The villainess and the heroine hm? This is an excellent development.

Randomly stumbled across this. It combines two things I love very much - otomekai and yuri, and I do not have anywhere near enough of this in my life. I'm most probably going to love this, and I'm absolutely loving the developments of these three chapters. I'm in the villainess camp, personally.

Also why the fuck is the art so good?

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I have sinned, for I am shipping her not with the villainess. I am sure to be disappointed

Natori will have to romance the devil and the angel sitting on her shoulders

That said, I think Diana is unlikely to succeed with Natori, simply because "villainess" is in the title, and she is not

Natori will have to romance the devil and the angel sitting on her shoulders

That said, I think Diana is unlikely to succeed with Natori, simply because "villainess" is in the title, and she is not

Yeah, I think so too. Natori will end up with Lapis by the end of the story.

I wonder if Diana has a last name. The duel in chapter 2 was announced as "Diana vs Tenebrae", and in chapter 3 the teacher addressed them as Diana and Lady Tenebrae. What's up with that?

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I think it said she graduated 3 years ago, so it would probably make her around 21 years old? In which case this makes the story a liiiiiittle bit odd. Still like the overall plot tho!

It's been quite fun yes.

Though to answer the question the author has directly stated that Natori is 25.
https://twitter.com/nekotarou0721/status/1551918494551527425

Also Natori is 165cm (About 5'5) and Lapis is 185cm (Close to 6'1)
https://twitter.com/nekotarou0721/status/1623592542909636613

I think it said she graduated 3 years ago, so it would probably make her around 21 years old? In which case this makes the story a liiiiiittle bit odd. Still like the overall plot tho!

The age gap does make things a bit awkward to know. I suppose it's still somewhat acceptable so long as she isn't old enough to be their mothers.

Anyways, more yuri villainess stories are welcome. Lady Lapis herself is so beautifully drawn, kind of reminds me of Shizuma from Strawberry Panic.

I... Wouldnt really call it acceptable. All 15 year olds I know behave pretty immaturely.

I wonder if Diana has a last name. The duel in chapter 2 was announced as "Diana vs Tenebrae", and in chapter 3 the teacher addressed them as Diana and Lady Tenebrae. What's up with that?

It varies from culture to culture, but many pre-modern societies didn't have surnames for the general populace and some fictional works tend to use that as a shorthand to delineate the character's standing in the general social hierarchy. Diana, coming from a common background, doesn't have a surname as a result, while Lapis is referred to by the name of her noble house.

It may be possible for either our heroine or Diana to gain a last name if they become nobility, depending on the setting.

Will the MC end up seducing the Prince or will he be an enemy?

You know I should dislike Diana because she's trying to come between our two leads. But I think she's super sweet and hope she can get some kind of happy ending as well by the end <3

Sooo, Love Triangle tag?? Or are we closing in on the Harem tag with the Prince possibly joining the fray?

Also, I think she's experiencing every gacha game self-insert's fantasy.

Waiting for Harem tag to be added. Put the prince in it too, I don’t care. She’s gonna make all the characters fall for her just like in ‘My Next Life as a Villainess’. BET.

Every time this updates I freak out, thank you so much for translating this!

You know I should dislike Diana because she's trying to come between our two leads. But I think she's super sweet

I feel the same. I like her character, which is adorable, yet not her role. Although I do hope she'll remain no more than a close friend. At the same time, if we're talking about her role, given Lapis and Natori's personalities, Diana will eventually do something for sure.

Will the MC end up seducing the Prince or will he be an enemy?

A guy whose introduction is a princess carry of the MC ? An enemy to the readers, at least, for sure.

office lady would've died if she saw Lapis's troubled blushing

"When did this become a self-insert game...?"

This line is made of win.

Poor MC, the last thing she wants to be is a Mary Sue... yet the heroine just said "Suki!" to her, and she's been inadvertently winning the heart of the villainess, and now she has accidentally started the romantic route with the prince.

Has she isekai-ed into the universe of the game, or the universe of a Mary Sue's fanfiction of self-satisfaction? It's a perfectly valid question.

the prince is an enemy to all women by taking up valuable pages that could be showing more lesbian flirting

I think it said she graduated 3 years ago, so it would probably make her around 21 years old? In which case this makes the story a liiiiiittle bit odd. Still like the overall plot tho!

Graduated from college?

the prince is an enemy to all women by taking up valuable pages that could be showing more lesbian flirting

So true

the prince is an enemy to all women by taking up valuable pages that could be showing more lesbian flirting

truer words have never been spoken

I would much appreciate if this did not turn into a bi-harem. Bakarina has that frustrating niche covered completely, utterly, to the brim.

The next chapter may determine then what kind of story this really is. Knowing the conventions of the villainess genre it may even go down the road that the prince himself is more evil or problematic than the game originally revealed. These plots tend to give the villainess more context that shows their antagonistic actions had more reason to them and in return the heroine or male love interests can often be considered more grey than before.

On a side-note, it appears that Lapis plans may have had a more reasonable origin here, with her fear of the anti-noble faction being the root cause of her villainous path later on. I cannot see her being truly against commoners in general, not from the way she considers things right now. And if my narrative prediction is not completely off, her childhood friend may either have been negatively involved with commoners, or was a commoner herself. Character motivations, we got them.