I Thought I Healed the Villain's Sickly Younger Brother - Chapter 0 - Prologue

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[Healing Gauge 10000/10000]

‘……Well. This day has finally come.’

As she met the deep blue eyes of ‘Ariel’ who was smiling without knowing anything, ‘Merrien’ smiled back.

His face was no longer pale and bloodless.

Still, as always, it was clear that he had the milky white skin that Merrien loved so much.

‘Yes, that’s enough.’

Merrien didn’t die at the hands of the villain Archmage until she filled up the healing gauge, as per the contract conditions Ariel had set.

He was also perfectly healed, so their contract was considered over.

The words “I’ll make the Archmage kneel before you” that she heard when she first met Ariel briefly echoed in her mind, but now she had no time for other thoughts.

Feeling like a shadow was falling, she turned her gaze to the window and saw the sunset fading. It would soon be evening.

“Ariel, see you tomorrow.”

“Yes, see you tomorrow, Merri.”

Merrien, casually greeting as usual, hurriedly returned to her room and packed the luggage she had secretly prepared.

And in the late night when everyone was asleep.

She left the room with nervous steps.

“……Live well, Ariel!”

Merrien shouted even more brightly, casually ignoring the clause that forbade going out into the hallway after six in the evening as she escaped from the Hartez mansion.

She spoke in a tone that sounded like a nature documentary narrator, even though there was no one to hear.

“I’m leaving!”

Merrien, who had turned around pretending to have no lingering feelings and headed towards a place where no one could find her, closed her eyes.

Yes, that’s what she thought.

“Merri, where are you going?”

“……?”

Merrien doubted her ears at the familiar voice that seeped in.

Soon, Ariel was caught in her slowly opening view, and she froze on the spot.

“Are you trying to leave after saving me?”

The lowest voice she had ever heard, perhaps angry, tickled her ears.

‘……Why couldn’t I return to reality?’

Such a question lasted only for a moment.

The blue eyes she faced were so intensely dark that she couldn’t think of anything else.

She swallowed hard. Then suddenly, an indescribable sense of discomfort seemed to envelop her whole body, and Merrien’s mouth moved on its own.

“Ariel, why is your hair color.”

Although it wasn’t clearly visible under the black robe, Ariel’s hair peeking out here and there wasn’t black.

Rather, it was closer to silver…

As Merrien’s heart started pounding, unable to continue speaking, Ariel smiled knowingly and pulled down his robe.

At the same time, the moonlight shone behind him like a painting.

His hair gradually turned silver from the bottom up, as if to prove that what she saw wasn’t a lie.

There was no need to raise her gaze.

Ariel’s hair had already turned completely silver.

“……You!”

Merrien belatedly covered her mouth.

“Merri, I told you before. I’d make the Archmage kneel before you.”

Ariel leisurely grasped Merrien’s trembling hand and brought it to his neck like a dog collar.

However, it was rather Merrien who was holding her breath as if her throat was constricted.

“It’s already too late, Merri.”

For a moment, Merrien thought that it might not be Ariel who was on the leash, but herself.

The blue eyes gleaming with obsession were filled entirely with her image.

“If you’ve tamed me, you must take responsibility till the end.”

The beginning wasn’t so grand.

She just wanted to escape from the villain’s hands.

Then she grew to like the Hartez mansion and Ariel…

As Merrien rolled her eyes around, she finally realized that all the misaligned puzzle pieces had fallen into place.

‘Ariel… He wasn’t the Archmage’s younger brother, but the Archmage himself!’

She felt dumbfounded once at the fact that she had seriously misunderstood.

And once again at Ariel’s gaze that she met.

Then Ariel rubbed his cheek against Merrien’s hand and spoke softly with the pure and sickly look of the white fluff from their first meeting.

“Woof woof.”

“……”

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Despite being fully healed, and even with a relaxed expression.

His heart rate was rising as if about to burst.

[▶Error◀ Healing gauge has been reset to zero.]

[Healing Gauge 0/10000]

“Hahaha……”

And as if to confirm the kill, the healing gauge returned to zero.