Transmigrated as the Villainess Fake Young Lady, Please Spare Me, Female Lead Sister - Volume 1 Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Unfortunately, Must Maintain a Healthy Social Distance

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After sending Anna away, and casually responding to the system with “Yes, yes, I know, I’ll play the villainess role well.”

Today’s Claire is also working hard.

Turning around the corner, the terrace was just ahead.

Anna said that Claire had to do breath training every morning to improve her element affinity.

It felt very much like absorbing the essence of heaven, earth, sun, and moon to level up experience or something…

But Claire had no interest, only feeling a headache from drowsiness, missing her warm bed.

“Is this practice really necessary… Lavendia can do it, but could I really become a great magician?”

She muttered listlessly to herself.

『In the normal plot progression, you probably won’t have the chance to become a great magician. You’ll deviate midway, and later become quite accomplished in dark magic instead.』

“And then get burned to death, right, how promising.”

『Don’t be discouraged, host, there’s still a long time before you get burned to death.』

Thinking carefully, indeed, there seemed to be another chapter where she would enter the noble magic school with Lavendia, and then lead the bullying to destroy Lavendia’s campus life… or something like that.

“But that’s all much later… skipping early morning practice today shouldn’t affect anything.”

System: 『Lavendia is also exploring suitable training methods for herself today, and sabotaging her is your mission.』

“If Sister Lavendia wakes up at 3 AM, I have to wake up at 3 AM too?”

『If you can manage that, the system will praise you for being a very hardworking villainess.』

…Thanks, but totally unnecessary!

What kind of villainess would wake up at 3 AM just to target the protagonist! That’s not targeting, that’s true love!

Ah, wait, waking up at 4 AM is pretty much the same…

“Pitter-patter…”

Hm? Rain?

“It’s raining, does that mean no training? Can I go back to sleep?”

『No, rainy days are perfect for water magic practice. If you slack off too much in training, be careful about not passing the academy’s entrance exam later.』

“There’s even such a thing as an entrance exam?”

Claire felt the burden on her shoulders grow heavier.

“If I don’t pass, you won’t determine that as a major deviation from the main storyline, right…”

『Yes. In that case, we’ll have no choice but to electrocute you until your soul scatters.』

“?? You really…”

Claire walked while bantering half-heartedly with the system.

However, when she turned the corner and looked up, all her thoughts and retorts suddenly vanished.

Under Claire’s feet was an elegant dark red carpet, spread across the entire corridor.

At the end of the corridor was the terrace, and beyond it, fine rain fell steadily, everything gray and misty, like watercolors blending between heaven and earth.

On this rainy morning, the sky was dark and gloomy, wall lamps lit the corridor, creating a stark contrast of warm and cold with the weather outside.

Under the warm lamplight stood Lavendia, wearing a black evening gown.

If Lavendia in casual wear had a cold yet low-key steadiness, like an unsheathed silver sword,

Then Lavendia in an evening gown was sharp and sensual, beautiful to the extreme with an almost aggressive quality, like a poisonous belladonna flower…

Just one glance from afar, and Claire was already stunned, her eyes fixed.

Wow, the real person is so much more beautiful than the game CG…

Such a slim waist, such long legs, such meaningful garters, such white and large… no, is this something I can see for free?

It’s no use, words fail me, I can’t express it properly anymore.

Here only “sister is too beautiful” and “sister step on me” can directly express my feelings.

“…”

Claire was so dazzled by the beauty that she almost stumbled while walking.

She shuffled step by step to Lavendia’s side and called out softly:

“Sis, sister.”

Lavendia looked at Claire, blinking.

Then, surprisingly, her expression softened slightly, and she took the initiative to say: “Good morning.”

But Claire was still in a daze.

In the lamplight, Sister Lavendia’s eyelashes were so long and slightly curled, like bird’s tail feathers…

Such an amazing dress, such amazing garters and choker.

This black coat draped over her shoulders is also amazing, not only making her white chest more eye-catching but also adding a kind of unfathomable quality and sense of story to sister’s pure beauty…

This doesn’t look like a noble young lady anymore, more like a mafioso about to draw a gun from their thigh.

This is just the prototype of the formal dress, what if it’s styled more carefully?

What kind of game script is this anyway? “Reborn as My Sister is Everyone’s Crush”?

Taking a step back, can’t today’s task really be sister stepping on me…

“Young Lady Claire?”

Lavendia slightly furrowed her brows: “Are you alright? Why is your face so red?”

“Eh?”

Claire snapped back to reality, hurriedly shaking her head vigorously, then nodding.

“No, nothing! I’m fine, I should say I’m great!”

Lavendia tilted her head in confusion, a strand of silver hair sliding from her temple.

“Alright.” She said: “The formal dress suits you well, Young Lady Claire.”

Claire’s eyes widened, her face growing redder, responding somewhat helplessly: “…Thank you…”

『Host?』

“This, this is only natural! Everything suits me!”

Lavendia slightly curved her lips, saying nothing.

Claire carefully glanced at Lavendia’s favorability rating, -30… it had risen slightly from yesterday.

Although still negative, sister’s attitude seemed to have changed again.

There wasn’t that angry, cold, thousand-mile barrier feeling from yesterday afternoon anymore.

Though unsure exactly what happened, at least the favorability wasn’t continuing to drop.

As for today’s battle plan…

Although sister’s outfit made Claire’s heart itch unbearably.

But since the skill “throwing oneself into someone’s arms” hadn’t been fully understood whether it would increase or decrease favorability.

Plus, with the system not giving new tasks, the course of action should prioritize stability.

Therefore, Claire decided to resist the urge to slip and maintain a healthy social distance with Lavendia!

On rainy days, water elements were abundant. Under the system’s guidance, Claire not only saw water element particles more clearly but also successfully made them create ripples in the air, experiencing a simple joy of playing with water.

As for more advanced techniques, like controlling raindrops and making them suspend in the air, Claire couldn’t do it yet.

This was mainly because Lavendia’s presence was too strong, Claire always wanted to admire her beauty, making it really hard to concentrate…

“Now it’s sister’s turn to try.”

Claire tried hard to maintain a cold expression.

Lavendia crossed her arms across her chest, deep in thought.

“You just said you can control water elements to make raindrops suspend in the air?”

“Yes, is there a problem?”

“Hmm. Can you only make raindrops suspend?”

Lavendia recalled the moment of time stop from the previous day, slowly rubbing her chin with her fingertips.

“Is there a possibility of… making more things suspend? For instance, making falling objects stop in mid-air, like time-stopping magic?”

Time stop? That’s so sci-fi?

Even in the original game, it wasn’t mentioned, right…

Seems like only got skills for self-acceleration, shown in turn-based combat as turn manipulation.

System: 『Query complete, the system also currently has no records of time magic.』

『It might be the protagonist’s special encounter, just answer in villainess style.』

Claire thought for a moment, let out a light snort, and answered: “I’ve never heard of such a thing.”

“Mm, it’s nothing.” Lavendia lowered her eyelashes, not particularly concerned: “I was just asking randomly.”

However, Claire continued: “What, are you trying to mock me? If you really want to learn how to stop time, why don’t you start by trying to make rainwater stop in mid-air?”

“Let me tell you, this is very difficult, even I can’t do it yet!”