I’m a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 3

Translator : Missme Editor : Aru

I didn’t know what was going on.

There’s no reason for Yerine, who can’t use magic, to have so many magic books.

Besides, I can’t believe she wrote all of this with all her heart. The more I looked, the less I understood.

Confused, I took out all the books under the floor and opened them.

And in every book, there was a trace of Yerine.

From what Yerine wrote, it was not that she did not have a low understanding of magic. Rather, it was clear that her knowledge of magic was quite high.

‘She may not be able to use magic, but she may have been strong theoretically. Even so, is this really possible……’

I had a confused mind.

I opened the thin book in my hand.

When I opened it, the small fold of the page popped out.

There were numerous asterisks on the page as if Yerine esteemed this part greatly.

“Let me see…..fire magic……I see.”

I gazed through the magic circle that looked strangely like the phoenix.

But that doesn’t mean I could use the magic, I had no idea of magic.

Eventually, I covered the book and walked slowly to the bed, and laid on it lazily.

‘I mean, I could tell she knows how to use magic.’

Then why has she remained the same so far without any rebellion?

I could only sigh.

I found out that the original owner of this body knows how to use magic, but I don’t know how to do it.

In other words, there was nothing I could do to avoid losing the position as successor.

“Aish”

I swore, took off the eyepatch and threw it into the back of the room.

When the cool cold air touched my left eye, I felt much lighter than before.

I closed my eyes again and organized my thoughts.

‘Anyways, if Yerine can use magic, then maybe I just need to figure out how to do it.’

If I keep looking into Yerine’s scripts, I might get a little hint.

Seeing that the books were all dealing with the Magic Circle, I thought I could use magic using the Magic Circle.

‘In movies or cartoons, if you draw a magic circle and memorize a spell, magic will be activated.’

I got up right away and sat in front of the desk and opened the book. And I copied the magic circle on the paper that was rolling on the desk.

“Oh, this is so complicated……”

About 10 minutes later, a magic circle with a pretty shape was completed, even though it was not perfect as shown in the book.

I left it because I thought magic would work if I finished drawing, but nothing happened for a few minutes.

“I think I must do something, too…..”

I opened the book again and looked at the explanation. However, there was only an explanation of the magic circle itself, but it did not give any hints about how to activate it.

There was no such thing as a spell to memorize.

“Oh, my…”

I tried blowing wind on the paper, flipped the paper over, but there was still no response.

Finally, I went back to bed.

After supporting my head with my hands clenched, I lay languidly and muttered while looking at the ceiling.

“But it’s a pretty elaborate drawing, but…..That’s too bad……”

Obviously, the magic circle was pretty complicated.

The image of the Magic Circle remained clear in my head, perhaps because I had followed it so hard.

The moment I was about to cross my legs, thinking of a sophisticated magic team, a bright light came up with the sound of a bang and shone in the room.

“Hmm?”

As I raised my head, I could see the sparks on the corner of the bed blazing and wriggling.

“Wha, what is that!”

Screaming with fright, I jumped out of bed like a madman.

In the meantime, the flames continued to devour bed sheets, burning more and more brightly.

I tried to put out the flames by grabbing off the blanket that had gathered in the corner.

It was not until several times that the flame had been covered with a blanket then the flame began to fade, and it lost its strength and went out quietly.

I stood alone in the room, shakingly, and took a breath.

“What the hell is going on…..”

I said looking at the darkened bed that has been burnt down.

Why is it suddenly on the flame? It hasn’t been long since I was possessed, but I almost died again.

Only then did an idea pass through my mind.

‘Fire magic.’

I turned my back as if I was possessed, and looked at the magic circle on the desk.

When the flames came up, I definitely thought of a magic circle in my head.

“It’s memorized in the head.”

At that moment, just like when I first visited the room, the knowledge Yerine had accumulated over the years about magic flowed into the head.

Fireworks, water, earth, air, magic using the Big Four elements of the spades, and even information about magic.

I was amazed at the amount and depth of knowledge that Yerine had accumulated.

But all the information that came into the head was related to magic.

No other memory of Yerine, which had nothing to do with magic, flowed in at all.

‘When I first visited the room, did some of her memories flow into me?’

Or maybe it’s just a random return of some memory.

I’m not sure which is right yet, so I’ll have to wait a little longer.

“If I had been able to recover the entire memory at once, it would have been easier to grasp the situation, but it’s a shame.’

Then, I could feel a slight warmth in the left eye.

It didn’t hurt, but it felt like my eyelids were slightly heated.

And the moment I inadvertently looked at the mirror hanging on the wall, I noticed that my left eye was emitting subtly more reddish than it had just been.

“What is it? It’s…?”

One eye suddenly gets hot and the colour changes. It was strange no matter how I looked at it.

‘Is it because of magic?

No matter how much I thought about it, that seemed to be the only cause.

“Let’s do it one more time.”

Just like I did just now, I came up with a magic unit in my head.

This time in the hope of not burning the bed.

“Oh.”

Fortunately, there was a spark on my hand this time. But the flame burning on my hand felt only lukewarm to me.

In addition, I felt a similar heat in my left eye.

“So what if I close the left eye, can I use magic?”

Eventually, with my left eye closed and my hands forward, I came up with the magic circle in my head as before. But there was no spark in the hand, and no change in the left eye.

I read the book again to see if I memorized the magic team wrong, but the result was the same.

Only then did I realize.

The reason why she couldn’t use magic in the original was that she covered her left eye.

“Why the hell did you…”

She could use magic as well as anyone else if she took off her eye patch.

Nevertheless, what is the point of not doing so?

Then I saw something glistening on the floor under the secret door.

“What is it?”

As I bent back and entered through the secret door, I saw a box that I had not found before.

When I took out the box, the gold decorations on the box glistened.

It was obvious that she kept something important.

As I lifted the lid of the box slightly, I saw a ring lying in the middle of the velvet cushion.

On the beautiful opal, emitting a curious light, there was a finely engraved gold pattern, presumed to be spade’s crest.

“Wow…”

As I looked around the ring, a small piece of paper fluttered out between the rings.

When I lifted up the paper that had fallen to the floor, the familiar handwriting that filled the space of the book welcomed me.

‘This should not be taken away.’

“This is…”

A thing that only a true spade family member can have.

It was the ring of Gaza.

‘You must not take it out, La.’

No wonder that’s what I thought Yerine’s desperation was.

I couldn’t easily ignore the message on the piece of paper, as it seemed to be contained.

‘She was so desperate, and suddenly she lost everything….’

I looked at the ring on my hand and thought to myself.

I then held the ring in my hand and hugged it tightly, muttering to myself.

“I’ll make sure, I’ll protect it.”

***

In a rattling carriage. I kept my head down as if I was dead.

Looking next to me, I could see Leon Postade, the blonde in question, sitting with a smile on his face as usual.

“Yes, when you get to the capital–”

Leon’s mother-in-law, or my prospective mother-in-law, sitting across, was still looking down at me with a face that she didn’t like anything in the world.

Leon’s brother, Fernand, with his devilish smile, excitedly talked to his brother.

“Then you can see other nobles, right, brother?”

The three of them were treating me like a nobody.

Even the costume was like that. Both Fernand and Countess Postade, dressed in dazzling clothes full of all kinds of ornaments.

Today’s main character, Leon, was wearing a luxurious outfit mixed with red and gold, with a large gold ring with the Spade’s crest on his hand.

On the other hand, all I had was a dull black cape wrapped around my whole body.

To the abominably, not only Leon, Countess Postade and Fernand Spade also use a little ornament with Spade’s crest on it.

When I was lowering my head, thinking it was ridiculous, Countess Postade slapped my foot with her pointed shoes.

“Hey, don’t be dazed. If things go wrong today, you’ll get done first.”

From kicking a person who stays still with high heels, the etiquette of the upper class seems to have gone awry.

“Mother, don’t worry. We’ve already told the organizers, and Yerine just needs to do what we said.”

“It’s because she’s stupid. This mother wouldn’t have worried about this if she were half good as much as you.”

Leon also focused more on reassuring his mother than worrying about me, who was kicked with her shoes.

‘Let’s hang in there a little bit.’

Thinking so, I clenched my fists in my hands.

“Still it is fine, Mother. If she can’t even do that one thing, then she’s not even a real human being!”

said Fernand with a smile.

Then Leon grasped my arm and smiled.

“No. Yerine is nice and listens to me well. You can do it, right?”

I thought I wanted to spit at his voice.

I forced up my facial muscles, which were not moving well and smiled slightly.

And in a slightly hoarse voice, I spoke clearly.

“Yes, I can do it well.”

“Yeah.”

After glancing at Leon, who smiled broadly and focused on their conversation again, I dropped my head.

The shaggy purple hair blocked my view.

Everyone would have thought I was stupidly zoning out.

However, behind it, I was smiling.

Because I felt so happy about what was going to happen.

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