The Villain Dreams Of World Peace

Episode 42: Rendezvous in Dreams (4)

 

Muriel knew well what Kaiton believed in and why he was so recklessly using his pacio. However, Muriel was the one who sought to remove the corners of belief that Kaiton held. She was worried that if things went on like this, the timing would be off and that he would become a demon who would forever be unable to come back.

 

Muriel frowned, lost in thought without knowing what to do, when Kaiton pulled his hand out.

Muriel was gripping it so tightly that her knuckles turned white, but she couldn’t stop Kaiton. When Kaiton pried off her fingers with the hand that wasn’t caught, Murriel couldn’t resist and let go. She didn’t think any magic had been cast, so it was strange.

 

“Don’t worry about my pacio. Unlike you, there is nothing to be lacking.”

 

Hearing Kaiton’s cracked voice speaking softly, Murriel’s anger flared up again.

 

“How can I not worry when you look like you’re about to die right now?! How much pacio is left? Are sure you’re okay?”

 

“….”

 

Kaiton looked at Murriel curiously. His expression changed from time to time, as if he had a thousand thoughts. Well, as far as Kaiton knew, Muriel was the person who had the worst pacio in the kingdom.

 

It must be absurd to see Muriel, whose pacio was even more insignificant, worrying about the pacio of the best wizard in the kingdom. Moreover, wasn’t he the ‘Demon King’ that could replenish his pacio with the fragment of Ur at any time?

 

Still, Muriel could no longer tolerate the lavish use of Pacio leading to his misdeeds.

 

“Let’s get out of here for now. Please let me go. You can come find me anyway. How many times do I have to suffer before you realize it’s a failure? It won’t be any different today. First… First, take care of yourself.”

 

“…You’re such a fool, Mure.”

 

“What?!”

 

To call someone who was concerned about him a fool. Even though Muriel sharply retorted, Kaiton swept his face with a somber expression. When his big hand covered his pale face, the melancholy on it disappeared as if washed away, leaving behind a cold expression.

 

“You’re foolishly stupid.”

 

Before Kaiton finished speaking, Muriel’s knees buckled. It was due to immense pain. It felt like her back was on fire. Feeling vividly alive and chilled, Muriel even waved her hand to check if her back was actually caught fire.

 

“Who’s worried about whom…?”

 

Kaiton coldly stared at Muriel, who was gasping for breath like a wild beast, as he clicked his tongue. Agh. The pain was excessively vivid. Muriel briefly hoped that she would faint, thinking it would be more comfortable, but perhaps because she was in a dream, the pain only intensified, and there seemed to be no escape from it.

 

“I already explained why I brought you here…”

 

“Groan…!”

 

Murriel didn’t realize she was so vulnerable to pain. She had always thought of herself as indifferent and insensitive. It was a great misconception. She simply hadn’t known pain. As soon as the option of pain was added to the vacantness she felt, Muriel’s body revealed its greatest weakness.

 

But she wasn’t the only one with a pale face and cold sweat, showing signs of pain.

Kaiton winced as if he was in pain too. His lifeless face seemed fragile enough to collapse with just a slight touch.

 

“S-Stop! If this continues, Mr. Crawford will also get hurt! You don’t want to become a demon!”

 

“….”

 

Sigh… Kaiton slowly bent his weak, wobbly body and met Muriel’s eyes. He pressed his temples as if he had a headache and exhaled deeply. Up close, he looked really tired. Veins stood out on his forehead, and their eyes were bloodshot.

 

“I really tried not to overdo it today….”

 

Kaiton said with a sigh.

 

“But in the end, it’s impossible, right? The moment I see your face, I want to pour everything out. Anger, resentment, longing….”

 

Thud, Kaiton’s knees touched the ground. He was like a fallen angel who resisted and resisted, until he eventually knelt before God. That was also the case with his eyes that were broken, but still held a simmering fierceness.

 

Thud.

Tears streamed down as she looked into his ash-like eyes. It was mostly because of the burning lump of pain that she once called her back. It also felt like it was because of the unknown longing fiercely entangled in his dark eyes.

 

Kaiton wiped Muriel’s cheek with his hand, as if to welcome the tears. As if he couldn’t believe tears were flowing from Muriel’s eyes. With each new tear that fell, his cold hand moved along the trajectory of the droplet, almost touching but not quite.

 

“Sob… It hurts.”

 

As Muriel whimpered and shook her head, the pain digging into her body intensified, causing her to convulse. Her body trembled sweetly. Her waist twisted, and she curled up. The persistent pain that burrowed into her body consumed Muriel’s mind and drove her into fear.

 

Just as she was contemplating giving up and becoming a loyal servant of the demon king, Kaiton grabbed Muriel by the hair.

 

She thought his cold hand was going to just go through her hair, but he tightly gripped it and pulled it behind her neck, painfully pulling her blue locks.

 

A sound of agony involuntarily leaked out at the sensation of her scalp being pulled. It was better than the bone-chilling pain that spread through her entire body, burning her flesh, but the horror remained the same.

 

“Remember, Muriel. Remember who is causing you pain.”

 

“Crazy…!”

 

He smiled softly as if he had heard a great compliment. A moment of ecstatic joy flashed across his tired, sullen face.

 

“Oh, you probably can’t remember again. Who I am. Why I’m like this. But still, you’re going to turn my insides upside down without knowing anything, right? That’s you, Muriel.”

 

“Then don’t erase my memories, you bastard!”

 

“That’s not allowed. It’s not that easy. I’ve been waiting for 12 years. I can’t give you the answer so easily. Until you find the answer yourself. I’m gonna wait. To the end.”

 

12 years? Muriel momentarily blanked out at the unfamiliar time she couldn’t remember.

 

“Still… it’s a shame. I can’t believe you didn’t suffer at all during that long time. I should have come to find you sooner like this… Then you could have cried so easily.”

 

Kaiton still held Muriel’s cheek, wet with tears. The cool sensation felt good enough that she wanted him to hold it forever. The heated cheek, as she was enduring with malic, cooled down pleasantly. But the icy hands did not bode well.

 

“Let go of this! Your condition has worsened, hasn’t it?!”

 

Had Kaiton given up completely now? Or was it possible that, contrary to Muriel’s concerns, his pacio was still ample? Despite his exhausted face, he maintained a calm demeanor.

 

“Shall we just stay here? I don’t know how to break your stubbornness anyway. And if it’s not here, you won’t ever feel so hurt… It wouldn’t be so bad if the two of us just stayed here forever…”

 

The flames that held onto her back seemed to be the same pain as the black magic on the curse he left behind. As if he was disappointed the curse had not been effective even after he’d left it on her, he said he would recreate the pain of the curse. To make her hurt as much as possible in her dreams.

 

If like Kaiton said, she experienced this kind of pain every day, she wouldn’t have lasted 12 years. Overwhelmed by unbearable pain that made her eyes roll, she would have searched the entire kingdom, even if it meant turning it upside down, to find the caster. Although it was unclear what grudge or backstory led him to curse Muriel, his sense of injustice was clearly conveyed.

 

However, the relentless pain was too persistent and fierce for her to concern a long-standing grudge, and Kaiton’s pacio was also at stake.

 

Trembling, Muriel clenched her jaw and struck Kaiton on the cheek as hard as she could. She hit him so hard that her fist felt numb, but Kaiton only briefly looked surprised before bursting into a smirk.

 

Crazy bastard.

Muriel tightly wet her dry lips with her tongue. As her black eyes observed the scene intently, she extended her red tongue as if a thought had just occurred to her and licked the even redder blood from her lips.

 

Suddenly, an unexpected thirst tightened her throat. The scorching flames seemed to have passed through her stomach, and were rising up from her chest to her throat and face.

 

“If you want to become a demon, do it alone. Why go on a rampage now after waiting for 12 years?”

 

Ahem…

 

Muriel felt embarrassed at her meek voice and averted her gaze, pretending she was looking sideways.

 

“You must have been terrified to hear I’d help you, huh? You ignored me like… Were you frightened I would stop your revenge?”

 

“…”

 

Muriel covered her embarrassment with a dull tone. It wasn’t something she said expecting a response from Kaiton, but unexpectedly, a quiet, rusty voice echoed as if sinking.

 

“…Maybe that’s what it is.”

 

The cool acceptance was bewildering.

 

“Maybe it’s frightening.”

 

He didn’t shy away from her gaze. His intense stare, as scorching and burdensome as it was, seemed to yearn for Muriel, making it difficult for her to lift her head.

 

The burning pain that tormented her had disappeared. However, her body still burned hotly.

 

“You…”

 

Muriel found Kaiton’s excessive honesty somehow awkward. Then, suddenly, she wondered if the reason Kaiton erased his memories was because of these conversations. He said he wanted to pour it all out because he couldn’t bear it. Did he erase all these honest words from her mind because he felt embarrassed?

 

“Because I can erase memories, I thought it would be fine… But as time goes on, you burst into tears more easily, and I find myself confessing my feelings more easily too.”

 

“…”

 

“…Because words that shouldn’t be said keep coming out.”

 

The hand that had been gripping Muriel’s hair so tightly all this time slipped down smoothly. His hand gently soothed the tangled strands of her hair as it descended, then stopped at her stiff, rigid neck.

 

At a spot where her vital points were… It felt strange to say that her heart was pounding. It was different from before. She wanted to blame Kaiton.

 

Because he was looking at her with a strange expression, she felt like she was becoming strange too. Looking at her pitifully, like a forsaken stray dog. She wanted to burst out in anger despite being strangely nervous.

 

A large hand that seemed capable of easily snapping her neck carefully touched Muriel’s throat. The straight fingers gently moved through the spiderweb-like blue hair, delicately caressing her tender skin.

 

“Crawford.”

 

Gulp. Muriel swallowed her saliva carefully, as if afraid that her Adam’s apple would move and startle him. She quietly called out to him, with the thought that she should stop him for now. This was more of a crisis than when she was being forced to endure pain he submitted her to.

 

If he wanted something now, Muriel felt like she would give it to him without hesitation.

 

“Don’t.”

 

Kaiton murmured in a voice that seemed to barely reach her.

 

“…What?”

 

In order not to resist his weird examination as much as possible, Muriel carefully asked, and he forced a smile, swallowing his dry saliva.

 

“Don’t call me that.”

 

“…”

 

Muriel kept her mouth shut just as she was about to apologize without knowing why. Her chest ached, and she felt frustrated because she couldn’t understand why.

 

“Mure….”

 

Oh my…

Not even a sound leaked out of the surprised Muriel’s wide-open mouth. She was too shocked.

 

She never expected such a sweet nickname to come out of Kaiton’s mouth, not anyone else. Muriel couldn’t even make a sound, frozen in place, clutching her pounding heart. Once again, in a barely audible voice, he pronounced her name.

 

“Mure….”

 

Since when had he been calling her so pitifully?

Even with her right in front of him, Kaiton’s voice calling Muriel was affectionate. It was as if he longed for someone far away, someone he would never meet again. It was heartbreakingly pathetic.

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Muriel better than me fr bc after going through pain, my goal of helping Kaiton would change to giving him a beatdown the moment I got my hands on him

 

Like man is this guy a villain, he really is a villain, damn

I guess it’s also because she can’t help it since she read all about him in the novel. I have my fair share of villainous men I would go through stuff to help, I get ya, Muriel my girl