Tags: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance, School Life, Villainess, Isekai

Sub-Tags: Misunderstandings, Strong Lead, OP, Otome

The Hidden Boss is Seeing Double!

What Makes This Yumiella Different!

Having defeated demon lords, an uprising, and the church’s magical barrier, the third instalment of Villainess Level 99 finds Yumiella facing off against her most powerful opponent yet – herself!

Peace doesn’t last long on the Dolkness Estate. Even after stopping a country-wide uprising, the troubles keep on coming. This time, Yumiella and her motley crew gain the attention of some of the local Gods. Not visiting on a peacekeeping mission, they agree not to eliminate Yumiella on the condition that she help them with a little multiverse problem. Throughout the infinite universes of the Otome game, one of the other Yumiellas has been causing a lot of death and destruction. 

With a plot involving two different versions of Yumiella, you can expect this volume to be heavily focused on the series’ titular protagonist. The volume’s focus mainly showcases the uniqueness of our version of Yumiella through the clever introduction of a multiverse filled with the same version of the Otome’s original hidden boss.

Furthermore, to differentiate herself from those in the multiverse, this volume finally deals with Yumiella telling the truth to Patrick and Eleanora about being a reincarnated person. Given how Yumiella acts, this fact isn’t hard for either of them to believe, making the reveal all the easier on her. Additionally, revealing this fact provides a perfect reason for Lemn and Sanon to stop attacking her. 

The Battle of Ones and Twos

In a multiverse filled with exhaustive Yumiellas, there’s another that has managed to escape the crowd – this volume’s supposed antagonist.

Typical for the series at this point, the version of Yumiella that’s supposed to be a bringer of chaos and destruction isn’t all she’s cracked up to be. Although she might fight like cats and dogs with this universe’s Yumiella (which is hilarious, by the way), she doesn’t seem up to much killing or destroying.

This lack of bloodlust is likely due to the real mastermind behind Yumiella 2’s outburst – The Dark God. The only slightly weak point of this volume, The Dark God is stereotypically evil with heaps of overpowered administrative abilities. He is defeated in typical Yumiella fashion, however, which is always fun to read.

Overall, the latest volume of Villainess Level 99 manages to continue this series’ signature hilariously entertaining ride. Raking up the danger on previous volumes, it finds the protagonist pitted against Gods and even herself.

Key to this volume’s enjoyability comes from Yumiella’s reincarnation confession and the introduction of Yumiella 2. The former finally puts to rest a hanging plot thread, whilst the latter shows the hilarious consequences of having two very different versions of Yumiella in the same room.