Chapter 3: When I Realized I Had Reincarnated, It Was at the Kidnapping Scene

Albertina von Lattiche is a wicked woman.

To be precise, she is the villainess of the otome game commonly known as KimiKoi, officially titled “Kimi ni Koishite.”

At times she relentlessly bullies her stepbrother.
At times she uses past grievances as leverage to thoroughly torment her fiancé.
At times she abuses her power to the fullest and ruins the sons and daughters of noble families.

If a commoner dares to appear before her, she torments them without mercy.
To her, commoners are like insects.
Annoying insects, all the more irritating for being larger.

If such an eyesore approaches her brother or fiancé, she naturally bullies them to the extreme.
She derides them thoroughly as lowly women of the common rabble.
Property destruction, theft, sometimes even inciting thugs or splashing poison, a parade of crimes inside the magic academy.

Why is such a dangerous woman allowed to act so freely?
Because even the royal family cannot easily lay a hand on her.
She was once kidnapped after being mistaken for a princess and was injured.
If she had been a low-ranking noble, that would have been one thing, but she was a proper ducal daughter whose grandmother was a royal princess.
Moreover, both her parents were among the most prestigious of nobles.
She was a super thoroughbred noble lady, descended from two of the Four Great Ducal Houses.

On top of that, she possessed unparalleled beauty.
Glossy black hair that flowed in loose waves, and instead of royal blue, the vivid royal green unique to the royal family, called Sandis Green after the Sandis royal house, framed by long jet-black lashes.
Skin like snow that made those eyes stand out even more.
Her figure was outrageously curvaceous.
Her chest was astonishingly full, while her waist was so slender it seemed it might snap.

Sup, I’m Japanese.
Starting today, I’m “Albertina von Lattiche”☆

No freaking way!!!

The moment “I,” also known as “Albertina,” remembered my past life was, ironically, right after Albertina—ugh, that’s annoying, I’ll just call her Albel—was kidnapped after being mistaken for a princess and was somehow rescued by Father.

By the way, this Father is extremely soft on Albel.
Chocolate does not even compare.
He is as sweet as sugar soaked in honey.

The royal family was also searching with full effort, but the fact that Father found Albel first was the real problem.

On top of that, the cause of the princess kidnapping incident was that a minister who had been the current king’s childhood friend was secretly colluding with a foreign nation, an utterly sh*tty reason.
Albel and the Lattiche family were completely dragged into it.
Furthermore, in the course of rescuing Albel, Father, Grail von Lattiche, who had been desperately searching for his only daughter, exposed that corruption.
It even revealed a near-attempted usurpation of the throne.
Along with it, embezzlement and bribery involving the national treasury were also uncovered.
The reputation of the Lattiche house and Father skyrocketed.
As the tragic young lady, Albertina was doted on even more by her heroic father, and the royal family desperately apologized, offering the Crown Prince in engagement as compensation.
However, Father absolutely refused, saying, “There’s no way I’m handing over my precious Albel!!!” and clung to his injured daughter.

In the original story, after years of negotiation, Albel ends up liking the handsome Crown Prince and agrees to the engagement.

Well, putting that aside.

Albertina was rescued by her daughter-obsessed, daughter-loving Father.

Several incomprehensible corpses, as if black magic had been involved, were hanging from the ceiling of a dimly lit room.

Her hands had been bound, and she had been stuffed into a box.
Albel’s heart broke from fear.
In the original story, I think that was probably the point where Albertina’s mind snapped.

It seemed Father had gone on quite the rampage.
Something red was smeared thickly across the floor and splattered on the walls.
Unless my eyes deceived me, severed heads were rolling around.
Some were already reduced to skulls, so Father was likely not the only cause.

“Ah…! Albel, Albertina! Thank goodness… you’re alive…! You must have been so frightened…! It’s all right now, Father will protect you forever…!”

This is bad.
This is a full-on incident.
Father has twisted his love for his daughter so much that his SAN points are critically low.
His sanity is in the red.

The way he looked at his filthy, emaciated daughter was borderline insane.

Normally, he would be a perfectly handsome man capable of making debutantes and even married ladies sigh in admiration, but his aqua-blue eyes were bloodshot, his hair disheveled, and red stains of unknown origin speckled his cheeks and forehead.

“Father…”

“…! Albel! What is it!? Are you hurt anywhere!?”

“I want to go home…”

After saying only that, my consciousness sank into darkness.

Having reincarnated as the most beautiful and wicked villainess of the century, I began to think.

Isn’t Albertina basically playing on easy mode as long as she just stays home in her territory and doesn’t go to the academy to cause trouble?
A shut-in NEET lifestyle is totally acceptable, right?

Ever since returning home, Father has not hesitated to spend money on me like water.

With the compensation from the royal family, money will keep flowing in for as long as Albertina lives.

“Albel, the king says he’ll hand over his brat of a son if you want him.
Do you want him?”

“No, Father.
Albel is happiest staying at home with you.
Being kidnapped is frightening.”

“I see, Albel.
You can stay home forever if you like.”

Albel had been kidnapped at a tea party hosted by the royal family.
It was an outrageous scandal.
On top of that, Albel was a young lady connected to the royal line.
There were surely not a few high-ranking palace knights who lost their positions or were demoted because they had been in charge of security that day.