Prologue

Dearest Mama and Papa,

Please forgive me for not being your ideal daughter.

In order to live a peaceful and carefree life from now on, I, Cecilia Sylvie…

 

…have decided to become a boy!

Cecilia Sylvie, daughter of a duke, was only five years old when she realized something that could rock the very foundations of this world, something that revealed it for what it really was.

So earth-shattering was this revelation that she didn’t dare say a peep about it, even at the age of five, fearing that it would cause her anxious mother and maid to turn pale and call for doctors if she let it slip. Still, she couldn’t just pretend like all was well in the face of the twisted shape of her world and her own bleak future. Subsequently, she came down with a fever and was laid up in bed for a week.

Namely, the truth Cecilia realized was that she had transmigrated into the world of the girl’s dating sim Holy Maiden of Vleugel Academy 3.

And Cecilia Sylvie was the main character’s love rival. In other words, she was the villainess of the story.

Even before this realization, she’d always felt that something had been off.

She would sometimes get the distinct sensation that she had someone else’s memories mixed in with hers; she would meet someone for the first time and already know them somehow or would envision unimaginable foods she’d never eaten before, such as “instant ramen.” That last one almost tasted so real it made her mouth water.

Thanks to all this, her parents thought of her as a little bit special, but they loved her all the same. In fact, they spoiled their one and only daughter rotten. They bought her anything she wanted, instructed the servants and maids to prioritize her above all else, and anticipated her every whim.

In short, they were overly indulgent parents who had raised a spoiled, irresponsible, and selfish daughter.

And in fairness, up until that moment, Cecilia had indeed been an incredibly selfish girl.

Happily thinking of herself as the center of the universe, she spent money with such flagrancy that it was clear she didn’t understand the concept of wastefulness. She believed she could get absolutely anything she wanted if she only cried hard enough, and she was entirely convinced that she had a bright future in store.

 

But upon meeting him, her entire personality changed.

Gilbert Coulson, presently known as Gilbert Sylvie.

The Coulsons were distant relatives, and he was adopted into Cecilia’s family as her brother, one year younger than her.

The instant she laid eyes on him, she froze as though she’d been struck with a powerful bolt of lightning.

That was because she knew him.

Gilbert Sylvie was a love interest in Holy Maiden of Vleugel Academy 3.

There, he had been moody, submissive, and preferred to stay shut up in his room, perhaps because Cecilia treated him as her servant, heedless of the fact that Gilbert had become the son and heir of House Sylvie.

While his age, overall look, and expressions did not match up with her memories of the character, his hair, as black as a wet raven’s wings, and eyes of obsidian were unmistakable.

And then memories of her previous life flooded in one after another…

But there, Cecilia changed her mind, reminding herself that there was no way that was possible.

Which was understandable. Ordinarily, no one would have believed her. Yet, those undeniable memories of her past life brought a swift end to her selfish behavior.

 

The month after Gilbert came to live with the Sylvies, her distinct sense of unease was wholly validated. It happened when she first made her high society debut, accompanied by her father.

There, she met another love interest from the game…

Oscar Abel Prosper.

The son of the king of Prosper. In other words, the crown prince and the man who was set to become Cecilia’s fiancé in two years.

The moment she learned the identity of this arrogant redhead, she collapsed, frothing at the mouth.

As for why, there was the fact that she’d witnessed with her own eyes that the unreal was actually very real. But there was also her despair for her own fate—which was probably the most accurate explanation.

 

None of the endings for Cecilia Sylvie in Holy Maiden of Vleugel Academy 3 were happy ones.

The only lots that awaited her were a painful death or a quick death.

The second she realized she might die at seventeen, she made a grand decision to stave off her looming fate twelve years hence.

 

“Okay, then. I’ll become a boy!”

 

Yes, Cecilia Sylvie decided to dress as a boy to avoid her tragic fate.