Chapter 42 - A Sweet Girl Won’t Be Fooled By The Villainess

Chapter 42 Nearly Bursting with Laughter (Lovely Ifia, I hope the caramel pudding brings you joy. I regret that you couldn't come in person. Be cautious when going to unfamiliar places. If you need my company, don't hesitate to ask. By the way, won't you introduce me to your new friend?) The words on the card were elegant and graceful, with a faint fragrance lingering. Ifia looked at Amelia's instructions, feeling delighted. She no longer needed to hide in the dormitory. Her uplifted mouth nearly reached the sky. Holding the card in her hand, she fell onto the bed and immediately began tossing and turning, kicking her feet, her agitated emotions hard to express. It felt like she hadn't heard someone care about her in ages. So happy! After venting through her rolling, Ifia sat up again, her once smooth black hair now a mess. Her sparkling eyes blinked as she looked at the card in her hand and couldn't stop smiling. Her strong desire to share led her to focus on the system. [System, look, Amelia is showing concern for me! Your tasks are too trivial, they can't stump me, Ifia. I can complete them in a snap!] [Were the hosts you previously had as amazing as me?] The system looked at its nearly bursting-with-laughter host, not knowing what to say first. The villainess's message was not to show concern at all! She was inquiring. Why did Ifia refuse her invitation at Madame Melanie's fortune-telling house and choose to go with someone else! Moreover, the last line on the card made the system worry for Jessina... This was just too unlucky for the host to attract the villainess's attention, especially since she had not even realized it! She even thought the villainess was showing concern for her. One could only say that the fool couldn't understand deeper meanings, and that first impressions could be deceiving. After initially offering assistance, and then being caring and gentle afterwards... in the host's heart, the villainess was an exceptionally good person. Anyone could be a villain, except the villainess! Especially after suspecting the villainess due to the incident with the butler, Ifia was even more convinced that the villainess was consistent. [You're amazing, host, I truly admire you.] [Your emotionless praise is too perfunctory, I don't like it, give me a different one!] Listening to the host's words, the system could only roll its eyes speechlessly. It was thrown into this world with an SSS-level difficulty without enough time to find a suitable partner and was kicked over by the main god. Now, there was no object to compare with to determine if it was the best! Ignoring Ifia's inflated ego, the system went offline invisibly. Ifia's repeated calls ended in failure, so she stopped harassing the system and got up from the bed, walking to her desk. After observing for a while, she took out a thick theology textbook and solemnly placed the card inside. This kind of commemorative little thing needed to be properly preserved and put in an iron box when she had the chance to buy one in the future. "Irene, the bracelet you made is lovely. Can you teach me? It will be a great gift, and Lanny will surely love it!" "You and Lanny are back together?" "Yes, Lanny told me that he was forced by Britney before, but now that Britney has dropped out, he can be with me again." Just listening to such suffocating words made Ifia want to stop her immediately, without any need for guessing, it was definitely Fiona's absurd love story. Ifia quickly climbed onto the bed and took out the novel hidden under her pillow, eagerly flipping to where she had left off last time. She pretended to be fully immersed in the world of the novel to avoid hearing Fiona and Lanny's bizarre love story again, which felt like being subjected to the Tightening Curse like Sun Wukong, unbearable. Like Irene, Fiona showed little reaction to Lanny's expulsion. The lackluster appearance confirmed the superficial friendship, hardly worth mentioning. Thus, when facing Ifia again, Fiona treated her more naturally than Irene... After all, there was no need to borrow money anymore, and there were no other conflicts with Ifia. Moreover, Ifia was a very qualified listener and had made friends with Jessina in class. If she mentioned it in passing during a chat with the nobles, the love story of Ifia and Lanny would be transmitted among the nobles! If it spread in noble circles later, Lanny would be particularly pleased, and she would be proud. Just the thought of it was so exciting! Of course, Fiona would still be cautious and not reveal her intentions in front of Irene. The last time, taking advantage of Irene's absence, she enthusiastically recounted her love story to Ifia. After hearing it, Ifia was shocked to the core, not knowing if she should praise Lanny for being a master pickup artist or compliment Fiona for surpassing the person who had been gathering wild vegetables for eighteen years... If Fiona were to kill for Lanny, Ifia didn't find it surprising at all! As the voices gradually grew louder, the door of the dormitory was pushed open, and in addition to Irene and Fiona, there were three unfamiliar faces... Ifia had just started at the academy, often daydreaming in class, so she wasn't familiar with her classmates. Unless they were proactive like Lucy and Jessina, most of the students in the class she wouldn't even recognize even if she passed them on the street. Pretending to peek at the doorway, Ifia smiled and greeted Irene and the others, then continued to lower her head, looking as if she were seriously reading her novel and didn't want to be disturbed. In reality, she was all ears, how could a bystander be absent from gossip! The newcomers who had just entered the room didn't disturb Ifia; they sat in front of Irene's desk and started chatting. "Do you know how good Lanny is to me? He actually made me a loaf of bread by hand and added sugar, which was expensive. It made me ecstatic. Lanny is the best man in the world. He..." The first to speak was Fiona. Listening in, Ifia put on a pained mask and wanted someone to stop her as soon as possible! "Hey, did you guys know that there have been missing person cases in Darwa City?" Perhaps hearing Ifia's silent prayers, or maybe others were tired of Fiona's love story, someone quickly interrupted before she could continue. Once it involved peculiar or criminal events, it always grabbed people's curiosity and made them want to know more. "Missing persons case?" "Yeah, two people have been missing for three days. Since they are commoners, the efficiency of the Imperial Police Department is not high. If it were nobles missing, they would have been found by now." "The missing people are all young women. We should be careful when leaving Pris Academy during vacations." While Ifia listened with relish, the system flipped through the script and discovered that the missing persons case in Darwa City was a plot point, and the heroine would be involved, ultimately being rescued by the hero. The process was extremely dangerous! Fortunately, the original plot did not involve Ifia, so the dumb host bound to it should be fine...