It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 91

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The corrupted heroine is overwhelmingly convenient.
#91
Daisy ended up sitting with the three of them.
She had no choice.
The moment she tried to sit elsewhere, all three of them hastily gathered their things and made to stand up.
Let’s go, everyone.
Mm!
Mm!
From that sequence of movements, Daisy realized that the person behind this outrageous idea of sitting together was Anemone Miller.
She couldn’t understand it at all.
Wait, doesn’t she hate me?
What made it even more absurd was that sitting near those three meant Felix Ardearon was there too.
You came to rescue me!
I got caught too.
Felix Ardearon sat there looking annoyed.
Clearly he’d been subjected to the same thing.
“Look, I’m just saying this to be clear—don’t get the wrong idea.”
Anemone spoke pointedly to Daisy as she sat down.
“I still don’t like you.”
“Then why sit together at all?”
“Because the professor likes you, obviously.”
“What?”
“As you know, I need to make a good impression on the professor. To do that, I concluded the best approach was to position myself between the two people who received ‘Herbology: Needs Counseling.'”
Ah.
Daisy understood.
Anemone really hadn’t changed at all.
Yet now that Daisy had realized she wasn’t an easy mark, Anemone seemed to have simply adjusted her method.
‘This is better, honestly.’
Daisy nodded.
It was far preferable to someone brazenly saying they’d use her rather than clinging beside her and spouting nonsensical rubbish just to get under her skin.
At least the former had the virtue of honesty.
Daisy, pulling out her Herbology textbook, didn’t hear it.
Jessica’s innocent whisper.
“But Anemone, you were worried earlier that Daisy wouldn’t come……”
“M-me? When! Just be quiet, would you?!”
In the meantime, Abyad Kutub, the stocky Herbology professor, rose onto his tiptoes and manipulated a large apparatus on the platform as he spoke.
“Well, everyone’s here, so I have a special announcement.”
A special announcement?
“You’ve all decided where you’re going for your Field Study, yes?”
“Yes!”
“Excellent! Such spirited responses—it warms my heart!”
The satisfied professor chuckled warmly and reached for the machine again.
As he inserted what looked like a small card into the rotating mechanism at the top of the apparatus, it made a clicking sound.
“Where did we decide to go?”
Anemone asked, taking advantage of the professor’s focus.
“Doesn’t matter.”
Daisy answered flatly.
“I’m curious too……”
Boris Hegel, sitting in the front row, whispered hesitantly.
“Oh, me too!”
Jessica chimed in.
……
Receiving the gaze of three people, Daisy let out a deep sigh.
Thinking it was absolutely unbearable, she answered offhandedly.
Nella Lake.
“Wow! We’re going to the same place!”
Boris said brightly, beaming.
For a moment, his thick glasses slipped slightly, revealing jewel-like eyes that glimmered and then vanished.
“Hm?”
While Jessica, who witnessed the sight, rubbed her eyes in bewilderment, Anemone appeared to be pondering something gravely.
“Can I submit a change request right now…?”
Ah, so she wasn’t going to Nella Lake after all.
Daisy gazed ahead, silently hoping the request would be denied.
The professor, having finished the setup, gave a light wave of his hand.
All the lights in the classroom switched off at once.
Whirrrr—click!
As he waved his hand a second time, a projector on the dais hummed to life as if waiting for the cue, then caught on something with a grinding sound.
Light filtered through the machine and cast an image onto the blackboard.
It was a drawing of a tall, rugged mountain.
“Now then, does anyone know where this is?”
At the professor’s question, Anemone’s hand shot up.
“It’s the hot spring on Kalas Mountain!”
“That’s correct, Anemone! So then, what medicinal herbs can be found on Kalas Mountain?”
It was Boris Hegel who answered.
“Magma Root, Hot Spring Iris, Kalas Ground Moss, Azure Moonlight Trumpet Flower, and Kalas Verum and Callipers Wojek……”
“And don’t forget the Summit Fern, which can only be found at the very peak of Kalas Mountain. Excellent, Boris.”
The professor rubbed his palms together with satisfaction and tapped the projector.
The machine whirred in response, displaying images of the Magma Root, Hot Spring Iris, Kalas Ground Moss, Azure Moonlight Trumpet Flower, Kalas Verum, Callipers Wojek, and Summit Fern in sequence.
“Now, everyone got a good look? Let’s move on to the next location. Where is this, you ask? That’s right—Nella Lake. So then, what medicinal herbs can be found only in this place?”
“Lake Breath Flower!”
“Mermaid’s Tear!”
“Nellaeidilmos!”
“Bruerd Sprout!”
As the students’ answers came in rapid succession, the professor clapped enthusiastically.
“That’s right! All correct! Wonderful!”
Whirrrrrr!
The projector continued spinning, displaying images of the herbs the students named.
“As you can see, Nella Lake is a place teeming with medicinal herbs. It’s an ideal location for students considering a major in Herbology!”
“Damn it, I really should change my Field Study location……”
At the professor’s words, Anemone gnawed at her fingernails and muttered under her breath.
“Where exactly did you end up choosing?”
At Daisy’s question, Anemone answered dejectedly.
“Gradiandel Temple.”
“What?”
Surprised by the unexpected destination, Jessica added an explanation.
“There’s a rumor that if you touch the feet of the statues in that temple and pray, your wishes will come true.”
I see……
“Hey! I told you to be quiet!”
“Why are you only picking on me!”
As Anemone and Jessica bickered, Daisy recalled a fact she’d briefly forgotten.
That this was a Mixed Genre World.
It seemed this place also had statues where wishes came true.
With this new realization, Daisy nodded just as the professor waved his hand to turn the classroom lights back on.
“Everyone got a good look at the herb pictures, right?”
“Yes!”
“All right then, you’ll each collect five different types.”
“…Excuse me?”
“Collecting them is your Herbology assignment for this term! Simple enough, yes?”
“……”
“……”
The Herbology classroom fell into a sudden, terrible silence.
One might think five herbs would be quick to gather and then play, but that wasn’t the case at all.
The natural habitats of the herbs they’d just seen on the slides were scattered haphazardly across the landscape.
In other words, to collect five different herbs meant wandering across mountains and lakes in their entirety.
What had been called Field Study—essentially no different from a leisurely outing—had suddenly transformed into an grueling practical exercise because of this surprise Herbology assignment.
The students who’d chosen Kalas Mountain and Nella Lake clutched their heads in despair.
Daisy was among them, of course.
‘I thought she was just collecting herbs because she liked them, not because it was an assignment…!’
Having now learned why Daisy collected herbs in the original story, she let out a heavy sigh.
All her resolve to skip the herb collection entirely, stay away from the lake, and simply sprawl out on a mat seemed worthless now.
‘Should I change the location…?’
Of course, she had no interest whatsoever in the Gladiator’s City or the temple.
But the thought of not having to wander around foraging for herbs was quite appealing.
That was when it happened.
“Oh, by the way, some students will likely be heading to Valtera or Gradiandel Temple as well, won’t they?”
The professor smiled brightly as he spoke.
“I can’t overlook the students going to those two places. Each of you will write a total of twenty pages on the correlation between cities and Herbology development, as well as the correlation between temples and Herbology development.”
“…….”
“…….”
Just go to Nella Lake!
Daisy made her decision.
Chapter 22. Nella Lake
At last, the day of Field Study had arrived.
The freshmen woke early with anticipation and prepared themselves.
And Daisy…….
“……just kill me already, kill me…….”
She muttered while staring up at the black ceiling through which no sunlight penetrated.
For reference, this was something Daisy had said roughly two thousand times in her life.
It was much like the perfunctory greeting that any office worker might utter each morning.
But never had she meant it more sincerely than now.
“Hng… hnngh…….”
During yesterday’s swordplay class, Branholt had finally made them do two thousand Vertical Slashes.
It was so grueling that not only Zern and Cedric, but even Danil Werland—who had been picking fights since the first day—could do nothing but swing his sword in silence.
Even Felix’s hands were trembling right after class ended.
So what of Daisy?
‘…….’
She had spent the entire time thinking: if I just threw this sword on the ground, wouldn’t I be excused from this class?
Of course, she only imagined it.
Actually doing it would mean an immediate report to the Sablehart Count.
『How dare you defy authority at the Academy and sully the honor of Sablehart… You’re dead.』
She couldn’t very well receive a telegram like that.
“Ughhhh…….”
“What a mess you are, truly.”
And so, after completing all two thousand Vertical Slashes, Daisy barely managed to pull on her clothes under Nora’s pitying gaze and crawled out of the Dormitory.
“……Hey.”
Daisy lifted her head at the familiar voice calling her name.
Someone entirely unexpected was standing outside the Dormitory.
It was Chester Sablehart, dressed in his usual utterly disreputable attire.

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