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Chapter 15: A Girl’s Joy and Grief Are Not the Same · Oct 24, 2026

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1 Chapter 1: Isn’t This a Bit Too Early for Total Ruin?! 2026-10-24
2 Chapter 2: Oh, So We’re Raising the Difficulty Now? 2026-10-24
3 Chapter 3: If I Can’t Resist It, I Might As Well Enjoy It 2026-10-24
4 Chapter 4: Doing Good Brings Good Fortune, Right? 2026-10-24
5 Chapter 5: Mysterious Shops Always Have Good Stuff, Right? 2026-10-24
6 Chapter 6: Not Everything Valuable Is Money 2026-10-24
7 Chapter 7: The Banquet Begins! 2026-10-24
8 Chapter 8: The Protagonists Take the Stage! 2026-10-24
9 Chapter 9: Step Onto the Battlefield, Young Man! 2026-10-24
10 Chapter 10: Clever Girls Always Catch On 2026-10-24
11 Chapter 11: When It Comes to Being Despicable, I Win 2026-10-24
12 Chapter 12: There Will Always Be a Butterfly That Flaps Its Wings 2026-10-24
13 Chapter 13: The Protagonist’s Force of Correction! 2026-10-24
14 Chapter 14: So-Called Freebies Always Come with a Surprise 2026-10-24
15 Chapter 15: A Girl’s Joy and Grief Are Not the Same 2026-10-24
16 Chapter 16: Dead End! 2026-10-24
17 Chapter 17: Sudden Crisis! 2026-10-24
18 Chapter 18: Thoughts From a Different Angle 2026-10-24
19 Chapter 19: This Is the Way to Live! 2026-10-24
20 Chapter 20: My Choice! 2026-10-24
21 Chapter 21: The Shadow Beneath 2026-10-24
22 Chapter 22: Dreams Always Reflect Reality 2026-10-24
23 Chapter 23: Aftermath of the Incident 2026-10-24
24 Chapter 24: Words Once Spoken Are Like Water Spilled 2026-10-24
25 Chapter 25: A Dangerous Worldview 2026-10-24
26 Chapter 26: The Black Book’s True Function 2026-10-24
27 Chapter 27: Just One More Round and Then I’ll… 2026-10-24
28 Chapter 28: Preliminary Growth 2026-10-24
29 Chapter 29: A New Plan and the Darkness That Brews 2026-10-24
30 Chapter 30: Over Before It Even Began 2026-10-24
31 Chapter 31: Your Parents Are True Love; You Were an Accident 2026-10-24
32 Chapter 32: A Dislike for Books Might Be Hereditary 2026-10-24
33 Chapter 33: A Familiar Feeling 2026-10-24
34 Chapter 34: The Truth of the Prophetic Dream 2026-10-24
35 Chapter 35: The More You Think, the More Terrifying It Gets 2026-10-24
36 Chapter 36: Time for Your Medicine, Young Master 2026-10-24
37 Chapter 37: People Always Lose the Important Things Without Noticing 2026-10-24
38 Chapter 38: A Perfectly Constructed Despair 2026-10-24
39 Chapter 39: A Maid Who Can Cook Always Gets Bonus Points 2026-10-24
40 Chapter 40: Because of Love 2026-10-24
41 Chapter 41: A Girl’s Little Worry 2026-10-24
42 Chapter 42: An Unexpected Crisis 2026-10-24
43 Chapter 43: Should I Be Happy? 2026-10-24
44 Chapter 44: Self-Sacrifice 2026-10-24
45 Chapter 45: Disgraced 2026-10-24
46 Chapter 46: Exchange 2026-10-24
47 Chapter 47: Master’s Teaching 2026-10-24
48 Chapter 48: The Smile Twists 2026-10-24
49 Chapter 49: Life Is Full of Surpri…ses (Mostly Just Terror) 2026-10-24
50 Chapter 50: The Result of Training 2026-10-24

Celicia sat atop Muen, her slender waist arched, clothes disheveled.

The gown, already halfway slipped off, drooped even lower under the pull of gravity.

Since the “highest peak” had already been crossed, everything that followed now felt inevitable.

And so, more and more dazzling sights flooded straight into Muen’s brain without resistance.

Not good. Not good at all.

This position. This view.

And unlike her usual icy presence, the searing heat that now radiated from Celicia like waves off a sun-scorched field—

Muen felt his brain explode. A rush of heat surged up to his nose. He nearly had a nosebleed.

“Your Highness, please calm down!”

He clamped a hand over his nose—the only part of his body he could still move—and cried out in panic:

“This is about to get really NSFW!”

“Don’t move.”

Celicia’s voice was still cold—but now laced with a sultry edge, a strange, intoxicating timbre that made Muen’s heart waver.

“Don’t... move...”

She leaned down, pinning Muen’s other hand as well.

The sweet scent of a flower-like girl enveloped him.

He still tried to struggle, but the girl on top of him felt like a mountain—he couldn’t budge an inch.

And at last, Muen truly understood the importance of strength.

With strength, he wouldn’t be in this humiliating situation, pinned under a woman and completely unable to resist.

Damn it. If I get out of this alive, I’m gonna train like hell!

“Dragonblood...”

“Huh?”

Celicia suddenly murmured something.

“The potion... it had Dragonblood mixed in. Dragonblood enhances the efficacy of magical compounds...”

“Oh. Uh-huh.”

Muen nodded blankly, absolutely baffled as to why Celicia was giving him a lesson on alchemical composition right now of all times.

Is this some kind of teacher play?

Nope. That just made it worse.

“But... Dragonblood has a trait. It can’t come into contact with... with Serpentgrass. Once it does, it triggers... the Dragonblood’s toxicity.”

Her breaths were getting rougher, her words choppy and uneven.

She kept slipping between lucidity and haze, as if still fighting off the raging poison inside her.

Poison, huh?

Lust-poison.

Suddenly, Muen realized—Celicia hadn’t been talking to him at all.

“That kind of poison... it’s incurable...”

She was talking to herself.

“Incurable, incurable, incurable, incurable, incurable, incurable, incurable... There’s no cure. No antidote.”

She repeated “incurable” over and over. Obsessively.

And with each repetition, Muen saw the desire in her eyes begin to coalesce—like it was becoming something tangible, oozing out like ink.

Was she... trying to convince herself?

“Except—”

Her eyes suddenly regained a sliver of clarity.

She pinned both of Muen’s wrists and locked eyes with him, her flawless face contorted in a fierce, almost feral expression for the first time.

“Muen Campbell. This time... you win.”

“But I swear—this humiliation, I’ll make you pay back tenfold in the future!”

“...Huh?”

Wait.

Future?

Muen hadn’t even processed what she meant when—

Celicia suddenly leaned down and—

Her soft, petal-pink lips crashed onto his.

———

“Mm... ah... Oh my god...”

“I can’t take it anymore!”

“This sensation... this is bad...”

“I’m ascending to heaven—!”

“Patchichi cake is just too good!!”

Ariel stuffed giant pieces of Patchichi cake into her mouth, the sweetness exploding in her brain like fireworks.

Utter bliss.

Her cheeks were puffed up like a hamster’s—so cute it almost hurt to look at her.

But she couldn’t stop.

“You really like Patchichi cake, huh.”

Liya rolled her eyes from the side. “Careful or you’ll give yourself a stomachache.”

“Please. You can’t get a stomachache from Patchichi cake. I’ve literally evolved a new organ just to digest it.”

Ariel patted her tummy proudly. “I call it the Patchichi Stomach. With it, I can eat an infinite amount, no problem!”

While the surrounding nobles were all absorbed in polite conversation, Ariel seized the opportunity to swipe every single piece of Patchichi cake from the long banquet table and hoard them in front of her.

Then, out of a rare moment of generosity, she picked one up and offered it to Liya. “Want some?”

Liya hesitated.

Her family was a lower-ranked noble house. She rarely got to eat anything this luxurious.

But then she glanced down at the majestic mountains she carried on her chest—so big they made her shoulders ache on the {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} daily—and sighed.

“...Better not. I’ve gained weight recently.”

“What?!”

Ariel shoved the cake into her own mouth indignantly. “You’re doing it again! You ungrateful cow! You have no idea how painful my struggle is, do you?!”

“W-what?! ‘Ungrateful cow’ is way too much!”

Liya flushed red with embarrassment—but somehow that just made her look even cuter. Her cheeks were round and pinchable, practically begging for it.

“Oh, still denying it, huh?”

Ariel cracked her fingers menacingly, eyes gleaming like a cat about to pounce.

“Time for punishment! Take this, and this—how’s that, huh?!”

“Ahh—n-no! That tickles! Ariel—people are watching!”

“Exactly! Being watched makes it better! Take that! Hiyah!”

“Mmmph...”

The girls’ playful brawl didn’t disturb the noble lords busy with political maneuvering, but it did catch the attention of some hormone-rattled young aristocrats.

Their eyes wandered a bit too much—then quickly darted away, muttering about “disgraceful behavior” through clenched teeth.

Only to peek again a moment later.

“Okay, that’s enough.”

After a while, Liya slapped away Ariel’s roaming hands, cheeks pink, eyes narrowed.

“You were supposed to be looking for Princess Celicia. What the hell are you doing stuffing your face with cake?”

“It’s fine. I’ll find her later. It wasn’t anything urgent, I just wanted to ask her something about swordsmanship.”

“If I miss her today, I’ll catch her at the Academy.”

“But I saw Her Highness leave with Muen Campbell. They haven’t come back yet—sure that’s not a problem?”

“I saw them too!”

Ariel frowned, pouting.

Just thinking about that guy irritated her.

Acting all high and mighty just because he came from some big-shot family—always making her life harder at the Academy.

And worst of all—he was Princess Celicia’s fiancé.

That bastard! What right does he have?!

Princess Celicia is MINE!

“...Still, I’m sure it’s fine.”

Ariel shook off her annoyance.

“At this kind of formal event, it’s hard to say no if someone like Muen Campbell invites you. It’s not her fault. Blame his damned dad for being loaded.”

“Aren’t you even worried he’ll try something... indecent?” Liya teased with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.

“Pfft, please. Muen Campbell’s the kind of guy who can’t even beat me in a fight.”

Ariel snorted.

“Like he could do anything improper to Her Highness. If he even tried, Princess Celicia would’ve flattened him into the floor before he could blink!”

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