Notorious No More: The Villainess Enjoys Feigning Incompetence Volume 1 by Hanako Arashi

Author:Hanako Arashi [ARASHI, HANAKO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

※※Aside: A Deal in the Infirmary (Mihail)※※

“Ah, there you are—do wait a moment.”

I had just stepped out of the chamber where the magical communication tool was kept, having contacted father’s secretary to arrange an audience for the headmaster with His Majesty, when he appeared.

“Wharton Nilty. I thought you had already left.”

Gone was the air of authority he’d wielded as the next head of House Nilty. In its place stood the man I knew far too well: flippant, insufferable, and three years my senior. He’d been pestering me since before I’d even enrolled at the Academy.

Not that he had been the only one—royals and heirs from the Four Great Houses had a way of inserting themselves into my life. But Wharton’s brand of harassment was on an entirely different level. So much so that I’d long since abandoned formality and any pretense of respectful address when we spoke in private.

That said, he always kept a respectable distance whenever I was with members of the second prince’s faction. And since his graduation, we rarely met except outside school grounds. Few at the Academy even knew the extent of our acquaintance.

“You don’t look well,” he said. “Come, let’s rest in the infirmary.”

“I’ll pass.”

What nonsense was he spouting now? Annoyance pricked at me—briefly—before I remembered: This man, for all his casual airs, was as calculating as they came. There would be a reason he was stopping me, especially at a time like this.

“Ha ha ha! Come now, don’t look at me like that. But if you insist on rushing home, Mihail, my boy... Hmm. Then I may collapse—right here and now.”

“And why would you do that?” Ordinarily, I could tolerate him, but with my sister’s safety hanging in the balance, I found his levity completely distasteful.

“Surely the heir to House Robur would never leave a collapsed heir of House Nilty sprawled in a corridor unattended.” So saying, he stepped to my side and promptly threw an arm around my neck, bringing his face far too close. I nearly struck him on reflex. Only years of familiarity allowed me to rein in the impulse. Then his voice, quiet and serious beneath the laughter, caught me off guard.

“You want to rescue your sister, don’t you? And depending on certain revelations, I may have to pay my dear younger brother a visit myself.”

“To finish him off?”

His values were different from mine. Always had been. I had learned much about his outlook on things over our long acquaintance—unwillingly, of course. The two of them might have looked like a close-knit pair of brothers in public—but what he truly felt about his sibling? Who could say.

“Depends on the situation,” he replied. “Now then, I’m about to collapse. To the infirmary, if you please.”

This time, he really did look ready to drop, and I barely managed to catch him before he made good on his threat.

“Walk. I’ll go with you, all right? But I am not carrying you. I have no interest in hauling around the dead weight of a perfectly conscious man.

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