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

64. Revenge him? Is there such a good thing!?

Valentina hated losing, but recently she found herself hating it even more when Noah brought up others.

She explained this feeling of disgust to herself as ‘not wanting to see others being fooled by the evil god like she was,’ and she was trying to find ways to keep Noah’s attention solely on her.

Thus, upon hearing those words, the princess immediately abandoned human combat methods, stretching out her black dragon wings to fly into the air at a faster speed, swiftly slaying the few bats that had embarrassed her, leading Noah to mention other people’s bloodsucking bats in her presence.

“Using your dreaded evil dragon power to take down just a few bats? Princess, you wouldn’t happen to be slacking off on your basic training, would you?”

Noah, watching the suddenly motivated princess, wore an annoyingly smug expression as if he were pointing out the flaws of the world.

This made Valentina quite displeased.

But what was even more frustrating was that Noah was right.

Recently, due to her evil dragon power, her physical condition had improved significantly, and she had indeed been neglecting her basic training, instead spending her time guiding the knight order and adventurers.

However, Valentina would never admit it. If it were someone else, she might awkwardly laugh and acknowledge her laziness, but not with Noah.

She didn’t want Noah to find a reason to mock her for not being as good as ‘that person.’

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Thus, even if she had to be stubborn, Valentina would remain stubborn to the end.

“Hmph, it has nothing to do with that. It’s just unfair because they can fly and I can’t.”

Valentina snorted coldly, forcing herself to find a reason, and then, as if sulking, she ignored Noah and continued down the suspicious path.

Of course, Noah wouldn’t say anything further; after all, the bigger issues were still behind them, so he decided to let her be for now.

He simply chuckled softly, then gracefully jumped down from the large rock, continuing to follow her at a leisurely pace.

During this time, Noah resembled a professional coach training a contestant, watching Valentina battle various magical creatures.

However, the suffering only lasted until just now, as the princess, like a broken pot, no longer concealed the power of the dragon.

Though she would retract the dragon’s aspect after the battle, it would immediately manifest and swiftly end the fight once combat was engaged.

From Noah’s perspective, it was perhaps akin to a magical girl transformation.

Yet Valentina’s transformation altered her appearance less, and she could change back almost instantly.

“The princess who hates dragons is actually planning to use dragon power to slay dragons? Oh dear, oh dear, truly the princess, how thick-skinned you are! I would have blushed in shame and not dared to show my face.”

Just as Valentina encountered the twentieth troublesome creature in front of her, she heard Noah’s voice behind her, adding a rage buff.

“Whose fault do you think it is?!”

Upon hearing this, Valentina immediately lost her composure.

But since she couldn’t defeat Noah, she vented her frustration on the terrifying spider that appeared before her, as large as a big dog.

With gritted silver teeth and a face full of fury, she didn’t use her sword to slash; instead, she raised her leg clad in high-heeled battle boots and kicked the spider, which could spew terrifying poison, flying ten meters away.

The poor little spider, barely making its entrance, was nearly kicked to death, letting out a piercing scream and leaving a pool of liquid behind, but all it did was make the silver-haired princess, closest to it, show an even more disgusted expression.

In the end, it died with its eight legs in the air.

“Look at what you’re saying! I gave you the power so you wouldn’t become your own brother’s star slave. You should be thanking me! Besides, if you don’t want this, you could always find a deserted place to exile yourself.”

Noah completely disregarded the anger radiating from Valentina, facing her disapproving gaze head-on as he walked past her, casually tossing out a relaxed remark.

“Hmph, no need for your concern. Once I repay your great kindness, I’ll find a place to self-exile.”

In truth, Valentina also felt that gaining the power of the dragon wasn’t entirely a bad thing; it objectively prevented her from becoming a slave to that vulgar and weak brother of hers.

However, she didn’t believe Noah was doing this purely to help her; otherwise, why would it be a dragon? Why not angelic wings or a holy sword befitting a hero?

He just wanted to see her suffer because of it.

Exile was certainly on her agenda; she thought Noah’s dilapidated temple would be quite suitable. Once she found a way to seal Noah, she would seal herself in there too.

To keep this disaster from harming others again.

Of course, she had already become a minion of the evil god herself.

“Roar, that’s quite an impressive realization, but I must remind you of one thing.”

“W-What is it?”

Noah suddenly turned around, looking at her seriously, and feeling an inexplicable unease, Valentina forced herself to suppress the urge to take a step back, glaring back defiantly.

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But deep down, she actually felt very guilty.

Could it be that what she said earlier was too harsh and made him angry? Otherwise, how could he suddenly stop smiling when he was always so cheerful?!

What, what should I do? Should I apologize? It must be that I need to apologize!

Even the kind-hearted princess would consider apologizing when facing the detestable evil god if she felt she had gone too far.

“Um, actually, I misread the time just now. Your Highness, you don’t have six hours to search for the dragon’s trace, but rather three hours. To be precise, there are two hours, eighteen minutes, and twenty-seven seconds left—ah, now it’s twenty-five seconds.”

Yet Noah, with a serious expression, was not saying anything angry—

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Phew, what? So he’s not angry after all…

Eh!?

—But rather, he was saying something that made her angry.

“How could you possibly misremember half the time like that! You’ve been planning this all along, haven’t you? You detestable evil god! I will make you pay for this double!”

The time that had seemed just right suddenly felt extremely tight, causing the princess to quickly spread her wings and accelerate close to the ground.

By the time Valentina’s resentful voice reached Noah’s ears, she had already cut down two low-level monsters that had jumped out to block her path.

“Heh, ah, I’ll be looking forward to it.”

Noah, left behind by Valentina, was not angry; instead, a smile of absolute satisfaction, one he would never show in front of Valentina, appeared on his face as he watched the princess gradually disappear from his view with a watchful gaze.

Valentina wants to take revenge on him? What a delightful turn of events!

That’s just wonderful, isn’t it? Noah exists just to make Valentina hate him, after all.

And this is just the beginning; what’s about to happen next will make the princess want to hate Noah even more.

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