My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 2 (eBook)

Satoru Yamaguchi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
302 Seiten
J-Novel Heart (Verlag)
9781718332027 (ISBN)

Infos

After hitting her head on a rock, Katarina Claes regains the memories of her past life, and realizes that she's been reincarnated into the world the otome game she'd been playing. There's only one problem - she's the villainess of the game, who has only bad endings!
From practicing with the sword to crafting fake snakes, Katarina has done her best to prepare for all the possible Catastrophic Bad Ends. Now it's finally time for her to enroll in the Academy of Magic, where the story of the game begins. Unfortunately she only finds more trouble there, starting with meeting the one who may spell her doom - heroine of the game!
Join Katarina as she tries to avoid all the bad routes, only to end up getting entangled with them in ways she'd never imagined!

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Chapter 1: My First Day at the Academy Approaches!

I am Katarina Claes, daughter of Duke Claes and heir to the Claes family. When I was eight years old, I hit my head on a rock and suddenly realized that I had been reborn into the world of Fortune Lover, the otome game that I was playing before my untimely death.

In fact, I happen to be the main antagonist of the game. Katarina Claes is supposed to be a villainous noble lady who gets in the protagonist’s way and bullies her. At the end of the game, her fate is to either be exiled from the kingdom or meet a gruesome end at the hands of the protagonist’s love interest — nothing but bad endings!

Naturally I don’t want to get killed! But getting exiled from the kingdom wouldn’t leave me with much chance of survival either. It’s so unfair! After my early death in my previous life, I want to live to a ripe old age this time, spending my golden years with a cat on my lap as I elegantly bask in the sun! I don’t want to be involved in these social politics of love and intrigue, much less get killed by them! No matter what, I am determined to overcome these Catastrophic Bad Ends and live a long, peaceful life!

First, I had to deal with one of the guys who could bring Katarina Claes to a Bad End — her fiancé Jeord, the third prince.

In Fortune Lover, Katarina, who had been bullying the protagonist all along, would either be exiled by him or die by his blade in retaliation for attacking the protagonist. So I’ve made some plans in case those things happen. If I get exiled, I’ll use my magical abilities to earn a living. From what I remember, magical aptitude is rare outside of my kingdom. Or if Jeord comes at me with a sword, I’ll use my highly realistic projectile snake to terrorize him, since he hates snakes. Then I’d use that opening to dodge his attacks.

And so I’ve tried my best to improve my magic, while at the same time constantly refining the appearance of my projectile snakes with the help of the head gardener, Grandpa Tom. I’ve also started taking my swordplay training more seriously, so I can hold my own if I’m ever attacked.

Another person I have to deal with is Katarina’s adopted brother, Keith Claes. He could also bring a Catastrophic Bad End down on me. In his route, Katarina bullies the protagonist terribly as usual, and Keith retaliates by either exiling or killing his sister with his powerful magic. To be fair, Katarina is so horrible that she leaves a deep scar on the protagonist in that scenario.

In order to head these endings off, I made sure that Keith was never lonely. I kept him company, inviting him out to play every day. In Fortune Lover, he lives an isolated and alienated life until he is healed by the protagonist’s gentle nature, and he naturally falls in love with her.

All I have to do is ensure that Keith is never lonely — simple as that! He’ll never fall for the protagonist in the first place. With those thoughts in mind, I took him with me everywhere I went within the manor, and eventually outside its walls too.

I worked really hard these past seven years. Everything had to be done before I began attending the Academy of Magic! Luckily, my efforts paid off. By my fifteenth birthday I was being praised for my skill at the sword, and my projectile snakes looked just like the real thing. And Keith had been raised lovingly, and was no longer lonely or sad. Well done, me!

Unfortunately, one thing didn’t turn out like I’d planned: my magical ability. I thought that if I buried my head in magical studies and practiced enough that I could make a living if I were exiled from the kingdom, but it just didn’t work. No matter how hard I tried, my magical powers didn’t increase. I couldn’t cast a single spell other than “Dirt Bump.” That spell would be useless for making a living, so I had to change my plans. Right now, I’m practicing growing plants and tilling the earth so I might be able to live as a farmer.

With all this in place due to seven years’ worth of hard work, the countermeasures to the Catastrophic Bad Ends are now complete. It will soon be time for me to go to the Academy of Magic.

Slowly but surely, the white breath of winter was drawing to an end. The gardens of Claes Manor, already feeling the warm embrace of spring, were filled with crop fields — my work over the past seven years, of course.

I would start my school life at the Academy of Magic’s dormitories soon, so I’d have to say goodbye to my fields for a while. I felt kind of lonely looking out at the familiar rows of crops.

“We will go to the Academy of Magic soon. Very soon indeed, eheheh. I do look forward to it,” Mary Hunt said, her usual lovely smile flitting across her beautiful features. In Fortune Lover, Mary was a rival character just like Katarina.

“Y-Yeah... I guess...” To me, setting foot into an academy where I’d probably meet my doom was no laughing matter — but of course, I couldn’t say something like that to the gently smiling Mary.

“I am really... looking forward to it, too...” Sophia Ascart said with a smile. She was yet another rival character in the original game.

“Y-Yeah... Of course.” Surrounded by those eager smiles, I couldn’t just go and tell them that I was terrified at the idea.

These two people never had any contact with Katarina Claes in the events of Fortune Lover. If anything, they disliked her for her villainous ways. But Mary and Sophia were now my close friends, having visited me in my manor regularly for the past seven years.

“And what exactly is it that you’re all so enraptured by?” A familiar voice, and an equally familiar suspicious smile — the voice belonged to none other than Jeord Stuart, third prince of the kingdom, and my fiancé.

Originally, Jeord was pretty uninterested in Katarina and hardly had any interactions with her. But for some reason he had started visiting me at my manor for days at a time, and now was another close friend of mine.

“Ah, Prince Jeord. We were just talking of the anticipation we felt towards our beginning at the academy.”

“Ah, I see. Of course, it is worth looking forward to indeed,” Jeord responded with a seemingly genuine smile on his face.

Hmm. Apparently even Jeord is looking forward to this...

As for me, I wasn’t looking forward to this whole academy thing at all. Thinking about the story of Fortune Lover made me depressed, for one thing. After all, it was the place where all those Catastrophic Bad Ends were waiting for me! But besides that, it was a school for magical studies, so it would be a lot of work for me. I really couldn’t get excited about academy life. Why was everyone so fired up about this whole thing?

“Umm... how come all of you are so eager to go to the academy...?” I asked my overenthusiastic friends.

“But of course, because I can spend all that time together with you, Lady Katarina...!” Mary said. She was visibly excited, her cheeks a healthy shade of crimson.

“Yes...! Exactly! We’ll be able to spend all that time together... with Lady Katarina, once we go!” Sophia declared, her expression strangely similar to Mary’s.

Now that they mention it, I guess they do have a point. Being so preoccupied with the Bad Ends, I had forgotten about the happy days that I’d spend at the academy with my dear friends. Thinking about things that way, the academy wouldn’t be so bad after all.

“I am sure that we will be in the same dormitory, Katarina. Do feel free to visit me in my room. For you, I will prepare special snacks and sweets,” Jeord said with a charming smile.

Ooh, special snacks and sweets prepared by a prince! I’m definitely interested in that...

“Yes! I would love to—”

“But you mustn’t, Big Sister! Living spaces in the dormitories are segregated by gender! You must never do such a thing...!” Keith said, suddenly coming between Jeord and me, looking flustered.

Although the Keith from the game hated Katarina and did his best to avoid her, he had long since grown attached to me — probably because I dragged him around with me so much. Now, he was the perfect little brother, always looking out for his sister.

“Keith, you are correct to a certain degree. While it is true that living spaces are segregated by gender, visiting another’s room is hardly an issue as long as permission is acquired beforehand.”

“That is if it is acquired! Relatives would be one thing, but Big Sister entering the room of a man, and a stranger, would be out of the question.”

“What is all this talk of strangers about? I am engaged to Katarina, if you recall — hardly a stranger, wouldn’t you say? What about you, Keith Claes? Are you not merely her adopted brother?”

“At the moment you are nothing more than her fiancé, Prince Jeord. Should the engagement ever be canceled, she and you would be nothing but strangers.”

“Ah, but do you think I would ever cancel the engagement?”

And there they went again — Keith and Jeord having their own happy conversation with faces full of smiles. Considering that these two hardly ever spoke to each other in the original game, I was surprised by how they were now steadfast friends. In fact, they left me out of their fun private conversations...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
• Reihe/Serie: My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
• Illustrationen: Nami Hidaka
• Übersetzer: Shirley Yeung
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Airhead • Fantasy • Game • Humor • Light Novel • otome • reverse Harem • Romantic Comedy
• ISBN-13: 9781718332027 / 9781718332027