Chapter 29 : The Villainess’s Hectic Midterm Exams (1)

After the noisy juniors all left, only Ruby and I remained in the infirmary.

Ruby Ceres. No, the princess of the Keridan Grand Duchy.

Ruvier Keridan.

I nodded at her question, asking if I was okay with a blank expression, and she laid me down, telling me to get some more sleep.

Her kindness hadn’t changed since the first time we met as children.

Although she doesn’t seem to remember me.

“Did I ever tell you about the time I went to a party when I was a child?”

“Yeah, you did. You said a silver-haired girl saved you from being bullied.”

“That’s right, I did.”

When I was a child. I was bullied because of my weak personality, which was different from now.

I was surrounded by children under a large tree, and I couldn’t answer their questions about whether my family really ate blood.

Even though I had the great backing of the Blood Duke family, I couldn’t use it, and when I think about it now, I can only think of how pathetic I was.

The one who saved me then was the girl in front of me now, Ruby.

She, with an expressionless face, beat up the children and held out her hand to me.

‘You idiot, why are you just taking it?’

With those words, she clenched her fist and punched me on the head, making me burst into tears.

I laughed as I recalled that time.

“Pfft.”

“What’s wrong?”

She tilted her head and looked at me.

She’s the same as she was then, and now. And I offered a vassal contract to repay the favor back then, but she refused.

This way, I can’t protect Ruby from the Keridan Grand Duchy.

Because I have no justification.

I looked at Ruby with a serious look and offered again.

“Are you really not going to form a vassal contract? I can’t help you without justification.”

“It’s fine. I’ll take care of my own business, so don’t worry about it.”

With those words, she got up and was about to go outside.

I was thinking, is she really going to leave like this, when she turned around and said.

“I’ll go get something to eat.”

With those words, she left the infirmary.

That’s a relief. She wasn’t just leaving.

My idol, my friend. And the girl I love.

Just thinking about her makes my body feel hot…

It wasn’t just my imagination.

Maybe it was because of the magic I was hit with by the junior earlier, but I flinched every time I rubbed my legs together.

The school nurse was also away, so wouldn’t it be okay for a little while?

As I was relieving my desires with my hand, I heard footsteps.

I stopped my actions and covered myself with the blanket, and as soon as the door opened, Ruby returned.

“I met a junior on the way to the cafeteria, and they gave me this.”

And she held out various foods in front of me.

Ah, that’s why she came back faster than expected.

Then, an unexpected thing happened.

She suddenly leaned her face towards me and sniffed.

The distance was so close that I could see her long eyelashes clearly.

And the shocking words she said.

“I think I smell something.”

“I-It’s probably the smell of food! Let’s eat quickly! Thank you for the food!”

“Is that so.”

I glossed over the situation and offered her bread, and she chewed it while staring at me intently. Did she notice?

Please don’t…

After entering the academy, the day finally came.

The students’ greatest enemy.

Exam period, that is.

The exams, divided into theory and practical, are held for a week, and the grades are reflected in real-time, so it’s a very important event where classes can be changed.

And if she gets excellent grades in this exam, Clea’s promotion to Class A will be confirmed, and she can move to the dormitory right away.

After the lecture, I was looking at Clea, who was studying in the club room, and I hugged Nickel-senpai, who was sitting next to me, and she freaked out.

“W-Wait a minute!? Don’t hug me without permission!?”

“Being coy is also charming, senpai.”

“I’m not being coy!? Help me! Ruby!”

The club leader of the ‘WhatColoryourblood’ club, who is also a member of the harem club, was struggling in my arms and asked Ruby-senpai for help.

Ruby-senpai, who was drinking the tea that Eve had brewed, glanced at us and quickly turned her head away.

Nickel-senpai with a shocked expression.

“Are you okay?”

“It’s because of you!”

Nickel-senpai, who resisted with her small body and finally escaped from my arms, ran away into Ruby-senpai’s arms.

And the physical contact that followed.

She snuggled into Ruby-senpai’s arms and rubbed her face against her breasts, and the scene was so natural.

Ruby-senpai tried to push Nickel-senpai away because she was annoying, but she looked at her with a pathetic look, and she gave up and hugged her.

I should learn from that.

I snuggled into the arms of Clea, who was studying next to me.

“Wait a minute!? What are you doing!? I’m studying!”

“I was lonely because Clea wasn’t playing with me.”

…?

I used the ‘look at her with a pathetic look’ skill that I just learned from Nickel-senpai, but it was useless.

Because I was kicked out of her arms with a bump on my head.

Nickel-senpai was looking at me and laughing.

She was looking at me with a look that said, ‘Not just anyone can do it.’ But if I just watch that, I’m not me.

As I approached the seniors, she hugged Ruby-senpai even tighter because she was scared of me, and rubbed her face against her breasts. Was this calculated too?

While I was thinking that she was amazing, the club room door opened and Lucy entered.

I approached her in one step and hugged her, and Lucy looked at me like a startled rabbit.

It’s exactly as described in the original story, so cute.

“Are you having a hard time with your teaching assistant job?”

“It’s okay, Aria-nim. It’s more manageable than I thought.”

“Tell me anytime you’re having a hard time. I’ll definitely hug you.”

“R-Really!?”

While I was stroking the hair of Lucy, who was more delighted than ever, I felt a gaze from behind.

I turned around and saw them looking at me with cold expressions.

Even Nickel-senpai, who was being hugged in Ruby-senpai’s arms.

Their gazes seemed to say, ‘How many are you planning to seduce?’ But it’s not enough yet.

Wouldn’t I be satisfied with about 100 people?

Then, Eve, who separated me and Lucy, sat me down on a chair.

“Didn’t you say you were lacking in studying?”

“Originally, resting is also the completion of studying.”

Then, she opened a book in front of me, and it was clean.

As if it was the first time it had been opened.

And Eve looked at me intently.

I told her I was embarrassed because she was staring at me so intently, and she handed me a pen, telling me to study quickly.

I hugged her slender waist with one hand and said that studying would be better if she helped me by my side, and she thought about something for a moment and whispered in my ear.

If I get first place again this time, she will grant me a wish.

“Really!? You promise!”

“Anything lewd is not allowed, Miss.”

“…….”

The motivation that had been soaring until just now disappeared completely.

“What’s the point of living if I can’t do anything lewd with Eve!”

“Your way of speaking is strange, Miss.”

The exams are held for each class, and the Class A exams end the earliest, so I went to Class B to pick up Clea, and I saw her slumped over her desk.

As I approached, Clea was muttering something.

“It’s over… My life is over.”

What on earth happened that she’s so down?

“What’s wrong?”

At my words, she raised her head and looked at me, and her eyes were hollow.

“I made a very ridiculous mistake.”

“What mistake?”

“I didn’t write my name on the test paper.”

An unexpected problem occurred.

But I can’t just steal the test paper from the professor’s office, write her name, and put it back.

Wait a minute…. That’s a good idea?

They said they would grade it in the morning of the following day…?

Then there’s a chance.

“I have a very good idea.”

When I whispered to her, she looked at me with wide eyes.

“If we get caught, it won’t end with disciplinary action! We could get expelled!”

“If we don’t get caught, it’s not a problem, right?”

I smiled at her, saying it’s not a problem if we don’t get caught, and she said she didn’t need to take such a risk for her.

I held Clea’s two hands tightly and whispered.

“You trust me, right?”

“I’m older than you….”

I changed the mood with a joke and took Clea to the cafeteria.

You have to be full to do anything.

After finishing the meal, we went to the club room to make a plan, and Nickel-senpai and Ruby-senpai were there.

I needed an accomplice, so this worked out well.

As I smiled, looking at the seniors, they both flinched.

They have good instincts?