The Villain in the Side Story Wants to Live

Because You Want It

I woke up drawn by the sweet smell of balm in my nostrils.

A smell that I have smelled a lot somewhere. It was Serena’s scent.

“You look disappointed?”

When I opened my eyes, I met Sharenne’s gaze as she was looking at me with a smile on her face.

Apparently, the reason why Serena’s scent passed her nose was because she had been sleeping in her bed for a while.

“Don’t get me wrong. Serena asked me to watch it.”

Yeah, it was better this way than Serena sleeping in the seat next to her.

Because that means I lost her temper and ran over her.

“What did you feed me?”

“I was given an aphrodisiac.”

Shareen answered in a voice that did not contain any guilt.

“The eyes ask why did you do that?”

“To be honest, I crossed the line this time.”

I know that if Sharenne puts her mind to it, she can turn me into ashes.

“It was meant to happen anyway.”

“What’s going to happen is that I get drunk and run over Serena?”

Even though she knew that fact, the reason why she kept arguing with her was because Serena almost got hurt by her.

Even if I say that I can’t help being hurt because I’m Oran, the villain in the novel, Serena had no reason to be hurt because of me.

“I mean, you couldn’t avoid kissing Serena.”

“What else is that…”

“Didn’t Serena just want to relieve her guilt?”

Her question brought back memories of Serena forcibly kissing me in her drunkenness.

Serena felt guilty for what happened that day and she wanted the same for her because she held her wrongdoing hostage.

So it was no wonder that Serena thought she should let me kiss her.

“But if she knew that, she would have liked to have spoken to her without giving her medication.”

She added afterward, ‘I know what I’d do if I didn’t control myself.’

Charen, who snorted lightly at my question, opened her lips twisted with her laughter.

“I was taking this opportunity to make it clear.”

“A fait accompli?”

“So, Serena seemed to have a crush on Oran, so she tried to help.”

“……What?”

I was completely speechless for a moment.

Serena has a crush on me?

She may have some lingering guilt for something she once bullied, but she couldn’t like it.

I completely denied the relationship by shaking her head.

“Can’t you believe it?”

“Of course. What do you believe in and think that way?”

“If she didn’t like it, she would have killed her sooner. Serena doesn’t make any ills, be it enemies or not.”

Charen, who had an eerie smile, murmured, ‘In the sense that she didn’t do that.’

I couldn’t refute it. As Sharenne said, Serena is a person who pursues truth rather than emotion.

“But it’s not like it isn’t.”

“I always tell you, don’t you think Oran-nim doesn’t care?”

She put her hand on her chin and touched her lips as if she were pretending to be a detective.

She stared at me with a knowing look, and it was very unnerving.

“Does Oran like Serena too?”

“I think I’m asking this because I’m trying to attack Serena, but that was because of the potion you gave me in the first place.”

As soon as she heard what she had to say, she reproachfully denied it, so as not to be played with her puns by Charenne.

She must have offended her a little bit, but Charen rather pulled the corners of her mouth upward and opened her lips again.

“If she didn’t have a crush on her, wouldn’t she have ignored Serena’s wishes and attacked her? Why didn’t she just let her instincts dictate her body?”

“……What does that matter?”

“Why? Do you have any pricks?”

Saying that, Charen looked at me with her twinkling eyes, as if asking me to speak quickly.

She looks like a girl asking her friend to tell her story about her first love.

At first glance, it seemed benevolent, but it was obvious that it would be annoying if I made a mistake.

“She just kept her duty as a human being.”

“I thought she was ignorant, but she doesn’t even know her heart.”

She just drew a line for her, and she shook her head as if her excitement had cooled.

“Rest well. Serena will be back in a little while, so why don’t you talk to her yourself?”

“Hey, where are you going?”

Even if you talk bullsh*t at me, do you still have something to talk about with me?

“It’s not Serena, it’s me…!”

“Don’t bullsh*t. She said if you put Serena back to normal, she’ll get you out of here.”

The reason she came here in the first place was to check on her Serena’s condition.

She’d already made sure that Serena was okay, so it was time for her to keep her word that she had told her.

“That’s it…”

Shar-en avoided my gaze and gently rolled her eyes to the side.

“You’re not trying to do something that never happened, right?”

She seemed to be trying to find a hole for her to get out of, so she nailed it down first.

“That’s… I want to help Oran, but if I make a mistake, I won’t be trapped here instead of Orahn?”

“What about me then?”

Since I almost crossed the line when I was drunk with her drugs, Serena would use that as an excuse to harass me.

“On second thought, it seems disrespectful not to offer any help.”

“What does that mean?”

“The rest of the locked rooms inside the Demon King’s Stone are supposed to be opened…!”

Do you think people are fools? If it came out like this, I also had an idea.

“If you don’t help me properly, I might expose all of the other side of you that I’ve seen so far to Serena.”

I don’t know if Serena will believe me in slandering her colleague, but I can engrave her alarm.

“Ugh… You’re too mean.”

Sharenne chewed her lips.

Does Serena think she trusts me more than she does?

I don’t know the exact reason, but she was genuinely anxious.

“Don’t tell Serena, because that will obviously bother both of us. Instead, I’ll give you one piece of advice.”

“Advice?”

“Yes, with this method, Oran-sama alone will be able to get out of here.”

If there was such useful information, you should have said it from the beginning. I nodded my head, meaning to speak.

“Ask Serena if you want to go outside. If she has a crush on Or An, she will definitely agree.”

She was speechless at the sight of Charen talking about bullsh*t so confidently.

Where is the prisoner who immediately releases the prisoner when he says he wants to go outside?

Suddenly, memories of Serena’s request from a few days ago flashed through my mind.

…… It does exist.

But Serena would never do that.

“What is that unreliable look in your eyes?”

“Would you believe me?”

“……I’ll have to punish you for throwing up at the words of a saintess who always speaks the truth.”

Charen held out her hand, covered with her holy power, to me.

“What are you trying to do… Oh!”

“So you’re resting until Serena comes…!”

When she was at a disadvantage, she immediately resorted to physical force.

There was no such thing as her crazy b*tch.

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“Oran? Are you okay?”

When I woke up, Serena was looking down at me with her worried eyes.

“Ugh… I think it’s pretty good.”

Her stomach twisted as if she was pretending, but she was tolerable as if she had managed to control her strength in her own way.

“According to Sharenne, she just woke up and said a lot of nonsense, so she put her back to sleep…”

Serena cautiously added, ‘Is your hair okay?’

Anyway, the saintess who only tells the truth seems to have laid the groundwork for her incomplete mind, fearing that I might expose her.

She didn’t expect it to turn out like this. It really sucks.

“As expected… Is it because of the way you hit her head then?”

Serena muttered in a melancholy voice. As if it was her own fault for my madness, her blue eyes staring at me were full of water.

It’s nice to be worried about her, but her look at the sick is a bit burdensome.

“I’m fine. Body as well as head.”

“Is that so? But if you feel sick, tell me anytime.”

She asked me several times to tell me if there was anything wrong with my body, and she was silent for a moment.

Come to think of it, the situation has reversed now.

From Oran the Villain to Oran the Prisoner.

From hostage Serena to jailer Serena.

Um, damn it. When she realized that she was imprisoned, she left me speechless as well.

In Charentane, Serena said she has a crush on me, but she doesn’t.

“Oran, do you know that things have changed?”

“I know.”

As soon as the position is reversed, the way he makes me aware of that fact is that he has a crush on me.

“You also bullied me when I was a hostage, so it’s okay to bully me too.”

Seeing that he even said that, it was more correct to say that he was harboring ill feelings rather than good feelings.

It was at that time that I was afraid that someone would harass me in some way.

“Oran, try my compliments.”

She has been asking for things that are not as difficult as she thought.

I wondered why they had to do this, but there was a precedent that I committed first.

Still, I could easily answer this much.

“As far as praise goes… Serena, you are beautiful.”

“Gee, are you serious? Tell me more.”

Serena asks with round eyes. The reason why I ask you to explain in detail is to shame me.

I wasn’t particularly ashamed of it because I was telling the truth.

“Your hair is smoother than silk, and your skin is white. I think blue eyes are prettier than any jewel.”

I wasn’t done talking yet, but Serena jerked her head to the side of her.

Didn’t you like it? But she wasn’t told to stop, so she continued.

“I have a good body, so sometimes I feel like an elaborate doll. Besides, the skin… What’s wrong with you?”

“That, enough! Enough… Enough.”

At some point, she lowered her head and hurriedly waved her hand.

“…Hmmm, I should give you a reward for doing it right. Do you need anything?”

It wasn’t until after a while that Serena raised her head and saw that both of her cheeks were flushed red.

“What do you want?”

“It doesn’t matter whatsoever, say anything.”

To hear what she wants for just one compliment.

For a moment, I wondered if the request to praise was an excuse for this.

‘What are you talking about anyway? I don’t really want anything.’

When she couldn’t come up with anything to say, she remembered the insignificant advice Charen had given her.

She didn’t like that he acted her way, but she was curious, so once she did, she decided to ask.

“Can I go outside?”

“It is possible.”

I knew she would say no too… uh?

They give permission so easily?

“Why?”

“Why? You didn’t want that.”

Rather, when I asked in a panic, Serena replied as if it were natural.

I want you to listen. The way she said it without the slightest hesitation.

Aroused the thought, ‘Could it be?’