I’m a Villainess but So Popular

‘Do I have to pay for that crystal ball..…’

After the crystal ball broke down, two supervisors told me to head to the next test site once something was whispered. I was worried that it might be a big problem.

I’m starting to feel uneasy at this point. If the mana that I thought was more than others was impossible to measure, it meant that there were more than just a little bit, but almost abnormal.

“I’m not being taken anywhere and experimented, aren’t I?”

I let go of my worries, took a deep breath and knocked on the heavy wooden door, which had been tightly closed, thinking of solving the immediate problems.

“Yes, come in.”

When I opened the door, three supervisors were sitting side by side at the desk this time.

After greeting them politely, I revealed my name.

“I’m Yerine Spade.

The golden-haired supervisor, who was sitting on the left side of them, gently asked me.

“Yes, please stand on the X sign in the middle.”

As he said, I stood on two feet against the white X-shaped mark drawn large in the middle of the floor.

“Now, then, from now on, I’m going to put a shield on you, Miss Spade.”

As soon as he finished speaking, sitting in the middle, the supervisor, who had grown a white beard and tied it together, rose up and raised both hands.

Then, the transparent swaying curtain came down around the X sign I was standing on, and soon disappeared as if nothing had happened.

“In there, you are free to use any magic. Whenever you’re ready, you can show us the magic you’ve come up with.”

This is the last test of today.

It was to show our most confident magic in front of the supervisor.

Almost all magic was allowed except for the curse that had a fatal effect on a person’s life. As you can see, the examiner took the test in a protective shield to prevent the supervisor from being hit by magic.

‘Let’s not be nervous.…!’

I closed my eyes for a moment and recounted the route I had prearranged at home.

When I felt ready, I lightly stretched out my hands and shouted to the supervisor.

“I’m ready. Let’s get started.”

The supervisor on the left smiled, and the supervisor in the middle swept down his beard and fixed his gaze on me with a solemn face. The supervisor sitting on the right, until then, with his long hair hanging down, was not looking at me. But I knew. That he is not missing my movements through the hair with sharp eyes.

‘First is water.’

The magic used only yesterday, the magic that produces water in large quantities, was first invoked.

As I practised at home, I created the right amount of water as soon as possible, and I freely changed the shape of the water by invoking the magic of controlling it.

At first, the water was drawn in a long line and swirled around the body, then gathered in the middle to form a thick water ball.

And in a flash, turned the water column into a unicorn shape.

“Hmm.”

I could hear clearly the sound of a long-bearded supervisor putting his finger around his mouth.

Meanwhile, the supervisor on the right scribbled something down.

I made the water unicorn run around once, and it stopped exactly above my head.

Immediately upon lifting the spell, the water floating in the air poured down, failing to retain the shape of the unicorn, and immediately raised my right hand against the pouring water.

‘Now, magic fire is activated.’

In an instant, a huge flame rose from the fingertips to fill the shield.

The flame, which swallowed all the transparent unicorns and drops of water that had been running a little while ago, burned red crabs with tremendous momentum.

‘Its condensation…’

After recalling the magic circle to controlling the fire, I gradually reduced the size of the huge fire.

As a result of focusing on the fingertips while drawing a circle in my head, I was able to make a tiger that seemed to fly with fireworks without much difficulty.

The red-hot-tongued tiger ran freely in the shield, wagging its fluttering tail.

From the movement, I could feel intense strength and heat.

When I returned to the place where the X was drawn, controlling the flame that had turned into a tiger shape, I called the tiger to my side.

The tiger jumped into the air, with its big mouth wide open, swallowed me as it was, and then became a huge pillar of fire and rose to the ceiling.

‘Now wrap it up…..!’

The fire, which had been burning hot as it banged my hands, became a spark and melted like snow, and only the ashes that were burnt were floating in front of the eyes.

In the middle, with my hands stretched out before them, I bowed down to the supervisor.

“That’s it all.”

When I looked up a little bit and looked at the supervisor, I could see the supervisor, who was pretending not to look at me, facing me properly.

I was a little worried because he sat still and stared at me.

“Oh, did I do something wrong? Or what was lacking?’

The bearded supervisor and the far left-hand supervisor were both busy writing something down on the paper.

After a while they whispered something to each other, they looked back at me and opened their mouths.

“Good work. You can wait in the auditorium. Your grades will be announced at 5 p.m. today, so don’t go home until then and be in the auditorium.”

After giving the cautions, the three supervisors gave me permission to go out.

After bowing to them, I left the examination room with a light heart.

***

“Uh, I’m nervous……”

All eyes were on the image of Ashtra rubbing her palms together.

“Huh? Why? It’s over now.”

Rayl tilted his head and folded his arm, asked.

“But the results…I don’t want to be worse than you guys..”

Actually, I understood what Ashtra said.

It is common for people to have a little magical power including numerous noble children, and the successors of 7 Imperial Families.

Except for the seven heirs, they will have the opportunity to complete higher magic education through this test. In other words, if you fail, you will not be educated.

But the successors are set to work as Imperial wizards, so they must be educated regardless of the test results.

Nevertheless, as the ability test is a form of competition to show off the successors, the family’s much-anticipated successors could not help but pay attention to the results of the test.

“I wish I could only make it in the top ten…….”

It is said that the names of the top ten people in the test result are called before handing out the report cards.

And for the successors, it seemed that it was natural for them to enter the top ten.

“Ugh, if you tried, you would have gone in, or you would have been short of your efforts.”

Eugene retorted with a twisted way of speaking.

I can’t stand that son of a bitch touching me, but I was more impatient to touch my cute and precious Ashtra, so I jerked in.

“That’s all you can say?”

Eugene glared at me and answered back at the remark.

“It’s none of your business when we’re not even in a relationship to say hello. Don’t you?”

“Hey, guys……don’t fight………”

As Ashtra, who had been twisting her hands due to tension, was at a loss what to do, she had no choice but to refrain from trying to retort another word.

“Eugene’s words are not wrong. I’m fine, Yerine.”

I was so angry, but I just endured it when I saw Ashtra.

“I don’t know when I’ll be able to compete with him, but if I do, I’ll give him a good pat.’

In the meantime, Rachel approached Ashtra’s side and reassured her.

“Ashtra, you’re going to be up in the top 10. You don’t have to worry.”

“Oh, no… Thank you, though.”

I said a word to her.

“Rachel’s right. I’m sure it’s not 10th but 5th place. So wouldn’t it be okay to relax a little?”

Listening to me, Ashtra gulped and clenched her fists.

“Yes, I must cheer up! Thank you, everyone.”

A red spark splashed through the fist of Ashtra, which was held tightly.

“Ah, Ashtra. You’ve activated magic.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. I’m usually good at controlling.…”

Still, Ashtra looked much better than before.

I was relieved to see the red hair fluttering and chatting happily again.

Then, a man’s solemn voice was heard.

“Now, everyone, please take your seats. There will be a distribution of the result sheet and presentation of the best people soon.”

People quickly sat down in their seats in the words of seriousness.

As everyone remained silent, the man seen as the supervisor’s representative opened his mouth again.

“First of all, I would like to say to all of you that you had a hard time to handle the entire test process from morning to afternoon.”

Everyone’s eyes were on each of his movements as he read the scroll and took a moment to clear his voice.

“When I distribute the results, please check your name at the top. If you have any objections, please tell the supervisor immediately. There’s a big pass mark below it, and you can check the detailed score.”

About 10 supervisors then floated the results in the air. After a while, the result sheet by sheet began to fly to its owner.

Soon a piece of paper flew to me, and I snatched it with my right hand and opened it.

I looked at the name and found that it is my result sheet.

Although it is obvious, the result is that I passed.

‘Well, I wish I could win first place…’

The moment I turned the paper over with that thought, the man’s solemn voice rang again, and I couldn’t check the score properly.

“Then there will be a presentation of the best people. If you have any problems with the results, please contact the supervisor.”

Everyone swallowed their saliva when the supervisor ripped open the envelope lying in front of him and took out a thin sheet of paper.

“Then I’ll announce it.”

Sitting next to me, Eugene looked at the podium with a more serious, nervous look than ever before.

Of course, I didn’t change my face as usual.

“Top first–”

I felt my heart shrink a little in a moment. For a very short time, Eugene glanced at me and turned his head forward again.

“Yerine Spade.”

At first, I thought I heard wrong.

However, on the back of the crumpled result sheet, which inadvertently spread over the right hand, the score of “99 points” was clearly written.

It was the moment when someone else’s name was called, not my name.

“Top Second, Eugene Ace.”

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