The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 95

Kieren stared blankly at the fairy before him.

The chains of condemnation, imbued with divine power, stretched intricately across the room.

The fairy, bound by the chains, was limp and motionless, like a butterfly caught in a spiderweb.

Forest-like, deep green hair flowed long and disheveled over the white chains that radiated a subtle light.

Kieren gazed at the fairy’s hair caught in the chains for a long time.

He was reminded of when he first met his wife in the Black Forest.

Her hair was similarly disheveled.

Unknowing people often spoke as if Count Basilian had accidentally met his wife in the Black Forest and fallen in love at first sight.

However, the Count and Countess’s first meeting was nothing like people’s romantic imaginations.

It was impossible for Kieren, who was born with a distrustful nature, to cherish someone from the beginning.

However, the moment he first met her.

It was clear that there was some stirring in his heart.

He met her in a place filled only with darkness.

It was the Black Forest, where even the glistening eyes of monsters could not be seen properly.

Kieren saw a color that could not exist there.

It was a golden color as brilliant as the sun.

For a moment, he thought he was hallucinating.

It was common to hallucinate or hear phantom sounds when staying in the Black Forest for a long time.

She was a surprisingly beautiful woman.

She was asleep like a painting, her hair spread out on a tangle of black grass, leaves, and thorny bushes.

Her disheveled golden hair shone brightly in the dark forest.

People traveling through the Black Forest only passed through designated paths.

The dark energy emitted by the forest stimulated instinctive fear, so there were no daredevils.

Everyone obediently followed the established order.

As if they knew that breaking that order would lead to death.

And then, he met someone who did not belong in Basilian in the heart of the Black Forest.

Moreover, it was a woman with a slender figure who seemed to have never held a sword properly.

He narrowed his eyes and observed the woman for a while.

*Perhaps a new species of monster had been born*, he mused.

The Black Forest had existed for hundreds of years, so it wouldn’t be strange if something new emerged around this time.

However, he couldn’t feel any energy from the woman.

She was truly an ordinary human.

That’s what made it even more suspicious.

The situation itself—a human woman collapsed in the center of the monster-infested Black Forest in flimsy clothes—made no sense.

Kieren deliberately made a noise.

Rustle.

Dry leaves crumbled under his feet.

At the sound, the woman’s eyelashes fluttered slightly.

She, who had been in a deep sleep, slowly opened her eyes.

Kieren even held his breath without realizing it and stared at her silently.

Pink eyes were revealed under the slowly lifting eyelids.

The woman, who sat up groggily, only blinked her eyes.

Her face was blank, like a simpleton.

Kieren approached the woman.

As he bent his legs and sat facing her, the woman finally looked at Kieren.

Kieren was reflected in her empty eyes.

The blurry focus gradually became clear.

The moment it became completely clear, the woman opened her mouth.

“Where is this?”

*Her voice is clear like birds chirping*, he thought, as he answered her.

“This is the Black Forest.”

“Black Forest…?”

“It’s a dangerous place. How did you come to be in such a place?”

Kieren smiled and asked, preparing the magic to blow her head off.

The woman muttered with a confused expression.

“…I don’t know.”

She frowned slightly as if her head hurt, and whispered again.

“I don’t know anything.”

“You don’t even know how you got here?”

Kieren reached out to the side and waved his hand.

Red light shot out, cutting down the monsters that were gathering around.

Black blood splattered with terrible screams.

“This is not a place where humans can come.”

The red magic slaughtered the monsters.

Kieren handled the magic more slowly and cruelly than usual so that the woman could watch the scene sufficiently.

He spoke again when thick blood was overflowing everywhere.

“You better stop talking nonsense and tell me the truth. Otherwise…”

Kieren lightly drew his finger across the woman’s neck.

He grinned with a sly smile, drawing it long horizontally.

“I’ll do something bad.”

It was a clear threat.

He expected her to be frightened and cower at this point.

Instead, the woman frowned.

She glared at Kieren.

“*You* stop talking nonsense and tell me the truth. Didn’t you kidnap me and put me here?”

“……”

Kieren, who was suddenly suspected of being a kidnapper, let out a hollow laugh.

Meanwhile, the woman looked around the Black Forest and shuddered, “Ugh.”

“I hate this place! There’s no way I would have come to such an unpleasant place on my own. Absolutely.”

Seeing the thick blood flowing from the dead monsters, her already pale face became even paler.

“Ah, I can’t stand it. This place is too unpleasant…”

The woman suddenly jumped up.

It was when Kieren was about to get up following her.

Her slender body staggered and then collapsed.

Golden hair fluttered.

He caught her as she fell.

Even Kieren was a little surprised at that time.

Because a splendid floral fragrance flowed from the body he caught.

It was a clear floral fragrance even in the bloody smell of the Black Forest.

“Why aren’t my legs moving?”

The woman in Kieren’s arms was embarrassed.

She held onto Kieren and tried to move her legs one by one.

However, it seemed that she couldn’t put any strength into them properly.

She couldn’t stand up straight and kept staggering like a newborn fawn.

After struggling alone for a while, she looked up at Kieren with a tearful face.

“Um… Can you take me to a place with flowers and grass?”

Kieren, who had unintentionally been acting as a support, stared at her with an absurd look.

The woman looked surprised at Kieren’s gaze.

She asked cautiously with a worried face.

“Maybe you’re too weak to move me…?”

“…It’s not that I can’t.”

Kieren stopped talking and closed his lips.

He didn’t know where to start correcting this.

First of all, judging from her attitude, the woman seemed to have lost her memory.

Since she was suspicious in many ways, it seemed like a good idea to take her to the Serpent’s Castle [his family’s stronghold] and interrogate her.

It was difficult to make a clear judgment here right now.

He felt like his head had become a little strange because he had been in the Black Forest for a long time.

He would be able to think rationally if he got out of here.

Kieren looked down at the woman hanging on his arm.

“I will take you to a place with flowers.”

*Did the Serpent’s Castle have flowers?* he wondered.

Maybe there were some weeds…

He hugged the woman casually, thinking carelessly.

Perhaps the guys who were after Count Basilian and the master of the underworld had created the woman and sent her to him.

Using a beauty trap was common, but dropping her in the Black Forest was quite novel.

In any case, if he took her to the Serpent’s Castle and interrogated her properly, he would find out the details.

That was their first meeting, when he thought so and took the woman to the castle.

“……”

*I wish I had been a little kinder back then*, Kieren thought, smiling bitterly as he recalled himself threatening her in the past.

However, regretting the unchanging past would not change anything.

He erased the faint smile that had risen.

Kieren looked at the fairy in front of him and snapped his fingers.

The clear sound awakened the fairy bound by the chains of condemnation.

“…!”

The fairy was startled and raised her head.

Kieren smiled, meeting the gaze of the fairy’s slightly shaking eyes.

He approached the fairy with slow steps.

A wicked light swirled above his red eyes.

It was the moment he was about to use mind control on her.

The fairy opened her mouth first.

“Why…”

The fairy, who seemed to be struggling with the divine power, took a breath for a moment and continued speaking with a difficult voice.

“Why does a human have the Queen…?”