Chapter 226

My Villains Episode 226

47. Nightmare (8)

An awkward silence passed.

Heila was moving her steps with her gaze fixed on the side of the Dakanto Palace.

It seems that he explained this dream in his own way earlier, but he seems not to talk about the appearance of the phoenix of his childhood.

Cole, too, kept his mouth shut.

If it was a tight-knit Steedman or a freckled mummy, he would have said something to break the awkward atmosphere, but Cole wasn’t very nice.

Finally, I was refining the scenes of Heila in Phoenix’s memory. Then he rubbed his forehead and sighed.

“...Whoa. wait for a sec.” As their eyes met, I glanced at Cole.

“Um, I have something to talk to Heila about...

“Yep,”

Cole continued with a quick nod.

“There just happened to be a watch tower over there, so I’ll go up there to check the surroundings.”

After speaking, he headed towards the nearby security guard as if he had waited. It must have been noticed beforehand.

I grabbed Heila’s wrist and pulled her to one side.

Small waist-high stone walls were lined up on high embankments overlooking the city. There were several wooden boxes with fine sand and pebbles by the stone walls, and I sat Heila in them.

All the while, she just looked up at me without saying a word.

If you stare into his slowly blinking eyes, you can catch a glimpse of a strange expression.

Hmm, if you look closely, it seems that your eyelids are shaking a little...

Are you shy?

It’s not something you can’t understand. It’s only natural that you feel ashamed because your most intimate memories have been revealed through the Dream Mansion.

Of course, this could all be my misunderstanding. It’s not easy to guess emotions based on the blink of an eye or the flow of a conversation.

“...why is this all of a sudden?”

“Um, that’s it.”

He wet his dry lips, trying to figure out Heila’s intentions. Then he gathered his thoughts and opened his mouth.

“First of all, I am sorry.

“I never imagined you would remember this for so long. It was something I did without thinking when I was young.”

He started talking like an excuse, but Heila blinked and didn’t respond.

“At that time, I was a bit emotional. I was stupid. I don’t know if it was because I was a teenager, but everyone around me... um, I hated it.” In fact, the feelings thirteen-year-old Phoenix harbored were not so cute.

It was a dark and shady feeling that did not suit my age, and I did terrible things to resolve it.

He tried to ignore those facts and focused on the innocence that Phoenix had in his heart.

“Have you ever said that before? He said he saw me cry the day Ayla married Ganix.”

“O”

“I hated everyone as much as the sadness I felt then. Not only Ganix, but everyone in Zahakar and Baluin, even my father.”

Heila, who blinked, opened her mouth slowly.

The two bright red lips parted with a very slow movement, as if forced to say something they didn’t want to say.

“You loved Ayla that much.”

“...It did.”

I nod my head, but my heart is sore for nothing.

The Phoenixes left behind in me must be missing Ayla so much. I lent my mouth to Phoenix for a while.

“It was then. The withered and crumbling bouquet Ayla gave me as a gift was precious to me.”

“But a servant threw it away and I was very angry, and I ran into you while trying to get it back.”

Heila nodded quietly. I guess my story isn’t that surprising.

It could be an illusion, but...

She seems to have already known my heart, or Phoenix’s heart.

“So what I want to say is”

“I know.”

“......You know?”

“You’re not the only one who hates me. I hate my entire family. Unlike Ayla and you, all of them are monsters with something broken.”

His calm words reminded me of a conversation we once had in the hallway of the Manor House in Longville.

– Even if I’m not there, there are plenty of people who could be the next conceived, right? How many men use the surname Zaharkar?

-no. I have no intention of having children of such monsters.

-okay? ha me too

...I’ll turn around.

“I am not interested in other people at all.”

“...not interested?”

“I know the names of all of Umberta’s siblings, I know what gift Esson wants to give to the children he left behind, and I know how Simos became a magician.”

“But I won’t mind if they die right in front of me.”

Those black eyes, so calm, looked at me without blinking or trembling.

“I am not as warm as you think. I was just working to win your heart.”

“Like the other Baluins, like Zaharkar, I am a monster.”

As soon as she finished speaking, I immediately shook my head.

“I don’t think so at all.”

“No?”

“huh. Everything you’ve said so far proves that you’re not a monster.”

Heila blinked. Its meaning was probably questionable.

“Real monsters don’t even know they are monsters themselves. He didn’t feel any remorse for his behavior that didn’t even sound like a trick.”

“And crucially, why did you act like that? Is it because you want to get what you want or because you want to look good to me?”

It was a very shameless remark, but Heila nodded her head calmly without any change in her expression.

“That’s it.”

“Are you done?”

“It’s a thousand times better to be rude than to go on a rampage with the intent to kill people.”

“So please do that for a while. huh?”

Heyla blinked quickly as she said that and smiled. Perhaps the meaning behind it is something like embarrassment.

“...I don’t quite understand what you are saying.”

“What do you not understand? I want you to act like you did for the past month.”

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a trick or a lie. I like it much better that way.”

She was still confused. So I smiled and spread my arms out.

“There is nothing difficult about it.”

Heila looked at her outstretched arms in turns and then looked up at me.

“...what are you doing?”

“What normal people do in situations like this.”

“What is this situation?”

“A situation in which misunderstandings are resolved and reconciliation is made.”

“Then a hug is appropriate to finish. no?”

The rosy lips slowly fall, then close again.

It wasn’t a big deal, but it felt very new because it was extremely rare for Heila to do such a useless move.

“huh? no?”

She shrugged her shoulders and eyebrows together, and Hayla finally opened her arms.

Perhaps that was the end of it, she just blinked her black eyes.

What do you have to be so sensitive about?

As he clicked his tongue inside, he pulled her shoulders and hugged her. And Heila’s stiff arms were wrapped around my waist to complete the hug.

It didn’t match her usual icy face, but her body was very warm.

After a few pats on the back, he untied the hug and met Heila’s eyes.

“Now, are you reconciled?”

Well, it’s not easy to understand the meaning of this gaze.

She looked up at me quietly and replied with a very small voice, “Yes.” At the end of the conversation with Heila, Cole came down from the watchtower at the timing of a ghost. He followed us, about five or six paces away from us as we walked shoulder to shoulder.

Just as Heila had said, her dream came to an end before she reached Takanto Palace.

Unlike any mansion in the suburbs, Tow’s Den has faded into silence.

Thanks to this, I could clearly hear the strange metallic sound of ‘keying’ when a black disc appeared in front of my nose.

It seems that I fell asleep briefly while crossing the aisle. Thanks to that, I was able to see the sixth character sheet.

Name: Heila of Baluin

Level: 30

Class: Blood Knight

Stats: Remaining bonus – 2

Strength – 15 (20) Agility – 15 (20) Health – 21 (33) Magic – 41 (105)

Skill:

Blood 6pt Bloody Swamp 5pt Blood Shield 5pt Iron Armor 3pt Flowing Blood 5pt Hot Blood 3pt