There's No Accounting for Taste, but People Shout About It

What luck! A hereditary prince from the Dark Empire came to us for a look at possible brides! And among the long list of candidates, my name is there too: Nathanielia Hos, Master of Black Magic. “Stubborn, resentful, vengeful, suspicious, harsh, sharp-tongued…” — that’s my description. At the interview they told me: excellent qualities to become the future empress. What panic started right then! “Don’t get so upset—you still have a chance to be eliminated,” they cheered me up.

If you only knew how hard I worked to actually get eliminated from this competition! But the story turned out to be much longer than I thought at first. And much more interesting. So tell me—who, in the end, became the empress of the Dark Empire?