Author’s Note:
I’d like to address one thing since I’ve received some comments regarding this. As a character setting, Alicia’s standards of villainy are skewed. If you started reading this story expecting her to take on a truly evil role, then I apologize.
Also, I’d like to thank everyone for bookmarking this series. I’m extremely happy that you all have been kindly reading my story! Thank you so much!
“Hey, Alicia. What do you think about appearing in our production as a guest performer?”
What did you just say? You want me to act as a guest performer? Albert-Oniisama, what the heck are you thinking!?
“Oh yeah! That’s a great idea!”
Gayle-Sama? Please don’t just agree with that ridiculous suggestion! I’m not a member of the student council!
“I have no desire to do so,” I say enunciating each syllable clearly.
“Why not?” Albert-Oniisama asks, scrutinizing my face.
“First of all, I’m not even a student at the magic academy.”
“Just let us deal with that.”
No, that’s okay. There’s really no need…..
“It’s a great opportunity! You should definitely participate!” Liz-san says smiling brilliantly at me.
“I said no.”
The tension in the room. It’s rising. But Liz-san doesn’t even bat an eye. Her smile stays in place and shows no signs of displeasure.
She’s just so difficult to deal with for some reason. I suppose it’s probably because we operate on completely different wavelengths.
“It’ll definitely be fun~? I’m sure you’ll make some great memories.”
“Liz-san, won’t you please refrain from arbitrarily forcing your own sense of values onto me?”
And with these few words, the mood changes completely. A look of embarrassment floats across Liz-san’s face.
Great! She finally gets it! This is the face that I’ve been striving for!
I didn’t manage it during our last encounter, but I’ve finally succeeded! This is my revenge for her being so thickheaded all the time.
“I’m sorry. That wasn’t my intention,” Liz-san amends, apologizing to me immediately.
Huh? I was expecting a much more intense battle of words to play out. She gave in so easily.
“Alicia, your words were also rather harsh,” Albert-Oniisama reprimands looking a bit mad at me.
……I did it!! I finally managed to anger Albert-Oniisama.
“I was merely expressing my honest opinion.”
“Saying something like that will hurt the other person’s feelings.”
Yep. I can’t deny that. But what’s wrong with speaking the truth?
“Let’s just move on for now, shall we? Ali-chan was probably just feeling uncomfortable because we put her on the spot,” Curtis-Sama lightly interjects, his voice resounding in that awkward silence.
His reasonable tone and words start to calm down the turbulent atmosphere a bit. But they don’t work to calm my heart. Somehow, I still feel slightly disturbed.
Their reactions really are different to when I was 7 years old. When you’re young, selfish and willful words are easily forgiven. But once you grow up, I guess that sort of self-indulgence is no longer tolerable.
It was the same in my past life as well. I saw these reactions a lot when I acted selfishly after becoming an adult. But to think that I would be experiencing this now when I’m still only ten… I guess members of the nobility really are held to a much higher set of standards and expectations.
But the Alicia from the game must have never learned that lesson. Even though she grew taller and older, her personality and temperament never matured and thus she was viewed as a villain.
So doesn’t that mean that I’m perfect just as I am? I just need to grow up and continue to act as I do, and I should safely succeed in my role as the villainess.
I guess there’s nothing to worry about then! I’ll be fine as long as I just continue to live honestly as I have been so far!
“Ali, go visit the town with Liz. Get to know each other better so you two can learn how to get along,” instructs Albert-Oniisama.
T/N: Ohhh! Here it is!! Albert is taking Liz’s side! (Or is he?) What do you guys think?? When the rift gets bigger between the heroine and our precious villainess, whose side will he take?
Also, I’m getting Neverland vibes from this chapter lol. I feel like Alicia just made a resolution to never grow up hahaha
Carnation Scans 
The ones being selfish and immature are those who ask for unreasonable things without a good justification. Involving someone unrelated and unwilling definitely looks like a fine example.
Asking is fine. They are asking her to join and she said no with a dumb reason to them. She told them that she isn’t part of the school not that she doesn’t want to do it. The heroine is saying ignore the school part and it would be fun. In which the MC applied that it wouldn’t be fun for her. Which if she state that first than she can complain about the heroine attitude.
Alicia did say that she didn’t want to do it. Her first reason was that she’s not a part of the school. The second reason she wasn’t able to give because Liz completely disregards Alicia’s feelings of not wanting to do it and starts waxing on about how it’s a “great opportunity” and “you’ll make loads of fond memories”. In addition to this Liz keeps on pretending to be nice to Alicia even though it’s clear that the two don’t get along. It’s just kind of fake, like if Liz was actually nice she wouldn’t have to act in a way that made it obvious. She would have just left Alicia alone out of consideration.
I think you’re underestimating extroverts. The heroine doesn’t strike me as a smart scheming person but rather as a lighthearted kind one (which in terms of consequences can be just as bad or worse of course).
The point being that I think that it’s entirely possible for her to be honest in thinking that it might be a nice memory and thus a good thing to share with others. Keep in mind that, while we know Alicia’s attitude towards Liz, she hasn’t actually been able to convey that quite well up to this point, and Liz still seems to treat her fairly amicably.
That said, I wish I could reject other people’s values like this without being called out for it when they try to impose them on me. To understand this subjectivity requires a certain amount of reflection or philosophical education, which most people unfortunately lack.
She clearly refuse? Why are you reprimanding her, like it was her fault she doesn’t want to inconvenience anyone. Petty children.
because they don’t think its a big deal of the reason she doesn’t want to do it. Not being part of the student body can be solve with mini effort.
Yes but she said “First of all” which means there are more reasons why she doesn’t want to do it. Then she said no again when they asked. That’s two ‘no’s already. She shouldn’t have to refuse a third or fourth time. It becomes annoying and irritating. If someone says no they mean no
Thanks for the new chapter!
She doesn’t need to give them a good reason. She said no and that should be enough. People need to learn that no means no and if someone doesn’t want to do something, they’re not obligated to explain themselves to others. Who says what is a dumb reason or not? Who says what is good enough of a reason to reject something? If the person says no, it’s no and that’s the end. People who still keep insisting no matter what are the ones who are selfish and immature.
We have to disagree. A “no means no” attitude, especially coming from a 10 yo child(and even from older people), without a plausible reason, and from a person who previously had shown much more astuteness in social interactions, is usually a rude antisocial behaviour. It’d be understandable in the context of a family made of standard, cliche, one-dimensional villains, but this is so far a regular, influential noble family which is trying to form impressive and influential members of aristocracy and Alicia herself has caught the attention of the royal family, meaning, long story short, that she has to develop her social and political skills. While Liz’s reactions only serve to more and more alert us, the readers, to something fishy in her personality, Ali’s older! brothers do have the right and duty to try and impose attempts for her to change her perspective, irrespective of catching the signals we caught from Liz or not. We and Alicia know she was an adult in her previous life, but even she acknowledges her own selfishness and imperfections, as well as her status as a very different type of citizen back then, with a different social role and level of (probable) authority.
In any society the existence of rules and laws regulate the extent of free will, because, while it’s good and deserves respect, people being allowed to behave only according to their own will, without moderation, would end up generating chaos and anarchy. And, just as Flower-senpai explained, Alicia operates on a skewed perception of “villainous” behaviour and is simply not meant to be any sort of villain, but rather a more balanced, realistic and relatable fictional human.
I’m sorry, I just can’t go past the point where people are always asking for “a plausible reason” when someone says “no”, even if “no” is already a complete sentence.
And of course, I understand it’s not good to allow a kid to just do whatever they want to do. But in this case, they know how smart Alicia is, so they should know better than try and force her to do something she doesn’t wanna do. I don’t care about social behavior and this type of “education”. Forcing a kid to do something they’re against of, will only bring bad things in the future.
Also, Alicia is a noble 10 year old girl who has already proven her worth. She doesn’t really need to become friends with Liz to prove that. Not only is Liz a commoner, but she’s also 5 years older than Ali. Forcing her to become friends with a teenager who has a completely different mind/world/life/pov than her is not realistic, as that friendship would not be something easy to happen.
Anyway, I just really can’t accept anyone being forced to do something they’re adamantly against of. Especially when other people are aggressively forcing them and then blaming them for their actions.
I think that asking “why” upon being rejected is a perfectly legitimate response, but it should be noted that this does not mean that there is opposedly an obligation to answer.
Furthermore in this case Liz did not in fact ask for her reasons beyond the first but tried to convince her through positive arguments instead.
From my perspective, Liz’s actions bear a resemblance to a mother trying to motivate her child to take part in an activity that the mother thinks will be either enjoyable or memorable (or both). In many cases the child would not possess superior knowledge and judgement. Then if it turns out well, the child may be grateful for such opportunities after growing up, and if it turns out badly, the child will grow resentment.
The male cast may be aware of her abilities, but Liz has probably only caught a climpse of it up to this point. And even if she’s knowledgeable in economics, politics, and biology, she wouldn’t necessarily have experience with school festivals and similar events.
And regarding the part of Liz and Alicia being pushed together, it hasn’t seemed as though Alicia had any acquaintances outside this circle, especially not female ones. So while there is a difference in age, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have her form relations with people of the same sex, in which case Liz would be selected due to her being familiar with Alicia’s other acquaintances. From a noble’s perspective she should have had some contact with other girls of similar ages and pedigree, but my guess is that she was isolated, originally due to her temper and later due to her excellence. So as for Liz being pushed on her, that’s an attempt to remedy this issue.
I was also in a bit of a hurry, so I may have phrased something poorly. I mostly mean that we see and know Alicia on a different level than her fellow characters, of which her brothers see a 10 yo girl with very high potential but whose education and social skills have just turned up faulty and not helpful in the long run, so they have the right to intervene and try to change that, as older siblings who, in every universe, real or fictional, take part in the education of their younger siblings one way or another.
I think the issue some people, myself included, may have with Alicia’s pre-conceived notion of a “villainess” is that there is no incentive. There’s no particular reason why she feels she needs to engage in villainy, no pressing goals, no life-threatening motive (for instance, a system in which she has no choice but to follow a set pattern of behaviour or else she forfeits her life, etc.) she is just doing it on a whim! The fact that she is not actually a real child as well just makes the whole situation a little ludicrous, like, just why? She doesn’t have to follow the original plot at all since she knows it ends in her demise, so why carry on with the act? At this point, I’m only reading because of two reasons 1) I want to see her excel/improve her strength and learn a lot of magic and OP everyone else and 2) I want to know what the deal is with that hidden village and its inhabitants.
It might not be as strong of a reason, but isn’t having a dream a good enough motive? You know how when you’re a kid, you can decide you want to be something on a whim? I figure there are some people out there that hold onto that desire and as they grow older, they become more and more set on realizing it. That’s the type of person I see Alicia as being.
In her past life, she said it was her dream to be a villainess, and now she has the chance to make that dream come true! It doesn’t matter that her life isn’t in danger or that fate isn’t throwing her curveballs. This is what she’s always wanted to do, so she’s doing her best to make it happen.
Or at least, that’s how I see it 😂 I feel like her motive for wanting to become a villain is one of the things that makes Alicia unique among all the other reborn as a villainess characters out there!
Yup, and with Alicia’s skewed ideas of villainy I think she just takes the good (determined, intelligent, brilliant, poised, poisonous tongue, free, unrestrained, queen, never bullying the weak) with the bad (rude, offensive, unkind, not helping the weak, potentially isolated, arrogant) and just wings it. To her the set of traits shown by a villainess are appealing and so she wishes to embody these traits. Different people have different ideals and perhaps she likes the kind of strength shown by the villain as opposed to the type shown by the heroine. So she works hard on it. Instead of looking at it as some completely random whim I’m more inclined to interpret it as ‘what does being a villainess mean to Alicia’ and go from there.
Isn’t it kind of a given that a Villainess in one of these novels is never actually evil, as opposed to just a powerful woman who had her fiancé stolen by some thieving cat? I’m pretty sure I can count on one hand the number of novels that had an actually villainous Villainess…
I mean, I’m not opposed to the notion of a truly malicious Villainess, but when I hear about a character embracing the role, genre standards lead me to think of this kind of story first. Because Villainess stories are usually more about how the “villain” was a lot more sympathetic if you saw the story from her perspective instead of their rival’s, as opposed to a story about viciously ruining the life of the heroine.
Right? I think the author must have received some comments from people who haven’t read very many of these stories yet lol. Maybe the genre hadn’t been as popular yet in 2018 when this was coming out?
I think you’re confusing the villainess character in the story with the villainess character in the game. Of course there are many in which the villainess was also reasonable in the game and the protagonist is puzzled at the positive reactions of other people towards her judgement scene. However, there are also quite a few in which the villainess is heinous and bullies the heroine disproportionately, even if her actual sentiment for that is justified.
There are some novels in which the protagonist is not reincarnated as the villainess herself but someone close to her and has to change her attitude (by averting traumata etc.) in order to avoid the collateral damage of the judgement.
If people think of that as the ideal for villainesses (man, spelling that word over and over is a pain lol), they may be disappointed if this novel’s protagonist does not fulfill them.
How dense are people to not realize that she’s not a reliable narrator?
Wow, Albert really a good older brother. Ali-chan surely “a little bit” rude in here. She needs to more polish her “vilainess” charm~ 😅
Anyway, thank you for ur hardwork 😘
uuuuhhhhh you just cant force people to get along…
You can force them to try and see why they don’t get along and if the attitude is liable to change. It’s one of the wisest and most effective, so far, methods of behavioural education.
Only if you are a drill sergeant with the threat of court martial for your disposal. Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” comes to mind otherwise.
Yes, because parents and older relatives setting down rules and consequences(and it’s not even the case here, to be speaking of consequences), for the sake of educating a child, is truly comparable to a song being sarcastic of fake education and tiranny. It’s extremely wise and humane to do a 180° turn from tiranny straight into anarchy. I still strongly disagree, you’re reading too much negativity in these kids’ conflict, where even Alicia’s behaviour stems from a misunderstanding of her own dream.
Thank you very much for the translation🤗, it’s getting more and more interesting. I believe others may have asked before, but can’t remember the answer: are we bound to read, anytime soon(I mean in the chapter count, irrespective of your speed of translation) some other boy’s POV?
I don’t know if I ended up saying anything either haha. (Minor Spoiler) But unfortunately, the answer is no. The next time we see one of the boys’ perspectives is at chapter 173 (from Curtis’s perspective). But we will be getting her father’s point of view at chapter 60 and Gilles’s point of view for like 6 chapters at 91! Those aren’t exactly what you were hoping for I think, but hopefully they’ll still be fun~! (End of Minor Spoiler)
Okay so the only reason they want Ali to get along with Liz is because they like her, not because they’re trying to foster some kind of social education. They know Ali is more mature and several time more brilliant that other children her age so if she says she does want to do something they should understand that she doesn’t want to. I am not saying they should give into her every whim but that they should understand that she not interested. Even with regular children, forcing them to do something they adamantly refuse to do is more detrimental than beneficial.
They’re trying to get her to check and see whether she and Liz truly can’t get along, because Alicia, in their eyes, is relying merely on her 1st impression. What you’re saying makes sense if you’re dealing with children under the age of 6-7, something Alicia isn’t by far, otherwise, getting older children to try and communicate often even solves bullying cases. They’re not doing a bad thing per se, it’s merely bound to fail due to the story’ s premise.
Don’t give up on the yuri ship!
I agree that Ally was being rude, but I also think that people shouldn’t have to say “no” more than once to something totally arbitrary. Like this wasn’t important at all but they totally didn’t listen to her. No is a complete sentence.
thank you
I’ve only noticed now, but isn’t it possible that “Gayle’s” name is actually Gaël? With Gilles as a precedent, there seem to be some French names in there, and tbh I’ve never heard of the name Gayle, even if I’m not a native speaker
Hm, it’s certainly possible… but most of the names in this story (Albert, Alan, Arnold, Alicia, Henry, Will, Eric) are pretty standard (aside from Gilles). And from my perspective, I’ve seen the name Gayle quite a few times whereas I’ve not seen the name Gaël before. So the fact that you haven’theard it before might just be a regional thing.
Plus, with Gilles being born in the impoverished village, I feel like it would be safer to assume he’s an outlier rather than a rule.
I think the main reason why Alicia’s standard of villainess is a bit skewed is because the influence of her past life. She definitely still carried her personalities from her past life. She dreamed to be a villainess ever since her past life and now that she’s reincarnated as a villainess, she’s definitely doing her best to live up to it but her sense of morality is definitely still high, and she saw a villainess as a really cool character so that’s why she does not bully the weak, hence why her morals are high even as a villainess 😂
Also, imagine being told to go hang out with someone just for the sake of “getting along” Ugh I could never 😂😂😩
It’s… Kinda cringe. She has no good reason to be mean to Liz. And dear readers no… Nobody was forcing her to do anything they were just asking and you guy taking that out of proportion in the comments is also cringe. And her brother is mad at her because she s being mean to a guest in their house… the house of a noble… Does that ring any bell? Do you remember what happens when you make a noble angry in this world? Do you remember a certain blind guy in this novel? Yeah… All in that room are aware of how terrifying must be for Liz a commoner to be in that house and now the dumb kid is being mean to her for no reason.