The Villainous Noble Who Kept Rewinding After Death: The Story Somehow Changed When I Committed Suicide

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The Villainous Noble Who Kept Rewinding After Death: The Story Somehow Changed When I Committed Suicide

Chapter 343: A Bit of Regret

It was a day when the full moon illuminated the night sky, wrapping the surroundings in a quiet and pleasant night.

After transporting Fiera and the others to the Magic Kingdom using teleportation magic, I spent some time alone, leisurely reading in my room that day.

“Hey there! I came to visit!”

Suddenly, I heard a drawn-out voice from the direction of the window. When I turned to look, there stood a figure deeply hooded, making it hard to see her face. However, judging by her voice and petite stature, she seemed to be a girl.

“So, you finally showed up.”

“Haha! Sorry to keep you waiting~!”

Without a hint of remorse, the girl laughed and sat down on the chair opposite me, casually asking, “Can I have some tea~?” so I reluctantly prepared a cup for her.

It seemed she must have been really thirsty as she quickly drank the tea I had cooled with a puff, and once she settled down, she exhaled a big sigh.

“Phew~! I feel reborn~!”

“Glad to hear that.”

“Thanks! By the way, isn’t it a bit odd how calm you are with a stranger suddenly appearing in your room? I mean, I’m hiding my face and all, so I think it looks suspicious, don’t you?”

“Well, if you were truly a stranger, I’d handle it accordingly, but I know you well enough. There’s no need to be on guard now, is there?”

“Haha. You really know me, huh?”

“I should have said it before—I know you quite well.”

“Haha. You’re right!”

After enjoying a laugh, she stared blankly at the moon outside the window for a while before turning her face back towards me and removing her hood.

Finally, her hidden face was revealed, and it was the same girl I’d seen once before—a girl with light purple hair tied to the right and beautiful sapphire eyes staring back at me.

“Now then, let me properly introduce myself again. I am Kamael Albani, or rather, Lavienne Albani. Cute name, right? I’m the daughter of the Albani Count House. Although, to be honest, I kind of destroyed the Albani Count House myself. Haha!”

The girl before me, now identifying as Lavienne instead of Kamael, laughed in a high-pitched voice typical of girls, resting her chin on the table.

“By the way, this is my true form, and the Kamael persona was just a disguise. How’s that? Surprised at how beautiful I am~?”

“Not really. Sure, you look good, but I can’t say I’m surprised.”

“Is that so? Well, it’s true that you’ve been around plenty of pretty girls, huh? I’m feeling a bit defeated~.”

Lavienne pouted, but she didn’t seem genuinely disappointed; it looked more like she was just playing along with the moment.

“Let’s stop the teasing there and get straight to why you’re here. I doubt we have much time left, right?”

“Haha! You really know everything about me, huh? So, I’ll be direct—Lewis-kun. As promised, will you kill me?”

Lavienne’s smiling face looked surprisingly mature for her small frame, and there was a certain atmosphere about her that felt reminiscent of me.

I first met Lavienne just before my last suicide in my past life, during my eleventh reincarnation. At that time, I was no longer concerned with revenge; I only desired to grow stronger and was focused solely on researching space-time magic, which I learned about in my tenth life. I hardly attended school while enrolling, spending my days immersed in magical research and battling strong opponents.

However, I only discovered that eating a monster’s magic organs could increase my magic power when I entered the academy in the eleventh world. With not enough time on my hands, I lacked the opportunity to hunt monsters, ultimately resulting in not being able to use space-time magic due to insufficient magic power.

So anyway, it was during my school life around this same period, at the end of my first year, when I happened to stumble upon her attacking the Albani Count House.

“What are you doing?”

“Haha~! Caught me!”

Lavienne appeared drenched in blood, as if she had just killed someone, and grinned maniacally, dragging a pitch-black scythe behind her.

“Oh? Upon closer inspection, it’s my classmate, Lewis-kun.”

“Classmate?”

“Ah, right! This is the first time you see me in this form. Maybe this will help you recognize me?”

With that, Lavienne cast a spell, and in an instant, her appearance changed into that of a boy I had seen numerous times in class.

“Kamael?”

“Correct! I’m Kamael Albani. But my true self is actually in this girl form. By the way, my name is Lavienne. Cute, right?”

“So, ‘true self’ means you’ve been using a fake appearance and name until now?”

“You got it! You see, women can’t inherit titles in this country, right? So I needed a male identity.”

“I see. Indeed, in the Ruzenia Empire, it’s not allowed for women to succeed to titles.”

The Ruzenia Empire, having a long history, places great importance on tradition, and it’s due to this heritage that women cannot inherit the throne or family titles.

From my perspective, I think that’s an outdated custom, but I don’t care enough about this country to want to change any of it, so I just shrug it off as it is.

“I get why you faked your appearance and name, but why did you destroy your own house?”

“Haha. Right? I don’t think we’re that close to discuss these things, but I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll share. It’s because…”

Thus, Lavienne began to narrate the history of the Albani Count House and her past, and by the time she finished, I found myself seeing a bit of my own image reflected in her.

“So, I want to die, but I can’t. If you wouldn’t mind, could you kill me?”

“Well, I don’t mind granting your wish, but to be honest, I don’t think I can kill you right now.”

“Haha! If that’s the case, I’ll just look for someone else. I just want to fight until someone kills me.”

“Well, if that’s the case, I’m fine with it.”

“Yay! Thank you!”

So we fought for Lavienne’s wish for me to kill her, but despite the gap in our abilities and Lavienne’s special magic, I couldn’t finish her off; instead, I ended up receiving a fatal blow first.

“Haah, haah…”

“Sorry… for dragging you into this.”

“Don’t worry about it. I enjoyed it too, but I’m really frustrated that I lost…”

“Haha, but your attacks really hurt a lot!”

“Next time, I’ll definitely kill you…”

“Mm. I’m looking forward… to it~!”

In the end, I couldn’t fulfill Lavienne’s wish and thus met my demise in my eleventh life at her hands.

I didn’t know what happened to Lavienne afterward, but I’ve never been able to forget that loss, nor the promise I made to her.

Well, during the twelfth life, nothing seemed to go right, and after being killed by Lavienne, someone I hadn’t interacted with at all until then, I was exhausted from the repeated cycle of dying and coming back. I thought light-heartedly, “I wonder what happens if I commit suicide?” and ended up dying.

So here I am, in my thirteenth life, thinking that since I’m back, I might as well fulfill her wish while becoming stronger.

“So then, shall we change locations? Any preferences?”

“Wow! Are you letting me choose my place of death? In that case, I’ll happily accept your kind offer! Let’s change locations!”

Lavienne exclaimed, jumping out through the window like when she arrived, and I followed her as we headed towards the city under the night sky.