I Accidentally Kidnapped The Ultimate Villain – Chapter 41

Ch 41

“That’s a shame.”

Killian said that and hugged Aria even tighter, as if he couldn’t let her go.

“Ugh…….”

At her breath, he slowly let go of Aria. Then Aria slowly came out. And then she turned around and looked at Killian. He was looking at her like a beast shining its eyes in the dark. So she suddenly felt fear, even though it wasn’t a scary situation.

Like a herbivore just before being eaten by a beast.

So when she avoided his eyes, he began to look at Aria persistently, as if wanting her to look at him again.

“I’ll see you in my room later.”

At those words, he returned to the Killian that Aria knew, gentle.

“Yes.”

She looked back at him a few times and then went upstairs. When she went up one floor, there were several rooms with similar structures there as well. So it didn’t seem too difficult to hide.

She was tired of walking, perhaps because she had been going up and down the stairs so much. Judging by the sound of footsteps she heard somewhere, Lionell seemed to be on the floor directly above.

She leaned against the wall to stick closer to it, and touched the wall.

Then.

“Ah……!”

The wall turned around.

She was instantly brought to the other side of the wall, and inside there were tremendous things lined up.

“W-What is this?”

There was a strange space inside the wall, and it was full of shackles and various tools. It looked like a place for torture, and what was strange was something that was stained all over the walls.

She ran her hand over it, just in case, but it wouldn’t come off, as if it had been dry for quite a while.

The faint smell of iron and the musty smell felt ominous.

‘Thump, thump’ The sound of footsteps was getting closer. But this place was a place that could not be known unless the wall was pushed. Still, Aria was terrified that he would find her, and her body stiffened.

━ Aria?

She swallowed what she was about to unconsciously answer to Lionell’s voice, and crouched down in the corner, shrinking her body.

━ Hmm. Is it not?

She heard the sound of his footsteps moving away again.

Wait a minute. If I go down…….

Killian will be found out?

Wouldn’t it be better for me to get caught instead?

“Eek!”

She was startled and fell over when she got up, surprised by something she saw next to her.

━ Aria?!

“What is this!”

The entire underground was lit with torches, but she couldn’t see the details. Something under her hand kept moving, and she had to get up to run away because she had pressed it with her hand as she fell.

━ Aria! Where are you? Why can I only hear your voice? What’s wrong? Are you okay?

She couldn’t come to her senses more because of his rapid-fire words. Her trembling legs had no strength at all.

“Y-Your Highness…… I’m scared……!”

Something moving under her palm was wriggling more and more ticklishly.

━ D*mn it. Wait.

He said urgently and clattered. Aria’s vision was getting blurry, and her body was trembling as if she was about to faint.

―Thud!

“Aria.”

The wall she had pushed in collapsed with a cloud of dust, because Lionell had destroyed the wall.

He was still holding his sword and approached her, but as soon as he saw her face, he was worried because Aria was trembling so much.

“What’s wrong? Did you see a ghost or something?”

“U-Under, under there…… hand, ah, under, ugh…… strange, thing…….”

It was terrible. Something was still wriggling under her hand.

“What?”

Then he put his sword away and reached out under Aria’s armpits to lift her up, and she saw something under her palm quickly disappear. Judging by the fact that something black disappeared quickly…….

“Isn’t that a roach?”

“W-What is this……!”

It was shocking that she had not only been covered in dust but had also touched a roach with her hand.

“Were you afraid of bugs?”

“I don’t know……!”

“Huh.”

Lionell was smiling brightly without erasing his smile, as if he found it so funny. Then, he took out a familiar white handkerchief with the imperial family’s emblem from his pocket and wiped her face.

It was a problem that she was covered in dust, but her cheeks were stained with tears. And he wiped her palms carefully, but she still felt goosebumps as if the sensation of the roach moving on her hand was still there.

“I’m going crazy.”

“Ah…….”

She was pathetic for her breath that was out of rhythm. He carefully wiped Aria’s hands, threw the handkerchief on the floor, and said.

“Can you walk?”

When she shook her head, he laughed again as if it was so funny. He was somehow happy that she seemed to rely on him.

“Since when have you been afraid of bugs? You used to catch 100 cicadas and release them in my room when I said I was afraid of cicadas.”

Aria became more horrified when she thought of cicadas. She was afraid of cicadas too.

“I-I don’t know. It changed sometime…….”

When he said that, the tears that had been welling up in her eyes were about to fall again. He was staring blankly when he used to laugh when she cried because it was funny.

“You must have been very surprised.”

“Ugh, yes…….”

“Come here.”

Aria seemed like he was about to hug her, so she blocked him.

“Can’t I?”

“No!”

“I’m just comforting you?”

“If you’re going to comfort me, cancel what you said about looking for the person who was with me!”

“If I cancel it, will you let me hug you?”

When she slowly nodded her head, he had a complicated expression. He didn’t believe that she was his lover anyway, but he didn’t know why she was covering for him so much.

It seemed like she herself thought it was impossible that Princess Aria, who had been chasing him for 15 years, would love someone else in just a week.

“Okay, then.”

Then he pulled her into his arms and patted her back. With his slow breathing and patting touch, she was gradually finding stability.

“It’s like you’ve gone back to when you were a child.”

“What was I like when I was a child?”

“Just. Like now.”

“What have I been like lately?”

She spoke while holding back her breath so she wouldn’t gasp, and when he made eye contact, he smiled with a complicated expression. Then, he looked at her and gently curved his eyes. The sight was so beautiful that Aria almost lost her mind for a moment.

“You’ve been a little better lately. Before that, it was hard to understand. It’s strange that you like me and yet you torment me so much.”

“……..”

“But now that the tables have turned, I think I understand a little. When I think that you don’t look at me, my chest feels stuffy, and I wonder what I should do to make you look at me, how I should make you look at me again, and as I worry about that, I start to have bad thoughts.”

“Yes……?”

She was frozen, as if that was something the male lead shouldn’t say.

“So I think I’ve come to understand a little. I understand why you were so impatient.”

“Ah…….”

“So come back. I’ll do better now. I’ll really try so that you won’t feel upset, so that you won’t be hurt because of me.”

Those words were clearly sincere. But Aria felt like that sincerity made it feel even heavier. He was someone who had a destined partner.

Besides, in the original story, he was the one who killed me.

Roach*

In the end, she returned on Lionell’s back. It was because she couldn’t walk with her legs trembling from the shock.

When they returned to the mansion, the pale-faced aide was waiting for Lionell. As was Duke Dolorein.

“Your Highness, are you just arriving?”

“What’s going on?”

Lionell sat Aria on the sofa in the reception room and asked without looking back at the others.

“It seems like you need to go.”

“I’m on vacation. What is it?”

Lionell asked the aide, annoyed, while brushing his hair up his forehead. Aria also looked at the Duke, noticing his actions, and he also had a bad expression, as if it was a very serious matter.

“There has been a terror attack.”

“What?”

“A terror attack occurred at the temple, and they are currently dealing with it. The Second Imperial Prince has already gone there. Your Highness should also…….”

Lionell frowned, glancing at Aria.

He thought that making the Crown Princess was a higher priority. But a temple terror attack. It was a hard-earned vacation, but not only had he not made much progress in his relationship with Aria, but an accident had also happened, and his mood sank unpleasantly.

Aria was out of her mind with shock at what she had just heard. It was as if what she had heard had entered through one ear and left through the other.

“Let’s go together, Your Highness.”

“Huh?”

Originally, the temple was attacked in the original story after Lionell’s body was fully healed and he was able to use divine power.

If so, it would be at least a month or two later. But why did it happen already?

In the original story, Lionell had solidified his position through that incident.

When Aria had that thought, she felt guilty that the original story seemed to be twisted because of her.

Can he use divine power now? Is it because he wasn’t kidnapped by me that he can’t use it now?

If so, wouldn’t the Crown Prince’s position become precarious?

No, but the culprit of this incident was supposed to be Killian!

Killian is here, and he’s lost his memory. I even met him in the underground maze earlier?

Then does that mean it wasn’t Killian who did it? Then who the h*ll? Why?

Complex thoughts were rising up all at once, tormenting Aria.

“Aria.”

Lionell also called her with a complicated expression. Aria, who had made eye contact, looked at him, her father, and the Crown Prince’s aide, and organized her thoughts.

The temple supported Lionell, the Crown Prince. Because his mother, the Late Empress, was originally a person who had been promoted to Saintess.

“They’re targeting Your Highness, this is.”