[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-reborn-as-game-s-final-boss":3,"chapter-the-villain-reborn-as-game-s-final-boss-the-villain-reborn-as-game-s-final-boss-chapter-116":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Villain Reborn as Game's Final Boss",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},551321,800,"Chapter 116: Him [5]","the-villain-reborn-as-game-s-final-boss-chapter-116",116,"\u003Cp>\"Stop... Please.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diana’s vision blurred as tears welled up in her eyes and soon began to fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that what you always do when something goes against your wishes? Cry like a—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael stopped midway as he looked at Diana’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silence extended as Kael kept staring into her eyes, which were now red due to the tears that were spilling out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know what!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael removed his hand from Diana’s arm and then grabbed her face from the area around her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time his grip was even more intense than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"K-Ka-a-el\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diana could not even form the words, as Kael’s grip on her mouth made her unable to do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You were here to console me... That was the reason you had come here!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael spoke more to himself than to Diana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes had narrowed in some sort of... excitement?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So how about you console me... in better ways.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael pushed Diana, making her fall on the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kael?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haa!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diana woke up with a loud shout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking deep breaths, Diana tried to calm her beating heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A dream.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her entire body was covered in sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had returned from the classes and decided to take a short nap before visiting Kael.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knew it could become such a nightmare?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Glancing at the clock nearby, the time was around six in the evening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was still some time before dinner, so Diana decided to meet Kael.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about Kael, she had mixed feelings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one end, she was angry with him for whatever that had happened after the dream ended, but on the other side she couldn’t bring herself to hate him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she had suggested Alicia to dine with Kael the other day, both of the Frost siblings had refused her request.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t want to be anywhere near him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alicia had tried to talk Diana out of whatever she was getting herself into, but on Diana’s repeated insistence, Alicia budged a little, and that had led them to eating together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Diana wanted to mend the relations between Kael and his siblings, she knew it would not be an easy task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes Diana wondered if she was making another mistake by talking to Kael again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the banquet, Kael had gone missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duchess Alia had sent search parties for him, and Diana herself had tried to help in any way possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as a year passed, there was no sign of him returning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the years Kael was missing, Diana kept thinking about all the choices that she had made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could she have done anything better given the circumstances?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could she have made Kael stay with them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regret and guilt began to pile up in her mind, with no way to reduce them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Diana was shocked when she saw Kael in the auditorium for the first time in three years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mind couldn’t process what was happening before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she had glanced at Kevin and Alicia, the two of them were even more shocked than her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael had walked onto the stage with a refined elegance. With every step he took, Diana couldn’t take her eyes off him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within three years he had grown a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face was now sharper than before, but it was his body that had changed the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last image of Kael that Diana had in her mind was that of a teenage boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But right now, though he wore a blazer, it couldn’t hide the body beneath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael’s speech was the next thing that turned Diana’s entire understanding of him upside down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since when had he begun to care for commoners so much?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, Kael had never actively hated the masses, but neither did he have such strong feelings for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One after another, Diana kept getting new revelations about her old childhood friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when things had settled down could Diana think properly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael had ranked first in the entire academy, and that too with a score that was unprecedented in the history of Namda.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at him, though Diana couldn’t sense his actual strength, she knew that he was stronger than her for sure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after the classes began, Diana tried to ignore his existence, but seeing his face every day made it difficult to do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was stuck in a loophole of wanting to talk to him and fearing the consequences of getting attached to him again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then came the first practical session.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through sheer coincidence, Diana and Kael had been allotted to the same team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Kael approached the team, it was the first time that Diana had seen him from such a close distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way he talked had changed a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If earlier, before his initial change, Kael used to have a soft way of talking, then he had become someone unpredictable, who wouldn’t end a single one of his sentences without cursing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, from Kael’s words, it felt like he simply didn’t care for what was happening around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if everyone around him was below his level, and something he had no need to waste his time on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the practical began, Diana saw the dominating performance put up by Kael.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t waste a single movement and killed the first monster in a single strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only in the practical that being in his vicinity made Diana realise her feelings again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to talk to him more than anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she initiated the conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Diana had thought of sounding mature and distant, but the more she talked to him, the more she lost control over her emotions and ended up crying before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her efforts paid off, and Kael had agreed to teach her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though that was not what she had been aiming for... it was better than nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now she was on her way to meet him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diana kept repeatedly taking deep breaths to reduce her anxiety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arriving before Kael’s assigned room, Diana knocked twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment’s silence, the door opened, and Kael appeared in his casual clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know there is a bell here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1025,"2026-05-30T14:45:47.278Z","2026-06-01T04:31:30.507Z",1,"novelbin.me","c0faa4ab580d25e78161ec6444712bf051c87229d0e3d70bd07e6c730cb32432","the-villain-reborn-as-game-s-final-boss-chapter-117","the-villain-reborn-as-game-s-final-boss-chapter-115",257,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-reborn-as-game-s-final-boss-cover.jpg"]