I’m a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 121

Translator : Missme

Editor : Aru

“Yerine could die……?”

Erica’s face turned white.

She wasn’t the only one.

Eugene, Rachel, Astra, and even Rayl all looked as if they had been hit in the head.

“No, then we couldn’t do that way.”

The only person who spoke out was Cassius.

“No. As long as not that.”

His golden eyes were as sharp as a predator seeking its prey.

It would be difficult for his eyes with warm sun colours to give off such cold energy.

The energy somehow made me speechless.

“There may be another way.”

He wasn’t getting angry.

What I could feel from his words was not anger and excitement.

It was a firmness resembling an unshakable rock.

“You’ve been saying that since a while ago. This place doesn’t exist in the human world, and the Crown Prince can’t come after us.”

“That’s right.”

The woman nodded her head gently at Cassius’s words.

“Well, can’t you just let us stay here until things calm down?”

Cassius poured out his words with a desperate face.

“If you need a price, I’ll do anything, please.”

Biting his lips quietly, he tried to bow to the woman, but she clapped her hands to stop him.

“No, anyway……..”

A shadow fell on the face of the woman.

Dark and gloomy shadows.

“You couldn’t stay here forever.”

The woman, who hesitated to answer for a while, opened her mouth and said.

“People who don’t belong here can’t stay here for more than a certain period of time. If you stay longer, you will disappear.”

Rachel asked what she said.

“Then how much longer can we stay here?”

“About five hours based on human time. You have to go out before that.”

Five hours.

It was a very tight time to come up with another way.

In just five hours, we’ll have to face Iker and those terrible monsters again.

“May I have a rough idea of what’s going on in the Academy?”

He asked the woman in a subdued voice.

“Before making a judgment, I want to know a little about the situation in the human world.”

The woman who was listening to me without moving her head nodded and answered.

“Then, I’ll show you.”

She brought her blurry curtain a little closer to me.

The membrane, which had earlier joined together and showed a terrible monster becoming a mass, began to twist in a whirlpool.

When the vortex stopped and the membrane returned to its original size and shape, a different scene unfolded inside the old building.

“This is…….”

It was a situation inside the walls of the Academy.

Iker, who seemed to take complete control, was floating in the air with the monster.

Under his feet, professors and students who seemed to have been caught were kneeling in a row.

The surrounding area was full of blood.

There seemed to be too many people moaning from injuries.

“Oh, my God…….”

Rachel, who was looking into the curtain together, said in a voice that was heavily criticized.

It wasn’t just people who got hurt.

I couldn’t bear to open my eyes, but there was already a body that was hit by a monster.

Astra eventually couldn’t resist and turned her head away.

Rayl bowed his head silently, and Eugene and Cassius looked stiff and stared at the curtain.

“Guys.”

It was Erica who broke the silence.

She shouted, pointing her trembling finger at a corner of the membrane.

“Look, isn’t that Professor Frain?”

I was so caught up in what she said that I looked closely at where Erica was pointing.

Indeed, as she said, a person who looked like Professor Frain was sitting on her knees bleeding.

“Tha, that’s right……”

“I think it’s right!”

“Good thing, she’s alive!”

I barely breathed out my breath with my hands on my pounding chest.

How anxious I was to find out that she had not been able to come here where the woman said we were safe.

I’m afraid she’d be horribly beaten by a monster that was coming in like a black wave.

“But the fact that professors are like that right now…….”

Everyone shut up at Astra’s words.

In the end, it meant that the Academy failed to defend.

‘In fact, the defence was a failure from the moment Iker was able to teleport into the Academy.’

Taking complete control of the Academy, he will kill a man with a lot of mana first and take his mana away.

Urging his men to find me.

Threatening the kneeling people to give me up.

You trampled on so many lives to get me.

‘I can’t just stay still like this.’

If I don’t stop him, the slaughter will continue, and the scale will expand further.

‘If I don’t keep showing up, or if I don’t do anything…….’

It seemed that someone was weighing my chest with a heavy stone.

I was suffocated by the thought that someone else, who might have greeted me passing through the school hallway, might die because of me doing nothing because I’m too scared.

If I stay still like this, people like Cassius, Eugene, and Erica might also lose their lives.

The most precious relationships I’ve ever had in this world.

‘No, let’s get a hold of myself.’

I was not reluctant, but I made up my mind to think rationally and brought it up.

“Well, you said I could die if we used my eyes, right?”

When I opened my heavy mouth, the woman and Cassius looked back at me.

There was anxiety in Cassius’s eyes looking at me.

Somehow a corner of my chest hurt, but I couldn’t stay still.

“That means I might not die if we use this method, right?”

Her red eyes stared at me still.

Even if it seemed like there was no emotion, it was an eye that showed hesitation.

It was also an eye that showed subtle sadness.

“That’s right.”

“Do you know how to avoid dying as much as possible?”

“Yeah.”

It was a short and concise answer without shaking.

I had already experienced death once, but it was not that I was not afraid of death.

If it had been a way that forced me to die unconditionally, I would not have had the courage to bring this up.

‘But if there’s a chance of surviving, it might be worth trying.’

I clenched my collar and thought to myself.

If there’s a way to save everyone here, and if there is a way I can live too.

Even if I could die, if this was the only way, I would choose this option.

“Then, tell me. What should I do?”

Then Cassius, who was looking at me shaking his hands, shook his head.

“Yerine, no. Not this one.”

I rose from my chair and smiled slightly at him as he was about to rush at me.

“Cassius, it’s okay.”

“What’s okay with you?”

His eyes were shaking.

My heart ached at his fluttering eyes that look like the moon reflected on the surface of the sea where the waves hit.

“We’ve talked about it countless times. Why do you always have to hurt yourself? And now, being hurt is not enough, but dying?”

A cracked voice filled the forest.

I was moved to tears when I saw blood on his neck set up, which would have dried up and cracked due to repeated battles and fatigue.

If I didn’t bite my lips hard at that moment, I might have shed tears without realizing it.

“Cassius, she’s going to let us know the way to avoid death, so listen.”

I said, trying hard to push something protruding into my throat.

I tried to speak as calmly as I could, pretending to be okay.

I’m not sure if it worked.

“I’m just going to listen, so that’s okay.”

As soon as I finished speaking, I encountered his tearful golden eyes.

Cassius, who was looking at me with his eyes, hugged me in his arms.

I was suffocated by both arms hugging me as if he never wanted to let me go.

“Cassius.”

I called his name from the bottom of my heart.

It was a lovely and sentimental echo.

I can’t forget it even if I die.

“No.”

A big thick hand covered my ears.

As soon as the hand containing the familiar warmth covered my ears, tears blurred my eyes slightly.

“Please don’t listen.”

I could tell what he was saying by his mouth.

And without words, I could see how desperate he was.

“You’re going to say it’s okay and then you’re gone.”

A transparent liquid flowed out of the eyes that resembled the sun shining brightly.

I could see the transparent tears flowing down his cheeks falling to the floor.

“Cassius……”

I gently swept his hands, covering my ears.

Nevertheless, he did not think about removing his shaky hands.

He tried to stop me, swallowing his tears, tearing his lips out.

My heart ached at the sight of him.

I felt sorry for the overlapping faces that cried while looking down at me as a child.

“Don’t cry.”

I reached out my hand and wiped away the tears flowing from his golden eyes.

Perhaps because it flowed out of the sun-like eyes, I felt warm in his tears.

When I came to my senses, the same thing was coming out of my eyes.

‘I told you not to cry, but I’m crying.’

There was a despondent laugh.

I could feel the salty taste from the tears flowing through my cheeks.

The taste is bitter enough.

“Please put your hand away.”

I said in a voice full of tears.

“I want to hear your voice…….”

Only then did the hand covering the ear falls off.

“Yerine….”

The most lovely person in the world was calling out my name.

I just had to survive without dying.

If I learn how not to die well and survive, I will be able to hear his voice that I love so much again.

It was simple. It wasn’t like I couldn’t hear his voice forever.

Nevertheless, I shed tears over his mournful and soft voice.

“Cassius.”

My son, my light.

I opened my mouth that couldn’t fall off and burst into tears.

“I’ll be right back.”

I fainted at his back hugging me tightly.

The sound of crying calmed down, and I lost strength in my arms.

However, even in unconsciousness, he could not let go of me, and the tips of his fingers were intertwined.

“I’m sorry.”

I said while stroking his back.

Hot tears ran through the tightly closed eyes.

My most lovely person.

My love.

‘For a moment, bye.’

I said goodbye to the golden eyes that I might never see again.

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