I’m a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 16

Translator: Missme Editor: Aru

The voice of Cassius, who said so, was unstable as if to have swallowed up tears.

Through his slightly jagged shoulders, I could feel how strong the emotions Cassius was enduring.

“Cassius…”

Yerine. What the hell happened with this guy?

Why can’t you remember?

I stretched out my right hand and swept his wide back slightly.

“Actually I’m curious……why do you like me so much……..?”

“……because I have no choice but to like you.”

A small sigh came out.

That was a really Cassius-like answer. It seemed to him that the option of not liking me itself did not exist.

At least for now.

“What happened between the two of us…….?”

At the words, Cassius loosened his arms and rubbed around his eyes so hard with his hands.

Then he stammered along with his slightly red golden eyes.

“You……saved me. Mentally, in a literal sense.”

All sorts of emotions were swirling in his sparkling golden eyes.

Love, longing, sadness, pain, regret, and others.

“……we…. Have we known each other since we were kids……..?”

Cassius smiled gently at my words.

“Yes. We used to meet at a secret place without the adults knowing.”

Even after hearing all this, I still can’t remember anything.

Still, Yerine could not remember a thing with Cassius.

“Are you sure that really me you…….”

“That’s right. Same name, same look. I’m sure there aren’t many girls in the Empire with purple hair and different coloured eyes.”

I felt something strange about Cassius’s words.

Yerine had always covered her red eyes in the past. It is highly likely that she did that also when she was young.

The fact that Cassius knew this means that they were so close that she showed him her red eyes.

‘They were so close, but still can’t remember a thing…….?’

Then it made sense for Cassius to react like this. The two were so deep that if one side couldn’t remember the relationship, the other would surely have had a similar reaction to Cassius.

“If I had known you were the heir to the Spades, I wouldn’t have let you do such a thing.”

said Cassius in a heavily subdued voice.

“……don’t you know?”

“You didn’t tell me your last name in the first place,” replied Cassius, with a slight mouth.

“Well, I thought it didn’t matter then, but later I regretted it. After finding out that it’s hard to find people just by name and appearance.”

Then the golden eyes of Cassius turned to me.

“I, I’ve been looking for you for years.”

His eyes, saying so, were slowly swaying like a lake in the moonlight.

His tears flow out like a child.

The moment I saw him like that, I didn’t know what to say.

“……I guess we were really close.”

It sounds silly, but that’s all I could say.

Then Cassius smiled weakly and talked.

“That’s right, we were so close. I’ve been wanting to talk to you about this, but you used to speak informally to me.”

“Really?”

Looking at Cassius in amazement, Cassius nodded with a bitter smile in his mouth.

“It’s true.

Then he said, slightly wrapping my hand again.

“In that sense, now what do you think about talking to me informally again like in the old days?”

Before I knew it, the golden eyes, which had been wet with his tears, were shining brightly like a child.

That’s right. You never miss a chance.

“Well, that’s a little–”

Cassius answered back with a look of despondency at my iron-walled defence.

“That’s a terrible reaction. Can’t you at least pretend you’re thinking for a second?”

“I don’t have to think about it. Why would I do that? I don’t want to be taken away for contempt of the imperial family.”

Then Cassius answered somberly.

“It is allowed if I say so.”

“I know that, but……. um. it just I can’t do something like that right now.”

I’ll talk to him informally later. If we really get close. Since I don’t know what happened in the past in the original story.

The original heroine has not even met Cassius. If I get closer to Cassius, who is sure to be involved with the heroine later, I may unintentionally come close to the bad end like in the original story.

And more than that, I don’t know what’s going to happen here in the first place.

And after I open my heart to him, I might get really distressed later to see him become fond of the original heroine.

At this time, it was necessary to step back now and truly support their love.

“Okay……..”

Cassius turned round with a sore face.

Oh, I guess he’s sulking.

“Cassius, are you angry?”

“No, I’m not mad.”

“Can I ask you one more question, then?”

At my words, Cassius turned back again and stood facing me.

Looking at me with his golden eyes for a moment, he nodded and answered briefly.

“Okay.”

I gulped down my saliva at his answer and cleared my voice before opening my mouth.

“That day, the day I saved you, specifically what happened……?”

At that moment, a look full of complex emotions passed by.

“…….”

When he didn’t answer, I wondered if I touched something I shouldn’t have touched. I don’t think I was able to think about Cassius’s feelings and inadvertently stabbed him in the sore spot.

Eventually, I opened my mouth to apologize.

“Ca-”

But Cassius broke the silence first and whispered in a low voice.

“I’ve been thinking about you ever since that day.”

“…….”

“I kept thinking that I would like to meet you.”

Then Cassius came slowly towards me. When his hot feverish hands wrapped my cheeks, I couldn’t say anything.

“So it’s a punishment. It’s unfair that I’m the only one who thinks about it.”

Cassius slowly grabbed my chin up. Then he licked his lips with his eyes glistening, and soon raised the corners of his mouth slightly, smiled bewitchingly.

“Remember yourself.”

In the dreary room, where the subtle candle slowly burns, I engraved in his subtle eyes, with enchanting light from his golden eyes.

***

It’s been three days since I came to the capital.

I didn’t feel comfortable at all.

Cassius kept trying to change my mind, but I didn’t break my stubbornness until the end.

The reason was the same. Competition with other successors, preparations to become Trump, and distance me to support the love between Cassius and the original Heroine in the future.

Cassius, who didn’t want to send me to the capital until the end, still accepted my final decision.

Instead, we kept exchanging letters and promised to meet Cassius often during vacation.

At the end of our breakup, I had a really hard time leaving him, who was almost about to cry.

‘That’s why I don’t feel comfortable…….’

Still, I have no choice but to survive in this new world.

I was thinking of sending letters as often as possible and hope it will become a little comfort to Cassius.

There are at least 10 people standing ahead of me, and every time I saw the black hair from the back, I was amazed.

But they couldn’t be Cassius. Of course, the golden eyes could not be found here.

“Then please stand up.”

As the ceremony began, everyone rose from their seats in unison.

Not too far away, I could see Rachel’s brown hair and Rayl’s green hair.

Not only that. Though a little far away, I could see Ashtra’s red hair tied in one branch, and Eugene’s unlucky silver back head right in front of me.

‘I’d like to punch it, but I can’t.’

If I do that, he’ll definitely run wild and tell me that I don’t deserve it and leave the Academy.

Later, the principal’s sermon and various miscellaneous procedures were carried out, and while I was out of my mind, the ceremony quickly reached the latter half of the time.

“Well, next, There will be an oath for the Freshmen. The Freshman representative, please come to the front of the podium.”

When I heard that, I came to my senses and hurried out of the line to the front of the podium.

I climbed up to the platform at the signal of the professors, and stood before the principal and greeted him with a bow.

“Look over there, that’s Yerine Spade-nim…….!”

“Oh, my God, the one at that appointment ceremony?”

“I heard that she’s not only the top at this test, but she also has a top score of 99?”

There seems to be constant interest everywhere.

‘I’m glad it was the interest of the good side.’

“Look at those red eyes…….”

“Well, isn’t it a little scary…….?”

“No, did you see her smile? It’s so pretty!”

“Oh, that’s true. I think her hair colour is really pretty…”

What did I say? Objectively speaking, Yerine is pretty.

Leaving behind the people’s babble, I took up my right hand and read the oath.

“Oath.”

The students below me also raised their right hands in unison and said, “Oath.”

“I, Yerine Spade, will do my part as a student of the Academy as of today.”

Soon after I finished reading the oath, I looked back and found all the students’ eyes on me.

“Wow, it’s so cool…….”

“Did you hear that she extinguished the fire with her magic power? She must be really strong……. ”

“Wow, I just want her to face me once.-”

A smile came out naturally.

The interest of people who like me was pleasant and delightful.

It wasn’t a look that was made on purpose, but it came out of itself, but I saw some students hitting the students next to him/her excitedly.

“Gasp, my God, it’s crazy, crazy–”

“So cute……!”

For your information, most of them were female students.

After finishing the entrance oath for freshmen, the entrance ceremony was over.

The students moved to their respective assigned classes, where they had to sit and wait for their homeroom professors.

It may be a coincidence, but the five of us who received the status of successor this year were all in the same class, so as soon as the ceremony was over, we naturally gathered and moved together.

Eugene didn’t move on his own, he walked almost like he was dragged by Rayl.

“Wow, this is our class…….”

Ashtra exclaimed in admiration.

It was definitely a school attended by many aristocrats, so it had a completely different atmosphere from schools in Korea.

‘What’s wrong with the chair…….? It looks so soft and fluffy.….’

Why is there a gold border on the desk? It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with magic.

Leaving Rachel and Ashtra behind, excitedly shoving, I went to the seat with my name on it and sat quietly.

‘The schools for aristocrats sure different.….’

I looked languidly out of the window thinking that money is good.

“Hey, Spade! Come out.”

Then I heard the voice of Eugene Ace, who was full of annoyance.

“Oh, I wonder why would someone call me when we’re not in a relationship to say hello…..?”

“Hey!”

At that time, the professor in charge opened the door and came in.

No matter how hot-tempered Eugene is, he could not have picked a fight with me, ignoring our homeroom professor.

Naturally, most of the people, including her, sat quietly, and the professor introduced herself when the classroom became quiet.

“Hello, my name is Irene Frain. Please call me Professor Frain.”

Even though it was an aristocratic school, the scenery on the first day would not be much different from when I went to school in Korea.

Just like how the teacher said her name, introducing how the new semester will go, and what to do and what not to do in this school.

When I was falling deep in my own thoughts, without going over to the procedure of the first day of admission as I thought, Professor Frain said something else first.

“Oh, first of all, I have something to tell you before I tell you the general rules. Suddenly, there is one more student in our class. He’ll be with us for a year, so please welcome him.”

Everyone began to babble at the professor’s words.

As you can see, the Academy has already conducted a skill test, which is equivalent to the charges to admission.

Under such circumstances, it was so difficult to select students outside of the quota that it was understandable.

‘I can’t believe he’s transferring on the first day of school, it’s like a manhwa.’

Although this is not a manhwa but a novel.

“Then, come in.”

Professor Plain’s words opened the front door of the luxurious classroom, and at that moment, Rachel was heard breathing in with a “gasp.”

“…….!”

Not only her but all the successors were astonished at the sudden appearance of the freshman.

Undaunted by our reaction, the freshman introduced himself by opening his mouth.

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