It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 90

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A corrupted female protagonist is overwhelmingly convenient.
#90
Celin had changed.
That much made sense.
It seemed whatever happened at Blue Hair had been quite shocking for her.
Well, it wasn’t Daisy’s concern.
She could recover on her own.
The real problem lay elsewhere.
Namely…….
“…….”
“…….”
Why was Janet Hoer standing at the podium?
Daisy stared at Janet Hoer on the platform, her gaze unwavering as the question gnawed at her.
She couldn’t shake the feeling that all these changes had unfolded precisely because this woman hadn’t gone to the Magic Tower.
Come to think of it, even if Janet Hoer had gone to the Magic Tower, nothing fundamental would have changed.
Drawing the spell circle had always been Janet Hoer’s role.
‘But why didn’t she?’
‘She found it bothersome.’
‘……Why the hell didn’t she go?’
In any case, the crucial point was that even if Janet Hoer had gone to the Magic Tower, Benedict Halburn, the Alchemy professor, would have ultimately taken responsibility for that task.
Of course, she hadn’t concluded it was because of his spell circle.
As Monica had said, countless factors had conspired to corrupt the Summon.
However,
‘The timing is just too coincidental.’
In the original story, the Alchemy professor had never undergone such a transformation—.
“Daisy.”
“…….”
“Daisy!”
“W-what?”
Daisy started and glanced to her side.
Monica and a small dog, who had taken to sitting beside her at some point, were both staring at her.
More precisely, at what lay before her.
“Your water’s overflowing.”
Monica stated this with perfect composure.
Daisy looked down in alarm and found water spilling freely from a transparent glass cup.
The overflowing water had thoroughly drenched the floor around her.
“Oh no!”
Daisy hurriedly cut off the Mana she’d been channeling into the cup and, naturally, surveyed her surroundings.
“…….”
“…….”
Damn.
Daisy met the shocked expressions on the faces of the students watching her and pressed her palm to her forehead.
Even Lydia, seated at a distance, had a cup filled roughly a third of the way with water, her lips working as she chewed them anxiously.
“……As I said before, controlling water is harder than controlling fire.”
Janet Hoer spoke, her eyes fixed on Daisy.
And when Daisy’s gaze met hers, she felt a jolt.
That woman’s eyes were half-rolled back!
“Unlike fire, gathering water in significant quantities is difficult from the start.”
Well, apparently there were exceptions.
Janet Hoer added this with a nasty grin.
Or rather, it wasn’t truly a nasty grin—she was simply smiling with genuine delight, but because she so rarely smiled, her facial muscles had stiffened and only one corner of her mouth had risen.
“However, there is nothing more useful than when you can manipulate water with such fluidity. For instance,”
Whoosh!
In a flash, Janet Hoer conjured a pillar of water from thin air and spread it into a wide, rounded shield.
“Creating a barrier,”
Then she instantly dissolved it and reformed it into a sharp arrow shape, launching it toward the classroom wall.
Bang! Crash!
A Water Arrow imbued with terrifying force had shattered the wall halfway through.
“……?”
The students, who had been handling paperwork on the other side of the wall until that moment, carefully avoided making eye contact with the professor now suffering the consequences.
“This way, I can launch an attack like so,”
Janet then shaped an enormous Water Tank and trapped the student standing at the front inside it.
“Ugh! Ugh!”
The student trapped in the water tank held their breath, gasping.
But almost immediately, Janet pushed the water away from the student’s nose and mouth.
“Gasp!”
Unable to hold it any longer, the student exhaled and discovered they could breathe underwater, their eyes widening in shock.
“You could breathe underwater too.”
‘That’s actually quite useful.’
Daisy watched intently as the water was pushed aside, observing the flow of force.
“With water, you can move heavy objects easily, and you can move quickly through water as well.”
And most importantly…….
Janet drew out a thin column of water and twisted it here and there, tying it into knots.
It became an Azure Dragon with a blue body and long whiskers.
The Azure Dragon ascended out the open window.
“You can make things like this too.”
Wow—clap, clap, clap, clap…….
The students offered up applause devoid of any spirit.
Their sense of amazement had already been exhausted at the previous lesson when the professor sent twenty-eight phoenixes flying past them.
Huh.
Janet Hoer let out a short breath and swept her hair back.
A few students made sounds of admiration at the professor’s beautiful face.
Janet Hoer, her long eyelashes lowered with elegant restraint, parted her crimson lips slightly.
“Now try it yourselves.”
The sounds of admiration died abruptly.
They’d forgotten.
For all her beauty, Janet Hoer was absolutely insane.
“……What… are you asking us to do, Professor?”
“What I just showed you.”
“The Azure Dragon?”
“That’s right.”
Janet Hoer nodded.
“Make them one at a time, send them ascending into the sky, and pray for rain. Then it’ll rain hard enough that we won’t have to go on the Field Study.”
No more of that damned hiking.
Janet Hoer clenched her fist.
Watching her, Daisy found herself feeling an inexplicable kinship with the lunatic.
Even the professor is just an employee who has to follow orders…….
“In any case, make them. Whoever takes the longest,”
would lose one hundred points.
The students nodded as though this were routine.
The newer students, now shedding their freshman status, had come to understand something.
Whenever a hundred points were deducted, everyone simply assumed Janet Hoer had done it.
“Five thousand points deducted.”
…….
…….
“But the total Dormitory Points are only five thousand?”
“Exactly.”
So come April, when the Dormitory Points reset—who wants to be the center of attention?
Janet Hoer’s eyes posed the question.
That crazy, mad professor!
There was no time even to think it.
“Ahhhhhh!”
The students began squeezing what little Mana remained in them to fill the Glass Cups.
Plip.
A single drop of water fell slowly before the face-flushed student.
* * *
The students felt relief.
They had realized that they alone were not the ones failing.
“Hehe, let’s all start from scratch together.”
“Sounds good, sounds good.”
Let’s aim for dead last together!
Five dormitory students had sworn a bond of brotherhood.
Before them sat a glass cup filled with water that sloshed gently.
Even though they’d received a passing grade in Basic Magic, gathering water was proving just as difficult.
And they were supposed to make a water pillar from that?
It would be faster to collect morning dew from leaf blades and do laundry.
…….
Janet Hoer, watching their efforts, curled one corner of her mouth upward.
For the record, it was genuine mockery.
She should have seen this coming.
But truly, none of that mattered.
What mattered was the one over there—Daisy—quietly emptying and refilling her glass cup.
“Class time is up,” Janet announced.
The students’ eyes gleamed at her words.
Their hearts raced at the thought of escaping that madwoman at last.
Observing them, Janet spoke.
“If even one of you succeeds, I’ll let you go.”
……?
……?
The students exchanged bewildered glances.
In that moment, the classroom door locked with a sharp click.
The collapsed wall beside the professor, who now sat with a sheepish expression, was instantly rebuilt.
“Yes, you’re thinking what I mean.”
You’re trapped.
“B-but we have another class coming!”
Not my concern.
“We have assignments to submit! If we don’t turn them in, we’ll get a point deduction!”
Too bad.
The students calling out in panic suddenly understood.
No amount of shouting would move that wall.
Then their only hope was…….
…….
…….
Damn.
Meeting the desperate gazes turned toward her, Daisy let out a short curse.
* * *
“Daisy, you really…….”
…….
“Don’t even think of trying anything creative.”
Janet Hoer said this flatly.
Behind the silently compliant Daisy, a tiny water lizard scurried away with a quiver.
It was the third one, for the record.
Janet Hoer clicked her tongue and continued.
“A fifty-page report on the differences between fire and water created from mana.”
…….
…….
“Due next week.”
A demon.
This woman was a demon.
“And anyone who created even a water worm gets…….”
An exemption?!
“Forty-five pages.”
Daisy truly couldn’t understand it.
What was the Magic Tower doing?
Why hadn’t they arrested that insane professor?
* * *
The next class was Elementary Herbalism.
“Come on!”
With help from her navigation charm, Daisy barely managed to arrive at the herbalism classroom.
The lecture had already begun.
“Daisy!”
Boris, spotting her, raised his hand slightly and called out softly.
Just because they were doing a group project together didn’t mean she wanted to sit by groups.
But when she looked around, Boris wasn’t the only one with his hand up.
‘Why are all of you doing that……’
Daisy sighed deeply as she watched Anemone and Jessica waving their hands in the air toward her.

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