Heikinten No Reijou

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I woke up with a start. While breathing heavily, I looked at the window and it was still dark outside. I guess it was the middle of the night. My body was drenched with sweat.

I was shocked to remember that I was the villainess in a world from an otome game.

In my previous life, my name was Haruka Momose. I died in the middle of my thirties, run over by a truck ignoring the red traffic light while I was using the pedestrian crossing. At that time, I was reading a lot of novels and was addicted to stories about villainess from otome games, although I had never played those.

In this world, I was Iris Rayseal, daughter of a duke, 6 years old. My family was composed of my kind parents and myself. My father and my mother were very close and doted on me since I was an only child.

I couldn't remember what the title of this otome game was, but I was convinced that this world was similar to it.

No way I was a protagonist... Was it a good or bad thing to have read so many novels? Still, the world of an otome game... I think I was gaining additional memories.

While receiving memories from my previous life, I suddenly lost strength and collapsed. The feeling of my falling body and the creaking sound of the bed made me reconfirm that this was real. Coming back to my senses, I finally remembered the contents of the game.

The capturable targets were: the Crown Prince who would become my fiancé, the son of my duke's family – later, he would be adopted in the duke household and be my elder brother – and... Ah, I didn't remember because I have never played the game. The heroine, who was a commoner with high magical powers, would enroll at school as a freshman, while I would be in my last year of school as a third-year student.

Magic in this world existed and many had high magical powers amongst nobles. Occasionally, there were commoners with particularly high magical powers who enrolled at school as scholarship students.

The story was, being jealous of the relationship between the heroine and my fiancé the Crown Prince, I was convicted of bullying the heroine, had my engagement annulled, and the Crown Prince and the heroine ruled the kingdom together. After the cancellation of my engagement, I vaguely remembered being sent to a monastery.

Ah, it was such a disappointment that I didn't remember everything.

I was completely wide awake. Although I was a little shaken, I rapidly regained my composure, probably because I was once an adult in my previous life.

I needed to think of countermeasures for the event flags I remembered.

Although this world was like a game, this was not a game. From the knowledge of novel, I was conscious of a situation where I did wrong and got hurt in this place. I was thinking over while looking at the ceiling. The luxurious pattern of the ceiling was dimly standing out in the dark, looking eerie.

I had to crush the event flags. But it was impossible to do so. To begin with, I didn't remember all of them. Moreover, since it was reality, the situation could be altered by other factors. Therefore, I should decide which flags were keys and which were not, then prioritized them and crush them.

The greatest achievement, with minimal effort, was basics. Hence, it would be good to crush the root of the event flags, which should be as a tree structure. It was very likely that a root was a key flag.

To begin with... It would be good if I didn't become a fiancée, right? Me. There were other girls who could become a fiancée, right? If this succeeds, all the events should be avoided.

Another important thing was the meeting with the heroine. Since the game begins with the enrollment of the heroine, let's stop attending school in third grade. If I was not mistaken, I should have passed the graduation exam, so let's try to achieve it before becoming a third grader. If I passed, I should be exempted from coming to school by submitting a paper, and therefore, I should be able to avoid any contact.