The Villain Of The Horror Game Dreams Of The Heroine Every Night

“Leon—”

Celine couldn’t even pronounce Leonhard’s name properly, her throat choking with her rising emotions.

She carefully removed his hand from hers. Even though Leonhard resisted weakly as if he didn’t want to leave her until the end, there was no time to waste. It was because she had to pour the healing potion into his mouth as soon as possible.

Celine opened the pouch containing the healing potion with her trembling hands. Rashir stopped away without even cutting her pockets, but it must have been a strong shock.

There was no guarantee that the three or four remaining healing potions would be safe.

‘There is…!’

Most of them were broken by Rashir, but there was one vial that remained intact. She trembled and picked up the potion vial before walking over to Leonhard.

“….!”

Her heart sank.

Leonhard’s body was weakly drooping with his eyes closed. There was no sign of life anywhere.

“Leonhard…!”

She called his name out loud, but he gave no response.

Biting her lip, Celine calmed herself.

‘…It’s okay. It will be fine.’

At the thought, she cautiously opened the potion vial, which was now slippery with cold sweat. The red liquid that filled her vial swirled.

‘All he has to do is take this. If he takes this…’

Celine slightly lifted Leonhard’s head and opened his mouth to pour the healing potion. Fortunately, as she got closer to him, she could feel his feeble breath.

‘…It’s not too late.’

Her heart, which had been pounding fiercely and threatening to burst out of her chest just moments ago, gradually began to settle.

Celine exercised great caution, ensuring not a single drop of the potion went astray as she poured it into Leonhard’s mouth, administering it sip by sip. As she observed his neck subtly shifting, it gave her a glimmer of hope.

It seemed that her efforts were not in vain. Unbeknownst to her, the potion vial had soon emptied completely.

She held her racing heart tightly, waiting anxiously.

However, even after several minutes had passed, Leonhardt remained motionless despite the fact that the wound that had once pierced through his chest had now fully healed.

“Leonhard!”

Celine called out Leonhardt’s name and shook his body lightly, but she couldn’t hear an answer.

‘Why, why…’

Tears welled up in her eyes, hot and streaming down her cheeks.

Her vision blurred, obscuring her surroundings. In that moment, Celine’s senses were focused on two things alone. The chill of Leonhard’s hands gripping hers tightly, and the incessant flow of tears cascading down her cheeks.

‘Please, Leonhard, please…’

Celine continued to beg in her heart.

Now, that was the only thing she could do.

‘As long as Leonhard survives, I can be anything…’

Pleading alone would have felt insufficient, but Celine did not pray to God. It was because the God of this world was a stage that ruthlessly pursued the end.

After a while…

“….!”

Her eyes widened.

Leonhardt slowly raised his body.

His head was lowered so she couldn’t see his face properly, but the fact that the potion worked was the only thing that mattered.

Celine cautiously called him.

“Leonhard… are you okay?”

“….”

Leonhard slowly raised his head.

For an instant, goosebumps ran through her whole body. Celine intuitively realized something was very wrong. In his eyes, there were not even the lingering emotions she had seen just before they closed.

…Instead, only cold hostility.

“Leonhard!”

She screamed urgently but to no avail. Leonhard stood up with his wounds completely healed and took out Rashir.

It felt like she was covered in ice water.

Celine knew that he was really trying to kill her now.

‘Why…?’

Still, she couldn’t afford to ponder the reason.

Raising up, she backed away from Rose, who was still motionless and went in the opposite direction. Thankfully, Leonhard strode towards her without hesitation.

‘Before, he was very hesitant.’

She was choked.

Leonhard didn’t recognize her at all now. It seemed that he only recognized her completely as a warlock.

“Leonhard…’

Celine clenched her teeth tightly.

There was no time for sentiments. Somehow she had to find a way to free Leonhard from the brainwashing.

‘Leonhard… you don’t recognize me. That’s the biggest problem.’

Nonetheless, before she could come up with a clear method, Rashir struck her. Her body split in half as she floated halfway through the air, her blood spattering all over.

She died without letting out a single scream.

* * *

When Celine opened her eyes again, what caught her eye was the blue flames burning in Rashir.

“Aaahhkk…!”

This time, before she died, there was time for her to scream.

* * *

Celine couldn’t remember how many times she had died. It was because Leonhard killed her constantly that all her death felt like an extension of the death that would follow her.

The current of pain ended with his questioning words.

“…What are you?”

Celine gasped for her breath. Her vision was clouded by the tears flowing from the pain, so she could not see anything.

“Answer me, warlock.”

Leonhard pressed her leg with his foot.

‘Ah…’

Tears flowed again.

It wasn’t because of the pain this time.

Celine made a sound, barely clearing her ragged throat.

“No matter how much you cut me with Rashir, I will come back to life.”

“I know that. I saw it with my own eyes.”

As Rashir glowed blue just above her head, she examined Leonhard’s face, which was difficult to see among the flames. A still insensitive murderous glance towards a warlock.

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At that moment, her mind went blank.

‘All Leonhard wants is a way to kill me forever.’

When she shut her mouth, Leonhardt stared at her at first before losing interest in her and furrowed his brow.

“Come to think of it… there was one more colleague of yours. Where is she?”

“….”

“…I said something stupid.”

Leonhardt smiled and concentrated for a moment.

‘He’s trying to find Rose!’

Celine froze, but she quickly picked herself up.

“If you don’t want to die, stay still…”

Leonhard’s warnings didn’t work for her. She took Ringzor from her arms, which was still stained with his blood, and rushed at him.

“This—!”

Leonhard’s eyes widened.

The next moment, she hit Rashir, which automatically caught up with her and bounced halfway back before attacking him again.

“Huhk…”

She groaned.

The current Celine was not in the state she was before she was killed by Leonhard. The pain caused by the magic and repeated deaths were exhausting after a long day. The two bad things made it difficult for her to even move her own body.

However, she had to attack him relentlessly.

…Otherwise, Rose would die.

Celine gritted her teeth.

She didn’t mind dying herself a few more times.

After all, she would come back to life. However, Rose was different since her life lost to him would never come back.

And Leonhard…

‘He’ll be haunted by the nightmare of killing an innocent imperial wizard for the rest of his life.’

This was a completely different matter with the poor knight commander, Sir Pavel, who was manipulated by a warlock. At that time, Sir Pavel’s words and actions were heard and seen by everyone present.

But Rose…

Celine wondered if she could tarnish Rose’s honor, who died saving Leonhard.

‘…I can’t.’

She blinked her eyes and hit Rashir again. But, of course, Leonhard’s power was at a level she couldn’t reach, so it was too much for her to hit back.

As she staggered back and sat down, he glanced down at her coldly.

“Are you going to disturb me more?”

“…Forever.”

“I wonder if you will come back to life if I cut you into pieces and bury them.”

Her eyes widened.

His cold eyes and harsh voice were far from the Leonhard she had known.

‘…This is the Leonhard that the warlocks feel.’

Celine faced Rashir as she slowly fell back. Her whole body’s magic power had already been exhausted. There was nothing she could do…

At that moment, she felt a slight twitching in her wrist.

“….!”

Celine shuddered.

…Still, she had a last card left.

She whispered the name of the card.

“Lou.”

“….?”

Leonhard hesitated for a moment, and she did not miss the opportunity. Celine began to rapidly suck all the magic power from Lou.

She quietly apologized.

Lou, who was deprived of not only the accumulated magic power by simply eating the magic stone but also all the magic power it possessed, would begin to sleep for a long winter like before.

‘When all of this is over… let’s go south.’

In the mines of the south, she vowed to feed Lou only the finest magic stones, and she would wake Lou up and free it. However, all of that was only possible after this stage was over.

Celine drew a mighty whirlwind around her with the gathered magic.

‘…This should be enough to pass the time.’

To subdue Leonhard, a normal level of attack was far from enough.

‘Just one shot.’

A one-time chance to gather all of her magical powers.

That was the only hope.

Celine gasped for her breath. The pain still crawled all over her body like a worm, and her natural magic and stamina had long since run out.

“You are doing something interesting.”

Within seconds, she collapsed onto the floor.

Rashir obviously easily split the whirlwind that ordinary people couldn’t even touch. Leonhard tore the whirlwind to pieces like tearing paper.

Celine’s blank gaze met his cool gaze.

‘More, more…!’

Celine gritted her teeth and tried to squeeze more and more magic out of Lou.

She could feel it.

Just a little bit, a little bit more—!

—Bang!

At the same time as the explosion sounded, both of them were caught in the explosion and fell backward.

‘….?’

Celine blinked her eyes. She hadn’t even used the magic yet, and the magic wriggling fully within her body proved that fact.

As the dust settled, more surprises greeted her.

A huge golden dragon filled the passage.

“Lou…?”

A dazed word escaped her lips. It was because Lou glanced at her and sniffed as it did when it ate the magic stone.

“Lou!”

She stumbled and took a few steps forward. However, Lou tumbled on the floor several times before she could reach it, shaking the path. Celine couldn’t stand the vibration and knelt down, staring at the ceiling.

“….!”

Her eyes widened.

The golden dragon spread its dazzling wings and soared to the ceiling.