After the incident in class with the books flying towards me, the entire class was punished for misbehavior. That was it. No expulsion or anything like that could be expected, they were nobles after all.
The main group of princes and Anika started following me around, as if they were looking out for me. I would glare at them from time to time to get them to go away and leave me alone, but that never used to work. Their reaction was like that of scaredy cats, they would move away a little but always come back quietly. Basil was glued to Isabella, well, Isabella was glued to Basil. Thanks to this it was impossible for us to talk about what brought us to this situation.
It was in those moments that I remembered my brother's words: "Get her away from Basil." But how? Do I challenge her to a duel for Basil's hand? Do I kidnap him? Oh, I could also sneak into his room like I did once, transformed into a butterfly. Yes, that would do.
That night I did the transmutation spell in my room after dinner, when everyone had gone to sleep. I opened the window before doing it so I could transform and fly out in the middle of the night, I encountered obstacles like birds that wanted to eat me, but I managed to get safely to the Davenport mansion. I stood on Basil's window sill and... I found Isabella taking off her nightgown to lie down with him.
I didn't know if butterflies had eyelashes or eyelids but I blinked a few times because I couldn't believe they were doing this together, then I remembered something: Basil used to be Liam, Caleb's best friend and I had no idea what he used to be like when we lived in the other world. But something painful tightened in my chest seeing them together, seeing them kiss. I stopped looking because it seemed indecent. I flew out and landed on one of the flowers in the Davenport's massive garden that decorated the entrance to their mansion. I started to think that… Isabella had probably taken Basil away from me and that now I couldn't count on him to find my brother and get out of here.
I returned home safe and sound. I didn't talk to Basil for obvious reasons that night and I transformed back into a human, I got into bed after putting on my nightgown and I got tangled up in my blankets thinking about the reason why my heart was beating so hard, why it hurt so much and why I felt so alone. At some point, I felt a tear come out of my eyes and that was the last straw. I sat up in bed and wiped my tears, I forced myself to never feel anything like that again and I fell into a deep sleep until the next day.
Or so I would like to say, because I had only slept four hours and I had dark circles under my eyes more than visible. I let my maids cover those sleep marks under my eyes and help me get dressed, Walter looked worried and I smiled at him so he wouldn't think about anything unnecessary. At breakfast, my family said something about my appearance but I don't remember it very well, I was so tired. And in the car I fell asleep the whole way to the academy on Reese's shoulder who made a face of disgust but let me sleep on him anyway.
When I arrived, I got out of the car and went to my classroom until I stopped because I heard a series of feminine laughs coming from the central courtyard. There was a large and majestic fountain, where people used to throw other people's belongings to bother others, they had done it to me several times. But this time it was Elizabeth who had pushed Anika into the fountain taking advantage of the fact that the princes were busy with other things and that Basil was somewhere with Isabella.
"Learn your place, commoner!" Elizabeth said "Go back to the hole you came out of, this is no place for you. You will never be anything to Lord William and what is even better, you will never be anything to anyone."
That sounded strange to me. It was a line Isabella used on me, in Hosui. Was Elizabeth being influenced by her? Did this happened in the game? I didn't know, but I wasn't anyone's heroine so I continued on my way listening to Anika's crying in the background and William coming to her rescue just in time. I turned to them and saw the moment when William said a series of lethal words to Elizabeth that would put her out of the game. After this scene, the redhead would be transferred to another academy and would not return for several months.
In this way, without me doing anything, the story took its course naturally. But now something was missing: a villain. Elizabeth left so Anika would have a season of peace for her love with William to blossom but after that was when the second villain of turn appeared: me.
Isabella was key right now. She would have to focus on me to turn me evil and then I kill her, but for some reason she was with Basil all the time. Had Basil and Isabella fallen in love? Were they really together? No, that couldn't be. I needed proof and I wasn't going to get it by doing nothing so all I had to do was look for them and spy on them.
Just as I was about to turn a corner, I bumped into Isabella who was alone and with an innocent smile on her face.
"Oh! I'm so sorry, Lady Hosui!"
"Don't worry, it was my fault."
"Well, of course it was. I just said it out of courtesy." Isabella replied, still smiling.
And I don't know why I smiled at that moment.
Isabella also looked strange at my reaction but, I couldn't help it, I was finally going to experience what it was like to become completely "Hosui Yoshino". Even though it wasn't all good, that girl had some very macabre ideas in her head.
The new redhead approached me, with her blonde tones, she was a strawberry blonde. She stood next to me and whispered in my ear.
"I know you were watching us last night in Lord Basil's room. That's not nice, a lady shouldn't do such perverted things."
"I think you're the pervert, dear." I answered, bringing out my most Sloan side possible "Doing that even though you're underage and not married, I think your family won't like that."
"And how do you plan to tell them without falling for it yourself? Because they're going to ask how you know. Will you tell them that you turn into a butterfly every night to go see Basil?"
"Yes." I said shrugging my shoulders "I'll find another way to see him."
At that moment I saw a slight movement between Isabella's eyebrows, it was affecting her and she was getting angry. Her grey eyes glared at me and I smiled at her, my red eyes shining.
"Basil and I have business to attend to together." I said bluntly.
"Well, those business are over. Because now he belongs to me and he can only be with me. Stay away from him or I will send you back to that filthy cave you came from."
And with that, Isabella was left headless.
Yes.
It was so fast that even I couldn't react to what had happened. One moment she was speaking in front of me, the next my fingers had snapped without my permission and now her headless body was falling on its side to the floor. I ran away from the place, because the first thing I thought I had to do was run away but I never understood the part where I couldn't stop smiling.
I was smiling.
I don't know if it was me or Hosui but, I was smiling. Maybe it was both of us. Maybe we weren't even two anymore.