Chapter 2

"You will spend the next two years learning the techniques to protect this country as magicians."

Today is the opening ceremony.

On the podium, the principal is giving a speech.

While letting the speech wash over her, Mina was thinking about this world.

"Marie and the Secret Magician"

This was a dating game that Mina played in her previous life.

The story was a typical one where the commoner Marie, who entered this academy, falls in love with princes and high-ranking nobles while learning magic. The game was very popular due to its beautiful visuals, and official spin-off novels and comics based on it were released.

However, the content of the novel was shocking—Marie, the game's heroine, ended up with all the potential love interests, known as the reverse harem ending. It turned out that she was a 'witch' who used enchantment magic.

To break the enchantment, the caster had to die, and Marie was executed.

But in her final moments, the witch Marie cast a 'curse' on the country.

As a result, a plague spread throughout the country, and monsters increased in number.

The spin-off novel takes place about five years after the witch Marie's execution.

The heroine, Roselia, enters the magic academy, awakens to the power of a saint, and fights monsters alongside the second prince to bring peace to the country, eventually marrying the prince.

The shocking setting of the heroine being executed in the dating game caused a stir among fans when it was first released... However, the novel was well-received because it carefully depicted the struggles of the main hero, the first prince, and his younger brother, the second prince, who were the cause of the curse.

Mina, in her previous life, had read both the novel and the comic.

(To be reincarnated into that world... and as the villainous noble daughter...)

Mina, also known as Wilhelmina, is the daughter of the Marquis Formar, who is the chancellor, and the fiancée of the second prince.

She cannot tolerate the second prince and the heroine growing closer, so she harasses and tries to harm the heroine. In the end, she is arrested for attempting to harm the saint and is exiled from the noble society, becoming a commoner.

(...But I'm already a commoner, right?)

Mina tilted her head in thought.

Indeed, Mina was once Wilhelmina Formar, the daughter of a marquis.

But after an accident eight years ago, she left her home... and today, she is enrolling as a commoner named Mina.

Of course, she is not the prince's fiancée, and she has never met him.

(Hmm... I wonder what this means...)

As she let her gaze wander, she caught sight of a girl with light pink hair.

—That rare hair color.

She must be the "heroine."

So, she does exist.

And...

Mina looked up at the podium again.

The second prince Alphonse, as the representative of the new students, began his speech.

(That's... the person who might have been my fiancé.)

His hair was as red as burning flames, and his eyes were black with intelligence.

His mature face already had the dignity and grace of a king at the age of sixteen.

In the novel, Alphonse and Wilhelmina's engagement was related to the witch.

One of the characters who fell under the enchantment was the son of the then-chancellor.

Even after the enchantment was broken, the enchanted individuals did not regain their former status, and the chancellor was ousted due to his son's involvement and subsequent mishandling of the situation.

Wilhelmina's father, the Marquis Formar, succeeded him as the new chancellor.

At that time, the crown prince, Hartwig, was stripped of his title as a form of taking responsibility and is now the deputy leader of the magic corps, which is at the forefront of monster hunting.

The second prince Alphonse is now seen as the next king.

By engaging Alphonse and the daughter of the new chancellor in a marriage, they aim to strengthen their power—essentially a political marriage.

(But I left home before my father became chancellor...)

Does the prince have a fiancée now?

Mina, who had lived in an orphanage in the countryside, had deliberately avoided information about the noble society, so she had no idea about the current situation.

(Well... anyway. Since the prince and the saint heroine exist, peace will surely come. I'm just a commoner... I'll try to live my school life without getting involved with them.)

As she watched Alphonse give his speech, Mina made this resolution.