Transmigrated as the Villainess Fake Young Lady, Please Spare Me, Female Lead Sister - Volume 1 Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Villainess Noble Lady Need a Day off Sometimes

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“Wait a minute.”

Claire walked down the corridor and suddenly slapped her forehead.

“Don’t I not need to attend dance class?”

“I have to take etiquette class because my father said I don’t understand table manners, so he made me learn from scratch along with Lavendia. But dance class wasn’t arranged…”

『Indeed, but as a villainess, you must constantly think about tripping up the female protagonist, and absolutely cannot let her successfully learn various skills.』

“But in the original story, I was supposed to be confined to my room for self-reflection and forbidden from going out at this time, right?”

『…Indeed.』

“If I’m forbidden from going out, how can I trip her up? In the original story, the female protagonist must have learned to dance successfully precisely because I wasn’t able to interfere during this period, right?”

Claire found her reasoning more and more convincing and sought another piece of strong evidence for her deduction.

“System sir, are there any new tasks available now?”

『Checking… no new tasks at the moment.』

Claire immediately perked up.

“I knew it! I should be free during dance class!”

『? Wait a minute.』

“Look here, System sir. When I do bad things, the fundamental purpose is to actively be a stepping stone for the female protagonist to advance the plot smoothly, right?”

“But now it seems that doing nothing clearly fits the original plot better and helps the female protagonist more!”

“In other words, the less I do during this time, the smaller the impact on plot deviation, the more it helps the female protagonist’s training, the better the effect achieved, which means—”

“The less I do, the more I accomplish!”

“Look, there aren’t any new tasks anyway, which shows that you systems judge it the same way! You can’t shock me, right?”

The system fell silent.

This time Claire not only convinced herself but also got the system tangled up in it. Win!

Earlier in etiquette class, she had perfunctorily completed the task with throwing herself into someone’s arms, and the reward was an overhead map of the mansion.

Claire was dizzy, exhausted and sore all over, and hadn’t had time to look at it carefully.

Thinking about it carefully, since transmigrating here, she had been busy completing tasks, learning magic and etiquette, finding every opportunity to get close to the female protagonist, making everything chaotic.

Besides tasting delicious food, she hadn’t properly enjoyed the life of a noble young lady at all! Even a villainess should have work-life balance!

“In conclusion, I’m going to have free time this afternoon, and that’s final!”

“Do not disturb, System, call me when there are new tasks!”

Claire was in such a good mood that her footsteps became much lighter, and she even felt that the trauma caused to her shoulder and neck muscles by etiquette class had eased.

She lifted her skirt, humming an off-key tune, turned a corner in the corridor and walked in the opposite direction of the dance classroom.

“Let me see… finally got something good as a task reward…”

A map, this is actually a map!

In which game is a map not an important item? Of course it needs to be studied carefully!

Come to think of it, reincarnation + system + rewards for completing tasks = cheat abilities that belong only to me… couldn’t this game be renamed to Claire’s Journey of Rebirth?

Or it could be called The Fake Villainess Noble Lady Doesn’t Want to Be Burned at the Stake.

Claire looked at the map while falling into deep thought.

Fortunately this isn’t a novel, otherwise readers might have complaints about her.

“You’ve already been reborn, and you even remember the original plot, why aren’t you quickly stealing all the female protagonist’s cheat abilities to become the protagonist yourself?”

“Are you really willing to be constrained by the system, oppressed by the female protagonist, and be a minor antagonist who can neither succeed nor fail!”

Claire’s response was a firm: “Yes! What else!”

Although getting the map was good, Claire only wanted to use the map to stay alive, and had no other thoughts.

Being watched by the system, threatened, and not knowing if this world had some heavenly way or restraining force.

Even participating in a ball together was considered a major deviation, she didn’t dare to think about anything more.

The plot that belongs to Lavendia, the cheat abilities that belong to Lavendia, let them continue to belong to her. Coveting things that don’t belong to oneself is called greed. Greed often brings fatal disaster.

If possible, Claire only hoped to reduce her presence as much as possible, shrink back and hide, and not provoke the protagonist group of this world at all.

What was this game called again?

《House of Grendel: The True Heiress’s Revenge Tale》

What does this indicate? It indicates that this entire small world revolves around Lavendia.

If you can’t beat them, join them. If she wants a good ending, Claire either needs to stay far away or revolve around Lavendia too, that’s the only way to be secure enough.

That’s right, for security.

Who made her have the same soft and timid personality in both her past life and this life?

Ah no, calling it timid sounds too harsh.

It should be called cautious, steady, meticulous, only taking action when absolutely necessary.

After all, when she played online games back then, she would collect all possible items, max out all possible attributes, level up skills to the highest level, before going to fight bosses.

This is Claire’s way of survival in the cracks.

『Just think about it mentally when you need the system, host.』

Quite convenient.

Claire mentally thought “map,” and an ancient scroll-like map opened before her eyes.

Semi-transparent germanium-colored textures drew the castle shape, and light blue lines briefly outlined the overhead view of each room.

The Grendel family castle has 4 floors in total, plus a basement. Each floor has ballrooms and various rooms.

Warehouse, storage room, reception room, kitchen, study, back garden, stable…

Dizzying.

However more importantly, there were several rooms that were darkened, marked with a lock symbol, making one curious no matter how you look at it…

System:『Explore the areas ahead later.』

Claire smiled and corrected: “Explore the areas ahead when tasks require it or when Sister Lavendia needs it!”

No way, she’s not curious! Curiosity killed the cat!

For today afternoon’s free time, let’s start conventionally from the back garden.

After touring the back garden, have afternoon tea, then go to the library to see if there are any interesting books… finally take a refreshing bath in this bath pool that’s as large as the reception room.

Hehe, awesome.

The villainess noble lady Claire with zero fighting spirit, officially taking a half-day off!

Claire looked at the map while singing, bouncing down the stairs.

The maid who was wiping a vase was so startled her hand trembled, almost dropping the priceless ceramic vase.

Oh no, Young Lady Claire went to the garden while smiling stupidly… who’s on garden duty today!

She fumbled to take out the magic communication stone used by maids for chatting from her apron, sending an urgent warning.

“Make sure to serve Young Lady Claire well…!”

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Meanwhile, on the other side, Lavendia was standing at the door of the dance classroom.

She didn’t have the habit of taking afternoon breaks, so she arrived a bit early.

Claire didn’t follow, it seems this will be a very peaceful lesson.

Lavendia lowered her eyes and took a deep breath.

Human habits are truly terrifying. In just two short days, occasionally not seeing her jump out to cause trouble actually made the surroundings feel too quiet.

For all of her first 16 years of life, she had always walked alone. And after this, to achieve her long-cherished wish, she must continue alone, walking on this lonely path of bitter training.

For revenge, she shouldn’t have even one day of relaxation.

That rabbit-like girl briefly disturbed her state of mind, this won’t do, Lavendia.

She took out a blood-colored metal badge from her pocket, rubbing the raised texture on the surface with her fingertips, lowering her eyes to gaze at the unfamiliar family crest on it, her pupils gradually becoming dark and lightless.

Revenge, Lavendia.

You are here now… for revenge…