“At least for the time being, there won’t be any crazy guy proposing to me.”
Looking at that sight, only a truly mad fool would propose. And to my recollection, there wasn’t anyone like that in high society.
Walking down the path dressed like a garbage bag.
“Wow, it’s not raining, and there aren’t any stones. The air is clear without a hint of fine dust.”
It was astonishing. I hadn’t felt this refreshed since I became aware of my previous life.
I definitely felt that the world that had been forcing me to turn against myself had changed.
‘Now is the time to gather strength to stand up against Mariposa’s tyranny…’
While walking with a happy heart, I was pondering how to gain that strength.
At that moment, I was passing through the training grounds near the mansion’s main gate.
Mariposa’s son, Abisan, who was diligently practicing magic, suddenly shoved my shoulder with a mocking smile.
“Hey, what a disgrace to the family! Where have you been?”
I almost said I had come to ruin the engagement, but the learned fear held my tongue.
The kid with a bad habit of hitting me had often done so before.
As I trembled, he grabbed me by the collar, fists clenched, and dragged me along.
“Come on. You have to take my place and get hit.”
Being unable to think normally because of the fear ingrained in me, I was dragged to the training ground, where a familiar face welcomed me.
“Sir Abisan! Where have you been? The fireball training isn’t finished yet!”
“Ah, Master! I’m sorry. But I think I’ll have a hard time with fireball today. Just hit her instead. You did hit her when I couldn’t use magic, right?”
Abisan’s mocking tone pierced my ears. The magic master’s deep-set eyes gazed at me.
“Well, that’s true. You brought a girl who gets beaten.”
“Cough, cough!”
With my collar loose, I was shoved to the ground. It was just like how I usually ended up.
‘I need to get up and dodge, but my body won’t move. This sucks!’
I could only sit on the floor, listening to the humiliation raining down on me from above.
If this continued, the teacher’s indiscriminate kicks would begin.
“Giselle, I thought you were begging and groveling with Marquis Berto and Duke Reshaniel again.”
“Marquis Berto is out on a voyage, and Duke Reshaniel is on a pilgrimage to the Magic Tower. They’ll come back later, so you’ll just stay home quietly for now. She has a friend or something, right?”
I bit my trembling lips as I watched Abisan’s master loosen his hands to hit me.
“Did you just say Marquis Berto?”
“Ha, yes. Your so-called childhood friend. The one you keep trailing after like a lost puppy.”
After hearing Abisan’s mockery, my mind finally snapped back to reality.
‘What fear? Is this really the time to be thinking about that?’
I dusted off the dirt from my body and sprang up.
“No, I’m not following that kind of instigator!”
“What did you say?”
Whether he retorted or not, as soon as I thought of Marquis Berto, a surge of anger rose inside me.
That guy was the number one regretful male lead who threw me into the depths of hell.
He had an unknown illness that made him feel pain when wielding a sword or using magic, but curiously, that pain would lessen whenever I held his hand.
‘I worried about him and thought of him as a friend, so I held his hand from time to time.’
…But what he did to me!
‘He spread nonsense that I liked him.’
He only relied on instigation and fabrication. What a pro instigator, truly?
I ground my teeth and clenched my fists in anger.
“That trash, I’ll pass on!”
At that, Abisan smirked and said,
“Wow, are you crazy? You seem to have no idea of your status; should I teach you a lesson?”
“Oh, I think it would be good for that girl to practice fireball magic once, Abisan. Let’s see if she can burn her hair.”
The magic master and Abisan laughed simultaneously.
“Yeah, I’m not at all the same as a worthless girl who has no mana and can’t use magic. I should properly educate her.”
“Why would I not have mana?”
“You don’t have any. That’s why you were begging Duke Reshaniel, ‘Duke, Duke!’”
“I wasn’t the one begging!”
It was Duke Reshaniel who was begging.
‘Regretful male lead number two, Duke Reshaniel. That guy was trash too.’
The youngest aspiring head of the Magic Tower, Duke Reshaniel, was cursed one day and lost all his mana.
There was only one way to escape the curse.
To permanently steal the vast mana of someone who was born with it.
What caught his eye was none other than me, who possessed a tremendous mana heart but didn’t know my own potential.
“Duke Reshaniel, who does this mosquito-like kid think he is to make such a rude suggestion?”
A mosquito that has no mana and feeds off others.
“What kind of nonsense is this all of a sudden? This girl is even glaring at me while talking back!”
“I’m sorry, but I’ve been drained a bit by a mosquito brat, yet I’m still better off than you.”
Couldn’t Abisan understand why it was embarrassing for me, who is a ‘disgrace to the family,’ to speak informally? He shouted toward the teacher.
“Hit her quickly. She’ll come to her senses after getting a good beating!”
“That might be the case. She should behave after being hit.”
The teacher picked up a switch to strike me. But I raised my hands and glared at him.
“Yeah, I’m not going to sit here and take it anymore.”
With a whoosh, the switch, which was about to touch me, was beautifully burned to ashes.
I held a fireball in my palm and grinned. Walking toward the bewildered Abisan, I spoke.
“You know, Abisan, I think I can use fireball better than you.”
The eyes of both the teacher and Abisan widened simultaneously. I took a bold step toward Abisan.
The flames that flickered from my fingertips singed their hair.
“Ahhh!”
A startled Abisan stumbled back and quickly asked,
“You, you! You can use magic?”
“Of course not. That stupid girl seems to be using an artifact!”
Looking down at their flustered expressions, I dusted off my palm.
‘An artifact, what nonsense.’
Where would I get the money to buy something like that?
‘It’s just that when Abisan learned magic, he brought me along and I picked it up while getting hit.’
Thanks to that dumb Abisan dragging me along each time he learned magic, I had become capable of casting up to 2nd circle spells.
The next level was completely foreign to me, and thanks to that damn mosquito, my mana was depleted, so this was the best magic I could manage.
I rushed out the door, planning to escape just before they could gather their wits.
“Wow, look at your hair, all burned and frizzy. How hilarious!”
“Hey, what a disgrace to the family! Are you crazy?”
“Remember my words. From now on, I will never lose to you guys!”
Abisan and the regretful male lead, Duke Reshaniel.
Their goal was to become a grand wizard.
‘The one you all completely disregard, I will become the grand wizard you desire the most. You’d better look forward to it.’
What is a grand wizard?
A wizard with powerful mana, among the top five in the empire, someone even the emperor concedes to.
If I grow my abilities and become a grand wizard…
‘My powers will change, and the original story will definitely twist. Killing two birds with one stone.’
I rushed out of the Florette mansion, quickly calculating my plans in my mind.
1. Regain lost mana.
2. Learn magic under a decent teacher.
3. Become even stronger by using items like artifacts and potions.
The first thing I need to do is fill up my depleted mana!
Fortunately, thanks to reading “Will You Regret It If I Die?”, I knew how to fill my mana heart.
That method is…
—
“Welcome, Sir…?”
The restaurant owner, dressed in an outfit covered in skull patterns, sprang to his feet.
This place was the “Dangerous Dragon Breathing Fire,” a restaurant managed under the name of the Kalinos family.
