The Main Heroine Falls for the Extra

The Eve and Riel sisters sharing their stories and pouring out their feelings accumulated over years.

My impression after hearing their story was.

‘Is this horror?’

People around you betraying you, completely devoted to someone for no particular reason.

If this isn’t horror, then what is it?

…No, come to think of it, I just experienced this recently.

Liliana Edwin.

She also betrayed me, falling for Allen without any significant reason.

No, forget it.

I swore to forget about her and not care anymore.

Going back to the main point, even trusted confidants betraying you in a situation that’s going completely mad.

Even I might go crazy in such a situation.

Common sense says it’s absurd for mere servants to betray their masters, but it’s actually happening.

In reality, this would be grounds for immediate execution, but damn it, this world isn’t that strict.

This world is a harem world.

Among the harem members, there are not only servants like maids but also slaves.

Above all, among the harem members in the original story, there’s a character with maid attributes who betrays her tyrannical master and helps Allen.

Now, let’s think about applying strict standards where rebellious servants or slaves could be immediately executed. Then that heroine would be dead before she could even become a heroine.

In the end, the convenience for the development of the harem story led to the tragedy of the two sisters.

The reason for calling Eve, Allen’s attempt to slander me, ended in a really anticlimactic way.

The reason was really nothing special.

“You’re the legitimate son of the Count Wentos family, right?”

It’s power.

Yes, power is supreme.

Swish swish

“Allen, that damn guy, whatever he says, he’s just a knight’s son, a commoner. Even if he tries to slander you without evidence, only he will lose out.”

Thinking about it, that’s right. I’m a noble, and that guy is a commoner.

And there’s no evidence or anything that I did something bad to Riel.

Swish swish

“The momentum of the Count Wentos family is such that even high nobles can’t ignore it, and it’s a family with connections to the royal family. Honestly, it’s strange that Allen openly antagonizes you.”

‘Well, he was always an incomprehensible guy,’ Eve adds.

To conclude, Riel who usually fears Allen. And me who viewed Allen unusually as the ‘original protagonist.’

These two collaboratively worried unnecessarily about something that didn’t need to be worried about.

Ugh, that’s a bit embarrassing.

Swish swish

But about the Count Wentos family…

It’s my home where I was born and raised in this world, but isn’t it too grand for a family of a villain who exits early in the story?

In fact, this happened because settings were just slapped on in the original story due to characters appearing in the latter half, but there’s no need to talk about the circumstances of the original story here.

“If the Princess wanted to get involved after hearing the story, that says it all.”

Phyllis’s words sent a slight chill down my spine.

If she gets involved, even things that could end quietly won’t end quietly.

She’s not a welcome opponent for me, who wants to handle this quietly for Riel’s sake.

…Personally, she’s a bit awkward too.

Swish swish

And, at the point where Eve appears as an antagonist in the original story, and Eve’s superior is Princess Aine, you can somewhat guess the story.

Princess Aine Gine Palaginya is one of the antagonists in the original story.

Specifically, Princess Aine and her twin older sister, the 1st Princess Run Erna Palaginya, these two appeared as major antagonists.

I have a feeling that a meeting between the Princess, who really antagonizes Allen intensely in the original story, and Allen would become quite troublesome.

Of course, they would meet someday, but not now.

I inwardly thanked Phyllis again for desperately preventing Princess Aine from getting involved.

Swish swish

Well, I’ve properly realized recently that the original story can’t be completely trusted, but still, it doesn’t hurt to be careful.

Isn’t a completely different scene from the original unfolding right before my eyes?

“Ehehe”

Riel laughed as if she was feeling good.

Eve had Riel sitting on her lap and was vigorously stroking her head.

…The ‘sister who hates her younger sister’ from the original story didn’t exist.

If anyone said such a thing after seeing this scene, I’d want to open up their head and check what’s inside.

“First, since the young master won today’s duel, that gentleman is forbidden from approaching the young master.”

Phyllis began to briefly explain the situation.

Somehow… it feels like an employee giving a briefing at a company meeting.

“As long as the young lady is with the young master, he cannot approach the young lady because of the promise, so we can rest assured about that part… but the opponent is that rotten bastard.”

We couldn’t just rest assured.

Unlike slander, it wasn’t a problem that could be solved by power alone.

Mysterious things happen around Allen Ludwig.

Things turn in his favor to an unusual degree, and people around him support him.

For the two sisters and Phyllis who have actually experienced this fact, it was a situation where they couldn’t rest assured.

Honestly, regarding the mad ideology surrounding him, the first thing I suspected was magic.

But naturally, that fact was denied.

By none other than the magician with the best qualities in this kingdom.

“It’s definitely not magic, because there’s been no trace of magic since before.”

Eve Ignis was a prodigy in magic since childhood.

Having experienced that terrible situation in her childhood, she must have suspected magic.

“If it were magic, it would be magic that affects the mind, like enchantment, and such magic is strictly prohibited in the kingdom.”

That’s right. If Allen Ludwig had really shaken up the duke’s family with something like enchantment magic, Eve Ignis would have already caught the evidence and reported him.

“But even if it’s not magic, there’s no doubt that some mysterious power is at work. Though it seems like he himself doesn’t know anything about it.”

Hearing Phyllis’s words, I had a slightly terrible thought.

If Allen Ludwig had such power and could use it consciously, an even more terrible hell would have unfolded.

“And there seems to be individual differences. Not all students were favorable to him.”

Oh, that’s the first time I heard that.

Well, I’ve only seen Allen surrounded by girls going “kyahaha, uhuhuh,” so I didn’t know that.

Eve narrowed her eyes and looked at Phyllis, asking.

“Specifically, which individuals were there?”

“Representatively, the Viscount Bruin’s Lady and Count Reime’s Lady, these two seemed to not think highly of him.”

My awareness of both of them is just knowing that they’re students in the same class, but they’re people whose faces I at least know.

“And Duke Grace’s Lady, in her case, she was at the level of absolutely despising that man.”

“…All high nobles, is there some kind of relationship?”

“I don’t know specifically.”

The name that came up this time was a name I knew well.

Duke Grace’s Lady.

Her name is Seira Grace, the only daughter of the Grace duke family, which rivals the Ignis duke family in the kingdom.

It’s right that I know her well as she is a high noble, but also because she appeared as a villain in the original story.

Of course, now that I can’t fully trust the original story, I should properly evaluate her later.

“As long as we don’t know anything about the power that man possesses, it would be dangerous to move rashly. For the time being, we can only observe the situation.”

Eve Ignis had a feeling that left a bad aftertaste, but she had no choice but to reach such a conclusion.

Having confirmed her younger sister’s feelings, she was filled with the desire to strike and kill Allen Ludwig right away.

But if she could do that, she would have burned that guy already in childhood.

If you kill someone without any justification, you’re nothing but a criminal.

This is all assuming there’s no justification.

Eve looked at Riel sitting on her lap.

A cute child with traces of childhood still remaining, but at the same time, she also felt that she seemed somewhat brighter.

Probably thanks to that child in front of her.

As it was time to return to her unit, Eve stood up.

After giving Riel, who was regretful about the parting, one tight hug, Eve thanked Phyllis again, then faced Kyo Wentos.

“Thank you so much for this matter.”

Eve extended her hand, requesting a handshake.

As Kyo Wentos also grabbed that hand and accepted the handshake, Eve smiled and said.

“It seems my younger sister follows you very well, please take good care of her so she doesn’t become sad.”

Was it an illusion that Kyo Wentos, facing that smile head-on, felt a chill down his spine?

Eve, who was about to leave after finishing her farewell greetings.

But at that time, she looked at Riel again as if she had remembered something.

“By the way, Riel. About your current personal maid, what was her name?”

“Are you talking about Illia?”

“Yes, that was the name.”

The maid who secured the position of Riel’s personal maid after Phyllis.

Illia Anies.

That was definitely her name.

“That child, no matter what excuse, could you send her to me on an errand?”

The smile on Eve’s face as she said that was beautiful but a little eerie.