114 – Floor 27: The Villainess Lee Dohee

I arrived on the 27th floor.

The keyword for the 27th floor trial is ‘choice.’

If I had to compare it to something, it would be similar to the ‘success’ of the 22nd floor.

The reason is that I am not the one making the choice, and this is another floor where I have to challenge it solo without a party.

The core of this trial is to be chosen by someone.

Whether it’s being appointed as the head of the guard, inheriting the throne, or signing a contract with a company, you just have to beat the ‘competitors’ and be chosen.

If I had to point out a difference from the 22nd floor trial, it’s that there are always competitors.

And the choice I have to receive is…

“In a month, I will choose the Crown Princess.”

“…?”

‘What, what did he say…?’

[You have entered the Crown Princess Competition of the Rubellion Empire. Overcome your rivals and be selected as the Crown Princess.]

‘Wow… no, wait a minute!’

Looking around, I’m in a banquet hall inside a fantasy medieval palace with a fancy chandelier.

Yeah, it’s that familiar medieval fantasy again.

It’s so familiar that I don’t need a background explanation, it’s just the place where Sword Masters and mages with several circles exist!

But even with the same historical background, the atmosphere can be different.

And on the platform, there was a disgustingly handsome guy in a cool uniform looking down, and around me, there were three young and pretty women adorned with very luxurious dresses and jewelry.

Just by looking at them, I can tell that handsome guy is the Crown Prince, and the three women standing with me are competing to be the Crown Princess.

Looking down slightly, I can see a large chest that can’t be hidden and a frilly dress.

‘No… what is this, a romance fantasy for women?’

I can’t believe it.

Me, Lee Do-hee.

I have to be chosen by the Crown Prince!

Looking around, I see people who look like nobles applauding and gracing this occasion.

“In the name of the Empire, I promise a fair competition to the ladies. Now, if you’ll excuse me.”

As soon as the Crown Prince leaves, I quickly leave my spot as well.

‘Phew… I’m glad I have memory transfer.’

If I didn’t have that, I would have been making a dumb sound like “Huh…?” and getting glares from everyone around me.

‘Receiving memories is still a strange feeling.’

Of course, my ego is still Lee Do-hee.

It’s not like memories from childhood come flooding in all at once, but it’s more like a feeling of remembering something when I see someone related to it or when I want to recall something.

I’ve roughly grasped the situation, so I walk to a corner of the banquet hall to recall my memories.

‘My name is Callisia Crawford. I’ve finally escaped from Pitchina Ivenstein…’

When you get memory transfer, they don’t change your name like that, they just put it in as it is.

‘But why are people getting out of my way?’

No, it’s not just getting out of the way, it’s more like they’re scared and running away.

People quickly move their feet to avoid going where I’m going, and people quickly avert their eyes when they meet mine.

Everyone is afraid of me.

When I look at people’s faces, memories come to mind.

The woman who was startled and ran away when she saw me just now is Celise Elvatein.

I once stripped her naked at a banquet in the past and gave her a very big humiliation. I vividly remember her subtly voluminous, fair skin and her embarrassed expression.

‘What, I did something like that?’

Similarly, the young man who is sweating and turning away pretending not to see me is Lucain Kohades.

He looked down on women and asked for a duel, so I deliberately didn’t accept his surrender and beat him up until he was on the verge of death. His leg, which aches and limps every night, is my work. The mental trauma is a bonus.

The woman who had wine poured on her head and was humiliated.

The man who has a sister who is sick because of me.

The head of a family that is half ruined because of me.

A woman who was slapped, a woman who was hit in the back of the head, a woman who was punched in the uterus, a man who was hit in the balls…

Because of me… because of me…

‘Ah…’

That’s right.

Me, Callisia Crawford.

The Empire’s greatest villainess!!

‘I can’t believe it…’

When children cry, they say Callisia will take them away, and they stop crying. That’s how notorious I am in the Empire!

But how can I be in the Crown Princess Competition in one piece?

I could easily recall that too.

‘My father is too successful…’

The number one war hero of the Rubellion Empire, which is enjoying the greatest prosperity, and the most powerful vassal.

A princess? A young lady from a count’s family?

No, I’m not such a clumsy woman.

The only daughter of the Crawford family, which is the only one in the Empire to have a kingdom.

The woman at the pinnacle of imperial power, excluding the imperial family.

Princess Callisia Crawford.

That’s me, Lee Do-hee.

The Empire doesn’t usually have kingdoms as vassals.

This is because of the risk of decentralization of power and rebellion.

But several special circumstances made that difficult thing happen. Callisia didn’t study this part, so it’s not in her memory.

‘But why did I do so many bad things…?’

The owner of this body has committed so many misdeeds that anyone would say she’s not human.

I try to recall my memories little by little.

‘Is it all because of my father and the Crown Prince…?’

I feel a little guilty for blaming others, but it’s half true.

My father, Bartion Crawford.

He is a powerful vassal of the Empire who is so close to the current Emperor that they call each other brothers.

He fell in love with a commoner woman, not a political marriage, and that woman gave birth to me, Callisia, and died due to deteriorating health.

Bartion loved his wife so much that he didn’t bring in another woman.

If he had a slightly twisted personality, he might have resented me, but he never did. It was the opposite.

‘You… look just like your mother…’

He projected his wife onto me, who resembled his wife, and just let me do whatever I wanted. He knew that his wife, who was a commoner, had a hard time growing up.

So, he didn’t want to raise me like that, and he let me do whatever I wanted and have whatever I wanted.

Callisia, the only blood of the king and loved so much.

Who dares to insult Callisia?

I’ll just make up an excuse and declare a territorial war and destroy them!

Callisia wants something?

If I can’t buy it with money, I’ll kill the other person or steal it secretly and give it to her!

Callisia doesn’t like someone?

I’ll get rid of them from her sight somehow!

It was a side effect of a crazy love.

Callisia became more and more arrogant.

The problem is that there was no big problem even if she did this.

Although the Crawford family was a vassal serving the Emperor, they were in charge of defending the entire northeastern border, so they had more soldiers.

In other words, ‘My dad is stronger than your Emperor.’

In addition, the Emperor sends unlimited trust rather than checks, so there is no one to check her.

Of course, the Emperor is not a fool either.

He knows that he is not going to rebel anyway, but he doesn’t know what will happen if he checks or oppresses him.

Rather than checking him, he is preventing any possible disputes by sending trust.

But if that goes on for two or three generations, problems will arise.

Their relationship of trust will weaken, and if something happens that hurts their feelings, a civil war in the Empire is certain.

That’s why the Emperor wanted to make me the Crown Princess.

If I, the only heir to the kingdom, marry the prince, our kingdom’s nobles and territories will automatically be scattered and absorbed by other nobles or the Emperor. This will naturally and smoothly eliminate the Empire’s biggest threat.

Don’t I have relatives? I don’t have any in my memory.

According to imperial law, there were no close relatives left to inherit the kingdom’s title.

The Crawford Kingdom is stronger than most other neighboring kingdoms, so if this happens, the Empire will enter a period of stability for hundreds of years, as long as there are no major problems.

The Emperor can prevent a rebellion from happening in the next generation, and Callisia has liked the prince since she was a child, so it’s a win-win situation for everyone.

‘The situation has become very strange… But I followed that jerk around because I liked him?’

The Empire’s villainess, Callisia… She liked that disgustingly handsome Crown Prince since she was a child and followed him around.

What was so good about him that she followed him around as if she would give him her liver, gall bladder, and vagina!

‘He’s really handsome… Is his face the reason for everything?’

She even committed the bizarre act of sneaking into his bedroom to sleep with him.

Most of Callisia’s misdeeds were related to the Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince’s name is Daniel.

‘How dare you flirt with my beloved Daniel?’

I will give you the punishment of being naked at the banquet!

‘How dare you secretly give my beloved Daniel a letter?’

I’ll let you off if you eat a whole cake in one bite! Thud!

She gave women humiliating and shameful punishments at balls and banquets, and if the men in their families came to retaliate, she would beat them up instead.

The martial arts that her father taught her to protect his daughter.

But his daughter is so talented in martial arts that she has no rivals in the Empire except for a few.

‘That’s a relief. I don’t have to hide my martial arts too much.’

Anyway, Callisia followed the Crown Prince and committed countless bad deeds.

But all she got from her courtship and efforts was the derogatory term of the Empire’s worst villainess.

And the Crown Prince’s disgust, who was fed up with her actions.

Yeah… what’s the point of having so much power?

The Crown Prince hates me, and this Crown Princess Competition was his last resort to get rid of me.

On the surface, the reason was ‘I want to seat a woman who is worthy of the future of the Empire as the Crown Princess,’ but the Crown Prince had other ideas.

He buys time and creates a reason for the Emperor and King, who want to connect me and the Crown Prince, and somehow worsens my reputation to the point where I can’t be accepted as the Crown Princess.

And he marries another woman he truly loves.

This was the Crown Prince’s plan, and of course, the Emperor knows everything, but he doesn’t have a reason to forcefully stop him, so he’s having a lot of trouble.

Of course, the me who recalled this memory…

‘Damn it, I feel like I’ve eaten 500 sweet potatoes…’

The fact that it’s in my memory means that Callisia knew it too. But why did Callisia continue to like the Crown Prince?

I don’t understand, but the funny thing is that to pass this trial safely, I have to win his love with Callisia’s body.

In other words, I have to be no different from the stupid Crown Prince’s personal whore Callisia of the past.

‘To sum it up, I have to either please the prince I don’t even like, or show that I have the ability to become the Crown Princess.’

I make a rough plan based on my memories.

And now, I stand up from my chair to leave this uncomfortable place…

“Kyaaaaa!”

A young lady who was passing by me was startled and fell backwards.

‘Huh?’

First of all, I grab her waist because she looks like she’s going to get hurt, but

Splash!

The wine she was holding in her hand spilled due to inertia, soaking her face and dress.

“Ah…”

Her face is coolly soaked in red wine, and her white dress is dyed red to the point where it can’t be restored.

And people’s attention is focused on her scream.

I’m also kindly holding the wine glass to prevent it from falling and breaking.

Callisia is holding an empty wine glass.

A poor noble young lady soaked in red wine.

A waist that looks like it’s being forcibly grabbed by Callisia.

This is… it looks like I poured wine on her face and dress no matter how you look at it.

Villainess Callisia.

Today’s 1 evil deed a day is complete!

‘What is this…’

Of course, it would have been a misunderstanding that would have been resolved if she had defended me…

“Hic… sniff, sob… I, I’m sorry, Princess…”

Isn’t she running away crying?

“H-hey?”

‘Wow… this is a done deal, isn’t it?’

In an instant, the defender disappears, and I receive the stinging gazes of the people.

Of course, they’ve been through this for a day or two, so they whisper insults and turn their eyes away. In their minds, I’ve long been the worst bitch in the world who harassed a passing powerless young lady.

But not everyone was silent.

There were those who challenged me like this as if they had been waiting for it…

They are the three Crown Princess Competition members!

‘What, it wasn’t an individual competition…? Or am I just an outcast?’

The three of them are united and hostile to me, and they approach me.

And among them, a woman with blonde hair and red eyes glares at me sharply.

“Callisia, stop your tyranny now! How can a woman who will become the Crown Princess act so violently?”

‘No, I didn’t do anything…!’

I’m wronged, but the person who would have defended me has already run away.

 

 

115 – Who Do You Think Is a Fool?

The woman yelling at me is named Haila Hyndaz.

It’s the kind of family name that makes you think of ice cream.

“Kalicia, you are now a Crown Princess candidate. You need to act like one! Acting like such an uneducated thug, flaunting your chest like a cheap prostitute, is why the Crown Prince dislikes you!”

She points a finger at my chest, which the dress barely conceals and looks ready to burst out, her expression venomous.

Damn.

Her words are so strong that even I, with my strong mental fortitude, am slightly shocked!

‘What is this? Aren’t noblewomen usually more subtle?’

In an instant, memories flash by.

‘Oh my, Lady Crawford, is this your first time seeing this? I guess they don’t have things like this in the Crawford territory?’

Kalicia Crawford replies, “Oh, how fascinating,” to the implication that she’s a country bumpkin who’s never seen anything like this before.

I can see Haila’s hands trembling.

‘Hehe~ Lady Crawford’s outfit is certainly… practical.’

Kalicia replies, “It’s comfortable,” to the jab that her fashion sense is trash.

I can see Haila’s eyes twitching.

‘Hmm… Was Kalicia oblivious? Or was it that she didn’t need to be mindful of anyone’s feelings?’

So, the blackened Haila had tried speaking directly once.

‘Why do you dress like that? Showing off your chest like that makes you look like a whore.’

But what came back wasn’t a reply, but a fiery slap.

SMACK!!!

Kalicia was not one to tolerate insults.

She was knocked out for three days with a concussion after being slapped, but this time, she had no justification to punish Kalicia because she had clearly insulted her first. Rather, her parents scolded her for her bad manners towards a princess.

She had been behaving herself since then, but now she had an opportunity.

‘Please, just hit me!’

Haila imagines what will happen and squints, pulling her neck and chin in, filled with fear.

*

Naturally, I’m conflicted as I watch this.

‘Hmm… What should I do?’

According to my memories, the usual Kalicia would not have tolerated the insult and would have caused a violent incident.

However, I definitely remember a point to be careful of during the Crown Princess competition.

[During the Crown Princess competition, any candidate who harms another candidate physically or non-physically, or engages in any unfair act that prevents them from continuing the competition, will be disqualified from being a Crown Princess candidate.]

These were the words spoken directly by the Crown Prince before I possessed this body.

This is the rule and the core of the Crown Princess competition.

‘Is she trying to make me angry on purpose?’

This is a trap that Kalicia, who used to be a villainess before I possessed her, would have definitely fallen for.

But from my perspective, this was such a ridiculously clumsy scheme that I was wary of whether this was really the end.

But I can’t just let this go.

‘If you thought I was the old Kalicia, you’re wrong.’

“Lady Hyndaz, how can you say such violent things? Isn’t Lady Hyndaz the one who is unqualified to be the Crown Princess?”

I grab her chin, which is trembling with fear, and lift it to meet my gaze.

I imitate Kalicia’s usual expression and look down at her with an arrogant expression.

“Huh…?”

As expected, the other person is flustered.

“And a prostitute… How dare you say such a thing to a princess?”

My expression changes to a serious and cold one.

I wanted to glare at her with murderous intent, but I held back because that could be considered another threat.

THWACK!

I take off my glove and throw it in her face, raising my voice.

“For the crime of insulting the Crawford family! For the crime of insulting a princess! I want to cut off your head right now, but I can’t because of the Crown Princess competition. Instead, I challenge you to a duel of honor!”

Kalicia’s booming voice echoes through the silent banquet hall.

A duel of honor.

It’s simple.

When nobles have a dispute, it’s a way to settle things cleanly with strength. In the case of disputes between women, they usually don’t fight directly, but send out their family’s knight.

Of course, you can’t just apply for this out of the blue.

But right now, Kalicia has clearly been subjected to tremendous verbal abuse. Even though Kalicia doesn’t have any allies, the nobles who were watching take a step back this time.

‘Lady Hyndaz has crossed the line a bit.’

‘Even so, she insulted a royal family member from a family of war heroes…’

‘It was too obvious of a ploy.’

‘If the Crawford King had heard this next to him, he would have started a war right away.’

They were whispering and acknowledging the insult.

Now that some time has passed and peace has been restored.

The younger generation doesn’t know much, but the older nobles have seen and heard it directly.

The power and achievements that the head of the Crawford family possesses.

If the head of the family had been next to her, he would have turned Lady Hyndaz into a handful of strawberry-flavored ice cream.

Of course, Kalicia barely knows anything about it. She roughly knows, ‘My dad is super strong.’

As the situation unfolded like this, the two other Crown Princess candidates who came with her were also distancing themselves from Lady Hyndaz with expressions that said, ‘Hmm… this isn’t the situation I expected?’

“Ah…”

She finally understands the situation.

But the words she has already spoken cannot be taken back.

“The condition is that the loser withdraws from the Crown Princess competition. What do you say? By the way, I will be the one to step up.”

“Me…? Directly…?”

Haila was very flustered.

She even uses honorifics, which she doesn’t usually use, because she was overwhelmed by the momentum.

She had planned to sacrifice one side of her cheek to drop Kalicia from the Crown Princess competition, and then stick by the side of the friend who would become the Crown Princess and live a life of luxury, but that plan was all gone.

That stupid beast Kalicia is speaking like a human instead of resorting to violence! It was something she could never have expected from her perspective.

There were no choices left. She couldn’t think of a reason to refuse the duel.

Did her family have a knight who could face that big-chested monster?

No matter how much she thought about it, she didn’t.

She imagines her family’s precious knights being beaten to a pulp by that chest monster.

She finally realized what she had done.

Calling a princess a prostitute… She really had no excuse even if she was dragged to prison. She then realized why her parents had scolded her instead of protesting to Kalicia.

“The date is the last day of the banquet, two days from now. Please discuss the details with my butler.”

She coldly looks down at Haila and walks out.

Thud…

In the very quiet banquet hall, only the sound of someone collapsing and the sound of my heels clack, clack echoes.

And as I was leaving, I ran into the lady who had wine spilled on her, looking at this side from outside the door.

A frightened expression.

A shrunken figure.

Yet, I feel hostility rather than apology.

I can read a lot of information from her expression.

“Ha!”

Flinch!

“You did that on purpose, didn’t you?”

If I had fallen over as it was, she was probably planning to make it look like I tripped her. Then, I would have accidentally gotten up in that position.

‘I wondered why she didn’t even try to protect the wine in her hand…’

I just thought she had low motor skills, but it was a kind of plan.

‘Seriously, women are scary. Scary.’

When I glared at her menacingly, she couldn’t say anything and froze in place.

“Forget it.”

Thanks to her, I got a justification to eliminate one of my competitors anyway.

I’m almost grateful.

With that, I leave the quiet banquet hall behind and return to the Crawford family’s mansion in the capital.

Thanks to the memory transfer, it wasn’t difficult to distinguish our family’s carriage and coachman.

“Oh, you’ve arrived? Where shall I take you?”

The coachman speaks nervously, unable to make eye contact.

In my memory, this coachman is the guy who has been working for years, enduring Kalicia’s tantrums.

That means he’s someone who desperately needs money.

“To the mansion.”

Everything proceeds smoothly with just one word from me.

No one bothers me. The escort knights follow along well on their own, and the coachman drives the carriage quietly.

When I arrive at the mansion, the maids take care of everything on their own.

My clothes are changed automatically, and I’m washed automatically.

‘What is this? Why is this so comfortable and nice?’

It felt very nice to have pretty women attend to me with such care. Especially when they washed every nook and cranny, even the secret places… It felt so good that I was slightly aroused.

I had a hard time holding back my moans.

As I stayed still, I was soon changed into comfortable clothes and laid down on the bed.

‘Wow… Being a villainess is good?’

There’s a reason why people say it’s comfortable and nice to be a villainess.

As I was lying on the bed, the butler came to report.

“You’re here?”

To lie down and speak informally to an elderly grandfather, but I can’t help it. Wouldn’t it be strange to suddenly start using honorifics?

Even if I act like this, this old man takes care of me with the utmost care.

He was a comrade of my father in the past, and he always looks at me as if I were his granddaughter. He’s a bad adult who participates in making Kalicia a villainess.

“Yes, the official document regarding the Crown Princess competition has been issued. I will explain it as simply as possible.”

According to the old man’s summary, the Crown Princess competition consists of a total of five stages.

It starts right after the Empire’s Founding Day banquet in two days, with a basic skills test in the first week.

The second week involves actual experience with the people’s livelihood.

The third week involves the Crown Prince’s personal test.

The fourth week involves virtually taking on the duties of the actual Emperor and Empress.

And the last two days are the final interview and evaluation.

“Wait, what… Why is this so serious?”

A trial within a trial, what the heck is this!

And what is the Crown Prince’s personal test?

“The most important thing is the final evaluation. The judging ratio is 20% for the Crown Prince, 30% for the nobles, and the remaining 50% is voted on by non-hereditary nobles.”

“Non-hereditary nobles?”

Non-hereditary nobles.

They are nobles, but the title disappears without being passed on to their children when they die.

Usually, administrators, advisors, and knights working in the imperial palace are included here.

“They say they randomly select them the day before and vote. So, it’s impossible to manipulate unless you win over all the non-hereditary nobles in the imperial palace.”

Yeah, the Crown Prince… he’s really determined.

Let’s say that the nobles can be won over as much as they want because our dad has the greatest power.

If you combine the forces that weren’t won over there with the Crown Prince’s votes and the votes of the non-hereditary nobles, he thought that the villainess would never be able to win.

The votes of the non-hereditary nobles are likely to be based on a truly objective judgment of their usual behavior and the competition process, rather than on interests or personal gain.

By doing this much, even the Emperor couldn’t dare to oppose it.

“Wait, why is this so serious?”

Lee Do-hee, who thought that she would just live kindly and then ambush the Crown Prince at the end and launch a pregnancy attack because it was a Crown Princess competition.

She was drawing a picture in her head of constantly bringing the Crown Prince to climax with her sticky pussy, making him cum again and again, and eventually corrupting the pleasure-soaked Crown Prince as a male.

Eventually, he would become unable to be satisfied with any pussy other than her own, and in the end, he would return to her.

‘Wait, since when did I take it for granted that I would use my pussy in trials?’

Shocking.

I was definitely not a woman who would spread her legs so easily?

‘Okay, now that it’s come to this, I’ll win with my skills!’