The Lily Blooms in Another World: Since My Engagement Was Broken Off, I Will Enjoy Living with My True Love, the Villainess! - Chapter 1

Inside the carriage.

Miyako hummed a tune she couldn’t contain.

What a wonderful birthday this was.

The refreshingly clear sky.

The pleasant breeze.

The carriage swaying lightly.

And sitting beside her, the villainess noble lady she’d yearned for all these years.

Fuuka was right there.

“Hey, Lady Fuuka.”

“I’d prefer if you stopped using such an insincere form of address.”

“Whoa, so forward!?”

“What are you talking about? You stole my fiancé, then practically kidnapped me, and now you’re using honorifics?”

“Ah, well. Then, Fuuka-chan?”

“What is it?”

“Fufufu, I just wanted to say your name!”

“Shall I kick you?”

Glared at sharply by eyes framed with thick, fluttering lashes, Miyako fell silent.

Ah, so cute!

Because, what part was cute? More than anything, even while glaring, she wasn’t shaking off Miyako’s hand gripping hers on her lap. That was adorable!

Miyako squeezed Fuuka’s cool, slightly cold hand tightly.

“What is it?”

“Nothing, just I’m so happy~”

“Have insects started breeding in your head?”

Ah, even her sharp retorts were precious!

She shouldn’t make her too angry, though. Miyako stayed quiet for a while.

A brief silence filled the carriage.

“…Miyako.”

“Yes!?”

Responding with sparkling eyes to being called, if Miyako had a tail, she’d surely be wagging it wildly.

She wasn’t panting with excitement but being this happy just from having her name called was a kind of talent.

—By the way, when she tried an animal personality test back in the real world, her result was ‘dog.’

“What was that earlier?”

“Huh? What was what?”

“I mean, that… that thing!”

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘that thing’.”

“Ahh, enough! About whether you admire me or not!”

Ahh! Miyako exclaimed.

“That was a confession!”

“…You’re seriously unwell, aren’t you? Shall I introduce you to a doctor?”

“But the more I got to know Fuuka-chan, the more I fell for you.”

“Me?”

“Yep.”

Miyako nodded.

In the otome game world, if you followed the standard route, Fuuka would walk the path of a defeated villainess.

But when Miyako saw her character profile, she fell in love at once.

“Your strong sense of responsibility.”

“Your hardworking nature.”

“How you’re actually not a morning person, but force yourself to wake up early to study.”

“Being skilled in white magic.”

“Pretending not to know things to let Klaus save face, when you’re actually very knowledgeable.”

In the otome game world, all those traits were used as digs against the heroine.

“How you work hard to earn your father’s attention—”

“W-wait! Hold on!!”

“Hm?”

“How… how do you know such things…?”

Before she knew it, Fuuka was looking at her with a completely taken aback expression specifically, the look one gives a stalker.

“I… following you must have been a moment of madness.”

“Wha—!? Wait, that’s not it!!”

Oh no.

She’d said too much.

Miyako hurriedly shut her mouth.

That was information she shouldn’t know in this world.

She’d messed up.

At this point, she’d probably have to tell Fuuka her ‘secret.’

“Um, actually, I have the [Clairvoyance] skill.”

“Clairvoyance? That special skill that lets you see the future and past?”

Special skills.

Supernatural abilities rarely possessed by this world’s inhabitants. So-called innate talents.

As an otome game player, Miyako knew the future.

Perhaps because of that, she had a skill allowing her to occasionally learn about events outside the game’s scenario through fragmented dreams beforehand.

Namely, prophetic dreams.

“I learned about Fuuka-chan through that ability.”

“…How much did you see?”

“Everything, I guess.”

Being harshly criticized at home after her engagement was broken.

Being abandoned by the father she respected.

Still not giving up her efforts.

She’d learned all of that through [Clairvoyance] after coming to this world.

“Then why did you do something like steal my fiancé?”

“That’s…”

She’d learned this through [Clairvoyance] too.

If Miyako hadn’t become engaged to Klaus. In other words, if Fuuka hadn’t had her engagement broken, Fuuka would have died in an unforeseen accident.

And if Miyako had ended up with Klaus as originally planned. On their wedding night, Fuuka would have lamented her misfortune and chosen death.

Why? she wondered, but no matter how many times she dreamed it, the outcome never changed.

Reluctantly, to change that ending, Miyako became engaged to Klaus as per the otome game’s default route and then manipulated him into being the one to break it off.

What she learned next through [Clairvoyance] was Fuuka’s life after the broken engagement.

She felt her love for Fuuka could no longer be stopped by anyone.

She vowed that she would definitely make Fuuka happy.

Incidentally, getting Klaus to propose breaking the engagement also involved using [Clairvoyance] and employing every trick in the book, but that’s a story for another time.

“No matter the reason, I can’t forgive a man who would abandon Fuuka-chan so unfairly, or a family that treats you so carelessly.”

“Don’t speak ill of Lord Klaus or my father. It’s all due to my own inadequacy.”

“It’s not inadequacy! …Sorry. But this is how I truly feel.”

Miyako took Fuuka’s hand again.

Then, she pulled out a small hidden bouquet of roses and offered it to her beloved Fuuka.

She’d actually have preferred white lilies to match Fuuka’s lustrous black hair, but apparently lilies couldn’t be cultivated in this world.

Miyako gazed at the dignified, beautiful maiden with her distinctive sparkling matcha-colored eyes.

“I, Miyako Florence, swear with my entire being and this [Clairvoyance] that I will absolutely make Fuuka-chan happy!”

At that declaration, Fuuka’s bluish-black eyes widened in surprise.

Then, her cheeks rapidly flushed crimson. A sound like pffshuuu… seemed to echo.

Because. Being confessed to like this… was a first in Fuuka’s life so far.

Moreover, the other party was the same sex, and her former love rival who had taken everything from her.

Fuuka was bewildered.

Even so. Even so, what was this thrilling, bubbling feeling in her chest?

“…Happy.”

“Yes, let’s be happy!”

“M-me…?”

Even though someone like her, with a broken engagement and unable to repay her family, had no right to be happy.

Tears welling in her bluish-black eyes, she hugged the forced bouquet tightly. The scent of roses tickled Fuuka’s nostrils.

And then, Fuuka shook her head.

“No. I am the eldest daughter of the Hamilton family. I can’t just abandon my home like that.”

“But, but! Will the Hamilton family make Fuuka-chan happy!?”

“Wha—!”

Memories of being neglected resurfaced in Fuuka’s mind.

In that house, Fuuka was a tool for political marriage.

Even so—.

“Two weeks.”

“Huh?”

“In two weeks, the Hamilton family’s pursuers will surely find me. Until then… make me say, ‘I’m happy.'”

Miyako blinked her matcha-colored eyes in confusion.

Two weeks.

Make Fuuka happy within that time limit.

“…~ Of course!!”

Miyako shouted.

In other words, this meant Fuuka wouldn’t reject her for two weeks, right?

Whoa, what does that mean!?

Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, there’s a chance!!!

“Yahhooo~~~!!!”

The refreshing morning.

The galloping carriage.

Miyako’s cry of joy echoed through the sky.

“Speaking of which, where is this carriage headed?”

“Ah. Sorry, Fuuka-chan, I didn’t even tell you our destination.”

Gazing at the scenery rushing past the window, Miyako answered.

“We’re heading to my family home.”

“…What?”

“Ah, by the way, it’s in the Attica region.”

“Whaaat!!!!???”

Fuuka stood up involuntarily.

The Attica region was far from the royal capital of Ode, the so-called frontier.

“I-it really was a moment of madness after all—!!!!???”

The refreshing morning.

The galloping carriage.

Fuuka’s scream echoed through the sky.

—Incidentally, the Attica region is famous as a rice-producing area.

Thus, begins Miyako and Fuuka’s bittersweet two weeks!