It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 57

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The villainess heroine is overwhelmingly more convenient.
#57
Daisy, murmuring without quite realizing it, lifted her head at the sudden weight of a gaze.
Two men sitting across from her were staring at her intently.
Both wore the same expression—brows knitted together as if displeased.
It was almost amusing to watch two people who shared certain similarities yet were exact opposites in other respects make identical faces.
But before she could smirk at the sight, she had a question.
“Why am I even riding with you two?”
Kailan answered her flatly.
“Father instructed me to bring you.”
“Oh, come on.”
Daisy denied it with absolute certainty.
Kailan’s eyebrow twitched upward.
“Why would you think that?”
“Because he’d never send such a fine carriage just to fetch me—Daisy Seableheart. He’d send a small supply wagon and call it a day.”
If he had, I could’ve borrowed a carriage and traveled alone in peace.
Daisy, clicking her tongue with regret, didn’t notice.
Didn’t notice how strange the gaze of the two men on her had become.
* * *
Kailan studied his youngest sibling sitting before him.
Daisy held her chin in her hand, gazing out the window where she’d drawn the curtain slightly aside.
Her downcast eyes, contemplating something deeply, looked as meek and gentle as always.
But Kailan had learned yesterday that it was all an illusion.
He’d merely gone to inform her that they’d be riding in the carriage together the next day, and when he’d made a comment about her unkempt appearance irritating him, she’d snapped back.
And then.
‘Just one kick.’
That single kick to his shin had resulted in a complex fracture diagnosis.
‘Were you struck by a carriage, sir?’
When the ward nurse had handed him bone-mending medicine and asked seriously, Kailan couldn’t bring himself to answer.
But that wasn’t all that had changed.
‘Because he’d never send such a fine carriage just to fetch me—Daisy Seableheart. He’d send a small supply wagon and call it a day.’
Did he know Daisy could speak so sharply?
‘Just… Daisy……’
It wasn’t wrong, what she’d said.
Kailan had always thought of her that way.
‘Just’ the thing born at the cost of Mother’s life.
But hearing those words come from Daisy’s own mouth left him feeling strange.
No—was it displeasure?
Even though he’d always thought such things, he’d never actually spoken them aloud to her face.
It wouldn’t have been befitting of a family heir.
Which meant someone else must have said such things to her.
Who would dare——
As that thought occurred to him, Kailan slowly turned his head to look beside him.
“What, what is it?”
Chester, possessed of a second son’s backbone that made him incapable of defying his older brother no matter how reckless he seemed, flinched and asked nervously.
Yes—if it was him, he very well might have said such things in front of Daisy.
“……You. Go back to the estate.”
“Huh? All of a sudden?”
Chester jumped up.
“Why? Why, though?”
Ignoring Chester’s indignant protest, Kailan turned his gaze back to Daisy.
Daisy was checking her pockets.
Judging by the jingling sound, she apparently had money on her.
Now that he thought about it, there was a time when the steward had worried that Daisy had lost all her allowance.
He’d thought it pathetic at the time.
But now, as her pockets seemed heavy—suggesting she’d been saving carefully without losing anything—he found himself growing curious.
Seeing her like that, he suddenly wanted to know.
“Daisy.”
At Kailan’s call, Daisy’s head snapped up, her hand clenching her pocket.
Her eyes were guarded.
Kailan let out a scoff.
As if he’d resort to stealing pocket money just because he was short on funds.
“How much allowance are you getting these days?”
He’d thought it was nothing worth asking about.
But strangely, there came no answer.
Or rather, she was answering—
with her face.
Her mild expression vanished in an instant, replaced by one swelling with anger that flushed and paled in rapid succession.
“Why…….”
Was it too little?
That couldn’t be right.
Father wouldn’t begrudge mere pocket money—
“Who do you think you’re mocking, really…….”
The words spilled from between Daisy’s clenched teeth in a voice edged with menace.
“Ask the Count directly. See how much I receive.”
“Hey, why do you call Father that way,”
Kailan stilled Chester with a single gesture before asking his question.
“If you’re getting so little, where did that money come from?”
“I earned it myself, so drop it.”
At Daisy’s curt reply, Kailan found himself doubting his own ears.
She earned it herself?
“What on earth… where did you…….”
Daisy shrugged at Kailan, whose shock had left him at a loss for words.
“You don’t need to know. The hourly rate was excellent, anyway.”
He’d never heard of a count’s daughter working for hourly wages in his life.
“How much did you earn exactly…….”
At Kailan’s urgent question, Daisy answered with a note of quiet pride in her voice.
“1 Gold.”
Chester reacted first.
“What, how many Gold?”
Chester’s jaw hung slack as he turned toward his brother without thinking.
……
Kailan stood frozen, eyes wide, unable to speak a word.
‘Ah, he’s passed out with his eyes wide open…….’
Unlike Kailan, who’d gone rigid in shock, Daisy felt her chest lighten.
There—see? There were plenty of ways to find money without relying on allowance.
How dare they ask her how much pocket money she received, when she hadn’t laid eyes on such a thing in years.
There was no insult quite like it.
Meanwhile, through the window, the street outside began to look increasingly crowded.
‘What’s going on……?’
Just as Daisy tilted her head in confusion,
“We’ve arrived at the Warp Point.”
The driver’s voice came from the front of the carriage as it came to a stop she hadn’t even noticed.
‘Wait, the Warp Point?’
Only then did Daisy grasp what she’d overlooked.
A journey Kailan and Chester made together could only follow the route Kailan and Chester normally took.
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“I’m actually furious…….”
Daisy muttered under her breath, pressing her palm to her forehead.
Kailan and Chester, hearing it, doubted their ears—but said nothing.
The journey took less than five hours…….
Yet every time, Daisy had ridden hard for a full two days to get here.
The anger was so intense her head throbbed with heat.
‘Graduation or whatever—maybe I should just bolt from here altogether.’
But what surfaced in Daisy’s mind was the map she’d borrowed from the library.
The Seableheart Domain was absurdly vast.
She couldn’t rent a carriage, and she couldn’t ride a horse either, so if she tried to escape on foot, she’d need to walk day and night for a full week.
And then she’d reach the neighboring domain.
Who lived in the neighboring domain?
The Penmarche Family lived there.
Ruined matter never comes alone.
‘Just four more days. We’ll each make our own way back anyway, so I can rent a carriage then and return comfortably.’
Once she’d resolved on this, the queasy feeling in her stomach settled somewhat.
Perhaps it had worked out for the better.
She could add the two days’ carriage fare she’d saved to her escape fund later.
And then…….
It was just as Daisy, lost in thought, turned her gaze toward the window.
Her green eyes widened in an instant.
An exclamation burst from her lips before she could stop it.
“Wow, that’s insane…….”
The residence of the Seableheart Family, Edelgard Hall, was coming into view.
The first thing visible was a river.
A river actually flowed through the estate.
Across it stretched a stone bridge so wide that three carriages could pass abreast.
Beyond the gracefully arched bridge lay a lawn garden that seemed broader than a football field.
Along both sides, neatly trimmed hedges lined the garden, with a fountain at its center.
The fountain was as impressive in scale as the lawn itself.
From the middle of what could pass for a small lake, five streams of water spouted endlessly.
And around them drifted small stone statues shaped like spirits.
That’s right.
Drifting.
Looking closer, she could see a small Mana Tower Seal imprinted on the plump rear ends of the spirit statues—the same mark from the carriage.
‘Insane money-wasting…….’
But that was hardly surprising.
Not given the scale of the estate itself.
“Is this… a residence?”
This should be called a royal palace, not a manor.
Daisy stared out the window with her mouth agape, eyes darting frantically.
The four-story stone residence was so sprawling it wouldn’t fit in a single glance.
She’d never seen a building this large even at the Academy.
The densely packed, elongated arched windows gleamed without a speck of dust.
How many servants would it take to clean all of those?
Watching the blue sky and drifting clouds reflected in the windows, the petty bourgeois within her rose up with a proletarian flag,
“The windows are so clean. Did they switch to ones with automatic cleaning function?”
“Yes.”
—then sat back down again.
Magic is supreme.
“We’ve arrived.”
As at the Warp Point, the carriage stood without her noticing—then came a click as the coachman’s voice sounded from outside and the carriage door swung open.
Kailan descended first, followed by Chester.
And it was just as Daisy, her lips pressed tight, reluctantly extended her foot from the carriage.
Someone approaching with quick steps offered a warm greeting.
“Young mistress, Second Young Master, you must have had quite the journey.”
An elderly man with neatly combed white hair and not a wrinkle on his formal butler’s attire.
Bernard Mohr, the senior butler of the Seableheart Family.

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