping cold sweat from his brow as he continued.
“Mister Arderon, summon your creature.”
Whoosh.
Grey smoke curled up above Felix’s heart as his trembling hands, drained pale by tension, clenched into fists.

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