Chapter 7: Impressive Knowledge of the Original Work! A Pervert with a Gentlemanly Spirit!

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Game world reincarnation stories are all about having unparalleled knowledge of the original work! (＾ω＾)

Chapter 7: Impressive Knowledge of the Original Work! A Pervert with a Gentlemanly Spirit!

While her future stepmother, Mima, is showing signs of good fortune for the future.

Maria, who hadn't given it much thought, also begins to remember her future stepsister, Tomoe.

(Um, I think Tomoe-chan had her "Magic Manipulation Inability" cured by the protagonist, and after they became lovers, she was kidnapped and imprisoned by an evil secret organization of Exorcists, and then she was RIN-KAN'd...)

Maria, who had fully completed all routes of the "My Beloved Flower Blooms at the Gate" scenario in her previous life, naturally, was also aware of the specific future route the little girl before her would follow.

(Even if she doesn't become lovers with the protagonist, she usually end up suffering terribly, and become yandere characters.)

Maria gazes intently at Tomoe, whose bleak future awaits her.

While she welcomes suffering a terrible and miserable fate herself, she finds it heartbreaking to see an innocent, young girl
meet such a pitiful end.

That's Maria for you.

"But she must have enjoyed watching girls suffer terribly in the eroge!"

That's the kind of retort you might expect, but that's not the case for Maria.

In her previous life, Maria was very into the 'key' parts of that kind of eroge.

However, instead of enjoying the girl's sufferings, she empathize with them.

She's very much would rather have all those sufferings thrown at her, instead of those innocent girls.

("I'm the one who wants to be violated, not those girls!

All girls deserve to be happy! So give all those abuse to me!")

This was the kind of self-sacrificing, almost misogynistic, belief that Maria fundamentally held, a complex, fractured set of beliefs.

Even if she was a pervert, she would never relinquish her gentlemanly spirit.

In this life, she's currently in the form of a young girl.

Maria, in her heart, reconfirmed the setting of Tomoe.

(I think she's also suffering domestic violence from Mima-nee because she can't use magic. So if we can can resolve that quickly, everyone will be filled with happiness, right?!)

Having decided on this, and with an extraordinary masochistic drive, she acted with lightning speed.

"Tomoe-san, I'm sorry for being so sudden. ....You can't use your magic as you wish, can you?"

Maria abruptly cut off the flow of conversation and spoke the truth.

The words spoken by the young girl so suddenly shocked everyone present.

"Magic Manipulation Inability" is a condition that cannot be easily detected by appearance or the sense of sensing magic alone.

"Maria, why do you think that...?"

Mima asked succinctly, instead of Tomoe, who was too surprised to speak.

"I thought... or rather, umm, I can't explain it well, but I just understand that it's like that."

"...'Understand'...? What do you mean...?"

"I'm sorry, Mima-nee-sama. I can only say that I understand. It's difficult to explain it in any other words."

Maria gave a troubled look and vaguely brushed off Mima's question.

Even Maria couldn't say, "This world is the world of my favorite eroge, so I'm just familiar with the original work!"

If this answer had come from her previous life, from a middle-aged otaku man, further questioning from Mima would have been unavoidable.

But Maria's beauty, though that of a young girl, was unparalleled, and it prevented Mima from asking any further questions.

She didn't want to corner Maria with any careless words or actions, and unconsciously, she kept her mouth shut.

"...Mima-nee-sama. I might be able to remove Tomoe-san's shackles."

"Shackles—?"

"Yes. That's why Tomoe-san can't use magic. ...You probably can't trust me, having only met me for the first time today. But please, from now on, would you just watch without interfering with what I do to Tomoe-san?"

"Are you... planning to do something dangerous?"

"No. I will never do anything that would hurt Tomoe-san."

Mima gazed intently into Maria's eyes as she said this.

There was no wavering whatsoever in Maria's eyes as she looked back at her; They seemed filled with absolute certainty.

"────Alright. If it will improve Tomoe's symptoms... please, by all means, try it."

"Thank you."

Maria smiled at Mima's reply and got out of bed.

She then approached Tomoe.

"Tomoe-san, please open both of your hands and show me."

"Huh...?"

"Like this. Here."

Maria smiled and held both palms open at chest height.

"L-Like this────?"

Following Maria's example, Tomoe hesitantly spread both her palms open.

"That's right. Just like that."

Saying this, Maria placed her palm against Tomoe's and intertwined their fingers.

Tomoe's whole body tensed up as if struck by lightning at Maria's actions.

It was the first time that a young girl like Tomoe had ever held someone's palms so directly and intertwined their fingers.

She had held hands with her maid, Kanaya, before, but never had a girl her own age, especially one so beautiful, hold her hand so close to hers.

Nervousness and embarrassment made Tomoe's mind go blank.

"Close your eyes..... It's okay. There's nothing to be afraid of."

Smiling, Maria closed her eyes.

Unable to think of anything, Tomoe closed her eyes as instructed.

Then, slowly, Maria pressed her forehead against Tomoe's.

Tomoe, with her eyes closed, flinched for a moment.

"I'm sorry to have startled you... But no matter what you feel from now on, never let go of my hand."

"Y-yes, Onee-sama..."

Tomoe nodded timidly as Maria whispered this to her.

A slight unease and fear stirred within Tomoe's heart.

However, despite having just met, Tomoe felt a strange sense of reassurance from Maria.

It was a victory for Maria's bewitching beauty, as depicted in the original story, and the fearless, mature demeanor of the reincarnated Maria.

"─Now, I will pour my magic into Tomoe-san's body."

Maria spoke quietly, yet with a declaration-like tone.

Mima, Sougi, Kanaya, and Kanaho watched the situation unfold, bewildered.

Like Tomoe, the four of them felt a strange sense of reassurance towards Maria.

But the next moment, they were all horrified.

They sensed a magic power from Maria that they had never felt before.

The magic power Maria unleashed was visible as a strong phosphorescence surrounding her body.

It was literally the immense power of Maria's magic, visibly apparent.

(...!? A child with this much magic power!? Impossible────!!!)

Mima gasped at the quality and quantity of magic power emanating from her niece, Maria.

As the current head of the Madozono family, one of the three most powerful families in the "Exorcist" faction, she instinctively sensed that this girl, Maria, possessed magical power far exceeding that of her own.

[My daughter, Maria, possesses extraordinary magical power.]

[In my estimation, she has the potential to become the most powerful magical being in the history of Madozono, no, in the history of Japan.]

[I am certain she will become the most powerful magical being.]

Mima recalled her sister's words written in the letter.

At the time she read the letter, she hadn't sensed any strong magical power from Maria, so she assumed it was something that would happen when Maria grew up, and hadn't given it much thought.

(To think that one person could possess such magical power...!)

It was no wonder Mima felt not just a shiver, but even terror.

It all stemmed from the 100x magical power cheat granted (secretly) by the Goddess Lukimister upon Maria's reincarnation.

...In the original setting, the villainess, Madozono Maria, already possessed 100 times the magical power of a normal adult woman at the start of the story.

However, now that Maria is a young girl, it's a tenfold decrease, to 10 times that of a normal adult woman.

But because the Goddess's reincarnation bonus was added, it is causing a major problem.

Her current magical power that was already 10 times more powerful than ordinary, multiplied with the 100x of the reincarnation cheat, according to the theory, resulted in a 1000 times magical power higher than the normal people!!

"Since she can't compare it to herself anyway, she won't notice even if I give her cheat magic power."

Just as the goddess Lukimister had intended, Maria had absolutely no idea that her own magical power level had reached such an absurd number.

"Now, here I go, Tomoe-san─────"

Without thinking, she acted on her desire to save the girl in front of her.

───Looking at this alone, one might say that while Maria is certainly a pervert, she is undoubtedly a kind pervert.

AN:

"Even if she is a pervert, she is not a bad pervert (etc.)"

This is a famous quote that should be preserved in manga history... (˘ω˘)