The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 349: Evangeline 349

”Seriously, stop it! You’re drawing more attention to yourself by acting like this.”

”What does it matter? I can’t be the eminence in the shadows anymore anyway, nothing makes sense.”

There I was, looking at the beautiful sky, or so I assumed, since I had bandages on. Everything was as dark as my future.

Sure, I think I’m drawing attention to myself, but so what? Everything had gone wrong, and I could no longer be an eminence. Now I was like everyone else, a person who is not an eminence in the shadows.

”Stop being so dramatic. You’re embarrassing me. Where are your girlfriends? Because I’m the one who has to deal with you!”

”Up ahead, a little to the left. Besides, you don’t have to... just leave me here. What does it matter? Maybe this way I’ll turn into an irrelevant stone and have a chance to be the eminence again.”

I was in an existential void, being dragged by the foot by Silvia.

Originally, I just wanted to lie on the ground until I turned into a stone, but Silvia started dragging me because we were all moving towards the crack now that this hazing was over.

”Haaah~ well, get all the attention you want, what does it matter. Anyway, the whole academy thinks you’re crazy; let the rest do it, it doesn’t matter, to begin with, what you wanted was impossible.”

”You heartless woman, stop crushing my dreams and hopes.”

”Haaah~ What did I do wrong to get tangled up with a fool like you? Well, I’m only dragging you because I want to talk seriously about Eve-Evangeline, that she did that thing that made-.”

Click!.

”Hey!, stop that! Any mention of that is taboo! Why do you keep bringing her up? Get over it! I already said I won’t do it, ugh!.”

I don’t understand Silvia’s obsession with that woman. She doesn’t even really know her. More importantly, if she wants to take me with her anyway, I’d at least like her to carry me; going down stairs while being dragged hurts.

”This is serious, we have to help her, she’s our friend.”

”You’re wrong! That’s on the alternate timeline, and just as I decided to befriend a ruthless yandere who doesn’t carry me, I’ve also decided not to get involved with that woman.”

”I’m not going to carry you. Look, the problem is that you’re Chris, right? So just do it as Seraphina. You know very well that any attempt as a woman won’t work, so what you fear won’t happen.”

”Yes, that was more or less the situation with Cordelia, and look how that turned out. I’m not taking any chances.”

”But we’re avoiding a tragedy. How can you just stand by and do nothing? I know very well that you liked her as much as I did.”

”Ugh, that’s true, but it doesn’t matter. She has potential, and she’ll still be there. Even if we avoid it, it could happen later, even of her own free will.”

”And I already told you to let go of your prejudices. Even Chris is fine, you’re not even that handsome. As long as you don’t use your tricks, you’ll be fine, and nothing will happen.”

”Tricks? What tricks?”

”Well, using your future knowledge to win her over, like you’ve been doing.”

”Huh, me?”

”Stop playing dumb. Otherwise, how did you manage to win over and catch so many girls when, miraculously, Elena took pity on you on the other line?”

Well, she has a point, but when I think about it... Elena’s case helped me a little, but only because it taught me to be more decisive and direct, shortening the time it took us to form a relationship.

With Alice, honestly, I had some things planned, but that was after starting the academy, and in my male form.

Helping her, well, that was Elena, but getting involved with her ahead of time and being able to start something even though I was a woman is something that still surprises me.

It’s true that I was going to take advantage of weaknesses and things I knew, like her fear of snakes that no one else knew about, to win her over, but in the end it wasn’t necessary.

In fact, I’ve seen her destroy colossal snakes, which made me wonder if my alternate self had been wrong.

With Selene, well, I didn’t have anything planned; winning over Eira was the same as winning her over, but everything went wrong with Eira from the start.

I gave up because at the time I saw they as a two-for-one, but Selene sought me out for her account and although there were some questionable things, we began our beautiful relationship.

The same with Astrid. I had something elaborate planned, but I couldn’t control myself and ruined all my plans.

When her butt tempted me, I ruined it... but I ruined it successfully, because it turned out better than any long-term plan I had.

Going back to Eira, any plan was long gone, and she was more of an annoying sister-in-law than someone I would try anything with.

But then there was the whole thing with Lily’s revelations and solution, which seemed to understand us better than we understood ourselves, and it was the right thing to do.

And with Lily, I couldn’t do anything even if I wanted to, since she wasn’t someone my alternate self knew, and even though she’s only a pseudo-member, the same goes for Aurora, who I only know from what I’ve heard about her.

And finally, Cordelia and Lys. In fact, with those two, I had been using tricks and future knowledge to add them to my harem, but with Lys, it hasn’t worked yet; she’s very dense, like a female William.

Although I feel like the time is coming... her density isn’t going to stop me.

And Cordelia: no tricks worked, and she was so difficult to understand that I almost gave up.

Now I know that future knowledge was more of a disadvantage than anything else in her case.

’Yes, come to think of it, I’ve never been successful with my plans, or tricks, hmm, it’s funny now that I think about it,’

I explained this to Silvia, who was mercilessly dragging me along, and now we were on a gravel road.

”Seriously.”

”Very seriously. I’m really surprised we hadn’t talked about this, but seriously, all this time you thought I used manipulation, tricks, and lies, relying on my future knowledge?”

”Yes.”

”Hey, it hurts that you think that about your best friend forever.”

”...you really want me to believe that you didn’t use dirty tricks or anything from the future to get all those beautiful girls to do something illogical, like belong to the harem of... well, something like you.”

”Hey, what kind of way is that to put it? Well, you heard me. I won’t deny that there were some dirty tricks, but not with knowledge of the future.”

”Really?”

Apparently, Silvia had misjudged me and had the wrong idea about me all this time. And she’s not wrong: it’s true that I came up with plans and other things to make my harem at the beginning of the year, but honestly, almost nothing had worked.

I never told her about the circumstances under which I began my current relationships, and she was taking Cordelia and Lys as a guide, since we often made plans together for them and in her case for Willian, using future knowledge, and that’s where her thinking came from.

I didn’t really use much knowledge of the future, other than simple things like knowing their tastes and such. And it’s true that there were dirty tricks sometimes, but in the end I was always sincere with them.

I even told Alice that it wasn’t me who saved her when we first met, but even so, my beautiful sunshine didn’t mind and forgave me.

”Oh!, by the way, back to Cordelia: we started dating the day before we left, I haven’t had time to tell you. I want some advice from another potential yandere, but listen, she’s only potential; I think she can still be treated the way I’m trying with you.”

”Stop getting me involved in this. I can’t give you any advice because I’m definitely not one. If you need it, why don’t you go and ask Alice?”

”Alice... why Alice? What does she have to do with it?”

”(≖_≖) Are you playing dumb? No, I’m not getting involved in that... back to Evangeline—I really don’t understand what you’re thinking... but are you really not going to help her? She didn’t deserve something like this. Knowing what’s going to happen, I can’t just stand by and do nothing.”

”Damn it, Silvia. Haah~ you’re really not going to give up, are you?”

”You’re the one acting weird. She’s a kind and gentle person, our friend.”

”Haah~ my friend, eh? I guess you think that way because all you know is how far you’ll go to self-destruct with William, because you were a shy yandere who never told him how she felt, right?”

”I swear I’m going to throw something at you... ah, wait! —Did anything else happen after that? Was she alive after all? Did she do anything to you?”

”Hmm, not really. I don’t want to get involved for exactly the reason you think.”

”But—”

”Wait, but that’s not all, you’re right, she didn’t die. The story is a bit long... rather, you don’t want any more memories? It’s easier to explain that way.”

”No, I already told you I don’t want any memories of you; I’ve had more than enough. You said that after that, everything got worse and worse.... That’s crazy.”

”Come on, don’t be a coward. Those who reject valuable information can’t always see the future, you know?”

”I reject it, and it was really hard for me to process what you gave me. I don’t know how your mind works... both the you from the alternate future who lived through all that, and the you from now, who acts like nothing happened even though you have so many memories that would break anyone’s mind. You’re an idiot, but I have to admit that not everyone can do it.”

”Hmmm, are you insulting me or praising me? Make up your mind. Haah... well, at first I didn’t have all the memories I have now; otherwise, I would have really gone crazy from the start. Well, now I have the girls, so everything is easier to handle.”

”...”

”Anyway, let’s not get melancholic. Since you don’t want me to give you my memories, I’ll summarize it for you: as I said, she didn’t die; she became more powerful and then became world famous. Later, I met up with her again...”

”...then she—”

”Haah~she was no longer the person we once knew. She did things you can’t even imagine. She was beyond salvation, and, well, on Aleoria’s orders, I had to hunt her down... and I, with my own hands, was the one who killed her in the end.”