Published at 18th of November 2020 07:17:23 PM
Chapter 10: 10
A year has passed and I am now eight years old .
I’ve been training under Albert-Oniisama’s Spartan-like guidance for the last year and have become able to swing my sword around with ease .
But that’s literally it .
He told me that I had to dedicate myself to hours of practice swinging my sword for a year in order to properly train my muscles, and so that’s what I did .
It seems that once again, none of my brothers believed that I would be able to last for a full year, but to be fair, this time even I felt like I wanted to quit sometime during the middle of it .
I mean I literally did practice swings and nothing else for hours day after day… .
It took every last ounce of mental fortitude that I had to keep going with that boring training for a whole year .
Since my goal is to become this world’s best villainess though, I was able to force myself to continue… but if it hadn’t been for that, I’m sure that I would have given up in a matter of days . 1
When I had first started, I could only practice for around 15 minutes before I felt completely exhausted . After about half a year had gone by, I had greatly increased my stamina to allow me to train hard for a couple of hours before growing tired… . . And now I’ve gotten to the point where I can do practice swings for a whole day through without needing a break .
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I really want to praise myself for all my hard work: I’m amazing~ Good job, me!
I was so determined to succeed, that when I went too long without practicing I felt like I was wasting my time, so every night I would sneak out of my bedroom and head back to the garden for some secret, independent training .
I really, really hate to lose after all . If I only have one redeeming quality, then that would be my iron will-power .
But I’m sure that the previous villainesses who were able to go down in history were putting forth even more effort than this meager amount .
I still have a long way to go before I can match up to them .
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That being said, I have been doing my best for the past year . I’m definitely much stronger now, but you wouldn’t be able to tell just by looking at me… . which is rather unfortunate . It’s not like I want to look macho or anything like that, it’s just that I wouldn’t mind if you could see some of the results of my full year of effort .
Aside from all the muscle I’ve gained, I’ve also managed to read something like 4000 books over the last year .
I’m not really sure how many books a person would typically be able to read in a year’s worth of time, but I think that number seems to be a bit on the high side .
But even though I managed to read that many, not one of those books was about darkness magic . No matter how hard I looked, I wasn’t able to find a single book on the subject . At this point, I’m starting to doubt whether there even are any books in that library that talk about darkness magic .
Regardless, I actually feel pretty proud of having read that many books in just a year, but since I’ve been holing myself up in the library in secret this whole time, I don’t even have anyone that I can boast to about this feat . Plus, a true villainess wouldn’t sink so low as to brag about such things I’m sure… .
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By now, the whole residence knows that I’ve started to learn swordsmanship as well as the fact that I disappear for 10 hours each day, so it seems there are some crazy rumors going around about me, though I’m not sure what exactly they entail .
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After hearing about them, Mother was merely surprised, but Father it seems was extremely concerned about my well-being so he would often talk of wanting to call for a doctor…… . But of course I did everything that I could to prevent him from doing so .
As for my brothers, they all eventually got used to my new behavior .
And their beautiful friends started coming to visit more and more often over the last year .
When I asked Henry-Oniisama about why that might be, he said that they were coming to observe how I was doing .
… . . Even though I’m not some side show . I wish they wouldn’t try to amuse themselves by watching me when I’m actually practicing seriously like this .
I could constantly feel their gazes on me . Honestly, I know that I’m just practice swinging, but I still tend to feel nervous if there’s always someone watching me .
Though, to be worthy of being called a villainess, I know that I need to be able to remain calm under all circumstances, so I took this as a special type of training as well and did my utmost to forget about them and concentrate on practicing……
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Duke-Sama specifically wouldn’t say anything to the other boys, but would just watch me silently for the whole time that I was training .
I really wish he wouldn’t do that though . Having his gaze on me like that all the time really isn’t good for my heart . It would honestly be better if he would at least chat with the other guys…… .
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And whenever I would happen to meet his gaze, he would always have such a gentle expression on his face .
To be looked at by someone with that face and that expression would make anyone fall for him in an instant .
Except for me, of course . I’m still okay . I won’t fall for him since I know that one day he’ll end up falling in love with the heroine .
T/N: No! Just give in to his charms~~ Even if it’s a little awkward that he stares at you for hours, I still ship it~ XD
1The term used here was 三日坊主ーみっかぼうずーmikka bouzu which is a word that has a story attached to it about a boy who could not persevere through anything . He tried to become a monk (among other things I believe), but each time he gave up after only three days . There is no good equivalent for this word in English that I know of, so I said that she would have given up in a matter of days, but I really like this word, so I wanted to at least leave a footnote about it . ↩