Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 141.2
The princess was lucky, but considering the girl’s ability, she should be able to survive in a foreign land.
He would surely find the girl along with the princess. And this time, he would not make the wrong choice the same way as he did with his daughter. To keep her under the princess’s protection, Bert decided to help his grandson, who apparently had a liking for the girl.
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One girl also moved when she received the news that the princess was missing with her personal escort.
Clara Dandol, a frontier countess, the first fiancée of Crown Prince Ervan, who was in poor health after obtaining the dungeon’s Gift on behalf of the royal family.
“El-sama…”
But when was the last time this fiancée showed his face to her?
Having formed a bond with Ervan’s cheerfulness and gentleness without the coldness of royalty, Clara fell in love with him as a man, not just as an object to be exploited in an Otome Game. However, Clara’s current pale complexion was not only because Ervan’s heart had left her, but also because of the disappearance of Princess Elena.
As in the scenario of the Otome Game, it was Carla who brought the Evil Race into the country, but Clara instead who provided the neglected Evil Race with a base of operations, information, and funding from the Grave.
Even though Clara had no contact with Grave, she was able to foresee the Evil Race’s objectives to some extent through the future calculations by Gift.
Even so, Clara never told Elena of the danger. Clara and Elena used to be like sisters, but her heart became weak when she remembered the memories of her previous life, and an even greater rift developed between Clara and Elena, when the latter became a princess with a strong heart.
Clara did not want to take the lives of Elena and the others either. She just wanted them off the stage for a bit.
Even now, the thought of losing her life makes her want to vomit. However, the current situation was the perfect opportunity for Clara.
The school was closed, but some of the main nobles and senior noble families who knew what was going on remained in the school. The royal family informed Clara that the Royal Guard would be able to protect the senior nobles and their relations rather than return them to their estates, so the senior nobles of the royalist faction chose to remain at the school. There was a proposal that the royal family and their fiancées would be admitted to the palace, but Clara and Carla wanted to stay at the school, so that was not an option.
Even Clara, who suffered from a sick mind, was able to move freely without the presence of the strict Elena and that terrible girl.
Clara swears to herself that she would use [Gift] to win back Ervan’s heart, even if it would mean peeking into the future of all his routes.
Until now, when she cursed the heroine’s existence, she had relied on others and done nothing on her own. But this time–
“I will kill the heroine with my own hands…”
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While one girl was making such a decision, a girl who called herself Alicia was enjoying tea gracefully with three men.
“Licia is really kind, isn’t she? Those girls have been doing many dangerous things, so I’m sure they’ll be back soon after a little pain.”
“That’s right. Amol-sama has the kindness to take care of me too.”
“That guard was a savage child, wasn’t she? She’s the kind of person who can easily take a person’s life, that’s why she’s in this mess.”
“Don’t say that, Nathaniel, not everyone has a clean heart like you.”
“Re, really? I’m sorry, Licia.”
Alicia offered a childlike smile to Amol, the king’s brother, and Nathaniel, the grandson of the head of the temple of the Holy Church, who were at the same table with her. The smile was refreshing to the two, who were used to seeing the fake smiles of noble daughters, and it seemed to be a symbol of purity.
Alicia bonded with the traumatized pair, who had had their previous values destroyed by the peach-blonde girl and were still unable to accept it due to their entrenched notions, by accepting all of their arguments.
Not too close, not too far, but gently holding their hands when they needed it. Her young appearance, coupled with her wariness, allowed her to wedge herself into the cracks of their hearts by affirming everything they had to say.
“…”
Ervan looked at them with a complicated expression on his face.
He was probably the one most worried about his missing half-sister Elena. Although Elena had grown up and moved away from him, she was always just a pretty little sister to him, who had only the sensibilities of a middle-class aristocrat.
Amol would have adored Elena, yet did he not have the familial love that Ervan had? Nathaniel seems to be happy with people’s misfortune, even though he hates to kill people so badly in accordance with the teachings of God.
No one complained bitterly to them. And their thoughts were affirmed by one girl.
Alicia. was she really right?
Elena didn’t seem to think well of her, and Clara also said she was dangerous.
(…Come to think of it, I haven’t seen Clara’s face for days. Since when? Since she started restraining me…I got scared…but Clara was always there for me…)
“El-sama?”
“Licia…”
Ervan, who had been lost in thought, was brought back to reality by Alicia’s voice and the warmth of her hand gently holding his under the table.
“Take it easy…El-sama is not wrong. You’re just a little tired, just rest a little and you’ll be fine.”
“Yeah…I guess so.”
He wasn’t convinced. But her words gave him a comfortable “refuge” from the burden and challenges of being the crown prince, and Ervan gently squeezed her hand back.
The girl who called herself Alicia loved them all. But that love was just the flip side of her own self-love for the sake of being loved. That was why the men thought they were loved more than anyone else.
Her purpose was to be loved. To be loved by all satisfied the “hunger” in her heart. She was willing to die in order to be loved. She would even trade the destruction of this country for being loved by all men.
The feelings she had when she was an orphan, feeling lonely and afraid of being loved by no one and having nothing, transformed her from a simple girl with no power into a sorceress of the inclined kingdom.
And today, the girl who called herself Alicia still had a big smile on her face, loving only herself from the bottom of her heart.
There was one girl who truly enjoyed watching these girls.