The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 194

The past was over.

The world crumbled, and Cheshire, Hylone, and Kiernan fell into the black void.

It was strange to float in the empty, dark space.

Cheshire drifted in the air and looked at Kiernan.

“…….”

He was crying silently.

Tears streamed down his face as he looked at Cheshire.

It was the first time Cheshire had seen Kiernan cry.

His usually arrogant red eyes were now a shattered mess.

The indifferent gaze that seemed to look down on everything was gone, replaced by tears like a child pricked by a thorn bush.

Kiernan spoke, his voice thick with emotion, without wiping away the flowing tears.

“They said a crazy fairy was wandering around…….”

It seemed difficult for him to even utter a few words, and he continued after taking a deep breath.

“That was Rose.”

Cheshire couldn’t offer him any comfort.

In the last moment, Rose and Kiernan’s timelines had overlapped.

Rose and Kiernan’s times intertwined, going back several years into the past.

However, Kiernan hadn’t realized that the crazy fairy was Rose and had let her go.

Cheshire knew what that missed opportunity meant to Kiernan, so she couldn’t say anything.

“And the last gift Rose left me…”

Kiernan muttered to Cheshire in a daze.

“We look so alike…. I didn’t know anything.”

He slowly closed and opened his lifeless eyes.

The tears that had welled up fell in drops.

“Why, I, why…….”

Kiernan let out a hollow laugh.

He laughed weakly and came to a conclusion.

“I think I ruined everything.”

Seeing the tears welling up in Cheshire’s eyes, Kiernan slowly continued.

“I left Rose to die alone, and now I’m trying to save her, sacrificing my daughter…….”

Kiernan remembered the moment his reason had snapped.

He’d lost his mind for a moment while following Rose’s timeline.

At that time, Kiernan forgot that he had traveled back in time with Cheshire and Hylone.

He only thought about saving Rose in front of him.

Even though Cheshire called Rose ‘Mom’ in the middle, he hadn’t even recognized it because he wasn’t in his right mind.

If he hadn’t come to his senses, he would have definitely…

He would have made the worst choice of trying to perform resuscitation magic while trapped in the crack of time.

Looking back, he always chose the bad options.

When he first met Rose, and when he first met Cheshire.

Even when the three brothers were struggling with their mother’s absence.

Kiernan always made the wrong choices.

He pretended to be smart all by himself, but in the end, he made everyone unhappy.

“Really… I’m the worst. I’m a really bad dad.”

Kiernan slowly wiped away his tears with the back of his hand and gave a faint smile.

He muttered, looking at Cheshire, who had started crying after him.

“I wish someone else was your dad…….”

Even while looking at Cheshire crying, he couldn’t even reach out his hand and just stared blankly.

“Then, like Rose’s wish, you might have been happy.”

It was the moment when even his mind was about to be swallowed by the endless darkness.

Cheshire ran towards Kiernan.

The fairy, shining gold in the dark world, hugged Kiernan.

Hugging him with all her might, she saved Kiernan.

Just like Rose did.

“Dad.”

Cheshire hugged Kiernan and called him while crying.

“Dad, Dad…….”

As if bursting out all the sorrows she hadn’t been able to express, she called Kiernan Dad.

Kiernan couldn’t even touch his daughter, who was clinging to him and crying.

After being frozen for a while, he carefully hugged her back as if touching delicate petals.

“…Yeah, Cheshire.”

He hugged Cheshire with trembling hands and answered quietly.

“Dad is here…….”

Hugging the sobbing child, Kiernan finally decided what he had to do.

He raised his eyes and looked behind Cheshire.

Hylone, who had been watching, slowly approached.

And said in a low voice.

“The longer we stay here, the more it negatively affects our minds.”

Now, all three of them knew too well what would happen if a fairy’s mind was contaminated.

The white space in the basement of the Holy Empire.

That place was also a crack in time.

Hylone was trapped in the crack of time every time he was educated by the Holy King.

The fairy’s power in the patterns of the white space created chaos, and the divine power worked to escape from the crack of time.

“We can get out of here if we use the Chains of Atonement.”

However, this space was created based on Kiernan’s black magic resuscitation magic circle.

It was impossible to know in which direction it would work.

Since the resuscitation magic circle was designed to operate by offering sacrifices, it might be possible to escape only by paying the ‘price’.

And as expected, Kiernan confirmed that fact.

“No. We have to offer a sacrifice. The Chains of Atonement come after that.”

Cheshire sniffled and quickly wiped away her tears.

With a face reddened from crying, she looked at Kiernan and Hylone.

“I’ll stay.”

Before they could get angry, Cheshire quickly explained the reason.

“I’ve already used up almost all of my life force before coming here…. I’ll probably die as soon as I go outside.”

She had sensed it long ago.

Now that she had confirmed all the past timelines, it felt even clearer.

That this place was her grave.

She was a little scared of being left alone to die.

But Cheshire was okay.

It was just a difference between dying outside or dying here.

If she could use her already finished life for the people she loved…….

That alone would be enough.

‘I’m worried that I couldn’t say goodbye.’

Hata, the three brothers of the Vasilios family, Aran, Theo, Remil, Jahan…….

The people she had formed relationships with flashed through her mind one by one.

“So it’s right for me to stay. I’m okay…….”

“I’ll stay too.”

“…?”

Cheshire turned to Hylone with a bewildered face.

He stared at Cheshire expressionlessly and added.

“I’ll send Count Vasilios out with the Chains of Atonement. Then there’s no problem, right?”

“No, there’s no need to increase unnecessary sacrifices…….”

“You’re always like that.”

A sharp light flickered in Hylone’s blue eyes.

Cheshire shrank her shoulders without realizing it.

“You don’t know anything about other people’s feelings.”

Hylone, who had coldly snapped, nodded his chin as if he had already made a conclusion.

“If we’re trapped here, time will be infinite, so we’ll have plenty to talk about. Anyway, Leticia and I will stay.”

He turned his gaze and looked at Kiernan.

“Please leave alone, Count.”

Then Kiernan smiled.

The moment Cheshire saw Kiernan’s smile, she suddenly felt a sense of unease.

It was because it was a smile that was somehow very relieved and seemed to be finishing things up.

“Well. I don’t really feel like it either.”

Kiernan said with a light sigh.

“I’ll leave my daughter in your care, Sir Hylone.”

“…Wait.”

“I’ll stay here.”

“Just a moment, Dad. I’m going to die anyway if I go out…….”

“Who’s going to let my daughter die?”

Kiernan called Cheshire in a gentle voice.

He smiled sweetly, curving the eyes containing his red eyes.

“This is resuscitation magic, isn’t it?”

“…!”

Cheshire’s eyes widened at Kiernan’s words.

Before she could even understand everything he had said, Kiernan opened his mouth again.

“Dad will make sure Cheshire…….”

Regret settled in his red eyes.

He swore to Cheshire, containing countless complex emotions.

“I’ll save Cheshire no matter what.”