(Chastity Reversed) I'm Sorry, My Lady. I Had Sex With Another Woman Again

“Haa~… What am I supposed to do…?”

Inside a room in the academy dormitory, a deep sigh sounded. That sigh was mine.

The reason was, of course, yesterday’s incident. And it was out of concern for the depressing situation that would likely unfold from now on.

Would I have to watch Simon-sama and Nico flirting with each other every day from now on?

Just imagining it was draining…

“Isn’t it too early to give up on Simon-san? Suberia, you have a chance, you know. After all, you’re rich.”

The one encouraging me was my close friend, almost like a childhood friend by now, Shia.

Since Shia was a commoner and shared a room with other commoners, the three of us naturally decided to meet in my room.

“I don’t think senpai is motivated by money… I feel like we’ve had this conversation before.”

“Yes, we have. I won’t slap him with bundles of cash anymore…”

Ginny sat cross-legged on the floor of the room.

She had quickly become close to me after the incident at the Novi household and was now helping with my concerns.

She seemed to have been emotionally unstable for a time, but had recently regained her composure.

“Well, it’s good that there are more opportunities. This gives us hope. Hehe…”

However, her strong obsession with Simon-sama hadn’t disappeared and must still remain within her..

When I’d told her Simon-sama was coming to the academy, I could see the flames in her eyes burning brightly.

…She still hadn’t given up. Or perhaps, she couldn’t give up.

“Shia, Ginny… Honestly, I believe I should give up on Simon-sama.”

I should either forget about him or come to terms with it.

Because he already belonged to Nico. He had been serving Nico since they’d met and had unwavering loyalty to her.

To approach Simon-sama from this point would be nothing other than taking him away from Nico.

“Certainly, I’m a little annoyed with Nico for monopolizing Simon-sama… But she is my friend. Taking a man from a friend is unacceptable. That’s why we should give up…”

“…Are you sure? Simon-san is your first love, right? I’m poor, so I can’t say I want to date him now, but there’s nothing about you that’s inferior to Nico…”

“It’s fine now… Simon-sama gave me good memories, and I’m satisfied with just that…”

This was the right path.

Stealing a man who was in a good relationship with your friend wasn’t the way of a lady.

The old me might not have cared, but if I were to do that, I probably wouldn’t be able to face Simon-sama with my head held high.

So this was fine.

“You say it’s fine, but you’re sighing a lot… You say we should give up, but in the end, you can’t give up either, can you?”

“! I-It can’t be helped!!!”

At Ginny’s provocative words as she pointed at me, I unconsciously rose to my feet in anger.

“Taking a friend’s man is something indecent that I can’t do! So I have no choice but to give up! That’s… that’s the right thing to do…”

Surely, from now on, my academy life would be…

Painful and bitter as I watched my first love getting along with my friend.

Perhaps there would be nothing enjoyable at the academy, and I might continue to suffer from this for three years.

Even so, even if that were the case. I should walk the right path. Precisely because I was ugly, I wanted to like myself. And to be able to live with my head held high, I would walk the right path.

I directed these feelings toward Ginny.

However—

“…Ha!”

Such feelings I had squeezed out were laughed at dismissively. With eyes that seemed too contemptuous to be directed at a friend, Ginny glared at me as if looking down.

“Because it’s right, so what? What good does that do? That’s not worth a damn thing.”

I was surprised by those words that flew out of Ginny’s lips. I hadn’t expected her to say such things. Or rather, I had thought she took pride in living honestly.

That’s why I was surprised.

“I wouldn’t have expected the school’s most serious student to say such things…”

“I learned from Simon-senpai… Just living correctly doesn’t get you anything. If there’s something you really want, sometimes you should obtain it even if you have to use forceful methods.”

Ginny stared straight at me. Before I knew it, we were both standing up, glaring at each other. The atmosphere was explosive.

Sensing this, Shia hurriedly stepped between us.

“Okay, okay, that’s enough! What are you two doing? You’re going to be party members from now on, right?”

“…”

Well, that was true… If this was what happened after just two days at the academy, the future certainly looked bleak. Simon-sama wasn’t the only source of worry.

We would have to fight through several years at the academy, and building good relationships with classmates was extremely important.

Especially in my case, there was the issue of factions.

All high-ranking nobles had their own factions, and the same was true for me. I had formed a faction before enrollment, and the two people in front of me were also part of it.

Despite that, falling out after just two days was no joke. This place wasn’t lenient enough to allow such discord among those who aspired to rise to the top.

We both needed to calm down.

“I went a bit too far. Sorry, Suberia.”

“No… I was too harsh as well. Even though I understand your feelings… I’m sorry.”

I had been thinking that I’d grown since I rarely got angry these days, but when it came to Simon-sama, my emotions were so easily stirred.

…I thought I would forget after a year had passed.

It seemed that I…

…I still loved him.

(I need to forget him quickly..)

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“You incompetent fools! Can’t you even kidnap one girl!?”

“We did our best. Really, what can I say…”

In a town 10 kilometers away from the academy, in a run-down room in an area commonly known as the slums, there were two shadowy figures.

“Damn it! Once she’s entered the academy, we can’t touch her! We needed to get her before she entered!”

“Well, certainly. It might be difficult through straightforward methods now.”

Two people faced each other. The one berating the old woman across from him with spittle flying out of his raging mouth was an elf man with long ears.

With his flowing blonde hair and emerald eyes, he was considered extremely ugly in this world.

“Hey, don’t talk like it’s someone else’s problem! Let me tell you, if the negotiation doesn’t go well because you couldn’t kidnap my daughter, I won’t pay you!”

“…Really, you’re a terrible person.”

The man’s name was Diekhart Novi. Dorothy’s husband and the biological father of Nico, the daughter whose kidnapping he had requested.

“I understand… As one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon Lord’s Army, her assets must be enormous. If the divorce mediation goes well, you could aim for half of those assets…”

“Yes, and I’ll use that money to pay your reward, so I need you to do your job properly. Really, to let one little girl slip away.”

Diekhart’s aim was to kidnap his daughter Nico in order to threaten Dorothy, who doted on her.

All for money.

Having been faced with divorce mediation, he had set his sights on his daughter to completely strip Dorothy of everything she had.

“If you had killed Dorothy for me, things would have been easier… Can’t you even kidnap a little girl?”

“If I had the ability to kill one of the Four Heavenly Kings, I would be the Demon Lord by now.”

Initially, the husband had requested Dorothy’s assassination. He’d planned to kill his wife and inherit her assets.

However, he was refused because there was no way they could win against her. That’s why he decided to target his daughter instead.

From his wife, who was among the strongest, to his frail daughter. Despicably, he had changed his target.

“Well, it was a sudden request. There’s still a chance. Just wait patiently.”

“Hey, I only have one more year to drag this out! You’ll be able to kidnap my daughter by then, right!?”

The academy’s security was strict. At an academy where even royalty and nobility enrolled, it was difficult for people of unknown background to even enter.

Even if they could get in, security had hands extended everywhere. It could be said that kidnapping someone within the academy was extremely difficult.

However, the old woman from the assassination guild had an idea. A special strategy that could break through the difficult situation.

“Don’t worry… It seems the daughter has a favorite butler, and we can kidnap him when he leaves the academy. Then we can threaten the daughter with that. Fishing for sea bream with a shrimp… If the shrimp is hiding, we can just kidnap what it likes.”

The old woman laughed “hee hee hee” as if thoroughly enjoying herself.