For the Young Villain’s Happy Ending - Chapter 105

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Chapter 105

It had been a day of perfect idleness. Even Vivian’s usual guests hadn’t visited today.
I spent the entire day eating the meals Kevenriak prepared, napping, reading books, and occasionally sharing pointless jokes.
Our memories had become pleasant topics of conversation. Kevenriak and I often discussed the events that had unfolded in Hibei.

For today alone, we existed in an entirely different world. One untouched by the original story’s interference or dark magic.
It was the peaceful day with my disciple that I had longed for so desperately.

“This is nice.”
“What is?”
“Being like this with Keri.”
“…I like it too. Raina.”

That was why I kept delaying the moment I would speak of reality aloud. I wished everything could simply stop as it was.
I stretched my legs across the sofa and leaned sideways, resting the back of my head against the shoulder my disciple offered, and posed a question to Kevenriak.

“Keri, do you remember that novel I used to read? The one where the protagonist becomes happy?”
“Yes.”
“I wish we could be characters in a story like that.”

If this weren’t this world, you could have found happiness.
If you had never met me, those terrible two years wouldn’t have been yours.

“Is the protagonist Raina?”
“Of course you’re the protagonist, Keri. I’d be satisfied as an extra. Preferably a wealthy extra with nothing to do?”

It would be enough to be an extra watching you reach your happy ending. That would be my happy ending too.
Kevenriak pondered my words for a moment, then leaned his upper body back. As I lost my support and began to fall, Kevenriak’s hand caught me firmly.

“Raina, then we couldn’t enter that novel.”
“Why not?”

The beautiful protagonist with blue eyes gazed down at the extra staring blankly up at him and spoke.

“Because in the world I see, you are always the protagonist.”

***

“Wow.”

Raina Hart gasped without thinking.
She had always believed the night sky looked the same everywhere, but the night sky visible from Hibei was distinctly different.

“Would you like to take a night walk?”

Just moments earlier, Kevenriak had called out to Raina as she was heading upstairs to sleep.

“To Hibeiro.”

It was a perfect proposal with no reason to refuse.
Since the Rebel Village lay beyond the borders of the Betuzhenia Empire Territory, the distance was considerable. After the third spatial shift, Raina found herself with Kevenriak beneath Hibeiro’s sky.
Countless stars, a massive moon, the whisper of grass swaying in the breeze, the chorus of insects echoing through the countryside, the silent Lord’s Castle, and below the hill, the darkened home of the Disciples.

“…It hasn’t changed.”
“Because it’s Hibei.”

Kevenriak responded to Raina’s murmur. It seemed he remembered her words from long ago about how she loved Hibei precisely because it never changed.

“That’s right. Because it’s Hibei.”

Yet despite those words, I was the one who had changed the most.
I sat down in the empty air. Thanks to Kevenriak’s barrier, it was no different from sitting on a transparent floor. He sat beside me.
Our hands, resting on the barrier, were so close that the slightest movement would bring our ring fingers together. With the delicate tension in the air came a stirring of emotions.
But what could be done? His time was short, and so was mine.
We were engaged in a subtle game of trying to give our limited time to each other, neither willing to reveal the changes in our hearts in a game that absolutely had to be won.
Unwilling, and yet….
I gazed quietly at the stars and spoke.

“Today was so much fun thanks to Keri.”
“…I enjoyed it too. Raina.”

Kevenriak answered my words. His voice, touched with emotion and hoarse, carried a note of relief—like someone who had safely completed a necessary task.
I spoke again.

“So have you been thinking about leaving me?”

At the calm question that flowed out, Kevenriak turned his head in surprise. Raina still gazed at the stars.

“How did you…?”

She opened her mouth, sensing Kevenriak’s bewildered gaze.

“I heard you communicating with Maverick.”

It happened after lunch.
Raina had dozed off without realizing it and opened her eyes. The living room sofa on the first floor. A blanket someone had draped over her. But Kevenriak was nowhere to be seen.
How much time had passed? Could Vivian have awakened again? Raina tried to move her resting body, then simply closed her eyes.

[Simona Asperada is the culprit!]
“…Duke, your voice is too loud.”

Maverick’s voice flowed through the communication channel from the kitchen.
Footsteps briefly headed toward the living room, then disappeared back toward the kitchen. It seemed he was checking if Raina had woken. Kevenriak’s voice became completely inaudible, but from Maverick’s frequent exclamations of surprise, Raina could piece together the situation to some degree.

‘Simona Asperada.’

I had suspected it to some extent, but the culprit who killed Raina Hart was truly her.

“Mother, thank you for inviting me to such a wonderful gathering.”

My body trembled at the memory of myself acting to attend her tea party. I had smiled and flattered her, wanting to make a good impression. All the while not knowing she was the culprit who had used my disciples, killed me, and intended to kill Kevenriak.
I was nothing short of a fool.

[Raina’s soul?! …Damn it. Gasp. What did I just say?]

Maverick’s startled voice captured Raina’s attention. A low-toned curse seemed to have slipped out unintentionally, followed by an apology to the Emperor.
In the meantime, Maverick had also learned that my soul had entered Vivian. Raina, who had been quietly listening to the two men’s communication, felt her heart sink at the final exchange.

[Will you handle Simona Asperada directly? …That is true, but. Raina won’t want to enter the body that Your Majesty resurrected with your own life.]
“It’s fine, Duke.”

Kevenriak’s voice came through clearly this time.

“Master has eleven other precious disciples besides me. She’s not the kind to refuse her disciples’ requests.”

In the end, Kevenriak had resolved to leave. He would save his own body by any means necessary, and make Simona Asperada his companion on the path to the afterlife.
The words about having a replacement made my chest ache terribly with sorrow. I wanted to demand how he could think only of sacrificing you. Didn’t he read the letter where I wrote that I wanted him to live? Was I, appearing as a spirit, dragging him toward death?
I knew it wasn’t his fault, but seeing him sacrifice so much for me broke my heart so completely that I didn’t know how to persuade him otherwise. So I wanted to demand answers.
If only his hand hadn’t been there to adjust the blanket over me when he returned after ending the communication.

“Raina, are you awake?”

I pretended to sleep before waking. Until then, you had stayed by my side, and when I opened my eyes, you greeted me with a smile. As if nothing had happened. So I wouldn’t discover your sacrifice.
That’s when I made my decision.

“Keri.”

I cannot simply disappear like this.

“Will you fight this world with me?”

Raina turned her gaze from the stars to the side. Kevenriak was looking at her. Just as he had from the day they first met until now. As she shifted her body, her fingertips brushed against his.
I am an outsider, and you are characters in this world. I thought it was a world I shouldn’t covet. If my given life has ended, then though I resent this god-like author, I should accept it.
But I wanted to live. Desperately.
Because it seems I need to be in your happy ending.

“I want to try living. With Keri.”

At Raina’s words, Kevenriak’s eyes wavered.
As if he had never imagined she would wish for a future with him. But fear crept in between the overwhelming emotions.
He understood what it meant to fight the world. Not one or the other, but both surviving. However.

“…What if we fail? Right now, I can reclaim my body with certainty. Your precious things will still remain. Only I—”
“Stop it, Keri.”

Raina cut off Kevenriak’s words firmly, leaning her body toward him.

“I need Keri in my happy ending.”

What does it matter if the seesaw is broken?
It is enough to meet the same ending in the same place.

“Just say you’re happy.”
“….”

After a long moment of locked gazes, Kevenriak nodded.

***

What is magic?
It was a discipline created when the supreme primordial dragon comprehended the principles governing all things. Thus, dragons were a magnificent race—the apex of all living creatures.
For the Grimoire of Magic, born from magic itself, dragons were beings naturally deserving of reverence and worship.
Yet, in the very nest of dragons, humans dared to…

“Build a city?!?!”
“….”
“I am not some existence meant to slumber beneath a human city!”

In an inn within a city in Betuzhenia Empire Territory, Zikhard thrashed about on the bed, unable to contain his fury. Tiernan and his subordinates watched the Grimoire of Magic’s tantrum unfold.
This commotion had already lasted a full day. The Rebel Forces’ eardrums had long since lost half their function.

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