Thought It Was ‘The End’, Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 68
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Chapter 13. The Villain is Half (7)
“Jenny. Are you going to the Duke’s residence again today?”
“I will. I’m sorry. It’s a rare day off.”
“You don’t need to be sorry. I know how much you care about Lady Blancard.”
“…I care about you too.”
Harrison’s eyes widened. He brought a tray with breakfast to the bed and said.
“That’s quite a gift from the morning. Do you want something?”
“Not really, but… it would be even better if you brought some honey too.”
“I’ll get it right away.”
Genevieve quickly grabbed Harrison’s arm as he looked ready to immediately ransack the Imperial Palace kitchen.
“I’m joking! You don’t need to!”
“I can be back in no time, Jenny.”
“Sit down, please. We already barely see each other since you can hardly come in, so let’s at least have breakfast together.”
“You don’t need to worry about it….”
“How can I not worry? I feel terrible for only going out when I finally get time off….”
“I told you. I’m happy just being able to stay by your side.”
“You have too few desires.”
Several faces naturally flashed through her mind.
The obsessive bundle starting with She and ending with ane, and the self-righteous bundle starting with Ed and ending with win.
“Isn’t it the opposite?”
Harrison smiled warmly with his facial muscles completely relaxed.
“How dare insignificant me occupy a place beside you, humanity’s treasure—what greater greed could there be?”
“…I’m the insignificant one.”
“You’re being too modest, Jenny.”
Despite this, when he stood guard beside Edwin as a royal knight, he had quite a sharp impression. He only acted like a bear taking a nap in the sunshine in front of Genevieve.
Genevieve also smiled back at Harrison.
A spring-like warm atmosphere flowed between the couple who were grinning at each other from the morning.
Genevieve loved this atmosphere. Harrison’s characteristic relaxed mood, the peaceful relaxation his presence gave, and everything created by the harmonious blend of wordlessly peaceful time.
When Harrison sat beside her, Genevieve leaned over first and kissed his cheek.
Though it was calm and dry for physical affection between a couple who had spent the night together, Harrison always turned bright red and felt happy just from that.
“Jenny, you really don’t need to worry about me. Protecting you is fulfilling my life’s mission.”
Harrison spoke with a rather solemn expression.
“Alright. I’ll worry about you as I please.”
That clumsy, unselfish pure love was endearing.
Now it was.
***
“Here’s the item you requested.”
Lloyd held out a small medicine bottle.
“How much is the payment?”
“He said he already received it.”
He seemed curious about what kind of payment was being exchanged between Edelaine and Lucian, but Lloyd didn’t ask as usual.
Actually, she couldn’t have answered even if he had asked this time. Edelaine didn’t know exactly what Lucian was using to settle accounts either.
Edelaine took the medicine bottle Lloyd brought and pondered for a moment.
She had prepared it just in case, but she hoped she wouldn’t need to use it.
The nightmares were a double-edged sword.
She couldn’t distinguish what was truth and what was falsehood.
Now that the predetermined story had disappeared, Edelaine couldn’t understand what the resumed nightmares were trying to tell her.
They drove her to the edge of a cliff saying she must die, but the actual story progression was sluggish.
The ‘mage’ in the resumed nightmares hadn’t committed any evil acts yet.
‘In the novel, she must have done something wicked….’
But in reality, far from evil acts, her presence was faint.
The Saint’s attack was something that happened due to power struggles within the Church, and there were no reports of monsters attacking civilian areas in groups.
Edelaine was genuinely curious about where the black-haired woman who strangled her every day was and what she was doing for a living.
‘Well, it’s not just the real villain who isn’t living according to her novel role….’
She herself, who should have died as the first villain in the early part, was still alive and well. So there was no point in questioning why the real villain wasn’t fulfilling her mission. If asked why she herself hadn’t died, she’d have nothing to say.
Actually, if not for the nightmares, she wouldn’t want to interfere with where she lived or what she did.
If both of them could survive without being killed by the protagonists as an early cannon fodder and final villain respectively, and live small daily lives, wouldn’t that be the best outcome?
She hoped she was somewhere using monsters like cattle to farm or something.
What was troubling Edelaine now wasn’t the real villain who she didn’t know where or what she was doing but kept appearing in dreams to torment her, but Prince Edwin who had strangely gotten ideas and kept acting oddly in front of Shane.
‘What did that crazy bastard eat wrong….’
After enjoying carefree romances with various women, did he suddenly want high stimulation in his daily life because he had to get married?
Still, maybe because he was born to be a sub-male lead, or because he’d never been rejected, his pitiful expressions looked quite sincere. If someone had just met Edwin or didn’t know him well, they might have been fooled.
But Edelaine had known Edwin long enough to call him a childhood friend.
She wasn’t stupid enough to fall for it now just because he made his facial muscles look a bit pitiful.
When the nightmares resumed, her solemn resolution to find and kill the real villain and live happily ever after with the male lead gradually cooled down as time passed.
‘Ah, of course I want to live though.’
It was hard to maintain the solemnity.
She thought she’d know what to do right away, but wasn’t it too quiet?
Never dreaming that the people around her had thoroughly blocked access without her knowing, Edelaine fell into worry. Not knowing she couldn’t do anything rather than having done nothing.
Is a villain who has done nothing still a villain or not….
‘Judging by actions alone, there’s no villain like the male lead who committed kidnapping and confinement….’
The male lead had developed too much in a bad direction for the real villain to catch up.
‘That makes sense.’
Moreover, the real villain’s enemy was the Saint, not the early villainess, and the opponent Edelaine really had to fight wasn’t the real villain who had never harmed her, but the world itself.
The continuing nightmares.
‘But what if that mage must die for these nightmares to end?’
Should she kill an innocent mage?
Edelaine hadn’t made a decision yet.
Could she take another person’s life for her own happiness?
The only harm was being killed a few times in dreams.
‘Though for dreams, they’re vivid and deeply connected to reality.’
Nothing had happened yet.
Lloyd, who had been watching the contemplative Edelaine, spoke.
“And Lucian asked me to relay a message.”
“What is it?”
“He declines. Says it’s boring.”
Edelaine deflated and laughed.
“What, I thought he was interested.”
Lloyd tilted his head.
What she had tried to ask Lucian was about Lloyd. She had asked him to take care of Lloyd if she couldn’t overcome the nightmares and died. Since he usually talked about scouting, she thought he’d readily accept, but it was unexpected.
“Lloyd, take this.”
“What is it?”
“A gift.”
“Can I throw it away?”
“….”
“Can’t I do whatever I want with a gift?”
“Please just take it, will you?”
“Then you’re not giving me a gift, you’re just leaving something in my care. Please speak properly.”
“S-sorry…?”
“There’s no need to apologize. Well, I’ll keep it for now anyway.”
“…”
Lloyd smiled teasingly at Edelaine, who looked like she was about to cry, and pocketed the medicine bottle.
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