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 4

Once again taking on the form of a vengeful spirit, I stood behind the girls who were bullying the heroine.

Then, in as low and sticky a voice as I could manage, I whispered:

“…When, exactly, did I ever say something like thaaat?”

“Eh—hii! L-Lady Lycoris!”

They all turned to look behind them, their faces frozen in shock.
Not just shock—fear.
As if they’d just run into a ghost on a dark night.

“Come now, tell me. You, whose name I don’t even know—where did you hear those words from me?”

“Th-that’s…”

“Could it be… you were eavesdropping? If so, then the sacrifice for black magic would be—”

“I-I didn’t hear anything! Nothing at all!”

Please don’t curse me to death!

That was what she shrieked in a trembling, tearful voice, and I could only sigh in exasperation.
Where had all that bravado gone, the boldness they had just moments ago when they were ganging up on the heroine?

For the record, even before regaining my past life’s memories, I had never once cursed anyone to death.

The Radiata family was a house of black magic, and Lycoris herself possessed strong dark power.

That power was what allowed her to constantly watch over Lucius with magic.
But never once had she used it to actually harm another student.

For better or worse, Lycoris’s mind had room only for her fiancé.
Even when it came to girls who tried to make a move on him, she was basically indifferent.
It had been the same in the game.

She only ever snapped when Lucius himself, in order to be with the heroine, demanded their engagement be broken off.

“Curse someone to death? You actually think I would do that? Just because I’m good at black magic? What a silly little prejudice-filled fool you are.”

I couldn’t help but laugh at how stupid they were—it was too much not to mock.

“You said commoners smell bad, but your own heavy perfume… roses, is it? That’s far more likely to make my nose curl.”

“How dare you say—no, nothing…”

She nearly shouted, but bit her tongue at the last second, glaring at me with frustration.

A moment ago, she had addressed not only Lucius but also me with “-sama.”
That meant her rank was lower than mine.

“And that commoner you were just mocking? She’s actually the daughter of the Konoha Trading Company, which has branches all across the kingdom. She’s living far more luxuriously than some half-baked nobles, I assure you.”

“Eh— the Konoha Company?!”

“N-no way, I didn’t know…”

“That’s only because you’re fools.”

It wasn’t as if the heroine was hiding her identity at the academy.
She simply mistook herself for a plain, ordinary person, and arrogant nobles took that at face value and looked down on her.

But the Konoha Company wasn’t just wealthy.
They also held the exclusive rights to the highly valuable and convenient “magic batteries,” giving them strong ties to prominent noble houses and even the royal family.

That was precisely why the heroine could fall in love with, and be loved by, royalty and nobles—the game’s romance targets.
And why she could bring Lucius extravagant homemade lunches: her family had the money to afford it.

“B-but even so, making advances on someone who’s already engaged is shameless!”
“That’s right, we were only thinking of you, Lady Lycoris, and the academy’s morals—!”

“Don’t talk to me about morals when you’re the ones ganging up to bully someone weaker.”

Besides, my engagement to Lucius is going to be annulled anyway, so it doesn’t matter.

At those words, all of them froze wide-eyed—even the heroine herself.
And after a brief silence, the girls’ loud voices rang out through the corridor.