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Translator: Goku

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◈ The Villain’s Ending

Chapter 120

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Sunset (3)

Seraphina somehow made a subtle expression, then nodded and pulled away from me.

Then she sighed and pressed down on my neck.

"Just the two of us won't work?"

At first, the hand merely pressing around my neck slowly began to apply more force.

It became a little harder to breathe.

"Am I so insufficient that it's hard for you to fully love just me?"

Her fingers grazed lightly over my carotid artery, then rested on my Adam's apple.

Since the full force hadn't been applied yet, I could still breathe.

Each time I inhaled and exhaled, I felt the tips of Seraphina's fingers.

"It's not some common phrase like 'only look at me.'

Even just looking at me would be overwhelming, so what do you plan to do with other women?

There was no one but me, was there?"

"......"

"If it's like this, why were you born?"

"Indeed. Why was I born?"

I grabbed Seraphina's wrist and met her eyes.

"Do you think me being born is the problem?"

Seraphina shook her head at my question.

"That can't be."

Then she smiled faintly and her thumb began to tremble slightly. The fingers on my neck somehow felt ticklish.

"If you hadn't been born, I wouldn't have met you. I wouldn't have fallen in love with someone like you. And yet, you won't even love only me, so what were all those things you said before? Were they lies?"

"They were all sincere."

At that, the grip on my neck tightened even further.

I slowly began to suffocate.

"Then is it because I haven't properly trusted you until now?

Is it because I haven't properly reciprocated your love?

Will you no longer love me in the future?"

I grabbed Seraphina's wrist, which was strangling my neck, and shook my head.

"Ah, of course, you'll love me now.

It might sound a little crazy, but I wasn't by your side in your slightly future self.

Perhaps, you might not love me in the future."

"Seraphina, I told you I love you. Take your hand away and listen to what I'm saying."

"It would be hard to believe me now if I said I'd listen to anything you say and do whatever you tell me to.

Still, I love only you the most.

I don't want to hear words like 'just the two of us won't work'."

Seraphina, as if she couldn't hear me, stared at me with vacant, somehow glazed-over pupils and muttered to herself.

Even while meeting my eyes, Seraphina was projecting and looking at something other than me through my appearance.

I had no idea what she was looking at.

But whatever she was seeing now, it didn't seem to be a good sight.

"Or is it that a woman around you, not me, is clinging to you, asking you to marry her?

Or did someone tell you to abandon me, who never properly trusted or cared for you, and that they'd do anything if you just came to their side?"

I had heard similar words before, but not now, at least.

Because it's the future, or a non-existent past.

"No."

I was slightly suffocating, but I replied with difficulty.

"If not that, then what else...! Ah. I think I understand."

Instantly, Seraphina's expression stiffened, devoid of any emotion.

"Lavin, you heard about the engagement breaking off from that woman, Levina."

The grip of the hand holding my throat tightened.

I felt like I would suffocate and die at this rate.

The thought that starting over again so soon after having just come back to life really didn't seem right flashed through my mind.

Still holding Seraphina's wrist, which was pressing down on my neck, I slightly lifted my body and wrapped my leg around her neck.

Then I pulled slightly, making her fall, and stood up.

I almost instinctively stomped on her neck with my foot, but stopped mid-air.

If she had cast a spell while falling, I would have been subdued, but Seraphina was still an amateur.

I hadn't realized my habit would almost lead to me killing Seraphina.

"We're similar, aren't we? Let's just let it go."

Seraphina merely stared at me with bewildered eyes, as if dazed, unable to reply.

"Even if it's not just the two of us, I'll try to make us happy."

Seraphina still looked bewildered as she stared at me.

An expression of looking at something other than me, even while looking at me.

Somehow, I understood, yet the thought that I wished she would look at me only with loving eyes merely flashed through my mind.

I felt that if we kept being together like this today, we'd only end up fighting.

I helped Seraphina up and said.

"Rest in the room. I'll be out for a bit."

After saying that, as I walked a long way down the corridor, I thought I should stop by the annex too.

I walked straight towards the student council president's office.

This time too, as expected, there were students blocking my way.

Exhausted, I didn't listen to anything they said, kicked their ankles, grabbed them by the collar, and slammed them to the floor.

After about four of them were slammed to the floor, no one else dared to rush me.

Perhaps because my body was steeped in cigarettes and alcohol, I did feel somewhat tired.

Opening the door to the president's office, I saw Levina looking out the window.

Without turning her head, she said in a low voice.

"Did you talk to Seraphina?"

When I didn't reply, Levina turned around.

"What did that child say to you? Didn't she say she was sick of someone like you?"

Levina asked with a laugh.

"No, she said she still loves me."

"Do you truly believe that?"

"If not Seraphina, who would I believe? She's my fiancée."

Levina bit her lower lip slightly, then smiled again. Like usual.

That is, not the strange, subtle smile she'd wear after I hit her, but the kind of expression she'd make when she thought I wouldn't dare to get defiant.

Somehow, seeing her after a long time made me feel a strange mixture of gladness and discomfort.

"It seems you haven't heard about the engagement breaking off."

I didn't reply.

"Do you love that child?"

"Yes, I do."

"Even if she told me she wanted to break off the engagement with you?"

"Even if she tried to kill me, I think I'd still love her."

Levina's eyes twitched slightly.

"Don't smoke in here."

I ignored her, stuck a cigarette in my mouth, and lit it.

Levina was surprised to see me light it with magic so naturally, not a match.

"Did you do something you can't handle?"

"I guess so."

Levina only stared at me, not replying.

Then she moved her feet and approached me.

Stopping about a step away, Levina looked at me, then slapped my cheek with enough force to make me feel filthy, though not painful.

Smack!

The cigarette I had in my mouth fell to the floor.

I didn't care and stomped on the cigarette on the floor, grinding it out.

And I didn't avoid Levina's gaze, who was still looking at me.

"You've gotten arrogant after not seeing me for a while."

"Well, I think I've always been like this."

"You? The shabby you who used to tremble just looking at my face and try to apologize first?"

Honestly, I didn't particularly miss this side of her.

Though seeing it after a long time did evoke a fresh sense of emotion.

"I'll stop by the annex tomorrow. Get a carriage ready."

Levina made a dazed expression at my words, spoken as if it didn't matter, then opened her mouth.

"Do you, right now, know your situation?

I'm still treating a worm-like bastard, an illegitimate child with no ability, no self-awareness, and no proper skills, as my brother, and if you act this arrogant... huh?"

In mid-sentence, Levina's words were cut off.

She had been slapped and made a dazed expression.

Then, touching her stinging cheek, she seemed to realize what had happened and glared at me.

"......You, are you crazy? Ah, no, Lavin. Do you, right now, know what you just did?"

"Shut up, and get a carriage ready. No. I'll just go myself."

I pushed Levina, who was in front of me, aside and rummaged through a drawer in the middle of the president's office.

Levina had always taken money from here to give me allowance.

After searching the drawer for a long time, I found several bundles of money.

Since a conscience still remained in my heart, I only took about two bundles and left the rest.

Then I tried to leave the room, but Levina called out to stop me.

"Lavin. Stop right there."

Levina, still holding her hand to the place where she was slapped, slowly took out a staff from her clothes and pointed it at me.

And slowly, lightning sparked at the tip of the staff.

I felt that if it hit me, I wouldn't die, but I'd suffer quite a bit.

I picked up a random book from the desk and threw it at Levina.

Levina, hit by the book on the shoulder, dropped her staff.

I bent slightly, stomped on Levina's fingers as she tried to pick up the staff again, and kicked her solar plexus.

After being hit in the solar plexus, she coughed and retched for a long time, then after a while, looked up at me.

Tears welled in Levina's eyes, and she looked up at me with a face utterly unable to comprehend.

"I'm doing this because I love you, you're the same, aren't you, Sis? Huh?"

She couldn't reply, merely exhaling shallow, trembling breaths.

Because I loved her, I knew all too well that nothing would happen even if I did this.

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