I Favor the Villainess Summary

Summary Until Eleventh Chapter

• Enrollment
  Corporate slave OL Oohashi Rei transmigrated into the world of her beloved otome game 「Revolution」.
  The preference of Rei, who’s a homosexual, aren’t the princes who are capture targets, but the villainess Claire François.
  Rather than being discouraged by Claire’s bullying, Rei receives it gleefully.
  She fully enjoys another world transmigration while being observed by the three princes: Rod, Yuu, and Sein, and astonishing her roommate Misha.
  Also, Rei succeeded in obtaining the position of Claire’s maid by “talking” with her father.
  While spending every day in happiness of taking care of Claire together with her coworker Lene, Rei began the struggle to avoid Claire’s eventual ruin.
• Order of the Academy
  Rei, Claire, Misha, together with the three princes became members of the Order of the Academy that’s the governing institution within the Royal Academy.
  Although through the Founding Festival Claire’s bond with Rei deepened a little, Claire still had a way to go to acting dere.
• Commoners’ movement
  The campaign called Commoner’s movement, advocating for equality of every citizen, spread within the academy.
  With the courtyard incident where a certain noble attacked a commoner, the movement grew fiercer.
  Behind that movement was the Naa Empire’s spy who instigated Orso older brother and younger sister to work behind the scenes.
  Although it was Claire and Rei who prevented the attack on noble children inside the academy, Orso family faced the crisis of extinction.
  As the compensation for resolving the incident Rei and Claire appealed to spare Orso family’s lives, despite Prime Minister Salas Lilium’s opposition the king granted their wish, and Orso family was banished from the country.
  Claire experienced a painful farewell with Lene, but she opened her heart to Rei just a little.
• Love scales
  Sousa’s Kingdom’s First Princess Manaria Sousa arrived as an exchange student.
  She’s Claire’s first love, and she tried creating a rift between Claire and Rei.
  Manaria denied Rei’s notion of “I don’t mind being only a maid as long as Claire is happy”.
  Claire and Rei suffered a crisis due to a trivial misunderstanding, but through a rematch with Manaria using the love scales, the distance between two closed in quickly.
  Claire began showing dere to Rei, and Rei began honestly thinking of wanting Claire to become her partner.
• Holidays
  During the holidays, the two decided to return to the port town Euclid that’s Rei’s hometown and where Claire’s summer villa is.
  Rei invited Claire, who was dispirited after her father Dor preached how an ideal noble should be, to her home.
  Rei was welcomed in her home town.
  Among those doing it was an adventurer Louis who had fallen in love with Rei.
  Claire felt hazy.
  Being warmly welcome in Rei’s home, Claire witnessed the difference between lives of nobles and commoners first-hand.
  The two of them tried enjoying their holidays, but a ghost ship appeared off the Euclid’s coast, blocking off the outside world with magical fog.
  To solve the situation, a ghost ship assault team was organized, Claire and Rei also participated.
  The mastermind behind the ghost ship was Louis, whose mother’s life was taken hostage.
  Wishing to eliminate the tragedies brought about by poverty, Claire tackled the poverty issue of commoners.
  Rei wanted to support such Claire.
• Church
  Although Claire began tackling the poverty issue of commoners, the clues were considerably hard to find.
  To discover the workings of the Spirit Church that extends a helping hand to commoners, Rei and Claire visited the cathedral.
  There the two of them met Cardinal Lily.
  She’s homosexual just like Rei, and by a strange coincidence fell for her.
  When the three of them talked about love, Rei’s past became clear.
  To return the favor of being taught the workings of the Church, Claire and Rei decided to participate in the Oferring Dance.
  In addition, the truth that Yuu was a woman was revealed.
  Rei began acting so that Yuu can live true to herself, and so that her close friend’s, Misha’s, love is fulfilled.
  Although Rei succeeded in having Yuu declare she’s a woman during the Offering Dance performance, she was accused of being responsible and arrested.
  Bauer’s King Rousseau took her out of the jail and announced she’d be deprived of her membership in the Royal Academy and given a duty of the King’s special official.
• Royal Palace
  Inside the kingdom, doubts about Sein’s birth and rumors about Sassal Volcano were rife.
  Among them, Rei set out to expose corrupt nobles under Rousseau’s orders.
  Together with Claire and Lily she exposed corrupt lower-grade nobles and tried to expose one fraud after another by using plea bargaining.
  It achieved some results, but it didn’t lead to exposing the essential Dor and Salas.
  However, Rei and co. got in contact with Resistance and grasped a lead on Salas and the late Queen’s infidelity, and under the pretext of the King’s supreme authority they approached Salas.
  Salas threatened that if he is destroyed, François house won’t get away with it, and for the time being Rei yielded to Salas’s threat and made a deal.
  Salas sent assassins to silence them, among the assassins was the black-masked man who appeared during the Commoners’ Movement arc, but somehow they got repelled.
  The deal with Salas was only for appearances’ sake.
  With the familiar’s, Relaire’s, efforts on top of that, Rei and co. succeeded in cornering Salas with the crime of inviting a foreign threat, but they were forced into a hard fight against Lily controlled using suggestion.
  Before the battle could conclude, Sassal Volcano erupted.
  It happened earlier than Rei had assumed.
  The Bauer Kingdom fell into chaos from the worst-case scenario of the unexpected eruption.
  Who encouraged Rei who fell into stupor was none other than Claire-sama, who gave accurate instruction to recover the kingdom.
  Rei renewed her determination to support Claire, but right then arrived the news that the whereabouts of the first heir to the throne, Rod, were unknown.
• Revolution
  With the eruption of Sassal Volcano, Bauer Kingdom faced a crisis.
  With prices soaring from crop failure and merchants buying up goods to take advantage of it, the livelihood of commoners gradually became threatened.
  Among that, with the post of the King empty, nobles with Dor at the helm created a noble-only government.
  Moreover, with the introduction of policy that increased taxes to combat the effects of the eruption, discontent erupted among commoners.
  Those events would eventually lead to the big event of the revolution.
  When commoners began demonstrating, Claire heard the whole truth from Rei.
  Everything was as Dor planned.
  He was trying to bring an end to the aristocracy by being defeated as the representative of corrupt nobles by commoners.
  Rei had got on Dor’s plan and schemed to not get Claire involved.
  After learning everything, Claire acted against Rei’s expectations.
  She chose to perish as a noble.
  Rei pleaded Claire to reconsider, but she was met with rejection, and despair crushed her.
  However, Manaria, who came running, breathed life into her, and she decided to regain Claire.
  On the day of the execution, Rei for the first time told Claire her selfish feelings.
  Please live for me.
  Claire broke seeing Rei’s tears and promised they’d live together.
  Thanks to the efforts of their friends, Rei and Claire overcame the turbulent period of the revolution and finally got together.
• New Life
  A year after the revolution, Rei and Claire managed to settle into a peaceful lifestyle with Mei and Alea.
  Although things were a bit turbulent at first upon discovering that Mei was a quad-caster while Alea had no aptitude for magic whatsoever, it was still smooth sailing for the four of them.
  As teachers, Rei and Claire welcomed their new students, including Lana, Eve and Joel. It seemed like such a life would last forever.
  However, one day, Claire was requested by the Bauer Kingdom to become an exchange student over at the Empire.
  More specifically, it was just a thinly veiled way of asking her to act as a hostage.
  In order to stop Rei, who was vehemently opposed to the idea, from turning down the request in her stead, Claire made the decision to accept it.
  “Are you going to leave me all alone again?” Rei, riddled with despair, posed the question to Claire.
  “I’m telling you to come with me.”
  When the twins cried and pleaded to go with them, they ultimately made the decision to bring them along, and the four of them were now bound for the Empire.
• Transferring into the Imperial Academy
  After Rei and the others arrived to the Naa Empire, they began their lives as students at the Imperial Academy, where they met the Imperial Princess, Philine.
  Although they tried their best to find ways to get close to her, they struggled to find the right opportunity to.
  In an unexpected turn of events, Rei and the others were able to get Philine to open up, and as things progressed, Philine gradually started to grow faint feelings towards Claire.
  Meanwhile, the Pope of the Spirit Church was scheduled to pay a visit to the Empire, leading Rei and the other students to be assigned to monster extermination duty in order to clear the path.
  While they were in the middle of the task, they were attacked by an entity called a “demon”, and they soon found themselves in a dangerous situation until they were saved by Lily.
  Afterwards, Lily taught them about the demons, and how to fight against them. With this knowledge in mind, Rei and the others are now prepared for the threat.

 

Translators: jingle, angela