I Favor the Villainess

"For what?!?

"The main entrance has been breached! Numerous citizens are entering the College!

"Your noble son is in danger! Focus on student dormitories!

"Evacuate the staff, too!

"Hold on until reinforcements arrive!

I hear soldiers yelling in the army.

Time has just gone around twenty-three o'clock at night.

I lurked in a room and waited.

Eventually, the footsteps approached and stopped in front of the room.

The key opens in a gutter.

The shadow tries to go straight to the back of the room.

"Were you going to ride the noise, Lambert?"

It was Lambert who stopped his leg in my voice when I turned on the light and suddenly called.

"Ray-Taylor......"

This is a laboratory called the Analytical Department located within the College.

I was lurking indoors doing a little work on my keys.

"Bells that manipulate demons... that was Lambert's invention"

Master Lambert is a Demon Prop Specialist.

I've already written about doing research to control demons, but that crystal is this bell.

"Why are you here?

"To stop you"

I don't know what that means.

In contrast to me, Lambert seems to be only going to cut a sledge.

"I heard the noise and tried to protect the precious magic tools -"

"During the courtyard incident, you worked on Master Deed's magic wand, didn't you?

Lambert's eyes got a little rough.

As Master Yu said, Master Deed is not the one to do that.

That's true of character, but above all, it's impossible to fail to control magic, etc.

Everything was set up.

"You were in a position to adjust your magic fixtures as a magic fixture specialist. And deliberately failed to adjust so that Dead's wand would erupt"

"It's a proposition. There was no abnormality in the wand."

"It was also Lambert himself who testified to that. At that time, shortly after the courtyard incident, even if Captain Laurek didn't nominate him, he was going to name himself and accompany Master Yu, wasn't he?

……

Master Lambert pressed silence.

"In the first place, the college was strange here these days. The rivalry between nobles and civilians, too, you must have been instigating it from behind, right?

"What grounds did you have to do that?"

"There is no basis. But I know everything."

Because of the knowledge gained in the game, there is no evidence to poke at Master Lambert.

Still I know.

Lambert is about to start a bell and summon a powerful demon to the Academy.

The flow of the game saves the college from havoc with heroines and targets, but it is decided that such a dangerous thing should not happen.

That's why it depends on me getting ahead of you.

"... everything,"

"I also know you don't care about the civilian movement"

Lambert's home, the Ortho Chamber of Commerce, is the kingdom's premier merchant.

Even though I'm not noble, I live better than ordinary civilians.

Well, the commerce of the Ortho Chamber of Commerce is the excavation and distribution of magic stones.

Even though it is the country that you are commissioning, it is the main fall if you defeat the royalties and nobles that make up that country.

"Then what am I supposed to do that for?

"Because Lene's life is at stake"

Lambert is being held hostage by a certain force.

They tell me that if I don't listen to them, I'll kill Lene.

For that reason, I had to make a leap in this disturbance.

"Lene is indeed a dear sister. But you think I'd do that until I put the Chamber of Commerce in jeopardy?

"If it's just my sister"

It was only this time that Lambert's eye color changed clearly.

I guess I never thought they knew that much.

"You, how far..."

"Everything," I said.

Lambert loves Lene.

But not as a sister, but as a single woman.

Homosexuality is not the only forbidden love sung in plays.

Lambert had no choice but to take action even if his parents were in danger in order to protect his beloved Raine.

"Dear Lambert. Please give up."

"... I'm not going"

"Master Lambert!

"That one is horrible. If I fail, I will relentlessly kill Lene"

On his face, I could see the deep fear of him and them.

"I'll take care of Lene."

"How?

"Discuss it"

"What can you discuss with him?"

There was self-derision in Lambert's face that he threw away so much.

I'm sure he himself made many pleadings.

"Trust me."

"I can't."

"Then I'll stop by force."

I set up a magic wand.

"I won't let you."

The voice I was used to hearing sounded.

"... rene"

"I'm sorry, Ray"

Lene had several men with him.

One of them is holding Master Claire and sticking a knife to his neck.

I guess I haven't woken up yet, but I heard Master Claire groan small.

"Let your brother go and raise him."

"Lene, reconsider"

"I can't. I can't do anything."

……

I wanted to believe Lene.

I wanted to think that the feeling of liking Master Claire wasn't a lie.

But still, can't admiration beat romance?

"Ray, get out of the way"

"You can step aside, but it's no use."

"What?"

"Let me break the bell just in case."

Lambert slipped through my side and rushed to the back of the room.

Open the vault and remove the bell from inside.

"... oh my god"

I hear Lambert's stunned voice.

The bell was broken in two.

I also thought it was possible for Lene to be on Lambert-like's side.

This is insurance for that matter.

"That will be enough. Give it up, Lambert, Lene."

"... brother"

……

Laine rushes over to Lambert.

Lambert seemed powerless.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa."

That's what one of the men said in an out of place bright voice.

My face is wearing a black mask and I can't see it.

Guess who?

The very thing that happened in this place was that it wasn't in the game.

So I don't know this man.

In the game, the bell was to have been used by Lene at the behest of Master Claire.

After the case is solved, Mr. Claire is going to be guilty, but Mr. Dollar will squeeze it.

Of course, I'm guilty in the first place.

"... Without the Devil's Bell, there's nothing I can do"

"Give me a break."

The man received a bell from Lambert.

"... go back"

In the palm of a man, the bells, which were two in length, stick together as if they had rewound time.

What is that?

Is that magic, too?

"This will do."

"... oh"

Master Lambert seems suspicious of his eyes as well, but when he received the bell, he tried to activate it.

"I won't let you!

"Ray, don't move! I don't want to hurt Master Claire!

Lene made a sharp voice.

When I see it, there is a red muscle in Master Claire's neck.

My anger made me desperate to forget.

It's all my fault.

I knew what the game was about and assumed I could see it all.

I'm the only one in this room right now.

We have to do something.

The voice echoed when the thought was about to empty in a hurry.

"It's very thoughtful of you to do something on your own when you're a civilian."

The voices echoed, while the men were engulfed in flames.

A scream echoes.

"That it's nasty to scream. You look great in thieves."

Of course I did...

"Dear Claire!

"I'm not sure what's going on, but the two whisperers, Ortho, say hello to the mastermind?

Lady Claire laughed softly after she had slaughtered one yawn.

Apparently, he's been awake for a while.

Looks like he was asleep and asking about the situation.

"I'm sorry, Lene."

……

Clear hostility is turned against Master Claire, and Lene gets annoyed.

I guess I don't have a face to match.

"Ortho brothers and sisters, it doesn't change what you do."

At the same time as his bright voice was out of place again, the flames suddenly stopped.

The men are almost down, but they stand as if there was nothing but one.

"If only I had a job. Oh, I'd let you escape overseas. Then you guys change the registry, and you're not brothers and sisters, you're lovers."

It's like a snake seducing Adam and Eve, I thought.

"You mustn't lend me ears. Surrender."

Claire says in a loud voice.

But...

"I'm sorry, Master Claire. We can't turn back anymore."

Saying so in a stiff voice, Lambert activated the bell.