It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 94

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The villainess heroine is overwhelmingly convenient.
#94
Celine was genuinely aggrieved.
‘What on earth did I do wrong! I was simply being kind to a pitiful girl……!’
And the price for that kindness was humiliation in front of everyone.
‘Let me pay for this.’
‘Oh, I do apologize! Our waiter failed to show proper courtesy since he didn’t recognize you at first sight. There’s no need for you to pay at all.’
Daisy paid with a flourish, reducing every kindness she’d extended to worthless scraps of paper.
Because of the insult she’d received that day, Celine lost everything.
Friendship, trust, and the honor of the Tillie Family itself.
Those who were desperate to please the Seableheart Family turned their backs on her, and she became a liar in their eyes.
Yet she had never lied once.
Daisy Sabelheart had truly been living miserably and wretchedly in that mansion!
But then…….
‘Please don’t concern yourself with me going forward.’
Recalling Daisy’s final words, Celine bit her lip harder.
Her lips, raw from days without proper sleep, cracked and split, filling her mouth with the metallic taste of blood.
Drip, drip.
Bright crimson drops scattered across her dress in speckled stains.
She couldn’t bear this humiliation without returning it in kind.
That was when it happened.
Celine turned her head, her half-bloodshot eyes fixed on the forest beyond the rock.
Someone was approaching.
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“Damn, it’s far.”
Daisy grumbled as she picked her way forward.
Thanks to her abundant teenage stamina, wandering around the broad lakeshore wasn’t particularly taxing, though it was growing a bit tedious.
On a day like this, she’d much rather lie in the grass watching clouds drift overhead.
“At least there’s no muscle soreness, which is a relief.”
If she’d had to come all this way lugging the muscle aches that had persisted until this morning, she would’ve given up and turned back long ago.
Though truthfully, she was half-ready to give up even now…….
“Cursed Herbology.”
When it came to Daisy, she couldn’t abandon her Herbology grade.
After releasing a short sigh, Daisy brushed aside the hanging vines and emerged from the forest.
And…….
“Wow!”
Catching sight of the vista before her, Daisy couldn’t help but gasp in wonder.
Beyond the broad rock jutting halfway into the lake, a breathtaking scene unfolded.
The water’s surface glimmering like a mermaid’s scales in the streaming sunlight, the deep green forest she’d just passed through, and the shoreline where children splashed about playing.
Unlike the original story where Lydia’s gang had been here, the rock above was blissfully empty and peaceful.
“I could rest here, couldn’t I?”
Nodding as she thought it worthwhile to have come this far, Daisy suddenly narrowed her eyes.
‘Hmm?’
Something was moving in the middle of the lake—difficult to see clearly because of the backlighting.
No, ‘someone’ was.
A silhouette that looked distinctly human, yet possessed a peculiarly soft quality, was waving its hands toward her.
‘Could they be drowning?’
With a serious expression, Daisy took one step closer.
Splash!
A small pebble caught on her foot tumbled down below the rock.
Daisy froze by instinct and pressed her hand to her chest in relief.
If she’d taken just one more step, she would’ve fallen……. Wait.
“Could that possibly be…….”
Daisy caught sight of a cluster of blue flowers blooming between the rock and the water’s surface and let out an exclamation.
“It’s a Lake Breath Flower!”
It was in a spot she never would have found if she hadn’t gone to the very edge of the rock.
The Lucky Potion Effect really does come through!
“Alright, I’ll harvest that later. First let me check on that person… wait?”
Daisy lifted her head and looked around with a bewildered expression.
Though a human silhouette had definitely been there moments ago, the lake before her now was utterly still and empty.
“Did I see that wrong……?”
Daisy was rubbing her eyes and muttering to herself when it happened.
“……you.”
All at once, a sinister voice echoed from behind her.
Daisy spun around in shock.
She nearly fainted.
Before her stood a specter with long blue hair covering half its face, red eyes, sallow skin, and blood dripping from its mouth in thick drops.
Good heavens, the genre just took a sharp turn into horror!
The ghost that had abruptly transformed the Impoverished Novel into a horror tale opened its blood-dripping mouth and spoke.
“Daisy…….”
“My goodness, a ghost that can talk… wait, you know my name?”
“Daisy Sabelheart.”
But where have I heard this voice before…….
In that instant, Daisy realized who the ghost was.
“……Celine Tillie?”
“This… this is all because of you……!”
Wait, just like that?!
Daisy faltered, trying to step back as Celine lunged toward her without warning.
But she failed.
Click-splash!
A pebble tumbled down from the rock and struck the water with a sound.
Celine in front! Lake behind! A dire predicament…….
“Hup.”
It was not.
“Oof!”
“Pardon me.”
Ghosts might be frightening, but those without physical strength are hardly frightening at all.
Daisy easily wrapped her arms around Celine’s waist and set her down safely in the center of the rock.
Celine staggered backward a few steps, breathing hard, her face a mask of disbelief.
“You, you……! How did you, wait, your strength, why is your strength…….”
Why were you so strong……?
To Celine’s bewildered question, Daisy answered seriously.
“I’m a teenager.”
“…….”
I’m a teenager too, you lunatic.
She did not say this aloud.
Daisy’s eyes were far too ominous to say such a thing.
“Now, tell me.”
Daisy spoke.
“Tell, tell you what……!”
“Why you tried to kill me.”
Celine flinched.
“K, kill you! What are you saying……!”
“You were just about to push me into the lake.”
“It’s not even that high! You wouldn’t die from this height! I just…….”
“Ah, so you wanted to watch me fall into the water and become a soaking wet mess, then laugh at me in front of everyone?”
“…….”
She had hit the mark.
As Celine fell silent, her defenses breached, Daisy let out a long sigh and spoke.
“Look at what I’m wearing.”
Daisy wore a long dress that reached down to her ankles.
“If I fall into the lake wearing this dress, no matter how well I can swim, I won’t be able to get out.”
The fabric would wrap around my feet.
“…….”
Celine’s mouth closed, her expression shifting to one of realization.
She hadn’t thought of that.
“I… I just wanted you to feel what I feel…….”
To understand my pain.
“And I still don’t understand.”
Daisy shrugged as she spoke.
“Why are you angry with me?”
“What?”
“You asked me to have dinner with you, so I did. And when you said you had no money, I paid. There’s no reason for you to be upset.”
“That’s—you made me look like a fool!”
Celine couldn’t hold back any longer and cried out.
Her voice echoed across the empty rock.
“You could have just pretended not to know! Or at least acted a little sympathetic! If you had, by now I’d…”
I’d still have my normal, happy days with my friends.
“No.”
Daisy shook her head firmly at those words.
“That’s not friendship.”
“What…?”
“Think about it. When you said you were short on money, did anyone step forward and offer to pay?”
“…”
“Before that?”
“…”
“They were just waiting around to pick up the scraps falling from you. Now that it looks like there’s nothing more to gain, they’ve scattered. You can’t call that friendship.”
Celine’s eyes reddened in an instant.
She’d known it, really.
She’d just refused to admit it.
Because if they weren’t her friends, she had no one else to call by that name.
Daisy watched Celine, her eyes threatening tears any moment, and stepped forward with a sigh.
Then she wrapped her arms around Celine’s shoulders with gentle comfort and spoke.
“I’m telling you this because you asked me to act sympathetic—”
Don’t try to become a good person by making someone who isn’t pitiful into someone pitiful.
It’s infuriating.
Grrr.
Daisy hugged Celine tightly, channeling every ounce of her irritation into the embrace.
And Celine understood.
“Ack—”
How foolish she had been to pity Daisy Sabelheart standing before her.
Pitiful? Living in an attic and not receiving spending money?
Someone who could burst a person apart with her bare hands didn’t concern herself with such things.
“You get it now?”
“…Ugh.”
“Good.”
The moment Daisy let go, Celine dropped to the ground in a heap.
Her tears had long since dried.
“So don’t waste your money on those shitty people, stop acting like a good person when it helps no one, and just figure out how to live well on your own terms.”
Dusting off her hands, Daisy turned and walked toward the edge of the rock.
Celine, staring blankly after her, called out.
“…Hey, why are you talking down to me?”
Daisy glanced back, her eyes asking the question.
Does that bother you?
No, well… it’s not that.
Daisy clicked her tongue at Celine, who had timidly lowered her gaze, and bent down toward the Lake Breath Flower hanging at the edge of the rock.
Once she plucked that, she’d lie down and take a nap.
As Daisy reached for the Lake Breath Flower, something happened.
Whip!
Something burst from the lake and coiled around Daisy’s wrist.
Before she could even register what the cold, slippery thing was, an enormous force yanked her forward.
“Gah!”
Under normal circumstances, it would have been a force she could easily resist, but leaning forward as she was at the edge of the rock, she had no time to brace herself.
And then—
Splash!
The lake water, cold as ice, swallowed Daisy whole in one gulp.
All that remained on the rock was Celine’s bewildered voice.
“…Daisy?”

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