Transmigrated as the Villainess Fake Young Lady, Please Spare Me, Female Lead Sister - Volume 1 Chapter 25

Chapter 25: This Is the Dignity of a Villainess

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Time flows second by second.

“Thud!”

“Thud, thud!”

“Thud thud thud!”

Claire wiped away tears of humiliation from the corner of her eyes.

With her back against Lavendia, she weakly crouched down without strength, picking up the things that caused her pain…

Then struggling to stand up again, with tears in her eyes, holding her breath, she began to endure a new round of torment.

She couldn’t handle it, absolutely couldn’t handle it.

In a physical sense, literally couldn’t handle it.

These three stupid books simply wouldn’t stay still on her head!

The System was also speechless, displaying a text line:『Host, you need to stand up straight—』

Claire felt quite wronged. At first, she could barely stand steady with the books on her head, managing to hold on for half a minute…

But as time went on, her neck and shoulders became sore, and her heels were hurting from the high heels. It was impossible to stay completely still for 3 minutes!

Ugh, those eternally unreachable 3 minutes.

Maybe counting down in her mind would make time pass faster?

Claire put the books back on her head again.

So heavy, it felt like this weight was being carved into her DNA.

Has my head really not been flattened by these books?!

“997 seconds…”

“998 seconds…”

“999 seconds!”

『Subtitle: Why did you start counting from 997?』

“To boost my confidence…”

Claire lost focus for a moment, and the books fell to the ground with another thud.

This time she only lasted 3 seconds.

Well, looks like her head was still round. It hadn’t completely transformed into a book-friendly shape.

Claire lifted her skirt to crouch down and gather the books again, feeling wrapped in a thick blanket of frustration.

The System promptly sent its timely mockery.

『Subtitle: This won’t do, Host. You need to suddenly push her when she’s balancing them well, then tell the etiquette teacher that she can’t even manage such a simple task!』

『Subtitle: But first you need to master it yourself!』

『Subtitle: At this rate, forget about embarrassing her, you’re losing all your own face—』

“This isn’t my fault, balancing books is difficult… If you don’t believe me, try it yourself!”

She bit her lip, feeling wronged.

Wanting to say, I haven’t actually lived a young lady’s life for over ten years, I used to be just a poor homebody.

When the otherworld portal made close contact with me, I had just pulled an all-nighter, dragging my slippers, barely able to lift my head…

I’ve only been here for 2 days.

Even if this body is already shaped like a noble young lady, with noble young lady talents, my spirit still needs more training!

The more Claire thought about it, the more confident she felt.

So, she forcefully defended herself:

“The books are really heavy, I’m about to faint from holding them up so long, I might not even be able to control myself from falling towards Lavendia!”

『Subtitle: Don’t have such long internal monologues, be careful the vampire might hear them!』

“Um, that’s not a problem…”

Claire recalled that drawn-out “This is too cute”, feeling exasperated.

“It’s fine if she only hears my inner voice, she’ll probably just think I’m some tsundere character with too much internal dialogue…”

Her gaze returned to the teaching materials in her hands.

Sigh.

A seemingly incompetent young lady who can’t do anything right, and the mindless villainous antagonist who gets herself killed in the original story, would Lavendia hate them equally?

After all, the favorability rating won’t increase…

At this rate, maybe the reason they’ll send me to the stake will be “you’re not worthy to be a Grendel young lady”…

No, that should be the villainess’s line.

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Sister Lavendia wouldn’t say something like that in any parallel world!

Claire secretly hugged the books to her chest, and while standing up, she sneaked a glance at Lavendia who was practicing intently.

Following the etiquette teacher’s requirements, Lavendia lifted her chin like a bird, drew in her stomach, kept her legs together, and looked forward calmly.

Her whole being was elegant and solemn, like a lily standing gracefully in the moonlight.

Her silver hair, flowing like liquid mercury, appeared even more elegant and immaculate under the spotlight.

Because their backs were constantly touching, Claire could vaguely feel that she had adjusted her breathing to be very smooth and calm.

But the muscles in her neck and shoulders must be tense, as even the hair on her back barely trembled.

Even standing back-to-back with her felt tiring.

Sigh.

Someone more talented is working even harder than herself, no wonder they’re the protagonist, completely out of her league…

The System’s task was flashing again.

Although Claire felt reluctant and extremely guilty, she still secretly grabbed the corner of her skirt and gently brushed against Lavendia’s ankle.

Like a kitten’s tail suddenly passing by.

Lavendia shuddered slightly, and the books on her head immediately started to slide.

She quickly reached out her arms and caught them steadily before they could fall, not letting them hit the ground ungracefully like Claire’s books.

She even had time to look down and see what had disturbed her training, with fierce eyes.

Claire, like a small animal caught doing something bad, quickly adjusted her skirt and shot up straight.

Standing up too fast almost gave her low blood sugar, making her vision go dark.

Even so, she managed to maintain composure and force an evil smile, this too was the result of Claire’s hard work!

“Oh my, what’s wrong sister? Is there something by your feet?”

“Could it be that you can’t handle it anymore? Hehe~”

Actually, she had already managed six sets of 3 minutes, which was super impressive.

The one who couldn’t handle it was clearly my side, but even so I have to force myself to mock the other side—

『Subtitle: This is the dignity of a villainess.』

Lavendia didn’t say anything, just silently put the books back on her head.

Claire nervously confirmed that the favorability rating hadn’t changed, which was good.

Huh, why hasn’t Aurora commented?

Like earlier, she would sit on the sofa yawning, occasionally offering some guidance from afar, and would applaud for Claire.

“Claire-tan finally managed twenty seconds, congratulations, very good!”

Then turning to the other side: “As for Dia-chan, you can only manage 2 minutes, learn from your sister!”

…It was hard to tell if it was guidance or mockery.

But now it’s quite quiet?

Claire squinted her eyes to look carefully, and in the dim light, Teacher Aurora was leaning sideways on the sofa, hanging her head very quietly.

— Looks like she fell asleep!

She felt her whole body instantly relax.

“Mr. System, does what happened earlier count as completing the task? Did I interfere with Sister Lavendia?”

『Subtitle: What are you saying, of course it doesn’t count? You need to be more direct!』

“Fine!”

“Then let’s say I didn’t eat enough breakfast, and got low blood sugar when standing up… Even noble young ladies can suddenly get low blood sugar!”

Claire steeled herself, closed her eyes, put down the books, and let herself fall towards Lavendia.