I'm a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 26

Translator : Missme Editor : Aru

Sitting on the floor, Eugene murmured, with his eyes fixed on me.

“Why……why it’s you… always……..!”

Steadily looking down coldly at the figure, I opened my mouth, which had been shut for a while.

“You don’t know.”

Eugene raised his head higher at the remark.

“You, who was born as the eldest son of the seven most powerful families and was confirmed to take over everything.”

But Yerine couldn’t even think about it.

She faced tragedy in the flow of the original story, and no one helped her.

Even though my previous childhood was different in degree, it was not much different from Yerine’s.

Maybe that’s why. Being angry with the man who is angry with the ‘Yerine Spade’ instead of me.

“But I couldn’t, being in the 7 Imperial Family, have my position vacant temporarily, and more than that, I almost lost my position as successor.”

In the end, it may have worked out well. However, the anxiety that I felt and the original Yerine felt couldn’t be gone.

“I have so much to worry about besides you. I can’t afford to care about you.”

I conveyed clearly in a quiet, low-pitched voice.

Until now, Eugene had kept his eyes fixed on my toes and quietly bowed his head.

“Don’t be childish.”

I turned my back on Eugene at the end of that remark.

Drops of blood flowing from my right arm fell on the wooden floor

That was the end of the 4th round.

I entered the crowd of students clapping their hands and cheering without looking back.

***

“Congratulations, Yerine!”

In front of the classroom, Erica held my hands tightly and spoke with a dazzling smile.

Oh, come on. If that smile was a picture, it’s a lifetime collection. I can’t help it, let’s engrave it in my eyes and store it permanently in my head.

“Heh…heh…….. Thank you, Erica.”

I couldn’t control my lips that kept going up.

Rachel shook her head as if she couldn’t help it.

“Erica, Yerine will probably be more pleased to be praised by you than to win the 4th round. Look, this kid is drooling again.”

When he heard Rachel muttering with a sigh of greatness, Cassius broke in unknowingly.

“Yerine, I also praised you a lot, right?”

I smiled refreshingly at the remark and answered cheerfully.

“I’m sure there’s a reason why you don’t get my attention more than Erica after all that praise? Think for yourself why.”

“Could it be, because I’m not pretty–”

“There’s that, too, but you keep bothering me. Erica doesn’t do that.”

In the meantime, Rayl, who can think normally, sighed.

“When you see The Prince, he’s real serious……”

Astra, nodding her head with it.

“Hey, Yerine. I have a favour to ask you…….”

Erica said, taking something out of her arms.

Then her rich pinkish hair shook back and forth.

‘Wow, it’s like a real picture….’

Erica continued her words when I was so wide-mouthed and distracted.

“If you don’t mind, can you………?”

“Of course, do whatever you want to do!”

“Huh?”

Oh, I was so excited that my real intention just bounced off.

I wiped my stupid expression smoothly and spoke calmly with a smile of a smart and cultured aristocrat lady.

“Well, I mean, I could listen to anything.”

“Really……?”

Erica happily tinged her cheeks.

Her shy hands held something that looked like a small box.

“Actually, I like to take pictures………so…I just wanted to take a picture of you……”

She had her eyes slightly lowered, her peach cheeks tinged red and held up a camera.

When I saw it, I thought that if I were in my previous life, I would have produced it in a bromide, attached it to my room, and enjoyed it steadily for an hour every day.

In my previous life, I hated being photographed, but I couldn’t refuse her request.

“Of course. Feel free to take it. You can take a hundred!”

“Really…..? Thank you!”

Along with the words, Erica immediately lifted the camera carefully, adjusted the angle, and pressed the shutter.

“……can I take one more picture?”

“Yes, you can take a hundred!”

Erica immediately pressed the shutter and took another shot.

Astra, who was staring at the figure, opened her mouth in the middle.

“Erica, don’t you want to take a picture with Yerine anyway? I’ll take a picture for you.”

Nice, Astra!’

A picture with my heroine? my heroine?

It’s nice to be alive, ah no, it’s nice to possess.

“Oh. I like it, but….. Is Yerine all right?”

Erica spoke shyly with a red-faced face.

“I’d appreciate it if you could. Astra-nim.”

Then Astra burst out laughing and retorted.

“Okay! I’ll take two pictures for you, so you two can share one.”

At the instruction of Astra, who took over the camera, Erica came next to me and settled down, and I smiled in front of the camera in a happier mood than anyone else.

“Yerine, please wipe off your saliva.”

After hearing Rachel’s words and wiping my saliva roughly, I smiled again, and the flash went off with a click.

“Okay, I’m sure it came out well.”

“Thank you! Thank you very much, too, Yerine!”

Erica greeted me with a camera in her arms as if she were happy.

“I’ll give it to Yelin right away when the picture comes out!”

“Yes, thank you.”

While watching the situation in a warm atmosphere, Rachel and Rayl smiled.

But we forgot for a moment that Cassius, who has the great ability to break this warm atmosphere with a sense of convergence at zero, was with us.

With his bright yellow eyes glistening and his lips tightly shut, he suddenly strode toward Erica.

It happened so quickly and so suddenly that no one could say anything about it.

And I had an ominous premonition that at that moment Cassius would do something out of the normal category as usual.

“Blothea.”

Cassius called Erica in a low voice as if an animal were growling.

The atmosphere cooled down as if no one else but Cassius had existed in this corridor from the beginning.

“Yes……?”

Poor Erika trembled as she looked at Cassius, who seemed to be three times her size.

Her two eyes, who were happy, suddenly panicked and trembling.

‘No way!’

Cassius, is that madman trying to hurt Erica because he’s jealous?

While watching her with breathless eyes, Cassius rummaged through something in his arms and held out before Erica.

When I saw Erica’s blue face, the string that was holding in my head snapped. Without delay, I rushed to Cassius and bent my shoulder to hold him.

“What are you–”

I set the tone and said a word of warning, but I couldn’t finish what I was going to say in the colourful golden light that caught my eye.

“What is this…”

It was none other than the gold bar that was in the hands of Cassius.

Looks very much like what he gave me on the first day at the Academy.

Ununderstanding the situation, he looked at Cassius, but, unconcernedly, he looked straight at Erica and opened his mouth with a serious tone.

“With this, can you hand over the picture of Yerine?”

Erica, who had a blank look at the words, looked up at Cassius and said,

“I’m sorry, but what do you mean…..”

“You mean it’s not enough. Then there’s nothing we can do.”

That’s how Cassius took out another gold bar and put it on her hand.

“Is this enough, Blothea?”

“No, your highness–”

There was nothing to wait and see.

Without hesitation, Cassius was cast off to the classroom under the spell of the magic air.

“Oh, no, Yerine, wait, this is a very important deal–”

“Don’t talk nonsense and go into the classroom.”

I looked at the back of Cassius, struggling with his arms and legs, thinking that not a day would pass by really quietly.

***

“Please check the assignment results and be aware that classes will be held normally from tomorrow. Well, that’s it.”

There was no abnormality in the result sheet.

First place in the overall ranking of the S-class test.

‘Well, it’s going to be weird that there’s something wrong……’

I’ve been tired lately from repeating the battle and memorizing the magic circle, but I think I can take a little rest today off. There was a sense of freedom in the thought.

‘When I’m done, I’ll take Erica to dinner.’

With such a happy imagination, Professor Frain ran out of the classroom, kicking her chair as soon as she left the classroom.

But at that moment, something fell off my desk.

“Huh?”

It was something I had never seen before.

I stared to the floor thinking, <i>‘What is this?’</i> and looked at the rolling bottle.

Inside the transparent bottle, which looked like a medicine bottle, there was a thick liquid that emitted a suspicious violet colour.

‘What is this?’

When I was looking back and forth with a bottle of medicine, I could hear someone’s voice, which seemed to be in shock.

“That… that… that…”

Everyone’s attention in the classroom was focused on the boy’s voice and his behaviour pointing at me with his fingers shaking.

“It’s DXellaria!”

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