I'm not in the villain's ending - 5

“As long as it is within reach.”

It was like saying that he would take care of the embarrassing questions.

“Then don’t hesitate to ask questions.”

If you look down a little, you can see a bruised wrist. When he touched the bruise, the sting spread like it wrapped around his wrist.

I looked up again, and Snowy’s head was on my wrist. Somehow, he furrows his brows.

Only my mouth moved alone, as if the wind had risen in the space where the sound had stopped.

“You called me ‘Butterfly’ at first, but am I the butterfly you’re looking for?”

Snowy nodded instead of answering.

“Why do you call me a butterfly?”

“Well, you’re a butterfly.”

“How do you know that?”

“It’s a response to your voice.”

He fiddled with the bollotai on my chest. The dazzling jewels, as if they had been plucked from the sky, shone in the sunlight.

“The jewel. Why did he react to my words?”

“…….”

“It’s weird.”

“Would the gem have reacted if it wasn’t me?”

“That’s not true. Apparently, I only responded to the voice of the ‘butterfly.'”

“So does that have something to do with my special abilities?”

The Sen I possessed had a special ability, but it was never described in detail.

But the person in front of me seems to know something.

“Snowy. You know what? What are my special abilities?”

He tilted his head gently and pointed to the gem, and Snowy shrugged his shoulders. I hear the sound of a startled person.

What are you surprised about? I didn’t have a chance to ask questions, and I didn’t pretend I didn’t know.

“You’ll have to answer me.”

An innocent smile. I asked, smiling as goodly as I could.

He also saw Snowy’s lips twitch slightly.

“Unfortunately, I don’t know any details.”

“Sounds like a lie.”

A false voice was heard, but it was not enough to judge.

That means Snowy is telling a good mix of truth and falsehood.

He smiled even deeper, and Snowy’s eyebrows curled beautifully in a sleek curve.

“Are you sure I’m lying?”

“No, sir. Not sure, but doubtful?”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea to bury your doubts.”

“Are you admitting that you lied?”

“…….”

“It just stuck. Right?”

Snowy kept his mouth shut, wondering if he had fallen into the trap I’d sown while worrying about his snarky words.

He looked at his eyebrows as they curled up even more, and he let out a laugh.

Eventually, Snowy lets out a deep sigh.

“There’s not much I can explain right now. Just one thing. It’s not jewelry, it’s candy.”

An upright voice that sounds like no tremor.

Coincidentally, that was true.

“Candy?”

“Yes.”

Listening to your voice, it’s not a lie.

He stared at Snowy in disbelief, but he didn’t feel it.

“You don’t believe me.”

“I don’t know.”

I patted my lips and smiled.

“Maybe you’ll know when you taste it?”

“…….”

“Just kidding.”

If you joke twice, I’ll kill you?

He cleared his throat as he watched Snowy turn cold.

“As a matter of fact. It doesn’t really matter if it’s jewelry or candy. There are two important things.”

He stared silently at his wrist, which he had forgotten for a moment.

“That it was in response to my voice.

“…….”

“Also, you’re beneath me, that’s all.”

In other words, behave well. Get ready to kneel before I kneel.

There was a strange emotion on Snowy’s face.

“You look serious.”

I stood up and took a step toward him.

“You can rest assured. There’s only one thing I want.”

I was able to approach him without hesitation because of his collar. And because of the candy that responds to my voice.

I was a little embarrassed, but I knew how they had protected me earlier.

“You don’t know how that one thing will come to you.”

Even if your life is in danger.

“I just need to make sure my life is protected.”

Fingers touch and fall on the ruby in the middle of Snowy’s neck.

I hung your neck around my neck. Well, that’s what I mean.

“I don’t care about kidnapping or imprisonment.”

I’m not Sen anyway.

Regardless of whether the real Sen is dead or his soul is asleep, my job is to preserve my life.

“I don’t think you know how dangerous that is.”

“What….”

In an instant, his vision flipped. When I came to my senses, the chilling scent right in front of me tickled my nose.

A faint pain came up in his shoulder, perhaps as if he had been shoved by Snowy.

“I don’t know what it was like to be trapped in the butterfly garden.”

Shortened breathing. Shoulders and chest heaving. His breath swirled through the taut air and engulfed the space.

“I see how comfortable and safe your confinement was.”

I don’t know what I said that provoked him. Snowy snarled like a beast with a trampled tail.

“I’m beneath you? I don’t know.”

His lips twisted nicely, full of fishy sneers.

“As long as I guarantee your life, the leash won’t cut my throat.”

“Drop it now. Town.”

A cold hand covered my mouth, and I couldn’t say more.

I twist my head, but I can’t shake his hand.

“This candy that responds to your voice.”

A face that is close to your nose fills your vision.

The cool scent flowing through the tight air that kept suffocating felt foreign.

“After all, why don’t you just shut your mouth?”

He felt like he was trapped in Snowy’s shadow.

Just when I feel like my heart is about to burst because of my suffocation, my hand falls off my mouth.

“… Do you want me to be a begby?”

With my mouth free, I sneered and blurted out my first words.

When I see his forehead contort in embarrassment at his eloquent reaction, I can’t help but smile.

The corners of his mouth twitched.

“Or did you want me to be scared?”

He scowled through the eyes hidden behind the veil. The behavior of the boy in front of me was no different.

We didn’t avert our gaze, so our gaze was on the air at any moment.

“But why? I don’t have a shred of intentions.”

He pushed the shoulder of the boy in front of him. Somewhat rough and ferocious.

“Don’t be cocky, because if you try to scare me, you’re going to fail.”

I’m not afraid of death. I just didn’t want to hurt a body that wasn’t mine.

I’m not a good person, so if a body that isn’t mine dies, I can’t help it.

As a result, I didn’t even bother to find out what kind of life Sen, the original owner of this body, had lived.

It’s not my life anyway, where Sen lived a life of ups and downs, a gentle life.

“I’m going to do my job.”

My mission is to be kidnapped by Snowy.

He opened his mouth, looking straight at the one who still didn’t open his mouth. His lips twitched, as if he had something to say. But I will not listen.

“So Snowy. You do your duty.”

This is the price I pay for following you quietly.

He tightened his grip on his shoulders, and finally stumbled over the chair.

“Don’t come to me without permission. Don’t even touch it suddenly.”

“…….”

“I just don’t like being cocky.”

Back on my feet, I stretched out my finger and pointed to the color of my hair, which resembled wheat growing well in the soil.

I’m talking about you. Cheeky guy.

Snowy, who had been silent until now, opened his mouth.

“Is life enough?”

Snowy’s lips twisted.

It was a voice so small that it was hard to hear even my ears that could hear the sound of a small drop of water.

“Just what you said.”

―I’ve arrived.

Just in time, Ahri announced his arrival. I quickly turned my gaze and looked out the window and saw that it was pitch black outside.

―I’m going to land.

He felt a slow fall, and then the carriage landed softly on the ground.

The carriage doors opened, and we didn’t have to wait until we got off.

“What are you doing if you don’t get off?”

Snowy didn’t get off, staring at me who got off first.

‘Was that shocking?’

It was then that I recognized his youthful voice and look.

‘Fifteen?’

Still he’s a boy. I had overlooked the fact that I was too delicate to hear poisonous words.

“If it’s because of what I just said, don’t take it to heart. Guaranteed for life. As long as you keep it, you won’t run away.”

The past is the past. The present is as it is.

It’s only been three months, but I’ve learned that it’s only when I was possessed that it’s easier for me and the other person. In that glass prison.

“…….”

Still, Snowy stared at the footstool, unaware of it.

When I got off, I almost fell because the footrest was lower than I expected, and I wondered if Snowy was worried about that.

“Should I hold your hand?”

Snowy lowered his outstretched hand alone, not looking at him.

I rubbed my palms against the hem of my dress in embarrassment.

‘Prickly.’

He stared at Snowy’s back for a moment, then quickly took his steps.

***

We got out of the wagon and went into a deep alley.

The dreary darkness filled the air, the acrid smell of tobacco and garbage, and the occasional fishy smell of blood hit the nostrils.

“Are you going here?”

―That’s right. It’s exactly where it goes.

Ahri, who had gone from a giant white fox pulling the wagon to the size of her forearm, replied.

“I can’t believe an inn is in a place like this.”

It’s a strange alley that doesn’t have ghosts.

When she tried to avoid the new queen, she felt like a snow-white woman facing a scary forest, and her body was about to become uncomfortable.

―Here it is.

It was comparatively cleaner and smellless than any other building I had encountered in the gloomy alley I had just passed. But the only problem was the people here.

Bald men sitting on the stairs of the inn. Over there, the women and the old lady smoking a cigarette.

I was worried that they might get into a fight, but as we approached, they just retreated and disappeared like a lie.

“Just in case, is this really the place?”

Unlike the wind, Ahri’s answer was consistent.

―I repeat, but my answer is the same. Here’s for sure.

“It’s an inn where you’re going to meet a ghost or a thunderbolt.”

―That’s half true. The ghost doesn’t come out, but the thunderous does.

“What?”

Ahri chuckles, and with him squeaks, the door to the inn opens.

“Are you a guest?”

A big man ran up and down at me.

“There’s no way someone like you would come to a place like this…”

He rubbed my chin and glanced behind me, gasping.

“Dang, you!”

The man’s eyes widened in surprise, pointing to Snowy.