Chapter 4
Chapter 4
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 4
Chapter Title: The Villainess Trapped in the Tower (3)
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"Don't go... D-don't, don't go...! Don't go!!"
Rafne fell into a panic.
"Hic, don't go, please! Y-you're still mad at me, right? That's why you're doing this, isn't it? S-sorry. I was wrong...! I'll apologize. I'll do anything...!"
She clung to Ken's clothes, pleading desperately.
Her lifeless eyes had grown even darker after losing all hope, endless tears streaming from them.
The girl who had been saved once feared plummeting back into despair.
She never wanted to sink into that loneliness again.
"N-no, Rafne...! I'll definitely come tomorrow! You promised we'd have breakfast!"
Ken, who still didn't fully grasp that isolation, tried to persuade her like that.
But she couldn't believe him.
"L-lies... Lies, lies! You're trying to abandon me too... Y-you're going to leave me here and turn your back on me! Please don't! If even y-you abandon me here, I might really die! Are you trying to kill me? Even you want me dead? Please... Please don't abandon me... Hic."
She dropped to her knees and hugged his waist tightly, as if she would never let go.
She didn't care at all how closely her body pressed against his.
Only Ken, with his normal mindset, minded.
"W-wait, when a girl clings like this...!"
"Sorry, sorry...! You're really mad at me, aren't you? I was too shameless after doing those things to you. Sorry, I'll apologize! I'll do anything! If you tell me to grovel, I will. If you want me to dance, I'll dance! If you want me to strip, I'll strip everything off...!"
Her dark eyes stared at him as if they would swallow him whole.
The smile on her face no longer held any joy. It was a smile born of despair and frustration.
With that smile, Rafne shed tears.
"R-right! Is there anything else you want to eat? I-I can prepare anything! Lunch today, dinner tonight, breakfast tomorrow—whatever you want, I'll make it! Anything you say, I'll prepare it!"
She clung desperately, grasping at the faintest thread of hope, unwilling to let it slip away.
"O-or should I do some tricks? You're really mad at me, right? If you can forgive me, I'll do anything! You can hit me until you feel better! N-no, wait! Or you can do naughty things to me! You're a guy too, right, Ken? A-am I not attractive? You can do whatever you want to me...!"
Please don't leave me behind.
She kept begging, not even aware of what she was saying.
And watching her, Ken thought.
'...She's not in her right mind.'
Rafne Bell Martinez was more broken than he had anticipated.
⚔ STATUS ⚔ Name: Rafne Bell Martinez Unique Skill: Nerve Acceleration Unique Trait: Curse of Fear - Instills extreme stress and fear in living beings within a 50m radius Owned Traits: Despair – Current 121%, Dependency Lv.5 In the end, Ken had no choice but to stay in the tower until Rafne calmed down.
'I ended up missing first period today without meaning to.'
Sighing, Ken had Rafne—now somewhat calmed—clinging to his arm.
The sensation of something huge and soft enveloping him was quite arousing, but this wasn't the sweet skinship of lovers.
This was a shackle.
She was just holding him to keep him from running away.
"S-sorry... Sorry because of me. ...Sorry for making you miss class."
Now calm, she seemed to realize her mistake and buried her face in his shoulder, apologizing repeatedly.
But even as she apologized, she never let go of his arm.
Rafne's reason still couldn't overcome her instincts.
He could feel her entire body trembling through his arm.
With the situation showing no improvement, Ken sighed and opened the status window.
'System, open Rafne Bell Martinez's status window.'
⚔ STATUS ⚔ Owned Traits: Despair – Current 98%... 97%... 96%...
Rafne’s Despair value was decreasing.
Though she denied his words as lies, Ken could tell from the status window that she believed him.
“Then, I’ll really go now.”
“Hic, hic.”
Rafne couldn’t grab Ken as he headed for the door.
She could only let endless tears fall.
He felt sorry for her.
“Ah, today’s lunch… was it a menu I don’t like?”
“…Hic, h-huh?”
“So… would it be okay if I came here to eat lunch too?”
Thinking about it, there was no need to come only for breakfast.
If she felt such extreme loneliness, increasing the number of visits would help.
It was a simple thought.
But to Rafne, it became a clear light.
She looked at Ken with tear-filled eyes.
Then she choked up again and burst into tears.
“Hic, sniff, y-you must. …You must come….”
“Y-yeah. Don’t worry.”
Ken worried that at this rate, she might end up in danger from Dehydration, just like she had been earlier.