What If the Strongest Villain from the Original Story Became the Protagonist's Ally? - Chapter 63 - Gorilla, and Brute Force

Early morning.

The person I least wanted to meet had somehow come to my room just after I woke up.

Lycoris Flambeur Prominent.

The first princess of The Prominent Principality and one of the original story’s heroines.

A woman who had mastered physical enhancement beyond even Iris, and in terms of pure arm strength alone, she was the character second only to Yuguram in the story.

That power had just been proven by her act of blowing away my room’s door.

It was definitely Lycoris.

I hastily stripped off the blanket and wrapped myself up like a bagworm. I couldn’t let her see my face!

But such resistance was futile as Lycoris approached me.

“Excuse me, sir? Please show me your face. When people talk, it makes one anxious when they can’t see the other person’s face, doesn’t it?”

“My face is horribly burned and scarred. I cannot show such a face to royalty! Don’t come near me!!”

“You’re quite interesting in a roundabout way… but from what I glimpsed, I didn’t see any burn scars.”

“Your eyes are just poorly made.”

“How dare you say such a thing to a princess!”

The maid couldn’t help but cry out.

She was absolutely right, but I really wanted her to let this slide.

If my words and actions were unpleasant, I’d apologize. I ended up acting the same way as when talking to Iris.

“Calm down, Stella. I don’t particularly mind. We were the ones who caused trouble first. Besides, if he’s Princess Iris’s guard, I’ll overlook some degree of disrespect. So show me your face.”

Tug tug.

Lycoris began forcibly stripping away my blanket without question.

But I imbued myself with mana for physical enhancement and desperately defended the blanket with all my might.

I didn’t budge even when pulled by Lycoris.

“Mm… I can’t win in a contest of strength? I could even beat Iris. You… what are you?”

“A suspicious person passing by.”

“So you were suspicious after all.”

Though quite reluctantly, I admitted to being suspicious to distance myself from her.

However, Lycoris was becoming desperate. She put even more strength into trying to strip away the blanket.

“Ugh! Would you please let go of that hand already!”

“I refuse! Lycoris-sama, why don’t you go do your gorilla thing with Iris instead!!”

“I’m not a gorilla! If anything, I’d prefer to be a small animal!”

“Impossible with those muscles!!”

No matter how much makeup a gorilla put on, it couldn’t become a squirrel.

That robust physique couldn’t be changed, and her inborn muscle-brain thinking couldn’t be fixed either. That’s why both Iris and Lycoris were gorillas in my mind.

Small animals suited me better.

“Kyyyy! That’s enough! I’ll resort to forceful measures!”

“You’ve been pretty forceful from the start.”

“Be quiet! Here I go, Mr. Suspicious Person!”

Squeeze—Lycoris gripped my blanket tightly.

I thought the pulling force would get stronger, but she once lowered her strength downward—then vigorously lifted upward.

As if throwing me… actually—I was actually thrown!?

From the window that had become well-ventilated after the door was destroyed earlier, I fell wrapped in the blanket.

This was the castle’s top floor. A normal person would despair and prepare for death.

It was about the height where you might survive if you hit something right.

“You bastaaard!! You really did it!!”

I fell while screaming.

Just before hitting the ground, I thought I faintly heard her hearty laughter.

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I crashed to the ground with a loud impact.

Thanks to physical enhancement and strengthening the blanket as well, I remained uninjured despite falling from about the third or fourth floor of an apartment building.

Sitting up sluggishly, I choked on the dust cloud that rose up.

“Cough cough! That woman… using brute force because it’s troublesome!”

The blanket separated from my body with the impact.

I waved my hands vigorously to blow the dust cloud somewhere else.

After a while, when my vision cleared—thud!!

Once again, something fell from above with a dull sound.

I had a bad feeling.

What fell was… naturally, Lycoris.

“Oh-hohohoho! As expected of someone who can compete with me! As I predicted, you’re not injured despite falling from that height!”

“This brat… so you dropped me knowing that.”

This was basically attempted murder.

If it hadn’t been me, they definitely would have been seriously injured. And she had naturally come down from that height too.

“It couldn’t be helped. I wanted to see your face so badly I couldn’t stand it.”

“Ah.”

Oh no.

Right now, the blanket had come loose from the impact of falling.

Meaning my bare face was exposed.

I hastily turned away to hide it, but it was already too late.

Lycoris grinned and said:

“Ufufu. It’s too late now, Mr. Suspicious Person. I got a perfect look at your beautiful face with these eyes! How wonderful!”

Saying that, she approached me.

I agonized over what to do.