This time, the story returns once again to Christina’s point of view.

Chris is working hard at swordsmanship and martial arts training in order to make herself stronger.

But the way her stats are increasing seems somehow strange…

* * *

The special training with Master Gustav was incredible!

That’s right, as for teachers, Günther-sensei is my one and only “teacher.”

As for Mr. Gustav, I decided to call him my master.

What he put me through had long surpassed the level of what could be called mere training—it was truly worthy of being called special training.

Amazing!!

This is exactly what I wanted to learn!!

Day by day, I can clearly feel myself becoming dramatically stronger.

At this rate, I’ll be able to become a proper adventurer at an early stage!!

I had been thinking “once I turn fourteen,” but maybe I could even leave home earlier!!

Thinking that, my chest swelled with anticipation.

Ah—speaking of my chest swelling, that reminds me: I, Christina, also boast an outstanding figure.

Which means that as I grow older, things start to… show…

My hips aside, my chest, that is…

If my chest gets too large, it interferes with movement, so I usually bind it with a wrap.

When Mother learned that fact, she choked back sobs, but sorry—this is something I can’t compromise on.

I want to live as a man and if I’m bouncing around all jiggle-jiggle, I’ll be exposed as a woman instantly.

Thankfully, my hips have stayed small, so that part isn’t a problem.

Apparently men like women with a “boom-tight-boom” figure, but speaking as a woman, small hips are best!!!

On that point, Christina has small hips.

However, my waist is terrifyingly slim, so I still end up with a beautiful hourglass figure.

Well, as long as I can wear men’s undergarments, it’s fine—but my waist has gotten so thin that my older brother’s clothes no longer fit me properly.

Recently, I’ve had no choice but to have men’s clothes tailored specifically for me.

But lately, something even more troubling has happened.

That would be the abnormality of my stats.

Even now, staring at my status screen, I found myself groaning.

Christina’s stats are frighteningly high across the board.

In the game, she didn’t act particularly smart, nor was she depicted as especially athletic, so I thought this would be a struggle in many ways.

But I never forget anything I see or hear once and as for physical ability—there’s no need to even say it.

I haven’t struggled much at all and I thought this might be unexpected good fortune.

But there’s one stat whose rate of increase is simply wrong.

Not just wrong—its growth can only be described as abnormal.

It’s the value for “Charm,” labeled “CHA.”

When I first saw it (at age five), all my other stats were single-digit values, but CHA alone was already two digits.

Even then, since Christina is a peerless beauty, I thought it was probably normal.

I didn’t usually check the status screen and since Charm is displayed at the very bottom, I barely ever looked at it—so I noticed the change far too late.

The other day, I checked my status carefully for the first time in a while and was horrified.

Only CHA was completely bugged.

I’m sure it said 20 when I first saw it.

Yet somehow, it had become 1820.

I was so shocked I looked three times!!

To find the cause, I decided to check the CHA value every day to see how often and by how much it increased.

And what I discovered was this:

Christina’s CHA increases by exactly one point every single day.

That means seven points per week and thirty points per month.

In one year, that’s 360 points.

This is nothing but abnormal.

In the game DisLove, aside from HP (Life) and MP (Mana), all stats cap at Max 200.

No matter how hard you try, they won’t increase beyond that.

To max all stats, you’d need to reach Lv999.

And I’m still only Lv21?!

And yet my CHA alone has already reached the cap—what am I, a monster?!

And that’s not even the end of it.

Even though the game’s cap was 200, my value kept increasing beyond that.

My current CHA is 1834.

That’s far too inhuman!! It’s terrifying!!

For reference, my current stats look like this:

Lv: 21

HP (Life): 459
MP (Mana): 671
STR (Strength): 93 (–20)
ATK (Attack): 121 (–20)
VIT (Vitality): 114 (–20)
DEF (Defense): 98
SPD (Agility): 120 (–40)
INT (Intelligence): 195
MGR (Magic Defense): 182
DEX (Dexterity): 51
HIT (Accuracy): 78
MA (Mana): 191
SPI (Spirit): 183
LUK (Luck): 20
PIE (Faith): 0
CHA (Charm): 1834

Honestly, these are not stats a Lv21 should be allowed to have.

Lv21 is supposed to be way more pathetic than this.

The negative modifiers are probably because I’ve hidden various weights under my clothes, but even so, this is excessive…

Faith being zero makes sense, since I have nothing but resentment toward the god Ignia who turned me into a villainess.

But isn’t my Luck way too low compared to everything else?!

Well, that can wait.

The real issue is my absurdly high Charm.

No wonder everyone forgives me with terrifying smiles no matter what I do lately.

Could this be the game’s forced narrative effect?

That I’m allowed to do whatever I want, dominate as Prince Alex’s fiancée, commit crimes freely and harass the protagonist Elise endlessly…

Scary!! Way too scary!!

I absolutely have to find a way to suppress this Charm!!

Because I’m a reincarnator—or perhaps because of something Christina originally had—I possess a strange skill that others don’t.

It’s called “Magic Creation.”

Using this skill, I created spells like Mana Consumption Reduction (Extreme), Appraisal Eye (Extreme), Presence Detection (Extreme), Invisibility (Extreme) and Concealment (Extreme).

For some reason, everything I create automatically gets (Extreme) added to it.

At first, I thought it meant the effect was extremely small—but apparently it’s the opposite.

It literally means ultimate-level.

All spells now consume only 1 mana.

Which means I can cast magic as much as I want.

Thanks to Appraisal Eye (Extreme), I can even peek at other people’s stats.

When I used it on Marie, I learned just how different I am—and was shocked all over again.

Most of Marie’s stats were only around 20 to 40.

Thinking about it that way, maybe having 20 Luck at my age isn’t that bad—but still, compared to everything else, Luck increases far too slowly.

I checked other people’s stats too—Father, Mother, my older brother, Sebastian—and they were all fairly similar.

Michael is younger than me, so his values were predictably low.

Father’s Intelligence was especially high at 89 and Mother’s Dexterity was very high at 86.

There are individual differences in stats, reflecting what each person is good at.

Even so, hardly anyone exceeded 100.

Only two people did: Günther-sensei and Master Gustav.

Günther-sensei, as expected, had very high Strength, Attack, Vitality, Defense and Agility—each over 80, with some exceeding 100.

As expected of the captain of the First Division of the Royal Knight Order.

Master Gustav’s values were even higher—generally Günther-sensei’s stats plus another 20 to 30.

Even so, my created (Extreme) magic worked perfectly on them.

Thanks to Presence Detection, I immediately noticed the guards Father secretly assigned to me.

And with Invisibility and Concealment, I can erase my presence, mana and traces completely—making it incredibly easy to shake off guards when I sneak out.

Günther-sensei tried following me several times, but I escaped easily every time.

As an aside, the magic that changes hair and eye color wasn’t something I created—it already exists in this world.

Apparently, very few people even know it exists.

I found a transformation magic textbook in the family library and learned it normally, but such a book is extremely rare—something only a ducal house would possess.

Oh and I absolutely do not create dangerous attack magic!

That would raise villainess flags.

Those kinds of spells can wait until after I’ve completely escaped my condemnation ending—if I ever really need them.

I’m a mild-mannered former Japanese person, a strict pacifist.

The Christina in the game probably didn’t have such a dangerously broken skill.

Or maybe she had it but never realized.

If she had known, she would have abused it, gone straight down the dark path and murdered Elise in a far more brutal way.

Also, in this world, no one can view a status screen.

People can’t even check their own stats.

You could call this protagonist privilege.

So why can I see mine?

Is this the reincarnator special slot?

In the game world too, only the protagonist could view stats.

Otherwise, Christina would have gone even more wild—and Prince Alex would have realized much earlier just how exceptional he is.

As a capture target, his worries include having no one nearby he can truly confide in, having absolutely no freedom and—despite refusing to admit it—suspecting his younger brother might be superior.

Incidentally, the worries of his younger brother, Prince Leonard, are that he doesn’t want to be king at all, yet his mother, the Second Queen, is secretly scheming to put him on the throne—and that he can’t stop her.

He also wants to get along with his brother Alex, but his surroundings won’t allow it and he harbors a strong inferiority complex toward his overly perfect brother.

In truth, Prince Alex’s stats are significantly higher and superior.

That’s not because I used Appraisal Eye on him.

I don’t have a peeping hobby, so I rarely use it. I just remember from the game.

Besides, aside from my brother Michael and Prince Alex, I haven’t met the other capture targets yet.

Oh—Prince Leonard was at the debut, wasn’t he?

I even danced with him, but his presence was so faint I completely forgot.

Well, that doesn’t matter.

So how do I know their stats?

Because DisLove, despite being an otome game, sneakily includes RPG elements.

There’s an RPG segment involving dungeon exploration and monster subjugation.

Eventually, there’s an event where the Saintess and Hero defeat the final boss.

During the RPG segments, you can check the stats of accompanying party members.

There was also that very game-like loop of earning gold and items in dungeons, buying recovery items and equipment in town and spending leftover money on intimacy-boosting items sold at a suspicious shop called the Secret Witch’s Manor.

When the protagonist went solo into dungeons, she could enter endlessly and time wouldn’t pass outside—a very convenient system.

Whenever I was broke, I’d grind dungeons solo.

Thanks to that, the Elise I controlled always leveled like crazy and became a muscle-packed, mana-overflowing battle maniac in the late game—stronger than the Hero.

More importantly, I need to deal with my absurd Charm value.

“Maybe I can create a Charm suppression spell. If it drops to zero, even minor selfishness probably won’t be tolerated… so suppression, not nullification. Keeping it around the game’s Max 200 sounds reasonable.”

Muttering to myself, I paced around my room.

A magic tutor comes to the mansion regularly, but they only teach everyday magic and basic spells.

I’m only ten, after all.

That’s fine.

‘Charm suppression, fixed at 200… Huh?! It worked.’

I created it easily, just like always.

And it even came with Self-Control (Extreme), allowing free numerical adjustment.

I tested it—only I’m affected and I can lower my stats but not raise them.

If I could raise them freely, I’d become a Demon King.

No thanks.

‘Th-thank goodness. Now people will stop the creepy we forgive everything treatment. I want to be scolded properly when I do something wrong. At this rate I’d really become a super-selfish villainess.’

That explains why Marie hasn’t gotten angry lately even when I leave clothes lying around.

To test it, I deliberately scattered my clothes and left them.

When Marie came in with tea, she frowned at the mess.

“Miss! Look at this mess again!!”

Yes!! Success!!

“Sorry, sorry. I couldn’t decide what to wear and forgot to clean up.”

Since I’d scattered them on purpose, I helped gather them up.

Folding and smoothing is Marie’s job, so I didn’t interfere there.

If a duke’s daughter did that, Marie would be scolded by Father—and she herself would scold me first.

I only helped this time to test the suppression effect and felt bad.

The butlers and maids of House Rosenschwert are all serious, kind people.

I actually feel guilty for being selfish, yet they usually forgive me generously.

Only when I truly overdo it do they scold me directly or report me to my parents.

That hadn’t happened lately, which felt strange.

“You are ten now, a proper lady. You must not leave your room in such a state.”

“Okay, sorry. I’ll be careful.”

Smiling happily at being scolded, I saw Marie lean in closer.

“You’re not plotting something again, are you?”

“I-I’m not! I’m not!”

I’ve teased Marie before—releasing a squirrel into the room or creating illusions to scare her—and gotten scolded each time.

I did it knowing I’d be scolded.

Because it meant she cared.

I know, as someone mentally in her thirties, that this comes from Christina wanting more attention.

My parents are busy, my older brother is much older and my younger brother—being the youngest—is always doted on.

This probably would have happened regardless of whether I cross-dressed or not.

And on top of that, Christina started lady’s education at age three instead of six.

All of this must have forced a very young Christina to suppress herself, causing enormous stress.

She likely endured it, suppressing her free self just to be praised and noticed.

Though if that leads to growing into the worst possible villainess, that defeats the purpose…

Parents don’t know their children’s suffering.

* * *

Christina successfully suppressed her abnormal Charm value.

However, her overall stat values are still undeniably abnormal.

And little by little, the feelings of the “Christina” inside the game are becoming clearer.