It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 75

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The corrupted heroine is overwhelmingly convenient.
#75
At Sparkle’s words, falling like a bolt from the blue, Daisy seized her own hair.
She felt Felix watching her as if something were wrong, but she couldn’t help it.
Why on earth did Club Activity have to be mandatory?
“A student’s mind and body require cultivation beyond mere study!”
……
“By the way, there are some new clubs this year, so we’d greatly appreciate your interest! Let me tell you which ones…….”
Sparkle’s endless stream of explanations didn’t register at all.
Hell, was there even Club Activity in the original story?
……
Yes. There was.
Daisy had heard about the “Debutante Society Preparation Club.”
Or more accurately, the “Maidservants’ Preparation Club for Lydia’s Coming-Out.”
Since it didn’t differ much from life in the Dormitory, she’d forgotten it was Club Activity at all.
As Daisy pressed her throbbing temples, Sparkle had already finished his explanation and added another announcement.
“And as of now, Freshmen are permitted to take Day Outings to the Nearby Village every weekend. Overnight stays are forbidden—only same-day outings. The villages are quite expansive, so do enjoy yourselves.”
“Hooray!”
The Freshmen cheered with delight.
The Academy was absurdly vast, but venturing into the outside world now and then was still necessary.
Watching them with satisfaction, Sparkle clapped his hands.
“Well then, let’s have breakfast now… oh, that’s right!”
He suddenly remembered another announcement.
“Last night, someone threw a ball at the Professor’s jaw and fled.”
“Wow, that’s insane.”
“Bold, too.”
“Who on earth did it?”
The shocked Freshmen of Bear’s Labyrinth murmured among themselves.
Daisy joined in the murmuring.
‘A ball to the Professor’s face? That’s completely mad!’
“In any case, let’s make sure nothing like that happens in our Bear’s Labyrinth.”
“Yes!”
The Freshmen of Bear’s Labyrinth answered spiritedly.
“Then let’s disperse!”
Watching the Freshmen scatter at Sparkle’s word, Daisy slowly opened her mouth.
“Which club are you joining—wait, where’d he go?”
Felix had vanished without a trace.
Scanning the area, she caught sight of Felix’s receding figure already heading out of the Dormitory.
Huh.
Quick little bastard…….
Well, it didn’t matter.
They weren’t going to join the same club anyway.
She was just a bit curious, that was all.
What Club Activity would this world’s greatest villain pursue?
* * *
“A Freshman?! Come here a moment and hear us out!”
“Interested in swordplay, Freshman? This way!”
“Magic Artifact Development Club! We welcome even students without Mana!”
“The Mystery Club is recruiting rookie detectives! Anyone willing to solve incidents and accidents within the Academy!”
“Join the greatest club in Eldwyne Academy—the Knitting Club!”
“Hey, didn’t I tell you not to advertise in front of our booth!”
“What! Why! Did you rent this space!”
“Ah! Can’t you put those Knitting Needles away!”
The Academy was utterly pandemonium.
Each club managing a small booth was desperate to recruit Freshmen.
Booths were packed densely from the entrance of the Grand Banquet Hall through the sprawling Garden and down the corridors.
It would take a full day just to understand what was on offer.
‘That Daisy chose some Lydia-centered club from all this… how disappointing, you.’
Daisy thought to herself as she wove between the booths.
The original Daisy’s choice of club was somewhat unfortunate, but having this many options wasn’t bad.
She’d convinced herself there had to be at least one club with few members and no real activities to speak of.
She ruled out the crowded ones first.
Magic Research Club, Law Transcription Club, Reading Club, Combat Training Club—and so on.
Clubs that actually helped with schoolwork tended to be packed.
If not those, then…

Daisy spotted the booth with its enormous banner and clicked her tongue.
It was swarming with freshmen utterly smitten with the student council president.
“Can I get a membership application?”
“Me too!”
Tsk, tsk. Daisy turned on her heel and headed toward quieter ground.
“Cooking Club, Knitting Club, Coffee Club, Peach Lovers Society… anything but that….”
Then she spotted Chester standing near one of the booths.
“Sword Research Club?”
In front of a booth decorated with various sword illustrations, Chester was showing off his gleaming blade to the gathered freshmen.
“So what this sword is, you see….”
Chester had lifted his head and was flashing a charming smile at the female students when his eyes met Daisy’s.
Daisy’s gaze said it all.
‘The sword you bought with your sister’s pocket money.’
“……!”
Chester’s mouth fell open in a tangle of wounded innocence and guilt, but Daisy had already seized the moment and slipped away.
The further she walked toward the outer edges of the Garden, the fewer freshmen she encountered.
And the booths here were lined with clubs that looked undeniably dull.
But fun wasn’t really what mattered to Daisy.
She just needed somewhere quiet where she could slip through this mandatory Club Activity without fuss.
Daisy made her way toward a booth with hardly anyone around it.
“Oh, a freshman!”
An upperclassman who’d been sitting in a chair as if worn out from waiting jumped to his feet.
“Are you interested in foreign languages? We teach the languages of the Eastern Continent Across the Sea—”
But the upperclassman’s words never finished.
“……?”
Daisy looked up from the pamphlet he’d handed her, her expression confused.
And then it hit her.
The upperclassman had been staring at her Badge.
So, rather than her name…
“S-sorry.”
The upperclassman snatched the pamphlet right back from Daisy’s hands and said, “W-we don’t accept… Bear’s Labyrinth.”
“I’m sorry? What do you mean…”
“There was a Bear’s Labyrinth student who studied languages with us once, then crossed the sea and destroyed an entire royal house. Ever since then, we’ve had a blanket ban on Bear’s Labyrinth admissions.”
“……”
Just what did you do, senior?
* * *
And Daisy understood.
Normally, freshmen choose their clubs.
But when a freshman’s jacket bears a black Badge, it’s the clubs that choose the freshmen.
That black speck was her Badge, and Daisy was currently facing her thirty-second rejection.
“I’m sorry, there was once a Bear’s Labyrinth student who….”
“Did they stab someone with a Knitting Needle?”
“You know about that?!”
“……”
Even the Knitting Club—the last one actively recruiting freshmen—had turned her away. Daisy looked up at the sky for a moment.
The sky was painfully, relentlessly blue.
Lord, if you’re listening, I have one request.
Either stop forcing Club Activity on us, create a club that Bear’s Labyrinth students can actually join, or for pity’s sake, just pick one.
“……Freshman?”
That was when it happened.
A slow, gloomy voice drifted toward her from behind.
Daisy let out a long sigh, turned around, and displayed her black Badge.

“Bear’s Labyrinth.”
“……So?”
The upper-year student sitting in the booth replied.
Though honestly, I wasn’t even sure if “upper-year” was the right term.
The reason being that they had pulled a massive black hood so far down over their head it covered nearly everything.
The only visible feature was their lips, just barely visible beneath the fabric.
“……I’m Bear’s Labyrinth too.”
The student, speaking in a gloomy tone, held up a small black badge sitting atop the hood.
【Dillan Mason】
A name I’d never heard before.
“……So I can join Bear’s Labyrinth?”
At Daisy’s skeptical question, the large hood nodded slowly.
“……If you want to.”
Only then did Daisy notice the club name written in crooked letters on the booth.

Huh, there’s a board game club here too.
Daisy was freshly surprised.
But thinking it over, it didn’t seem like a bad option.
It’s just meeting up and playing a game or two, isn’t it?
Wouldn’t take much time, and there’d be no tedious obligations.
“……Want to join?”
Dillan slid across a membership application.
Daisy didn’t hesitate before filling it out and handing it back.
“……All right, you’re the fourth member…….”
“Wait, fourth?”
Who else besides me……
Just then, Daisy spotted them huddled together behind the booth.
Monica Raolie, Straud Burnum, and Milo Everett.
“Daisy!”
You came looking for us!
“…….”
No, I just got rejected elsewhere too.

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