Just Because I Have Narrow Eyes Doesn’t Make Me a Villain! - Chapter 135

TN: Thank James Baily for the chapter.

“You know, Arte. This might sound a bit strange to say, but…I feel like I should go in there and…”

I need you with me

How could I ask Arte for that?

Even I thought it was an absurd thing to say.

I glanced at my side.

Thanks to her first aid, the bleeding had stopped, but the white threads dyed bright red seemed to indicate the severity of the injury.

Even I think it’s ridiculous.

But there was no other way, and I desperately needed Arte’s help to increase the chances of success.

Because with her, we could easily block the attacks the monster desperately unleashed to survive.

But how do I convince her…

“Alright. What should I do?”

“…Huh?”

“Should I cut off its arms? Or create a wall for you?”

Arte looked at me with a bright smile as if telling me to just say it, leaving me dumbfounded.

I thought it would be difficult to persuade her.

I had been pondering for a long time, thinking about what I should say to get Arte to help me.

As if to say such worries were pointless, she smiled brightly.

“…Are you sure about this?”

“Whether you allowed it or not, I never intended to leave from the beginning.”

“Why…?”

I was puzzled.

Because until now, Arte had been relying on me a lot, to the point of feeling anxious without me, with severe anxiety symptoms.

But when I declared I would enter a dangerous place, she said she had planned to join.

Just as I was feeling confused by Arte’s behavior that was completely different from her usual self…

Arte chuckled and said to me.

“Because I trust you.”

“…You trust me?”

“Yes, I trust you.”

Trust.

That was why she didn’t stop me from willingly walking into a dangerous place.

Arte said so.

“It will definitely be dangerous. Going through that, it’s absurd.”

Arte looked at the figure, randomly attacking its surroundings as if it couldn’t see anything.

“It seems confused with the newly sprouted head. Forget getting close, just going near it. You might get sliced by a blind attack.”

Even as she spoke such brutal words, Arte looked at me without losing her smile.

“But I’m not worried.”

That appearance.

Her smile was so beautiful.

I unconsciously had my gaze stolen.

“No matter what happens, Siwoo will eventually be with me… Right?”

Arte smiled, showing the bracelet on her hand.

Her gently smiling appearance and the trust she showed me.

As if enchanted by Arte’s appearance, I nodded my head.

“Alright. What should I do?”

“When I rush in there, provide cover fire.”

“A simple but difficult order.”

“…Haha, sorry.”

“No need to apologize. I have something I want to pay back to that thing.”

Arte’s attitude had changed a lot.

…Should I say she became more uninhibited?

A feeling of crossing a line.

It wasn’t just me who felt that way; Dorothy also looked at Arte with a dazed expression.

“…Come to think of it, is this the first time Siwoo and I are cooperating like this?”

“Huh?… Is it?”

“From what I remember, yes.”

Recalling my memory at her words, it was true.

Even though we had gone through countless incidents and accidents, Arte and I had never fought on the same side.

Because she was always going off to do something.

In battles with event tendencies, we were always on opposite sides.

…I see. This is the first time we’re fighting together.

“This might sound a bit awkward to say, but… Somehow, I’m happy.”

I turned my head away, embarrassed by Arte’s words as she spoke with a slightly flushed face.

Seeing that, Dorothy intervened, raising her hand as if to apologize to us.

“… I’m sorry to interrupt while you’re flirting, but that thing is running away.”

“Ah.”

Come to think of it, we were talking about somehow dealing with that.

I had wasted time without realizing it, and the girl, who had grown a bit in size and could no longer be recognized as human, was far away.

“Alright, Dorothy. I’m counting on you.”

“Yes. I hope you come back alive and continue this scene before me.”

“In front of you…? That’s a bit…”

As if it were a normal, casual task…

I, who had finished the conversation as if I were going to handle a light task, gradually approached the girl.

To put an end to this story.

The place where the abilities that the girl wildly slung around are raging.

As I stepped into the area overran by disasters, a terrible headache began as Dorothy’s enhancement had been applied.

But I didn’t stop.

If I stop here, I’ll die horribly.

For Arte’s sake, I couldn’t die in a place like this.

As I stepped forward, blind flames, wildly swinging arms, and sharp ice flew toward me.

But I didn’t dodge and moved forward. I was certain they would disappear before reaching me.

The ice shattered, and fragments flew, so I moved one step to the left.

Then, the fragments instantly lodged where I was originally standing.

Arte used threads to protect me, but they accidentally flew in as the trajectory twisted.

I could see her face stiffening and sighing as if she didn’t expect this to happen.

No, not see.

I could tell.

I moved forward without stopping, along with the throbbing headache.

Countless attacks flew towards me, but none of them could hurt me.

With Dorothy’s enhancement, it’s only natural to say that even if a god descended, they wouldn’t be able to hurt me.

Perhaps realizing I was slowly approaching, the monster roared and tried to attack me, but it was meaningless.

It was meaningless even when it threw attacks at random and attacked recklessly as if it had somehow noticed that all its movements were being read.

Because I knew everything.

How that monster would move.

The direction of the attack, the method of the attack.

Even if it couldn’t grasp it itself, I could tell.

That was my ability.

This was the pinnacle of my ability.

“I’m sorry.”

I apologized to the monster, no,

To the girl who had lost a loved one and gone mad.

If I hadn’t been able to protect Arte, I might have ended up like this girl.

Although I felt sorry, I had to stop her.

Before receiving Dorothy’s enhancement, I didn’t understand why I had to do it, but…

Now, I could clearly understand.

I could tell.

To permanently remove the Author from this world.

To do that, I had to defeat the girl.

“Grrr…?!”

Feeling a threat to her safety, the girl attempted an extreme choice.

The monster that had injured me.

The one closely attached to the girl met its end at the girl’s hands.

Yes, you will absorb that monster after that.

You will try to stop me with your enhanced strength.

But such actions are meaningless.

You can’t stop me or surprise me.

A large mouth suddenly sprouted from the transformed arm, trying to bite me, but I easily dodged it since I already knew.

After seeing that, Dorothy will mutter.

“The attacks seem to be avoiding Siwoo…”

Left, up, below, and a tail popping out. Above, below, right, right, left, right, head-on.

I could tell all the attacks pouring in at a fleeting moment.

Despite the throbbing headache and aching side, I dodged all of the girl’s attacks.

And now.

The girl will stop her attack and jump back to create a large distance.

Timing it, I jumped into her arms.

Slow enough for her not to counter-attack immediately.

But fast enough to catch up to the girl.

By the time she realized I had jumped in with her without any intention of dodging her attacks, it was already too late.

My sword had carved out the girl’s chest.

“Ugh…?!”

“…”

The monster that didn’t die even when its head was cut off.

The death of such a monster was so simple that it felt anticlimactic.

Because the moment I ripped out the heart–the Crucible–from the chest carved out by the sword, it collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut.

…Perhaps it’s a death out of the Author’s expectation.

That wasn’t the important thing.

Because it’s not the end just by killing this girl.

The cause of this world becoming like this.

The reason Arte entered this world.

The mastermind who wanted to plunge the world into chaos was still here.

Right now.

Now, when that thing is being most careless.

Now was the chance to cut off that thing from this world.

“A-Amazing…! Are you hurt anywhere…?!”

“Arte, I’m sorry.”

So, without sheathing my sword dripping with blood, I pointed it at the person I love.

“Huh?! …Huh?! Wai-Wait a moment! Was there something strange…?! Like mind control?!”

“…No. Stay still, Dorothy.”

“What?! But…!”

Dorothy looked at me with a flustered expression, unable to grasp the intent behind my actions.

It was obvious she was thinking that I might have been affected by something before dying.

But Arte looked at me and smiled.

“Alright. Do as you wish.”

“…Are you really okay with it?”

“I told you earlier, didn’t I? I trust you, Siwoo.”

With the most beautiful smile I had ever seen.

“I will even give you my heart.”

Translator’s Corner

This is gonna give me diabetes.

-Ruminas