It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 6

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A corrupted heroine is overwhelmingly convenient.
#6
Chapter 2. The Bear’s Labyrinth
“Welcome to the Bear’s Labyrinth dormitory hall!”
Beneath a dingy chandelier stood a winged creature that glittered, clapping its hands.
The gesture sent a lonely echo rippling through the silence, thick as death.
Clap, clap, clap, clap…….
“…….”
A cursed place.
Daisy stared at the grey cobwebs stretched long beneath the chandelier, thinking.
How had anyone thought to shove students into a place like this?
Damp stone walls thick with moss.
An uneven stone floor.
A leather sofa, cracked along its seams and seething with blue mold.
A fireplace that looked as if it had never once known flame.
Dim, murky lighting to complete the picture.
If the winged creature hadn’t called this a dormitory hall, Daisy would have sworn it was a dungeon.
“A dungeon, once upon a time.”
“…….”
“Remodeled into a dormitory hall one hundred and seventy-six years ago.”
At the creature’s words, Daisy’s hand moved habitually toward her pocket.
Where was her phone?
She needed to report this to the Department of Education right now.
Bear’s Labyrinth graduates kept turning into villains?
That was simply the inevitable output following the input.
Years spent in a dungeon with no ventilation and no sunlight—how was anyone supposed to stay sane?
Meanwhile, the creature stretched its glittering arms toward the ceiling.
“The Bear’s Labyrinth dormitory hall is truly a magnificent place!”
“…….”
“…….”
The freshmen fell silent.
Even villains had eyes to see with.
This place could hardly be described as magnificent by any stretch of the imagination.
But the winged creature’s expression, as it looked around, told a different story.
Eyes half-lost in rapture, it shone all the brighter.
“When Ursus, the great founder of the Bear’s Labyrinth, showed me this new dormitory hall, it was absolutely dreadful……. But to think it’s become such a proper space… I’m moved to tears.”
“…….”
“…….”
“A handsome face, and yet such terrible taste…….”
One freshman’s murmur found an echo in Daisy’s heart.
The winged creature had clearly devoted all its aesthetic sensibilities to its own appearance.
There was no other way it could stand in this ruined place and look on with such tender wonder.
‘Wait.’
In that moment, something clicked in Daisy’s mind, and her eyebrows rose.
‘If the founder gave him a personal tour, how old is he now?’
Even being generous, the creature looked no older than twenty-five.
It was then that the creature laughed—a light, airy sound—and spoke.
“Of course, you won’t be living here. This is only the dormitory hall.”
Relief.
Several students exhaled visibly at the reprieve.
“Your true dormitory is through there.”
The creature pointed to somewhere beyond the hall.
And the freshmen who turned to look… blinked hard.
There stood a small, sinister entrance.
The archway was pitch black inside, a hollow void, revealing nothing.
The students’ eyes naturally rose to the tarnished brass plate mounted above the opening.
[↓
Labyrinth
Dormitory Entrance↓]
Clang!
At that moment, one nail gave way, and a brass plate fell with it.
Screee— screee—.
The brass plate, hanging from a single remaining nail, swayed for some time, emitting an eerie, nerve-grating sound.
……
……
Sob, sob……
Someone burst into tears.
When I turned my head, Lydia’s left arm was crying again.
Truly a fragile child.
“Now, now, there’s no need to cry. Our students grow stronger in the Labyrinth—I mean, in the dormitory.”
……
……
Pick one: Labyrinth or dormitory.
While the freshmen thought that to themselves, the winged sparkle spoke in a voice of the most carefree brightness.
“Now, it’s time for questions and answers! We welcome all inquiries! Yes, you there, go ahead!”
“How do we change to a different dormitory?”
“That question is not welcome! Next!”
“How do we cancel our assignment to the Bear’s Labyrinth dormitory?”
“Rewording it doesn’t make it a different question! Next!”
“How do we change our dormitory supervisor?”
“You’re banned from asking questions from now on!”
……
……
“Then… how do we get through that place?”
“Ah, finally a question worth asking!”
At one student’s question, the sparkle clapped her hands with delight and answered.
“Just figure it out and get through it!”
……
……
The freshmen, especially those noble-born students who had never done anything on their own, gaped in shock.
“Y-you’re not going to guide us there?”
“Oh, I have urgent business elsewhere.”
The sparkle checked her bare wrist as though reading a watch, speaking with apparent regret.
“But don’t worry. Your seniors all arrived at the dormitory safely.”
Safely?
Daisy raised an eyebrow at that loaded word.
That phrasing suggested they might not have arrived safely at all……
The sparkle looked at Daisy with a cheerful expression and spoke.
“You can do it! I believe in you all!”
……
……
“Go forth with confidence! Breathing in the damp, musty, and wicked air!”
That’s all from me!
With that bright farewell, the sparkle vanished with a pop.
……
……
The dormitory hall, now containing only the freshmen, fell silent as a tomb.
And Daisy closed her eyes against her rising blood pressure.
These lunatics, seriously……
* * *
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The freshmen gathered in a semicircle at the entrance of the Labyrinth, where not a glimmer of light could be seen, stood silent for a long moment.
Understandable.
The place looked like something you’d never return from once you stepped inside.
“It’s just… a maze, right?”
A seemingly gentle-looking freshman with pale green hair asked hopefully.
“Just a maze? Look at this place—it’s obvious something strange is coming.”
A sharp-eyed redhead replied irritably.
Sob, sob……
At that, the soft whimper that had been trickling from her lips grew steadily louder.
“Hey, be quiet.”
“I’m not, I’m really not the Bear’s Labyrinth……!”
“You absolutely are. Your badge is pitch black.”
“I’m not… sniff……!”
The freshmen ignored the chestnut-haired girl stomping her feet and gathered their heads together once more.
“Should we just sleep here?”
“What, for the whole semester?”
“Damn it, who said the whole semester? I’m just so exhausted I’m talking nonsense.”
“If we sleep here, we’ll be even more exhausted.”
“Then you go back inside!”
“Everyone calm down. Why don’t we make a plan?”
The girl with long purple hair spoke in a composed voice.
“Ugh, talk about making plans.”
The redhead scoffed with a cynicism that belied her age.
“What?”
“Still don’t get it? Generously put, we’re ‘unclassifiable,’ but really we’re just trash. The Bear’s Labyrinth is a garbage dump.”
……
……
“There were never dormitories to begin with. We’re just supposed to wander the maze and collapse to sleep wherever we fall.”
……
……
The biting remark ended, and the deep silence that followed was broken by a surprisingly buoyant voice.
“Wow, you’re really extreme, aren’t you?”
The cutely featured boy’s fluffy chestnut hair bobbed upward.
“What’s with you?”
“Classic Bear’s Labyrinth.”
“You’re in the same dorm too!”
“Oh, right.”
Watching the two of them, the purple-haired girl interceded.
“Why don’t we gather some information instead?”
“What kind of information? Are you thinking of sending some kind of vanguard?”
“That’s not a bad idea.”
“Are you insane? What lunatic would volunteer to go first and risk their neck?”
It was then.
“Hup.”
What… hup?
The freshmen’s eyes turned toward the source of the strange sound.
There stood a girl.
A petite frame.
Long platinum hair cascading down.
Long lashes that fluttered like butterfly wings.
Emerald eyes that gazed with gentle submission.
A refined nose and lips full and red as cherries.
Her features were so pristinely beautiful that they drew admiration—a girl of breathtaking loveliness.
Though her strictly proper, almost dowdy school uniform dimmed her allure somewhat……
Recalling her name was not difficult.
There was only one platinum-haired student among the freshmen.
Daisy Sablehart.
The distinguished daughter of Earl Sablehart.
Unlike her clever brothers, the rumors of her being foolish and simple-minded were hardly a secret.
And now she was holding something.
“……A poker?”
One of the freshmen murmured, rubbing their eyes.
Screech.
The harsh, piercing sound of metal scraping against stone echoed through the air.
Remarkably, Daisy Sablehart was dragging a rusted fireplace poker toward the labyrinth’s entrance with a grinding screech.
As if she were about to strike someone down—
The girl’s red lips parted softly.
“Kill.”
Huh?
“Oh, right—let me keep this normal…”
The girl adjusted her grip on the poker, holding it less menacingly as she spoke.
“Just one hit. That’s all.”
‘One hit’ sounded an awful lot like ‘kill her’ to me.
The freshmen of Bear’s Labyrinth didn’t dare say so aloud.
The smile that had bloomed across the girl’s face was far too unsettling.
* * *
That was it.
Daisy Sablehart was, at this very moment,
absolutely furious.

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