Let’s Tame The Crazy Heroine - Chapter 38

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Chapter 38

 

And so, one nation was reduced to ashes.

 

Kaisis, who came to his senses too late, gazed at the tragedy unfolding before his eyes without understanding what had happened.

 

Why are flames soaring and smoke rising like that?

 

Why is there a burning smell?

 

Only after searching through his memories with his splitting head did Kaisis realize.

 

That he himself was the one who had brought about all this disaster.

 

He had killed countless innocent lives with his own hands.

 

He had wanted freedom, but as a result, he became an evil dragon who massacred humans and was once again bound by the king.

 

He had thought that serving the king would grant him freedom, but the king, having obtained a good weapon called a dragon, tried to dominate Kaisis even more.

 

Confined to the spire, Kaisis from then on refused all food and drink and rejected all of the king’s commands.

 

The king continued to torture Kaisis, but he endured without even making a sound.

 

Since he never knew when he might be controlled by the king again to destroy his surroundings, he slowly died so that the king would lose interest in him.

 

Thus, Kaisis gradually became empty.

 

It was around that time that the king found a new dragon egg.

 

“That fellow is a failure. Abandon him in the snowy mountains.”

 

As soon as the king obtained the new egg, he mercilessly tortured Kaisis and then discarded him.

 

Out of fear that Kaisis might return for revenge, he nearly cut off his breath entirely.

 

Thus, Kaisis was abandoned in the snowy mountains. Only when he reached death’s threshold did he finally obtain the freedom he had desired.

 

But Kaisis didn’t know that this was freedom. Because he had never once obtained freedom in his life.

 

Kaisis chose to die quietly.

 

His body, broken by torture, steadily moved toward stopping his heart. It was when the shadow of death was about to fall.

 

That he met that woman.

 

The woman climbing the snowy mountains discovered Kaisis collapsed in the snowfield and brought him to her home.

 

Then she began to carefully treat Kaisis.

 

With the woman’s help, Kaisis steadily recovered. But he still longed for death.

 

Because he thought that death was the only way to be free from the false accusation of being an evil dragon.

 

So he treated the woman who kept trying to save him even more harshly.

 

But the woman didn’t give up on Kaisis. Every day she spoke to him and treated him.

 

“I’m an evil dragon. If you stay by my side, everyone will die.”

 

“The Kaisis I see isn’t like that. Look even now. You brought all the food in front of me so I could eat easily.”

 

After one day, two days, a month passed like this, Kaisis came back to life.

 

Thanks to that woman who truly wished for him to live and cherished him with a pure heart.

 

Kaisis realized that at some point his feelings toward the woman had changed.

 

When he was with the woman, he finally felt like he was becoming himself. Could this be what true freedom was?

 

Kaisis loved the woman.

 

But happiness didn’t last long.

 

One day, when Kaisis returned from going to chop firewood, he felt that something was strange inside the house.

 

Because the house, which would normally be filled with voices welcoming him, was cold without a single sign of life.

 

Kaisis searched everywhere for where the woman was.

 

But the woman was nowhere to be seen inside the house.

 

Had she perhaps gone down to the village?

 

Kaisis hurriedly headed toward the village.

 

However, when Kaisis passed through the forest of the snowy mountains and arrived at the village.

 

“This witch has been hiding a wicked evil dragon! Let’s kill the witch and achieve justice!”

 

The people had captured the woman.

 

The woman was looking around in terror.

 

It was the moment when the shocked Kaisis rushed toward the woman.

 

Swoosh-.

 

A sword raised high came rushing down, aiming for the woman’s neck.

 

The woman collapsed in front of Kaisis.

 

Kaisis embraced the woman’s powerlessly falling body while watching her red blood droplets scatter.

 

“Rone…”

 

Kaisis held the woman’s body as it grew cold and endlessly called the woman’s name.

 

But the woman only managed to convey one word with difficulty while coughing up red blood.

 

After that, the woman breathed her last.

 

Kaisis looked around blankly while holding the woman. Then he saw a group of humans who were laughing.

 

Those who had barely survived from the hostile nation that Kaisis had burned had gathered surrounding forces and come to subjugate the evil dragon Kaisis.

 

But when they learned that there was a woman Kaisis loved, they killed that woman instead for revenge.

 

Humans turn others into tools for their own desires.

 

They oppressed someone to dominate the world, and cruelly killed someone for revenge.

 

Humans are hateful. Humans are ugly. Humans are terrible.

 

At the same time, humans are…

 

Filled with rage, Kaisis tried to eliminate the humans.

 

But in the end, Kaisis couldn’t kill the humans.

 

Because the woman had loved humans like herself.

 

She had saved Kaisis because she thought he was human like herself.

 

Kaisis couldn’t bring himself to kill the humans the woman had loved.

 

If he too killed others to express his anger, what would be different from the humans he hated?

 

That was why.

 

He sought out a deep cave himself and hid his traces.

 

But the humans didn’t leave Kaisis alone.

 

They persistently found Kaisis’s lair and even sealed him.

 

After 300 years had passed and he finally awakened…

 

A dark mage was attacking him.

 

Kaisis, who had just awakened from the seal, didn’t have the strength to oppose the dark mage.

 

So he was injured and collapsed, and thus came to meet.

 

The woman who had saved him, who looked exactly like the woman he had loved.

 

* * *

 

Kaisis told his past with an indifferent face.

 

But I read Kaisis’s pain within it.

 

I couldn’t even fathom how difficult it must have been for Kaisis, who had lived in such long misunderstanding.

 

Having lost even the only person who understood him, it must have felt like his world had collapsed.

 

It was the moment I placed my hand on Kaisis’s chest to comfort him.

 

Why is this happening?

 

Suddenly my heart sank with a thump and my whole body began to heat up.

 

I didn’t know the reason, but tears burst out like a waterfall.

 

I gasped for breath and clutched my throat.

 

“Master, why are you suddenly acting like this?”

 

“I, I don’t know. After hearing Kaisis’s story, I suddenly found it hard to breathe.”

 

As I gasped for breath, Kaisis quietly looked down at me and then reached out to embrace me.

 

“Breathe slowly. Slowly.”

 

But my tears showed no sign of stopping easily. Even in my dizziness, I recalled some memory.

 

The sight of Kaisis urgently running through people.

 

What is this?

 

Could this be Rene’s memory that I don’t know about?

 

Then why is Kaisis in my memory?

 

The Kaisis in my memory looked precarious, as if he might collapse at any moment.

 

I didn’t know why, but I really wanted to say this to Kaisis.

 

“I hope you could be even a little less sad.”

 

At that moment, Kaisis’s eyes wavered.

 

“How does Master know those words?”

 

“What do you mean by those words?”

 

“The last words that woman said to me.”

 

“I don’t know. I just felt like I had to say them.”

 

How long did I cry endlessly with my head buried against Kaisis’s chest like that?

 

“Rene.”

 

Shamal came looking for me using teleportation.

 

My vision was blurred from tears so I couldn’t see clearly, but Shamal had a somehow strange expression.

 

“I’ve been looking for you for a while, so you were here.”

 

Shamal tried to carefully separate me from Kaisis.

 

But it wasn’t easy because Kaisis was holding me tightly.

 

“Why are you crying?”

 

“Because I heard such a sad story.”

 

As I answered while sniffling, Shamal looked at Kaisis.

 

Then he began to gently pat me.

 

“Don’t cry… I’ll take you to your room, let’s go.”

 

“Then I’ll… be going now.”

 

When I said I would go, this time Kaisis obediently let me go.

 

I returned to my room with Shamal’s help.

 

“Let’s finish learning teleportation magic tomorrow, rest a bit today.”

 

“Alright.”

 

I looked up at Shamal while sniffling, and Shamal patted my shoulder before disappearing.

 

Left alone, I kept mulling over Kaisis’s story.

 

It was so sad I could barely bear it.

 

It was even more so because Kaisis’s tone, expression, and eyes were so indifferent when telling his past story.

 

As if he was saying that even the pain had become numb now.

 

* * *

 

Shamal, who returned to the Magic Tower, immediately shut himself in his room. Then he pulled the blanket over his head.

 

When he first saw Rene being held by Kaisis, he felt strangely uncomfortable somehow.

 

And when he realized that Rene was crying…

 

One side of his chest felt tingly.

 

Rene had always been a bright person. Even while being abused by his family, instead of collapsing and crying, he always greeted him with a bright face.

 

He liked that Rene. Of course, not as a romantic interest, but as a friend.

 

But…

 

“Why did I feel that way…?”

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