Chapter 5 - Plot Destruction
Plot Destruction
Translator : Elizabeth
Clara von Hermain.
Born as the eldest daughter of the territorial noble family, Viscount Hermain, Clara knew of her own specialness from a young age.
She was a reincarnator.
She clearly remembered that ordinary, oh-so-ordinary life she spent as a common high school girl in South Korea.
She wasn't pretty enough to be a delinquent,
But she wasn't ugly enough for the boys in her class to point fingers and tease, "She's your girlfriend," as they walked by.
An ordinary K-High School Girl.
Her hobby was initially watching dramas like other K-girls,
But feeling like she was just watching porn for middle-aged women,
She eventually returned to novels and games, settling there.
She was what one would call an "omnivore," not really distinguishing between male-oriented or female-oriented genres.
But since she was still a girl,
The genre she liked the most and viewed as her main staple was inevitably Romance Fantasy.
Among them, the one she considered her absolute favorite was none other than the female-oriented Romance Fantasy game—
—『Saint Royal Magic Academy』.
Usually shortened to 『Saint-Royal』.
Of course, its content wasn't vastly different from other female-oriented games based on Romance Fantasy.
But it was domestic.
Yes, it was Korean-made.
In Korea, where female-oriented games were scarce anyway, to think it wasn't Japanese but domestic.
On top of that, it was fully dubbed in Korean, not Japanese?
The former high school girl who played 『Saint-Royal』, which enjoyed decent popularity thanks to such patriotic marketing, harder than anyone else was none other than her.
Clara von Hermain.
Therefore,
Clara, having realized her reincarnation, had no choice but to realize immediately.
That this place she reincarnated into was the very world of 『Saint-Royal』!
When she became aware of that fact, her heart pounded like crazy.
After all, something that would only happen in a Romance Fantasy web novel had happened to her!
However, very regrettably, that joy had no choice but to fade quickly.
‘Hermain…… Hermain…… I’ve never heard of such a family name, and I’ve never seen a character named Clara in the game…….’
Let alone the Main Heroine, she wasn't even a supporting character who was a friend.
It was naturally not a reincarnation into a Villainess, which was the trend before she died.
It was truly a reincarnation as an extra among extras.
The only consolation was that for an extra who didn't even appear in the game,
Her face was somewhat decent.
Viewed with the jealous eyes of her past life as a K-High School Girl, at least with this level,
It wouldn't be completely wrong to say she had entered the ranks of a beautiful girl.
If so,
There was enough possibility.
‘The Sub Male Leads, the Main Male Lead, what they like and dislike, the event scenes and even the strategy guides for them…… Yep, I know it all.’
Maybe.
Truly like a story in some Romance Fantasy web novel.
‘Of course I remember it all. Do you know how many times I replayed it?!’
Even while possessing a supporting character of supporting characters, an extra of extras,
The dream and delusion of ordinary girls to suck the honey (reap the benefits) of a Romance Fantasy world using the knowledge of the Main Heroine seen in the game!
She judged that it was fully possible and then some, as long as she had her future knowledge solidified by 『Saint-Royal』.
‘Ah, but I still have to clear the scenario…… Should I just hand the Main Male Lead over to Iris as per the story? To the original Main Heroine.’
Instead, she would take one of the remaining Sub Male Leads.
Clara had thought back then: Isn't it not greed to enjoy at least this much benefit?
‘Yep, that would be good. If I ruin the game story for no reason, it’s only my loss. Besides, marriage with the Crown Prince…… living in the palace as a Queen seems incredibly exhausting.’
Aside from that,
As long as the original Main Heroine, Iris, gets together well with the Crown Prince according to the existing game story,
Things like the crisis of the human world, the invasion of the Demon Tribe, or whatever,
All those troublesome things would be practically resolved on their own without her having to lift a finger!
Anyway, that being the case—
“Do you want to humiliate me that much?! Just how far do you intend to play above this body’s head! Is that so enjoyable to you?!”
“Your Highness, this girl simply…….”
“Shut up!!”
According to the original plan,
It was the time when the Main Heroine, 『Iris』, should intrude right about now,
And the scene where she gets slapped instead of the Duke’s daughter should unfold…….
‘……Just where the hell is Iris?!!’
That’s right.
Contrary to Clara’s quite plausible original plan,
A massive error had occurred right from the first event scene, which was practically the tutorial.
That was—
‘If you’re the Main Heroine, you should keep your spot properly and do your job……!!’
—That the Main Heroine was actually not there.
‘Why on earth, why on earth, why on earth! Why, why, why……! Why isn’t she here! If she’s not here from the start of the game, what do you expect me to do!! I don’t want to get slapped, and I don’t want to marry the Crown Prince and become Queen and suffer from court politics and duties and all that……!!’
However, it was then.
—Step, step, step.
—Tat-tat-tat-tat.
From far away, along with the sound of quick steps, the sound of talking began to be heard.
“No no no~ Non-nope~ That’s not it. That’s not it at all. Light doesn’t originate from something like God’s grace or blessings, but is simply one of the forms of energy emitted due to changes in energy levels.”
“Y-Yes……? God’s grace is…… not such a thing……?”
“Of course, it’s not an exaggeration to say that the truth itself, which created the physical quantity called light and its electromagnetic laws, is God’s grace.”
“Ph-Physic-nyang……? Electromeowgnetic……? S-Saintess, I, as a foolish person, cannot understand what you are saying at all…….”
“Mmm~ Simply put, it’s like this. Listen carefully, okay?”
“Yes…….”
“So, if we assume that the existence who created something (Existence) out of a world of complete nothingness (Void), where neither light nor photons nor any matter nor even the laws governing them existed, is God; then paradoxically, how can that existence called God, who exists within space-time where nothing should exist, be observed?”
“Ugh…… It is too difficult for someone still lacking like me, Saintess…….”
“Ahaha, it’s natural that it’s difficult. Because it’s a part that touches upon the truth, you know? Ah, of course, for reference, in physics, an existence that cannot be observed is synonymous with Nothingness (Void), so thinking about it is meaningless, so there’s absolutely no problem in treating it as a non-existent entity~♬”
“Y-Yes……? Treating it as a non-existent entity…… Hu-Huh? Huuuh……! J-Just now, th-that words means……! Do-Doesn't that eventually mean that neither God nor the Goddess actually exists?!”
Iris, the Main Heroine of the Romance Fantasy game 『Saint-Royal』 world.
And,
“How could the Saintess say s-such a thing……! A-As expected, I, being lacking, must have heard wrong, right?! That must be it, right……?!!”
“Ahaha~♬ Did it sound like that?”
Saintess Louise.
Was it because they were too focused on their conversation?
The two were completely unaware of the situation in the campus.
That was partly due to the unbelievably self-contradictory blasphemous remarks that came out of Saintess Louise's mouth as if they were nothing.
And also, partly due to the Saintess’s so-called 『Concentration Mode』, where she becomes more excited than ever when talking about physics and becomes blind to her surroundings.
Of course, originally, not caring about her surroundings was just the temperament of the person called Louise.
“……Ah.”
Only then did the Main Heroine, Iris, grasp the situation.
“S-Saintess…….”
Iris stopped her steps that had been walking side-by-side and tried to alert her to the surroundings, even if just with a timid glance.
However, Saintess Louise did not stop.
“Well, there could be various interpretations, and I also have several hypotheses in mind, but for now, the side I support is this one~!”
She was already long immersed in mimicking an Academy professor, a pose her roommate Mary from the convent days had shown her before: eyes closed, elbow resting on the back of her hand, and wagging her index finger.
And,
—Bump.
She bumped into something lightly.
“Hm?”
Still in the pose mimicking Mary, she opened only the eyes she had deliberately closed and looked up.
“…….”
There stood a very handsome young man with blond hair and blue eyes, staring blankly as if he had lost his soul.
The singularity was,
That for some reason, he was holding his right hand high horizontally.
As an additional point,
“……!!”
Right behind him was a silver-haired young lady with her eyes squeezed shut.
A situation where anyone could see she had intruded right into the middle of a slap about to fly.
“Hm~? High five?”
Saintess Louise saw that hand raised high,
From the index finger to the ring and little finger stuck together dadadak,
And the thumb forming a vertical right angle.
Crown Prince Lucerius’s right palm.
“Mmm~ This shape, I’ve seen it somewhere…….”
Looking at it from here.
Tilting her head and looking at it from there.
Looking at it while circling around.
Soon,
—Smack.
“……W-What?!”
“Aha♬ I know!”
Jumping up pol-jjak charmingly, she recklessly managed to high-five the Crown Prince,
And deduced—
“—Fleming’s Right-Hand Rule! The thumb is the direction of the current! The fingers are the direction of the magnetic field! And where the palm faces is the direction of the magnetic force! That’s the Lorentz Force, isn't it? That’s right, isn’t it?! Yep, yep?”
Louise said she was seeing that hand shape for the truly first time in a long while,
Saying it was the first time since she used it when playing with the High Top Physics I Electromagnetism part when she was just a kindergartner.
“Really, really, really, seeing it after so long~! Right, right, the left hand was the coordinate system hand shape, and the right hand was the palm~ Yep yep, it certainly was~♬”
As if truly nostalgic, she trembled from her shoulders to the tip of her head.
—Twinkle, twinkle.
She was so moved that the moment she trembled, she unconsciously lowered the energy level of the surrounding mana and even emitted light.
In other words,
To the calculation of self-emission of light that had become all too familiar,
Saintess Louise had reached the state where she now expressed even her own emotions as light.
She was practically no different from a walking light CG effect generator.
And,
“Ah…….”
There was Crown Prince Lucerius,
Who had lost his soul once again at that sight.
It was inevitable.
“Aha, ahahaha~♬”
A woman he was seeing for the first time.
“Thanks to you, I almost cried for the first time in a really long while. Yep, because it was a Fleming’s Right Hand perfect enough to present anywhere~”
Truly, a type of woman he was seeing for the first time.
“Hoo, hoo…… Yep, calm down complete! Sorry, sorry~ I was too excited, wasn't I?”
Someone who did not belong to any category of women in this world.
No…….
To the extent that he thought even daring to try and put her in a category was rude.
“Aha~ So you are…… Yep, probably that. Weell~ I have homework the Director gave me too, so…… Then~♬”
Blessed by the light,
“Hi?”
And in the end, looking as if she had become the light itself—
“You’re the Crown Prince, Lucerius, right?”
—A Fairy of Light.
Truly.
“Ah…….”
This was,
The First Crown Prince of the Dawnbringer Kingdom,
And the Main Male Lead of this Romance Fantasy world,
Lucerius Aetherion Dawnbringer,
And,
“Hm? Aaaah~? Are you Kaonashi?”
Just Louise,
But still a Saintess.
The first meeting of the two, like destiny.
Which meant,
This plot development—
‘……Just, just, just, just, just what is that crazy Saintess bitch doing?!! Why are you jumping in instead of the Main Heroine and acting crazyyyyy……!!!’
—Was tantamount to destruction.