Reincarnation: I am the Villainess and Love Target?!

Chapter 3: Silent Skies

Once again lost in my thoughts, I made the following conclusions:

I am Velloa Imitheos, child of the Ogygia Kingdom's Spymaster and one of its best Royal Researchers. I also have an older brother of five years, Virgil Imitheos, who is one of the game's love targets. But so far there are already quite a few deviations from the game's original plot-line in my previous life's memories. One was the fact that Velloa (me) is a person of dual elemental affinity, second, that Vain (a 'love target') was dead and third - that I was in control of Vain's body.

...What the hell?! Why do I have to take on two major characters?! Now I have to be careful of not only avoiding my villainess bad end but also of the incoming harem and typical air-headed MC that this world of an otome game has!

With a sigh, I moved onto a different, but related, train of thought:

In the end, when both my friend and I had realized that Vain was not a capturable character, even though we were the players, we got played. Vain wasn't meant to be a love target... We were deceived by his bishounen looks and by the game-makers. What his motivations were for inciting a disastrous demon attack onto the Ogygia Kingdom's capital city, we never got much of a clear answer. While he did more or less say that he wanted to fight Ariana (the MC), such a motivation was too small a reason to launch a largescale attack on a Kingdom's capital with a demon army.

"How is your body feeling, Vain?" Father suddenly asked.

Snapping back to reality, I looked up and replied. "It's... not bad, I think."

Chuckling, he opened the large doors which lead into the room that held Gaea's Embrace. I had seen my Father as Mako (his second body) quite a number of times. Whilst Mako was of a larger build, older looking and had short platinum blonde hair (as opposed to his original long, raven black hair), there's that weird ability which children have that could just 'tell' or 'recognize' their parent, and when I had first seen Mako, I just... knew. In any case, he had told me that Mako was only known by the family and the most trustworthy of people, like the current ruler of Ogygia, Korumak Regieren. As a result, I had to keep both our bodies a secret.

That is quite a big secret that you're asking a six-year-old to keep...

Past the glowing runes and curtains, we were greeted by the sight of the capsules which held our bodies. The Gaea's Embrace capsules looked eerie as they glowed a bright orangey-red. Mother emerged from somewhere behind and greeted us. She had once told me that she kept her youthful look through cryogenic freezing. Apparently, she had gotten that idea when Father used to use that method to preserve his bodies. I know this explains why father looks so young, but for Mother to go to that extent for her beauty... I internally shuddered.

"Go ahead Vain, you can go back to being Velloa." Mother urged.

Letting go of Father's hand, I approached the capsule holding Velloa's body – only to stop right in front of it. Turning to look Mother in the eye, I took a gamble. "Mother, this body... and the darkness magic. I want to know more."

Almost immediately, I saw sadness cross her sky-blue eyes.

An uncomfortable silence ensued for a few seconds. However, just as I was about to dismiss my question, Father spoke. "Ahkua, we should at least explain the 'Encroachment'." Mother's expression turned even more despondent, but she nodded.

Bending down to my eye level, she places a hand on my cheek. "I can't tell you about this body, not yet anyway. But, my child, the darkness magic is quite a strong thing and sadly -out of all the elements- there is a consequence to the magic user's body. It is called the 'Encroachment', we don't know when exactly it will begin, except that not too soon after the first use of darkness magic, the user's heart will be gripped by death. It is possible to survive, but all darkness attribute users suffer greatly from it and many have not survived." She then brings me into a hug. "So please, unless your Father and I say so, do not use any darkness magic."