Manhwa/Chapter 4

## Chapter Guide

**Negative is Still Negative** is the 4th chapter of the Villains Are Destined to Die (Manhwa). The forth chapter can be read online at Tapas in English and at Kakaopage in Korean.

## **Summary**

Reynold was shocked at Penelope's response. He quickly changed from shock to anger returning to his usual self. He took back his offer to call the doctor saying that there probably wasn't one that had time for someone like her. He went too far by saying that she can stuff her face with whatever she wants, that she can even die if she so wishes.

But although he said these words Penelope noticed that something was changing. The white light above Reynolds head was sparkling the Affection score was changing. It changed from (-10%) to (-3%), it had gone up by 7%. He was still negative.

Penelope washed up and looked at her new face in the mirror. She thought this when she first played the game, but Penelope Eckhart is very pretty. If she had not won her independence when she left her family back in Korea, she would have thought that getting to be Penelope was a blessing. She notes that Penelope has magenta hair and turquoise eyes, exactly the same as in the game, a face that seems vicious despite it's beauty. A villainess is a villainess. She looked back in her memories and recalled Penelope's description inside the game:

*She is the daughter of the one and only Eckhart Dukeship in the empire of Eorka, where this game takes place. However, she was originally a no-name commoner girl.*
*Her widowed mother was a poor traveling merchant, and when Penelope lost her to sickness at the age of 12, her resemblance to his long-lost daughter caught the eye of Duke Eckhart, and he adopted her.*
*However, as time passed and she grew up, neither the pink hair of the dead Duchess Eckhart nor the blue eyes symbolic of the House of Eckhart could be seen in her.*
*Now, she is the ‘Duke's Fake Daughter’, who receives attention from no one, including the duke himself, and goes around doing wicked things anywhere and anytime. What are the circumstances behind the person who became the world's greatest villainess?''*

She wished that the Duke had looked for his missing daughter better, that way this innocent girl in the mirror wouldn't have to be brought into this.

Penelope was just like her, the way she lived her life in poverty before her mother died and was taken in. And the way that she lived in isolation after losing her father's interest and was scorned by everyone in the house. She didn't realize just how similar she was to Penelope while playing the game.

The only difference - she had finally escaped from her family. She had coped with living in that house and got into a prestigious college, gotten a home. It was small and dirty, but she could be completely at rest in it. She was angry, she had finally escaped her family so why was this happening now? She couldn't make sense of it. This wasn't even Normal Mode, at this rate it was no better then her life before.

After just one day, Penelope was well aware what hind of treatment she will get in the Dukes household. If basic decency and logic existed here, they would not be able to harass the officially adopted Dukes daughter with needles or rotten food, no matter how devious or fake she was.

Penelope was only 12 years old when she was adopted and brought to the Dukedom. If this kind of abuse started back then, isn't Penelope someone who was molded into being a villainess. Since there was very little a little young child could do when the adults wouldn't listen, no matter how loud she screamed. She pitied Penelope. She is now Penelope. As such, she can be killed by the male characters the same way as Penelope in the game. She got chills when the thought hit her.

She calmed down and gathered some papers and decided to make a survival plan. As long as she was Penelope, she need to find a way to live. She organized her thoughts and wrote down the information she already knew. Information like what kind of game this world she entered is. In the game's Hard Mode it is extremely difficult to raise the Affection Score, and it is also easy to lose Affection Score. In Hard Mode Affection Score starts out as (0%) the only exception being Reynold who starts with (-10%). When the Affection Score is negative, the probability of Death Ending in the story is high.

Now, the characters - there are total of five male protagonists in the game. Penelope's adoptive brothers and the two sons of the Duke Eckhart, Derrick Eckhart and Reynold Eckhart, were among them.

## **Characters**

* Ivonne Eckhart (mentioned)
* Derrick Eckhart (mentioned)
* Reynold Eckhart