The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 29

But the next day, Lichesia couldn’t escape.

It was because she had a raging fever.

Completely bedridden, Lichesia had no choice but to be cared for by the boy.

The boy stayed by her side, tending to her.

Wiping away her sweat, feeding her bitter medicine and soup.

After a full day of illness, her fever finally broke.

“…….”

It was night again.

Opening her eyes, Lichesia stared at the stained wooden ceiling before slowly turning her head to the side.

The boy had brought a chair and was sitting in front of the window.

Bathed in the bright moonlight pouring in from the window, he was tending to his sword.

It was a somewhat surreal scene.

The boy, who had been wiping his sword with a dry cloth, stopped when he felt her gaze.

He looked at Lichesia.

His blue eyes were calm.

Lichesia stared back at the boy and asked,

“Why did you save me?”

“Does there need to be a reason?”

Since he was a boy aiming to become a holy knight, was this something natural?

Lichesia couldn’t understand.

Kindness without expecting anything in return was unfamiliar.

He might be putting her mind at ease like this, only to suddenly demand something.

Looking at Lichesia, who was still full of wariness, the boy slowly opened his mouth.

“Hylon.”

“…?”

“My name. I’d appreciate it if you knew my name since I saved you.”

Lichesia was momentarily stunned before quickly nodding her head.

“Ah, well.”

Regardless of whether she believed him or not.

In any case, she had survived thanks to the boy.

At the very least, it was right to express her gratitude.

“Thank you.”

A faint smile flickered across Hylon’s expressionless lips.

For some reason, her eyes were drawn to the subtle curve.

Lichesia quietly bit her lip.

She had been wondering whether to tell him her name as well.

Hylon grabbed his sword and stood up from the chair.

He looked out the window without opening it.

“…….”

Seeing his sharp eyes, Lichesia held her breath.

It was clear that the hunters had tracked her down.

Tension tightened her stomach.

‘In this condition, I’ll be caught quickly even if I run away.’

She had barely survived, but she was back to square one.

She was trembling slightly with fear when a low voice cut through her thoughts.

“Are these the ones who did this to you?”

The boy, waiting calmly for an answer, had his sword hanging loosely in one hand.

Lichesia looked at Hylon with bewildered eyes.

Surely, he wasn’t thinking of fighting the hunters right now?

It was absurd.

“They’re slave hunters.”

They were people who would catch and sell anything that could make them money.

They didn’t hesitate to do things that were worse than animals.

The first thing the hunters did when they heard that a fairy had appeared was to set fire to the orphanage.

Lichesia had witnessed the headmistress and her friends dying.

The laughter of those who brutally massacred innocent people still echoed in her ears like hallucinations.

Hylon would end up the same way.

He wasn’t officially knighted, so the hunters wouldn’t hesitate.

“If you abandon me and run away now.”

Before she could say that would be for the best, Hylon cut her off.

“Why would I?”

Lichesia was dumbfounded and asked back.

“Don’t you know slave hunters? They’re not just one or two, but a group of dozens.”

“Not anymore.”

“What?”

“I killed about half of them yesterday.” He added, slightly frowning as if he was annoyed that the remaining ones were a bit persistent.

His words were hard to understand.

“You killed the slave hunters…?”

She knew that young boys, especially aspiring knights who hadn’t been learning swordsmanship for long, often showed off with childish bravado.

It was natural to be most boastful when you first held a sword.

However, Hylon didn’t seem like that kind of person.

There was none of the exaggeration typical of boastful boys in his voice.

He was just indifferent and monotonous, as if he were reporting to a superior.

Could it be real?

But it was hard to believe.

Even Lichesia, who had the power of a fairy, couldn’t handle the slave hunters.

How could a mere apprentice knight…?

As Lichesia just stared at him, the boy slightly averted his gaze.

His distinct and straight fingers caressed the sword hilt.

“…I’m not lying.”

At his added words, Lichesia couldn’t help but smile a little.

It was closer to a hollow laugh, but it was definitely a smile.

Hylon, who had been aimlessly looking somewhere in the air, stared intently at her smiling face.

Without even blinking, piercingly.

It was like a boy seeing a flower for the first time.

Lichesia slowly stopped smiling.

She pursed her lips and ran the back of her hand over her cheek.

It wasn’t the first time she had received such an ardent gaze.

For some reason, her cheeks kept burning.

The atmosphere became a bit strange, so she blurted out whatever came to mind.

“You’re helping me without any compensation?”

“No.”

The boy, who answered decisively, stared straight at Lichesia and said.

“I gained something too.”

What could he have gained?

At least until now, it seemed like he had only lost things.

Perhaps he might even lose his life in this situation.

However, the boy didn’t give any explanation.

“I’ll be back.”

He just quietly took his sword and disappeared.

Lichesia sat on the bed for a while.

Then she slowly got up.

She didn’t know if Hylon could really handle the hunters.

But at least he seemed skilled enough to hold them back for a while, so she could escape in the meantime.

‘He’s going to become a holy knight anyway.’

There was no point in getting more involved.

She should leave now before they found out she was a fairy and killed her.

But strangely, she couldn’t bring herself to leave.

She had to run away immediately, but Lichesia looked up at the moon from the window where Hylon had been standing.

She wasted meaningless time gazing at the silver moon for a while.

Then she finally made up her mind and jumped out of the window.

Only the scent of flowers remained where Lichesia had been.

***

After surviving with Hylon’s help.

Chesha came to fully control the power of the fairy.

After learning how to use the Phantasm [a powerful illusion or magical ability], slave hunters were nothing more than ridiculous toys.

The Phantasm, with its bizarre atmosphere befitting the daughter of a mad fairy, became Lichesia’s symbol.

The flower-like yet cruel fairy became more and more widely known, and after gaining notoriety, she earned the nickname “Witch.”

Even as she lived her life wielding an axe as she pleased, she sometimes wondered.

Whether the boy had survived that night.

Whether he had been formally ordained as a holy knight.

Whether he had found out that she was a fairy.

If he had found out, whether he would regret saving her.

Whether he felt betrayed by her for running away alone, leaving him behind.

Whether he wanted to kill her now.

The curiosity lasted for quite a long time.

To the point where she thought she wanted to meet the boy just once before she died.

Even though she knew there was no point in meeting him again.

‘As expected, I didn’t see him in a good state.’

Chesha smiled bitterly as she recalled the moment she reunited with him.

A very small piece of the past stung slightly.

Chesha quickly erased her bitter smile.

No trace of her youthful self could be found anymore.

Looking at Hylon, who had now grown into a complete man, she calmly replied.

“I guess so. It’s a full moon.”

Hylon still didn’t take his eyes off Chesha’s face.

He looked at Chesha for a long time.

From her golden eyelashes to her small, plump lips, to her cheeks with a pleasant pink hue.

Only after examining everything without missing a single detail did he open his mouth again.

“Why did you disappear, Witch?”

Because she was still immersed in the lingering feelings of the past, she momentarily thought he was asking about what had happened before.

About running away alone, abandoning the young boy.

But Chesha quickly corrected her misunderstanding.

Hylon was asking about the present, not the past.

‘But he’s asking me this?’

She thought he had kidnapped Hata to settle things once and for all this time.

It was absurd that the first thing he asked was why she hadn’t shown herself all this time.

For a moment, she considered saying that she had been busy giving birth because of her twisted heart.

“…!”

Chesha felt a very ominous sensation.

The ticklish feeling, as if she was about to sneeze, was…

The sensation she felt when she drank the potion and her body changed.

Even though she was thinking, ‘Surely, maybe, it can’t be,’ it was a very clear premonition.

Chesha looked at Hata with bewildered eyes.

The moment their eyes met.

Hata also realized Chesha’s condition and let out a silent scream.

‘I think… I’m about to turn into a baby?!’