I Favor the Villainess Chapter 78Reality doesn’t go the way you want

Bleaching the story of the elements of my precious life, I told it to Claire-sama and Lily-sama.

As for their reactions,

“They are considerably cruel people. I am disgusted. Let’s burn them. Rei, show me to their place”

“Li, Lily shall accompany Claire-sama”

they were extreme.

“Now, now. At that time Misaki had it rough at home, so it couldn’t be helped. We reunited later after graduating, nowadays we’re in a relationship where we go tsuchinoko searching together”

“Tsuchinoko?”

“Ah, sorry. They’re UMA”

“Yu, Yuma?”

“Ah, sorry. Please forget it”

Back to the main subject.

“Anyway, at that time there were truly various complicated circumstances, so it got messy”

“Nothing about that was complicated. That Misaki woman was the main cause of everything”

“Actually, that’s wrong”

“Wha, what do you mean?”

While I tried to soothe Claire-sama who looked like she couldn’t clear away her irritation, Lily-sama asked for an explanation.

“In addition to the family circumstances I’ve mentioned, Misaki liked Shiiko. But, she couldn’t accept it”

“Is, is that so?”

“Yes. I was excluded because she thought I was stealing Shiiko”

“Wo, woah… What a love triangle”

Lily-sama groaned words out of soap operas.

However――.

“No, it was a square relationship”

“What do you mean?”

“Kosaki liked Misaki”

“It, it became complicated…”

That is to say, it was a bunch of unrequited relationships.

Misaki → Shiiko

↑ ↓

Kosaki ← Rei

I borrowed paper and pen and sketched the diagram.

“It is muddy”

“You, you are right”

“Well, everybody was young…”

“You are still in the middle of your teens?”

“There was such a time, wasn’t there”

“It should be in the present tense!?”

Oops, I had a distant look for a moment.

“At any rate, we all reconciled afterwards. I laughed the most when I learned of Kosaki’s true nature”

“Was, was there something about Kosaki-san…?”

“Yes. Back then I’d thought she was a small animal or an angel, but Kosaki was in fact the most ill-natured person in the story”

“Somehow I understand. Kosaki was the cutesy type?”

“Spot on, Claire-sama”

All Kosaki’s actions were calculated.

Small animal atmosphere, bashful smiles, reserved personality, pacifism that dislikes conflict, everything.

In short, she was a person who wanted the other party to underestimate her.

Like that, she had the other party dance in the palm of her hand as convenient for her.

In this world, Yuu-sama and Lene would be the closest.

“In the end, Kosaki went out with Misaki. Ah, but it wasn’t Mi x Ko, it was Ko x Mi”

“What incomprehensible thing are you saying”

“What’s there not to understand! The dominant party in a coupling is important!”

“Tha, that’s an unreasonable scolding…”

Oops, I can’t.

My otaku instincts just.

“Well, that was the story of my first love. It was boring, wasn’t it?”

“That is not the case”

“Ye, yeah. It was very helpful”

“Is that so?”

By the way, after this story, my personality quickly got closer to how I am right now.

My otaku hobbies grew worse, and I became more reckless toward those I fell in love with.

I absolutely cannot tell these two of the decadent life I led when I was at the university.

“You had a truly hard time”

“That’s right. But now it’s just a funny story. How was it, Lily-sama. Are you disillusioned?”

“N, no. Rather, Lily fell in love even more”

“Huh?”

Well, whatever.

“Anyway, first love doesn’t bear fruit, and because homosexual love is unrequited love by default, being able to take a beating is necessary”

“A, able to take a beating is it”

“Yes. Thanks to Claire-sama’s cold attitude I can be fully satisfied”

“I think Rei is a little too impudent!?”

Today as well Claire-sama’s retorts are skillful.

It was the best therapy for me tired from telling the serious story.

“Claire-sama’s first love was Manaria-sama, right?”

“Tha, that is wrong! That was… um, Onee-sama was so wonderful I misunderstood”

“Well, now it’s me”

“… Rei, if you get carried any more you will get fired?”

“I’m sorry”

As Claire-sama’s eyes glazed, I hurriedly stopped playing with her.

“Speaking of which, how did our conversation turn out like that?”

“We came to the Church to solve poverty among commoners…”

“We, well, sometimes it’s good to deviate from the subject”

Suddenly I and Claire-sama came to our senses and Lily-sama intervened.

“The, there’s something to be understood from Rei-san’s story, ideals and reality are different”

“What do you mean?”

“The, the Church also wants the disparity of wealth to disappear, and there are several idealized models of what can be done. But, whether they’d work remains doubtful”

“? Could you explain in detail?”

“Po, politics don’t work on beautiful gestures, that’s how the story goes”

Because I didn’t expect such severe words from a small girl like Lily-sama, so I unintentionally gazed at her in wonderment.

As for Claire-sama, she had a worried expression like she’s heard words identical to Lily-sama’s somewhere before.

Ah, it was what Dor-sama had said.

“Even if they’re right in theory, they’re meaningless if they don’t work for politics in reality. And in many cases, reality is unreasonable”

Lily-sama who said that, seemed just like an old woman.

“Li, Lily too thinks politics will invariably turn out like this. The Church decided to draw a line at politics”

“That’s putting it bluntly”

“But, even so!”

Claire-sama unintentionally raised her voice at Lily-sama’s words that could be taken as her giving up.

“In that case… People will not get recompensed. I do not want to part with my ideals”

I do not want to run away from ideals to reality, Claire-sama said.

Then, what should be done.

“In that case, there’s no choice but to continue pursuing the ideals. Those who preach ideals always have to realize them themselves”

“Rei…”

“Claire-sama is not alone. I’ll follow you even if there’s little I can do”

“Thank you”

We got a nice atmosphere going between us, but,

“Go somewhere else if you want to flirt, scum”

“”…””

“… It, it really wasn’t on purpose, please believe!”

“No, well, I believe it”

Rather, these insults are an adorable habit.

“Even so, I am indebted to Cardinal Lily. I wish I could offer something as thanks”

“Su, such a thing! Lily just taught Claire-sama about the Church…”

“For example, what’s troubling Lily-sama the most right now?”

I indirectly asked.

“T, troubling?”

“Yes. Because we’ve been helped by Lily-sama, conversely we wish we could do something to help”

“Fufu, Lily is happy”

“Stop with that nice mood”

Unlike Lily-sama’s abusive remarks, Claire-sama’s retorts are in her true nature.

“Le, let’s see… Right now, I am researching a certain disease. It’s called the opposite sex disease…”

“Ah, it’s the one where sex changes?”

The opposite sex disease is a unique fictional disease in 「Revolution」 that doesn’t exist in reality.

It’s a disease where your sex becomes the opposite of your original one, it appeared in a comedic event in the game.

As apparent from the gender reversal café at the academy festival, princes are terrific beauties, so the special CGs from that event were quite a sight.

By the way, Claire-sama turned into a man.

She was amazingly handsome!

“If I remember correctly, with the power of the ritual tool called Tears of the Moon that the Church possesses, the effect should be reduced and maybe even eliminated”

“You, you know of the Tears of the Moon!? It’s a special first-grade secret matter of the Church!?”

“Ah”

That’s right.

Tears of the Moon is a magical tool that activates by absorbing the light of the full moon, and has the ability to negate various magical effects.

The difference from the magic dampening barrier installed at the academy practice grounds is that the effect is permanent.

It’s an extremely powerful magical tool that can cure various bad statuses inflicted with magic, it’s one of the biggest secrets of the Spirit Church.

To take it out, two people with positions no lesser than cardinal are necessary to unlock the storehouse containing it.

It’s a little bad that I know it.

“Whe, where did you hear of the Tears of the Moon!?”

“Ah, err… Yuu-sama taught me”

Right now, the only person related to the Church that I know besides Lily-sama is Yuu-sama.

“Tha, that shouldn’t be the case. Considering how Yuu-sama’s body is, knowing the solution to the opposite sex disease Yuu-sama would long ago―― Ah!”

Lily-sama shut her mouth in panic.

Eh?

“Cardinal Lily. What was that?”

“Abababa…”

“Yuu-sama suffers from the opposite sex disease?”

When Claire-sama and I pressed for an answer, Lily-sama sighed as if she finally gave up.

“Re, Rei-san knows the solution to the opposite sex disease, so Lily will talk about it, but absolutely do not tell anyone. If you reveal it, please consider that your lives will be in danger”

“I understand”

“Yes”

It was a pretty unsettling preface, but still Claire-sama and I nodded.

Resigned, bit by bit Lily-sama started talking.

“A, actually――”

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“I see. Then, you’ve heard about Yuu-sama’s matter”

“Yup”

That night, Misha returned to the dormitory.

As she’d stayed in Euclid longer than us, Misha’s pure white skin was slightly red.

Rather than getting tan, she has the predisposition to reddening.

Although it’s often the case with white people, with Misha’s outstandingly white skin, the symptoms are severe.

I talked with Misha, summarizing what happened during her absence from the academy.

Lily-sama strictly prohibited revealing Yuu-sama’s secret to others, but as Misha was a concerned person, I talked to her about it.

“So Misha knew. About Yuu-sama’s matter”

“Yeah. When we were young, I cooperated to conceal Yuu-sama’s body in various ways”

“I see”

Yes.

Simply put――.

Yuu-sama had been a girl.