A Third-Rate Villain’s Sweet Life Exploiting Academy Bugs – Chapter 13

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Wjin
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In , ‘Liris Larochelle’ was undoubtedly a villain.

Until the middle chapters, she didn’t hesitate to use any means and methods to corrupt various people around her.

However, as the classic rule of boys’ comics goes, today’s villain is tomorrow’s ally.

Ultimately, she fell for Edwin’s acceptance and kindness, becoming a harem member.

Until then, she would feed them sweet potatoes and betray them, and Edwin would trust her again…

She is a character that causes significant disagreement among readers due to her impure relationship.

However, no matter what, she cannot be discarded as she becomes a decisive force in later developments.

Meeting her suddenly here was an unexpected situation, but…

For now, there was no need to be afraid.

On the surface, she and I were allies.

Liris probably thought that I had been consumed by the pendant and that a demon’s mark had been engraved on my body.

Or she might have doubted why I hadn’t already become a demon, according to the original story.

However, she didn’t know the future like I did.

In the end, if she planned to use me as an experimental subject for demonization, she wouldn’t cause significant harm to me right away.

“I’m tired, so get lost.”

When I answered gruffly and went my way, she approached me again and grabbed my hand with both hands.

“…?”

“I was worried about you even after you left the student council like that…”

“But I’m here, right? I was the only one who kept believing in you.”

And then she kept whispering in my ear.

“Is it still… not enough…?”

“You don’t have to hold back…”

“You want revenge, don’t you?”

Her tone was as if she was urging me to blacken right now.

At her brainwashing that rang in my head, I felt a strange sense of deja vu.

“Phew…”

Wow, what a terrible person.

When I came to think of it, I was annoyed that my entrance fee had been taken away, and my body was tired right now.

I started getting angry with this annoying person sticking to me and buzzing like a mosquito.

I was going to send her off nicely since it was a good day, but I guess it won’t work.

-Smack!

I roughly brushed off Liris’s hand.

“Hey, stop spouting nonsense and get lost if you’re not going to take responsibility.”

“…?”

She seemed taken aback by my unexpected reaction momentarily and stepped back slightly.

“Do you know that you ruined my life?”

Acting like a madman was best since my dignity had already gone to hell.

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“…Right now, junior… what did you say to me…”

Liris judged that Lev Denec was a twisted person.

More than his personal abilities, she highly valued that their interests aligned, at least for a while, in the direction she was pursuing.

Crucially, he was a disposable pawn that would be used and thrown away by Liris.

In other words, he had to be the one being used.

“……”

Although she was well aware that Lev Denec was an unprecedented ruffian, until recently, he was in such a low position that he would cling to her skirt and beg.

A loyal dog who would indeed die if Liris ordered him to.

‘A dog that bites its owner isn’t cute…’

For now, Liris collected herself and attempted to have a conversation.

“Junior, your words lack manners today. I clearly told you that I don’t like impolite kids…”

“Manners? You should mind your manners. You boasted that you would make that bastard Edwin win, didn’t you? Huh?”

He breathed roughly and soon began to go berserk.

“So when are you going to make him awaken? Do you think I invested all of my entrance fee to trust this dog shit?”

-Plop.

He tore off the pendant hanging around his neck and threw it at Liris’s chest.

“I’m the only one who got kicked out of the dormitory and is about to be expelled!”

“Haa…”

Her hands trembled.

What kind of insubordination was this?

It was almost enough to make her laugh a little.

Getting kicked out of the dormitory or being expelled was his fault, right?

Moreover, Lev Denec had a weaker vessel than she thought.

Therefore, he was a weakling who needed a medium to be demonized.

“…”

However, the pendant he threw didn’t have a hint of power or magic.

In other words, the mark had been appropriately transferred to Lev Denec.

But seeing him come here and argue so unscathed,

it was clear that something had gone a little twisted.

‘A mixed-blood junior dares to…’

Like a dog in heat, his unreasonable whining was even more absurd than Liris had judged.

What should she do?

Should she imprint his position with a sharp whip, or was it the correct answer to soothe and comfort him?

Liris put the pendant back around his neck and moved her lips so it wouldn’t come off.

“Ju… Junior? Let’s wait a little? We promised to do that…”

“Enough, fuck! I won’t do it either. If you come out like this, I’ll expose you too.”

“Ex…pose?”

“Yeah, you came here to steal academy property and sell it, and to launder money. Did you think I wouldn’t know?”

“……”

“You asked me why I was here, right? Shall I tell you the reason? Because I don’t want to die alone. I thought I should catch something too.”

He began to giggle like crazy.

Liris couldn’t reasonably predict what kind of expression she was making.

“Why are you making that face? Shall I go and ask Mr. Gut right now?”

Mr. Gut was the pawnbroker’s real name.

Knowing that meant he wasn’t just a superficial acquaintance either.

‘When, since when did he know?’

“Why are you so surprised? You’re the one who got me elected to the student council, right?”

When he entered the student council, he was just a student councilor.

Then, he shouldn’t have had the authority to check the books.

-Thud!

“Ugh!”

At that moment, Lev firmly pushed Liris against a wall.

“I have nothing to lose now. I’m about to be expelled, and starting next week, I’ll be kicked out of the dormitory and have to sleep on the streets, you know?”

His eyes were crazy, and he began to poke Liris’s temples in time with the words he spat out.

“Didn’t you know that messing with a guy who has nothing would fuck you up? Since I’m going to be expelled anyway, should we expose all of the corruption and die together?”

“Junior… that’s…”

It was a tremendous humiliation.

Even though she was on the verge of losing her sanity, she forcibly suppressed the surging stress and uttered the words.

“…Okay, calm down, junior… Listen to me for a moment.”

Only then did Lev’s hand stop.

It didn’t matter if he found out her secret.

Liris judged that what she needed right now was a little time.

Anyway, this man’s fate was to fuse with a rag.

If the mark was embedded correctly, she could make him demonize as she pleased.

And the dead can’t speak.

She wanted to kill him right away, but she had to endure a little.

That’s how Liris brainwashed herself.

He was pretty fatigued.

In this state, there would be nothing more eye-catching.

She should have paid a little more attention.

Liris smiled as gracefully as possible.

And she stroked his cheeks and jawline.

“I’m sorry. Junior… You’ve had a hard time….”

Liris momentarily tied Lev up and took two 1000-gem coins from her pocket.

She gently placed them in his hand.

“Junior, you look very tired. For now, let’s go rest a little nearby with this money, okay?”

A pig-dog would crawl independently if you patted its back and fed it well.

“Then I’ll come back tomorrow…”

“What are you doing?”

“Wha…?”

“If you’re going to cough it up, you have to cough it all up.”

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[Gems Possessed: 15221]

Even a crazy act is difficult for a person to do.

I’m not a group leader, and I was trying to live quietly, buried…

“But I recovered roughly.”

It still didn’t reach the original freshman essential funds, but I recovered significantly.

In fact, to some extent, I had expected that the funds of the student council where Liris was wouldn’t be clean.

The flow and circulation of funds were suspiciously large, and the fact that beastmen who were outsiders of the academy were trading with gems meant that someone exchanged them for external money.

Perhaps the children from wealthy families had difficulty getting scholarships, so they were probably money laundering the gems into external funds.

I had roughly guessed some parts, which seemed to have worked out roughly.

“Not bad.”

The supporting role trait that I was worried about didn’t interfere either.

Apparently, as long as I didn’t team-kill a significant character or kill a great demon in a way that didn’t fit the story’s progression, it didn’t seem to be a big problem.

My pockets were full, and what was left was to raise my stats by 0.1 more until the weekend.

Until Chapter 1 began, I had to somehow avoid being held back or expelled.

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Around the same time, in the temporary dormitory of Aria Bluebell in Cheong-gwan.

“…”

To get a more comfortable sleep, she even put jasmine bath salts in the bath and washed her body,

After combing her hair well so it wouldn’t tangle, she laid her body on the bed, but as expected, she couldn’t fall asleep quickly.

It was partly because of the class assignment evaluation on Monday, but someone kept coming to her mind occasionally.

Lev Denec.

‘If I didn’t see it wrong…’

Perhaps he was related to that demon who took her family away.

But as another day passed, she only had more questions about him.

-Why… an archer…?

-Huh? That lowly being? He must have lost his mind. I decided to ignore him. Ria, don’t pay attention to a kid like that, either. He won’t be of any help.

Melissa seemed to be trying not to pay any attention to him.

In fact, that might be the right idea.

In the current situation, no class would take him unless he showed an outstanding performance in the test.

He would follow the path of expulsion, just like other incompetent students.

But if he got expelled like that, she couldn’t help but worry that she might never meet the demon that was the target of her revenge again for some unknown reason.

Even in the conversation with Edwin, who had regained consciousness yesterday,

-Aria, yesterday, I fought with Lev Deneb, right…?

-Yes.

-That… did something happen to that guy when I was fighting him?

-What do you mean…?

-Ah, no. Forget it.

Edwin had fainted immediately, so he seemed confused in his memory.

Therefore, there was no evidence.

In fact, after the positioning ended today, she thought about calmly asking Lev Denec, but…

It seemed like it would be too hasty of an approach.

‘I need evidence…’

If he was really related to demons, or if he was a demon race, wouldn’t he carelessly show his tail again?

-Rustle.

Aria, with many thoughts, got up from her bed.

And she quietly picked up the paper on the desk.

“…”

Lev Denec.

A person who shouldn’t be entangled with.

A typical example of a strong-weak-weak-strong type.

A person whose words and actions were so disrespectful that it was hard to believe he was an aristocrat, and he even threatened to date her arbitrarily.

There would probably be no one who wanted to party with him.

“But…”

If she could find even the slightest clue from him…

“There’s no other way…”

The moonlight outside the window penetrated Aria’s coldly frozen eyes.

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