1. "You've got to be kidding me! You want me to apologize to that joke of a noble?"
2. "She's a criminal's daughter!"
3. "Those charges were never conclu- sively proven, so that's slander."
4. "Hah... So what?"
5. "I thought you were smart, but you don't even understand something as simple as this?"
6. "I really don't under- stand why you always stick up for her."
7. "She's a smollett, from a household with close ties to the royal family as far back as their lineage goes. They're exploit- ers who have always had everything handed to them!"
8. "Someone like her wouldn't give a damn about commoners like us! What's wrong with giving her a taste of real suffering?!"
9. "..."So what"?"
10. "This has nothing to do with being a commoner or noble."
11. "Alta, you don't know anything about evie."
12. "She's the kindest person I've ever met."
Laden…Laden…
1. "At our old school for nobility, I was constantly excluded and bullied because of my background."
2. "Only she treated me kindly in her own special way."
3. "But now you guys are meting out "Punishments" to her, solely because she's a noble and a criminal's daughter."
4. "Aren't you basically the same as those arrogant nobles who think they can freely oppress the common folk because they're so much better?"
5. "Can you really call that "Justice"?"
6. "I won't stand by if you're going to cause trouble for evie."
7. What's going on...? I can't move my feet?!
8. Nor my body!
9. I'd heard many rumors about her, but if she can manage this with just a fraction of her magical power—
10. Just how strong is she?!
11. "...I won't cause any trouble for her from now on! Are you happy now?"
12. "Is that it?"
13. "A-and I'll apologize to her! I'll properly apologize to miss smollett in front of everyone!!!"
2. "*huff*
*huff*"
3. "I do hope you'll keep your word, alta."
4. If she had kept up that pressure for a few more seconds, I'd probably have gone completely insane and lost my mind.
5. It was... It was terrifying!
6. This transfer student... Is a hundred times scarier than the rumors made her out to be!
7. "You dropped your tickets."
8. "Y-you don't need to return them... Take them!"
9. "Ah, I mean... Please, you absolutely must keep them!"
11. "But these are pretty valuable, no?"
1. "Didn't they ruin your uniform before? Just take these as repayment for their offenses... Please accept them!"
2. "Please spare me"
3. Even though I turned back, I'm going to be too late. Elsa's probably already talking to that guy...
4. Dammit... Why am I doing something so pointless?
1. "Oh hey, evie!"
2. "Why did you come back to campus?"
3. "I forgot... Something. So... I came back for it."
5. "Why are you here? Weren't you meeting someone?"
6. "We just finished up."
7. "Hehe... There was a bit of a misunderstanding, but everything's cleared up now! Who'd have thought that person was actually pretty nice?"
1. "P-pretty nice?"
2. Which means... She's happy with him?
3. Judging from her reaction... Could it be that she said yes? Said yes to someone else's confession?
4. "Is something the matter, evie? You don't look too well."
5. "It's nothing..."
6. "...I'm just a bit tired and need to rest."
7. What is this? Am I being possessive? She's always been by my side, so that's why I've become possessive of her...
8. And that's why I'm afraid... Afraid that she'll leave me after unlocking a new romantic route... Afraid of being all alone again...
9. I'm really being too selfish...
10. If I really have her best interests at heart, I should respect her choices...
11. I always knew such a day would come. She's the heroine of this world, after all.
12. I've known this all along, so why do I...
13. ...feel so sad?
14. "Um, evie,"
15. "Would you like to see a play with me?"
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2. Here are some details from the equivalent web novel chapter by Chise to help give some context for this chapter. These notes do not spoil future plot developments, but serve as more information to fill out the story.
3. • The chapter gives some of Alta's backstory: Her father, a common boatman, built the family business from the ground up. Growing up, Alta always saw that her father had to use expensive gifts to curry favor with the rich and powerful and yet, he still got treated poorly due to his origins. This is depicted in the manhua, though not explicitly narrated.