chapter 2

I’m Victoria Emerald .

The youngest daughter of Duke Emerald . A child of one of the three Great Dukes Houses .

Such I have remembered the memories of my previous life on my third birthday .

Although I say that, they were memories of an ordinary office lady .

The age of death was twenty-eight .

I kept working from early morning until late night, it appears I died from overwork .

I have unexpectedly died young, didn’t I?

Only such impression came out .

And then, since the day I have recalled my previous life, I have had strange dreams every night .

Dreams that can be considered my future .

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The first dream I saw was about the Crown Prince, First Prince Cyrus von Crystal, who declared his love to a girl with blonde hair whom I believe to be the heroine, Marietta .

My dream began at the high school entrance ceremony of the Royal Academy where Prince Cyrus met the one year younger Marietta .

Prince Cyrus fell in love at first sight with Marietta whom he coincidentally met, and he looked after her who became a freshman .

Marietta was also gradually attracted to the gentle Prince Cyrus .

She has contracted a spirit of light, but as a daughter of a baron, her social status was low .

As the country’s Crown Prince, he is to marry a girl of matching social status who will later become the Queen .

The real intention was to secure Marietta as the Second Prince’s or Third Prince’s bride .

Accordingly, the one who became the Crown Prince’s fiancee was the daughter of Duke Emerald――Me .

Victoria is seven years younger than the Crown Prince, but it’s not that much of age difference, so there wasn’t a problem .

Under the King’s Royal Edict, Prince Cyrus’ and Victoria’s engagement was formed .

While weeping, Marietta was separated from him .

It was such ordinary love story-like dream .

After the engagement had been formed, Prince Cyrus continued to meet Marietta in secret, while treating his official fiancee Victoria coldly .

In an instant, Victoria got the villainess daughter position!?

Although I thought so, Victoria has never resorted to bullying .

That’s because Victoria has not even enrolled into the school after all .

I’m omitting various things, but after that, Victoria died in an unexpected accident .

Taking the opportunity of the confusion, Prince Cyrus and Marietta got engaged and later married .

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This was definitely an intentional accident, wasn’t it?

To have an accident at such time, isn’t it too convenient!?

They have killed Victoria, didn’t they?

I had such thoughts about the dream .

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The next night, I dreamed about the Second Prince Linus and Marietta .

Prince Linus who’s of the same age as Marietta met her at the entrance ceremony and fell in love .

Because Marietta has contracted with a spirit, the engagement between Prince Linus and Marietta was quickly arranged .

However, the noble ladies of the high houses who aimed at the peerage of the princes started bullying Marietta .

Somehow, for some reason, Victoria has been treated as the ringleader of the bullying .

They weren’t pleased with Marietta, but because Victoria has just enrolled into the elementary school, the noble ladies ended up using her name to bully .

They were, in fact, false accusations .

Because Victoria was the best candidate to become the fiancee of one of the princes, she became a thorn in the side to the noble ladies who were aiming for the princes .

She was an existence they wanted to get rid of together with Marietta if possible .

The villainous acts became a problem when Marietta became officially engaged to Prince Linus, and she was convicted with nonexistent evidence .

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No, no, why did it turn out like that!?

There’s no way a nine years old Victoria can be the mastermind behind bullying, right!?

Victoria of that time has not even met Marietta, right?

It’s unreasonable in various ways!

…… I was loaded with tsukkomis, but it was a dream, so there wasn’t anything I could do .

The next night, I dreamed about my elder brother Wilfried and Marietta .

The day after that, it was a dream about the Knight Commander’s son and Marietta .

Marietta stays as the heroine without change, but the male capture targets change one after another .

It was almost as if I was seeing the individual capture routes of an Otome Game .

There were many capture targets .

The First Prince .

The Second Prince .

The Prime Minister’s son and heir to a Duke House .

The Prime Minister’s second son .

The son of the Knight Commander and an heir to a Duke House .

The son of the Magic Principal and heir to a Duke House .

The son of the Medical Principal and heir to a Marquis House .

The King’s younger brother who’s a teacher at the academy .

The second son of Count who is an Imperial Guard .

A commoner who contracted a spirit .

The Third Prince of the neighboring country .

A close associate of the neighboring country’s prince and heir to a Count House .

Why are there so many capture targets!?

What are you trying to doーーー!!

I who cried out shouldn’t be at fault .

Furthermore, there are still even more people!

Seriously, how many are there!

In the dream I see every night, I――Victoria also appear .

My futures are many――

Breaking off the engagement, ruin, exile, confinement, slavery, accidental death, assassination, execution……

Where did my peace go!?

There were only such futures .

I despaired over my expected future .

I’m checkmated……

No matter how I see it, I’m checkmated .

Even though I’m not a villainess who bullies the heroine, but just a supporting character who got involved, all of the routes lead to my destruction .