Ig that’s an interesting way of looking at it but im pretty sure mc was supposed to be the villainess in the og story and when kanna found out she just played the script like she remembered it as the heroine. One thing that was unclear was why mc didn’t ever even act like the villainess but it might just be because she was her own person as well that just didn’t fit into the narrative the author wanted to write.
But I believe that’s why kanna said what she did was right and how mc was the villainess wether she did anything villainous or not, simply because that’s how the og story went.
Either way there’s a lot of grey area that leaves it to other to interpret it however they want which I think I like but I also don’t think we’ll get any real answers on how mc was different than the actual villainess and how everyone believed kanna for some reason. <3
I actually have a little theory as to why maybe Sylph didn’t become a villain like in the original. It could have been that the “original” Kanna was never meant to be a transmigrator and never meant to have met Sylph in the library before the original story began at the academy. Maybe if Sylph hadn’t thought of Kanna as her best friend who shared her passion for stories, who gave her motivation to continue to visit the library and love stories, and who she trusted with her secret, she would have turned into a villainess after seeing some stranger trying to take away what she had been working hard and sacrificing her life and passion for.
So what I got from this is...
The MC is the real heroine of the story. This was a story of a story of the typical troupe "The villainess frames the heroine to get her fiancée". The villainess in this case was Kanna and the heroine was Sylph. Kanna is a reincarnator who followed the role of the villainess, which she believed that, when she followed the og script, she would have returned to her world.
Kanna was confused as to why the story is changing when she followed the og plot, that's why she was asking Sylph those questions. And what she meant by "I do feel bad, but what I did was right" was that she only meant to follow the og plot even if it meant causing harm to the Sylph.
Honestly, I feel bad for Kanna, 'cause it's not like she WANTED to be in that world. She was taken from her og world and placed in that unfamiliar world, away from her family and friends with no way of returning. And I also feel bad for Sylph, to be betrayed by the only friend she had and the family she worked hard for.
I do like the way the author made this story, and I do find it to better than most of these kinds of stories, 'cause I like it when characters are properly redeemed.