[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-became-the-villain-the-hero-is-obsessed-with":3,"chapter-i-became-the-villain-the-hero-is-obsessed-with-i-became-the-villain-the-hero-is-obsessed-with-chapter-357":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Became The Villain The Hero Is Obsessed With",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1218000,1602,"Chapter 356:","i-became-the-villain-the-hero-is-obsessed-with-chapter-357",357,"\u003Cp>Summary of current situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half a year after breaking up with Stardus, I saw her again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…And, as soon as she saw me, she hugged me, with tears in her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Egostic…I'm sorry…I'm sorry…..\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, what are you so sorry about…Just come over here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell is going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky's still blue in the afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was in Stardus' arms in that sky, trying to hide my blushing face from the suddenness her closeness, and trying to find a place to get her out of there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…I don't know what's going on, but I realize that once we're in the middle of the sky, this is going to be all over the news tomorrow. I just had to stop the rumors of a hero and villain meeting…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dragging Stardus, who was still sobbing, I quickly teleported away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was urgent to get out of here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…I wonder how long it's been since we've traveled that way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I hit the ground, it started to rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somehow I heard it was cloudy today…No, it's a good thing, because it'll block the view of the station's cameras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, come this way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmmm. Yeah…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, there we were, under the eaves of the roof of a nearby building, and we finally managed to get a quiet look at each other in the middle of nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phew. That should do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ha…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the gradually darkening sky, I looked anxiously at Stardus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe it was the light rain on the way here, or maybe it was something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her blonde hair was a little wet from the water, her body shivering slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way she was apologizing to me, with tears welling up in her eyes, was beyond my comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like she had no intention of catching me at all, only apologizing…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's when I thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kuluk.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…It just so happened that I coughed up blood at that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah. I must have overdone it with my dragon slaying. Something else must have gone wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought to myself, shrugging it off and wiping my mouth with my handkerchief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Ah…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…But apparently not for Stardus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she saw me, she made a strange noise and her eyes gradually began to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then her head dropped back down, and she began to sob again, clinging to my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…No, let me hear why. What are you sorry about?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She started to do it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I asked her the question that had been bothering me from earlier. What was she so sorry about? What could I have done to deserve her apology? I can't think of anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still sobbing, Stardus looked at me with her blue eyes and spoke in a trembling voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Egotistic…Hmph.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…You, you. They say you’re terminally ill….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the ridiculous words that followed, I doubted my ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…I'm dying? Since when, and why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, I cough up blood when I use my abilities, and I'm a little slow, but I swear to you, I'm not dying. If I were, I wouldn't be here with you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wonder if she misunderstood my bewilderment and inability to speak but Stardus sobbed harder, grabbed my waist again, and began to apologize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm sorry… I'm sorry… If I had known, if I had known… I wouldn't have done this…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no, wait.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I said to her, catching Stardus as she started to do so again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm not on a time limit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't lie to me…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Okay. She can't be so easily convinced when I'm like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While I was feeling so stuck, Stardus looked up at me, rain-soaked and tear-streaked in her blue eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…I'd be a piece of shit if I said she was beautiful like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re coughing up blood like that… How can I not know…Ugh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…No. It's just a side effect of using the ability. It's not because I'm dying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph. I'm sorry…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is wrong. She doesn't listen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My head ached with the thought, but I realized that I still didn't understand the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Even if I'm dying in the first place, how does that make her cry for me like this? A hero would cry like this without even realizing that the villain was a dead man walking? It was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that didn't matter for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, I need to clear up this misconception that I'm dying. I'll do whatever it takes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Of course, Stardus doesn't believe anything I say right now. What should I do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I stood in front of her crying, I thought to myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…..!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then I came up with a solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Okay. This is the only way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of all Stardus powers, the one I feared most wasn't her strength or her flying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was something else that I feared most: her psychic senses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unregistered by the Association, her ability to instinctively find the right answer and discover the truth was as terrifying as it was heroic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's why I’m even more afraid of it now since she could find my identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I intend to utilize this ability now….The ability to always find the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She can find the truth in my words, can't she?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Convinced of that, I reached out and gripped Stardus by the shoulders, forcing her to look me in the eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stardus, look into my eyes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph…Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looks at me with teary eyes at my words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the roof of a building under a rainy sky, standing there on the eaves, listening to the rain, I turned to Stardus, looked into her blue eyes, and told her the truth, again and again, in as sincere a voice as I could muster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stardus, I'm not on a time limit and my body is fine. I'm just coughing up blood because my body is overworked from using my powers, not because I have a medical condition.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…..\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At my words, she looked at me with trembling eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked nervous but she must have sensed in her gut that there was nothing false in my words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I've never been a dead man walking, so where did I go wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, Stardus seemed to comprehend the situation, then, in a low voice, she said, avoiding my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Then, why did you retire all of a sudden? Didn't you retire because you thought you were going to die soon…?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? No. It's because I have other things to do. It's not because I'm dying. Whatever you thought, you're wrong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who wants to die? Well, not me, anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can't die, not yet, not here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought to myself and smirked at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Do you think your arch nemesis will leave so easily? I'll stay by your side, the whole time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did my sincerity come through?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stardus lowered her eyes, seemingly finally convinced by my words, and snapped her fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…But now that I think about it, I'm a little too close to her. I've got my hands on her shoulders, and we're practically touching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than that, of course, I wondered what Stardus' reaction would be. I wonder if she'll realize that she's in the wrong and start jumping up and down, embarrassed by her mistake. Maybe she'll kick me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Wait. That's scary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's what I was thinking but then she looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haha…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Contrary to my expectations, she was smiling with reddened eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wiped her tears away with her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph… Thank God, thank God… Thank God…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She muttered to herself as if she didn't care about anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank God, thank God, thank God…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She just smiled at me with a relieved smile and I looked at her….who cared so much about me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Stardus like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt my breath catch in my throat and I couldn't say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*** ***\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shoot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been crying since the time we met, and finally calmed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We were still sitting under the eaves of the rooftop, watching the rain pour down from the now darkened sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Somehow, my hand was still intertwined with hers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Are you feeling a little calmer now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With her head lowered, her knees drawn together, she quietly looked at her toes and replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was still in her hero suit and me in my villain's outfit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We sat like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…..\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, I had mixed feelings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…So, even though she had calmed down, I hadn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stardus the just, the good, the stern, the hero of this comic I've possessed…here she was, shedding tears at the news that a villain was dying?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That would never happen normally….unless she considers me special.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to deny it, but I couldn't now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I was thinking about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Egostic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time since earlier, she spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>",1460,"2026-06-03T14:38:02.429Z",1,"novelbin.me","1caa60e8481ef853d321880680a00909f26ebbe1a6b6ec2955960d906101fdfb","i-became-the-villain-the-hero-is-obsessed-with-chapter-358","i-became-the-villain-the-hero-is-obsessed-with-chapter-356",449,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-became-the-villain-the-hero-is-obsessed-with-cover.jpg"]