Saving You, Villain - Chapter 1

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My first love was a fictional character.

He was a wonderful, righteous, handsome hero who saved the world. The brilliant Luke Florence, the protagonist of the novel <The Return of the Savior>.

In the eyes of other people, it was pathetic for an adult to fall in love with a fictional character. I knew that… but I couldn’t help it. What was I supposed to do when my heart pounded with excitement every time I imagined Luke with his beautiful blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes?

But contrary to my affection, it was clear that the author of this novel did not like Luke. 

They made Luke go through many hardships. He didn’t receive the usual power buff that a protagonist would have, instead, the villain’s strength far exceeded his. I shed tears of frustration as I read the novel in vain. 

The villain’s son, Camian Deloise Hespion, was the prince of the Demon Realm and the strongest man in the world, devoid of any affection or emotion. He was cruel and ruthless, killing everyone and anyone who crossed his path. As a result, all of the protagonists’ friends were slaughtered by him.

There was even more evidence to prove the author’s bias for Camian. The entire narrative was mostly focused on the villain. In addition to that, the description of Camian’s past was 90 pages longer than Luke’s.

The background story was as followed: 

Camian, the young prince of the Demon Realm, was somehow summoned by a seven-year-old girl and descended to the human world. Although it was no secret that he despised his first contractor because she was a human child with a congenital illness, the villain gradually opened his heart to his contractor, the innocent and open-minded Liv.

“Don’t look at them with such an envious expression. Why don’t you go out and play?”

“It’s alright. I’ll feel tired after running ten or so steps, and the other kids find me to be too boring to play with. Plus, I’m not jealous at all because you’re next to me, Camian.”

“…”

“I wish you would see me as someone special, even if it’s only a little because you are everything to me in my small world.”

“Stop thinking about these useless thoughts and instead, ponder over how to make your body healthier than it was yesterday.”

“In the past, I used to resent being sick. But after meeting you, I learned to look forward to you holding my hand every day and exercising with me.”

“…”

…Those two characters were quite crazy. I couldn’t help but be shocked when I read the description about how the tips of Camian’s ears turned red in embarrassment due to Liv’s words. In the chapter just before this scene, Camian destroyed an entire country. 

The protagonist, Luke, had never experienced any romance in the novel. The only thing he ever did was train with his sword. In contrast, Camian spent his days idling around.

Camian and Liv, who had maintained an innocent friendship thus far, finally confirmed each other’s feelings after they became adults. But their happiness was short-lived. In the end, Liv could not overcome the illness. Her face was as pale as white lilies when she died and was buried in the ground. 

Unable to bear the pain and sorrow of losing his beloved, he went on a rampage. The light in his eyes died out and wherever he passed, he left a trail of blood.

“It’s so simple to kill ten thousand humans, so why couldn’t I save you?”

The main plot of the novel was focused on Luke’s fight against Camian as he tried to protect the world. But… author-nim, the plot was not balanced.

Even after Luke went through arduous training and was armed with all kinds of rare magic items, he was often reduced to nothing when he fought against Camian.

There was no hope nor justice in this novel.

The mere appearance of Camian made not only Luke nervous but me from another dimension as well. How could one defeat a character with such overwhelming power?

It was impossible to kill him. I know that, and so did all the extras in the novel. The only person who wasn’t aware of this was Luke, who continued to struggle against injustice. 

Heart-rending, really.

“Ugh. If only I could enter the novel world, then I would do everything in my power to prevent Camian from going berserk.”

Did my heartache for Luke’s happiness reach the gods? I actually possessed a fictional character in the novel. The villain had yet to blacken.

***

“Are you going to eat or not?” He scooped a spoonful of my stew and brought it to my mouth. 

I looked at the spoon unhappily. “Blegh.”

“Say ‘ahhh’.” The spoon pressed against my lips stubbornly. I couldn’t get rid of his reluctant face, so I ended up opening my mouth.

“You can’t get up until the bowl is empty.”

This man, who was carefully feeding me while scolding me harshly, was none other than Camian, the demon prince and the strongest villain in the novel.

“I was going to eat it even if you didn’t tell me to.” I ate the stew more aggressively than before. 

Camian glanced at me and once he saw that I was diligently eating my food, he began eating as well.

“Camian is the only person who takes care of Liv. We’ll give you all our farms, so won’t you accept Liv’s heart?” Debra and Zex smiled.

They were Liv’s aunt and uncle. Debra pushed the bowl of stew to the side and put her hands on her chin. She openly watched them.

“Don’t say such a terrible thing. Do I look crazy?” Camian, who finished his stew in an instant, put down his spoon. 

Debra’s eyes squinted at his sharp tone. “I wish Camian could be a little more honest.”

“How can I be more honest than this?”

I secretly snorted at Camian’s words. Debra knew that he liked me. Jax knew that he liked me. I knew that he liked me. It was funny watching him stubbornly believe that he was the only one who knew his perfectly kept ‘secret’.

“Let me do it.” He took my bowl. He must’ve been thinking about something as he let my spoon soak in the bowl for stew for some time. 

Camian scooped up a spoonful of the stew, brought it to his mouth, and blew on it before putting it before my mouth. I had learned something about him after being together with him for 15 years. No matter what anyone said, Camian stubbornness could never be defeated. I frowned as I opened my mouth.

***

15 years.

It had already been that long since I possessed the character ‘Liv Klein,’ a young contractor who summoned Camian and the person whose ‘death’ caused Camian to blacken and go crazy with grief.

Nobody had any idea how embarrassed I was when I first opened my eyes. When I woke up, a black gust of wind was swirling fiercely in front of me. The boy who stood in the center of the whirlwind walked towards me and kissed the back of my hand.

“The contract is sealed, human.”

I possessed the seven-year-old girl who was Camian’s first contractor.

The young Liv wished to become the strongest person in the world, but it was merely an impossible and futile desire.

“Please be good friends with me.”

Liv, who was unable to hang out with her peers due to her illness, always longed to have a friend. In the meantime, she happened upon a demon summoning book. As a result, she caught Camian just like that.

Looking back at the past 15 years, I had suffered a lot.

I moped all day because I couldn’t accept the fact that I possessed a character in a novel. At night, I repeatedly smacked my cheeks all night, thinking that I would suddenly wake up from this dream. After that, I tried to look for a way to return to my world. But it was impossible to receive any helpful information in this rural village where there were only rice fields and goats.

After five years of futile attempts, my health deteriorated rapidly and I gradually lost hope. I spat out blood in the morning and there were many days when I would pass out for a few days because of a high fever.

I could feel my life draining away with every breath I took. My fear of death sent shivers down my spine every time I vomited blood, staining my mouth, clothes, and blanket. 

The pain was like a poisoned knife slowly cutting through my whole body.

Even though I was afraid of death, I wished I’d rather die. I would fade out of consciousness, but when my brain couldn’t overcome the raging pain, I would wake up and the pain would begin all over again. I shuddered at the thought of having to experience another moment of that pain. I imagined in my mind… how I would die miserably in an unfamiliar world.

It was Camian who took care of me with the utmost sincerity while I was suffering. To help lower my fever, he would constantly wipe my body with a cold towel. He would feed me and clean up the blood I vomited and the food that I couldn’t swallow.

I had to take medicine every hour, and Camian made sure to feed me without fail, like an unresting alarm clock.

My shattered body and mind naturally became dependent on Camian over time. If he hadn’t taken care of me, I felt like I would’ve been sucked into eternal torment. 

Perhaps the reason I didn’t lose my will to live was that Camian took great care of me or perhaps it merely wasn’t the time yet for Liv to die based on the novel’s plot… In any case, my health gradually recovered. 

After suffering so much pain, I felt that something had changed in me.

Ever since I entered the novel world, my mind was always hazy and confused. But now that my mind had calmed down, I was convinced that it was not a bizarre accident that led me to enter the novel world. There must be a reason why I transmigrated.

And when I was focused on finding the reason, I began to have the same dream every day. The dream was of myself when I was ‘Lee Heewon’, not Liv.

Even though the place in my dream changed little by little, the me in my dream repeated the same word over and over again.

“If only I could enter the novel world, then I would do everything in my power to prevent Camian from going berserk.”

‘…’

No way… so?!

I felt like a bucket of cold water was dumped on me when I came back to my senses. I still had unanswered questions. But every cell in my body was shouting, “That’s the reason!”

After I realized this, the dreams stopped.

All right. Let’s stop him from blackening. That might be the only way I could return to my own world. This was like a quest that could only be completed by fulfilling the given conditions.

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