1. We are in the world of an otome game.
2. Dear reader, as you all may or may not know...
3. An event has been prepared in celebration of the settling of the manaria issue.
4. If that were the case, this would just be a grinding game.
5. Did you think the whole story was about boosting your stats?
6. "That's right. It's minigame time."
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
1. "Let's play some dodgeball!!"
2. "Hey, you all!"
3. "What sort of activity is "Dodgeball," master rod?"
4. "Someone's in a good mood despite the new semester starting."
5. Hmm. I do have some experience playing dodgeball.
6. When I was in elementary school.
7. "It's a new, cutting-edge sport that's recently made its debut in our kingdom."
8. "It's supposed to be a ton of fun!"
9. "Oh, nice! So you know of it, rae?"
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
1. This all transpired a few hours ago.
2. "All I wanted to do was play with someone during my vacation!!"
3. We searched for people who seemed available.
4. Our hands were forced out of pity for rod.
5. "And wouldn't you know it? We have five people per team!"
6. "Can you join us for a game?"
7. "I know you two are free."
8. "I still have homework to finish."
9. "B-but I've come today on official duties..."
1. "It's a "King-for-a-day pass"!"
2. "Will win this!"
3. "Now, now! I'm not asking you all to compete for free."
4. "The person... Who survives this game to the end..."
5. "But what about authorization from the crown prince?"
6. "I know you all wouldn't be motivated by money or goods."
7. "To explain it briefly, you will be granted the right to say whatever you'd like for an entire day."
8. Th-the right to get to do whatever I wanted as I pleased...?
9. What in the world...?
1. OF COURSE WE WERE IMMEDIATELY ON BOARD!
2. "THIS IS FOUL! FOUL, YOU HEAR ME?!!"
3. "WITH THAT, LET THE GAMES BEGIN!"
4. "HERE WE GO!!"
13. It's a game about getting hit by or avoiding balls.
14. "IF SOMETHING DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, ASK RAE SINCE SHE'S PLAYED BEFORE."
15. "THE RULES KINDA WORK LIKE THE ABOVE."
1. "The ball is coming right back from behind you."
2. "Why am I the only one who has to wear armor?!"
3. "I-it's all I can do to avoid the balls!"
4. The infallible miss claire on our side!
5. "It would be awful if you were injured, miss claire."
6. "Don't worry. We have..."
7. "But are you sure that's for the best?"
8. "You're so overprotective of her, rae."
1. "Oh, no! Miss claire has been hit!"
2. "This makes her the perfect target!"
3. "Nooo! Miss claire is out...!"
4. "Not quite!"
5. "This is what I was after!"
6. If you catch a ball rebounding off a hit ally, they are safe.
1. "What were you thinking using your master as bait?! Even if you are my servant, there are better methods than this underhanded way of--"
2. "Hurry up and throw the ball already."
3. "Rae..."
4. "Yesss! The ball's all mine!"
5. "Time for our counter-attack!"
6. "Feast on our muscles trained from maid servitude!"
1. You really have taken things too far!
2. "How dare you, useless scum?!"
3. "Therefore, this is a decoy operation!"
4. "Actually..."
5. "I'm not athletic at all."
6. "Heh heh..."
7. "I see you can have your adorable moments when you want, rae."
8. "Don't think I'll go easy on you because of that."
9. "Look out, rae!!"
10. "Sister lilly?!"
1. "Whoops. Sorry about that, lilly."
2. "Heh heh."
3. "There's no need for that, is there?!"
4. Face hits don't count.
5. "Even if you're my fiancé... Don't assume that I would ever go easy on you!"
6. "Feast on this!!"
7. "Yu! Out!"
8. "Ouchie!"
1. "Looks like you can do it if you try, Cardinal Lilly."
2. "Yes, sir."
3. "Lorek."
4. "Let us take them down with precision and speed."
5. "What?!"
6. "You all have the misanga bracelets I handed out before the match, right?"
7. "Whoops, I forgot to mention it."
8. "They let you fire off one magic-powered attack."
9. "There was no mention of magic being allowed!"
1. "Did you think surrounding the ball with rocks would get you a hit?!"
2. "Hrah!"
3. "It's a one-time-use magic tool!"
4. You're allowed to use magic just once.
5. "If you're going to use magic..."
6. "Nice! You'll be able to put a stop to his rocks with ease!"
7. "A water cushion!"
8. "I'll send it right back at ya!"
1. Turn into mud?!
2. Did the rocks...
3. "!!"
4. "Hwah?!"
5. "Wah? What? I can't see anything!"
6. "Lorek's transformation magic's pretty cool, isn't it?"
7. "Ha ha ha! You totally fell for it!"
8. "Uh, oh...!"
9. "Where's the ball...?!"
1. If it hits someone while out of bounds, you can return?
2. "You're out, cardinal lilly."
3. "So no coming back yet."
4. "Yeah, but you're the only one there right now."
5. "As long as pepi's wind magic can boost my physical capabilities..."
6. "Don't worry!"
7. "They're closing in on us, rae."
8. "To touch an icky, muddy ball."
9. "Because I don't want..."
10. What a spoiled little rich girl!
11. "What the...?! Why are you drying the ball right now?!"
2. "All yours!"
4. I can just give the ball to loretta behind him.
5. I don't need to worry about dodging the ball!
6. "Oh, pepi."
7. "It seems you haven't surmised someone's feelings here."
8. "Rae."
9. "We're going to have an all-day chess tournament!"
10. "The prize that we are competing for..."
11. "Is something we should give to rod."
1. "What? Come on!"
2. "So I think you shouldn't take this so seriously."
3. "I'm not the one here who has an unhealthy amount of loyalty toward the royal family."
4. "Who cares about his feelings in this game?"
5. "Oh? Teasing from a cool beauty won't work, I guess."
6. "You must be planning to make me use my bracelet."
7. "With a provocative statement like that..."
1. "I never said I wasn't going to use it!"
2. Oops. Was that what made her snap?!
3. "You had a lot of nerve letting master yu refer to you as adorable."
4. None of this would have happened had I not been wearing all this nonsense!
5. "Mngh! I can't stand this!"
6. "Fwah!"
7. "Hold on now, claire."
1. "How are you planning to win when it's three against one?"
2. "Ever the jokester."
3. "Am not alone!"
4. "I..."
5. "What?!"
1. "Ah, this is what I feared..."
2. The kugrets are a warrior household.
3. With their simple physical prowess...
4. "Do it, loretta!!"
1. She's far and above better than anyone else!
2. Lorek! Misha! You're out!
3. "I knew you could do it, loretta!"
4. "Hmmm."
5. "What the heck?! Double outs are allowed?!"
6. "Now, master rod..."
7. "That was an amazing pass."
8. "You too, miss claire!"
9. "It was allowed in my hometown, so, yes!"
10. "House rules!"
1. "Do you think you will be able to stop..."
2. "My blazing ball of magic?!"
3. "Yup!"
1. "The flame troops ?!"
2. "I certainly will."
1. "There wasn't anything in the rules..."
2. "Saying what type of magic we had to use!"
3. "Aaaaaaaaagh!"
4. "Hwaha..."
5. Claire! Loretta! They're both out!
1. "Yaaay!"
2. "Which means..."
3. "I'm the king for a whole day now!"
4. "I'm the winner!"
5. But I have so much summer homework to do...
6. An all-day chess tournament...?
1. "Hold on now."
2. "What do you think you're doing, thane?"
3. "Is forbidden in the rulebook for this game?"
4. "Or are you saying that splitting your team between in and out of the court..."
5. "All I did was follow the rules that said if I scored a hit while being out of the court, I get to come back."
1. "Are you kidding me?!"
2. "House rules can still apply here."
3. "Hmmm."
4. "Here I come, rod!"
5. "That was all I needed to hear!"
6. Whatever thane wants to do...
7. Would still be better than an all-day chess tournament.
8. "This is kinda barbaric."
9. "Their back-and-forth will never end thanks to their distance."
1. "Hardly!"
2. "I won't give up the winning title of king so easily to you, brother!"
3. "You're just doing this because you couldn't play inside the court!"
4. "All you had to do was be honest and say you wanted to play more!"
5. "But it seems you do have fangs to bare!"
6. "I was worried you'd become a bit namby-pamby as of late."
7. "Is that so...?"
8. "In that case, it makes me want to hold on to it all the..."
9. "I am always gunning for the throne!"
10. "Don't get the wrong idea!"
1. "If we're having a sibling spat, let me join in too!"
2. "Double out!"
3. "Yu, you little..."
5. "The winner is yu bauer!"
6. "Hooray! I'm the king!"
7. With their defeat, yu is now king!
8. Master yu will be king for a day...
9. What sort of terrifying orders will he enact...?!
1. "Hmm. What to order...?"
2. "What should I decree...?"
3. "Congratulations, master yu."
4. "Hey, misha."
1. "Could I issue..."
2. "A single order for you as the king?"
1. "I'm so happy. I can't believe I get to spend the night in your room, rae!"
2. "Oh, don't worry about it."
3. "I'm just glad your nosebleed finally stopped, sister lilly."
4. "Heh! ♪"
5. "Heh! ♪"
6. "But..."
1. "We don't have a spare bed available, so whom will you be sharing one with?"
2. "Speaking of, cardinal lilly..."
3. "Why are you here, miss claire?"
4. "That's precisely what I'm here to prevent!!"
5. "Huh?"
6. "I'll be sleeping next to rae of course."
7. "To monitor you."
8. "I won't have any of this nonsense!"
9. "You need to give me time to dote upon my lover."
10. "B-but!"
11. "Why are you leaping to that outcome?!"
12. "Then I will marry rae!"
1. "She's staying with master yu tonight at his..."
2. "Oh, that reminds me. Where has misha gone off to?"
3. "Tonight, misha's bed will be available."
4. "Now, now. Don't worry, you two."
5. "Umm!"
6. "I-I wasn't supposed to say that to you two!!"
7. "To think those two would be the ones to have an immoral relationship!"
8. "Way to go, misha."
9. "Interesting! I wondered where she was headed in such a hurry!"
10. "I-I am, but...!"
11. "I thought you were engaged to master yu!"
12. "Why didn't you stop her, cardinal lilly?!"
1. "Pl-please just leave them be!"
2. "What?!"
3. "Now I am fully invested! Time to learn more!"
4. "A-anyway, you just can't!"
5. "What are you rambling on about?!"
6. "Master yu is a royal!"
7. "If something were to happen between them, misha could become scorned and cast out of school!"
8. "You can't!"
9. "You must not!"
10. "We must stop them before they do something they regret!"
1. "There is no w-way two girls can even conceive a child together! Don't you know that?!"
2. "What...?"
1. What she told us...
2. "Understood."
3. "Thank you, misha."
4. "Master yu. I shall leave your change of clothing here."
5. To put it simply...
6. Was a matter of the utmost secrecy that only a handful within the kingdom knew of.
1. MASTER YU...
2. WAS ACTUALLY A GIRL.
1. It still feels like yesterday when I was told this series would be adapted into an anime. As such, I also attempted to redraw the cover art for this volume. Now that I look at it, this is pretty different, isn't it? The anime, together with the power of the creative staff and voice actors and actresses made a wonderful girls' love show. Be sure to check it out and see which characters make an appearance. I hope you will continue to support the bountiful world of I'm in Love with the Villainess via the anime, the light novel, and the manga!!
2. Hello everyone, this is Inori. Thank you for purchasing Volume 7 of I’m in Love with the Villainess.
3. Volume 7 is part one of the church arc where the girls’ secrets are revealed. Lilly, the popular nun with a foul mouth and wild attitude, finally makes her appearance, and we learn of Rae’s past, making this a very fulfilling read. Thank you so much yet again, Aonoshimo-sensei for an amazing installment.
4. When this volume originally went on sale in Japan, the anime had just begun airing. I think it is a wonderful anime that the production staff gave their all to produce. I was charmed by the performances of the voice actors and actresses as well, so I hope you will enjoy watching Rae and Claire move and speak!
5. Volume 8 will be the second half of the church arc. As the girls’ secrets continue to unfurl, the story will head in a completely unexpected direction. I hope you look forward to reading it!
1. "I guess people avoiding me because of my lineage can't be helped, but..."
2. "But I don't have the greatest position within it."
3. "I am a cardinal within the church."
5. "'A-all humans are equal in the eyes of the spirits.'"
7. "Damn you all!!!"
8. "Damn all you whores!"
9. "But I really would like to get along with the other nuns."
10. "I'm going to work hard today so that I can make friends!"
11. "She's too scary to even approach..."
12. "Psst Psst"
13. "The cardinal really does have a split personality, huh?"
2. With Claire growing more interested in the plight of the country's commoners, she decides to talk to a church official and see what the church is doing for the common folk. When Rae and Claire arrive, they meet a nun named Lily, a strange girl who's sweet and shy one minute and raising hell the next. But what's most shocking about her is that she soon falls head over heels for Rae! Can Rae convince Claire that she only has eyes for her?!