I Became the Villain of a Romance Fantasy

39 – Uninvited guest (4)

dizzy.

The overheated head is showing a much slower activity than usual.

I was just pretending to be looking through the bookshelves like this now, and the letters that were reflected in my eyes were being kicked out without even entering my head.

I wondered if this feeling would subside if I read the titles of the books on the bookshelf one by one, but it was all meaningless.

‘Please be still.’

The books placed in front of her nose did not enter her eyes.

All he could see was his face, which had just smiled at him, filling his field of vision.

His eyes, which contained warm light like the sun, reflected his own face, which was dyed red. At that time, even his hand gently caressing her mouth with the soft handkerchief, everything starts to repeat itself endlessly in her head as if it had just happened.

Even if it wasn’t so, my head was dull due to the heat boiling inside, but since I was writing all of them in this way, how could the letters be lifted to my head?

It was only later that I noticed that I had fallen away from him because I was immersed in my own thoughts while repeating these meaningless actions. As soon as the warmth and scent he felt next to him disappeared, his head began to regain his composure.

I turned my head and looked at where he was.

He was slowly reading the books on the bookshelf, still unable to get out of the spot where he was standing at the beginning.

When I found out where he was, my body naturally moved toward where he was.

But my head, which had regained my cool, stopped my steps toward him. The moment that resulted from that was enough time to organize the messy head.

Leaving behind the emotions that started to overflow as soon as I saw him, I turned my head and looked at the bookshelf in front of me.

Anyway, the moment I went back to his side, the same thing as before just repeated itself. Wouldn’t it be better to keep a distance and cool your head a little like now?

At the same time, I felt empty and wanted to go back to his side. It was funny even thinking about it, but if I didn’t go this far, I would just stand next to him like an idiot and not be able to do anything. was

I didn’t want that.

Thinking back on it now, I feel a bit ashamed, but what happened on the street before was, in a way, the situation I wanted.

It was because coming out to the night market today wasn’t just to look around the streets with him. Deep down, I was hoping for something like that to happen in the future.

However, unlike this overflowing desire, he knew very well that if such a thing were to happen to him again, his mind would not be able to withstand it as before.

So, you need some time to catch your breath.

“It’s not fair…”

Seeing him still looking around the bookshelves with the same calm expression as usual, I felt a slight pain in my heart.

He was suffering so much because of someone, but he was the only one with a calm face as if nothing was wrong, so it seemed like something was unfair. Strictly speaking, what happened just before was entirely due to her own karma, so there is nothing to say.

Still, it did not change that she always felt that she was being pushed aside in her relationship with him.

No matter how hard I tried to close the gap, he shakes my heart with just one gesture.

Even if this is unfair, isn’t it too unfair?

There was already a small smile on my lips that I couldn’t hide.

This was a complaint that was not something I could do because I remembered the way he looked at me.

I turned my head away from him again and looked at the bookshelf.

The hot head now seems to have subsided a lot compared to before. Looking around the bookshelf with a calm mind, unlike before, I began to see several titles of familiar books that I had read at least once.

It is to pass the time while drinking tea, so it is better to choose a light and well-informed book rather than a book completely unknown.

“＜Lake of Stars＞, ＜Fairy House＞, ＜The Wizard and the Wooden Doll＞…”

He murmurs the titles of the books that are in sight.

All of them were thin storybooks that would be read by young children, but I was able to pull them out of the bookshelf without hesitation. Not only can there be nothing like a fairy tale that can be read in a short time, but these three books are also his favorite books.

‘Fairytale? Did you have such a taste?’

‘What about fairy tales? There are lessons to be learned, too. Above all, the end of the story always has a happy ending.’

‘It’s not just like that…’

At my words, he brought out these three books.

These were books I had read before, so I knew how the endings of those books would come out without him even saying it.

‘Happy ending’…At that time, it was a word that I passed without thinking, but when I remembered that he had learned about this world and me through reading books, I suddenly thought of this. He said he couldn’t read the end of the book, but a story always has an end.

Then what was the ending of the book he read?

Perhaps I will never be able to find an answer to this.

But it doesn’t matter. Because the ending of that nameless story was no longer an important issue.

The ending of the story I decided was definitely a happy ending.

That one was enough.

【found.】

So, first of all, I have to get rid of this intrusive shadow.

***

“What are you…? My kindred? No, it feels strange to say that I am my own kind?”

A sharp voice that feels like a knife being pointed at your throat.

It was not the momentum that could have come out of the mouth of a young girl who seemed to be the same age as Alphonse, who had just turned 7, simply by looking at his appearance. The golden golden eyes resembling those of a dragon, visible from the inside of the robe covering the face, emitted a menacing light.

How should I react to this?

The eyes looking at me were unusual for me to turn away and turn around.

Is this the dragon fear that I’ve only heard about? It felt like something was pressing on my whole body, but I was able to come to my senses without much difficulty because I had already experienced something similar to my father.

When I first came to Merohim, I had said that I wanted to see the dragon, but I had never said that I wanted to see the original dragon so quickly.

Various circumstances told me that the girl in front of me was the dragon I knew, but rather, I was put in a strange situation that confused me on how to react.

She was going to be very important to Elena in the future, so I couldn’t judge if it was really right for me to contact her right now. It was difficult for me to predict what the result would be if the meeting, which should be at least five years from now, was shortened because of me.

The original work was already completely twisted because of me, but unlike the previous encounters, the meeting between Elena and the girl in front of me was a major turning point in the story.

I promised myself that I would stay by her side in the future and not worry about the future, but it was difficult for me to easily overlook the sudden appearance of such a being in front of my eyes.

To be honest, even if all that was left out, it was a question of how she would react to hearing about my origins.

Because Krauss was widely known for the legend of dragon slaughter, it was a completely different matter for her as a dragon to hear about my origin and resolve her doubts and how she would treat me afterwards.

never know again Could it be that there was someone among the ancestors that he didn’t like, so he might not like Krauss?

But it seemed better to say something than to stay still.

Even a dragon that has lived for over a thousand years would not think of going wild in the land of the Archmage even at the risk of his life.

I slightly bowed my head towards her and greeted her.

“Meet the great being. My name is Damien Krauss, who is in charge of the small head of Count Krauss.”

As if lost in thought, she put her fingers on her head and thought hard about something. When she heard my introduction, she looked at my face again with a twinkle in her eyes. Then he snapped his fingers as if he had finally remembered something.

“Krause!! That’s why I felt that way! Somehow, it’s been a thousand years, so I can’t remember… Sigh!”

I heard her clear voice, which made me feel very happy as if I had resolved an unanswered question. He hurriedly covered his mouth for a moment and began to look around hurriedly. He said it loudly, so I thought he had put a soundproof barrier on it, but it seems that’s not the case again.

However, it came to me with a slightly different feeling because this appearance completely matched the appearance of her described in the novel. The characters in the original work I’ve met so far are somehow different from what I knew.

Fortunately, she didn’t seem particularly bothered by the name Krause. Rather, it seemed that the significance was only that his doubts had been resolved.

She let out a sigh of relief when she looked around Yorijori and couldn’t feel the gaze. Then he moved his hand back and forth in the air, nodded, looked at me again, and spoke.

“Phew…I forgot to put a barrier. By the way, you managed to figure out my identity.”

She looks at me with curious eyes.

How should I answer this?

As soon as your hand touches it, ‘I’m a dragon.’ Do you not remember that you showed off your teeth while blooming toward me? Her eyes looked so clear that I wondered if it was the eyes that had been glaring at me as if I was going to cut me out of the world just a moment ago.

As I was thinking about how to respond to her words, I felt a completely different feeling from the Dragon Fear beyond the bookshelf. Her voice, which was chattering at me, also stopped as if I had pressed the stop button.

It was as if ‘incongruity’ itself should not exist anywhere in the world, and it was the most unpleasant and provoking feeling I had ever felt in my life.

She was staring at the other side of the bookshelf with a stiff face, perhaps feeling the same sensation as me.

As soon as I felt that sensation, there was no time for me to think. The body was already moving towards the source of the sensation, and the aura-enhanced body pierced the bookshelf.

In the face of unknown threats, my head was thinking of only one thing.

Please, I hope nothing happened to her, that this ominous feeling I was feeling was my illusion.

But that’s just my hopes, and my head knows very well that the reality isn’t quite as it should.

The anxiety I had in the corner of my heart soon came to me as a reality.

there was nothing.

At the place I arrived, there was nothing left of Elena, who should have been quietly browsing the books, or something that should have given off that ominous energy, as if its existence itself had been erased from the world.