uotoni's manga / #Villainess(8)

Pretty sure this one is complete. I think. Main character was born intona book she didn't finish. All she could remember was that she was the villainess, and some major events and the male leads. So, to prevent her death, she gets close to a male lead, only to find out from the female lead who is her best friend that he is the villain. She gets engaged to the other male lead, but knows he's in love with her friend and they've both planned to annul the engagement eventually. The main character tries to distance herself from the villainous male lead, but he won't let her. After treating her coldly all their lives, he won't let her leave him. Is he really evil? Did he use his hypnotic magic on her? After all, it takes using a name over and over and he's only ever called her by her last name. Every one around him is hypnotized. But is it all really because he's evil? Or does it seem that way because someone wants it to?

Wait for official translations. FL ends up into the body of a villainess who was in love with a prince who was cheating on her with the FL of the book. Ended badly in the original ending but they went back in time and our FL decided to change things. Anywho, there's a shape-shifting little boy slave that she saves(ravi), a handsome commoner knight(can'tremembernames), the head of the investigation peeps (Lucas), the other Duke's son and knight guy, and the fucking imbecile prince. OG FL also went back in time and is openly hostile to our villainess. Where I am now, Ravi turned into a giant egg and is most likely the king of the beasts. FL is doing business with the mages tower and trying to become the heir to the dukedom since she finally broke off her engagement. FL's dad is such a cute cinnamon roll, I love it. OK, so assassination attempt via drugged horse was where I left off. Anywho, art is good. Story is fun. Translation is not the best unless its the official translation. 4.85/5️

FL dies(?) An ordinary office worker who read novels at work and ends up in one as a villainess in prison waiting to be beheaded. Assassins are sent to kill her before that, so she discovers that she can safely drink poison and it tastes good! One day a guy shows up and makes her drink poison just as another assassin comes-this time with a knife. She tells the guy that if she tastes the poison and survives he had to save her from the prison. When they get out, he's a hot black haired sorcerer. His name is Reniel/Leniel. She knows she is in a book but never heard this characters name. She tells him she wants to meet the big villain Wayne and be his poison taster or tell him future events she knows. Well, he takes her to his store and makes her work there. Mostly because the villainess whose body she took over had performed some golden magic that was supposed to somehow help her target the story's FL or maybe the villain guy...hard to be sure. So she works with a bunch of villains, testing poisons and sorting them and working at the shop. There's a blond knight guy, Dillon, the stories ML, who tries catching her, because apparently OG Giselle tried killing FL of story/his lover, and strangles her with mana leaving a bruise/tracking mark. There are 3 kinds of magic it seems. Black magic, typically only for villains, white magic, that the temples and "good guys" use, and golden magic, which is whatever was done that summoned FL into Giselles body. Reneal saves her and they move shop to a villain city where she makes new friends- a knight, a mad scientist doctor cursed to look like a kid, and a witchy curse making old lady. Also the delivery boy from the other shop is apparently the witch ladies wannabe apprentice. Reneal is, not so secretly to anyone else, the real villain leader of the black magic sorcerers. The "wayne" that Giselle knows of from the names in the book was a fake figurehead, but anything mentioned in the book as Wayne was actually about Reneal. Reneal protects her and all the black wizards. Giselle was put into a body that has no "cup" to hold magic, but her soul is apparently magic friendly or something. So she becomes able to talk to reneals butterfly familiars and a haunted doll eventually. Apparently this "cup" is the amount of magical power you are born with and the only way to change that is to trust someone of the opposing magic type enough to use their magic and dig deeper into the cup without trying to steal your power or break your cup. Reneals cup was broken by the og FL. Which shocks Giselle because in the story he was obsessed and stalking FL and locks her in a basement to watch her 24/7 while she is naked. But come to find out it is OG FL who is obsessed with Reneal. She seeks him out after nearly killing him along with their "teacher" in an effort to "purify" his black magic. It broke his cup and the teachers, and the teacher cannot perform magic unless using a magic stone (which he does), and FL is shocked when Reneals powers are stronger than hers even with a broken cup. I think her teacher was trying to have her take Reneals powers for himself or something. Idk. But the only way Reneal is surviving with his broken magic cup is by using a special flower garden that rejuvenates him when he overexerts himself. Oh yeah, that teacher was a child abuser. Reneal knows our Giselle isn't really Giselle, but she doesn't ever tell him another name so eventually he says he is naming her "Giselle" not the character but her. She also starts developing the physical appearance of her previous body, with the blond hair growing black roots and her double lids turning to monolids. Reneal has her move into his house for protection after she is almost killed and gets that tracking bruise, because the flowers or something tangle up magic and make the place impossible to find. FL and her teacher poison and entire town with a specific poison to make it appear like the black sorcerers are behind it, even though Reneal was going to distribute a antidote for free to everyone without them knowing who gave it to them just so Giselle would sleep comfortably at night. But the FL used it as propaganda to make white mages look good when they "cured" everyone. It was really an excuse to give Dillon and his knights a reason to go attack all the villains full-force again. I left off just after the found the ghost in the doll who originally told Reneal about the flowers that could keep him from dying in exchange for a body. But the ghost is resentful because he put her in a cursed doll instead of a body and left her in the swamp. Apparently the ghost is of a sorcerer with the same magical affinity as Giselle, and so she becomes a helpful source of info. But reveals that the fact she has such a high magical friendliness and capability but absolutely no magical cup to actually use that to defend herself, she is basically like catnip for other magicians. Or a steak. Not sure. But this leads Giselle to thinking that Reneals very very overt affections and flirting and interest in her is just because of that. The season ended around that point I think. At first I wasn't sure I would like this, because the FL is too unserious. Like, in her situation, she took everything in a blase and unserious manner. It doesn't seem like whoever she was in her previous life via flashbacks has that same kind of personality, so it seemed a bit strange. But the story was interesting, the art was not bad (it's actually pretty good especially with the faces and the clothes and expressions, though the bodies are sometimes a little odd). ML seemed interested in her from the start, which was a bit strange, but *shrug*. He's cute so... I'm guessing that the book was told from the narcissistic POV of the OG FL, which is why everyone is obsessed with and loves her even when the reality of things is similar but off from what the novel showed. Anyways story=good. Art=good. 4.8/5️