Get Ahead of the Fallen Heroine and Make the Bull-Headed Man the Victim - Chapter 163



Chapter 163.

You see, I told you something was going to happen here.

“Where is this?”

Clotile opened her hazy eyes, subconsciously taking in the surroundings.

“Ah, right, I’m in the confession room…!?”

Although the surroundings weren’t unfamiliar, she had originally felt at ease, but the memories of not long ago quickly resurfaced in her mind.

She remembered!

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I was pushed by another myself, and was even forcibly purified by the opponent’s magic, removing the corrupting influence!

Where did that self go now!?

Clotilde rushed out of the confession room again, looking around for her own figure, but saw nothing.

She desperately tried to recall, attempting to think of something, but her memories stopped there, stuck at the moment when the corrupting influence was forcibly activated.

She didn’t remember anything that happened after that.

And there was no evidence in the room either.

However, her undergarments beneath her nun’s habit were slightly damp, which didn’t seem like nothing had happened, indicating that something must have occurred.

But thinking carefully, the appearance of another herself was already very strange.

…Which means what? Did she have a spring dream?

And the content of the dream was even self-education? This…

The confused nun couldn’t distinguish whether this memory was real or just a dream.

“Is it a dream… or…”

The nun, filled with doubts, slightly lowered her eyelids, pondering the truth of the matter.

“Clotilde? Sorry to trouble you, but can you come out and help me?”

“Huh? Yeah, no problem.”

But as Sister Belinda pushed open the door and sought her help, Clotilde had to temporarily put aside her confusion and respond to the current situation.

Since she couldn’t get a clear answer afterwards, she could only temporarily bury this bizarre experience in her heart, planning to investigate further when she had the time.

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After parting ways with Clotilde at the Water Capital’s grand cathedral, Noah immediately returned to his own dilapidated temple to monitor the movements of the royal capital’s individuals.

Compared to the nun, this side was definitely more pressing.

Because he always had a feeling that the royal capital would have an unexpected development.

Unexpectedly, an unexpected situation did arise.

Last night, the fake princess and Agatha chatted until midnight before sleeping, which wasn’t unusual.

Dilia, the grand princess, didn’t seize the opportunity to use her “magic sharing” on Agatha, which was within Noah’s expectations.

But the relentless Dilia, the grand princess, planned to make another move on Agatha.

So she specially sent her maid to deliver a message to the fake princess and Agatha, inviting them to a tea party this afternoon.

However, the other party’s response was negative, saying they had to accompany Claude in learning magic usage, and couldn’t respond to Dilia’s request.

This made Dilia so angry that she couldn’t sit still.

So she actually left the palace alone, planning to personally visit the uncooperative Agatha.

Just looking at her busily preparing to leave the palace alone, Noah felt that he really had to keep an eye on her.

Intuition told him that Delia’s actions wouldn’t succeed so easily.

“Truly the first princess of the kingdom, her combat skills are lacking, but she sure has a lot of magical items.”

Noah couldn’t help but exclaim as he watched Delia’s movements on the monitor.

Unlike Valentina, who was not favored by the royal family, Delia, the grand princess, had enough magical items at her disposal to open a shop.

She had used a magical item that could create illusions, allowing her to walk down the street in her splendid attire without anyone recognizing her as the grand princess, but rather mistaking her for an ordinary-looking woman.

“Don’t get in my way; I can’t swallow this. Valentina is one thing, but that woman actually ignored my invitation for the sake of that commoner—this I cannot accept!”

Even as the maids tried to dissuade Delia from leaving the royal city alone, she still departed on her own.

Without any maids accompanying her, she set out to find Agatha, Clyde, and the imposter princess.

“…Generally speaking, if the protagonist triggers such a plot, the final outcome is bound to be a failure leading to a defeat scenario. So what about you, Princess Delia?”

Of course, Noah wouldn’t stop Delia’s actions like those maids; he merely watched her with interest, anticipating the events that were about to unfold.

Around two-thirty in the afternoon, Clyde and his group cleared another “dungeon” near the royal city.

From Noah’s perspective, Clyde, the unfortunate one, had already reached about LV45 in just these two short days.

Though he was still far from being a master, his strength was significantly higher than that of the average adventurer.

He had leveled up so quickly because of a certain item.

It was a magical item known as the “Hero’s Stone.”

Since it had appeared in the original work with its name and effects, Noah was well aware of its attributes.

It had the incredible effect of allowing the holder to level up faster the lower their qualifications were.

However, in the original work, the protagonist Valentina couldn’t equip it because there was no way for her to obtain it; it was merely a background item used to explain a certain villain’s rapid enhancement in a short time.

Having acquired this magical item, Clyde quickly grew stronger during the two days of battle and felt quite proud of himself.

He even pretended to joke, while actually being serious, when he asked Agatha and the imposter princess if he might also become a dragon slayer.

Unaware, the two nodded and smiled, indicating it was possible.

But Noah, watching from the monitor, shook his head with a smile.

Oh, the poor guy has such beautiful dreams! That magical item is indeed powerful, but it comes with a limitation: it shortens the level cap.

In the original work, the maximum level is LV99, but after using that magical item, the highest level one could reach is only LV59.

Moreover, in the original story, if the princess’s level exceeded LV60, the villain who possessed that magical item would mock her for being overpowered.

Though Noah knew the truth, there was no turning back now that it had been used, and besides, it was a magical item given to Clyde by Agatha, rounding up to be a good deed from the world’s will or the goddess, unrelated to him, the evil god.

What he needed to do now was to watch the events that were about to unfold.

About twenty minutes later, Princess Delia finally spotted Clyde’s trio on the streets of the royal city.

Seeing Agatha and Clyde laughing and chatting together, it was enough to make Delia feel both angry and amused.

Noah could read her expression; it conveyed, “I intended to take your magic because I thought highly of you, yet here you are, playing with someone I look down upon?”

Delia had not yet recognized Agatha as her ancestor, but she certainly admired the powerful and beautiful Agatha.

As a result, Agatha playing with Clyde must have made Delia feel betrayed.

So Delia directly reached out a hand towards Agatha’s back in the street and began to recite a one-time spell that Noah had given her, intending to forcibly take half of Agatha’s magical power (experience points).

If successful, it could allow Delia, a princess with little combat ability and only around level 10, to immediately rise to over level 70.

After all, Agatha’s level was genuinely high, and she had a lot of experience; forcibly sharing magical power would turn one level 90 into two level 70s.

—Your magical power will be received by me, the first princess of the kingdom, acknowledged by the goddess!

Delia’s slightly twisted smile was filled with this meaning.

“Wait! You were planning to use malicious magic just now, right!”

“!?”

But just as a hand suddenly reached out from the side to grab Delia’s arm, interrupting her incantation, Noah’s premonition of an unexpected event indeed came true.

“Hahaha! I knew it would be like this!”

However, what should have been a confusing development instead brought forth an excited laugh from Noah in the ruined temple.

Because the one who interrupted Delia was none other than the princess herself.

And she was neither the Valentina that Noah knew nor a counterfeit that Valentina had found herself.

Instead, she was a brand new princess from a defeated ending that did not exist in the original work, just like the previous snake lady and the vampire queen!

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PS. Here’s the second update for today.