I Became the Villain of a Romance Fantasy

41 – Uninvited guest (6)

‘Oh, this is dangerous…’

The girl, who was covering her face with a hood, sighed inwardly as she saw the boy in front of her eyes.

The black aura emanating from Damian swept through the space like a small storm.

Fragments of broken bookshelves and books scattered here and there were swept away by the aura and scattered in all directions, but the reason why people did not draw attention was that the barrier she had set up here in advance completely blocked the perception of the outside world.

But even that soon reaches its limits.

As if to show that the dragon’s blessing that Kraus had obtained by killing the dragon a thousand years ago was still in good health, the aura emanating from Damian did not know that its momentum would diminish.

Even now, I can feel the raging storm continuing to eat away at the barrier. Although she possessed an amount of magic that was incomparable to that of humans, there was a limit to the amount of magic that could be used while maintaining a human form.

Even if he maintains a barrier, if his true form is revealed, there is no way the ruler of this city will not notice it.

“Trouble me…”

She sighed and waved her hand away from the storm of aura that was blocking her path. If it was a normal aura, it should have been scattered in the air at once from her touch, but the black storm that was currently hovering around it was only getting stronger instead of dispersing.

Her face contorted slightly at the unfamiliar pain that pierced her fingertips.

Why did he have to suffer so much? It’s just that he came down from the mountain after a long time to see what humans are doing.

However, meeting the wrong person and being humiliated like this can’t help but burn inside.

Of course, she knew that the essential cause was not because of the boy in front of her eyes, but she couldn’t help but feel angry that her peaceful play life, which she had come to for the first time in hundreds of years, was ruined.

In my mind, I wanted to slap Damian in the back of the head, who was standing in the center of the storm, even fainting, but no matter how angry she was, she didn’t have a bad personality enough to take out her anger on anyone.

The ominous feeling she had just felt here was not something she could easily get over. Therefore, it would be the right thing to do to find the cause together after calming the boy in front of you.

Suddenly, the distance between her and Damian had grown so close that if you stretched out your hand, you could touch it.

As the distance got closer, a sensation she hadn’t felt before came to her. When she saw Damian staring into the sky with eyes completely transformed into those of a dragon, she could feel her body shrinking.

The Dragon’s Eye, which had only a simple shape, seemed to contain a kind of madness, as seen in the four dragons before. It wasn’t just the eyes that had changed. The instinctive revulsion brought on by the karma of being killed by a dragon, which had been able to be easily brushed off until just a moment ago, also felt like a knife was being thrust into his throat like a dragon’s blood.

But that was all.

There was a feeling that it was a little lacking to lead to the feeling of fear. The sword was a sword, but the blade was not sharp. It was just that fragments of emotion from Damien’s nervousness passed her by, and his sword was not pointed at her.

The storm that was wreaking havoc around him began to slowly subside, as if to show that he was regaining his composure.

If I had known it would be like this, I would have waited a little longer before approaching. She grumbled softly, waved a tingling hand, and looked up at Damian. However, the moment she tried to speak to Damian, unfortunately, Damian was the first to speak up.

“Theia.”

Her eyes widen at the name that comes out of Damian’s mouth.

Theia.

It wasn’t an uncommon name.

Especially in Merohim, there must have been many people with the name Theia. In the past, in the Merohim, there was a tradition that the north wind blowing fiercely was called the wind of the god, and the god who caused the wind was called Theia.

It was common for her to be named after other gods, unless it was the name of her main god, Altair, but Damian called her Theia.

Despite knowing that her true identity is a dragon.

“How do you…”

She looked at Damian with puzzled eyes. She had never revealed her name to Damian in a conversation before. No, even if he did, he wouldn’t have brought the name out of Damian’s mouth.

She was suddenly called by her true name, but on the other hand, Damian looked at her with the same eyes as before and said.

“Theia. If you are, you should be able to trace the reverberation of the power left here. Please, take me to the source of that power.”

“Now, wait! Before that, the name! Explain the name first!!”

“I don’t have time. I’ll tell you when I’m done. Come on.”

Damian’s firm answer made Theia no longer contend with him.

It hurt her feeling that the little guy was ordering her, but she also knew what was more important now.

A small magic circle begins to be drawn on her palm. Soon, the mana that formed the magic circle was tangled and mixed together, transforming into a small butterfly.

The pure white butterfly that protruded from the magic circle hovered in the air for a while, then turned black when it passed a certain spot. Like that, the butterfly started flying in one direction as if it had found something, but after a while, it disappeared with a popping sound in the air, unable to fly anymore.

Damian looked back at her, wondering if something was wrong, but Theia let out a sigh of relief at the sight of the butterfly, contrary to Damian’s worries.

“It’s fortunate. It seems that the source of power has disappeared.”

“…?”

“It’s literally. It means that the unknown thing that left this strange reverberation here has disappeared from the world. It saved me the trouble of trying to find it.”

I don’t know what happened, but the results of the magic told me nothing would happen to them. The causal relationship was not clear, as if it was disconnected somewhere, but it might be because of the optimistic nature of the dragon race. Theia dismissed the fact as if it didn’t matter too much.

Well, if only the results were good, wouldn’t it?

Now, I felt that I could go back to the mountain in a good mood if I just heard from the boy in front of me how he knew his true name.

However, unlike Theia, Damian’s face still had a serious expression.

That would be the case, because the important thing for him was not the cause of this ominous feeling, but the whereabouts of Elena, who was not in front of his eyes. What he thought was a clue to finding Elena had turned meaningless, and he felt his eyes go dark.

“Damian?”

A soft voice rang in his ears.

When he turned his head towards the source of the sound, the woman he had been looking for was standing there. Elena looked at him with a bewildered expression at the chaos around her and said,

“…What the hell happened? Why are all the bookshelves broken like this-“

“Elena!”

Elena, who was looking around the mess with a puzzled expression, asked Damian what was going on, but her voice was drowned out by his screaming and running towards her.

***

On the table in the dark, seven candlesticks were placed like the number of the seven cardinals in the Order.

Light is light, but the light of the candlestick, which looks like the darkness is burning, doesn’t seem to help at all to light up the darkness.

It was a windless place, but at some point the fire on the thickest candlestick began to sway dangerously as if it were placed in front of a strong wind.

Not long after the previous one went out, the other candle also showed this appearance, and the eyes of those who were looking at the candle in the dark were impatient.

【this…】

In the end, as feared, the dangerous fire that seemed to be extinguished at any moment slowly faded away.

In just one day, two cardinals, who could be said to be the most important forces of the church, lost their lives.

Obviously, the people who were left here couldn’t understand why those who went to greet the one who had descended to this earth died, but the only thing that was that every time the lights went out, a huge feeling shook their brains. I could definitely feel it.

There was only one person in the world who could have such an effect on them. That’s why they smiled at the candles that went out one by one, but felt fear at seeing themselves being swayed by this huge emotion.

Why does God express joy rather than sadness at the death of a servant?

The incomprehensible will of God was enough to confuse them. Their heads are full of perplexity and doubt, but the smiles on their faces do not leave the emotion of unwanted joy. The feeling of fear naturally followed them as they seemed to have lost their free will.

When all the cardinals gathered here were confused, there was the only one who sincerely sympathized with their feelings, and that was Archbishop Pelian, who was said to be the closest to God.

She didn’t seem to feel any emotion even when she saw the two blown out candles in front of her eyes. Just genuinely delighted with the emotions flowing through his head, Pelian smiled broadly at the torrent of emotions that shook him, like a child receiving a huge gift.

A cardinal who had not seen him shouted at her in a disgruntled voice.

【What the hell are we going to do now! archbishop! Even though you know what the situation is like right now, you will just smile like that!!!]

At his words that echoed through the space, Pelian stopped laughing and turned his head to look at the cardinal who shouted at him. Then, I asked him with a face that I did not understand why he said such a thing.

【Cardinal Bellot is saying strange things. How can you tell us not to laugh when our god is pleased?]

【Two people who went to meet him lost their lives! But God is not sad about him, but only rejoices. Don’t you feel that something is wrong?]

Some of the cardinals in their seats nodded involuntarily as his words penetrated their doubts. However, despite his words, Pelian still looked at him with incomprehensible eyes. Rather, as if angered by his words, dark red divinity began to overflow around her.

【This is stupid. Bellot Piman.]

Her ruby eyes glowed ominously in the darkness.

It was a thin and delicate voice, but it contained an irresistible power.

Facing the ruby-colored eyes that glowed red like blood, Bellot let out a groan as he felt the pain of breaking his head.

【How dare you try to add your personal opinion to God’s will. A person called a cardinal is utterly disrespectful.]

【That…it’s not like that…】

The other cardinals quietly shut their mouths as Bellot struggles to open her mouth with her face contorted in pain. As if he liked the way they looked, Pelian said to them with a satisfied smile.

【Everyone, get rid of useless thoughts. It is unfortunate that Cardinal Paula and Cardinal Iolon passed away, but it is certain that our God has descended to this earth, and surely the two cardinals have also gone to his side.]

The cardinals hurriedly nodded their heads except for Beltor, who had his face sunk into the table at the sight of her smiling happily, not showing any sign of regret.

As Pelian stood up and declared that the meeting was over, they left without looking back.

Bellot, too, grabbed his pounding head and moved his body to get out of this fear-filled place, but was forced to stop when he heard a voice calling him.

【Cardinal Bellot.】

【Yes… Archbishop…】

Bellott wanted to tell Pelian to get rid of the pain that was running through his head right away, but his fear of her made the words go round in his mouth.

Did he even read Bellott’s heart? Pelian gently placed his hand on his head, taking the pain he had given him back into his own.

With his head refreshed to the fullest, he looked at Pelian with devastated eyes. Pelian smiled benevolently at Bellot and spoke in a softer voice unlike before.

【It’s nothing else, there’s something I want to ask of Cardinal Bellot.】

【Ah yes! Please tell me.]

Bellot immediately knelt in front of her.

Unlike an honorable knight, he looked like a well-trained dog, but he felt no shame in his actions. This was originally normal. His action just before was a mistake he made by losing his reason in fear and fear of the unknown.

Fortunately, the descent of the gods made her feel very good.

Otherwise, he would not have taken the pain she had placed on him directly. He sat quietly on his knees, waiting for Pelian to speak.

【There is something I want to offer to God, but you have it. So can you give it to me?]

【What are you talking about…】

For a moment, Bellott looked at her hand, which was resting on his head.

He hurriedly shook his head and tried to say something to Pelian, but his body had already fallen off his neck and sprawled on the ground.

One of the candlesticks on the table went out.

Pelian looked at the extinguished candle with eyes full of anticipation, but when it did not convey the same emotion as when it was extinguished before, he looked at Bellott’s head with disinterested eyes and threw it somewhere in the meeting room.

【I don’t think he wanted the lives of the cardinals.】

For the first time, a feeling of regret appeared in her eyes.

I wondered if it meant offering the cardinal’s head, but I guess that wasn’t the case. She looked at the necklace hanging around her neck, blaming herself for daring to measure God’s will with her own standard.

The necklace had a black jewel, like the holy relic given to Paula, embedded in the pattern symbolizing the church. Looking at this, Pelian could feel that the sacred object he had given her was safely delivered to God.

The evidence was the fragments of emotion that were transmitted through the holy relic from a certain moment.

It seemed that this warm feeling that other cardinals did not feel was only directed at him, and Pelian was impressed.

Pelian, who couldn’t take her eyes off the necklace for a long time, buried the necklace inside her clothes again. But at that moment, light began to emanate from the black jewel embedded in her necklace.

The emotions that had been transmitted calmly through the necklace since Aeolon’s fire was turned off suddenly changed to an incomparable intensity.

Unlike the previous one, which she was immediately aware of, an emotion that was difficult for her to understand ran through her body, but Pelian did not bother to understand it.

Considering that this was also God’s will, Pelian closed her eyes and prayed while holding the warm necklace in her hand.

【Yes, when the time comes, God will give a revelation again.】

Let’s not think about why you are not coming to their side right now. Everything must be what he thinks.

Pelian made up her mind and left the meeting hall where no one was left.

***

“Elena!! Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Yes? Yes…”

Demian’s face approaching her nose and his hot breath made Elena feel her face heat up.

Is it because the atmosphere is different from usual?

Perhaps it was because he had only seen his round figure after returning, but his gaze piercing himself with such sharp eyes seemed to pierce his heart.

“D-Damian!! That…it’s too close..”

But more than anything else, what made Elena’s head hot was the distance she was getting closer.

He approached her without hesitation to the point where he wondered if it was Damian, who was embarrassed to face her before and found it difficult to dance.

Although it was okay to approach her on her own, Elena had no tolerance for Damian approaching her.

As if representing Elena’s feelings, warm air began to rustle around her again.