The Villain Of The Horror Game Dreams Of The Heroine Every Night - Chapter 104
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 104
Leonhard glared at Lute Carl.
Even though the light she was emitting disappeared when Celine collapsed, the light emanating from Rashir was enough to swallow the darkness.
At that time, her eyelids trembled.
Leonhard immediately inspected her complexion and got startled. Her wide-open blue-gray eyes were stained with despair.
“…Celine.”
He couldn’t bear to ask if she was okay and quietly called her name.
“….”
As she stumbled and fell from Leonhard’s arms, a trembling voice came from her bowed head.
“How do I know… this is not your trick?”
“You know better that it’s a true prophecy.”
There was not a hint of embarrassment on Lute Carl’s face.
Celine couldn’t refute it.
What she just saw…
‘…It was true.’
She closed her eyes tightly.
The confrontation between herself and Leonhard in the game flickered in her eyes. There was a scene in which she killed Leonhard, who, more precisely, gave her a chance to kill him.
Her heart tightened at the fact that it happened in a game, more than any dream, more than any foresight.
Celina hadn’t thought that she would be able to stop Leonhard’s blackening just by seeing the true end because all she knew was that she could see the real reason for Leonhard’s blackening. She just thought that if she knew the reason for the blackening, she would, of course, be able to stop it.
‘…It was completely wrong.’
If Lute Carl were right, no matter how hard they try to stop the warlocks, Leonhard would turn black anyway… and he was right.
Didn’t what she just saw prove that fact?
She felt water in her eyes.
“….”
Leonhard said nothing, but he placed a soft handkerchief in her hand. Considering the situation they went through, it was a surprisingly clean and soft handkerchief.
Celine clutched at the handkerchief without opening her eyes.
Her tears still didn’t stop, and her hands trembled. The worst thing was not the fact that no matter how hard they struggled, they couldn’t stop his blackening.
‘I…’
Even if she didn’t kill him here and now, five years later, she would kill the blackened Leonhard at Bernoulli Castle.
…Leonhard who thought of her even until the moment he died.
‘It’s not Lute Carl’s trick…’
Celine had no choice but to admit it.
She could see why, too.
‘… It’s because Leonhard turned into a killer in the game.’
They could never stop his blackening. The blackened Leonhard would become stronger, not weak, and if anything could kill him… it would be her who never died.
‘Leonhard didn’t kill me even then.’
Tears ran down her cheeks incessantly and dripped into her hand holding the handkerchief. Maybe it was for an extremely selfish reason that her future self killed Leonhard.
She wanted to go back.
She wanted to get away from the painful life here and go back to a life where family and peace await.
“Celine.”
Celine opened her eyes slowly.
In her tear-blurred vision, Leonhard was watching her anxiously. His eyes, which had been sharp with hostility towards Lute Carl until just a moment ago, were softened by his concern for her.
“Why are you worrying so much?”
Even though Leonhard turned towards him like a wild animal, Lute Carl didn’t care and continued.
“Anyway, to you, isn’t Lord Leonhard a means to return.”
“….!”
Celine’s body stiffened.
‘How…?’
She couldn’t ask or say anything as only the thought that Lute Carl knew about her identity filled her head.
“…What do you mean?”
Seeing Leonhard growl softly, a small smile appeared on Lute Carl’s face.
“Can I tell him? Lute Celine.”
Celine didn’t answer. Like her head had gone blank, not a single word came to her mind, and she was unable to respond.
Lute Carl sneered.
“Since Lute Celine already knows everything… I will only explain to Lord Leonhard.”
“If there is even a little bit of a lie…!”
“Lute Celine is keeping her eyes open like that, so can I even tell a lie?”
“I see.”
Leonhard looked at Lute Carl with his arms crossed.
“That house.”
Celine’s body trembled.
“…That cursed mansion, you mean?”
“That’s right.”
Lute Carl nodded his head.
“Did you not think something was strange?”
“It is a cursed mansion.”
Leonhard spat out briefly, as that alone could explain everything.
“Curse…”
Lute Carl smiled again as he went on, “Do you think that a curse that even Lord Leonhard would not know the depth of could be cast overnight?”
“It must have taken a long time. I am not stupid enough to not know that.”
“But an informant who investigated Lute Celine’s past reported that she grew up there from an early age.”
“….!”
Leonhard tried not to show surprise, perhaps conscious of Celine by his side though he couldn’t stop his widened eyes.
He had visited the house himself and had seen the gruesome death of the child who had sneaked into it. He even ran the whole house twice, but the traces of the curse left all over the house were obviously of such an old type that he couldn’t even do anything.
‘Come to think of it…’
He realized that her explanation and judgment were completely in sync. Celine mentioned she was cursed from the time he started dreaming of her. Still, the traces left on the house indicated old, deep-rooted curses.
‘Maybe… before she was born, long before.’
However, he couldn’t believe she was lying.
Leonhard opened his mouth slowly.
“There is also a curse that repeats activation and pause depending on the timing. Celine, too…”
“You might think so.”
Lute Carl interrupted him with a somewhat admiring expression.
“However, it was far from Lute Celine’s case.”
“…Please explain in detail.”
The corners of Lute Carl’s mouth twitched.
“It is true that Lute Celine is cursed. However, she is not cursed to die and come back to life forever.”
“….?”
“Lute, you are cursed to be trapped in that body.”
Celine raised her head.
‘It’s really a curse…?’
Living this life now was a curse in itself.
‘…It was a lie that the curse could be lifted by looking at the true ending.’
The realization made her mouth bitter. On the other hand, Leonhard, understandably, didn’t seem to have a clue.
“To be trapped in that body… what kind of nonsense is that?”
“Don’t you know yet? Lute Celine’s life is not the life she should have lived.”
Celine bit her lip.
Leonhard looked confused, he still didn’t quite understand Lute Carl’s words. However, it will be a matter of time till he understands.
‘… It’s not something he needs to know from Lute Carl’s mouth.’
She swallowed a gulp once and opened her mouth.
“Leonhard.”
There was so much emotion in his gaze, looking at her. A sense of guilt as great as that feeling drove a nail into her heart.
“Let me… explain. I used to… live in a completely different place.”
“…Celine.”
“My name wasn’t Celine either. I also looked completely different. The words were different, and the letters were different, and I lived a normal life in a different place… One day I found myself constantly dying in that house.”
Leonhard’s face contorted. He strode towards Celine.
“How did you live before?”
“It’s just… normal.”
“Where did you live? Is it outside the Empire?”
Even though she tried to avoid his gaze, she couldn’t escape the wolf’s gaze this time.
“You wouldn’t know even if I told you.”
“…Just tell me.”
Although Leonhard was begging, Celine shook her head.
How could she tell him that he was a character in the game and she was from the world where the game was created? Above all, she could no longer think of Leonhard and the world he loved and defended with his life as a mere game.
The moment she told him that fact, Leonhard would collapse.
But Leonhard, as always, found the answer.
“Is it a place where I can’t go even if I want to go now?”
Celine nodded.
“The only way to return to your true home… to your true life is to kill me.”
This time, she made no gestures though Leonhard seemed to get the answer he was looking for in her silence.
“Go back.”
“….!”
Her whole body began to tremble in astonishment and fear.
“Leonhard!”
A sad smile appeared on his handsome lips.
“If you can’t stop the warlock’s curse from being completed, you will kill me anyway.”
Celine fumed.
“No! Why are you…”
“I don’t know what your original name was. I don’t even know what you looked like or where you lived.”
Leonhard muttered quietly.
“However, I know Celine Hunt, who has always been by my side. You were not one to stand by and watch so many people suffer because of me…”
He looked at Celine sadly.
“Celine. From the foresight you saw… maybe you killed me. It’s okay. At that time, I wouldn’t have resented you either.”
The tears that had barely stopped began to flow again. Her throat tingled, and she cried so much that her eyes flickered.
She couldn’t argue any longer.
Celine knew that everything Leonhard said was right.
“Anyway, all of this… may have been set in stone from the moment I was born. If there is anything wrong, it must be the fault of the Bernoulli family, who misheard the prophecy.”
He lightly hugged her.
“I am fine. I was happier than ever… after meeting you.”
Celine pulled on Leonhard’s clothes and buried her face in his chest. Despite the fact that she wanted to scream what nonsense he was talking about, she couldn’t bear to do it to someone who asked her to take his life.
He said nothing more and quietly touched her back.
‘Ah…’
Celine realized in Leonhard’s arms.
She couldn’t possibly kill him. Even if she could save not only this world but the whole earth, she would not be able to kill Leonhard.
…For a very selfish reason.
She wanted this man, this man who would give up his own life to calm her small conscience that would be hurt…
She loved Leonhard Bernoulli.
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han
I was NOT prepared for this kind of angst TT
Karma95
How do they even begin to solve this 😭