Chapter 31: Cliché Heroine
"I-I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to touch..."
"G-Get off me!!" I push her off me, stepping back and quickly getting up. I can’t let her take an interest in me, as much as I hate to admit it, if she decides she wants something with me, it will be hard to get her off my back.
A striking characteristic is her persistence, and I don’t want this clingy heroine treating me like a romantic target.
"I-I don’t need your apologies" I say, looking at her with false disdain. I need to make sure she’s not interested, I brush the dress a little to get the dust off while I see her staring at me.
"Oh... I’m sorry if my action made you uncomfortable...but, you know, you’re cute when you’re angry" She says, tilting her head cutely with a sweet smile, flirting with me.
’Y-You pervert!!’ I had completely forgotten that this was her personality. In the game, it’s the player who decides, so her personality isn’t as evident.
But even though she’s a girl, she’s very "perverse" being perverted, and very flirtatious, and this is already evident seeing that she’s trying to flirt with me even though she just met me.
"You’re disgusting" I say, trying to sound serious. In reality, I don’t have any anger, disgust or any bad feelings. In fact, I think Grace is pretty cool, she’s an amazing, kind and very sweet heroine.
It’s just that as an Otome Game, she becomes a bit "stalker-ish" with her romantic targets, after all, the goal of many Otome Games is precisely to pursue the love interest and conquer them.
So Grace, following this logic, is insistent, annoying, doesn’t easily accept a "no" and tries everything to conquer someone within the obvious laws, she’s not a Stalker, she doesn’t threaten and doesn’t try to do bad things.
She’s just annoyingly clingy and discovers things more through the universal protagonist favoritism than by searching.
"Oh..." She seems slightly disappointed that her flirtation failed, and honestly I don’t trust Grace’s mentality of being monogamous that much.
Demons mostly prefer monogamy, that is, they want to be with only one person for the rest of their lives until death, but humans are less monogamous in this world.
So Grace flirts with all the romantic targets, sometimes flirts with more than one in front of the others, which generates situations of jealousy depending on the route she’s following.
And honestly, I don’t want to be treated like a conquerable NPC in a game, especially by a heroine who tries to hit on all the romantic targets.
I know it’s kind of her role, to try to judge her for doing what she was born to do is wrong, but understanding doesn’t mean accepting, I don’t want her to hold me back, try to conquer me as if I were a trophy, and try to solve everything as if I were fragile.
"Eve, let’s go, we have to buy clothes" I say, turning around as Eve nods, but Grace gets up and quickly stands in front of me.
"I’m really sorry for being impolite, I noticed you feel uncomfortable, if the problem is the dress I can pay for it" She now speaks with gentleness instead of flirtation.
"100 gold coins" I say as she looks confused.
"Give me 100 gold coins and get out of my sight" I tell her as she nods, understanding it’s for the dress.
"I understand, if it’s to appease the situation, that’s fine, but be careful so the money doesn’t attract bad people, and if you need help, call for me and I’ll appear to save you" She says with a gentle smile as she hands me a bag of coins.
Soon she adjusts her cloak and starts walking away, I let out a sigh, mentally cursing my bad luck. Why the hell did I have to interfere with Marie’s route?
’Now the chances of her finding Marie are probably going to drop to 40%...well...at least I got 100 gold coins for a dress that’s barely worth 10 coins!!’ I only see advantage.
"Eve, let’s go buy the clothes right away!!" I say to her, showing her the bag of coins.
"Evelyn-sama, why did you react that way? It didn’t seem like genuine disdain, anger or hatred, so I’m confused," Eve says, noticing that it was just acting, even though no one else noticed it was acting.
"It’s...complicated, don’t think too much about it, anyway we made easy and quick money thanks to that!" I say as I take the money and give it to her with a genuine smile of joy.
Even these 100 coins are a lot for me right now, and every penny counts, with 100 coins, a lot of extra stuff can be bought.
"Now let’s go!" I say, heading in what I think is the direction of the store.
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"I-I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to touch..." I try to apologize for accidentally grabbing this girl’s breasts when I fell on top of her.
"G-Get off me!!" She pushes me off her and quickly gets up, leaving me confused. I know it was a bit rude to have touched her breasts, but her reaction seems exaggerated.
"I-I don’t need your apologies" She speaks coldly and disdainfully to me as I look into her eyes.
’I should apologize, I shouldn’t be causing problems...’ I look more closely at her appearance, she is undoubtedly very beautiful and cute.
"Oh... I’m sorry if my action made you uncomfortable...but, you know, you’re cute when you’re angry" I say, tilting my head slightly and appreciating her beauty as I flirt a little to lighten the mood.
"You’re disgusting" She says, which immediately disappoints me. It seems my little flirtation was very poorly received.
"Oh..." I make a slightly disappointed sound looking at her. It seems I didn’t do well in trying to flirt.
"Eve, let’s go, we have to buy clothes" She says to the girl next to her who is identical to her, but I notice through magic that she is not another person or a twin sister, so this Eve must be some kind of magic.
"I’m really sorry for being impolite, I noticed you feel uncomfortable, if the problem is the dress I can pay for it" I go in front of her trying to apologize, I won’t ruin someone else’s day by not holding back my words.
"100 gold coins" She speaks coldly, leaving me confused.
"Give me 100 gold coins and get out of my sight" She says, and I just nod, wanting to resolve this without fights, so I start taking the money from my cloak.
"I understand, if it’s to appease the situation, that’s fine, but be careful so the money doesn’t attract bad people, and if you need help, call for me and I’ll appear to save you" I say to her with a gentle smile as I adjust my cloak and start to leave.
As I walk away, I think about what to do now. The Demon King hasn’t summoned me yet and I need to wait, but I just handed over 80% of all the money I had at the moment.
"Well...I probably won’t see her again...but she was a really beautiful girl, I wonder if the castle will also have men and women as enchanting as that girl?" I murmur, imagining the inhabitants of the castle.
This kind of excites me a bit to go there soon, of course always with peace in mind. First comes trying to obtain peace, and second comes romance!
"Ah yes, I didn’t even ask that girl’s name...what a shame, I should have been more contained" I’ve already caused some problems in my kingdom by flirting too much with girls and men.
I think the biggest problem was when I tried to court someone who was already married. In my defense, I swear I didn’t know, I would never try to steal someone from another or destroy a relationship.
Since then, I’ve been much more restrained, but a new continent, new people, and the completely new environment have brought back old habits.
"Haa...will I get a really bad stigma in this kingdom?" It would be terrible to have my image tarnished just for giving a little flirtation. I hope that girl lets it go.
A tarnished image means difficulty in achieving peace, which is ironic given that I know this and yet still try to flirt with others, although it’s more a matter of who I am.
After all, who wouldn’t like to be saved by a heroine, live a romance, go on adventures, and eventually get married? Of course, I’m the heroine, not the one who needs to be saved.
But it’s still worth it for me to try to find someone, maybe I’m just too energetic for that.
Honestly, I don’t care if it’s a man, woman, human, demon, angel, or beastman, as long as it’s someone captivating, beautiful, and who can understand and accept my attempts, I think it’s worth it.
It’s not that I want a loveless relationship, I just believe that love is something that is conquered, you slowly make someone fall in love, it’s something that for me is a goal since love usually arises over time in most cases.
I may flirt too much, but I’m not some kind of promiscuous and impure woman, I still keep my virginity to give to the special person I love, and if I get married, I’ll never flirt with anyone else besides the person I married.
"Hmmm...well, I think I’ll take a little walk around the area and then go to the inn" I murmur a consistent plan to do and put aside what happened.
Anyway, I didn’t even need to be saved by that girl, the carriage hitting me would be like throwing a stone at a magically compressed steel reinforced wall.
In short, the carriage would shatter upon hitting me and I would at most get dirty.
I only flirted with that girl because, in addition to being beautiful, I saw that she had a good heart. She didn’t think twice before helping me, thinking I was in danger.
"It’s good to see that there are benign demons who would help a stranger" I murmur with a smile.