The Final Boss Has Returned 169

Chapter 169

“……Ru, rumor…….”

Rumor.

The answer Eugene gave was nothing but the lie of a rumor.

Even in this situation, Eugene could never give up the fence of the ‘Lightwing Guild.’

It was because he wanted to protect this daily life even if it meant breaking his principle of not telling lies.

But that was the worst choice for Eugene.

“……It’s not a rumor.”

Sharp bit her lip.

Eugene.

It was because she knew he had lied.

As much as he was once the person she loved, Sharp tried to learn everything about Eugene, even though she pretended to be cold on the outside.

That’s why Sharp could know better than anyone else that what Eugene said now was a lie.

Because Eugene is not very used to lying.

Sharp’s hands trembled.

Her heart started pounding like it was going to explode.

It wasn’t a feeling of excitement.

A bitter sense of betrayal began to rise from the depths of her heart.

“You knew…… everything.”

A low voice flowed from Sharp’s mouth.

“Th, that’s…… No, no.”

Eugene denied it with a cold sweat at Sharp’s words, and Sharp smiled bitterly when she saw him.

It was because she realized that he was lying again.

Normally, she would have thought it was a kind gesture, but now that she knew the uncomfortable truth, it was just an indecisive look.

Sharp suppressed the sense of betrayal that began to rise from the depths of her heart at the sight of Eugene lying.

Still, even now, it was because there was still a little love left for him.

Even though Eugene had lied to her twice, Sharp decided to give him one last chance.

“Eugene. I like you, no, I love you.”

Sharp closed her eyes and opened them, speaking slowly.

This time, Sharp, who even said ‘I love you’ so that Eugene couldn’t avoid it, looked at Eugene and continued to speak.

“Do you, do you…… love me?”

Eugene closed his mouth when he heard Sharp’s question.

I love you.

Eugene knew her heart, but this was the first time he had heard a direct confession.

But Eugene couldn’t easily respond to her confession.

It was because he had never thought of them as a dating partner, but only as colleagues.

But even so, if he didn’t say anything now, his colleagues, whom he cherished more than anyone else, would surely be disappointed in him.

And Eugene couldn’t stand it.

After a brief silence, Eugene’s lips slowly opened.

“I, I like you. As a colleague…… I cherish you more than anyone else.”

I like you as a colleague.

I cherish you more than anyone else.

This was Eugene’s true feeling.

Eugene thought of all the Lightwing Guild members as family.

His new family, replacing his deceased parents.

Therefore, Eugene thought that Sharp would also understand his true feelings if he told her, as he had always done.

Sincerity always works.

That was the way of life that Eugene aimed for, and Eugene’s sincerity had never failed to work until now.

Even that ‘Drakan’ was impressed by Eugene’s heart and reformed, didn’t he!

“……So this is how it was.”

But not this time.

Eugene’s sincerity did not reach Sharp.

Sharp’s voice trembled.

This time, it was a tremor of betrayal and anger, not sadness.

I like you as a colleague, I cherish you more than anyone else.

The moment she heard that answer, Sharp felt a desperate feeling like the world was collapsing.

She confessed her feelings to him, risking everything and even forgiving his lies.

For Sharp, who has a strong pride, this was a truly unconventional confession that put everything down.

Because she truly loved the man named Eugene, because she had liked him for the past six years, she threw away her pride and confessed.

But the answer that came back from the man she loved so much was a hypocritical word more terrible than rejection.

Sharp felt miserable.

The fact that her love for him had not been properly reciprocated, the uncomfortable truth that he had known her heart and yet had been playing with her all this time, and the fact that Eugene was still consistent with lies and hypocrisy even at this point, caused a fiery sense of betrayal and anger in Sharp’s heart.

“Why didn’t you just reject me?”

A cold voice flowed from Sharp’s mouth.

If he had just rejected her, she might not have felt as miserable as she did now.

But Eugene chose a poor excuse instead of rejection, and that excuse made Sharp’s heart burn with anger.

Even though he had already been caught lying, Eugene was trying to manage her again.

And Eugene’s management didn’t work for Sharp, a fish that had already escaped the fish tank.

Eugene said in a panic at Sharp’s cold words.

“That’s…… Be, because you might get hurt…….”

Because you might get hurt.

That was Eugene’s true feeling.

Even in this situation, Eugene believed that his sincerity would still work.

It had always been that way, so it was an unfounded belief that it would be that way in the future.

And Sharp’s face hardened even more when she heard the answer.

“Hurt…….”

Sharp muttered softly.

“That was the justification you’ve been using to justify your management all this time.”

A low word flowed from Sharp’s mouth.

You might get hurt.

It was a word that pretended to think of the other person, but Sharp realized now that the words were the most selfish excuse of all.

Because it was none other than Sharp herself who was hurt the most by those words.

To nail someone’s heart and say it because you were worried they might get hurt!

Sharp thought there was a limit to making fun of people.

“…….”

Eugene was silent.

His mind was already filled with confusion.

Eugene already knew that his actions were selfish.

Drakan.

Because he told him.

And Drakan added.

You’re not the only one who wants to maintain the status quo in the guild, and everyone can be happy with a white lie.

And finally, he said that his answer was just advice, not the answer.

It was none other than Eugene himself who followed that advice.

Like Drakan said, he thought everyone wouldn’t want the collapse of this relationship.

But the result was not.

Sharp’s eyes were filled with anger and misery, enough for even Eugene, who was insensitive to the feelings of others, to know.

Sharp clicked her tongue as she looked at Eugene, who was silent.

Eugene’s handsome face, which had looked lovely until she saw the article, now began to look disgusting.

Six years.

For such a long time, not only was her love, which she had loved, trampled on, but the fact that he knew her heart and yet had taken an ambiguous attitude and played with her, the reality that her love was unrequited love, and that he only thought of her as a ‘colleague,’ the moment Sharp realized this, her heart had already turned away.

It wasn’t like she didn’t show that she liked him, she should have noticed from the time he pretended not to know.

A tear streamed down Sharp’s right eye.

It was a tear of misery, anger, sadness, and regret.

Sharp said in a trembling voice.

“……Goodbye.”

Sharp said so and turned her back.

“Sharp! Wh, where are you going?”

Eugene shouted as soon as he heard Sharp’s greeting.

Lightwing Guild.

One of his ‘family’ disappears?

Eugene couldn’t accept that reality.

The Lightwing Guild always had to be by his side, just like it was in the beginning.

But that unbelievable reality was about to unfold before Eugene’s eyes like a panorama.

Sharp smiled bitterly at the sound of Eugene’s voice holding her back.

She tried to end the last memory of the man she once loved well, but Eugene was trying to be ugly at the end.

“Why are you holding me back?”

Sharp asked with her back turned.

“Because you, you are a precious person. You are a colleague who is like my family!”

Eugene conveyed his ‘true feelings’ for the third time at Sharp’s words.

Because you are family, please don’t leave.

Sharp scoffed at his sincerity.

Eugene.

He was making her miserable until the very end.

Sharp devoted her whole heart to Eugene for over six years, but all she got in return was the hypocritical word ‘family.’

Even if he didn’t know her heart, she could have given him the benefit of the doubt.

However, Eugene already knew her heart.

Not only did he play with her heart while knowing that she loved him so much, wrapping it up with nonsense like family, but Sharp felt disillusioned by the sight of Eugene trying to hold her back with the word family until the very end.

“Eugene.”

A cold word flowed from Sharp’s mouth.

“I never dreamed that you were such a selfish person who only cared about your own feelings.”

If he had even pretended to love her.

Maybe she would have had some lingering feelings.

But Eugene didn’t, and he remained consistent with poor excuses until the very end.

He didn’t even try to admit his lies.

Sharp was more than disappointed by that fact.

At the same time, Sharp felt the lingering feelings that remained disappear completely.

Eugene.

After all, until the very end, he rejected her love and only forced the selfish name of ‘family’ on her.

In the end, Sharp’s own love was nothing.

Rather, Eugene, he used her love.

Sharp thought so.

And Eugene, who heard the word selfish from Sharp, lowered his head.

It was because Sharp’s words were not lies, but at the same time, the fact that such words came from a colleague whom he cherished more than anyone else and considered like family was stabbing Eugene’s heart like a dagger.

Regardless, Sharp, who had completely lost her lingering feelings, declared to Eugene in a cold voice.

“I’m leaving.”

I’m leaving.

Hearing those words, Eugene immediately screamed.

“Don’t, don’t go!!”

Even Eugene, who was insensitive, felt it instinctively this time.

The fact that if she closed this door and went out, it would be her last.

But Eugene’s scream did not impress Sharp.

Leaving behind the ugly screaming Eugene until the end, Sharp closed the door of the CEO’s office with cold footsteps and went out.

It was the moment when the division of the Lightwing Guild finally began.