The Teddy Bear Sends the Insomniac Villain to Dreamland - Chapter 3

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Chapter 3
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I couldn’t move a single finger.
My entire body felt limp, drained of all magical power.
In truth, it made sense. My magic was literally disappearing.
I swept my weakened gaze across my surroundings, quickly piecing together where I was.
Based on the earlier conversation, this had to be Lea Everett’s reception hall.
The venue for the female protagonist’s birthday celebration—in other words, the Everett Earl Family’s mansion!
‘This can’t be happening. How did this occur?’
The portals to the Human World had long since closed and vanished.
“And on top of that, my power…”
During the transition, my heart had throbbed painfully before my magic evaporated in an instant.
“…I have no strength.”
This unfamiliar sensation of my magic fading was simultaneously oddly familiar.
“Could this year be my sabbatical?”
I slowly counted on my fingers, tracing back to my last sabbatical year.
A witch’s sabbatical arrived once every fifty years.
Witches existed outside the cycle of ‘life’s renewal’—the natural decay and rebirth that governed all other beings.
Because their existence defied providence, every fifty years from their birth, witches were forcefully subjected to nature’s laws.
That period was called the ‘sabbatical.’
During this time, witches universally lost nearly all their magical power.
It was an unspoken rule never to leave witch territory during this period.
And here I was—a witch in her sabbatical year, stranded in the Human World.
“What rotten luck… this is a disaster.”
I needed to lie down somewhere immediately and recover.
Without the castle’s ambient magic, even standing felt exhausting.
Oblivious to my predicament, the Everett Earl Family’s magnificent evening was just beginning.
At least I’d fallen onto the Terrace—that was something.
‘Imagine if a suspicious woman suddenly dropped from thin air in the middle of the reception hall.’
I stood there, staring blankly at the brilliant lights of the lavish gathering, wondering what to do.
“Commander!”
An urgent call accompanied the Terrace doors swinging wide open.
Startled, I crouched beside the nearby flower bed just as a silver-haired man, gleaming like moonlight, stepped through.
“Commander, why haven’t you greeted Miss Everett? It seemed she was looking for you. I thought this might be your opportunity.”
A golden-haired man following behind him gently grasped his shoulder as he spoke.
“Don’t talk nonsense. I’m already exhausted just coming to this reception right after returning.”
“But coming here in the first place was to see Miss Everett, wasn’t it?”
“I came because I was summoned. Nothing more.”
The man’s face glowed softly beneath the moonlight as he spoke in a cold tone.
His pale silver hair shimmered like freshly fallen snow, contrasting with his dark brows.
Long, deep-set eyes and violet irises.
That man with his distinctly masculine, sharp features was none other than…!
“Blake Leblanc!”
“…What?”
“Huh?”
The moment I clapped my hand over my mouth, Blake—suddenly hearing his name called—turned his head sharply, his piercing gaze fixed on the blonde-haired man behind me.
“What’s your complaint? Why the casual tone, Rein?”
At the chilling edge in Blake’s voice, the man addressed as Rein stumbled backward with a bewildered expression, raising his hands in protest.
“What? I… I didn’t say anything. Did I really use a casual tone?”
“You didn’t call out to me?”
“Even if I were mad, I’d never do such a thing!”
As Blake regarded the frantically gesticulating Rein with suspicion, his gaze suddenly swept toward the flower bed.
‘Oh no!’
My big mouth!
Overwhelmed by the shock and emotion of seeing the ill-fated supporting male lead from the original novel in person, I’d let out a sound without thinking.
His sharp eyes swept methodically across the area near the flowers, cold and piercing.
‘If I’m discovered, this is catastrophic.’
I squeezed every last drop of my depleted magical power to suppress my presence as much as possible.
Had I been my original self, I would have felt no fear, but in this form, I instinctively sensed it.
‘That man possesses abilities far beyond human limitations.’
It was a bone-chilling moment that made me hold my breath.
“Have you prepared a gift for the Everett Earl Family’s young lady?”
“Ah.”
At Rein’s unexpected question, Blake’s attention shifted back to him.
“D-Don’t tell me… you haven’t prepared anything?!”
“I have.”
“Oh, you have. What did you choose?”
“This teddy bear.”
“…Pardon?”
I perked up my ears at the intriguing turn of conversation.
He’d prepared a teddy bear as a gift for his unrequited love?
That’s quite a romantic choice.
True to a romance novel, the sweetness of the gift made me smile warmly despite my dire circumstances.
Now that I thought about it, he’d been carrying that oddly mismatched teddy bear when he entered the Terrace earlier.
So that was it?
“…Wait a moment. You can’t possibly mean that shabby, dingy brown teddy bear, right? Haha. Surely not. You wouldn’t, right?”
Rein, muttering to himself that it absolutely couldn’t be, fell silent before Blake and then suddenly shrieked.
“You’re serious?! This worn-out teddy bear?!”
“Is there a problem?”
“Good heavens.”
A heavy silence fell over the Terrace as words failed to come.
“N-now that you mention it, you were loitering around the streets after training earlier, weren’t you?”
“….”
“You didn’t happen to buy it from that old peddler woman who’s always around there…did you?”
“I did. The old hag grabbed my pant leg and wouldn’t let go, so I bought it to get rid of her. It’s better than nothing.”
“That’s not better at all! Today is Lea Everett’s birthday, no less! She’s one of the Commander’s most important personal connections!”
“I know. But is a birthday really that important? This entire banquet is just for the Everett Earl Family’s business investments anyway. Lea won’t care about gifts.”
“Aaahhhhh….”
Rein pressed his forehead with one hand and let out a deep groan.
The gravity of the situation made me frown as well.
He was supposedly described as an emotionless monster devoid of blood and tears…
‘Isn’t he just a robot?’
I stared in disbelief at the silver-haired back of the man who seemed genuinely indifferent.
“No, this won’t do. We’re throwing this away!”
“Don’t act so materialistic, Rein. I despise people like that.”
“That’s not about being materialistic—we’re throwing away garbage! Hand it over!”
“No.”
“I insist!”
“…Do you want to die?”
The bickering between the two dragged on.
I should have just left, but my legs were growing increasingly numb from sitting still while these two argued over something so absurd.
This wasn’t the time for this!
I needed to find a way back to the Demon Realm immediately.
Blake and the original story were fine and all, but I couldn’t stay in the Human World indefinitely without any magical power.
‘But where is the portal?’
There had to be a portal somewhere that would take me back to the Human World—the same one I’d fallen through.
This was my chance while those two were fighting!
I was about to look around cautiously when it happened.
“Oh no! What if the bear doll gets thrown away!”
A worn brown teddy bear fell with a thud onto my head.
“Ugh!”
And in that instant.
Pop!
A brilliant flash of light engulfed me, and my body felt weightless.
‘Huh?’
I blinked rapidly, my vision spinning dizzily.
I felt thick hands gripping one of my arms.
“Tsk, really. I told you to just throw it away, so why did you have to be so stubborn about it?”
But why did my body feel so light and fluffy?
As I slowly lifted my arm to look, what I saw was a hand transformed into a blunt mass of fur.
My entire body went rigid. I couldn’t fathom what was happening.
‘This fluffy fur and tiny frame….’
I stared blankly at my shrunken form and realized the truth.
A teddy bear?
I had become a teddy bear?
‘Nooooooo!’
Damn it. How could this possibly happen?
Even if I’d lost all my magical power, this was absurd.
Could a witch with formidable magic really be sucked into a mere teddy bear?
‘What on earth is this bear doll?’
It had to be an object enchanted with magic powerful enough to imprison a witch—there was no other explanation.
‘Alright, first I need to get out of this doll.’
I focused, exhaled calmly.
Then I pushed with all my strength…!
Huh?
Pushing again with all my might…!
Good heavens.
‘I’m not coming back….’
I couldn’t return to my original body!
No matter what I tried, I remained a fluffy teddy bear.
And worse.
‘Without any magical power, I can’t even move my body.’
It was a cascade of horrors. Trapped inside this bear doll, completely immobilized.
At this point, I had no choice but to accept it.
‘I… became a bear.’

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