Chapter 1: Graduating From the Academy of Magic

Prince Jeord, president of the student council, stood on the podium as representative of all the students graduating that year.

Just as last year, the blonde prince with blue eyes was met with blushing and sighing by the female students. This time, his speech was even accompanied by some crying.

This was the academy’s graduation ceremony, and I, Katarina Claes, was one of the graduating students.

I had only spent two years here, but I had made a lot of memories in that short span. While looking at my fiancé smiling from the podium, I thought of all that had happened during my stay at the academy, and of all my efforts before entering it. The entrance ceremony had made me so nervous...

When I was eight years old, I hit my head and regained the memories of my previous life. There I used to have an average family and unapologetically otaku hobbies... until I was killed, still young, by an unfortunate accident.

Next thing I knew, I had become Katarina Claes, a duke’s daughter.

I was pleased to find that my silky brown hair and (slightly menacingly slanted) blue eyes made me prettier than the average, roundish face I had in my previous life... until I realized that it belonged to the evil antagonist ofFortune Lover, the otome game I had been playing the day before my death.

In the game, Katarina was engaged to Prince Jeord, and she did everything she could to hinder the romance between him and the protagonist. If the player managed to get to the Good End, the villainess would be exiled out of the country, and, should they fail and get the Bad End, she would be killed. Doomed either way.

In order to avoid said doom, I started taking all possible countermeasures back when I was eight, and, a few years later, I anxiously