I Became the Villainess's Younger Brother
There is a yuri otome game called [Blue Rose Garden].
It is a typical reverse harem yuri otome game set against the backdrop of a fictional academy called Arcadia Academy, a romance fantasy.
As a shut-in otaku who loves female characters, not knowing the title is normal. However, since my parents failed at child-rearing and my only sister is also a shut-in otaku like me, I often encountered it in daily life.
Honestly, being forced to absorb information I had no interest in wasn't enjoyable. I thought I was an idiot for paying money to have someone draw pictures for me.
But thinking about it now, I'm glad I listened to all that information while they were drawing. If it were up to my personality, I would have listened to half and let the other half go, but because of my professional ethics, I absorbed every bit of information about the yuri game.
So, why is it fortunate that I absorbed the information about a game I would never play for the rest of my life? Well, as always, it was just the cliché.
It was because I had been reincarnated into the world of [Blue Rose Garden].
Moreover, as the younger brother of 'Leticia Tepes', the arch-nemesis position that interferes with the heroine in all routes of the story.
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It has been about a month since I reincarnated. Although I wasn't familiar with the name Scarlet Tepes, I had adapted to the point where I could respond when someone called my name.
When I wake up in the morning, I leave it to the pale-faced maid to attend to me. These maids, with no color in their faces and no trace of life left, are like machines, or rather, they are no different from corpses.
After all, they are ghouls. And my sister and I are vampires who command ghouls.
After finishing my face, looking in the mirror, my red eyes sparkled like gems.
Because of my vampire nature, my appearance was so beautiful that my mouth was wide open, so I smiled satisfiedly. Other than that, at least this body was to my liking.
According to the livestock in our house from before reincarnation, the Tepes family, one of the oldest vampire families, accepted the title of the empire's duke as a symbolic meaning for the union of humans and human-like extraterrestrials.
They proudly consume blood and money in the open.
Originally, since it's a yuri otome game where the story revolves around characters rather than detailed world-building, the vampires in the story aren't weak to silver or crosses, and don't mind flowing water.
The only weakness is sunlight, but even that, when they are high-level vampires, they can ignore the sunlight to some extent.
This isn't something I heard from my sister, but something I experienced directly with this body. I walked in the garden even in the afternoon without a problem. Just a slight tingling on the skin?
If it weren't for the predetermined future of ruin, I could have lived happily, but knowing that no matter which ending of the game I go to, the Tepes family will collapse or even go extinct, it's a bit hard to enjoy it.
I don't have the desire to return to the original world, but I have to live first.
Moreover,
Strength: 102 (44)
Agility: 121 (41)
Constitution: 105 (39)
Endurance: 84 (32)
Mana: 214
Condition: Fatigue, Desire
Characteristics: Vampire, Void, ...
The status window appeared before my eyes as I muttered it quietly. It was the status screen that often comes to mind in isekai stories. After scrolling down the long status window, the quest window appeared.
Main Quest - Survive
▶ You, who are destined to collapse someday! Try to escape from fate and change to a new ending!
Reward: Varies depending on the difficulty and completion of the ending.
Tutorial - Goal Setting (??? 0/1)
▶ Take the first step on a thousand-mile journey. As the first step to achieving the main quest, set a small goal and achieve it.
Reward: Varies depending on the difficulty of the set goal.
What caught my attention was the main quest item. The reward varying depending on the level of ending I create means it depends on how much effort I put in.
I couldn't choose anything else. First, the top priority was to prevent my sister from rejecting the prince.
The original story progresses when my sister is in her third year, and according to the settings I know, she rejects the prince in the first semester of her second year, so I could still stop it.
In two months, I would enter the academy and my sister would move up to second year. There are other routes like rejecting the tower master or the northern duke, but those branch points are in the second semester of second year, so for now it's fine.
Let's just focus on stopping her from rejecting the prince.
Thinking that way, the tutorial text in the quest window changed.
"Ding!"
Tutorial - Goal Setting → Raise Leticia Tepes's Favorability!
▶ Raise the favorability of 'Leticia Tepes' so that she doesn't fall for other men!
▶ Achievement condition - Leticia Tepes's favorability 70 or higher (61/70)
Deadline - Before enrolling in Arcadia Academy
Seeing the automatically registered quest window that I couldn't cancel, I let out a dry laugh. Since I couldn't cancel it, I nodded vaguely to dismiss the quest window, and changed into the clothes handed to me by the silent ghoul maid who had been standing there quietly.
It was satisfying that I could act freely without having to watch my words, since they are ghouls that move according to commands rather than living humans. But as a maid, there was still a bit of bittersweet romance that came to mind.
If my sister is fine, maybe I should try hiring a human maid next time.
While thinking meaningless thoughts, I headed to the dining hall. As I approached the door, the ghoul maid who had bowed slightly at the waist let me in, and there was my sister, who had been waiting for me quite a while, with a pouty face.
"Late."
"Sorry. I had something to think about."
"Liar. You came here still half-asleep from the morning, right? I told you, you need to get used to mornings to fit in with humans."
That's right. Actually, no matter how strong high-level vampires are against sunlight, fundamentally they become strong under moonlight and are night nobles who move through shadows.
Only the Tepes family rises and moves for meals this early in the morning.
Among the three great bloodlines—the Tepes, Dracul, and Nosferatu—the Tepes family is the one that leads human interaction, so they adjust to human habits.
My sister is also an academy student, and I will be entering the academy soon, so my sister had been nagging me to get used to being active in the mornings.
Honestly, being weak in the mornings was true, so I nodded slightly at my sister's scolding.
When I nodded obediently, my sister relaxed her stern expression and let out a long sigh as if it couldn't be helped.
"Yeah. I know you well, so I won't say more. Are you in pain?"
"Almost all of it is healed. Don't worry."
The day I reincarnated.
It was said that a big abnormality occurred in the body of Scarlet Tepes.
The body of a vampire who couldn't possibly have a fever was boiling with blood. I don't know if it was a side effect of my reincarnation or if my body was in such a bad state that reincarnation was possible.
Anyway. Since the original Scarlet Tepes and I are clearly different people, I preemptively claimed amnesia before anyone could suspect me right after reincarnation.
I wasn't a complete blank slate who forgot everything, but I remembered only the practical memories needed in daily life and who I was, and my sister, with the rest hazy.
Moreover, for the month after that, I had been holed up in the mansion organizing my thoughts and hadn't gone out much, so from my sister's perspective, she had no choice but to worry.
During those months, even when I wasn't eating, my sister came to my room every day without fail to tell me that I was forgetting my memories and that she hoped I would recover them.
Thinking about it now, her favorability had already exceeded 60.
According to game settings, favorability of 50 or higher means having some feelings, so even if we set the standard differently because she's family, it came out higher than expected.
I glanced at my sister. In her eyes looking at me with worry, there was affection.
Unknowingly, I subtly scanned her body.
Even though she wasn't my real sister, from the perspective of Scarlet Tepes, it was clear that I should raise the favorability of my real sister Leticia. It was a quest, but still, was it okay?
Conversely, even if I didn't want to, since it's a quest, I have no choice but to do it, right? Even if my sister who was kind to me after I forgot my memories, I didn't want to touch her, but this was something I had to do anyway.
I decided to think that way.
To be a bit more honest, I decided not to hold back anymore under the pretext of the quest.