That Villain? I’ll Raise Him Myself

“To think I was a supporting character.”

Adele only learns the truth after she dies.

The fact that she had actually been nothing more than a side character for the protagonists!

The moment she learned the truth, a lump of resentment she hadn’t known was there suddenly rose in her chest.

The villain who had been dying, gazing at the heroine with eyes red and wet with tears.

***

‘Vincent Rogato.’

‘If I had known it would come to this, I wouldn’t have done that to you.’

‘Vincent, I should never have killed you with my own hands.’

Upon realizing she had returned to the past, Adele felt regret.

And then she made a decision.

‘If I am a supporting character and my future is already set, then at least let me change your miserable past.’

The first step would be……

“I’ll make you my subordinate, Vincent Rogato.”

Adele reached out her hand to the villain in his childhood.

***

“I thought I’d lost you again, Adele.”

Vincent looked at Adele, who laughed it off as if it were nothing, and made a decision.

Whether it be God or whatever else, if anything tried to k*ll her, he would slay even the god of this world for her sake.

“As long as I can keep you by my side, no matter how you feel.”

▶ A Quick Taste

Vincent smiled sincerely for the first time in fourteen years. He had thought this moment was exactly what he had been dreaming of for so long. The person he had longed for had finally appeared, and the world had found its light and color again, everything felt perfect……

But her words pierced his chest like a blade. She appeared out of nowhere, and the first thing she said was that she had someone she liked. He had never once thought of anyone other than Adele, not until now. His heart beat erratically and his breath grew short.

‘Is the reason you never showed up because of that person? Did you never think of me?’

Countless questions floated through his mind. Yet he had no choice but to swallow them all. He wanted to show only his best side to Adele, whom he had barely managed to meet. It already felt like a failure.

After a long pause, the words that finally forced their way out of Vincent’s mouth were, even by his own judgment, utterly pathetic.

“Why? How? Tell me. Who is it?”

He was aware that his voice was trembling. Would she be so put off by seeing him like this the moment they reunited that she’d run away? As Vincent’s despair reached its peak, the corners of his mouth quivered involuntarily from the tension.

Just as a storm of thoughts was swirling through him, Adele, wearing an adorably determined expression with eyes full of resolve, murmured to herself.

“I knew it, this won’t do. For the sake of connections…… no, world domination…… no, world peace, I need to enroll in the Academy too. I have to stay by your side.”

Seeing her like that, the raging storm of thoughts came to a halt, and a small smile crept onto Vincent’s lips. Right. It doesn’t matter who the other person is. Adele had said she wished happiness for that person.

‘Just as you are my happiness, I must be yours.’