In all my seventeen years of life (I'm talking about my first life here), I never would have imagined that I would get reincarnated as a character in an otome game.
That is not to say that I haven't entertained fantasies of transmigrating or being reborn as my favorite character, because let's face it, was there an isekai connoisseur in existence who hasn't fantasized about being in their favorite MC's shoes and living in their ideal fictional world?
(The answer is no. There's none.)
Only…
Of all the characters I could have reincarnated as, it had to be Mifune Akemi, this game's villainess!
In the game [ Mon Étoile ], there were six capture targets. Each of them has eight possible routes: four Normal Endings, three Best Endings, and one Bad Ending.
The Normal Endings were usually the ones I go for, since the Best Endings usually cost a lot of money. Though the writing was a lot more lackluster and plain than the latter, and the fact that the former's happy ending takes a lot more time to complete, at least the goal to secure a capture target by the time the main story ends is achieved.
Happy Endings are, after all, still Happy Endings.
…I'm not just saying this because I envy those who have the money to purchase the Best Endings, okay?!
Anyway, before I got reincarnated into this game, I managed to complete The Normal Endings of three capture targets (and of course, had experienced a variety of Bad Endings along the way). Which is, to say, I literally have no idea what the other routes for the other three were like.
The game begins when the heroine, Natsumi Rikka, entered the High School section of Ryuujin Academy, one of the most prestigious schools in the country. Only the children of the rich and wealthy could afford to go there, and a few gifted students who have enough intelligence capability to pass the difficult entrance examinations...and even then, the acceptance rate is low. I remember that Rikka-chan passed the exams through the skin of her teeth. She was smart, very much so, but her background as a commoner was looked on by the school. Since she was at the top of the rankings, the school decided to send her an acceptance letter a few days just before the start of the school year. It would have been a loss to the school if she wasn't accepted, given her outstanding academic performance.
However, her real problems began soon after she started attending Ryuujin Academy. Because of her commoner background, she was ostracized by the rest of the students, particularly those who belong to the most wealthy families. And guess who was the leader of the bullies? Why, you're most correct! It's our resident villainess herself, Mifune Akemi! She was furious after the heroine stole her spot in the school rankings, and turned even more livid when Igarashi Hideki, the boy she's been mindlessly chasing after for years, began to show an interest to Rikka. Similarly, the other capture targets began to take note of her as well.
Akemi, who felt as if Rikka was stealing her spot as the most popular girl in Ryuujin Academy, devised ways to get back at the heroine. For example, letting her soak in the rain for a whole three hours because her followers locked her out, splattering a plate full of spaghetti onto her face and claiming it was an accident, tripping her foot in the hallways, making her carry hardbound books from the library to the storage room for a bit of 'extra help', and locking her in said storage room for several hours...to name a few. The most extreme thing she'd ever done was to hire men to forcibly kidnap Rikka – these happened on both Hideki and Tadashi's routes.
In the Normal and Best Endings, the heroine gets her long awaited Happy Ending with her chosen capture target after overcoming a lot of obstacles (most of them concerning the game's villainess, Mifune Akemi). The Bad Endings usually either feature the villainess triumphing and stealing away the capture target, the heroine getting separated from the capture target due to unforeseen circumstances, or said capture target ended up being…insane than what she gave him credit for–or, as we all know, becoming a yandere (the last one wasn't so bad, in my opinion).
But her Bad Endings weren't as bad as Akemi's. Nor as many.
The heroine's happy endings equate to Akemi's destructive ends. Since the heroine has four Normal Endings and three Best Endings for each capture target, and there are six of them in total… Forty-two! Forty-two disastrous endings! Moreover, since she's the villainess, her Bad Endings are worse than that of the heroine's!
This is unfair! I demand a refund!