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Hamefura BluRay S1 Vol 1 SS

I will translate the extra novels featured in the extra booklets given with the anime Blu-rays.

This story is in the booklet of Hamefura S1 Vol 1 and it is about Mary.

Series: My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Title / Character: Mary Source: Anime BluRay S1 Vol 1 Synopsis: Mary is working hard on her schemes to break off Katarina and Geordo's engagement. Translation: maboroshi-no

Translation below ⮟

Mary

Mary: …and it seems like there will be some official matters to attend to as well. Considering these, I am terribly unsuitable for such an important position as prince's consort.

When I, Mary Hunt, stated this with a troubled face, Lady Katarina also lowered her eyebrows in worry.

Katarina: If even you think this, Mary, then it will be even more impossible for me.

Despite making a satisfied smile inside after hearing these words, I still displayed a troubled face and said,

Mary: In that case, let's both break off our engagements and run to some faraway land!

When I took Lady Katarina's hand and said this,

Katarina: Thank you, you really are kind, Mary.

Lady Katarina said this with a happy smile.

While saying "Not at all" and shaking my head, I struck a victory pose in my heart.

Like this, my plan that consisted in planting in Lady Katarina's mind the idea, "Being a prince's consort is hard, I don't want to become one" has been going very well so far.

Since her brother, Lord Keith, and her mother, Lady Millidiana, had also taken an opposing stance to Lady Katarina becoming a prince's consort, at this rate, if things went well, I might be able to break off the engagement between that abominable Geordo Stuart and Lady Katarina.

Still, the enemy was strong, so negligence was taboo.

We would enroll in the Academy of Magic soon and I had no doubt he was planning on marrying her as soon as we graduated. I needed to do something before it happened! I talked even more about the difficulties of a prince's consort to Lady Katarina. 

Katarina: Well~ The more I listen to you, the more it feels like being a prince's consort would be impossible for me. I wonder when Prince Geordo will break off the engagement.

Lady Katarina had said this after hearing my considerable overstatements of the difficulties of a prince's consort. She believed that Prince Geordo would break off their engagement.

When I inquired as to why,  she was brimming with confidence as she replied, "Prince Geordo only considers me a breakwater that keeps women away, so once he meets someone he truly loves, he will break off the engagement right away!"

When I heard this, I could somehow maintain a normal face thanks to the facial muscles I had trained as a lady, but inside, my mouth was agape. Then this retort struck inside me: "No, this will never happen!" Prince Geordo was so hopelessly in love with her that he desired to monopolize her anyhow, it was just unthinkable that he would break off the engagement himself. But Lady Katarina didn't realize it at all.

Despite all the affection he had shown her, she firmly believed she was "just a breakwater keeping women away" and kept talking about absurdities like "Prince Geordo will have a woman he loves soon".

"No, Prince Geordo already has a woman he loves. This is you, Lady Katarina". Despite thinking this inside, I didn't tell Lady Katarina and just watched her.

Because having her not realize his feelings would probably make the breaking off of their engagement easier.

Mary: Let's break off your engagement to Prince Geordo and, if possible, run away to a faraway land.

They were the words that I have been telling Lady Katarina lately.

Lady Katarina seemed to think it was just a joke, but to me, it was very serious.

Prince Geordo might look like that, but he was a lump of monopolizing desire. If he were to marry Lady Katarina, he would likely monopolize her without any intention to let her go. If it came to this, I would mostly be unable to see Lady Katarina. I refused it.

Lady Katarina, whom I had met seven years ago when I was eight, who had changed my cowardly and unconfident self, was to me, Mary Hunt, a very special and important person. Moving forward, I had no desire to be separated from her.

And to that end, I needed her engagement with Prince Geordo to be broken. This was why I had fervently talked to her every day about how difficult it was to be a prince's consort.

Mary: I will take my leave for today. I'll come again.

When I said goodbye like this, Lady Katarina too,

Katarina: Yes, come again, okay?

She replied this with a smile.

I waved my hand to her, got into the Hunt family's carriage, and set out on my way back home.

Today, the nuisances… or should I say the princes couldn't come to the Claes' house because of some business, so I could talk extensively with Lady Katarina. It was such a great day.

Next spring, we would enroll in the Academy of Magic and things would become troublesome in many ways. Until then, I wanted to enjoy such comfortable times a little more.

Then, it would be two years until graduation. During this time, would I be able to break off Lady Katarina and Prince Geordo's engagement? And if I couldn't, would I find a way to somehow prevent him from marrying her immediately? I guess I still needed to investigate a lot of things. And I also needed to use Prince Alan to confirm Prince's Geordo movements. Knowing the enemy's moves was important.

Aaah, but I needed to be careful so Prince Alan wouldn't realize that he loved Lady Katarina. Getting any more rivals would be troublesome.

Oh, that's right! It would probably be a good idea to decide on several candidates for our escape destination after the breaking off of the engagement. Prince Geordo was just so tenacious after all, so once the engagement was broken, he would probably not give up on Lady Katarina so easily. We needed to run to somewhere far away. 

Where would be good? If possible, a quiet place where it would be easy to live would be nice. The Kingdom of Sorcier was a good place and I didn't want to leave it, but as long as we remained in the kingdom, his princely power would be strong. Maybe we should go to a foreign country instead? How about the neighboring country Sharma? We had friendly relations with this country and it was safe, and while the food was considerably different from here, I had heard it was delicious.

Lady Katarina was very fond of eating, so pushing this place to her sounded great.

Alright, I would select several candidates in the same manner and next time, I would have Lady Katarina look at them.  

If I appealed to her with various good aspects, especially their food, Lady Katarina might get excited about them.

But if we were to move to a neighboring country, we would need as much funds as possible. As a lady of good taste, I spent my money moderately, so I did have a decent amount of savings, but once there, there was no guarantee I would find a job immediately, so I needed to save more.

Thinking about this, I had a lot to do. But this was so I could live together with Lady Katarina!

Like this, while I was working out various plans, the carriage had arrived at the Hunt's house.

When I got out of the carriage, my half-sisters were just gathered at the entrance.

My half-sisters seemed to have just returned from the place they had been to as well.

My half-sisters frowned upon seeing me but they didn't particularly say anything, so I just returned to my room.

These last few years, my half-sisters hadn't said anything unpleasant to me or been nasty to me.

I had become so much better than them and people now remembered me better, but more than anything, their unpleasantness and nastiness now didn't affect me in the slightest, so they probably didn't find it worth doing anymore.

Since the day I met Lady Katarina and received those wonderful words from her, since the moment I decided to raise my downcasted face and look forward, I had changed.

The cowardly and crybaby Mary Hunt was no more.

I was now the special and wonderful Mary.

Now, let's immediately write out the plan I thought of earlier.

I needed to investigate the specific regions we could escape to.

I gallantly returned to my room.

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