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Overlap's Comic Gardo website launched on Wednesday the manga adaptation of Kei Yose's The Villainess Speaks Not (Akuyaku Reijō wa Shaberimasen) novel by artistRyū Miduki.
J-Novel Club releases the novel series in English digitally, anddescribes the story:
They tried to silence her, but she doesn't need a voiceto twist the odds in her favor.
When Liliana wakes up in the body of an otome game villainess, she knows it's do or die. As the daughter of a duke and a candidate tomarry the crown prince, she faces constant threats from assassins and her father's political enemies. Worse still, a fever has left her mute, unable to call for help or use magic to defend herself.
Or so they all think!
One quick attempt is allit takes for Liliana to shatter the common sense of her world, which dictates that incantations are mandatory for spellcasting. Now, all she needs to do is escape the grim destinythat awaits her. Though her foresight can only take her so far—the game doesn't start foranother seven years—nothing can stop a six-year-old armed with erudition and cheat-levelmagic.
Yose launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2020. Overlap started publishing the novels with illustration by Ruria Miyuki in April 2024. Overlap will publish the sixth volume on August 20.