The Main Heroines are Trying to Kill Me

Chapter 443: Creation

“Are you hurt?”

“Cough, cough...”

At that time, it was Frey and Ruby who saved me while I was holding my throat and coughing painfully.

“Let’s get out of here first. You’re in bad shape. Ruby, you...”

“I have some business with this guy.”

“...Then I’ll go out with Roswyn first?”

After that day, my life changed completely.

The Sunset Duchy, which had been tormenting me, was almost exterminated by Ruby after that day.

Of course, being one of the three great duchies that even the royal family couldn’t easily touch, it was difficult for a maid of uncertain status to bring it down.

But the influence of Frey and the Starlight Duchy was beyond imagination.

One day, after the Emperor, looking very displeased, gave orders to his ministers, the Sunset Duchy quietly vanished.

“This is not like the Emperor at all...”

“Probably, the influence of that family, right?”

“Well... no matter how reckless the Emperor is, he wouldn’t dare ignore the Starlight family.”

“By the way, the Starlight family has been moving strangely lately... Is something going to happen?”

Only a few people witnessed the usually amiable empress and her husband leaving the emperor’s room with cold expressions and made a fairly accurate guess.

That’s right.

The ropes that had bound and choked me all my life were untied so easily.

So I was rescued by the maid Ruby, the rightful heir Frey, and the members of the Starlight family.

...So what am I now?

Lost without a goal or reason to live.

What should I do?

It was only natural.

I had lived my whole life being trained as a helper for the Hero, a tool.

With the ones who enforced that goal gone in an instant, it was inevitable that confusion would follow.

“You want to become a maid at the mansion?”

“Yes.”

So, in the midst of my confusion, I eventually went to Frey one day and made that proposal.

“Because I am the Hero’s helper.”

Since I could no longer maintain the status of a noble, I wanted to serve as his maid for the rest of my life.

At that time, that was the only thing I could do for Frey.

“Is that really what you want?”

“...What?”

But Frey immediately refused my words.

“If you say that with no life in your eyes... I can’t accept it.”

“...”

Instead, he said that and pushed me away.

“Then... what should I do?”

It felt like my entire life was being denied.

If you react like that, what was all the pain I’ve endured?

What happened to all the time I’ve held on for your recognition?

“What am I supposed to... do...”

So, I asked, almost crying, and his simple answer came back.

“From now on, find it yourself.”

Hearing that, I gritted my teeth and shouted.

“Y-You...!!”

You annoying person!

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Since then, regardless of my intentions, time flowed and flowed.

“Um... Ms. Ruby. May I offer some advice?”

“No.”

“There’s no point in regretting it after it’s too late.”

Thrown into the world without direction, I now amusingly find myself counseling Ruby about her worries.

How did things come to this?

Well, a lot has happened.

Thrown into the world suddenly, losing my status, for the first time I had to work part-time to survive.

I took real classes at the academy for the first time, not just liberal arts.

I made friends for the first time. Ate lunch together, went on trips...

A year living not as a tool for the Hero, but as ‘Roswyn,’ was truly enjoyable.

“And then confess! Eek!”

“...Tch.”

And Ruby here, in front of me, was one of my best friends, who I depend on the most among the friends I made as Roswyn.

She was also my savior.

Without Frey and her, I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy this freedom and happiness.

“Right, I haven’t confessed yet today!.”

“...Ahem.”

By the way, she really, really liked Frey.

If you teased her a bit, it was so obvious.

She always blushed when she was around him, and they always flirted, making everyone else around them crumble in frustration.

It would be weirder if someone didn’t notice it.

“...You’ll just fail spectacularly again today, won’t you?”

“Isn’t it better to try and fail than not to try at all, like you, Ms. Ruby?”

Look at that sullen face. It looks like she was afraid and anxious about losing Frey.

“Then, I’ll be taking Lord Frey~”

“...”

“Lord Frey~ Here’s a may lily...!”

Thinking that, I walked to Frey and handed him the flowers.

“...Well done, Roswyn.”

Then Frey patted my head and praised me.

“Thank you for fulfilling my request.”

“...Yeah. You’re so annoying, Frey.”

The reason I’ve been beside Ruby every day helping her confess to Frey lately was because of his sly request.

“You’re really annoying. Asking a lady to do something like this.”

“...Haha.”

According to him, it was to observe her strange reactions lately.

For a hero, that excuse was so annoying.

“Take the flowers. I can’t throw them away.”

“Sure.”

With a cold expression, I placed the flowers in his pocket and quietly turned to look at Ruby.

...This is bad.

Then I saw Ruby’s determined expression.

It wasn’t the ambiguous look she usually had when she stared at Frey or secretly wrote in a heart-decorated letter.

Today she seemed like she was going to do something drastic.

Did I provoke her too much today?

...This wasn’t good.

“Roswyn. It seems you’ve found yourself now?”

“...What?”

With a dark expression, I was grinding my teeth when the annoying Frey asked that question.

“Unlike a year ago, there’s a spark in your eyes now?”

“Oh.”

“I’m really glad.”

As I wore a dazed expression, Frey continued to ruffle my hair with a soft smile.

“Could you not bring up someone’s dark past?”

“...Oh, sorry.”

“You’re really annoying.”

I replied in a blunt tone, and watched him scratch his head apologetically.

Come to think of it, it’s already been a year.

Although I often called him annoying, the truth was, I am deeply grateful to him.

He not only saved me but also helped me find myself.

The reason he pushed me away wasn’t that he was truly annoying or hated me.

At that time, I was nothing more than a lifeless doll made only for him.

But because he pushed me away, I was able to come out into the world and explore who I really am.

Instead of learning how to seduce Frey, I learned how to make friends.

Instead of learning how to please him, I learned how to make myself happy.

Instead of finding things he liked, I found things that I liked.

Thanks to that, Roswyn, a second-year student and vice president of the academy, was happier than ever.

“Hey.”

“Yes?”

And I also set a new goal in life.

“So, what about my confession?”

“...?”

The annoying man standing in front of me.

The one I was forced to love and adore unconditionally all my life.

“When are you going to accept my confession?”

I’ve come to love him.

“Roswyn? Wasn’t your confession part of our plan...?”

“Wow, you’re really annoying. You’re going to brush it off like this?”

The reasons were varied.

One day while working part-time at a grocery store, I noticed someone stealing food. I followed the person, and to my surprise, it was Frey in disguise, anonymously donating to an orphanage.

He couldn’t tolerate injustice and always took action.

Whenever he dealt with annoying nobles with his high status, he would shut them up and never flaunt his power, even playing with commoners.

When I was rescued and woke up slowly in the carriage, I saw him applying ointment to my neck without treating his own wounds.

I found out that even after he pushed me away a year ago, he always helped me from behind, creating job opportunities for me.

He was secretly working to restore my status as a noblewoman.

There were more reasons to like him than to hate him.

So, I fell in love with him.

“I think I really love you.”

“...”

“It’s not because of the plan or as a helper of the Hero from that garbage education, blindly liking you.”

But I didn’t think I’d end up confessing so suddenly.

Because Ruby suddenly acted that way, I got impatient.

“As ‘Roswyn’ who you helped me find, I love you, you annoying person.”

“Hmm...”

“Are you going to reject me again? You need to take responsibility for the life I lived for you.”

Well, now that it has come to this, I had to face it head-on.

Ruby was my friend and savior, but I couldn’t give up on love.

She seemed like she might confess today as well, so we had to compete fairly to see who got chosen.

Fortunately, the ‘Roswyn’ I’ve regained seemed ready for a fierce battle.

Contrary to what my father always said, I am very beautiful and charming.

I am the second most confessed-to person in the academy.

That was enough to be a strong competitor, right?

...Although the first most confessed-to person was Frey.

But still.

“Oh, and you don’t need to restore my noble status.”

“...How did you know that?”

“My status is fine as long as I’m your wife.”

Still, I’m going to play it safe.

“I don’t mind being a concubine.”

“That’s–”

“By the way, wouldn’t you give me flowers too?”

“Huh? Suddenly?”

“Even so, I’m still your helper, right? If I receive that, I can make you strong enough to defeat the Demon King in one blow...”

- Boom!!

“...What?”

Just as I shyly pulled Frey’s tie, a loud noise startled me, and I turned my head.

“It’s the Demon King’s Army!!!”

“Ahh...!!”

And screams began to echo from all around the academy.

“No wonder Ruby was acting strange lately...”

“What, what is this...”

On the day I confessed, the Demon King’s Army attacked the academy.

“Roswyn! Come this way!”

“Ah, ugh...”

And everything started to go wrong.

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“Goodbye, everyone...”

“”...?””

“Please, never remember someone like me.”

A few years later.

As Ruby mumbled something and came out of the room where Frey was bedridden, she started crying and went back in.

No.

I was certain that something was wrong.

No way...

The day Frey became a hostage to that damned Eye during the Final Showdown.

In fact, I had overheard Ruby and the Eye’s conversation.

- I’ll give you another chance.

“What?”

- A chance to turn everything back and make Frey happy.

The content was simple.

In exchange for saving Frey and giving everyone a chance, Ruby would be killed as the public enemy.

But Ruby had clearly walked away from it, and I had dismissed it as nonsense and forgotten about it.

“Ruby...”

“She’s acting strange today...”

Was it true after all?

- Crackle, crackle...!

“Ahhhh!!”

Before I could finish my thoughts, screams echoed from the room.

“Ah... No...”

When the world turned upside down and everything became blurry, I saw it clearly.

“No.”

Ruby’s form was transforming into the Demon King’s appearance I had seen before.

“No, Ruby...”

I desperately reached out, but it was already too late.

- Crackle...!

The world turned upside down.

“Goodbye, Roswyn? Hehe...”

And after that.

“What...”

The first thing I said to the young Frey holding a bouquet when I first regained my senses...

“...You look really annoying.”

Yes.

That was probably what I said.

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“...Ugh.”

Roswyn, lying quietly on the desk, woke up with a gasp.

“Huff, huff...”

She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and weakly turned her gaze to the paper in front of her.

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