[{"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-85":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},895250,1171,"Chapter 85: My Own Version of Righteousness","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-85",85,"\u003Cp>[Light Guardi—crack\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Goddammit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I slammed my head on the training room’s walls as the frustration finally caught up to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all those breakthroughs, I still couldn’t cast a single advanced light magic spell? Even if its formula was fundamentally different from what I was used to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the cheats I had should be able to brute force it, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, I was wrong. Unlike Julius, I didn’t have the broad, unwavering sense of righteousness needed to wield it as effortlessly as he did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a stupid limitation...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Major Healing]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I patched up the wound on my head, rubbing my temples as I thought of another solution to increase my proficiency with light magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Math and Equations... that was supposed to be the language of magic, but of course, it had limits; the gods can’t just let mortals surpass them, after all...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>KNOCK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>KNOCK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>KNOCK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is it this time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I checked through the small window on the door, seeing a crowd of male students who were definitely not here for small talk. All of them looked as if I insulted them personally...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s up with that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most already even had spells ready.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment I open this door, they’ll immediately try to beat me up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Non-lethally, of course, they’re way too much of a wimp to commit to what’s already a violation of academy rules; they weren’t even subtle about it like I was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I entertain them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren’t able to enter the training room anyway; it had way too much magic imbued in the walls for them to be able to scratch it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could just leave them alone and continue with my training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that would be pointless... my progress was already stuck, and it was clear brute forcing it wasn’t going to help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe this would be a good change of pace?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, it would make Vivianne’s job of increasing my reputation harder... but... I’ll let her handle the excuses, she looked like she enjoyed it anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fire, ice, water, even air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All coming from all directions the instant I kicked the door open, for people who didn’t want to kill me, they sure as hell didn’t have any qualms paralyzing me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Light Manipulation]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"W-Where did he go!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>FWOOSH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I appeared behind a student whom I observed to be the strongest, using light manipulation to hide my movements by manipulating how light bounced off my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was crude, but it was enough to deal with the students here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit! He can go invisible!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s one down, a lot more to go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The student dropped like a sack of bricks the moment my elbow connected with the back of his neck, his spell dissipating mid-cast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That made two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Panic spread instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Scatter!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bad call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scattering only worked when your opponent couldn’t pick you apart one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Light Manipulation]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I bent the light again, not fully cloaking myself this time, but distorting depth and distance just enough to make my movements unreadable. To them, I was flickering—too close, too far, wrong angle, wrong timing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t let him get close!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bolt of lightning tore through the space where I had been a second ago, blasting a crater into the training hall floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stepped into the caster’s blind spot and grabbed his wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Light Explosion]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A controlled surge detonated through his arm, not enough to cripple him, but more than enough to overload his mind with unbearable pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spasmed once and collapsed, twitching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"W-What the hell is this guy!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn’t they say he only used dark magic!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Idiots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pivoted, catching a fireball barehanded and dispersing it by breaking down its formula through chaos energy. The heat licked my palm, stinging just enough to be annoying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Major Healing]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t even break stride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Too slow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I ducked under an ice spear, kicked off a wall, and brought my heel down on another student’s shoulder. Bone cracked. He screamed and went down clutching his arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining group finally hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear always made people sloppy, especially when it’s from students who barely had an ounce of combat experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You really should’ve thought this through,\" I said calmly, straightening my posture as the light around me stabilized. \"Who picks a fight against someone who took down a lionbright?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They backed up instinctively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re not here because I wronged you,\" I continued. \"You’re here because you heard things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That struck a nerve, and here I was just guessing...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them snarled. \"You think you’re special just because women keep talking about you now!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was it...?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Vivianne had already started working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And why women? Did she seriously not come up with a plan that included men? Well... guess I couldn’t complain much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reputation is reputation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look... if someone likemeis becoming the talk of the academy, that says more about you than it says about me, doesn’t it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You had to have bewitched Lady Crestwood, there’s just no other way!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I raised a brow. Did he seriously believe in his own excuse? After hearing everything about me? He still thought I would entertain someone other than Evelina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You... seriously don’t believe that, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait... entertaining someone else other than Evelina...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Light Guardian]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh... that actually did work...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was a literal idiot...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of copying Julius’s own version of righteousness, why not make my own instead? A righteousness born for one person only.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A goddess, a symbol of perfection itself... Evelina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of that before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"W-What...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd of male students suddenly tripped on nothing, their eyes widening and mouths agape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They just saw a dark user cast a high-level light spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s like seeing physics itself breaking down in front of you, doesn’t help that the person who cast it was someone they literally tried to cripple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have to be kidding me...\" I pinched the bridge of my nose, trying to stifle a manic laugh that threatened to break through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah... nevermind, you’re all still screwed...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Light Sword]\u003C\u002Fp>",1011,"2026-06-03T05:52:53.768Z",1,"novelbin.me","840c8a637012290a245daa0096faf9e06f8724df7fa239d86774e84349383287","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-86","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-127",324,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-cover.jpg"]