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Who made me the villainess?!
It was a dull surrounding I opened up my eyes to, immediately I did not know the setting. The ceiling had a few designs, and stalactite lights hanging from it. My pupils could only stare, I was supposed to be in Heaven.
From what I had remembered. At least, I deserved to go in Heaven, right? I mean, a few times when I was short on money maybe I picked up money from the ground, or possibly cheated and lied a few times in my life but everyone does right?
“Madam Megistus, you’re awake now,” it was a completely unfamiliar voice, the door to the room I was in clicked and let in a short woman with a maid outfit designed with stars at the bottom. I really fancied the design-
Although that wasn’t the point, did that lady just call me Madam Megistus?!
That’s my second name! But why…the Madam?
Maybe that’s just how they address everyone in Heaven, though I like it, it makes me sound like a person with a High place in Power.
I turned over in my bed to look straight into the eyes of the person. I had a good view of my surroundings now, there was wooden and golden furniture at every corner. I had to take a moment to admire the interior design of Heaven.
To be honest it kind of looked like a bedroom. Which was great, because the bed was so comfy, the pillows felt like clouds, Ahh~ I could get used to this Heavenly life.
As I was sucked into all of the decorations of Heaven, I totally forgot to answer the person at the door. She was probably an angel or something, I just never thought they’d be dressed in Maid attire. Well, no one has ever recorded anything about Heaven before so I might as well take notes, what if I went back to my humanly self, then I could tell everyone that Angels wear Maid outfits not wings and white shiny garments. It was a weird choice for God, but who knows, maybe he was interested in that type of stuff. I don’t judge, I’m not in the mood to be in Hell when I just got here.
“Poor Madam, you must be so tired. The prince will be here to come see you around now. I’ll spread the word, of you being awake!” And at that the lady just shut the door and left.
What did she mean, Prince?
Jesus?
I got out of the bed immediately, then once I slipped off, I noticed my own garments.
Why, they were beautiful! Extraordinaire! Simply out of this world.
Something I could never afford. It was bright blue with shining yellow crystals at the bottom, and some how I still had ‘Mary Jane’ shoes on with white socks to go with it.
What if this was just the fancy clothes everyone wore in Heaven- then it struck me.
I suddenly remembered this dress.
This was the same dress of the Villainess of my favorite manga I used to read all the time when I was burnt out and had pretty much nothing to do. The Villainess was always called ‘Madam’ and this…this was her room?!
Which meant, the Maid who just walked in there was actually getting a Prince, and wasn’t an angel? This all meant that this wasn’t Heaven?! This all meant I was in my favorite manga?!
I began trying to wake myself up, I assumed this was all a dream, because although I kinned and related to the Villainess of the manga, I even idolized her fashion and action, apparently she had some big backstory and was meant to be the main character- but still that doesn’t mean I want to be the Villainess!
Seconds later, the door fwipped open and led to a boy the same height as me. I instantly knew his face.
The most handsome, beautiful and caring guy in the whole manga! The Prince.
Albedo.
“Morning My lady, how are you feeling after that drastic fall?” His heart thumping voice asked, his blue eyes looked directly at me, and although he didn’t have a smile on his face I could tell he was deeply concerned-
Wait, what fall?
Then I froze for a second to think about it all, I could simply go ahead with being the Villainess and with the storyline, but in this story the Villainess dies a horrible death and doesn’t even have any love life. And I could have option two which was just go on a riot and try and get out of here. Or…the last option, just admire the hot guys and accept my fate as a Villainess, (basically the first option but in a more simpful matter) and that sounded more fun than anything I’d thought of so far.
“Is anything the matter Megistus?” Prince Albedo questioned me, now he looked even more concerned, his eyes looked even more blue than ever.
Then my acting and theatre classes with my sister from the real world kicked in. “Whoever could thy be? I simply can’t remember thee!” I fell into his arms like a big old damsel, and honestly I felt embarrassed after noticing how overbearing I was being because he barely had a reaction I anticipated he’d have.
“Oh…that’s unfortunate. I suppose falling down a staircase was damage to the head, we could recommend treatment. I’ll talk to my assistant about it and we’ll hire a doctor to help you,” Prince Albedo headed to the door almost immediately.
Of course he was thinking of meeting with his ‘assistant’, the assistant he was talking about was his potential and soon to be Wife. She was going to marry him, and expose the Villainess for her deeds. The female lead, Sucrose. She was a shy nutcase who Prince Albedo (obviously) secretly had a crush on. She was just too dense to realise- well, actually the female lead was simply unproblematic, she was so cute and adorable she could hardly do anything wrong. The only thing that annoyed me was the fifty chapters it took for the pair to actually get together, and then the next fifty chapters for them to kiss! And all while this was happening, the Villainess was wailing away in her coffin, six feet underground, dead and broken. With absolutely no love at all? What type of ending is that?!
On impulse I stopped the male lead and grabbed him by the arm, he couldn’t start spending more time with his assistant, because the more time he spent time with her the more he’d fall in love with her and that will make the female lead one step closer to exposing me and letting me die. Did I want to die in this universe? Absolutely not! Even if I’d died in the human, normal, boring world, who knows? And who cares! I’m not going back there to suffer in poverty, I’m going to live the life of the Villainess to the fullest by not making her the bad guy! By sabotaging the female lead’s spotlight and marrying Prince Albedo! I can do it! I can get an ending where the Villainess doesn’t die! Besides, the Villainess was beautiful and so am I, who wouldn’t fall for me?
(That’s what I thought at least).
“C-could you…help me remember you?” I queried in a low voice, hoping this would stop him from going.
The Prince then turned to me, “I’m afraid I can not. I have some pending business to attend to and I’ll just have to leave you here.” Those words made me pout, how did he not fall for my beauty? And that ‘pending’ business was obviously meeting up with his assistant and teasing the shy bean all over again.
“Your sister will come and visit you soon, not to worry.” Albedo left without a word, and then I thought for a moment…who was the Villainess’s sister?
The second I flopped on the bed was the door opened.
“Of course you’re lazying about, such impudent acts especially considering you went to a long slumbering sleep while Oz and I had to perform your dirty work. The disrespect.” I immediately knew it was the Villainess’s sister just by her attire, a purple dress and black sparkly designs, she was the true Villainess look alike. She had an eye patch and like me, two ponytails. She was apparently Villainess’s step sister but they were still quite close.
Of course, I wasn’t going to hop up and rap my arms around her. No. She was one of the most annoying and pestering people in the Villainess’s story. There had been worse. There were a ton of hefty drunkards in this manga.
I was about to open my mouth and ask, “What brings you here Fischl?” After all that was how they normally spoke, but then again, I was acting like I forgot my memories, I might as well continue it.
“Who…who are you?” This was the reaction I wanted, wide eyes and a kind of gasp. Fischl just stood and stared, so did Oz.
Then Fischl thought about it for a second and then her eyes dropped down to her normal state, “You do remember me don’t you? Drop the act, sister, it doesn’t work on me.” She crossed her arms and shook her head. How did she figure me out that quickly?
I mean, she didn’t know I wasn’t from this world, but she surely knew I was pretending to not remember her. Did that mean the Prince knew as well? He’s supposed to be the smartest man in the whole manga, if he didn’t know then I’d be…a little bit disappointed in his intelligence.
“Did you play this act on others too?” She looked very unimpressed and just gave me a stare.
“Uh- just Albe- I mean, Prince Albedo. At first I couldn’t remember him, my memory has flooded back since then, I was just kidding with you sister,” Well there goes the act for starting new with my memory loss.
“Tricking him like that is just wrong, I’ll go find him and you can go and apologise. He cares a great deal for you, and lying about your condition will just make the relationship worse.” Is it just me or was the Villainess’s sister, smarter than normal? She was supposed to be this boastful and aggravating character that was pretty much useless, but at this point she was female lead material!
“That’s right, I should go and apologise to him right now!” I blurted and stood up from the bed as I took a step forward I wobbled on my feet. Maybe the Villainess really did fall on stairs, and now the aftermath was affecting me. I felt totally out of bound when walking. Or else it was just the shoes I wore or the long dress. But I wasn’t complaining, when I opened the door it led to a busy palace with Maids running all over, and golden carpets, lights, more gold, furniture, even more gold and family portraits.
I couldn’t help but do a 360 and look exactly at all these beautiful miracles surrounding me, never mind getting married to Prince Albedo! I might as well stay here! The chandelier was totally mesmerizing and it looked beautiful.
“Mona!” I heard Fischl exit my room with Oz beside her, “your dress!” She pointed and then face palmed herself. I turned back and pulled my dress to the side with it. There was a tear in the front, I was so caught up in the scenery I hardly noticed.
“Go to the tailor’s chambers, he’ll probably assist you, but as for your dress, well, it must be embarrassing to loose such a beautiful dress to a loss of footing, I wish the best on your repair.” Fischl shrugged and pointed to the hallway across from the whole Castle. I of course got lost on the first try, but I couldn’t possibly admit that.
I continued shuffling around and pulling up my dress as I thought about my current situation. I firstly had to apologise to Albedo before my sister told him first about the memory thing, and then after getting that done, I’d explore this whole castle from top to bottom. Then I’d flirt my way into Prince Albedo falling for me, not the female lead and I’ll get my happily ever after.
But my current task was to fix my dress, which wasn’t going smoothly—
“Oof,” I immediately bumped into someone after trying to find my way after a good fifteen minutes. I realised there were too many people in this Castle, did the Villainess’s family just invite everyone over or did they just come for fun? The guy who I bumped into didn’t seem like he was really invited or came for fun, in fact he looked quite constipated and annoyed.
“What’s wrong with you?” He immediately growled at me, his eyes were eerie and he stared into my soul with a glare colder than ever.
I wanted to say, “Do you mean what’s wrong with you? You bumped into me.” But I just apologised, because I wanted to make the Villainess’s reputation nice.
“Pfft…falling down the stairs was the first attempt to get a Princes’s attention and now you’re purposely bumping into them too? Pathetic.” He snarled and looked at me.
Prince’s attention? As far as I know there is only one Prince.
Who even is this character?
“Trying to get the Prince’s attention? Wha- who even are you?” I narrowed my eyes in disgust, the nerve of this guy.
“Don’t act dumb it’s not going to work on me. Now be off little girl, you’re annoying to just talk to,” the guy then turned around and carried on with his walk.
Who was this guy?
He called himself a Prince?
He called me a little girl? He was literally shorter than me!
And he walked around the Kingdom so freely?
What if Prince Albedo had a twin…? But they looked nothing alike. He had an ugly bowl cut that kind of extended to a mullet and purple piercing eyes. His face was also extremely and naturally pale. And his clothes, they were black, red and purple, while Albedo’s was a bright white and blue. In this manga, you could clearly tell if they were from the Kingdom if they wore the same fashion designs, like the Maid wearing stars and me wearing stars.
Now that I thought about it, the Kingdom’s symbol was stars, and Albedo’s Kingdom’s symbol was a different type of star (a star with four edges, while the Villainess’s was five stars) , that’s why the Villainess was supposed to get married to him, because they had a long line of friendship and similarity.
But this guy, he had nothing to identify himself at all. Who was he? When did he come here? Why was he here?
I don’t know what got into me, but I found myself running up to him while pulling up my dress so I could catch up to him quickly, “E-excuse me. Wait up! I need to know where the Tailor is right now…? Would you mind showing me the way?” He just scowled to my question.
I was supposed to know this guy, but he looked totally unfamiliar.
Then he just continued walking forward.
“Follow if you want.” And I did, I was just lagging behind because it was way too hard to commute in this type of stuff.
“Ohoho, who do we have here, if it isn’t the old divorced couple,” Once I heard the Tailor’s voice, I absolutely knew who it was, Kaeya the Tailor. He was probably the second most suspicious character in the whole manga but to the Villainess they were supposed to be somewhat friends.
Then I reheard Kaeya’s words, ‘divorced old couple’? What type of relationship did the Villainess have with this guy. And he was a Prince too?
I expected the guy to say, “Don’t call us that” or something because he gave me those kind of vibes but he was completely quiet and then turned around, leaving swiftly.
“What can I do for you Madam?” Kaeya asked and I walked a little more inside his little study. It was full of tons of outfits I adored. And then there was one that caught my eye. A white, long, wedding gown. Why would that be there.
“Madam Megistus?” He asked again.
“O-oh, apologies Kaeya. I wasn’t in the right mind, you know after I fell down those um stairs, I haven’t been myself.” I sat on the stool he indicated for me.
“Care to share these problems?” Kaeya actually seemed a little concerned, weird expression for me, “I’m a good listener,”.
But I did need someone to confide in, since I came here, I’ve just been making a ton of mistakes. “Well…I’d like to know who that guy is. The bowl cut guy. He dropped me off just there.” I got straight to the point, I needed good answers and I needed them around about now. There was no time to waste because stealing the Prince’s heart was going to be hard if I had people like that in the way.
“You don’t remember? He’s Scaramouche, Prince of the Kingdom of Eternity. Scaramouche and Albedo are doing a partnership in their studies and your Kingdom is sponsoring it, that’s why he’s all over the place and the same with Albedo. Perhaps your fall really did affect you.” Kaeya introduced the mysterious guy. Strangely, this guy, Scaramouche did not seem familiar to me. His name was never mentioned in the storyline.
Neither was Kingdom of Eternity.
That made me think, what timeline in the book were we at? The beginning or the middle? Certainly not the end right? I should be dead then…
“Anyway you should probably change into this for the time being, this will help me repair your dress easily.” Kaeya pulled out a petite dress with short bottoms. Although it was hardly my style, I reluctantly agreed to change into it in one of the changing rooms.
“You should visit your Father, he’d be delighted to see that you’re awake and we’ll after the fall.” Kaeya advised as he began sowing and so I took his advice and set out to find my way around this huge Castle.
Of course I still got lost, but it was way easier to get by and I had a little confidence to ask for help now. Although all I was praying for was to not bump into Scaramouche again. The person I needed to bump into was Albedo. He and I needed to spend more time together, although it was the first day, every day counts and helps. This guy will get feelings for me, I believe in myself!
Fortunately I did bump into someone but the opposite of who I wanted to see, and no it wasn’t Scaramouche, it was Sucrose.
The main character.
“A-Ah! I’m so s-sorry my liege, I was in such a rush to get to Prince Albedo, he requested f-for me.” She dropped her glasses and started searching for them on the ground. Notably, she was blind without them.
I crouched down and reluctantly helped her, although this was just making her get to Albedo faster, I could have just threw away her glasses and made her look for it. But I’m not cruel, and like I mentioned, the female lead has never did anything wrong to…well anyone. She’s just too precious for this world so it’d hurt to see her cry.
Oh God, why did you have to make me the Villainess?!