I Became a Dark Fantasy Villain

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What actually scares me is….

She swallowed the rest of that sentence. Ian licked his lips as he watched her.

“There’s that expression again. How long are you gonna be like that?”

“I told you, let’s just spend our time comfortably, okay? Hmm?”

Miguel raised his eyebrows toward the back.

Ian frowned.

“Don’t make that face again. Especially not in front of the kid.”

“What? My face looks friendly enough, doesn’t it? At least to me.”

“Maybe to thieves.”

Hearing their conversation, Luci suppressed the corners of her lips that tried to curl up.

She also completely subdued the spreading feeling in her chest toward them.

It wasn’t difficult, as she had done it her whole life.

‘This is right.’

Luci whispered to herself.

If she were to like them more than now, great misfortune would surely befall her.

Just as it had with all the other people she had liked.

The valley slope gradually became gentler.

The surroundings had now changed to resemble a gorge rather than a valley.

“…Is that a cave?”

Miguel suddenly blurted out.

In the middle of the slope, a huge crack in the rocks was draped in rugged darkness.

“Yeah. That’s probably the nest of those spiders….”

Ian, who had been murmuring while glaring at the cave, suddenly clicked his tongue.

His pupils quivered like ripples.

“…How much longer until we get through this valley?”

“We still haven’t reached the peak. We’ll probably have to keep moving until late dawn. It’s more dangerous downhill for the horses too.”

“What if a chase like earlier happens again?”

“The horses won’t be able to take it. At least not tonight. If their legs get broken going downhill, there’s nothing more to say. Then why did you suddenly… Ask that?”

“It seems the queen didn’t give up on us.”

Without taking his eyes off the cave, Ian added.

Luci couldn’t even imagine what he was seeing now.

The color vanished from Miguel’s face.

“S-so… she’ll chase us again?”

“Probably. …Can’t be helped.”

Ian clicked his tongue and stood up.

Facing Miguel, he said.

“Wait here quietly.”

“…You’re going in alone?”

“Then do you wanna come with me?”

“No, I’d just get in your way… And someone has to watch the wagon.”

With a snort as if he knew Miguel would say that, Ian immediately leapt off.

The wind whipped by again.

Ian, who dashed up the valley like a flying squirrel, disappeared into the rock crevice in a flash.

“Good grief, just traveling with that guy feels like you need ten lives….”

While setting up torches around the wagon, Miguel mumbled to himself.

After gathering and wedging several rocks around the wheels, he finally climbed back onto the driver’s seat.

“But still, watching him do things like that makes me wanna keep following him. It’s pretty amazing. Right?”

“It’s fascinating. And awesome.”

Luci nodded her head.

Miguel grinned slyly.

A criminal-like smile.

“Right? Can’t talk about it with anyone else, they wouldn’t believe it. But that guy pulls things like this off like it’s nothing. To me it looks like that cave will be done with any minute-”

Crumble- Screech- Screeeeeech-!

Then a loud roar and screams echoed from beyond the cave.

Miguel, after looking around the cave, met Luci’s eyes again and shrugged his shoulders.

“…It’s going to be a mess in there. Good thing we didn’t follow. It must be a sight you can’t stand with a sane mind. It was like that before, too.”

“I’m curious though.”

“I thought so too before I experienced it.”

A faint smile crept onto Luci’s lips.

Miguel stroked his scar.

“Look at that. You look nice when you smile…”

Swish- Swish-

At the sudden sound of wind, the smile disappeared from Miguel’s face.

He quickly picked up his crossbow and got up.

“Shit… Luci, get down.”

Luci hunched down in the cart.

Swish- Swish swish swish-

Miguel, moving his gaze here and there at the sound of wind echoing all around, suddenly frowned.

It was because he discovered a spider rushing down the slope.

It was a cave spider whose body was halfway burned.

It was one of the ones attacked by Ian earlier.

Without knowing that the shock back then had freed it from the queen’s control, Miguel aimed his crossbow at it.

It was the next moment that the thing slipped down the middle of the slope and jumped up without warning.

“……!”

Miguel holding his breath raised his crossbow.

Swish, followed by sharp blasts.

Boom- Keeyaak-!

The thing that was charging tumbled down.

Miguel immediately put down his crossbow and picked up a torch, laughing.

“See that. My aim is good enough when I try-“

It was then that a black shadow sprang up behind him.

Another cave spider that had been quietly approaching from the opposite side.

When Miguel turned his head after sensing its presence, it was already rushing up close to him.

“Woa…!?”

Miguel, pinned down by it, swung the torch instinctively.

Keeit- Kyaak-!

The cave spider dodged the flames.

The horses neighed and the carriage rumbled.

“This crazy spider……!”

While slashing its legs away, Miguel fumbled to grab his axe.

Luci, about to stand up to help him, shuddered for a moment.

Yet another spider was already approaching the slope on the opposite side.

At this rate Miguel would die.

Fear finally filled Luci’s eyes.

‘Is it because I opened my heart…? Is it my fault again?’

Without even a moment to collect herself, another spider leapt up.

Luci’s heart pounded as if it would burst as she looked up at it.

For an instant, everything seemed to move slowly.

A strange sensation. She had felt it from time to time before, but like her other emotions, she had always suppressed it tightly.

But this time she didn’t.

Whoosh- Whoosh-

The flames of torches seemed to get sucked towards Luci every time she inhaled and exhaled.

Luci reached out her hand.

An act carried out almost instinctively.

Kwaaaah-

The flames of the torches responded by bursting out altogether as if to meet her gesture.

Keeyak-!

The spider turned into a fireball, dropped down.

Although it writhed on the ground, the flames did not die out even after reducing it to a lump of charcoal.

“…….”

Luci’s gaze turned to Miguel who was entangled with another spider behind him.

The flames surged towards them again like waves.

Keeit- Kiaah-

Although the spider jerked away in panic, it was useless.

The flames instantly engulfed it.

The disgusting smell of burning flesh.

“……!”

It was then that Luci snapped out of it.

The torches that were blazing towards her gently weakened.

All that remained were the corpses of two spiders burnt to charcoal.

Thud, strength seeped out of Luci as she slumped down. Her legs couldn’t support her weight.

Miguel, who was sprawled on the ground blinking vacantly, soon looked up at Luci and burst into laughter.

“Uhaha! You crazy witch!”

He threw away the torch and ran up to give Luci a big hug.

“You saved me! This time I really thought I was done for! You saved me! Uhaha!”

He hopped around holding Luci.

Dangling limply, the semi-conscious Luci eventually opened her mouth.

“Miguel. Ca…n’t breathe.”

“Huh? Oh right. Can’t suffocate my savior to death.”

Miguel put Luci down, beaming.

“What happened? Huh? Can you use magic now?”

“……Don’t know.”

Luci mumbled weakly.

She didn’t feel any of the sense of crisis, anger or sensation from before now at all.

“I don’t think I can do it anymore.”

“Who cares. It doesn’t matter. The fact that you saved me remains unchanged.”

Miguel ruffled Luci’s hair vigorously as he spoke.

Luci wrinkled her nose a little but said nothing.

He seemed quite delighted to have cheated death after all.

In fact, she didn’t completely hate it either.

Keeaaaaaaa-

A scream as if ripping apart echoed from beyond the cave soon after.

Miguel and Luci looked at the cave at the same time.

Followed by a meaningful silence.

After a while, a blurry figure stumbled out of the cave, staggering.

He slid down the slope.

Only then Miguel heaved a sigh of relief and laughed as if nothing had happened, getting up.

“Bro! You finished off that monster?”

“Yeah.”

Ian answered in an exhausted voice as he approached the carriage.

“…It looks like there was trouble here as well.”

He was drenched in fluids and filth, covered in wounds from head to toe.

Of course Miguel didn’t care one bit about his dreadful state.

“I almost died. But Luci here burned those things to death with magic. Listen, Luci finally used magic! And to save my life!”

“She already used it…?”

Even Ian made a rare surprised expression as he looked back at Luci.

Luci shrugged her shoulders.

“It was just for a moment. I can’t seem to do it anymore now.”

“Doesn’t matter. It’s always difficult in the beginning. It will get easier.”

Sprawled casually in the cart, Ian soon looked up at Luci again and added.

“From now on, you’re a mage too.”

“……!”

Translator; ippo

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