I’m a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 45

Translator : Missme

Editor : Aru

“No, how could you be so strong from the start? Again, start slowly.”

“Oh, I said I know!”

To be honest, I should have foreseen this from the time Prof. Frain said I was going to perform with Eugene Ace.

I can’t escape the endless training of hell and the nagging of the devil.

***

When I arrived at the sparrow at 8 o’clock, Eugene was waiting with his arms folded with various spell books piled up in the corner.

“First of all, let’s think about what magic we’ll use, today.”

As Eugene said, it was necessary to roughly grasp the framework of the performance. Simply practising the magic.

“You said you were going to use flame magic, right?”

“Of course, I’ll take the fanciest one.”

“I knew it.”

Eugene takes one of the spellbooks piled up in the corner, spreading it on his lap.

“But what kind of magic are you going to do?”

“…….”

Eugene couldn’t answer for a while.

With a sigh, he held his chin in one hand and seemed to think hard about something.

“……I’d like to use my family’s attack magic for now, but I’m not sure what’s going to happen.”

I thought it would be okay to use something that is weak and visually colourful, although it is attack magic. I wasn’t sure if there was such magic in the Ace family’s magic,

“Your attack magic is instantaneous, but it generates a flash. Wouldn’t it be possible to maximize the light while darkening the surroundings?”

“Well, I was already thinking about it.”

“And since it’s attack magic, I think it’s okay to have the effect of breaking something…….”

Since then, conversations have continued for quite a long time. An academic and serious conversation without quarrels and teasing.

I think we talked longer in time than we did in the classroom that day. Although we didn’t open our hearts to each other.

“By the way, are you going to use flame magic only?”

“Huh?”

“Are you only going to use flame magic, you can use all the four-element magic in the first place.”

“Well……I’m thinking of adding water. The air is likely to depend on the situation.”

Eugene looked at me with his blue eyes when he heard that.

“What, what? Why?”

“You, do you have something with it?”

“Huh, no, nothing.”

Then, Eugene raised one of his eyebrows and dug into it.

“It’s just your expression that shows it all. You want to try to use water and fire, but you are afraid that there’s something wrong with it. Isn’t that why you’re thinking about what to do?”

I really got little goosebumps then. This is because I was completely stabbed by Eugene.

‘No, why does a child who can’t see people well have this sharp guts?’

“You have a shocking look on your face, asking how did I know that. What have you been looking at me so far?”

“No, how else did you know that?”

“It’s simple since your face shows it all.”

“This kid.”

But even if I threatened him, Eugene couldn’t even blink.

Eugene, who disregarded my words as it was, asked me with his hands together, with an incredibly serious look on his face.

“So, what’s the problem?”

I was surprised at the moment because he seemed like an expert in college entrance exams and talked about my worries that had been lingering in my head.

“…… well, this is something I’ve always thought about….”

“Uh.”

The Spade’s ability to use all the four-element magic up to deep magic was really useful and blessed.

There was a wide range of uses, and it was also difficult for the enemy to predict what magic I would use.

It was very advantageous that there were more kinds of magic available to use than other families.

But I couldn’t make good use of that advantage.

“I can use all four element magic, but I can’t use both at the same time.”

In a word, it was not possible to operate simultaneously.

While using one kind of magic, it was not possible to use another kind of magic. So, during the entrance examination, I tried water magic first, but in the second half, I tried flame magic. Until now, my magic has been used alternately in this way, and the shortcomings of this method have been evident whenever it is placed in an urgent battle situation.

It was difficult to fill in the gaps caused by changing the type of magic.

“When I fought with you, and when I fought with that monster, I felt it. I need to know how to operate simultaneously to reduce the preparation time it takes to cast another magic.”

“But the performance isn’t a competition. You don’t have to worry too much, do you?”

“No. Even if it’s not a battle situation, experts would think that my movements as I move from one magic to another are not natural.”

That was the only point that was pointed out in the entrance exam. It was that the movement of cancelling the previous magic and moving to another type of magic was somewhat arbitrary, and the movement seemed to be cut off due to the gap between them.

“I should be able to do it naturally like water. And if I do it at the same time, I will definitely stand out.”

Upon hearing my words, Eugene nodded and agreed in a low voice.

“Surely, that’s true.”

Then he snapped the book over, and suddenly rose and spoke with his voice down.

“You’re about to go into simultaneous operational practice with me from today. Now that it’s like this, I’ll make sure it’s operated simultaneously.”

His figure resembles an instructor staring at students in a youth training centre, so I gulped down and talked.

“…… if I knew how to run it at the same time, it would be disadvantageous to you in the battle.”

“Ha? You think I’m gonna lose to you just because you know how to run it at the same time? I’m not scared at all.”

“…….”

He’s such a bad guy as ever.

“You know what? Within the Spade, only one of my predecessors that could use magic simultaneously.”

“If you can’t do it by yourself, I’ll make it happen then.”

“You’re too confident, aren’t you?”

But Eugene answered, shaking his head.

“No. It must be made. No matter what you do.”

***

That’s how we got into the current situation.

“The flames are too strong. Reduce it.”

“Ugh……all right, all right.”

Of course, a full day’s training won’t be enough. I’ll have to practice bone grinding for a month.

‘But if I learn how to do it this time, I’ll feel easier in the future……….’

It was a part that I thought there was a problem from before anyway, and I was thinking of ways to solve the problem. Although I didn’t spend a lot of time studying the simultaneous operation while practising the magic that appears in classes and exams.

While trying not to extinguish the flame in front of my eyes, I tried to conjure up a magic circle that produced water in my head.

But it was not easy to think of two types of magic steps at the same time.

Because the image on one side always gets darker or the image on one side gets blurred.

Just then, a little yellow flash flew in and tapped off the back of my hand.

“Ah, hey, what are you doing!”

“I told you to shorten it. I just reminded you for a moment because you don’t seem to remember.”

“No, but where is the crazy guy who blows magic like that?”

“Don’t be so hard on me. The magic is so weak that our family can’t handle anything more than a massage.”

“That’s because your family is used to the terrifying attack magic!”

I poured out my words with excitement, but Eugene said with a different air.

“If you don’t want to get hit, do as I say.”

“You…”

I didn’t want to lose at this rate, so I couldn’t stand it and rushed to Eugene.

‘…..just take this!’

So muttered into it, and let out a small stream of water from my hand.

Sadly, however, Eugene had already set up a defensive shield, and my water stream bounced powerlessly.

“Ck…….”

“Defence magic is not only for you, Spade.”

Then he sat calmly in his chair, crossed his legs, and talked.

“You don’t seem to be in combat, but sometimes you’re very simple.”

“That’s a curse, isn’t it?”

“It can’t be a compliment, can it?”

It seemed to me that I was drowning in the image of Eugene who raised his head so proudly and responded.

“As expected, I don’t fit with you….…!”

As he grabbed his hair and muttered in despair, Eugene said with a nasty smile.

“I’m sorry, but you’ll have to fit me for a month.”

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It’s only been one day but I don’t like this already, how do I fit in?”

Then came Eugene’s calm voice.

“You said you don’t hate me that much.”

Turning back to the voice, Eugene told me with her blue eyes fixed.

“That’s what I said then.”

I couldn’t refute it. Because it was true.

“Well, that does mean we couldn’t be completely impossible to be compatible with each other, right?”

His accent at the end of the sentence was asking me for an answer.

“……yes.”

And Eugene, who rose from the chair, said, shining from the tip of his hand.

“This time I’ll help you as much as I can, and you can help me as much as you can.”

In his eyes, an unusual, expectant glow was coming out.

“It is to show the appearance that suits the successor of the 7 Imperial Families.”

I looked and glanced up at his lips.

“That’s what I was hoping for.”

Such a fool with no desire to be left behind and a fool with passion ahead, then a short alliance of a month was formed.

The beginning was great and grand.

But I had no idea that the ending would flow in an unexpected direction.

At least I was then.

I don’t know what Eugene was like.

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