I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

76 – I don’t hate it – Part 1 Wan

When I opened my eyes, there were white curtains around me.

She was also wearing a pure white hospital gown.

And I felt the warmth in her hand.

“… Raina.”

When I slightly turned her gaze, Reina was sitting in her chair with her right hand clasped with my right hand, and she was dozing off.

As Reina quietly stretched her so as not to wake up, a creaking sound came from every corner of her joints.

But fortunately, I didn’t get sick.

“I won.”

My memory was intact.

In novels, I sometimes lose my memory in situations like this.

Well, it would be absurd for a person who has already possessed a web novel to go through such a thing.

“Mmm.”

Of course, the wounds had already healed.

“Reina.”

“Uh, huh?”

Reina was taken aback by my call and lifted her head with her eyes wide open.

She then let go of her right hand, which she was holding naturally.

This is a little disappointing.

Did I wake you up for nothing?

“Mi, sorry. I shouldn’t be sleeping.”

“It’s okay. All the wounds are healed, and if you’re tired, that might be it.”

Reina, who placed her hands neatly on her lap, for some reason couldn’t meet her eyes.

She doubted that fact, but she felt no need to say it.

“What time is it now?”

I couldn’t guess the time because the whole area was covered with curtains.

Still, it must be around 8:30 at most.

“It was 11 when I looked at the clock before going to sleep.”

“… Really?”

“Yes.”

Reina quietly drew the curtain behind her to prove her words.

Then the black night sky caught my eye, and the clock hanging next to the window indicated 11:20.

The duel starts at 6:30.

If you say it took about an hour to finish, did you lie down for almost 4 hours?

And Reina must have been waiting for me to wake up for four hours.

I was sorry for nothing.

I wasn’t hurt that badly.

In the first place, it’s hard to get seriously injured because of the barrier.

“Your Highness?”

“After receiving treatment, she went back to the dormitory immediately. He said that there would be a lot of work to do, and he asked me to take good care of him.”

It’s strange.

I’m sure it was me who won, but why was I the only one who passed out?

I think it was like that at the Heros Dance Competition.

She said, “She said the nurse said she seemed to have collapsed from mental exhaustion rather than from her wounds.”

She questioned that fact, but quietly nodded her head at Reina’s explanation.

Okay. I’d be lying if I said she wasn’t exhausted.

Because of the duel, I couldn’t sleep well last night.

By the way, he noticed my questions in an instant and answered them.

Is it obvious from my expression that much?

“Oh, that’s right. I don’t know what it means, but His Highness told me what he wanted, even asking me to tell him later.”

“Yes.”

Come to think of it, you won the duel, so you can get what you want.

You want it.

To be honest, I didn’t have anything decided right away.

Because I said it halfway in the mood.

“Ah, how did the breakup go?”

Come to think of it, I forgot the most important thing.

For now, it is said that if I win this duel, the breakup will become null and void.

But Leon seemed to have already moved on the premise of breaking up the marriage.

I don’t think it will be canceled even if I win.

In the first place, Reina also told me that she wanted to break the engagement.

At my question, Reina gave a puzzled smile.

“The breakup will probably proceed as it is. In fact, it was as if everything had already happened.”

“… Okay.”

To be honest, I still haven’t really realized it.

Reina was the one she tried to propose breaking off the marriage with.

… But now that I think about it, why the hell did Raina want to break up?

Even when I searched her memories, all I heard from Leon was that it was Reina who proposed breaking up the engagement first.

Raina promised me that I would make her happy.

She tells Leon that she likes Reina as her member of the opposite s*x.

She thought and spoke without any countermeasures.

What would happen if I made an absurd misunderstanding?

As expected, I felt I had to point this out.

“Reina.”

“Yes.”

“His Highness told me. You said you were the first to propose the breakup.”

“Right.”

Reina quietly nodded her head in agreement.

“Can I hear the reason?”

Reina’s face instantly turned red at her question.

I wanted to ask if you felt the same as me, but I waited quietly.

But Reina’s answer was unexpected.

“I also wanted to ask you something.”

She was Reina, who had been trying not to make eye contact with me until now, but she finally lifted her head and looked at me.

Her face was still red.

Of course I asked the question first, but it probably doesn’t matter.

“Ike. Why did you accept this duel? No matter how much you said you wanted to be my knight, it was still a promise. I could have said no.”

“Yes.”

“And yet you accepted the duel. It’s not just this. You always move for me I couldn’t do anything for you Why the hell are you doing that for me?”

Her face was red, but Reina’s voice was as calm as usual.

“Because I wanted you to be happy.”

“Why?”

Raina didn’t seem satisfied with my answer.

So she began to worry.

“Mmm.”

If you think about it now, ‘She heals the wounded world’ is a very funny web novel.

The original villain organization. Avatar, an evil organization trying to destroy the Astraia Empire.

The members of the Avatar are terrible sinners.

But they don’t regret it even when they fall down.

Rather, Avatar is right, curses Sophia and Leon, and dies while praying for hope in their own way to the remaining members of the organization.

Even the boss of Avatar in the last episode is the same.

He fights that he will not give up for the fallen gang members, and actually drives Leon and Sofia to the point of killing them.

Isn’t it strange?

Avatar, who tried to destroy the empire, killed countless people, and accumulated terrible sins.

They had a bond with each other until the very end.

There were even readers who supported Avatar in that way.

Compared to that, what about Reina?

She was just jealous that her fiancé, whom she loved, seemed to be falling for another woman.

Readers said that Reina bullied Sophia, but when I recall her narrative, most of it was just a simple rebuke or advice.

I have never killed anyone, nor have I committed a terrible crime.

However, Raina is shunned by everyone, struggles in solitude, and meets her end with a cruel beheading.

There was no opinion of sympathy or sympathy for Reina among readers, at least to my knowledge.

Some readers even praised Reina’s death as the best scene in her work.

Why?

Avatar must have been the obvious evil, but why was it Raina who died the most lonely and hated in the original story?

Why did Raina have to be the target of evil both inside and outside the work?

Although I really liked her web novel called ‘She heals a wounded world’.

I didn’t like Reina’s treatment at all.

She simply hated it.

So after she possessed this world, she decided to create a world where Raina was happy.

The more she got to know her, the stronger her heart grew.

Reina was not a villain who should struggle and fall in solitude.

She deserved to be happy with her.

If Reina, who does her best in everything and doesn’t turn a blind eye to her own faults, is destined to meet such a terrible end.

She could confidently say that it was wrong.

“I just wanted you to be happy.”

“Why?”

The conversation is repeated like a dodol table.

The reason was simple.

Because I’m too shy to answer.

When I had a duel with Leon, I was able to speak confidently.

Isn’t that the effect of those endorphins or something?

“Are they childhood friends?”

“No.”

But I have to tell you.

I’ve already said it once, what’s difficult about the second time?

“Do you want to become a knight?”

“No.”

Truthfully.

Let’s speak confidently.

“Then why?”

Look at Reina’s eyes.

No matter how ignorant she is, she knows at least that Reina is expecting something.

She knows the correct answer, so why is she so hesitant?

Her head feels like it’s going to burst with heat.

And the answer I barely spit out.

“… Think what you like.”

That was a really rubbish answer.

Asshole.

I have nothing to say even if I said that.

But I can’t help it.

I’m embarrassed to even look at Reina’s face right now, to the point where I look away.

“Hmm.”

I can feel Raina’s cold gaze on the back of her head.

Turning her gaze slightly, Reina’s face was terrifyingly expressionless.

“Okay. Then she will ask you one more question.”

Raina sighed and continued her words.

“Do you like me?”

“… I don’t hate it.”

A real asshole.

You should just tell the truth.

Am I just saying things like this that I’m ashamed of?

I felt as if I had never been able to properly establish a human relationship in my previous life.

Of course I couldn’t make it, and I know it’s a ridiculous excuse.

“Stupid.”

Yes. I’m a fool who can’t speak properly to the person in question.

“At times like this, it’s okay to just nod your head.”

“….”

“Ike.”

At Reina’s call, I turned my gaze back to her and looked at her.

Raina held my right hand again and smiled brightly.

“I really like it.”

And I just nodded her head quietly as she said.

What kind of expression am I making right now?

One thing is for sure, it is true that her face will be blushing red.

“You’ll tell me later, won’t you?”

“… If you remember.”

Reina smiled wryly at my answer, she didn’t need to say it.

★

The story is not over.

Avatar is still alive and well, eagerly waiting for a chance to destroy the empire.

And I was already at the center of the story.

To be honest, even after a long time has passed, I still want to run away because I am scared.

The day I killed the first person in Heros.

The feeling of that time still comes to mind from time to time.

And to save Anna, he killed the assassins and killed the black wolf.

The feeling of cutting through human flesh.

Wielding a sword to kill people, not for sparring, seemed like something he would never get used to.

But I already know the purpose of Avatar.

As long as Avatar exists, Reina will never be happy.

No, no one can be happy.

They are clearly evil.

Knowing that, I couldn’t run away.

There was a time when I dreamed of turning my back on everything and persuading Reina to run away alone.

It is already too late to realize such a dream.

Over the course of 4 years, I’ve made too many precious connections besides Reina.

If I lose even one of them in exchange for changing the future.

If Sophia and Leon become an opportunity to not destroy Avatar.

I will regret it for the rest of my life.

Of course, I know you can’t achieve a perfect victory.

In a place where I can’t see, eventually someone will die.

But if I don’t run away and fight, someone will surely be able to survive.

That’s why I pick up a sword today too.

Swinging a sword while having nightmares and recalling that terrible sensation.

To save you.

To save all that can be saved.

To not regret.

Just like that, another half year has passed.