I Became the Villain of a Romance Fantasy

44 – Way home (1)

The gymnasium, covered in pure white snow, looked like a drawing paper with nothing drawn on it.

The snow that fell last night covered the whole world in white and disappeared. Perhaps that is why the morning air feels exceptionally cold today. I laughed at the white steam that flowed from my mouth.

He must have gotten used to it in his own way, but thinking that unlike Merohim, which had snowed like this, Sarham would be in the form of spring, completely out of winter, I burst out laughing.

Thinking of the warm southern air and the colorful streets all made me want to go home. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the pure white snowy scenery here, but staying at the winter castle felt like experiencing an endless winter just like the name of the castle.

Anyway, isn’t a warm spring better than a cold winter?

The world sparkling with white light looks beautiful, but it is a colorless world where no other colors exist. It’s cool as it is, but I think Sarham’s colorful colors suit my eyes better. Of course, it wasn’t just that reason that made me want to go home.

I sighed as I looked at Mount Pelios in the distance.

When I think of someone looking down at this place from a mountain peak so high as if piercing the sky, a part of my heart feels uncomfortable.

Is it because I am Damian? For some reason, my body doesn’t seem to fit well with this area called Merohim.

I haven’t even started talking about it yet, but since I came here, it seems like events keep following me. The twilight tower lord and Richard were enough, but the meeting with Theia, who was several years ahead of her, was too heavy to simply pass away.

Especially Theia. The meeting between her and Elena was as soon as possible, but it should never have been this way.

Theia is the only one who taught Elena something in the play.

Even the words she gave to Elena would elevate Elena to a status different from that of other archmages, but now the situation has become really ambiguous because of me.

It is true that the relationship between Elena and Theia was connected through a promise, but it is a different matter for her to enlighten Elena. Well, since dragons are so capricious, it seems that if I induce them well, it will work somehow, but I was convinced that what I needed now would come true.

If I had to name someone who could be called the center of this world, whose name would I call?

Should I call the name of the emperor of the empire that dominates the current continent? A person who transcends the human category. Or the gods who exist above the heavens?

However, I will call Elena’s name without hesitation, leaving countless candidates behind for such a question.

If this is the world in the novel that I know, it is natural that she, the main character of the story, becomes the center of the world, not anyone else. And, very naturally, events always happen around the main character. Even though I was determined to twist the story.

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Maybe because of me, Elena will get caught up in a bigger incident than I know.

That’s why I shouldn’t have missed any of the opportunities given to her, but because of my choice, one of them is now in danger of disappearing. So you just have to be concerned.

As I wrapped my head like that, I even began to think that maybe by being by Elena’s side like this, I might be adversely affecting Elena’s growth.

As thoughts flooded my head, I looked up at the sky for a moment. Unlike my clouded head, the sky was high and blue. Soon I took a deep breath and forced the cold air into my lungs as if my airway would freeze.

The cold air that seems to pierce deep into the lungs fills the inside, and it seems to wake up. I remembered what kind of mindset I had been living in since I was possessed here, and smiled slightly as I looked at the sword in my hand.

Elena had said this to me before.

called family.

It wasn’t long before we met, but she definitely said that to me.

Elena’s words to me at that time may have been simply to alleviate the guilt I felt, but even the meaning behind her words was not empty. It was something I didn’t want to keep in mind at the time, but now it solidifies my motivation for life.

When I decided to become Damian after possessing this body, I swore to my family that I would bring them happiness, unlike Damian in the novel. So this is an extension of that oath.

I take responsibility for what I did.

It was my choice to be by her side, and it was only natural that I would take responsibility for what happened.

After organizing my thoughts, the sword in my hand was covered with a dark black aura resembling the night sky.

Aura is not simply a blade created by condensing magic power.

Aura is a materialization of the realization and spirit of insignificance that a martial artist has acquired throughout his life.

A black aura that is still invisible from the moment of possession. Before I was possessed as Damian, there was still a beautiful color called gold, but in the process of being possessed, my aura lost its previous color, as if it had been contaminated by the existence of Damian.

Aura must be of the soul, not the body. Well, it’s not that I can’t guess at all. Didn’t I lose my reason just yesterday because of that bastard’s madness? it must have something to do with it

In any case, even though it did not regain its previous color, it was clear that something had changed in the aura that was simply black from last night. A strange sensation that had never been felt before the possession climbed up the sword and wrapped around the whole body.

I hold my posture and picture in my head the movements I have swung thousands of times before.

Even though it was a movement that I had repeated many times, now it all feels new, like learning it all over again.

As soon as you step out, the feeling of the snow being stepped on is clearly conveyed through your nerves, as if you were stepping on it with bare feet. At the same time, he drew his sword down along the line drawn in front of his eyes.

The completed motion matched perfectly with the picture I drew in my head, like a decalcomani. Feeling that unity that tingled through my whole body, I stepped out once again and moved my body. Like water flowing naturally, my body was riding a single current.

The flow created by moving the body does not break and continues to stretch forward. On the drawing paper called the gymnasium, where nothing was drawn, the traces of my steps and swinging my sword were engraved.

The rehearsal of the past is now completely over. But even so, it seemed that the body was still directing it to move like this. The sound of the heart beating, the contraction and relaxation of muscle fibers. All of the sensitive senses come together to form a single melody.

As I continued to swing my sword and proceeded step by step along the flow, I began to feel a strange feeling as if I was approaching something. If I go a little further, I think I can reach it. I think I can find the strength to do what I want.

But for a while, my five senses began to enter a different realm than before.

The moment I recognized the flow caused by something huge that I hadn’t felt before, it crushed my body. The flow I was creating disappeared as if being absorbed without being able to go against it, and the path I was walking also began to collapse as I lost the flow.

No self is broken.

When I woke up, I was on the other side of where I first drew my sword.

I felt a deep sense of collapse in the pure white world that came into sight again.

It seemed like I could reach it at my fingertips, but what was the problem? I knew it instinctively the moment I faced it. If I had been able to catch it, if I could have taken just one more step forward, I would have reached the master’s level, which is called the end of the uninhabited.

“Wow…ah…hahahaha…hahahahaha…”

I let out a laugh mixed with the air at the same time as I was disappointed.

I think I now know exactly what transcendence means.

It felt like being tossed into a raging wave. It is completed only when you overcome the wall of the flow that seems impossible to go against, and only when you know how to stand on your own.

But as of now, I couldn’t cross that wall.

To have this feeling of impossibility from something, this feeling of facing a wall that could never be crossed, wasn’t very good.

But even so, don’t get frustrated.

As soon as it seemed that a clear goal had been decided on which path to take, the emotions raised by that fact quickly sank to the bottom and my head regained my composure.

I immediately turned around and drew my sword towards the floor.

Lightly working, the sword wind erases all the traces drawn on the gymnasium. After a small snowstorm, a person stood there.

His bleached hair and several scars on his face. Edelweiss’ White Rang Knight Commander. Wilhelm Hartman was looking at me with sad eyes shining.

“Sir Wilhelm. What are you doing here? It looks like you came out a little earlier than usual.”

“Earlier, something. Confucius mistook the time for coming out on time. Herbert and Gilead couldn’t come out because something happened in the outer castle.”

Oh, is that so.

In fact, all my senses right now seemed a little out of place. Maybe because I was too sensitive, I felt a little disconnected from my mind. Anyway, that’s not normal. Even now, I can hear Wilhelm’s small breathing in the distance, as if he were standing right next to me.

Even the sound of metal as he draws his sword now.

I planted my sword in the ground and asked him, concentrating on controlling my senses.

“What are you doing?”

“Dalian. Haven’t you always been with those two children? Confucius will have to leave this winter castle soon, so I wanted to get my hands together once before leaving.”

I mean, now?

i think i will die

Even if the hand holding the sword trembled, it felt like it would come out if I bumped into it.

But why?

I was full of desire to lie down right now, but I was still standing with my sword in my hand.

I pulled my sword out of the ground again with trembling hands and said to him,

“Dalian is good. Come in.”

At the same time as he finished speaking, a fierce wind rushed towards me with the force of a wolf.

***

As soon as I opened my eyes, the warmth I couldn’t feel in my left hand grabbed my hand.

Contrary to expectations, however, his left hand did not hold his hand as before.

“You’re gone…”

Even though I had just woken up, my mind was as clean and clear as if I had washed it in a cold stream. That’s why I remember clearly what happened before I went to bed last night. Even though it had been several hours, the warm touch of his caressing her hair seemed to still linger.

“Right now… you’re going to sleep.”

He didn’t leave my side until I closed my eyes again.

Because he held my hand without saying anything and stroked my hair, even when I went back to sleep, I never had a nightmare. I don’t think I’ve ever had a more comfortable bed than this in my entire life. One thing was certain, as if the feeling would fly through the sky.

When I opened my eyes, I wanted to see his face again.

But since he had to stay up all night because of me, he might be sleeping in his bedroom by now. No matter how many days and days it is, it is not so good to stay up all night, even if it is a body that has been trained to not sleep well.

“Then… I…”

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My face heats up at the sudden thought.

Could I go into his room as he did into mine? Of course, even though yesterday’s incident was force majeure, it is not so strange that I go into his room now that he is engaged.

A little unexpected happened at dawn, but now it’s different. I must have slept deeply unlike dawn. You won’t have to worry about him waking up.

It was a thought that had already entered halfway into self-justification, but even though I was aware of it, the happy imagination did not know how to stop. That is until you hear a familiar voice piercing your ears.

“My lady. What’s so funny about you that you’re laughing?”

I turned my head towards the source of the sound and saw Haley opening her eyes and looking at me with a sinister grin. I was taken aback by her sudden appearance and hurriedly covered the corner of my laughing mouth.

“…Hey, Haley? What if I suddenly come in?!”

“I’ve been standing here for a long time. Lady. By the way, lady! What were you thinking about staying in the room with Prince Damian until such a late hour!!! No matter how engaged you are, the ceremony hasn’t even been held yet…”

“S-Stop!!! Nothing happened! Because nothing happened!!”

He couldn’t hold it in any longer at Haley’s words and shouted, blushing. Hearing Hailey’s pointless bullshit reminds me of such a scene. My face blushed like it was about to explode at any moment, but Hailey saw me like that and replied with a nasty smile on her face that she already knew everything.

“Hee hee. Just kidding. Prince Gongja kept stroking the lady’s hair until I got to the room. By the way, the real lady is about Prince Damian…”

“Haley Hee Hee!!!!”

“Unyanyaaah!”

Embarrassedly, I got up and pinched Hailey’s cheek. Haley made a noise of disgust at the stretching of her cheeks, but the smile still lingered on her face. When I let go of Hailey’s cheek tug, Hailey touched her reddened cheek and spoke to me.

“It hurts…my lady..”

“Haley made fun of me too much!”

“If you say so, I have nothing to say…”

But what should I do when the lady’s reaction is so funny… I thought about pinching my cheek once more when I saw Hailey muttering in a small voice, but I raised my hand when I saw Hayley covering her cheek with the palm of my hand. all.

Instead, Haley whispered to me that she had something to tell me, still covering her cheek with her hand.

“Lady. If you want to meet Prince Damian, you have to go to the gymnasium instead of the room. Confucius left the room and went straight to the gymnasium.”

“..Ah, yes…Muh, what are you talking about?! Haley! My, when am I going to my room…”

At Haley’s sudden words, I denied her words until I stuttered. Did I ever say I was going to his room? No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think I’ve ever said that…. When I look at Hailey questionably, she just smiles. He said nothing.

“By the way, I’m going to meet Confucius, but I can’t go with that kind of hair, right? I’ll sort it out right away.”

“Uh…uh…”

Haley skillfully straightened her tousled hair in an instant.

I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was still playing in Hayley’s hands, but the important thing was to meet him, so I gave her a quick haircut and pulled off the light coat that was around me and left the room.

Normally, I would have been able to restrain myself a little, but today, strangely, it was impossible to control this mind. It felt as if I had to face him right away to calm this pounding heart.

When I arrived near the training ground where he is known to be training all the time, I could hear the sound of metal filling the space. To think of it as simple sparring, the bloody energy transmitted from the sound urged my steps.

As you get closer to the source of the sound, you can clearly see the ripples of mana in the air. In the center of the wave, an old knight and a young boy with a sword were walking in perfect order on the white snow field.

Instead of using an aura, it vibrates the mana around it only with the skill of the body.

Whenever the two swords collide, you can see the mana moving naturally to their side with a clear sound. If other knights saw it, it would have been a sight that would have made them shake their heads in amazement, but what caught their attention more than anything else was his movement against Wilhelm.

His appearance now was surprisingly similar to the one he had reached the level of a Master before returning.

The energy and momentum felt from him indicated that he had not yet experienced transcendence, but apart from that, his technique was closer to the tip of the sword he remembered. at a faster rate than in previous lives.

beautiful.

It sounds like a word that doesn’t suit a sword, but the movements he shows are so elegant and delicate that people say they are beautiful. It was to the point where I thought it was amazing to see him pouring out the fierce sword attacks of Sir Wilhelm, a veteran knight.

“My dear!! If you run like that, you will fall!!”

Without even realizing it, I forgot the idea of calling him, and I was immersed in his sword dance and just stared at it. If it wasn’t for Hailey’s voice coming from behind, I’d probably have been staring at it until the end of the couple’s sparring.

“Ah… out of breath…lady. But why are you standing here…”

Haley gasped, shaking her head, as if breathing in the cold air was painful. Then she raised her head again and looked at me with a strange face as I was staring blankly at the gymnasium.

“No…what the hell is this…”

Hailey took one look at the gymnasium, then immediately distorted her face in amazement. It was only then that I came to my senses and was able to recall once again who was sharing the sword with Damian right now.

“Grandpa hee hee hee hee!!!!!”

Wilhelm Hartman. The leader of the Edelweiss White Rang Knights, he was Haley’s grandfather.

Hailey’s shout, so loud that the sound of metal was easily drowned out, spread throughout the arena. Seeing Sir Wilhelm staring at Hailey with a surprised expression, I let out a small laugh. Apparently Haley thought Sir Wilhelm was attacking Damian.

It seems that Dalian will end with this. I approached him, who was looking at Hayley with the same face as Sir Wilhelm.

“Damian.”

I called out to him in a lower voice than Hailey, but he immediately turned his head towards me. I responded with a bright smile to his appearance, and he also drew a small smile on the corner of his mouth and collapsed on the spot…?

uh?

“Damian!!!”

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The person in charge sent me a coloring book for the cover illustration!!

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I’ll put it on the notice! The finishing work is still in progress, so when the finishing work is finished, I will change the cover with a notice!!!