History Heartwarming / MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom

[[caption-width-right:350:The friendship that transcended death]]

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem trope. For example, while Mary may scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her and has stated she will do ''anything'' to win her love, not once do her schemes do harm in any way to the other members of the harem. In fact, [=S1E08=] 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria are actually nice friends who [[{{Foil}} play off each other well]]. Likewise with Geordo, despite all of his entitlement towards Catarina and annoyance at his rivals, understands that the people around her are important and they are the living proof of why he loves her: like him, she changed them for the better. When Maria goes missing, all of them spend every waking moment searching for her. And lastly, they each have stated that if they wind up not being picked by Catarina, they will still love her and support her happiness. Thus, even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia, Mary, and Maria who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem trope. For example, while Mary may scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her and has stated she will do ''anything'' to win her love, not once do her schemes do harm in any way to the other members of the harem. In fact, Episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria are actually nice friends who [[{{Foil}} play off each other well]]. Likewise with Geordo, despite all of his entitlement towards Catarina and annoyance at his rivals, understands that the people around her are important and they are the living proof of why he loves her: like him, she changed them for the better. When Maria goes missing, all of them spend every waking moment searching for her. And lastly, they each have stated that if they wind up not being picked by Catarina, they will still love her and support her happiness. Thus, even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia, Mary, and Maria who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

** Episode 9 of the anime expands upon Catarina saving Anne from the ArrangedMarriage. After Catarina pleads with Baron Shelley to reconsider, Anne proceeds to [[GrewASpine tell her father she is not going to do what he tells her to]] and holds firm despite her father's threats. Duke Claes then steps in and says he needs to speak with Baron Shelley, strongly implying that he found out about how awful Anne's potential husband (as well as her father) would be and [[BenevolentBoss stopped the arrangement and the maltreatment dead in its tracks.]]

* Episode 5 of the anime adds a little scene to Catarina and Keith visiting the Campbell home. When Maria decides to bake some sweets for Catarina and Keith, Catarina in turn offers to fix up and plant some seedlings in Mrs. Campbell's garden. When Mrs. Campbell sees Catarina working hard to help her family, as well as how much of a positive effect she's had in Maria's life, she realizes she needs to change and starts helping Maria with the sweets.
* Episode 6 of the anime has a scene where Anne and Millidiana talk about Catarina and her personality change after she hit her head when she was younger. Anne talks about how Tom the gardener and Joana the head maid enjoy her presence and opened up to her, along with Anne saying she enjoys the time she spends with Catarina. With all of her exasperation towards her daughter's antics, Millidiana then [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther admits that Catarina is why she has]] [[HappilyMarried a loving relationship with her husband Luigi]] and that Catarina's influence made the Claes household a happier place.

* TheStinger for Episode 8 starts off with Catarina deciding to take off her shoes and feel the grass on her feet, which is followed by Alan coming by and getting embarrassed seeing her bare feet. What comes after is Catarina and Alan spending the evening together, with Catarina roping Alan into experiencing such simple joys as the feeling of grass on bare feet and watching the sunset from a tree branch. The whole ordeal ends up bringing about several smiles and quite a bit of blushing from Alan, especially when they sit close together on the branch. Of course, that's before [[MomentKiller Mary notices them together and quickly hurries to break up their moment.]]

* The final part of Episode 12 includes various scenes which show how Catarina made the world around her a better place:

** After injuring Catarina with an earth golem, Keith attempts to shut himself in his room so as to prevent himself from hurting anyone he cares about. Catarina, after [[AxeBeforeEntering busting down the door to his room with an axe]], apologizes to Keith, stating her carelessness was why she got hurt. She then assures Keith that he's not a monster and that she'll be by his side as they train their magic. And before the incident, Catarina finally clearing up Keith's name by telling the truth to the Duchess that he's an illegitimate child from a distant relative and not from the Duke himself, as well as clearing up the misunderstanding between her parents that lead them to finally realize that their feelings are requited all along. After eight years of torment from his former home, Keith finally finds love and stability in his adoptive family in this series, averting the additional seven years of same horrible treatment by the Claes family before the game starts.

* Maria's POV chapter has her starting off about how being born with light magic began a spiral of turmoil and sadness in her life that leaves her [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer ostracized by her village]], [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned by her father]], and distant from her mother. She then begins losing hope of being happy when she's bullied at magic school due to being a commoner, only for Catarina to step in, protect her, and be her friend. What really makes an impact on Maria is that Catarina openly sees her not as "the girl with light magic", but the hard worker and [[NiceGirl wonderful person]] she is, which is all Maria ever wanted. Enough so that Maria [[TearsOfJoy begins crying]] when Catarina says it. Catarina's actions and friendship end up restoring Maria's hope of living a happy life.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem trope. For example, while Mary may scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her and has stated she will do ''anything'' to win her love, not once do her schemes do harm in any way to the other members of the harem. In fact, Episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria are actually nice friends who [[{{Foil}} play off each other well]]. Likewise with Geordo, despite all of his entitlement towards Catarina and annoyance at his rivals, understands that the people around her are important and they are the living proof of why he loves her: like him, she changed them for the better. When Maria goes missing, all of them spend every waking moment searching for her. And lastly, they each have stated that if they wind up not being picked by Catarina, they will still love her and support her happiness. Thus, even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia and Mary, who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

* After waking up from her coma and rescuing Maria, Catarina confronts Rafael. She has every reason to be angry with him for putting Maria and herself in trouble thanks to his actions, but because she believes he's a good person and believes that his actions were not truly his will, she instead shows empathy, recognizing that he is suffering for some reason. She asks why he's suffering, saying no one deserves to be forced to suffer alone, and offers to hear him out and be his friend. [[ThePowerOfLove This ends up saving him from the influence of a malicious ghost who was responsible for the ritual that lead him to live as Sirius and encouraging his wrongdoings against Catarina and Maria, and breaking the hold of the dark magic surrounding him.]]

** After injuring Catarina with an earth golem, Keith attempts to shut himself in his room so as to prevent himself from hurting anyone he cares about. Catarina, after [[AxeBeforeEntering busting down the door to his room with an axe]], apologizes to Keith, stating her carelessness was why she got hurt. She then assures Keith that he's not a monster and that she'll be by his side as they train their magic. And before the incident, Catarina finally clearing up Keith's name by telling the truth to the Duchess that he's an illegitimate child from a distant relative and not from the Duke himself, as well as clearing up the misunderstanding between her parents that lead them to finally realize that their feelings are requited all along. After eight years of torment from his former home (and additional seven years of same horrible treatment by the Claes family before the game starts), Keith finally finds love and stability in his adoptive family in this series.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem trope. For example, while Mary may scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her and has stated she will do ''anything'' to win her love, not once do her schemes do harm in any way to the other members of the harem. In fact, Episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria are actually nice friends who [[{{Foil}} play off each other well]]. Likewise Geordo, despite all of his entitlement towards Catarina and annoyance at his rivals, understands that the people around her are important and living proof of why he loves her: like him, she's changed them for the better. When Maria goes missing, all of them spend every waking moment searching for her. And lastly, they each have stated that if they wind up not being picked by Catarina, they will still love her and support her happiness. Thus, even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia and Mary, who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem trope. For example, while Mary may scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her and has stated she will do ''anything'' to win her love, not once do her schemes do harm in any way to the other members of the harem. In fact, Episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria are actually nice friends who [[{{Foil}} play off each other well]]. Another example is Geordo, with all of his entitlement towards Catarina and his annoyance towards his rivals, is respectful enough that the people around her are also important to her life that they are the living proof of why he loves her, like him they are changed from the better thanks to her friendship. When Maria goes missing, all of them spend every waking moment searching for her. And lastly, they each have stated that if they wind up not being picked by Catarina, they will still love her and support her happiness. Thus, even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia and Mary, who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

** Geordo has always felt heavily disconnected from others due to how talented he was compared to everybody else, with him only seeing romance as a way to further his goals for himself as well as to the Crown. When he realizes that depth of Catarina's personality change in the series, seeing how refreshingly different she is compared to everybody else awakens genuine romantic interest from him. This change also lead his relationship with Alan to finally heal as well.

** Geordo has always felt heavily disconnected from others due to how talented he was compared to everybody else, with him only seeing romance as a way to further his goals for himself as well as to the Crown. When he realizes that depth of Catarina's personality change in the series, seeing how refreshingly different she is compared to everybody else awakens genuine romantic interest from him.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem trope. For example, while Mary may scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her and has stated she will do ''anything'' to win her love, not once do her schemes do harm in any way to the other members of the harem. In fact, episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria are actually nice friends who [[{{Foil}} play off each other well]]. When Maria goes missing, all of them spend every waking moment searching for her. And lastly, they each have stated that if they wind up not being picked by Catarina, they will still love her and support her happiness. Thus, even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia and Mary, who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

* Episode 6 of the anime has a scene where Anne and Miri Diana talk about Catarina and her personality change after she hit her head when she was younger. Anne talks about how Tom the gardener and Joana the head maid enjoy her presence and opened up to her, along with Anne saying she enjoys the time she spends with Catarina. With all of her exasperation towards her daughter's antics, Miri Diana then [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther admits that Catarina is why she has]] [[HappilyMarried a loving relationship with her husband Luigi]] and that Catarina's influence made the Claes household a happier place.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem trope. For example, while Mary may scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her and has stated she will do ''anything'' to win her love, not once do her schemes do harm in any way to the other members of the harem. In fact, episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria are actually nice friends who [[{{Foil}} play off each other well]]. When Maria goes missing, all of them spend every waking moment searching for her. And lastly, they each have stated that if they wind up not being picked by Catarina, they will still love her and support her happiness. Thus, even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia and Maria, who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem trope. For example, while Mary may scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her and has stated she will do ''anything'' to win her love, not once do her schemes do harm in any way to the other members of the harem. In fact, episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria are actually nice friends who [[{{Foil}} play off each other well]]. When [[spoiler:Maria goes missing]], all of them spend every waking moment searching for her. And lastly, they each have stated that if they wind up not being picked by Catarina, they will still love her and support her happiness. Thus, even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia and Maria, who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem trope. For example, while Mary may scheme ways to get Catarina alone with her and has stated she will do ''anything'' to win her love, not once do her schemes do harm in any way to the other members of the harem. In fact, episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria are actually nice friends who [[{{Foil}}play off each other well]]. When Maria goes missing, all of them spend every waking moment searching for her. And lastly, they each have stated that if they wind up not being picked by Catarina, they will still love her and support her happiness. Thus, even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia and Maria, who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem. While Mary might scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her, never once do her schemes involve her in any way doing harm to the other members of the harem, for example. In fact, episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria (who, with Geordo, is one of the most likely suitors to win Catarina's affections) are actually nice friends who play off each other well. Even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina has helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia and Maria, who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

* The series in general takes a very gentle, wholesome approach to the harem. While Mary might scheme of ways to get Catarina alone with her, never once do her schemes involve her in any way doing harm to the other members of the harem, for example. In fact, episode 8 of the anime shows that Mary and Maria (who, with Geordo, is one of the most likely suitors to win Catarina's affections) are actually nice friends who play off each other well. Even if ''every single member of the harem'' is dead-set on winning Catarina's love, they're all TrueCompanions who care for and aid each other. In a way, this is just another way Catarina had helped all of them, ''especially'' Sophia and Maria, who originally came from friendless, bullied backgrounds.

** Nicol is with his father, preparing to eventually succeed him as the earl and the premier.

** Rafael is hard at work with his new job in the Department of Magic. He might not graduated from the academy, but at least the Ministry of Magic is kind enough to offer the man a job. After living for years under a false identity in fear of his life and plotting for revenge, he's now free.

** Tom the Gardener is happily working the garden, content with life.

** Nicol is with his father, preparing to eventually succeed him as Prime Minister.

** Rafael is hard at work with his new job in the Department of Magic.

* The final part of Episode 12 show various scenes which show how Catarina made the world around her a better place:

** Finally, we get Catarina [[CallBack walking up to the gates of the Magic Academy,]] [[InnerMonologue thinking about how]] she thought her luck was horrible in being reincarnated as an otome game villainess, but now considers herself blessed to have met all the people in her life. The scene ends with Catarina running up to her friends while they all happily greet her.