I'm a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 42

Translator : Missme

Editor : Aru

“Uh…”

Astra stretched and made a sound. Rachel, who was staring at her, lowered her head slightly and spoke to her in a friendly voice.

“Astra, are you tired?”

“Oh? Oh, maybe a little……”

Astra patted on the shoulder and talked. I put my hands on her shoulders and added one more thing.

“Well, it’s a midterm soon. It must be hard for everyone. Still, take some rest, Astra.”

“Hehe, thank you. But I have to work hard to keep up with you so I don’t fall behind.”

Astra looked back at me and replied in a cheerful voice. Indeed, her blue eyes seemed to shine rainbow-coloured, and her red hair seemed to smell like flowers.

‘If there’s a human nourishing tonic, does that mean Astra…?’

While I was thinking so, we had arrived in front of the 3rd class.

“Oh, Erica, I’ll call her.”

Rachel stepped forward first and talked. She met a student in class 3 at the entrance of the class, she said, ‘Please call Erica Blothea,’ but the student said that Erica was not in the class now.

“Huh?”

Looking closely at the inside of the window, there was no one in her seat, where her floral hair was always fluttering.

I thought it was surprising because Erica always stayed in the classroom unless there was anything else to do.

“Well, did she go to see the professor? Let’s wait and see. She’ll be here in a minute soo or so.”

said Astra, twisting her red hair in a single prong with her right hand.

“Well, is that so?”

Then the door closed with a “tap” sound, and Rachel came out of the classroom.

“Did you hear that? Erica’s not in class right now.”

Upon hearing that, Astra folded her arms and spoke in a voice of regret.

“That’s too bad. We all wanted to go to the cafeteria and have pumpkin ice today.”

“We’ll go to eat it next time, I can’t help it.”

“Shall we go back to the classroom then? Lunchtime will be over soon.”

So the three of us walked side by side down the hall.

It was a pity that I couldn’t meet Erica, but I comforted myself because I could meet her in the evening.

‘Oh, it’s so hard to meet my lovely Erica……. Is there any way to be assigned to the same class next year?’

I came up with a plan such as to ‘bribe the professor’ or ‘manipulate the class schedule’, but those plans were all insane, so I decided to stop thinking of it.

“By the way, today, Yerine’s going surprisingly gentle today. Normally, she would be very sad that she couldn’t meet Erica.”

Rachel said with her eyes wide open.

“Originally love has many obstacles, and only when I overcome it all is the true love.”

Especially the love for my favourite heroine.

“Keuuh, as expected from Yerine. Look at you pick out the coolest words.”

Astra struck me like that. Astra is probably the only one who reacts to these silly things that I’ve done.

For information, Rachel was shaking her head with a look she had already given up.

So the three of us chatted merrily in the warm sunshine that came through the window, as girls of that age often do.

Until I heard a strange voice while I was walking through the hallway.

“What’s this noise?”

There was a high-pitched female voice coming from somewhere.

“It’s still lunchtime, is there any class started?”

Rachel tilted her head and said that.

“But who will have class in this hallway here? Classes in this hallway are usually used for club activities.”

“Maybe something’s wrong with the classroom.”

At the words, Astra walked forward and said,

“Let’s see what class it is. I’m curious.”

The sound was coming from the end of the hallway.

“It looks like the last classroom.”

I went after Astra and talked.

Surely as I approached the end of the hall, I heard a voice louder and louder.

At first, it sounded like the voice of a professor in class, but when I listened carefully, it sounded like someone was speaking, not in class.

Even though the voice was very different, it sounded familiar.

‘Why do I feel so familiar?’

The moment I arrived at the classroom at the end of the hallway, thinking so, I had no choice but to be surprised.

It was Erica, not anyone else, that I could see through the window on the door.

It wasn’t clear what she was saying, but it was clearly Erica, the owner of the secretly powerful and ringing voice.

“Isn’t that Erica?”

asked Astra, looking alternately at me and Erica.

“Yes, I think so.”

“Is she practising her speech alone? Is she competing somewhere?”

Rachel tip-toed and muttered, looking inside the classroom.

“She didn’t tell me that, but….….”

I couldn’t forget that information because I remember everything about Erica. Surely Erica never told me she was going to such a contest.

“No, wait a minute. Guys, look inside here. There are about 20 people sitting and listening to Erica.”

Stuck close to the door and looked inward, there were about twenty people sitting and listening eagerly to Erica, as Astra said.

Their eyes were facing forward without a wobble and seemed to burn like a model student concentrating on class.

Some even stole their eyes with handkerchiefs while listening to Erica’s story in the middle.

“Something’s really…… I think she’s talking about something impressive.”

Rachel opened her amber eyes wide and talked looking inside.

“Oh….”

I was proud to see Erica, who was always timid, standing tall and confidently in front of others. It’s a bit disappointing to make 20 friends without my knowledge, but I still thought it was good for her.

Looking through the people sitting still with such a slightly overwhelmed feeling, I found a very familiar silhouette.

Two golden eyes, still sharp but flaming with passion, and a blackhead like charcoal, on top of it, tall and bulky than the average person.

It was obviously Cassius.

“Cassius?”

“That’s a unique combination, no matter how I look at it. Cassius and Erica have been getting closer lately, but… Was it close enough to meet separately at lunchtime?”

‘Did they finally get interested in each other? Did I finally escape the hellish triangle?’

It was very brief, but when I thought about it, my heart was overwhelmed as if it would fly.

‘Finally, a peaceful extra life that I want so much…..”

At that moment, the back door opened with a “krieet” and Erica’s voice, who was speaking in the classroom, leaked out.

“- Let’s do it.”

“Oh, I can hear it well now.”

Astra whispered in my ear.

Then Erica, who was standing on top of the platform, came down from the and stood in front of the students and spread her arms.

And the object standing on the blackboard behind the platform caught my eye.

“Hold on, that’s- ”

Razel was amazed and said, covering over her mouth.

I did too.

No matter how I look at it.

It was my picture, which I gave to Erica.

“Come, let us all pray reverently, looking at the picture of the noble Yerine-nim.”

Erica’s voice, coming from the back door, was clearly saying so.

“Wow, crazy!”

At the sight, Astra couldn’t stand it and screamed. As you know, Astra is a very polite child and doesn’t even use that common slang word.

When the word “crazy” came out of Astra’s mouth, I was quite embarrassed at the sight. Of course, I understood her mind.

After that, I tried to shut her mouth in a hurry, but it had already happened.

Erica’s speech was interrupted in the middle, followed by the sound of her slowly walking towards the door.

“<i>Gasp</i>…”

At a time when I was embarrassed because I seemed to have interrupted something that shouldn’t have been disturbed, the door opened wide and the face of angry Erica appeared with wrinkles in her forehead.

“Ha, what’s the matter all of a sudden? We’re doing something very important right now, and if you’re going to be playing, play around somewhere else….”

Then the eyes met with her pink eyes, which resemble tourmaline.

“Ye, Yerine?”

Erica backed away with a white face and frozen at the door, I couldn’t say anything and I was blank.

“Uh, that’s, Erica, it’s…..I’m sorry.”

Then a student who was sitting jumped up and shouted.

“Oh, my God, Ye, Yerine-nim…. directly here……!”

“What, what? Yerine-nim is here?”

In an instant, the students in the classroom began to buzz and get excited, where the only person who kept calm was Cassius.

“Blothea, what do you mean by Yerine’s coming?”

Having said so, he rose from his seat and walked forward, and his eyes met with me frozen at the door.

“Oh, it’s real….”

Until now, Erica had been standing nervously and anxiously rolling her eyes.

I asked her carefully.

“Hey……this is, uh, what’s this meeting about…?”

“Well, that’s…”

Erica couldn’t readily answer with her eyes fixed on the floor, and then Cassius came forward and opened his mouth as if to explain.

“Yerine, this is…”

But Erica blocked him with her arms and shouted.

“Wait! Please be quiet.”

“Blothea?”

Then she made eye contact with me and said in a solemn voice.

“I’m the president, so let me explain.”

After biting her lips as if she had made a big decision, Erica, who took a deep breath, closed her eyes tightly and shouted.

“This, this is your fan club!”

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