I Got Reincarnated as a Villainous Noble, and When I Tried to Create an All-Male Academy to Avoid a Bad Ending, for Some Reason the Gender Ratio Reversed?

Chapter 7: The Main Heroine Is a Walking Disaster

――This is bad.

The very first thought that crossed my mind when I saw the girl standing in front of me was that.
Because she was the main heroine of the original story.

Cool, sharp-tongued, and extremely prideful.
Yet on the flip side, she’s a crybaby who loves cute things.

At first glance she seems like a perfect, talented student, but in truth her magic control is catastrophically awful, and she ended up branded as incompetent and became a failed student.
That was Lucina Ronet in the original work.

And right now, I was facing her head-on.
All because of the unlucky accident of bumping into each other at the corner of an alley.

“……Well then, excuse me.”

Since the situation was inconvenient for me, I immediately tried to walk past her.
But the moment I took one step, she called out to stop me.

“Wait. You’re Orufusen Starz Island, aren’t you?”

“……That’s right.”

Being called by my full name, I couldn’t exactly play dumb.
When I gave a honest nod,

“This is sudden, but… could you help me?”

For some reason, she started pleading with me.

“……Sorry, but I’ll be going now.”

I had no idea what was going on, but it definitely wasn’t going to be anything good.
The moment I reflexively refused and tried to leave,

“Wait. Wait a second. This is bad, really bad. If this keeps up, it’s seriously going to be terrible.”

Lucina suddenly grabbed my arm.
When I looked, tears were already gathering at the corners of her eyes.

“The training ground is in serious trouble.”

“What happened?”

“My magic went out of control… and, um, it’s really bad right now.”

“……I see. Sorry, but I have something I need to――”

“You’re the top student, right? Won’t you help me?”

I tried to refuse again, but she refused to back down.
Her persistence was exactly what you’d expect from the original heroine. She wasn’t going to be dealt with easily.

Still… magic going berserk, huh.
Sure enough, that event did exist in the original story.

It was the scene where Lucina’s magic ran wild and she was about to be swallowed by her own power, only for the protagonist to rush in dramatically and save her.
That became the trigger for them to start interacting and gradually grow closer.

But because the protagonist hasn’t enrolled yet, the flow has clearly changed.
Now it’s turned into a completely unromantic development where the berserk Lucina left the spot herself to go find help.

And of all people, she came asking me.
This was about as troublesome as it could possibly get.

After all, in the original story, Orufusen and Lucina were enemies.
Getting involved with her was something that should never happen, let alone helping her.
And yet.

“This way. Hurry.”

“I have something to do, something to――”

“Look, over there.”

Before I realized it, she had dragged me all the way to the training ground.

“What the hell is this⁉︎”

Just like she said, the situation was disastrous.
In the center of the training ground, a huge vortex-like thing was hanging in the air.

It looked just like a typhoon, scattering violent gusts in every direction while slowly approaching us.
It was practically a natural disaster at this point.

“It’s bad, right? Really bad?”

“……Yeah.”

“I was just practicing magic, that’s all… but then I sneezed and for some reason it turned into this.”

“A sneeze?”

“A sneeze. Pretty bad, huh?”

“……Yeah.”

I didn’t really understand what she was saying, but her tone stayed completely level and cool, which somehow made the whole thing even more confusing.
I couldn’t tell whether she was panicking or perfectly calm.

“……Anyway, it looks like no other students are around.”

After checking the surroundings, I faced the swirling mass of magic power.

Having seen it many times in the original work, I knew.
If left alone, this magic would keep spiraling out of control and eventually explode.

And when that happened, there was no doubt the academy would suffer massive damage.
Because that’s just the kind of character Lucina Ronet was.

Cool and talented, yes, but fatally terrible at controlling magic, always causing explosions and ending up in pitiful situations.
She was a person destined for that kind of fate.
That was the main heroine of this world.

“Damn it!”

Why the hell do I have to clean up after an explosive heroine like this?

Even while thinking that, I began gathering magic power.

In the end, magic is just the act of converting magical energy into another form of energy.
Light, heat, impact—everything is nothing more than transformed magic power.

In other words, to resolve the situation in front of me, I had to slam an equal amount of magic power into it to cancel it out.

By striking with the same amount of energy from the opposite direction, the two forces would negate each other.
A classic case of vector cancellation.

“Just stand there quietly and watch.”

The problem was controlling that much magic power.
The more magic you use, the harder it is to control.
So I needed to focus completely.

“Fuu…”

I steadied my breathing, then released the magic power.
I slammed it straight into the raging torrent in front of me.
The next instant.

“――!!”

A deep gooooon shockwave roared through the air, and the vortex burst apart with a thunderous noise.
The sudden blast of wind nearly blew us both away.

“Uwaa⁉︎”

I quickly grabbed Lucina’s hand just as both her feet were lifting off the ground.
Then I braced myself desperately against the ground to stay upright.

“……Did we make it?”

When the wind finally died down, the presence of magic power had completely vanished.
Only silence remained in the training ground.
It seemed the cancellation had succeeded.
I let out a breath and pressed a hand to my chest in relief when

“…… ………”

Lucina was staring at me with dazed, wide eyes.

“What was that just now?”

“Magic power cancellation.”

“That’s impossible. You can’t do that unless you have the same amount of magic power as me.”

“……I see.”

“Don’t just say ‘I see’!”

She took a step forward and raised her voice.

“Having the same amount—no, even more magic power than me, and controlling it perfectly… that’s impossible! That’s… that’s exactly my goal!”

Lucina muttered something under her breath, but honestly I just wanted to go home already.
If I didn’t get back soon, Fran would get angry and it would be a disaster.
No, seriously. This was extremely bad.

“Well then, I have something to do, so――”

“Wait. At least let me thank you.”

She stared straight at me, then spoke in a small, embarrassed voice.

“Thanks to you, I didn’t get hurt.”

“……I see.”

“It’s all because of you. The fact that I could keep attending the academy, and even the fact that I didn’t have to get married—it’s all thanks to you.”

For some reason she was thanking me, even though I actually had nothing to do with any of that.
In the original story, Lucina gets scouted by the headmaster and enrolls in the academy.

“So please, let me thank you. Really… thank you.”

Those words were shockingly direct.
She looked embarrassed, clearly nervous, yet she still looked me straight in the eyes and expressed her gratitude.

That straightforwardness really was fitting for a heroine, I thought.

“It wasn’t a big deal.”

I said that and took one step forward.

“……Hey.”

Then Lucina reached out and gently tugged the hem of my uniform from behind.

“Next time… could you teach me a little bit about magic?”

“Why me?”

“Because you’re my goal. No—because I just decided right now that you’re my goal.”

She took one step closer and continued.

“You see, I can’t control my magic at all. Because of that I’ve caused so much trouble for everyone around me, my family treated me like a nuisance, and I was forced to choose between getting married or coming to the academy. So I came here.”

That part was exactly like the original story.
In other words, I already knew very well the situation she was in.

How lonely she was, how she cried every day, how fed up she was with herself.

“I want to learn to control my magic here at this academy. I don’t want to cause trouble for anyone anymore. I don’t want people to be disappointed in me or give up on me ever again. So please…”

She looked up at me from very close and asked once more.

“――Will you teach me magic?”

This was probably a turning point.
If I got involved here, a flag would definitely be raised.
Maybe not a harem flag, but at the very least, it would mean one more woman in my life—and that was bad.

Besides, she was the main heroine.
It was weird for a villain like me to get close to her, and it would only bring more trouble.

If I thought about it calmly, refusing was clearly the best choice.
Even so…

“……A little bit would be fine.”

It seemed I wasn’t quite villainous enough to turn down such an earnest plea.
In the end, I accepted her request.

“Really? Is that really okay?”

“Yeah. Work hard.”

And so, I ended up getting involved with Lucina.

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【Side Fran Chevalier】

――The first day of enrollment.

I ended up sulking.
Because I simply couldn’t stand how much attention Ol-sama was getting from other women.

Of course I understood that this was nothing more than ugly jealousy.
But even though my head knew that, my heart refused to listen. I couldn’t help feeling jealous.

I wanted to keep Ol-sama all to myself.

And those feelings only grew stronger after classes ended.
In fact, they became impossible to hold back anymore.

Because Ol-sama was getting along so well with a black-haired woman at the training ground.
There was no way I could just overlook something like that.

“Even though he already has me as his fiancée… talking so intimately with another woman… how could he…”

“――This requires overwriting.”