(……Depressing……)

It was a corridor with ornamented high ceiling. The sunlight was  pouring from the wide window. The girl was being led by a maid through  that corridor while sighing inside her heart. Several months had passed  since Princess Elena’s recuperation was over. This time it was the young  lady of Margrave Dandall, Clara who headed to the capital to visit the  palace.

There were some problems that happened during Elena’s recuperation  and Dandall House almost got asked to take responsibility, but the royal  family also didn’t want to publicize the fact that an unmarried  princess almost got kidnapped, and it was also a fact that the attempt  was foiled before it succeeded, so the matter wasn’t pursued any further  through political adjustment with the royal family’s side.

Even so, although it couldn’t be said that it was related with this  case, a “gap” that was like an unseen crack was created between Clara  and Elena.

The two were really close as though they were biological sisters  before this, but then Clara regained the memory of previous lives and  learned that this world was the world that became the base of the otome  game Falling in Love on the Silver Wings. She realized that she was a  villainess who appeared in the game and that Elena was also a villainess  like her. Because of that she was on her guard against Elena which was  realized by the sharp Elena. As the result it was Elena who kept her at  distance.

Even so the greatest cause must be the maid who had the same pink hair color like the game’s .

There was no proof that she was the heroine. But because there was  just too much similarity, it caused Clara who had avoidance toward the  heroine to react with rejection toward the maid. It was unknown whether  that played a part or not, but after that the maid got sent to the  territory of Baron Seylace that was even more remote than Dandall. In  the end the maid’s whereabouts became unknown after she fell into the  hand of the 『mysterious person』 that caused a ruckus there.

Clara felt bad for the girl, but she felt relieved at the inside that  the girl had vanished. That must be why she got careless. She had a  chance to meet Elena before this, where during the flow of the  conversation she gave her “condolence” because Elena’s favorite maid was  died, Elena suddenly flew into a rage like a raging fire.

『It’s impossible that Aria will renege on her promise with me-!』

Since then it was like Elena was ignoring her. Clara got severely  scolded by her mother because of that. She then got told to repair her  relationship with the princess.

But, this time Clara visited the palace not for that. Three girls  among the fiancée candidates of the crown prince had been selected to be  the official fiancées, including Clara. She came to the capital in  order for the fiancées to be introduced with each other.

But, why did that introduction was “depressing” for her?

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「The margrave’s daughter, Lady Clara dandall has arrived.」

The heavy door was opened along with the voice of the butler who had  guided Clara until here. As she stepped inside one of the palace’s VIP  guest room, Clara saw that it seemed she was the last one arriving. The  other two fiancées were already inside and relaxing.

A girl with faint silver hair was relaxing while drinking tea on the  nearest table. She smiled gently and nodded at Clara when she noticed  her. Clara knew about this girl because she had talked with her several  times in events like noble party and the like.

She was Patricia Fudale, a daughter of Fudale House. She was born  from the second wife of Duke Fudale. She was two years older than Clara  and the crown prince, but apparently the first wife didn’t have a  daughter of suitable age, so the duke house squeezed her into the  candidate list at the end.

The three ladies who became the fiancées all had equal standing with  each other. That structure wouldn’t change until the crown prince  graduated from the magic academy. Until that time the three would be  evaluated in their disposition before they got their standing decided.  But even if they couldn’t become the main fiancée who would become the  first queen later on, the remaining two were promised the position of  the second queen and third queen.

Because of that it was required for the fiancées to be friendly with  each other, but in the case of the current king, because he made a  daughter of a viscount house who wasn’t even a candidate to be his first  queen, the main fiancées only became the second queen. From there, it  became possible that the other fiancées would only become concubine who  wouldn’t get involved with the country politic and even the children  that they gave birth to would have the lowest rank in the order of  succession, because of that two fiancées of the previous king withdrew  from their position.

In such situation, there was no way the two queens could work  together with each other. The king thought of how to repair that  relationship, and as the result, it caused the number of king’s children  who currently held the right of succession to be few.

If the crown prince fell in love with the heroine this time too, it  would possibly lead to the same result. At that time Clara too would be  condemned as a villainess so such thing shouldn’t matter to her but, she  would become unable to do anything if she acted so pessimistically.

She would have no problem getting along with the daughter of Duke  Fudale as fellow fiancée. She was someone who didn’t even show up in  game. In the first place she was never fully given the education to  become queen seeing that she was just a daughter of a second wife, so  even her family shouldn’t really expect her to become the first queen.

But, the other fiancée……the daughter of Lester House, a count house  that had produced head royal magician for generations, the girl who was a  year young than Clara and the same age with the heroine possessed all  six elements and vast mana in the game. I the end she would definitely  become the greatest enemy standing in the heroine’s way.

(So that’s……the worst, the most wicked villainess, Carla Lester……-)

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Darkly wavy jet black hair that looked like it swallowed the sunlight.

Sickly white skin. Eyes that were surrounded by black circles that  made her eyes looked like they sunk in. That girl──『last boss』 who was  considered as the equal of the demon king in the otome game was staring  back with a fixed gaze toward Clara with fiery purple eyes.