My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

My name is Maria Campbell.

But few people call me by this name.

This is what they call me, "A special child with the magic of light."

Growing up in a small town just a short distance from the heart of the country, it was five times that I activated the magic of light.

A friend of mine who was playing with me fell and I got a scratch on my leg on that clap.

The open wound looked very painful.

I softly touched that wound, wishing I could heal you.

Then, all of a sudden, there was a dazzling light overflowing from my hand, and the wounds that touched that light were all gone.

The magic of light heals the power of healing, wounds and diseases.

But I didn't know that at the time.

If I had been born in a noble house, I might have had the opportunity to learn some things about magic...

We were a normal civilian family.

So I didn't even know that magic existed in the first place...

And that was the same with my friend who healed the wound.

Suddenly, I let the light out of my hand.

Besides, the wound wrapped in that light disappeared.

Every single thing that happened in front of me. My friend was stunned and scared.

When she screamed, she pushed me away and ran away.

Totally confused, I sat on the spot blindly until my mother came looking for me worried.

He was then immediately taken to the town hall when he told his mother of the incident with his final thoughts.

And I was vetted by the state and recognized as the Magic Holder of Light.

Until the magic activated, I was a normal kid everywhere.

The house wasn't particularly rich, but I lived happily with my hobby kind mother, whose father and sweet-making were very reliable.

If I were to give you a strong special, my sweet mother was beautiful enough to be said to be the best in town, and I resembled that mother well, my father of course had everyone in town adoring me.

But... everything changed when I got The Magic of Light.

Most magic holders in this country are aristocrats and few civilians have magic.

Still, rarely were some born with magic.

But most of them were children born to a woman who was an aristocrat.

For that reason, when I found out I had magic... my mother's infidelity was suspected.

I guess it was also caused by the fact that I looked a lot like my mother, but not much like my father.

Especially since my mother was said to be the most beautiful woman in town... rumors began to circulate that she might have been an aristocrat's guide somewhere.

Of course I didn't have that fact...

Rumors spread quickly to the small town and the family became frightened...

Eventually, my father, who always came home as soon as work was done and seemed to enjoy listening to my mother and me, stopped coming home much.

And my mother, who was always smiling, became completely faceless and just leaning over.

I also stopped making sweets that I liked so much at all.

... because I had magic...

And it wasn't just the family that changed.

The people in town who had been so close to me, and my friends who, if I noticed, had been close until then, stopped playing with me.

A child with heterogeneous powers that most civilians do not possess: magic, which may be a hidden child of some nobility.

It must have been an unacceptable existence for the people of a small town living in peace...

And thus, with the magic of light in my hands...

Smoked, scared and avoided by everyone.

Still, I... couldn't give up until I had a choice.

I wanted my father to come back, I wanted my mother to look up and laugh, again, I wanted to play with my friends.

So I tried.

I actively helped with the chores, never said I would, and I learned desperately to study.

Desperately, believe me, if I work hard, if I be a good girl, I will one day be able to return to a happy life like the one I was before...

Thus, if we were aware, 'Maria Campbell is a special child' had become a sight for everyone.

He was also chosen by various representatives in the neighborhood schools where he began attending, and was praised by teachers as a wonderful and brilliant student.

Yet... as always, my father did not come home... my mother began to distract herself from me.

And no other kids, no one else could play with them.

There was nothing to be ignored or stigmatized about, but no one could play with me.

It didn't change a thing to be called a 'special child', even though I kept trying so hard.

On the contrary, he was slapped in the pussy saying, 'I'm cheating behind something because I'm a hidden child of nobility' and 'I'm cheating using magic'.

I always wondered how I could get along with everyone like I used to...

One day like that, a classmate girl brought a handmade treat to school and saw the sight that everyone was so happy to eat.

Would we get along a little bit if I acted like a handmade treat to everyone like that kid too...

Before the magic activated, I used to make sweets with my mother.

The treat I made with my mother was delicious.

When I got home that day, I made my first treat by myself, remembering what my mother had taught me.

The sweets I made were not as good as they were when I made them with my mother, but they tasted so nostalgic that my chest got dusty and warm when I ate them.

As such, I encouraged him to make sweets, and when he finally made them well, he took them to school.

And as my classmates had done before, I took a lunch break and recommended putting the treats on the table where everyone was eating.

But... the treat didn't get anybody to put their hands on it.

After lunch break, when everyone returned to their seats, they gently bagged the whole leftover treat.

After school, I took the treat out of my bag and carried it to my mouth in a classroom where everyone went home alone.

It was usually a treat that was supposed to cheer you up when you ate it...... it couldn't stop pounding and crying.

So, I ate all the sweets, myself, and when I got home, I wrapped them in the futon straight in the bedroom.

My mother asked me over the door of the room with an administrative voice saying, 'I don't want dinner,' but when I answered, 'Because I'm hungry today,' she squeaked away.

The school teacher, the kids from the same school, the people in town, the family, they all call me "special."

The 'special' meant 'heterogeneous'.

Good luck or hard work, I still remained smoked and scared...

"A Special Child with the Magic of Light" I don't want to be called by that name!

I'm not a nobleman's hider... I'm not cheating on magic...

I'm just desperate... to get everyone to admit that I'm just trying...

No one should have looked at me.

Even my mother has turned a blind eye.

Anyone... Anyone, anybody... Look at me... Just look at Maria Campbell...

...... At the age of fifteen, the law of the land dictates that anyone with magic must attend a school of magic.

School of Magic... If you go there, everyone has magic -

Then maybe I can be a normal kid

If you go there...... maybe someone will show up to be my friend......

Hope sprung up in my chest in a dark room, whole in bed......

If I go to magic school, I'm sure...

That's how it was a magic school that I enrolled in with years of hope, but my hopes were shattered early on when I came in.

All the students of the School of Magic, son of a nobleman, a courtier and a civilian, I was already considered very heterogeneous by that alone.

Besides, there was not much awareness among the civilian population who did not originally possess magic, but "magic of light" was a rarity among magic and a heterogeneous among magic holders.

After all, there was no way I could have been friends with more elements of 'heterogeneity' like this.

On the contrary, being a civilian but with the magic of light, he also became harassed when he was businesslike.

That was a harder day, not unlike when I lived in town.

Still... I desperately tried... if I worked hard... if I had been a good boy...

Thus, after enrollment, by the time a few weeks had passed, tests of magic and academia were carried out.

Thanks to my desperate studies, I was able to achieve good grades for both tests.

And as a result, I became a member of the Student Council.

The other members chosen together had lived normally in town for the rest of their lives, people in such a capacity that they would not even speak.

And so did those who were seniors for two years.

In that, it was me who was quite atrophied at first, but the members were casual and lovely people, unthinkable in that capacity.

In particular, it is liked by the members of the same academic year, Catalina Kraes, the Duke's Lady, who is not a member of the Student Council but is allowed to enter and leave the Student Council room -

She treated me exactly as comfortably and warmly as any other nobleman against me in the civilian population.

In the school, the Student Council Room was the only place for my heart to rest.

"Can't Mr. Campbell bring you sweets?

It was in one of the after-school student club rooms that Catalina came to visit like that.

That, suddenly, I didn't think, and it solidified.

"... Um, how do you know I'm making sweets?

Sure, I've been making sweets since then.

Eating a treat made with my mother's recipe allowed me to remember fun memories with my mother and only invigorated her sushi.

When there were unpleasant and spicy things to do even after coming to this school, I rented a corner of the dining room cooking area to make treats.

But that was just sneaking around.

Of course, I've never even talked about that in the student council room.

And yet, why, does Master Catalina know?

Wondering, staring at Master Catalina.

"Eh, and listen to that aunt in that dining room..."

I got that answer back.

Indeed, such a story may have become a rumor, especially since I did not ask the cooks to keep it to themselves.

"... as Kraes asked, I do rent a dining room cooking area to make a little treat for myself... but that's not enough to serve you all..."

I stare at the fine treats placed on the table.

Premium treats like you've never seen before in your life... I can't blame the people who are eating these wonderful things for the very cheap treats I make...

And he leaned down on me.

"Me, I like cooks' fancy treats, but I also really like handmade treats."

Master Catalina said.

"Oh, does Lady Kraes eat handmade treats?

I was very surprised. I heard the aristocrats don't cook basic food.

For this reason, he thought that he would not eat amateur handmade or anything else because he would also eat confectionery made by artisans.

"Yes, the maid of honor at the mansion used to recommend me because I like to make sweets.

I would love to come to school and miss the taste of that treat, and if it weren't annoying, I'd be happy to share what Mr. Campbell is making with you just a little bit, but there would be some ingredients to pay for, too, because I would pay for it properly "

With that said, Master Catalina turns an adorable smile to me.

"It's outrageous! You can't have money! Because even the ingredients are just getting a lot of stuff in the school cooking area!...... I don't know if it will be in Kraes' mouth because it's really just something I'm making in my amateur hobby...... I'll make it soon and bring it"

I was pushed by that adorable smile and although I knew it was inappropriate, I agreed to it.

That's what I...

"Thanks"

Master Catalina smiled gently at me again.

Maybe Master Catalina cared for me.

I always hear rumors that a lone civilian makes a treat in the cooking area by himself and eats it by himself... maybe he sympathized and said it this way.

Because Master Catalina is so sweet and lovely...

Maybe they just cared, maybe it's a social dictionary...

But... it was the first time... you could tell me you wanted to eat my made treats...

I totally floated and when I got back to the dorm I just made a treat in the cooking room that night.

Making confectionery for someone had been since that day when I was crying and eating alone confectionery.

After school the next day, before heading to the student council room, I rewarmed the treats that I had been given to the dorm cooking area.

Because I wanted Master Catalina to have some delicious food.

Then I was in the basket with the warmed treats and headed to the student council room.

Along the way - it happened.

On the road from the dorm to the school building, I was called out by several female students.

It put together a brilliant dress that looked expensive and found that they were probably quite a high-ranking aristocratic maid.

I need to talk to you for a second.

That's what they said, and they forcibly took him to the woods.

On the woods off the road, the ladies said, "There's a civilian flair! 'and began to curse me.

This has happened several times since I entered the school, so I silently waited for the wrath of the ladies to settle down.

Then...

"What is this?

One of the ladies showed interest in my basket.

"... Oh, this is... with a treat I made by plugging into all the students' unions..."

All of a sudden, I accidentally answer honestly...

And I immediately regretted my nagging.

I could see that the complexion of the ladies who heard my answer had changed visibly.

I felt so much anger from the ladies whose faces turned bright red that I could not compare them earlier.

I did it...

My inadvertent remarks have further aggravated the anger of the ladies.

And...

"Bassin" sounded loud, and the basket I was holding was knocked down to the ground by the hand of one of the ladies.

From the fallen basket, the corn and sweets roll off.

"Just because you have the magic of light, you don't get thieved, you don't care! There's so much irrelevance in feeding the students' club with these poor things made by civilians!

The young lady screamed, but now she lifts her legs to step on the sweets that fell to the ground.

Having been struck with unparalleled fierce anger, I was suddenly finding the sight in front of me... then -

"Stop it!

Suddenly, a ringing voice sounded.

Beautiful brown hair flowing back, clear watery eyes, the same Rin appearance as that voice -

Why are you here, you should always be in the student club room after school...

And the man stood long ago, as if to shelter me.

"... Ca, Dear Catalina Kraes..."

Now the courtier, who was just about to step on a treat, groaned in vain.

I was also very surprised, but the ladies who were surrounding me seemed more surprised.

My eyes had opened and hardened.

"What the hell are you guys doing!

And when Master Catalina speaks harshly, the ladies turn bright blue as soon as possible.

That should be it, too.

Catalina, the Lady of the Duke of Kraes, is a very valued student union admirer throughout the school, including his third prince and fiancé, Geold, of the country, and quite a few secretly admire him from his flamboyant personality.

It is conceivable that, in the event of Catalina's discomfort, the school would find itself in a situation where it would not even be able to stay in the country.

And the young ladies, whose sword curtains had grown as adults as lies earlier...

"I'm sorry"

I said that and bowed my head to Master Catalina... and ran away with great momentum towards us as if we were competing.

I couldn't keep up with such a sudden development and I had stood blindly for a while...

Speaking of which, I remembered I had to go to the student council room.

I was planning to head to the student club room with the treats I made...

And I also remembered that the treats were no longer in my hands.

All the treats I had made were rolling over the ground.

Oh, now I can't take it to the student club room very much...

I remember that day one day.

A handmade treat that no one could eat and left on the desk with a potpound...

No matter how hard you work to make it, it's useless... no one can eat it...

Instead of me standing up, Master Catalina was picking up the fallen treats for me in the basket.

I noticed that and I panicked.

I can't believe I let Master Catalina pick up what fell to the ground...

And when I tried to speak up...

The sweets that Master Catalina had picked up from the ground were put in her mouth with pachry.

And...

"... delicious"

That's what I said, I smiled.

A treat dropped on the ground......

I thought I had to handle it myself, just like I did that day.

Master Catalina was laughing and eating at me that it was delicious.

... I opened my eyes to so many shocking events that I was just staring at Master Catalina.

And after eating all the treats, Master Catalina looked up.

Its clear watery eyes and gaze bumped into each other.

Then...

"Oh, you know, I ate it all in good shape... sorry"

Suddenly, he lowered his head. Besides, they apologized for 'eating' for some reason.

"Oh, no. I don't mind that... it was something that fell to the ground..."

Master Catalina said with a good face somewhere to me confused.

"It was on the lawn that I fell off, and it was barely dirty, so no problem."

I was told so clearly that I could not return it and I gave it back with a slightly troubled grin.

"... is that right"

And Master Catalina complimented me so much on the treats I made that I wondered if this was still the case.

I had never been praised that way before, and I was happy and embarrassed, and my face was getting hot.

In doing so, Master Geold, a member of the Student Council, came from the school building.

He came to the student council meeting looking for me for a long time.

'By chance, I was meeting Catalina and talking to her,' explained Gioldo, who looked suspiciously at me, to Catalina as she held her basket in her arms and stood up with her cheeks red.

I didn't want to worry too much when they found out I was harassing you.

And Master Catalina talked to me about how you drew my feelings like that.

Even on my way back to the student club room with Master Geold, I couldn't get enough of the heat on my face.

"You better watch out for that one because it's a terrible tarashi."

Master Geold said that with a meaningful smile... but I wasn't sure what the hell it was about.

From then on, I brought handmade treats to the student council almost every day, and each time, Master Catalina was happy with it.

Ever since Master Catalina took refuge, the harassment was also a little calm, so when I was completely alarmed, I set that aside.

It was about lunch break one day.

The cafeteria of the school building is very large and splendid with only a lot of nobles passing by.

And many of the aristocrats, students of the school, are eating lunch there.

The dormitories of the school are divided into several buildings in each capacity, and the dining room is also divided, so that they are normally available to me, the civilian...... The dining room of the school building is one, and is used by a large number of high-ranking nobles.

As a result, being a civilian, I was awkward, very unavailable, and I made and brought lunch for myself in the dorm, eating alone in the courtyard, etc.

And as usual that day, he sat on a small bench placed outside the school courtyard and tried to open his lunch.

It was then.

If I had noticed, I would have been surrounded again by unrecognizable courtiers.

"Because you're a little bit of a light magician, you've been chosen by the student council and you're not on track!

"I'm really sorry to hear about the student council people who are being treated specially because they have the magic of light and have no choice but to deal with it!

"Yes! At any rate, the test of academic achievement has been decided because magic is so special!

Surrounded me, the ladies have spoken cursing words.

I shut up again as usual and waited for their anger to settle down.

What are their words...

Ever since I got here...... no, that's what I've been told...

"Because I have the magic of light"

Words that have been about me ever since the day I activated that magic...

No matter how hard I try myself... they say it's all 'cause I have the magic of light'...

If you want, if you can give it to someone, I'd be happy to give it to you...

I don't need this... I just...

It was when I was thinking about that, cursed.

In the meantime, one lady raised her hand.

There was a red burning flame shaking in his hand.

I've been harassed several times before by being hit in the cheek or stomped on the foot...

This was the first time they had used magic like this...

The flames burning bright red had no realism, and I stared at it blurry as if every other world could.

And a flaming courtier walked up to me, that was when.

Also, when I thought I heard that Rin voice, the lady who had raised the flame and was about to walk over to me was flipping in front of me.

And if you noticed, again, that Rin's back was in front of me.

"What the hell are you doing!! In the first place, it's a good point to be told that you're being bewitched because you have the magic of light! This school is a perfect meritocracy, and there is no such thing as a puzzle! Besides, Maria, she's trying! Testing is the fruit of that effort!

Standing to shelter me as before, Master Catalina said.

Yes, Master Catalina is right, I have always tried my best.

I didn't even cheat on the test... I just worked so hard...

But no one ever noticed that... I didn't think he was there...

Yet... this man, Master Catalina, noticed...

I opened my eyes and stared at Master Catalina's frivolous back.

And in front of me in obscurity, Master Catalina went on further.

"Besides, everyone in the student council and I aren't with Maria because she has the magic of light! I'm with you because I'm a hard worker and I like Maria hard at everything!

The words made my eyes hot and my tears were on my cheeks...

Since that day with the magic of light, it has been treated as heterogeneous, under the name of speciality by everyone.

No matter how hard you work to achieve results, they keep saying it's natural because you have special powers, you cheat...

Everyone saw me as a special child with the magic of light...

Nobody saw me as one person named Maria Campbell...

Yet... Master Catalina...

You realized I was trying...

Not because she's a child with the magic of light, but because she's Maria Campbell... she told me she wants to be with me...

As if the dam I had been saving had broken, tears continued to flow so much.

Master Catalina approached me in tears and softly said her back.

The warmth of that gentle hand made the question I had been feeling pounding out of my mouth.

"... Um, Lady Kraes... my name..."

Master Catalina always called me 'Mr. Campbell'.

But he called me 'Maria' by my first name earlier.

"Oh, you know, I'm sorry. Suddenly I got used to calling it..."

I shook my neck wide aside to Catalina, who looked so hasty.

"No, I don't mind at all. Rather, it doesn't need to be 'Chan' attached. Call me Maria."

If you ask me that, the kind Catalina smiled and said to me.

"Thank you, Maria"

That's how I got my name called out in that Rin voice, and I squeezed my courage.

"Um... well, if you'll forgive me... may I also call you 'Dear Catalina', like everyone else in the Student Council"

When I say so with the thought of death, Master Catalina gets a decent look, and...

"Of course, you can call me whatever you want. Because we're already friends."

He said that to me with a gentle smile.

You told me I was a friend of so many different identities of civilians...

Tears flooded again that seemed to calm me down at last.

Anyone... Anyone, anybody... Look at me... I want you to see just Maria Campbell...

I've always wished...

If I worked harder... if I let myself into school... all the hope I kept holding has been shattered by us...

I thought this wish might not come true anymore...

Why do I keep weeping as I get my back on Master Catalina's warm hands?

To the joy of years of wishing...

After a while, when my tears also settled, Master Keith came to pick up Master Catalina, so the three of us headed to the dining room together.

Seeing me blush unexpectedly in the hand offered to Master Catalina, Master Keith groaned, "... no way, again, how much I am willing to get in the tarash..."

What the hell did that mean?

Then, even outside of the student council, I am allowed to be close to the Catalinas.

Even today, we took classes together and came straight to the student council room.

And Master Catalina was very happy to serve the treats she had made for the student council plug in.

Happily and unexpectedly, I'm a little embarrassed and distracted by the face I've done to it.

But if you keep looking around, all the other student council people are laughing with their eyes like they are very loving to Master Catalina.

The Giolds, of course, usually smile at Nicole, whose expression remains unchanged.

That's how I was watching you guys at the student council... that? ……

I felt kind of uncomfortable and I glanced at the person again.

Then the person had a soft grin the same as usual.

... Was it your fault...

For a moment it looked like the person had a very cold look...

But that face that I glanced at again has the same tender look.

So I concluded that it was a mistake to see.

'Cause the guy who's always so sweet, with such a cold look... can't believe he's staring at Catalina... it's impossible...

"Maria, this treat is delicious."

Catalina said with a full smile to me wondering why I had made a weird mistake in looking at her.

Also, I was so happy, and that idea disappeared.

Let's put more on our arms and make some sweets to see this smile again tomorrow!

Ten years after I got the magic of light, I worked hard and kept wishing for happy days - finally, I could get it.