Chapter 1

“Please marry me when you get older, Rose!”

When I was proposed to like this, it was when I had just turned ten years old . At that time, I was hiding the traces of tyranny in my past life, and I was still playing the role of an innocent girl.

“Yes, I’ll accept your offer respectfully, Heath.”

To an outsider’s perspective, it was a cute promise of marriage.

However, as for the boy who had proposed…… There were no sweet encounters with the third prince of this country . 

In the first place, I’m really quite out of the ordinary. Let me introduce myself once more . I’m the Iceberg Kingdom’s Demon King, Rosewood Gemyar Something Blahblah Something Iceberg! In my previous life, that is. Since I have several ancestors’ names in my name and it’s too long, I don’t really remember it that well . By the way, my current name is Rosewood Angelique. It’s good that it’s so easy to remember.

In summary, the demon race that had muscles for brains destroyed several human kingdoms, and the humans called me “Demon King.” When I was fighting with the humans’ Hero and on the verge of death in my second life, the Hero cast a spell on me and forced me into this world.

As the Demon King, why did I have to downgrade all the way to a human’s body? I want to lead my personal troops in search of strong opponents, or try to cause a war somewhere. However, strong people befitting my tastes did not show up here.

That person…… The place where I met the third prince of this country, Heathcliff Akaido, had just happened to be when I returned to my home with the head of a dragon that I had cut off . The maids had already gotten used to seeing me return while covered in blood, and they had already prepared a change of clothes for me, and that’s when I met him.

On that day, Heathcliff Akaido just happened to come by to give his greetings.

“Girl over there . Who’s that brat with the blonde hair? Tell me.”

“That’s the third prince of this country. Rosewood ojou-sama, please don’t act up……”

I didn’t listen to what the maids were saying . That’s because I saw the image of the Hero who had defeated me within the third prince. This is really interesting, is what I thought.

“Oi, that third prince or something over there . Have a sword duel with me. Don’t worry, I won’t kill you.”

“Uh, Rosewood ojou-sama……”

While ignoring the maids’ sighing, I provoked the boy in front of me. However, all this bastard did was cock his head and say “who’s this girl?”

“So you’re underestimating me because I’m a girl, huh. I’ll be dignified enough to forgive that arrogance of yours. I’m really strong, you know? And I’m really bored right now . Come at me. Girl, prepare a sword for this bastard.”

“……Uh . Rosewood ojou-sama, would wooden swords be alright?”

“I’ll permit it . ”

When he took the wooden sword that the maid prepared for him, he cocked his head again as he held it.

“Come at me already?”

“Is that alright?”

“Yeah . I’ll permit it . ”

At my prodding, he finally came at me, and I stole that bastard’s wooden sword from him by lightly chopping him on the wrist. While he was busy looking surprised, I swept out his feet from under him.

What a disappointing finish it was.

“Hmph. I guess your face was the only thing that’s similar. I’ve lost interest . I’m going to sleep. Hang the dragon’s head up on the door and give it away to anyone that wants it.”

As I said so, I left.

That was my first encounter with Heathcliff.

Why that would make him want to exchange a promise of engagement with me, I actually have no idea at all. However, we began to call each other Heath and Rose, and I went along with it in order to not blow my cover as an innocent girl.

I’ve also become interested in this guy who has the same face as the Hero.

In order to continue my pretense as an innocent girl, and under the brazen influence of my parents, Heath started coming over to meet me often . In order to keep up appearances as a noble girl, he’s been able to completely insert himself into my life, and that’s how it’s become.

And so, as of now. It’s been five years since I got engaged. After getting engaged, Heath has been rebuffing all other girls, and I’ve kept up the appearance of a proper lady as well. Right now, there’s a delicate relationship between me and Heath, the only man I’ve ever allowed myself to even possibly get married to. On my birthday just earlier, this bastard didn’t even show up. I was angry with him at his disrespect to the point where I even considered beheading him.

And, one more thing that I was bothered about happened.

And that was, my memories of my life before my previous life. The memories of my life before my previous life had finally returned to me. And, it seems that in my previous life as a demon king, these memories had been of much use to me as well. The memories I had were fragmented but, some memories appeared such as “magicians of today need to know self-defense as well!” in which I was exercising, or a memory where I blew up an entire star with my ultimate magic “Kame-meha,” and a memory of my ultimate form, the “Super Sai-in God.”

So, I’ll believe in my fragmented memories that must have been sent to me by the heavens to aid me . Those memories gave me a warning.

This is the world of a story that’s captivated many girls, and I’ve been reincarnated as the noble girl villainess in the story.