Get Ahead of the Fallen Heroine and Make the Bull-Headed Man the Victim

52. What? The intel is fake?

At this moment, Allen didn’t need to say much; he was certainly feeling a considerable amount of humiliation.

Although he couldn’t use his full strength to avoid exposing his identity as a demon, the fact that he was being trampled underfoot by a mere human thug infuriated him.

As the saying goes, the damage may be low, but the insult is extremely high.

Thus, he wanted to grab the ankle of the foot pressing on his chest, hoping to throw his opponent off balance and bring them down.

But how could Noah let him succeed? He quickly retracted his foot and, in one smooth motion, kicked Allen’s chin hard, sending the blonde gentleman sliding joyfully across the lawn.

Of course, saying it was a ‘hard kick’ was merely the maximum strength that a female adventurer in this world could exert; it still couldn’t break through the defenses of the high-level Allen.

“You, you barbaric guy! I-I can’t stand this anymore!”

But the problem was that it wasn’t just Noah who had limitations. Allen, who had been kicked away, immediately tried to get up and tear off his disguise to shout, only to suddenly notice other servants from the marquis’ estate watching from a distance.

In the end, he had to continue to forcefully maintain the demeanor of a refined scholar, his face flushed as he turned his furious roar into a comical complaint.

“Heh heh! What a coincidence! Actually, I can’t stand it either… I can’t stand looking at your face!”

Compared to Allen, Noah was much more composed.

Since she was playing the role of a female thug disguised as Valentina, Noah’s tone and actions were naturally quite crude, presenting herself like a violent maniac.

There was no intention of dialogue; she simply wanted to pummel Allen.

As her words fell, Noah charged at Allen once more, unleashing a flurry of punches at his pale-faced figure.

Seeing that the servants nearby couldn’t help, Allen had no choice but to hurriedly defend against Noah’s attacks.

“Hey, Allen! Your skills aren’t half bad! Just now, I saw you obediently take two kicks from me; I thought you enjoyed the pain!”

Noah, who had never expected to win against Allen through brute force, continued to mock his character in the pauses between her attacks.

After all, Noah’s goal was to have Valentina, who had been deceived and trampled by Allen multiple times in the original story, defeat him herself.

But that didn’t stop Noah from humiliating him.

“Don’t get too cocky! I just mistook you for Tina!”

As Allen skillfully countered the attacks from the imposter princess, he retorted.

He was now very certain that this rude and savage person, despite having the exact same appearance as Valentina, was definitely not the same individual.

It must be some morally corrupt female adventurer who had used a magical item to change her appearance, and the only person who could possess such a magical item was Princess Delia.

However, he couldn’t quite understand why the other party’s personality was so vile. How was it so different from the information he had heard from his subordinates?

Moreover, her strength was significantly greater than what the intel had suggested, causing him to misjudge and take two kicks from her.

Now that he realized the information was false, he adjusted his strength and began to engage in a struggle with her.

At this moment, Allen was still thinking that once this matter settled down, he would definitely impose severe punishment on the subordinate who had given him the wrong information.

But then, an attack aimed at his vital points startled him back to reality, forcing him to dodge in a panic.

No way? This thug is way too brutal! Who fights seriously while targeting below the belt?

Before Allen could voice his complaints, Noah’s next round of attacks came down like a rainstorm.

And they were either aimed at Allen’s lower regions or his face, giving off the impression that nothing else mattered as long as those two areas were damaged.

“You madwoman! You have no sense of martial ethics!”

Allen didn’t actually think that her strength could break through his defenses, but being targeted in those two areas was hard for his pride to accept, so he couldn’t help but shout at her about her lack of martial ethics during his counterattack.

“Haha! What martial ethics? Unlike you highborns, if I weren’t despicable, I’d have been dead long ago!”

Dodging Allen’s attempt to grab her arm, Noah spun around and executed a roundhouse kick. Although she didn’t land a hit, her laughter grew increasingly reckless.

It was the kind of laughter that would make a princess shout in anger, “Don’t make that face using someone else’s appearance!”

“I’m going to take you down here! Then I’ll deal with those princesses who treat me like a pawn in their royal squabbles! That way, I might just become a true princess myself!”

According to her original plan, Noah laughed maniacally, continuing her assault on Allen while uttering these shocking words.

Moreover, Noah deliberately increased her speed and strength, making it seem as if she was entering a frenzied state, growing more ferocious the longer they fought.

“Wait! Have you taken some kind of forbidden drug?”

Allen, who had already struggled to understand the discrepancies in the information, suddenly considered a possibility due to Noah’s statement.

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That’s the forbidden drug that can enhance combat power, but also drives one into a frenzied state.

“Hahaha, that’s right! I drank a full three doses! I feel absolutely amazing right now!”

In truth, he hadn’t drunk anything; he was simply letting Noah mislead Allen by happily tugging at his hair, even adopting a more bizarre stance, with a smile on his face that was increasingly exaggerated.

If it were physically possible, it wouldn’t be impossible for his mouth to stretch from the corners of his lips to behind his ears.

“Three doses?!”

Upon hearing this, Allen’s expression suddenly shifted to one of realization.

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Ah, so he drank that much of the forbidden drug, no wonder! No wonder!

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been kicked in the first place.

Right, that’s it! It’s not that he was careless; it’s just that the other party went to such lengths for just two kicks. Almost all of the subsequent attacks were dodged or blocked by him.

It makes sense, doesn’t it? How could he possibly be attacked by a mere woman? Women are nothing but his playthings.

But what Allen didn’t know was that Noah had already guessed his thoughts.

Rather, this was Noah leading him to think this way.

Allen believed Noah was looking for a chance to take him out.

But in reality, Noah was just looking for an opportunity to kick him a couple of times; now it was time to slip away.

Thus, just as Noah had expressed feeling absolutely great, he suddenly pressed his head down while displaying a pained expression.

“Ugh, what’s going on? The side effects hit way too fast!”

Noah deliberately acted as if he were in discomfort, and the dangerous atmosphere he exuded diminished significantly.

This reaction further convinced Allen that the other party was suffering from the side effects of having taken too much of the drug.

At this moment, Allen also lowered his guard, adopting a smug expression as if to say, ‘This is what happens when you step on me!’ He disdainfully remarked:

“Hmph! This is the price of becoming stronger, you idiot woman! It’s absolutely impossible for you to take away everything from Princess!”

— Because the one who will take everything from her is me!

Of course, Allen didn’t voice this thought.

Moreover, he was starting to feel that being kicked twice wasn’t such a big deal after all.

Seeing the other party’s disheveled and embarrassing state, Allen felt that it was beneath him to squabble with such a minor character.

…But he couldn’t let her off completely. After this incident was over, he would make sure she experienced his terror in a more personal way.

“Ugh!”

Watching Allen suppress a grimace and regain his smugness, Noah almost couldn’t hold back the corners of his mouth from twitching.

Then he pretended to make a run for it, using his ‘last bit of strength’ to dash toward a patch of grass.

“Don’t think you can escape!”

Allen hadn’t forgotten that his purpose for coming was to control the counterfeit Valentina, so he quickly chased after him.

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But he wasn’t actually that anxious, because in his view, the imposter lost balance and tripped as soon as he dashed into a patch of low shrubs, likely due to the side effects.

After that, Allen never saw the other party get back up.

It must be that the side effects were too strong, leaving him unconscious on the ground.

When Allen finally saw the imposter of Princess Valentina sprawled face down behind the bushes, fingers still pointing forward as if desperately trying to escape, he couldn’t help but think:

“Hmph, idiot. You think you can take away the woman I have my eyes on? Just a third-rate nobody!”

Allen let out a dissatisfied snort, but a satisfied smile crept onto his lips.

However, at that moment, Noah had already shed his disguise and returned to his dilapidated stronghold, the ruined temple, where he was watching everything unfold through a magical monitoring device, also wearing a satisfied smile.

Yes, there truly was an imposter of Valentina in this plot.

In the original storyline, she would follow Delia’s plan to attack other nobles.

Unfortunately, this imposter had been knocked out by Noah from the very beginning, allowing Noah to take her place and attack the higher-ranking young master of the Clemens Marquisate.

Then, after using her identity to openly kick the blonde Allen, whom he found displeasing, Noah suddenly withdrew, seamlessly swapping her back without anyone noticing.

Because Allen believed the imposter had taken forbidden drugs, it was entirely possible for the person involved to lose a segment of memory. The self-righteous Allen wouldn’t realize that the person before him was someone entirely different.

As for why Noah insisted on having Allen receive Valentina’s imposter instead of simply taking his place and handing the imposter over to the real Valentina himself?

That was, of course, because Noah wanted Allen to experience the bitterness of being a victim.

Only when Allen handed the imposter over to Valentina would his favorability increase, and later, being despised by the magically corrupted Valentina would only deepen his suffering.

“Please don’t thank me, Mr. Allen. We’re practically the same when it comes to disliking the victim Clyde!”

Watching the scene on the monitor where Allen was carrying the imposter in a princess carry towards the room, Noah wore a bright smile.

As if he had just done a great favor for someone with all his heart.

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PS. Oh no, I clearly owe more updates, yet here I am with another 3,000 words.

N-no worries, I’ll catch up eventually!

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