The kid in front of me had shining silver hair and big round eyes that shone with the color of the sky. He was literally sweating in his nervousness and looked like he wanted to cry...

But...why...?

In the game, Mattius was the coolest character!

He was supposed to be the silent and cool type that would melt a girl's heart. He would rarely smile too, and if he did, he would cause every woman around him to pass out.

So why the heck is he such a wimp in real life?!

"Hello?" I questioned the kid in front of me.

"H-HI! I'M...MATTIUS!!! ...N-NICE TO MEET YOU!" the kid yelled in his nervousness.

"...Right...Uh...Anyway, my father and I must go...get something to eat...so...err...yeah..." I tried to say politely.

Something is definitely wrong with Mattius.

Very wrong.

...Did the storyline change?

Mattius is supposed to be a smart, calm, cool, and collected character. He isn't supposed to be a wimpy coward who cries at the sight of a girl.

In the game, Cordelia met Mattius at Greenwood Academy.

Cordelia had very little friends at the time. In fact, the only people she knew were Florence, Grey, and Ash, who all secretly hated her.

In her desperation to escape her loneliness, she clung to Mattius, the lone wolf of the school, who also didn't have many friends.

However, Mattius didn't want or need any friends. He preffered to quietly spend his time studying. After all, Mattius was a very studious and hardworking kid.

This was because he had incredibly strict and abusive parents. So in order to make them feel even a little happy that he was alive, he studied until he was even smarter than the prince, Florence, who was known to be the genius prince of the century.

But Cordelia believed that studying was a waste of time and threw away all of Mattius' notebooks into a lake under the idea that she was "helping" Mattius.

Not only that, she did numerous other things to stop him from studying and to get him to notice her. Cordelia wanted her "friend" to only pay attention to her.

Mattius' studious behavior dropped thanks to Cordelia and his parents noticed. His parents grew angry at their son's worsening behavior and physically abused him even more.

This caused Mattius to resent Cordelia more than he already did.

But even before Cordelia began to interfere in his business, he had already disliked her. After all, Cordelia was only using him in order to feel less lonely.

Cordelia didn't view Mattius as a person. She viewed him as an object.

She was utterly fake in every way.

And Mattius hated it.

One day, Mattius met the heroine in the library. In the beginning, he didn't really have a big impression of her. In his eyes, she was just a normal girl.

However, the next day, he discovered that his perfect test scores were tied with another person's. Up until that point, he was always the undeniable top of the school, so he was surprised to hear that someone was able to match his scores.

Eventually, he found out that it was the heroine who tied with his scores.

The two of them met again in the library later by coincidence and they slowly bonded.

At some point, the heroine discovered some scars on his body that his parents gave him and healed them with her light magic.

They became closer over time...UNTIL CORDELIA CAME ALONG TO RUIN EVERYTHING!

She was mad that her only "friend" was falling in love with a commoner, so she harassed the heroine to oblivion.

Mattius found out about Cordelia's harassment to the heroine and went crazy. After being abused and used for so long, he finally cracked.

He abducted Cordelia and tied her somewhere in the woods.

Using his beast tamer magic, he asked every single creature in the woods to take one tiny bite out of Cordelia to eat. Of course, every creature, including the venomous ones, agreed.

So each of the creatures in the forest slowly came to take one small bite out of Cordelia. After a few months, there was nothing left of Cordelia except for bones.

Throughout the whole time that Cordelia was in the woods, she went absolutely insane from the pain she felt as each creature came to eat a bite of her.

No matter how hard she screamed for help, no one came to save her. After a week, the pain was so bad that she actually lost her mind and went crazy.

Mattius used some sort of magic-infused object to make sure Cordelia wouldn't die until her brain was consumed completely. So, she couldn't die until every single piece of her was gone.

Obviously, this meant that she was in pain the whole time.

Every once and a while, Mattius would visit her to have a "talk" while Cordelia was being eaten alive. In Cordelia's insanity, she fell deeper in love with Mattius for some reason...

Mattius was disgusted by Cordelia's change in mental state and stopped visiting, which left her to die alone.

When she died and was reported missing, no one investigated her death.

Her pile of bones was left in the forest to decay.

So basically, out of every death that Cordelia could experience, the one in Mattius' route was the worst.

So, to me, Mattius is the one I need to watch out for the most.

But, right now, Mattius is scared of ME!

I SHOULD BE SCARED OF HIM!!!

Ugh...

This is going to be troublesome.

"Nice to meet you, Mattius...I'm Cordelia..." I said slowly while trying to understand what was happening.

"YES!?" Mattius yelled.

"Umm...Yeah...Let's be good friends from now on...?" I said in confusion.

This kid is genuinely scared of me...I wonder why...

"Y-YES!? GOOD FRIENDS!! YES!?" Mattius said enthusiastically.

Out of curiosity, I looked at Mattius' parents...and nearly laughed out loud.

His parents were giving him a look of absolute confusion and anger. Their expressions were saying, "What the heck is our stupid kid doing?!"

"Of course, Mattius. Do you want to explore the festival with us?" I asked out of courtesy.

I was expecting him to say no...but he accepted my offer.

"I WOULD LOVE TO!" Mattius screamed.

Everyone around us stopped talking and turned to see who was yelling.

Ugh...this kid is literally...he's just...ugh...

Why couldn't he just decline my offer like a normal person?!

"Greeeeeaaaaat...Let's go eat some food, okay?" I said with a little bit of sadness.

"YEAH LET'S GO!"

"Yeah..."

In the meantime, I guess I'll eat some food.

All this confusion is making me hungry...

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Five Hours Later

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Om...Nom...Nom...OM...NOM...NOM NOM NOM!!!!

Ever since I've started eating five hours ago, I haven't been able to stop.

Food!

There's so much delicious food EVERYWHERE!

MWAHAHAHAHA! IT'S ALL MINE!

MINE!

While I was eating, Grey, who was acting as my poison tester, was slowly becoming irritated by me. Every time I got something new to eat, he had to use his magic to test for poison.

In case you were wondering, about four of my meals so far have been poisoned. Of course, all of the suspects were captured.

"Hey! Let's eat some more food, Daddy!" I cheerfully said as I dragged my personal poison tester [Grey] with me.

Grey merely chuckled.

"I see...It seems that I need to do more work...Are you sure that you want to make me work this hard for some measly food?" Grey said with a dark expression.

"A-Ah! It seems that I'm s-suddenly not hungry anymore! L-Let's s-stop eating shall we?" I said quickly.

...Yeah...um...overworking Grey is not a good decision...

So instead of eating, we decided to walk around the festival.

"So...Mattius...Are you enjoying the food...?" I asked the cowardly boy quietly.

"Y-YEAH! I-I am...Ugh...I'm sorry for acting like such an idiot earlier in front of all those people..." Mattius mumbled.

Well...I can't disagree with him...He was acting pretty stupid. At least he knows that he's an absolutely dumb idiot.

"It's fine. Let's just continue to walk around, okay?" I said politely.

"O-Of course!" Mattius squeaked.

I sighed and continued walking around the place. While we were walking, I saw something shiny on sale. Out of curiosity, I decided to walk closer to it.

In a small stall far away from the others, there was a gold pendant that was carved into a dragon. It was attached to a thin gold chain and it hung above the other things on sale.

The dragon pendant had two small rubies for its eyes and was delicately carved to look alive.

To be honest, I have never seen anything carved so beautifully. I could barely look away from it.

I chuckled to myself.

What if I bought it as a present for Ace? After all, the pendant strangely resembled him.

"Um...Forgive me for asking, but how much is this pendant worth?" I asked the old lady behind the stall.

"It's not for sale," the old lady replied curtly.

"...Why do you keep it on display if it isn't for sale?" I asked with confusion.

"...I don't need to justify myself to you, right?" the old lady replied in a snarky manner.

"I see..." I replied with annoyance.

"...One day, you're going to understand the worth of this pendant...Young kids these days don't know the value of these things..." the old lady mumbled to herself.

"Yeah...of course..." I tried to say politely.

The only thing I could think at this moment was that the old lady was a little crazy.

After a little bit of awkward silence, I turned around to find my dad...but he wasn't there. In fact, the whole group that I was walking with was gone.

Did I get separated from the others?!

Shoot!!!

Ugh...I guess I'll need to call for Ace and ask for directions back to the group.

Just before I could rub the dragon's mark on my ankle, I heard a huge crash in one of the alleyways near me.

In the corner of my eye, I could see a small kid, with his face covered, running away from a few adults cloaked in black.

No way...Is this about to become a cool fight scene?!

I want to watch it!!!

Like a complete idiot, I decided to follow the suspicious people in the alley.

Hehehe...It's time for me to show off my stalking skills! I learned this skill after years of working with the male leads, my father, and Sir Maddy.

Every single one of them has tried to sneak behind me before...It was kind of creepy, but I learned from them.

Quickly, I quietly erased as much of my presence as I could. I began to stalk the people in the shadows.

I ran after the people and listened carefully to what they were saying.

"Stop running, you stupid kid. We'll get paid less if we're late to return your body," one of the adults muttered.

Hmm...I think I'll name this guy...Psycho #1.

"We're not going to hurt you that much...We just need to slice your throat real quick..." another adult said to the kid they were chasing.

For the second guy...I'll name him...Psycho #2.

"Could you just let us kill you?! It's tiring to run on a sunny day like this..." Psycho #1 cried out.

The kid that was running away from these guys remained silent. Judging by the kid's physique, the kid was around the same age as me.

The kid's head was completely covered by a hood too, so I couldn't get a good look at the kid's face.

I wonder who it is...

Actually...now that I think about it...how the heck is this kid able to run so fast?! He's literally running as fast as one of the male leads.

I have had years of intense training to be able to run as fast as I am...and this kid is matching my maximum speed easily. This is not fair...

"All of us know that you're on the brink of death. Whether you run away or not, you're still going to die. We're just here to confirm your death..." Psycho #2 said.

"Yeah, so can you please slow down...? You're working us over time...and I have a party to go to after this..." Psycho #1 said while looking at a watch he wore around his wrist.

The kid is on the brink of death...? But...he can't possibly be injured too much. If he's terribly injured, then there's no way that he can sprint like he is doing now.

I observed the kid more carefully and noticed that his black clothing was drenched...in blood.

How the heck did I not notice the huge stench of blood before...? This kid is going to die if he doesn't get help now.

But...I am a little confused.

Right now, this kid is sprinting at impossible speeds. How is it possible to run like that when you're heavily injured?! How fast could he run if he wasn't injured?!

However, even though he can run like a madman easily, he won't be able to escape these trained assassins easily. After all, the guys behind him were also able to run at high speeds.

Should I help him?

He needs help soon.

I should call for help.

...But...maybe, if I can save him by myself, the male leads will finally respect me! If I save him by myself, the male leads will have no excuse to tease me anymore!

Ehehe...I'll go save him by myself...

Of course, I realized that I was about to do something extremely stupid...but I don't care. So...yeah. I'll just deal with my own stupidity, okay?

After coming up with a quick plan in my head, I decided to reveal myself to the guys I was stalking.

"What's going on here...?" I asked while acting as if I randomly walked in on them by accident.

All of the guys, including the kid, stopped running and turned around to look at me.

"Oh, great...we've been discovered...by a cute little teenage girl..." Psycho #2 groaned.

"Does that mean we actually have to kill someone today...?" Psycho #1 questioned.

"...Yeah...it does..." Psycho #2 replied to Psycho #1.

Umm...Are they thinking of killing me?

Hehehehe...there's no way that these guys will cause me to die. I will not let them kill me...After all, if I die, I won't be able to eat food anymore.

"...Wait...Do you know how long it has been since we've both played with a girl before...?" Psycho #1 asked.

"If I recall, it's been way too long since we've been able to have a little taste..." Psycho #2 replied with a grin.

"Are you down to try this girl? She's incredibly cute! Actually...doesn't she almost look like an angel?!" Psycho #1 exclaimed.

"Wait...you're right. She's...so...cute...I've never seen anyone with a perfect face like her's!" Psycho #2 said with shock.

"Yeah...I wonder if we can mess around with her for a little bit...?" Psycho #1 said excitedly.

"But...we're in the middle of a job..."

"Why don't we capture the boy right now? I'd rather deal with this cute lady here than to chase after an annoying kid..."

"That sounds like a good idea...You go catch the boy and I'll go tie up the girl."

"Alright. It's a plan."

Umm...are they being serious right now? I didn't expect them to be pedophiles...To be honest, I expected them to try to kill me like a normal person.

But instead of crying or being scared like I should have, I chuckled.

I don't fear pedophiles anymore...I have been Sir Maddy's student for five whole years.

And in case you've forgotten, Sir Maddy gives off a pedophile aura every single second of the day, so I am used to this.

I gave a silent thanks to Sir Maddy for always acting like a pedophile around me and prepared myself.

Psycho #2 walked up to me and cracked his knuckles.

"Sorry, young lady! We're going to have to be a little rough with you from now on...but we'll kill you as soon as we're done, so don't worry about suffering too much," he said with a wink.

Ugh...these guys are disgusting.

I nearly puked on the sidewalk.

"Oh no! Please don't hurt me! I want to live!" I yelled while fake crying.

In order to save the other boy, I'll have to pretend to be helpless for now.

"You should know this...but when you cry, it makes guys want to hurt you even more," Psycho #2 chuckled.

As he got closer to me, I almost chuckled myself.

When I'm done dealing with them, all of the male leads will HAVE to respect me!

I guess it's time for me to teach these pieces of scum a lesson...

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A/N: I feel as if I have made Cordelia too stupid...but oh well...

I hope you guys haven't given up on her yet...

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Also, I have a question for you all!

Who do you guys the unknown boy is?

Tell me if you think that:

A) The unknown boy is just an unimportant side-character.

B) The unknown boy is someone important that Cordelia already met.

C) The unknown boy is someone important that Cordelia has not met before.

D) The unknown boy is someone not listed above. (If you pick this, what do you think the person will be then?)

E) The unknown boy is answer A, B, and C(?)

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I'm really curious about what you guys think will happen next, since I don't know what you guys think while reading my story...

Anyway, thanks again for reading/voting/commenting!

Okie byeee!

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