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

Celine was really fine. She was really just thrilled that she was back with Leonhart, the one she knew so well.

On the other hand, Leonhard furrowed his brow.

“The stairs that Rose Lute was making… it looks like it exploded.”

“You’re not hurt, Rose?”

“No. However…”

Rose answered in a trembling voice.

“I think there is something here.”

Celine then approached the spot where Rose was making the stairs. It was right under the hole in the ceiling, so she could feel the winter wind blowing strong.

“….?”

A look of surprise crossed Celine’s face.

“Something?”

Leonhard also strode beside her.

“It’s like stairs.”

As tried to put her foot on the part that touched her body just a moment ago, she could feel an invisible stepping stone.

Rose nodded her head.

“I can feel that, too. But…”

She hesitated for a moment.

“I couldn’t go up. As expected, Celine can go up.”

“What does it mean?”

Leonhard asked urgently, but he couldn’t even make eye contact with Rose. In the meanwhile, Rose pointed to the invisible stepping stone on which Celine had put her foot.

“Before, I couldn’t even move my body until the dragon flew away. It was the same even if I went nearby.”

“Then, the explosion must have been similar.”

“Yes. Rather than the explosion happening spontaneously, I couldn’t control my body.”

Leonhard strode towards the invisible stair and stepped up beside Celine.

“….!”

Celine was startled and fell down the stairs.

“Leonhard!”

If these stairs had the same effect on Rose as the stage, they would have had the same effect on him. However, Leonhard stood on the invisible steps and looked up without a sign of change.

“It seems to be going up here.”

“….”

She didn’t answer.

It was something she had already guessed. Now that she could climb this invisible stairway with Leonhard, it was even more certain.

However, what would Rose say if she and Leonhard go up these stairs?

‘It has never blocked outsiders from entering like this before.’

Considering that the green smoke had affected the entire castle Livron castle and that both Bart and Rose were able to enter this maze, this was an exceptional situation. There was only one exceptional situation in this game that Celine could think of.

‘It’s the true ending.’

Celine took a deep breath and glanced up.

‘The ending I saw… started as soon as I got out of the maze.’

The normal ending that she saw ended with the main character escaping from Leonhard forever and living in peace. The ending was to find peace but not know anything about the truth of this world. Now, if she climbed up this invisible staircase, the true ending that she had been waiting for will unfold.

Celine licked her parched lips.

At that moment, she heard Rose’s determined voice.

“I will just go back.”

“Rose!”

“Don’t make that face, because I can at least guard my own body.”

Celine’s face heated up.

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“It’s not because I underestimated Rose. To find the entrance from now on… all the marks in the middle must have disappeared…”

“There are multiple exits.”

Leonhard interrupted abruptly.

“Looks like there are several around here.”

She looked at him with a surprised face. Even though she didn’t say it, Celine could guess what Rose was thinking. It was because she noticed that Leonhard remembered everything that had just happened.

“I’ll look for it.”

“No.”

Leonhard spoke slowly.

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to find the entrance for you because that would be faster.”

Rose nodded.

They moved in silence until he found another entrance. Fortunately, another entrance was not too far from their location.

Rose forcefully opened the old, rusted door

“….!”

Even in the twilight of the moon, she could tell that outside the door was somewhere in Libron Castle.

“Goodbye, Rose.”

Celine sent a greeting full of regret. Although she knew it was best to separate now, she couldn’t help feeling sorry.

“Celine.”

Rose called out to her without turning her back.

“Good luck, because you seem to really need a lot of it.”

Before she could answer, Rose had completely disappeared out of the door.

‘…Thank you, Rose. For everything.’

Celine muttered the last goodbye inside that she hadn’t been able to say. After a while, they returned to the point where Lou escaped and brought down the ceiling.

“Celine.”

Leonhard called her cautiously, who was placing her foot on the transparent steps.

“Tell me one thing. All this… is there still a lot left?”

She gazed into his eyes, which were still shaking as a growing sense of pain and guilt settled in.

“It will be over soon.”

Celine spoke with her all her heart.

That short word had a long meaning.

‘Please hold on a little longer, all to prevent his blackening…’

There was so much she wanted to tell him, but that was all she could say now.

Leonhard nodded.

“That’s enough then.”

As they slowly climbed the invisible stairs, they were finally completely off the pathway. Celine’s whole body stiffened as they stood in a vast wasteland dotted with withered trees.

“…Was there a place like this in the castle?”

There was Leonhard’s questioning voice from beside her, but she couldn’t come to her senses.

‘Why…’

Tears welled up again.

‘I thought it was over!’

The second stage, which she thought was skipped because it was the true ending route, was a wasteland made up of dead trees.

…The second stage was unfolding in front of her just as she had seen in the game.