My Villains Episode 235
48. Artist (2)
My heart is stuffy and I can’t breathe.
because of regret I regret that I should have talked a little more and hugged her tightly.
The black disc, or the gateway to the dream, did not allow me time to suffer or reflect on my short meeting with Jiwon.
Unlike previous dreams in which I had passed through the gateway at the forefront, this time I was the last to step out.
As soon as he landed on the flagstone floor, he habitually looked around.
After the calming sound of the waves, a cool breeze brushed my ears. Next, a familiar landscape came into view.
The waning old moon The night sea glittering as if glass pieces were sprinkled The castle, some of which have been destroyed and others that have been scorched black, Temporary lighthouses emitting bright lights Street stalls covered with cloth.
The place where I used to wander every dawn, drool, engulfed in desire in the darkness deep in my heart…
“This is South Harbor.”
“…that’s right.”
Just as Utequai was about to say something, a small figure jumped out of the shadows between the stalls.
“trunnion!”
A large cone-shaped hat, a puffy robe, hair like golden wool, and a jewel-studded interior. A girl so beautiful that the darkness recedes.
“……Ellen!”
Ellen jumped straight at me and I immediately hugged the guy who was digging into my arms.
“Poi”
“Ellen. Sorry, are you late?”
Yep. late.”
Ellen’s voice was full of moisture.
“Sorry.”
“no. It’s okay because I came.”
Joy and relief surged at the reunion with Ellen, which was finally achieved, and the emotions intensified by the meeting with Jiwon were added.
Strength enters the arms that embrace the trembling shoulders and slender back.
“Uh can you breathe.”
“Oh sorry. How long have you been waiting?”
“I don’t know exactly. It seems like I’ve been waiting for several days, and it seems like less than an hour…
Ellen, who was hanging with her arms wrapped around my neck, buried her face in my chest for a long time. I gently stroked his head until he calmed down. The scent of lime, which I have not smelled in a long time, calms my simmering heart.
“You have to move.”
Heyla, who had been looking around with calm eyes, spoke softly.
“You never know when this dream will collapse.”
“…This dream too?”
At those words, Ellen raised her head slightly. My eyelids are puffy from so many tears.
“What do you mean by that?”
“Um, that’s it.”
He told me that this is a world of dreams built on the basis of our nightmares or bad memories, that I had already crossed the gates of dreams seven times, and that most of the dreams that had passed had ended in collapse.
Even while the short explanation continued, Ellen was held in my arms the whole time. It seems that he has no intention of leaving me at all.
Mungji, who had been looking at the scene of South Harbor with curious eyes, was hovering around me and Ellen before I knew it. In the meantime, I glanced at Ellen with envious eyes…
but I’m sorry, Moongchi. For now, the priority is to appease Ellen.
“…I guess that’s how the dream estate was built.”
Recalling Kelsenne’s words from my explanation, Ellen let out a drool. Then, all of a sudden, he turned his head.
“By the way”
The guy’s blue eyes were directed at none other than Heila.
“Why do you feel the magic? It hasn’t been long since I took the potion.”
“Poi treated me.”
Heila, who received her gaze, touched the gloves of the Milky Way that were divided between her hands and continued her conversation.
“The potion of magic suppression ran out of effect during the treatment process.”
“……what?”
I shrugged when Ellen turned her head in my direction.
“Heyla was badly injured, so I treated her, and somehow her magic was restored as a side effect.”
“What kind of treatment did you have?”
“Blood transfusion. It’s the method you used when you were beaten by Luke, don’t you remember?”
“Did you do the same to that woman?”
“Ugh” “Huh*
“No, that’s…
Ellen, who had been biting her lips for a while, asked a question with a stiff face.
“At that time, it was an urgent situation, so wasn’t it written as an improvisation?”
“Oh right. It was an emergency this time too. Heyla’s injury is so bad,”
Ellen snapped angrily before I could finish.
“But you are a blood mage. The treatment of pouring blood can’t be good for you.”
“You say the same thing as Heila. Don’t worry, I’m perfectly fine.”
“But…
the guy slurred and bit his lower lip. Then he glanced back at Heila.
“So you’re leaving her alone?”
“…Uh then?”
“I don’t have any potions right now, so I’ll have to take the tools and tie them up.”
“O uh……”
— rg.
He glanced over at Heila. She had an expressionless face. Her eyes were the same as usual, making it difficult to grasp her inner thoughts.
But one thing was certain: that expressionless expression did not mean apathy. Heila was not good at expressing herself, but she knew how to feel emotions like everyone else.
While he was concerned about Heila’s feelings, Ellen’s attitude was understandable.
He witnessed Haila’s massacre in Longville and was kidnapped by her. It’s strange if there’s no hostility. I glanced around at the group, and there seemed to be no sign of any of them leaving.
Utequai was watching the situation with his arms folded, Moongch was looking at me with twinkling eyes, and Cole was scanning the unfamiliar port city with wary eyes.
In the end, as expected, I was the only one who could rectify this situation.
“Um, Ellen. Heyla, you don’t have to worry.”
“…what does that mean?”
“So that means there won’t be anything like the last time.” I said ‘right?’ Heyla stared at Ellen and nodded slowly.
Ellen, who was looking at the two of us alternately, let out a blank laugh as if it were absurd.
“Ha do you believe that?”
“Then we made an oath and solved the misunderstandings with each other through conversation
.”
“…huh. So to speak.”
When Ellen’s face contorted, I quickly added my words.
“Of course, if you really want to, you can do as you say. But I hope not.”
“why?”
“Uh, hey…
Utequai, the man I choose my words for, interrupted.
“It’s about making a traitor.”
“…What are you talking about?”
“Your words and attitude make a renegade thief.”
As Ellen narrowed her eyes, Utequai crossed her arms and continued talking.
“Heila, I know it’s dangerous. As a warrior, be suspicious and wary. Suspicion and vigilance are important to the warrior.”
“…however?”
“Phoenix is different. He is a warrior and a boss.”
I always feel that Utequai must be quite a talker.
“I suspect and suppress a bunch of bad bosses. Those who are not trusted become betrayers and thieves.”
Of course, the Milanese language is a bit clumsy, but it wasn’t too difficult to understand the meaning thanks to the clear pronunciation and neat speech. It was a skill that did not suit a berserker.
“A good leader hides suspicion and vigilance. Shows faith and the way. Those who receive trust become subordinates and become warriors.”
“…so you have to trust Heila?”
“right. If you can’t trust them, you have to drive them out or kill them. do you want that?”
Ellen only pouted at Utequai’s gloomy gaze. Judging by the look on his face, it seems that the finishing touches are mine.
“Ellen.”
Oh, O”
as I whispered softly through his hair, the fluff that grew out of his cute ears stood up.
“There will be nothing to worry about. I’ll bet you.”
As if his ears were itchy, he shrugged his shoulders and buried his face in my chest muttering, ‘Do whatever you want’.
Because it’s so cute
After somehow resolving the conflict, he comforted Ellen. And I carefully brought out the doubt that I had been harboring for a while.
“By the way, Ellen.”
“huh.”
“Why South Harbor?”
“……What is it?”
“So, your dream.”
Did you not understand what I was saying? Ellen made no reply.
“Should I say that the dream of Heyla or Atalanta Utequai is the next home? That kind of place was the background.
So I thought, of course, that your dream would be Tirin Mel or the Palace of La Palais.”
After hesitating for a moment, the boy brought out his guess.
“…Maybe it’s because this is a space related to dreams?”
“What are you talking about?”
“You said it every time. I meditate a lot, so I don’t have many dreams. That’s why the Dream Mansion must have been constructed differently from others.”
“is it? But you also have few normal dreams, don’t you sometimes have nightmares?”
“That’s right, but…
Ellen, who was speechless, immediately frowned.
“I don’t know. The vampire who created the dream manor would know. And this is a quasi-dimension that is affected by the illusion world.”
“Oh, that’s right.”
“It is not strange that there is no regularity in the action of the phantom world, so why ask such a thing?”
I pinched his cheek while letting out a smirk at the expression that seemed to have a heartache or a straight face.
“Oh no-”
“Won’t you speak nicely?”
“Ah ah ah ah”
“I’m dying of hate for being elated by believing only in a pretty face.”
“Don’t say this strange thing!”
After shaking off my hand, Ellen blushed and screamed. It wasn’t a cute look.
Meanwhile, apart from what he said, I could roughly guess why El Ren’s dream was this place.
Probably because I was stabbed with a guard’s spear the day I first arrived in South Harbor. At that time, he also lost one of his master’s mementos, the ‘West Wind Baton’, so it was no wonder that it remained as a nightmare.
However, comparing that time and this dream, there were several differences.
It was daytime then, but this dream is nighttime. The existence of a temporary lighthouse or an old turret built after a creeping dragon or underground lord ran amok… Well, it
was ridiculous to question such a difference, as Ellen said. Because this is a quasi-dimensional circle that is affected by illusions.
“Eh”
It was then. Munchchi, who had been looking at me almost with tears in his eyes, suddenly opened his eyes wide and turned his head toward the market.
“…is it a bunch?”
“Someone is coming.”
Hearing his words, I quickly put my senses together, but it was in vain. It was because the presence of people from far beyond the market was heard loud enough for anyone to hear.
trudge trudge.
“It sounds like footsteps.”
As Cole said, there was a sound as if someone was moving weakly. The party naturally raised their weapons and stood on alert, saying
“…no.”
Ellen, who was held in my arms, became contemplative and muttered something.
“This is not okay.”
“Ellen?”
Ellen shuddered and stuttered with a terrified face.
“I have to go quickly!”
“Where are you going?”
“Uh huh.”
Looking around, Ellen struggled to get out of my arms.
“Ellen, what are you doing!”
As if he couldn’t hear my voice, he took a wand out of his pocket and started chanting like a rapid-fire cannon.
“- Gelidus ventus ostende te!”
A vibration spread from the tip of the gray wand. Then, cold air gathered and began to freeze the air around it.
“Viotus bestial,”
Ellen swung the wand as she spat out her last word. Then jjoong! With a roar, a white figure appeared as if it had come out of a wand.
Krrr.
The monster of frost and snow growled ferociously. It was a ‘frost
beast
‘ summoned with a 2nd rank cold spell.
trudge trudge.
Footsteps sounded again.
“It!”
At Ellen’s desperate cry, the Frostbeast kicked the ground.
The monster flapped its icy wings and leaped four to five meters at a time, disappearing in an instant in the direction it was heard.
“Follow me!”
After leaving the Frostbeast, Ellen grabbed my wrist and started running along a pier.
I wanted to ask what was going on, but the fear, anxiety, and desperation I felt from Ellen blocked my questioning.
“Can we keep going like this?”
“That’s right.”
He picked Ellen up from behind and ran at full speed.
Having learned a lesson through many dreams, Ji and his party were running after us rather than trying to figure out the situation. It was a wise decision.
At that time
, “Ah ah-”
I heard a beautiful singing voice like that of a soprano.
”AA AA AA-!”
A sad voice and a strange tune that suited it so well.
It was a magical singing voice that gripped the ankles tightly.
“Do not look back!”
After desperately shouting, Ellen cast another spell.
“Ventum av~em”
is a familiar spell. It must be summoning the ‘spirit of dance’.
“Saltare!”
oh oh
The spirit of the dance, which split into two lines, threw itself to the left and right of the pier and raised a whirlpool of spray.
“AA AA AA. iced coffee-!” The singing voice rushed to its climax. Even though they were running with all their might, the pier was seldom in sight.
“…uh.”
isn’t it? Am I running right now? It seems like I’m just standing still and listening to the song.
Meanwhile, Ellen was casting her third incantation. This time, it is an order that I am not familiar with.
“Lumfere!”
As the blazing fireballs flew overhead, I finally turned around, drawn by the song.
“Ah ah ah ah/”
There was a woman standing far away. The beautiful silhouette of her voluminous hair and bewitching body takes my breath away
.
Quaang!
Fireballs exploded in the air.
For some reason, the frost beast Ellen had summoned was caught in the explosion and the mountain was shattered.
Just in time, the vortices created by the dancing spirits were also crossing on the pier. Thanks to that, the explosion of the fireball swallowed even the spray.
Chii Yiyi.
Due to the heat of the explosion, a stream of water gushing out into the air boiled violently.
“Lumfere!”
A second fireball exploded.
Again, the water boiled with a ‘chiiik’ sound, and the vision became blurred as if there was a water mist…
“Get your senses, you idiot!”
“Heo-eok X-arm.”
I woke up in a panic at Ellen’s shouting.
“What the hell is that?”
“For once, jump, please!”
I quickly turned around to see Utequai staggering and straightening himself in the thick of steam.
Mungchi and Cole were tumbling on the pier, distraught, and Heila screamed as she clung to their ankles.
“We have to get away before the song starts again!”
At that, Utequai slapped himself across the face. Then, he slung the wad and the call over his shoulders and started running again.
“Faster!”
While me and Utequai Heila ran at full speed, Ellen in my arms fired a series of spells towards the back.
hold on for a while
We finally reached the end of the pier and found a black disc floating on the sea.
“Go first!”
“It’s not okay! Wait a minute-”
Ellen shouted urgently, but I tossed him over the dream gate.
“Utequai hurry up!”
“I am going right now!”
Utequai, who came running like a bull with a wad and a kohl, stomped his feet so that the pier would go out and flew up, disappearing into the black disk at once.
“Huh-uh-”
“Heila!”
Finally, Heila was running sluggishly, panting as if she would run out of breath at any moment.
“No, are you going to die from running a little bit?”
Health is 21, not 11?
I quickly ran over and grabbed her as if snatching her away.
Hela, slumped over my arm, panted and muttered, ‘I’m not good at this’.
So what are you good at? I wanted to ask, but the song started again, so I clench my teeth and play with my legs.
“Ah ah ah ah ah.
The voice that I already felt familiar after hearing it several times sang in a lyrical tune this time.
I’m not familiar with music, but somehow in that song… I felt longing and unreasonable emotions.
“Just once, just once,
I wanted to turn my head to the mournful song, but I bit my lip to the point of bleeding and came to my senses.
And finally, I jumped into the gateway of dreams. Unlike before, I saw a dim light beyond the dark passage.
