The Villain’s Ending Chapter 123

Sunset (6)

I took a step towards Seraphina, who was staring at with a dumbfounded expression.

Fortunately, she didn't step back.

Seraphina gazed at my face for a long ti, then approached a little closer.

And after looking down at Lineta below for a long ti, she glanced at and sniffed.

"Blood sll."

Only then did the look in her eyes, which had seed ready to choke to death, seem to soften a little.

"Lavin, what do you think is important to ?"

As I couldn't answer easily, Seraphina sighed.

"It would be a lie if I said I don't feel jealous when you et other won, but you're not that important to ."

Saying so, Seraphina placed her finger on my left chest.

And her finger slowly moved, scratching towards the right.

"I wish you would look at . I wish you would tell you love ."

Her finger moved upwards, past my collarbone, and pressed firmly on my Adam's apple.

"What's important is you, who loves ."

I swallowed, feeling Seraphina's finger directly.

"I love you who loves .

I also love you who doesn't love , but I think I'd love you a little less than the you who loves ."

Seraphina released the pressure from the finger that had been pressing on my Adam's apple.

"Do you love ?"

"Why sothing like that, suddenly."

My words were cut off.

Seraphina interrupted and grabbed by the collar.

Lately, I feel like I'm getting grabbed by the collar often.

"I'm asking if you love , just answer. Lavin."

"......I love you."

"Most in the world, more than anyone else?"

As I hesitated slightly, Seraphina smiled.

"Tell you love most in the world, more than anyone else, Lavin."

"I love you most, more than anyone."

At my words, Seraphina let out a "hmm" sound, then released my collar.

"Tell there was a reason."

"There was a reason."

"Tell it just happened sohow."

"......It really did just happen sohow."

"Really?"

I nodded without saying anything in particular.

"Lavin, are you troubled?"

"How many people wouldn't be troubled in this situation?"

"If I just kill her right now and burn her, so no trace remains, you wouldn't be troubled, would you?"

Saying so, a small fla flickered in her palm.

"Let's just pretend nothing happened.

Everything from bringing up the breakup, to you suddenly carrying a wounded girl, and even doubting you and hating you for a mont."

I grabbed Seraphina's wrist and rely looked at her, without saying anything in particular.

At that, Seraphina sighed and extinguished the fla.

She squatted down and began to re-wrap Lineta, who was covered in a blanket, rolling her up tightly.

"Let's carry her together. If I'm with you, we won't attract much suspicion, right?"

I lifted the leg part without saying anything in particular.

"Oh, right. We're going to my room, so just know that."

I nodded awkwardly.

And so, we began to carry Lineta.

It looked to anyone as if we were carrying a human corpse, but perhaps because Seraphina was truly there, the few people we passed only greeted Seraphina, rely frowned at , and didn't even ask what we were carrying.

We arrived at Seraphina's room.

Seraphina set the unconscious Lineta down on the floor, then was about to strip her clothes off but, noticing my gaze, dragged her all the way to the bathroom.

Hearing the sound of water, it seed she was bathing her.

I sat perched on the edge of the bed and waited for Seraphina.

The sound of water stopped, and Seraphina, after grabbing a towel and so suitable clothes, re-entered the bathroom.

And a mont later, she dragged out Lineta, dressed in light clothes.

As I rose to help, Seraphina said.

"Sit down."

Seraphina walked past , laid Lineta on the bed, then leaned back in a chair in the room.

"Lavin. Cigarettes, why did you say you smoked them?"

"Just, it just happened sohow."

"You said you smoked them when you felt bad or depressed."

Saying so, she flicked her hand.

I went to Seraphina and put a cigarette in her mouth.

Seraphina smoked the cigarette for a long ti, then opened her mouth.

"The smoke isn't catching, how do you do it?"

"Try lighting it while inhaling."

As soon as Seraphina lit it, she coughed and took the cigarette out of her mouth.

"Honestly, I still don't quite understand why people smoke these. I'm feeling incredibly distraught right now. But I don't feel like anything is changing."

Saying so, Seraphina extinguished the cigarette and threw it into the trash can.

"Still, there must be so reason for smoking cigarettes, right?"

Seraphina shot a glance at Lineta, then opened her mouth again.

"And why you were bringing that girl in such a state."

"......Are you trusting and listening to my story?"

"If I can't trust the person I love, who would I trust?"

Seraphina rose from her seat and approached .

And she caressed my collarbone, bringing her face close. Had she sprayed perfu in the bathroom? The scent of lilac brushed past my nose.

"No matter how absurd the story, no matter if anyone would see it as a lie, if I trust you, you'll surely love that much in return, won't you?

Because you were that kind of person. One who tried to give back as much as you received, and if you couldn't, you'd try to repay it with your heart......"

Seraphina uttered those words and brought her lips to mine.

After rely pressing her lips together and pulling away, Seraphina said in a low voice.

"And I don't know how to do anything but this, but Lavin, you know how to do many things.

Try doing half of what you did to that girl."

At her words, I laughed and replied.

"Then I'd have to do nothing at all."

Seraphina let out a hollow laugh.

Then she grabbed my face firmly and brought her lips to mine.

But as soon as I lightly mixed tongues, she blushed and pulled away in surprise.

****

I had no choice but to tell Seraphina about the heretic village.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to explain why I brought Lineta here like this.

I spoke of Lineta not as a mber of the village, but as a victim who had beco strange due to a curse on her head, but there seed no other way to save her.

Because it's natural for heretics to be reported to the church and burned.

In fact, if it hadn't been Lineta, I probably would have just burned them without a second thought.

I couldn't answer the question of how I knew and brought her here, though.

Lineta was to stay in the Beluze family's servant quarters for a while.

The thought that she was being held hostage wouldn't leave my mind, no matter how much I thought about it.

Anyway, today too, I was on my way back to my room after attending class as usual, as if nothing was wrong.

Opening the door and stepping inside, this ti Levina was sitting there.

"Lavin. Co and sit."

I sat across from Levina without saying anything in particular.

Levina was pouring and drinking alcohol from a small glass.

"You took all that money, and you brought back this tasteless alcohol?"

"Because I didn't spend it on alcohol."

"Even when the family was already planning to kick you out, you commit an absurd act against ,

And then yesterday, you went to the annex and committed an act of madness beyond imagination, I hear."

Levina rose from her seat and flung the glass containing alcohol at .

The glass shattered, and it felt as if glass shards had lightly grazed my face.

"I always told you, know your place."

After throwing the glass, Levina t my eyes and flinched slightly, then painstakingly put on a defiant expression again.

"We've decided to expel you from the family.

You killed a priest, and then you took a servant from the annex, I hear? Where did you take her?"

"I brought her here."

"Stop talking nonsense.

I'll expel you from the academy and put you in a small room in the main residence.

It won't be a dungeon, but you committed a cri, so you'll have to be punished."

"She was a heretic."

I said, lightly shaking the alcohol from my hair.

"......You, I'm asking again, are you in your right mind?"

"More in my right mind than you."

"Don't call 'you'."

Levina said in such a sharp tone, then sighed and continued speaking.

"A servant and a priest were heretics? It seems my head has gone wrong after not managing things for a while."

I pulled out a piece of paper from the drawer, which listed, as I recalled, the priests hiding in the church, the heretics hiding in the family, and the location of the village.

"The church side will be going soon. To burn down that damned village and the church that harbored heretics, all of it."

"……."

"So, wouldn't it be better to manage your affairs properly in advance so no one says anything later?"

Saying so, I approached Levina, who was holding the paper with a sowhat dazed expression.

Her eyes, reading the contents written on the paper, were trembling slightly.

I stroked Levina's head, then brought my hand to her cheek, caressed her lips with my thumb, and said in a low voice.

"What will you do if I sell the family to the church, huh?"

Levina's lips trembled faintly.