I’m a Villainess but So Popular

“If you die……I……”

At that moment, professors came running screaming from behind the dusty corridor.

“Oh, my God! What the–”

The professors, who came running with their capes fluttering, looked alternately at us, covered in dust and dead bodies of monsters lying on the floor.

When the professors suddenly ran, Cassius bit his lips and turned away from me.

“All six, let’s go to the infirmary first. We’ll hear about the situation later.”

We exchanged glances at each other, looking at each other in silence, and so we stepped toward the infirmary.

In the meantime, Cassius deliberately turned his back on me and said nothing.

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‘Yerine’

I opened my eyes to the vague voice of a child who was calling out my name.

“…….”

It was the dream again.

“Ha….”

Sighing, I rubbed my hands around the hot left eye. I don’t know how long this dream will come.

‘Is that boy really Cassius?’

My days have been full of unexpected things. Starting with a dream that lasted a few days ago, to an unknown monster that suddenly attacked the school.

Further questions that have not been answered there.

‘I’m sure there’s nothing like this in the original story.’

There was no such thing as that monster and the past involving Cassius was not described, at least in the part I read.

How the hell should I accept this situation?

While sitting on the bed and thinking, I heard a knock on my door.

“Who?”

“Yerine, it’s me. Astra.”

Outside came the voice of a slightly subdued Astra. Sitting on the bed, I ran straight and opened the door. Then there was a red-haired Astra standing in a cloak in the hallway. With a band-aid on her face, I glanced over her shining eyes with a smile on her face, and I smiled.

“Come in.”

Astra showed her teeth and responded with a broad smile.

“Thank you, Yerine.”

With Astra in the room, I turned my back from her for a moment and locked the door. Confirming that the door was locked well, I turned to her in the middle of the room and talked calmly.

“Yes, we still have a lot to talk about, right?”

As she stared at me with her hands clasped tightly, Astra asked me with an incomprehensible face.

“What is it, Yerine? Why do you suddenly use honorifics?”

“I would have let you in if you’d come in the way you were, but you did it because of the rules, right?”

I said indifferently with both hands on my waist.

“Isn’t that right, Cassius?”

I asked with narrow eyes.

Astra, ah no, Cassius, in the shape of Astra, scratched his head and frowned at my words.

“How the hell did you know?”

“Astra would have asked me once more, ‘Can I come in?’ before she came in.”

“Ha, yes, I suppose so…….”

Cassius sighed and pulled out a transparent vial from his black cloak.

“Wait a minute.”

Pulling the cap off the medicine bottle, he emptied the medicine into his mouth, and with it, his skin began to melt slowly.

.

A few minutes later, in my room stood Cassius, not Astra, and in the dark, the bright yellow eyes shone like a beast.

“Cassius.”

I called out his name as he stood in the dark and looked at the floor obliquely with half-closed eyes.

“Why, Yerine.”

It was a slightly weak voice. The energy that I normally felt when I called his name was all gone, although he still felt friendly but dry.

“You must be upset with me.”

“…..I’m not upset, it’s just…..”

“Then just what you want to talk about.”

“I’m coming to talk about it, but that’s not the priority.”

I didn’t think there would be anything more important than a conversation right after the confrontation with the monster.

“What? Then what comes first?”

At that remark, Cassius looked at me with a determined look and reached out his hand.

“Your shoulder, it must be hurt.”

“Ah.”

“You’ve got some rough treatment in the infirmary, but it won’t be as good as my healing magic.”

Only then did I understand. In fact, he could talk to me on another day about the monster thing, but he didn’t have to come to my room at night like this.

‘He was trying to heal me.….’

I’m a little touched without knowing why.

“Give it to me.”

“Uh… do I just have to stick my shoulder out like this?”

“Yes.”

As Cassius words, I extended the shoulder that had hit the floor towards him.

Soon after, from Cassius’s hand came a mass of bright yellow light, and a mass of warm light slowly wrapped around my shoulder.

But somehow the lumps of light melted into my shoulders. Usually, when Cassius used healing magic, the lump of light would melt into the wound and scatter gently.

Strangely enough, however, the blocks of light floated around the shoulders and were absorbed into the hands of Cassius.

“Huh?”

At the same time, we both looked blankly at the spot where the missing masses of light had been.

“You’re……you already healed.”

“Huh? I’m already healed?”

“If this happens, it means that there is no wound on your shoulder right now. Try to move it.”

As Cassius said, I turned my shoulder wide, but surprisingly I didn’t feel any pain like before.

“Oh, my God, I’m all better……….”

Looking at me, who was swirling my shoulders, Cassius opened his mouth and murmured.

“No, how did you……….”

Did it heal faster because I’m a wizard?

I just woke up for a few hours, but it was amazing that the wounds that were not completely healed in the infirmary were recovered.

“That’s a relief. I thought I wouldn’t be able to lift my arm for a few days.”

We talked in the dark, looking around with our arms raised.

But I didn’t notice that Cassius’s face was rapidly getting dark.

“Thanks, though. Thank you for coming all the way to my room~.”

“Even so, you shouldn’t have taken your life so lightly on the spot.”

A cold voice filled the room with cold air. When I lifted the eyes that were looking at my arm in amazement, I met Cassius, who looked at me with his yellow eyes.

“…someone had to stop it…..”

“We could’ve run away together. You didn’t have to fight and sacrifice for other people.”

“If the retreat was blocked, they could all die together.”

“You could have died too!”

Cassius said, sweeping his hair back and forth with one hand, seemingly frustrated.

“Yeah, maybe somebody should have stopped it. But it didn’t have to be you.”

“What I was able to do back then was- ”

“Yerine”

The low voice, which seemed to contain the boiling emotion inside, forced me to shut my mouth.

“Listen to me. Please.”

Cassius’s look at me with his eyes raised looked so distressed and painful.

At that moment, the image of the child in the dream quickly crossed my mind, and I was standing still, feeling my heart tightened.

“…no matter how much magic power you have, you could have died by that monster.”

“……”

“Can’t you cherish yourself a little more? I’m afraid you’ll keep giving up your life with the determination to save someone else.”

Cassius, who vented his own feelings in a low voice, showed more calm, yet intense feelings than ever before.

“Cassius….”

When I called his name, he looked straight at me with his wobbly eyes.

“Your caring for other people. I think it’s great. I like that side of you, but-”

His voice as he delivered the last word was clearly shaking.

“Every time I see you do that, it’s like, really, someone’s breaking my heart.”

I felt dazed as if I had been hit in the back of my head.

Because I am strong. It’s different from my previous life, where I couldn’t go out even though I had the ability.

Unconsciously, I thought I wouldn’t die and get hurt under any circumstances. So I thought I could come forward, and everything would be solved once I used magic.

I didn’t even notice that every time I stepped forward like that, I would be torn in the heart of someone who cherishes me.

“I know I’m sensitive. But it’s so hard.….”

Casius’ face, smiling with a gentle twitch of his eyes, resembled a child in a dream who was shedding beads of tears with his eyes wide open.

Coming near before I knew it, he slowly stretched out his long, thin fingers toward me. Cassius, who held me in his arms, hugged me as hard as if I would fly like a balloon and couldn’t catch me.

I could feel the touch of soft hair on my neck. A black cloak fluttered in front of me like the night sky.

“Ah…”

With a single sigh, we both fell on the bed.

The scent of anemone, unknown where it came from, tickled the tip of the nose.

Cassius’s whisper, unable to control his emotions, reached my ear.

“I’m sorry. You don’t know anything. Every time you get involved in something weird, I can’t do anything that can help.”

The shoulders of Cassius, whose face was buried at the scruff of my neck, were shaking.

“I’m sorry because I like you. But–”

Suddenly he raised his head, throwing up in a choking voice.

“Don’t go away from me.”

His eyes were filled with my figure, resembling a golden lake shining through the flowing black hair.

Even though tears resembling glass beads didn’t fall from his eyes that were more covered than the boy in the dream.

Why do those biting lips, the gently fluttering hair, and the black cloak that surrounds you, look really sad?

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