The Yandere Villainess’s Past Life Was That of a Lonely Woman. After Reflecting and Stopping Her Stalking of Her Fiancé, He Somehow Started Approaching Her Instead. - Chapter 1

“Stop watching me, Lycoris! Day and night… I’m going crazy!”

A scream erupted as he shoved me hard. This was the hallway of the Noble Academy. Hitting my head on the cold, hard floor wouldn’t just hurt.

Even knowing that, my hands clutched the lunch basket tightly.

Inside were baguette sandwiches with his favorite roast chicken and a healthy bean salad. There was even a muffin for dessert.

I made it all myself, waking up at four in the morning. After many failed attempts, I finally made something that looked and tasted good.

It’s strange. I tried to imitate the girl who’s beside you now, but you didn’t seem happy at all.

I tried to recreate the exact same menu you two ate in the courtyard yesterday.

Even his favorite food must get boring if he eats the same thing day after day. Lord Lucius laughed and said he’d eat it every day, so I tried making it.

Maybe he didn’t like it because I made it.

All I want is to gaze at Lord Lucius’s smile forever.

Morning, noon, and night, forever and ever.

“…No, that’s stalking.”

Staring up at the stark white ceiling of the infirmary, I mutter. The back of my head throbs painfully.

Of course it does—I slammed into the floor without even breaking my fall. Not feeling nauseous or having neck pain is the silver lining here.

Still, I think I should go to the university hospital and get a CT scan just to be safe.

“CT scan…?”

The word came out naturally, and a moment later, the question followed.

There shouldn’t be a university hospital or CT scans here. Because this is a European-style fantasy world.

I know this from living here for seventeen years. The peculiarity of this world, halfway convenient and inconvenient, with magic, flush toilets, balls, and year-end exams.

I still couldn’t understand why I’d been reborn into a place so similar to a game world I’d played in the past.

The female-targeted romance game ‘Blooming School Life’, commonly called HanaSuku.

Despite its refreshing title and package art, it was a niche title many players labeled a depressing game.

I remembered. I’d been hit by a car on my way home after buying its remake.

Yet somehow, I’m now a resident of this game world. But I retain all my memories from the seventeen years I lived.

I possess childhood memories, my parents’ faces, and a wealth of information that never appeared in the school-based game.

So for me now, this place is undoubtedly the real world.

I’m a second-year student at Flora Noble Academy’s high school division, currently in the school infirmary.

I must have fainted after being shoved by my fiancé while inviting him to lunch, hitting my head and getting carried here.

But the room is empty. Not even the nurse is here. I’m genuinely shocked by my own lack of popularity.

Lucius Willow, the blond-haired, blue-eyed beauty. The eldest son of a baron’s family and the most handsome boy in our grade.

He has me as his fiancée, but within the game world, I’m one of his romance options.

And the beautiful girl standing beside him, watching me, was undoubtedly the heroine.

Because even though she was supposed to be an ordinary female student, her hair was pink, and she wore a large floral decoration on her head.

And her catchphrase was “I’m plain.” Plain students don’t wear flowers on their heads at school.

But in a way, there was someone even more memorable than that heroine at Hana School.

“Of all people, huh…”

I sighed deeply, stood up, and walked to the mirror. Naturally, my own reflection stared back.

My hair, black and dull, fell to my ankles. My bangs weren’t quite that long, but they still hid most of my face.

The eyes faintly visible beneath were bloodshot red. My lips were a sickly purplish-blue. While the academy uniform was predominantly white, mine alone was jet black, like mourning attire.

This wasn’t a form meant to exist in daylight. I was the type of woman who belonged crawling on all fours at breakneck speed through the school building at night.

“…She looks exactly like the Demon Lady Lycoris.”

Lycoris Radiata. She’s the villainous noble lady character in the game.

She’s the count’s daughter and Lucius’s fiancée, but he detests her because of her eerie appearance and stalker tendencies.
　
Yet she remains utterly unfazed, persistently stalking Lucius and collecting anything related to him.

Unless you pursue Lucius’s route, she just comes across as a scary gag character chasing him around during every event.

However, the moment he genuinely falls for the heroine and proposes breaking off their engagement, she attempts to destroy the world at the cost of her own life.

That’s a bad ending, but even in the normal ending, he dies right in front of the lovey-dovey couple, seemingly to spite them.

She single-handedly drives the game’s rating way up.

A freakish yandere girl character, labeled the “hidden heroine” by players and treated as a joke character. That is Miss Lycoris.

Somehow, I had become that form. Yet for seventeen years, I lived without ever recalling this game.

If Lucius hadn’t shoved me and I’d hit my head hard, I might never have remembered at all.

And now that I’ve regained my past memories, the first thing I think is this:

“Lucius-kun is just too pitiful! I should break off the engagement for him right away!”

In my past life, I never had a single lover, just piled up romantic experiences within the game before suddenly dying in an accident. But as a modern person, I haven’t lost my basic morals.

Stalking is absolutely unacceptable. The emotion of love is no excuse. So I’ll set him free. He can flirt with the heroine as much as he likes.

Also, I’ll cut this overly long hair. If I keep living like this, my eyesight will definitely deteriorate. I made that decision while staring at the evil spirit—no, the villainous young lady—in the mirror.