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Chapter 7 : Oswald's Point of View
That’s… a massive amount of notes.
The years were written in a series of columns, and at first I thought it was a copy of a history textbook.
But soon I realized it was not.
Because the events written on it were events many years ahead of the current time.
『Year ◆◆. After breaking off her engagement to Oswald, she lost her significance and fell into darkness.』
『Year □□. She failed the assassination attempt to the heroine. Was about to be executed.』
The writing was all about Leila.
All of them, without exception, have met a horrible end.
Not only in the future, but also in the past.
『Year ✕✕. My older sister refuses to succumb to the bullying at the All Girls School, and the other party escalates the situation by hiring a gangster to attack her. Her personality collapses.』
『Year ○○. The family was forced to split up because of our father’s adultery. She became distrustful of men and was unable to lead a normal life.』
『Year ▲▲. After Oswald fled the country, she was suspected to be a spy connected to him. After suffering so much pain, she chose suicide.』
Unfamiliar words such as “event,” “route,” and “flag” appeared again and again in the midst of the disturbing content.
All the questions, Sophina cleared it up with just one sentence.
“This is the Strategy Room.”
“Strategy…?”
“Or, ‘the Strategy Room to save the Villainous Leila from her doomed route’, to be more precise.”
“A villain… huh?”
Sophina grabbed me by the chest, as if she didn’t want to explain anything to me.
“After doing it again and again, I finally understood. In order to avoid my sister’s death route, I need you.”
“Y-you need me…?”
I don’t feel bad when my fiancé says he needs me.
There’s no way I would.
And yet… my heart was overflowing with anxiety.
Starting over.
Death route.
Sophina’s words, colored with unintelligible and disturbing words, were too much for me to the point of breaking my expectations.
“Yes. If I end the engagement event by exiling you, there will always be a war with a neighboring country. I couldn’t even execute you domestically. Your death is a flag that will ruin this country.”
“What… are you talking about, Sophina?”
I can’t understand a single thing Sophina said, as if she is speaking to me in a foreign language.
She is the one who is destined for me.
That’s how it’s supposed to be…!
“Don’t get me started on something I don’t understand. We’re going to have fun tonight, aren’t we? That’s why you invited me here, isn’t it?”
“…your dxmned mind is seriously congenial, you know that?”
“You… you thought of me like that.”
“Did you really think I liked you?”
Sophina said, even more coldly.
“This is why you chase after other women’s asses over and over again and bring about their destruction. You have no idea how many of my sister’s happy futures have been ruined because of you…!”
Giri… the sound of gnashing of teeth echoed in the room.
Sophina, who had been staring at me for a while, suddenly relaxed her eyes.
“―well, you’re my fiancée this time, so I have to do that.”
“That’s! Right!”
“Oh. Except― I will be doing it to you, not you to me.”
“…eh?”
Sophina pulled out a strange ring from what looked like a miscellaneous toolbox in the corner of the room.
It’s a crown-shaped object with a number of magic stones attached to it, and she placed it on my head.
I tried to resist, but she just held my hands down, and my limbs became heavy as lead. I was unable to move.
“I’m glad I inherited that magic proficiency. Thanks to that, I can perform magic without chanting, and use gravity magic as I please.”
Sophina’s lips arched like a crescent moon.
It was a wicked smile that a young lady in her nightgown shouldn’t have.
“…wait! What the h**l are you doing?!”
“A soul of a child of three at 100*… that’s right. I already know that a top-notch education won’t uninstall that rotten personality of yours”
(三つ子の魂百まで- /Mitsugonotamashīhyakumade/
meaning “The personality of a young child does not change with age.”)
Uninstall.
It was another incomprehensible word I won’t be able to understand, but I already knew instinctively that it was not a good thing.
Scary.
Scary…!
“If you’re going to hold a grudge, hold it against Kami-sama, the creator who came up with this scenario.”
Shrugging her shoulders, Sophina flipped through a notebook she must have written herself.
“What kind of happy love story is this? From my sister’s point of view, this world is a minefield of death flags. Even after all the trash I’ve cleaned up, there’s still no happy ending in sight. The difficulty level of this game is too fxcking extreme.”
As Sophina began to channel her magic power into the magic stone, it was as if a fog had fallen over my head and I couldn’t think of anything.
No pain, no fear, no doubts.
I don’t feel anything.
I don’t understand anything.
“Ah… ah…”
“Don’t worry. I’m going to install a great personality that will make everyone respect you.”
From start to finish, I couldn’t understand a thing.
As the number of question marks increased, I asked the only thing that bothered me.
“…who the h**l are you?”
She’s not… Sophina.
It’s someone who plays as Sophina, in Sophina’s body, in Sophina’s voice.
This someone wearing the mask of Sophina replied with that charming smile on her face.
“My older sister is my favorite character, and I’m just a mob little sister, who very much loves her.”
My consciousness…
…is going
…to
…disappear.