[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess":3,"chapter-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-107":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I'm in Love with the Villainess!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},895184,1171,"Chapter 107: A Hundred Point Bounty","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-107",107,"\u003Cp>The room went quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several observers paused mid-movement, glancing toward the main overseer like he’d just suggested setting the campus on fire. To be honest, he probably kinda did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...New?\" one of them said carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main observer kept his eyes on the dormitory district—the one currently being shredded apart by violet tendrils and abyssal blades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Concrete collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buildings split.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two silhouettes kept clashing at the center like natural disasters wearing human skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing complicated,\" he said lightly. \"Just a little incentive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*** Dormitory District – Ruins\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ZIP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A spike of darkness slit my throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ZIP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another one cleaving straight through my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Profaned Recovery]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, the entire street looked like it had been chewed up and spat back out. Walls perforated. Asphalt gone. Lamp posts twisted like wet rope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kind of nostalgic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reminded me of when I was deployed to a battlefield to eliminate a high-value general.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"S-Stop!\" Herman roared, his voice cracking as the pressure squeezing his skull mounted, grinding down his will to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He split his focus, attacking while flooding his skull with dense dark magic, the only thing keeping it from popping like an overripe egg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then hit me,\" I shot back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Needles of darkness rained down like a storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, that kind of attack would force someone to retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I planted my feet and refused to move, fingers locking tighter around his head as a wild grin carved across my face in the heart of the chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skin tore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tore again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Closed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Echo was disgusting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every recovery spell I used stacked twice more behind it. Every manipulation multiplied. Every action echoed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt less like fighting and more like cheating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which, to be fair, it kind of was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y-You’re a monster—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah,\" I said calmly, tightening my grip another inch. \"That tends to be the conclusion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His skull screamed under my fingers. Not metaphorically—literally. Dark magic shrieked as it was compressed, bent, forced to reinforce something that was already failing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ZIP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another spike punched through my chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ZIP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two more tore through my abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Profaned Recovery]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wounds sealed instantly, violet light flaring as Echo doubled it, then doubled it again. I barely felt the impact anymore, just a dull pressure, like rain hitting armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Herman’s breathing turned ragged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His spells were losing rhythm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is why I didn’t rely on being a pure mage; just even the slightest lack of focus and your entire strategy crumbles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re making a big mistake,\" he rasped. \"If I fall here—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"—I gain twenty points,\" I finished for him. \"Yeah, I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My grip tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then... as expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>FWOOSH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An observer flew in on a hovering disc, his coat and entire body wrapped in layers of shielding magic cast by the others who stayed behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the only way they could step in between us without risking the observer being injured—or even killed—in the crossfire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Arden and Illinalta: Eliminated Herman Frey, 20 Points]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did it still count as Kevin being part of my team?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, that makes things easier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Special bounty event started]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Arden: 100 Points]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>E-Eh...?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*** Academy Lake\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina walked through a field stained with blood and ash, the remains of professors and students alike, each one snatched away by the Observers before she could deliver the killing blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a massacre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An entire camp of students and an ambush party of professors were wiped out by a single person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a bore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She scoffed, inspecting the area for any valuable artifacts that could have dropped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I should have stayed with Cael for longer...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina couldn’t help but regret her choice; surely another three hours wouldn’t have made much of a difference, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You’re insatiable, master]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I don’t want to hear that from a succubus.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina snickered. She was starting to get used to her presence, well... she had to, considering it now lived in her thoughts and was granting her power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Special bounty event started]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Arden: 100 Points]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the academy speakers chimed in all at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina’s eyes widened at the reveal. Did she hear that right? Was I really granted a bounty of a hundred points!?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What did he do this time!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina turned in the direction where she sensed I was, using her succubus powers to track the faint traces of my magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant she locked onto my location, her knees nearly buckled under the sheer, crushing density of the magic that slammed into her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’W-What was that...!?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought with wobbly legs, summoning a pillar of darkness to help support herself from collapsing onto the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[It’s your instincts. You have a natural attraction to powerful magic users, especially the ones you’ve already... well, you know, slept with.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’T-That’s a thing!?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Well... makes sense you humans never documented that behaviour, most would kill their host before a discovery like that could even happen.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The succubus inside her choker giggled. Should she have told her master that information earlier? Yes. But would that have been any fun? Not at all. Besides, it wasn’t a violation of their demonic contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t as if Evelina had asked for the information in the first place anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She steadied her breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slow in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slow out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pressure didn’t disappear, but it stopped overwhelming her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like standing too close to a bonfire. Still hot, still dangerous. But just... survivable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Idiot,\" she muttered under her breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not annoyed or angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just exasperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you even fighting to make that much noise...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hundred-point bounty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t something the academy handed out casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was reserved for monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For walking catastrophes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For things that warped the balance of the exam just by existing, like Corvus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And apparently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I qualified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[What do you plan to do?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina hesitated slightly, sure I was powerful and could handle myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a hundred-point bounty was still a hundred-point bounty; the sheer concentration of students who would gang up on me would be insurmountable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t even sure if I could survive something like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even worse, she was supposed to stay solo the entire examination and only interact with me when she knew no one was looking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The succubus knew exactly how to get her master moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Y’know, what if other girls try to save him before you?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’W-What did you say...?’\u003C\u002Fp>",1063,"2026-06-03T05:52:53.768Z",1,"novelbin.me","e949767ac6e3262a35742ab576b1aa5959d832c35e626f41ada7e51ca5a9cbab","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-55","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-54",324,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-cover.jpg"]