I Became the Villain of a Romance Fantasy

23 – Eight Buddhas (3)

Father seemed very angry with Joachim for his actions, but he did not seem to intend to keep us in Sarham.

After that, the next day, my father ordered the reorganization of the Knights and the attendants to prepare a wagon.

Even though he cried out the name of Joachim and cursed like that, it doesn’t seem that he didn’t want to send us to Merohim. After all, if we hadn’t started, the Archmage Joachim Edelweiss would have personally teleported to this place and taken us there.

But there’s an afterthought My father seemed to be sending us as late as possible, and even though all the preparations were finished, he insisted on leaving on the second day, the last deadline Yohaim said.

In fact, regardless of his father’s feelings, he agreed.

Since the distance from the south to the north is a long way, you will have to ride a wagon for at least a few days to get to Merrohim. Furthermore, in Krause, there were no wizards who could open warp gates.

It would take some time for Yoheim to get to the place where he could open the gate, but since he had been out often for the past few days, it was obvious that Elena’s stamina would be a burden if she left immediately.

It was Elena who fell asleep leaning on me on the way back, even though it hadn’t been a very long time since I walked through the city of Sarham with me yesterday. So she needed a break for a day or so.

The carriage to be used to go to Merrohim this time was not our family’s carriage, but the carriage of Edelweiss that Elena rode. I glanced at it as I passed by, but it reminded me of a modern armored vehicle with all sorts of magic attached to it.

According to Elena, there was also a magic that changed the temperature inside the carriage according to the surrounding environment and kept it in optimum condition at all times. It is said that there is also a high-level protection magic to prevent shock from the outside.

In addition, magic that prevented the wagon from feeling the shaking inside at all, or something that seemed inconvenient, was solved by magic.

“They say that if your brain is bad, your body suffers, so magic seems really comfortable.”

If I had known it would be like this, I would have been a wizard too. Why did he possess possession as a son of a samurai family?

I don’t know in terms of power, but there was no doubt that it was a technology that seemed really comfortable to live in the world. I asked Elena just in case, and as a result, I have no talent for magic. No, in the first place it is said that knights cannot handle magic.

The path the knight walks and the path the wizard walks lead to the same ‘end’, but the paths are like parallel lines that cannot reach each other. It is said that miracles performed by magic cannot be imitated.

If you think about it, even in the original work, there were characters who used divine power and aura at the same time, but there was never a character who used magic and aura at the same time.

Isn’t this romance fantasy set too tight? I read it for that taste though.

In the end, the dream of a magic swordsman that he had been dreaming of since childhood had to be abandoned. Alphonse, who was quietly listening to our conversation by the side, also showed a serious concern when he said that the path between magic and knights was an alternative.

No matter how much you think about it, your talent is a swordsman anyway, Alphonse.

Alphonse in the original story was an excellent knight, and in reality, Alphonse had a talent for the sword, befitting a man from the Krause family.

That said, it wouldn’t stop Alphonse from learning magic if he wanted to, but he didn’t have to worry about it, and Alphonse quickly put down his attachment to magic.

“It’s been a long time since I haven’t done anything like this.”

I, who have always been moving my body, put down all of my training and studies for today and was enjoying a break after the ebb and flow.

I haven’t let go of my sword for a day since I was possessed by Damian, but when I let go of my sword like this, I felt a sense of freedom from something and an unknown emptiness at the same time.

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My body was more comfortable than ever, but my mind was not.

After all, would it have been better to move my body at least a little? With that thought in mind, I left the room.

I wasn’t going to the gymnasium to swing my sword.

I was walking to empty my head because I was afraid that if I just sat still like this, I would get dizzy with useless thoughts.

A walk around the main building of Yeongju Castle was enough to take a walk to clear your head. When I was about to go back to my room after taking a walk like that, a pure white light came into my eyes.

Looking up at the light that was like starlight, I looked up and saw Elena on the terrace looking up at the night sky. Even in the dark of the night, her pure white hair shone as if it were emitting light on its own.

I heard that you went to bed early today for tomorrow, but did you wake up in the middle? She was standing on the terrace in her light nightgown. I couldn’t take my eyes off Elena, who seemed defenseless, perhaps because of her clothes.

“Elle…”

I stopped talking when I called her name.

The look of her looking up at the night sky was like a star far away from this world where I was.

I thought I might be ruining Elena’s time by talking to her, as if she existed in a different world from me, so I turned away with my eyes closed.

Contrary to my thoughts, however, it was her voice from above calling my name that stopped me on my way back to the room.

“Why do you just stare at me without saying anything? Damien.”

I couldn’t help but keep my mouth shut as I didn’t know what to say to Elena’s words that seemed to ask why she didn’t talk to me. Without bursting people’s faces with shame, how could I tell her what I was feeling at the time?

But Elena, thinking that her horse was out of reach because of the distance, started climbing onto the railing to get down. Surprised by her appearance, I hurriedly raised my inner strength and spurred up my seat.

I knew better than anyone that she was an excellent wizard. Elena and Richard Ertuwen are probably the only two genius wizards in the history of magic who have risen to the 5th Tiphereth at the age of 16.

Being that kind of Elena, jumping down from the 3rd floor railing must have been easier than eating it, but I don’t know if it’s because of the light nightgown she’s wearing or because of Elena’s unique atmosphere of anxiety, but I can’t help but think that way. It was a clear fact that my body moved first before I could even do it.

With just one leap, I reached the ledge where Elena was standing and hurriedly took her in my arms and came down to the terrace.

When my feet step on the flat floor, my heart starts to calm down. As a result, the mind that tried to scold Elena for what the hell was she thinking on the railing for, was also quelled by her head starting to spin again.

His face flushed for a moment, thinking that he had done something in vain, but he said to himself that there was no need to be ashamed because he was worried about her.

“Damian…”

A small muttering sound came from within. It wasn’t Elena’s voice, which usually blushed and stammered. Her breathing was long, and her face with a small smile looked calm enough to make me wonder if it was the Elena I’d seen so far.

I tried to put Elena out of my arms, but she was holding onto my clothes, so I had to sit on the railing and hold her until she let go.

The girl held in my arms was so light that it seemed like she would fly away somewhere. How many minutes were there? As Elena relaxed her grip on me, I also slowly lowered her to the floor.

Only then could we face each other. Elena met my eyes and asked me as if she had been waiting.

“Why did you just go without saying anything?”

You can’t escape this question either.

“It seemed like he was concentrating on looking at the stars, so he didn’t want to get in the way.”

With this reply, she did not ask any further questions. Instead, he came over to my side and sat down on the railing as I did.

It may seem dangerous to others, but a magician like Elena would be able to lift herself up with floating magic even while falling. It’s like I didn’t have to come up here.

But even knowing that, I wrapped my arms around her waist to hold her back.

Contrary to what I knew in my head, I couldn’t let go of the thought that she could fall here and get hurt. Elena seemed to like my arm supporting her back, so she leaned over as if she was about to fall over and played with me.

“It’s dangerous, Elena. Then what will you do if I take my arm off?”

“hehehe…you can’t be like that.”

Yes, but I feel like my lifespan is being cut because of your actions.

As expected, Elena now is a bit different from usual. It’s not that the person has changed, but I have to say that my mind is relaxed a lot, but it seemed that I was acting according to my mood. Maybe that’s why the distance with her felt closer than usual.

Leaning on my arm, she looked up at the sky again and, holding the starlight in her eyes, spoke to me.

“Damian, you know what? The stars in the night sky of Merohim and Sarham are the same, but they are slightly different.”

Since the ground we are standing on is round, I knew that there were subtle differences between visible and invisible constellations depending on where we were standing.

But when Elena said this, it seemed that she was longing for the sky of Merrohim, so I couldn’t look straight at the stars floating in the sky like her.

However, these thoughts were washed away by Elena’s words that followed.

“So, when I go to Merohim, then I’ll tell Damian. I want to tell you the sky of Merohim, the place I love, just like you did to me here.”

After Elena said that, she came down from the railing again and turned her back on me and went into the room.

“Well, then I guess I’ll have to go back in for tomorrow. Goodnight Damian.”

It is said that the distance has decreased considerably compared to usual, but I could clearly see that the tips of her ears were stained red with my good night vision.

I waved my hand at her lying on the bed, closed the window, and left.

As soon as I returned to my room, I lay down on the bed and suddenly looked into the full-length mirror in my room. The mirror was glistening with the moonlight coming through the window, but perhaps because of the location of the mirror, my figure lying on the bed was also fully reflected in the mirror.

I took one look at my face in the mirror and then turned around and pulled the blanket over my face.

The boy’s face in the mirror I saw was stained red, just like Elena’s.

***

the next morning.

A man was descending from the air in front of the Kraus family lord castle, which was ready to go to Merohim. Who could act like that in Krause’s land, but he looked at Count Krause, who was out to send his son off, with a calm face as if he didn’t care.

“As expected, I knew you would let me depart on this day.”

“You… you bastard!!”

“If it’s your personality, I don’t think there’s any way to start early. It really doesn’t go beyond expectations.”

“Hey! Yohaim!! If you’re coming, you should speak early!!”

“It’s noisy. Arthur. I’m grateful for even preparing the knights, but I came because I thought it would be better to take them myself. Are there any complaints?”

“You were just trying to water me!”

“I know you well.”

He landed on top of the wagon with the Edelweiss family crest on it, and tapped the wand he was holding in his hand once on the wagon.

The magic being activated now is “teleportation”, which moves objects to designated coordinates.

Arthur, who had achieved transcendence, was able to sense the shaking of this space and cut the spell even though he was not a magician, but he did not draw his sword because he knew very well that the carriage would not be safe if he did so.

And the current teleport was also something Arthur could do because he knew very well that Arthur would not be able to pull out his sword. That’s why Yohaim did it on purpose to bully Arthur.

“Then I’ll contact you later. Goodbye.”

With the white light surrounding the wagon, Joachim disappeared without a trace, like a person who wasn’t there originally. He had just disappeared from this place with only Edelweiss’s carriage.

By the time the mana flowed from Yoheim’s magic was completely dispersed in the air, Arthur laughed out loud and called his son.

“Did I tell you? He’ll definitely come in the morning like this and disappear like this. My bet is my win, son.”

As if responding to Arthur’s words, the castle door opened, and Damian and Elena, who should not have been here with Joachim, appeared.

“You should have noticed when I said you were my father’s friend…well, Elena. You don’t have to be so shy. You just have to think that you’re just like my father.”

To Damian’s words, Elena was unable to answer as she covered her reddened face with her hand.