When I told him that he couldn’t touch or kill Yuria, Cail was very disappointed.

I brought the terrified Yuria to my room to calm her down.

I brought her comfortable clothes to wear and warm milk.

“You see? Everyone is trying to kill me.”

Yuria clutched the cup of warm milk and trembled.

“That must be upsetting. To end up like this with people you once liked.”

“It’s okay. I never liked those crazy men either.”

“What?”

What is she saying now? Yuria never liked them either.

Today was full of many surprising stories.

“Actually… when I was first brought here, God told me. That I needed to join forces with those men to kill the demon dragon. Then he would grant my wish.”

“Your wish?”

“To be honest, I didn’t mind being brought here at first. Who wouldn’t like having such handsome men as their destined partners?”

“Well, that’s true.”

I nodded in agreement since I also agreed that the three men were handsome.

“My heart fluttered, and for a moment I was intoxicated by those romantic feelings. But I couldn’t abandon my family waiting for me just to have a romance with handsome men. So I planned to kill the demon dragon, make my wish, and return home.”

“I see.”

“But it looks like I’ll die before the demon dragon does. Then by chance, I found a way to return home, so I went back to where I originally lived.”

So that’s why she suddenly returned.

I recalled my past struggles trying to fulfill the role of the absent female protagonist.

“Just when I finally escaped this nightmarish world, I didn’t expect to be summoned back here again.”

Yuria let out a deep sigh.

As we chatted, she seemed to calm down a bit, and her hands stopped trembling.

“And it’s not just them. The cult leader of that strange religious group who said he was waiting for me is also trying to kill me.”

Yuria spoke in a gloomy voice.

“If I stay here, I’ll eventually die. So please help me return safely to my original world.”

Somehow, I felt sorry for her despite not having been particularly close to her originally.

After quietly listening to her, I suddenly asked.

“You have a way to return to your original world?”

“I just need to open a dimensional door! Ah, it’s like a passage connecting where I originally was to this place.”

“Alright. Then the deadline for completing this request will be until you open the dimensional door. How will you pay the fee?”

“The… fee?”

Yuria asked as if she’d heard an unfamiliar term.

“Did you think you could request services for free?”

“How could you do this to me!”

“What kind of relationship do we have?”

I snorted and said.

“That’s too much!”

She exclaimed, but I lightly ignored her.

‘We weren’t on good terms anyway.’

I was the villain who would destroy this world, and Yuria was the hero and protagonist who would stop me and save this world.

Our relationship was inevitably bound to be bad.

The one variable was that Yuria was excessively afraid of me.

That was actually partly my fault…

‘You’re really too much. Don’t you feel sorry for Lord Niel, Lord Yupheon, and Lord Cail?’

After Niel requested to break off our engagement, Yuria became quite haughty and confronted me.

‘You say amusing things. Why should I feel sorry for them?’

‘Why, you ask? Because His Majesty hasn’t processed the annulment quickly enough, so Lord Niel has to hide his love for me in front of people despite loving me.’

What nonsense. Far from hiding it, he was openly displaying it.

And contrary to her words, my engagement with Niel was being processed incredibly quickly, almost unbelievably so for an imperial engagement.

‘And you’re preventing Lord Yupheon and Lord Cail from getting close to me, aren’t you?’

‘Me?’

‘You can pretend all you want, but I know everything. God Arne told me. They are destined to love me.’

‘….’

‘You’re blocking them, aren’t you? To keep them all to yourself.’

I started to feel a bit wronged.

Who was the one waiting to nicely hand over the male leads whenever Yuria appeared?

‘If you feel even a little sorry for them, stop being so clingy and let them go.’

‘I don’t want to.’

But I was this world’s villain.

If I simply agreed to her words, the flow would become strange.

Besides, just listening quietly made me feel unpleasant.

‘Why should I do that?’

‘What did you say?’

‘I said, why should I do that? Why should I care who they like?’

‘Because obviously…!’

‘I am the Emperor of Shunaibel, and I can have whatever I want. Why should I care about their feelings?’

‘My goodness! Those men who treated someone like you sincerely are so pitiful…! Kyaaak!’

Crash!

The demonic energy that burst from my body threatened Yuria.

At Yuria’s scream, Niel and Cail, who were in the corridor, rushed into the reception room.

They looked at me with pale faces, then glanced down at Yuria, who had collapsed on the floor.

Then Niel, with a hardened expression, walked toward Yuria.

‘What is this?’

He asked me as he took off his coat and draped it over the terrified Yuria’s shoulders.

‘Did Your Majesty do this?’

‘Didn’t I warn you? That neither you nor your woman would be safe if you caught my eye.’

‘….’

‘Yet you boldly wandered around my palace. How long did you think I would turn a blind eye?’

‘…I was planning to take Lady Yuria to the Duke’s residence once the annulment procedures were complete. But since Your Majesty threatens my woman, I cannot wait until then.’

Yuria left the palace in Niel’s arms, terrified, and stayed at the Duke’s residence.

Anyway, after that, Yuria became afraid of me and turned timid whenever she saw me.

Thinking about it now, it was natural. Yuria was just an ordinary college student who had been accidentally brought to this world.

If I had known she would be so frightened, I would have spoken more gently.

Thanks to that, I only made the male leads more wary of me.

Niel even drew his sword in front of me in the end.

Though it actually worked out better since it followed the original story’s flow…

‘Ah, but thinking about it again makes me angry.’

Recalling the past made me annoyed, so I glared at her sullenly, and she blinked her eyes, not knowing why.

***

After letting Yuria rest in the room, I went out to the corridor.

Cail was standing in the hallway.

Thinking he might still be obsessed with killing Yuria, I glared at him with wide eyes.

“No.”

“Don’t worry, Jella.”

He walked toward me with a calm smile.

“I’ll do anything you tell me to do, and I’ll never do anything you tell me not to do.”

He stopped in front of me.

“So don’t be so wary of me to protect that woman. It makes me jealous.”

“Huh?”

It seemed like he added something strange at the end.

“That woman is an outsider, yet she’s not going home even though night is falling, and she’s sharing a room with you.”

I hadn’t misheard. Cail was really jealous.

I looked at him with an incredulous expression.

“How is Yuria like you?”

“What’s different?”

He asked as if he genuinely didn’t understand.

“The gender is different!”

“Then what about Damian?”

“Why suddenly bring up Damian?”

“You left me and went with Damian.”

“There was a reason for that… No, more importantly, how do you know Damian?”

“I’ve always been good at remembering names. I also remember young Lord Amets’s name.”

“What are you saying…”

As I was grumbling and pouting.

“So, Jella.”

Cail reached out toward my eyes but couldn’t quite touch me and instead clenched his fist tightly in the air.

“Who made you sad?”

“Huh?”

I looked at him, momentarily confused.

“Was it Damian? Yuria? Or someone else I don’t know about?”

“W-what are you talking about? What do you mean?”

“I can smell tears on you.”