The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 188

Kieren and Cheshire looked at each other.

Kieren didn’t say anything.

No, he couldn’t.

Amidst the wind-whipped hair, his red eyes trembled slightly.

Kieren slowly parted his lips.

“…You have to die?”

Instead of answering his question, Cheshire said something else.

“By forcibly expanding the Phantasm… I don’t have much life force left. So, it’s better if at least one of us survives.”

Her voice kept dropping lower, as if weighed down by a heavy weight.

Cheshire couldn’t bring herself to meet Kieren’s gaze any longer.

She stared at the black magic circle drawn at her feet, whispering to herself.

“I’m sorry for lying……”

Even though she had grown into a body close to an adult, she still seemed like a small child.

Too immature to even offer a proper apology.

She waited for Kieren’s words with the anticipation of a whipping.

Soon, a hollow laugh was heard.

“Ah, so.”

Kieren spoke sarcastically in a fierce voice.

“You’re saying that because you’ve been deceiving me all this time, acting like a child, you’ll pay for your sins with your life, is that it?”

It was a tone Cheshire had never heard from him before.

Kieren, openly displaying his anger, ran a hand over his face.

“Why… why.”

His breathing wavered unsteadily.

Following the master’s agitation, the swirling shadows in the black magic circle momentarily lost their strength and faltered.

Kieren whispered with dry eyes.

“How did you know what I would choose?”

Beneath the dry whisper, a seething emotion could be felt.

It didn’t matter what he chose.

Since she was going to die anyway, she was just trying to use her life in the most useful way possible.

But, contrary to her resolution, Cheshire couldn’t bring herself to act.

She hesitated, unable to jump into the black magic circle.

It was because there was someone who held her back with the lingering attachments to life, like a hook.

“Liche Cheshire.”

Cheshire squeezed her eyes shut.

And slowly turned around.

Haylon, bound in shadows, was staring at Cheshire with a blank face.

In this place where black shadows stirred everywhere, his bright silver hair was particularly noticeable.

Cheshire thought he was like a star in the night sky.

The one who was as white and pure as starlight alone did not get angry or sad.

He simply called her name again.

“…Liche Cheshire.”

As if asking her to look at him.

Cheshire couldn’t bring herself to answer.

The days she had pretended not to notice, even while clearly seeing how he missed Liche Cheshire, pressed down on Cheshire with suffocating weight.

Cheshire drooped her eyes downward.

‘I don’t know what to do in moments like these.’

She was aware of her immaturity in emotional matters.

It was only natural since she had never built a proper relationship with anyone.

If the orphanage hadn’t burned down and remained as it was.

If she had gotten along well with her teachers and friends, and met Haylon and the men of the Vasilios family through ordinary circumstances.

If that were the case, she might have been able to say and do better things in this situation.

No, she might have been able to lead to a better situation than now in the first place.

She really didn’t know what to do.

She could return his dead wife to Kieren, but there was nothing she could do for Haylon.

“I’m sorry.”

Since those were the only words that came to mind, she just repeated them over and over.

Haylon’s eyes narrowed slightly.

He just stared at her silently like that.

They were calm blue eyes, like the sea just before a typhoon.

Knowing that they were eyes about to explode at any moment, what more could she do here?

The pain felt in her body was gradually increasing.

There wasn’t much time left.

Hesitating, Cheshire eventually turned away from Haylon.

And took a step towards the magic circle.

Kieren, who had been standing still on the magic circle like a statue, warned coldly.

“Stop, Cheshire.”

The magic had already begun, and only the final sacrifice remained.

If Cheshire stepped into the magic circle, there was no way for Kieren to stop it.

“I said stop.”

Kieren glared at Cheshire with red, bloodshot eyes, issuing a warning again.

Cheshire moved her feet as she pleased and comforted him.

“It’s okay.”

Wasn’t it a lifelong love?

It was only natural to choose the one he had missed and loved enough to dedicate his life to, rather than a fake daughter who had lied.

“It’s really okay.”

It was the moment her foot was about to touch the black magic circle.

Clatter!

A sound of chains was heard.

In the blink of an eye, all directions were filled with pure white chains.

Cheshire let out a small groan as the chains squeezed her torso tightly enough to hurt.

The white chains filled the black forest and stretched endlessly beyond.

A chilling coldness ran through the chains that covered all directions.

Before she knew it, Haylon had come right in front of her.

He grabbed Cheshire’s chin with a rough hand.

The gaze she had wanted to avoid finally collided.

The one with the sacred appearance, as if to purify all the impure darkness, was burning with the deepest and darkest emotions.

“Kill me first.”

With eyes like blue flames, Haylon brought his face close to Cheshire.

His breath tickled her nose and lips.

“Whether you cut off my neck with your axe, split my head, or tear my heart apart. Kill me by any means.”

Just like when he demanded to be first, he declared with unwavering eyes.

“Because otherwise, I won’t let you go.”

The sight of black darkness swirling in the wind and white chains covering all directions was more bizarre than Cheshire’s Phantasm [a manifestation of inner desires or fears].

In a chessboard-like space where black and white coexisted, Cheshire shouted.

“I’m about to die now, so I’m saying I’m going to do what I can for the last time……!”

“So you’re telling me to just watch you die before my eyes?”

It was the most rational and reasonable choice, but Haylon immediately rejected Cheshire’s decision.

His chains tightened around Cheshire so suffocatingly.

“Ugh, Haylon, it hurts……!”

Even though she said it hurt, he didn’t loosen them even a little.

It was the moment Cheshire was struggling to shake off the chains.

A sharp cracking sound rang out.

“…!”

Cheshire, Haylon, and Kieren too.

They flinched in surprise and widened their eyes.

The space was collapsing.

The black magic that Kieren had completed by pouring out all his magic power.

And the sacred object that Haylon possessed, unfolded by drawing out all his divine power.

The two enormous energies, which were polar opposites, were converging and going out of control.

“No……!”

He couldn’t let this chance to fulfill Kieren’s last wish be wasted so futilely.

Please, for the last time, just once.

Cheshire squeezed her eyes shut and mustered her strength.

She had already used all her strength and scraped up her life force.

There was no way she had any strength left, but she recklessly used the fairy’s power.

Colorful colors were added to the black and white space.

The moment flowers bloomed above the black shadows and white divine chains intertwined.

The three energies mixed together and soared into the sky.

After the energy that shot up as if piercing the sky disappeared.

Nothing remained in the black forest.

And two people and one fairy.

“…Ah.”

She opened her eyes in the past, going back in time.

It was the moment when Rose, the Countess of Vasilios and the Fairy Queen, first fell into the Black Forest.