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Dark curtain.

I really like this word.

Along with glow-in-the-dark dinosaurs and giant robots, it’s one of my three biggest fantasies.

He manipulates the board behind the scenes as he pleases.

Ordinary people don’t even know that they are being played into his hands.

A protagonist must be someone who realizes its existence and fights against it.

How could a man not have romantic feelings about this place?

That romance still burns darkly in my heart even now that I am a woman.

Not just any mastermind, but the best and worst mastermind.

Achieving one’s goal even by deceiving everyone.

I will absolutely become the mastermind.

For that romance, I…

“I want to go to the academy.”

“… Huh?”

“EST. What does that mean?”

“I want to enroll in this year’s academy!”

“Academy? Why are you, a princess, going to such a sweaty place… .”

“If you don’t send me to the academy… I’ll cut my hair again!!!”

“… … … ?”

———He threw a tantrum with all his might.

‘It’s a bit far-fetched, but… if I want to escape from this invincible palace, I have no choice but to use the ultimate skill I’ve been saving up…!!’

“Keum. Esti Noir d’Abruen. My dear daughter. If you want to get your hair cut, go to the hairdresser… .”

“Abama, if you don’t send me to the academy, I’ll cut my hair really short!! Just like 10 years ago!!!”

“… … … What, what the!!!!!?”

“That, that’s not right!!! Absolutely not!!!!”

It was an early winter day in the year I turned 20, ten years after I had been possessed by the world of the novel.