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The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Ep. 2: Rushing through this second life

When we last left off, I wanted to see more of Konoha’s — that is, the real Konoha and not the fictional, idealized version of herself — reaction to her own writing. Does the adult Konoha still like what the teen Konoha had written? And if not, what would she have done differently? Obviously, she’s going to have to change significant portions of her own story in order to prevent her own death as Iana. But what else would she have changed?

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The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Ep. 1: Like looking into a mirror

Another villainess story, but this time, our protagonist wrote the damn thing. So maybe we can a little more meta than usual? Konoha has always been obsessed with the stories that you typically find in otome games. Y’know, tales where the heroine has hot guys drooling over her, but there’s always a bitter, jealous woman bringing her down. It’s just a harem but in reverse. Naturally, our protagonist grows up, gets a boring office job (only people who have known the soul-sucking corporate world would want to be isekai’d), dies tragically to a truck, and reincarnates into her own story as the villainess.

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