My Sister the Heroine, and I the Villainess - Chapter 88

Chapter 88

Translator: CasBrin

The Royal Academy Entrance Ceremony .

This would be my first appearance to the world as the villainess I now had to be . I was climbing up the steps to my spotlight .

Naturally, since I had the top score on the exam, I was student representative and would give the opening address . With my status and abilities, there was never any question that I would be entrusted with the position .

That’s why, even even as I stood on the platform, I wasn’t nervous .

Gathered in the auditorium were all the students of the academy; around five hundred in total . Even faced with so many people, these youngsters weren’t enough to faze someone like me who had been raised since birth to face the challenge of managing the country as a high noble .

Though there wasn’t any tension in my body, when I was given the stage of honor, there was a certain feeling of being in freefall .

I could feel the gaping hole in my chest .

For this past month I had avoided showing my face to Michelie . Not only Michelie . Charles, Surfania, Leon and even with Mariwa, I had purposely distanced myself .

They deserved better than to be wasted on a villainess like me .

I wonder if I’ve caused Michelie more pain than the story needed . Perhaps Charles is venting his anger out on Oxe . Surfania might withdraw even more, but surely Leon will be able to coax her out of her shell .

As for Mariwa…surely she is unchanged as always .

“…”

Thinking of my close friends, who I had abandoned, icy wind seems to whistle through the large hole in my chest . It’s not a refreshing breeze, rather the pain feels like the bite from a winter gale .

I doubt this hole where my heart should be will ever be healed, not even with my last breath . ‘That’s fine with me’ I thought, since I had resigned myself to that since the beginning .

I was starting to get used to the ache from my hollow heart, I slowly spread open the paper I had been carrying .

Surprisingly these events were the same no matter which life they took place . Just as in my previous life, I spread open the script and give voice to the speech . It was exactly as it had been in my previous life .

Since there isn’t a microphone, people have to speak loudly and clearly by themselves, but that is just a technological difference, rather than an actual difference in the presentation style .

Like that I had planned on giving the speech in an unaffected manner, but I unexpectedly changed my mind .

Right now there wasn’t anything that I had to do as a villainess . I planned to spend my four years at the Academy acting the part of the bad guy . But the main events wouldn’t really start until Michelie arrived at the Academy in two years time .

Even though I had planned on behaving like a foolish, arrogant noble daughter only after obediently doing my duty at the entrance ceremony . Just as I had told His Highness Endo, I had long prepared for this day .

But, my thoughts abruptly changed .

From now on I must become the disgrace of the Noir family . It is only because the blood heir of the Noir family has fallen so far that the adopted Michelie can shine brightly .

For that path, I must do my best .

A haughty personality that doesn’t mix with the people around her, lacking in the proper poise and education of a noble, a stupid fool through and through . That was the Christina Noir I was aiming to be .

And right now I had the attention of every single student at the school . There was no better to chance to show everyone just how much of a villainess I truly was .

My reputation right now is that of a lady overflowing with charisma and sensibility . This position was proof of how hard I had worked under Mariwa’s strict instructions, but for my villainess reputation it would only hold me back .

I have to destroy my reputation . And I would be a villainess for sure .

It just so happens that I was quite familiar with someone who had disgraced this position of honor and had made sure that everyone associated their name with the fool ever after .

“…Haaa . ”

By following their example everything would go as planned .

WIth a smile I let out a small sigh, and then ripped the congratulatory address paper in two . At this sudden act, my surroundings erupted noisily . Looking pleased with myself, I really stood out .

Feeling stronger than I had in a long time, to gain even more infamy, I stepped out in front of the podium . From the raised staged I looked down upon the five hundred students in chaos beneath me, and let out a sneering smile .

“This is the first time I’m meeting most of you . There are many people here who know of me, but likely a few who don’t . So everyone gathered here can get the picture, I shall educate you all as to exactly who this Duke’s daughter before you is . So listen up . ”

This place is perfect for causing a scene . I can look down on them, and they have to look up to me . Perhaps this perfect stage was put in place to allow me to walk the path of a villainess .

I threw away any trace of the congratulatory speech I was supposed to have made . Overlooking the crowd of people in front of me, I threw out my chest with pride as only I could, to say the words that only I knew, I opened my mouth wide .

“I am Christina Noir . ”

I knew how my destiny ended, I who was blessed to stand by my mother would now walk forward for my most beloved little sister’s sake . The ending I was aiming for and the force driving me forward, there was only one . For that, I have decided I will bet everything I am on this goal .

I don’t care what other people think of me .

I have decided to sever all my friendships .

I will betray all the hopes and expectations that person had of me .

Because I–

“And I – am a genius!”

—Because my younger sister, the heroine, is just too lovely, and for her I will even become the villainess of her story .