One day, we went sledding on a frozen lake. When we returned home, Damian asked, “I suppose they have winter there as well, right?”
One day, we went to the village square where the market was open and bought a lot of food. Damian asked, “Is ‘that’ Damian good at cooking? What have you tried?” When I told him I had an iced coffee, he responded, “It’s a strange world out there.”
One day, while walking, Damian asked, “What kind of place is Valhalla?” After hearing my explanation, he said, “‘That’ Damian seems to be excellent. Unlike me.”
And one day.
“Don’t love ‘that’ Damian.”
Damian vented the anxiety and hatred he endured.
“There’s only Damian. It’s me. I’m the only Damian you need to know and remember!”
Damian tried to forget reality and tried to force himself to be happy, but he despaired that he was a fake. When he repeatedly got angry, cried, and gave up, all I could do was offer comfort and apologize.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
I quickly became immersed in Damian’s despair and eventually forgot the real reality. So our days were mostly sad and sometimes happy.
Clink! The shards of glass that broke on the floor flew everywhere. Blood was oozing from the leg that had been scratched by the fragments.
I stared blankly at the scene and muttered. “…I guess I’ll have to buy a new one again.”
This has happened frequently these days. I felt sick to my stomach and vomited up everything I had eaten, so it seemed like my grip was weak.
After using magic to remove the shards, I went out into the living room, and Damian appeared holding an ointment. I get hurt once every two days, so he is already getting used to it.
Damian was applying ointment to the wound on my leg and suddenly looked out the window with a calm face. “It’s already spring.”
From the moment he realized that he was a fake, he poured too much affection into me or burst into hatred, causing a stir of emotion. Maybe that’s why seeing Damian like this felt unfamiliar.
Outside, as he said, flowers were already blooming after a cold winter that seemed like it would last forever.
“Since the weather is nice, shall we go out together and buy a new glass?”
At my suggestion, Damian looked again at my wound, checking if it was okay for me to walk, and nodded slowly. “Let’s do that. It’s been a while since we went on a date.”
I smiled with relief. Damian seemed to be in a good mood today.
We walked through the flower trees holding hands. The scenery was beautiful and peaceful without fluctuating emotions for a long time.
Stumble! But suddenly, my vision went black. As I stumbled and groaned from the overwhelming headache, I felt Damian hurriedly help me up.
“I’m fine.”
I’ve just been getting dizzy quite often these days. I smiled weakly to reassure him, whose forehead was wet with cold sweat. “I guess it’s because I didn’t eat breakfast.”
Damian didn’t laugh at my joke. He got down on one knee next to me, who was leaning against a tree, with a face that looked like he was about to cry.
“I’ll let you go.”
“…What?”
I was fine. I was really fine, but he was making up his mind to let me go.
“Thank you for being with me, Madam. I think it’s okay if I disappear now.”
“What’s wrong with you? There’s still time left.”
There was still summer, fall, and winter left until his birthday came.
Damian shook his head. “It’s dangerous if it goes any longer.”
“It’s not dangerous at all.”
“Since when you haven’t been able to eat?”
“…”
“How many days do you sleep more than two hours a day?”
Damian smiled painfully. “I know you keep vomiting out what you eat. You haven’t been able to sleep properly lately. I made Madam like that.”
“That’s not true.”
“It hurts more to see you getting thinner. I hate that more than disappearing.”
“Damian…”
I tried to cover his lips, but he easily grabbed my hand.
“I thought about what to say as my last greeting, but I can’t think of anything other than this.”
Damian pressed his forehead against me and whispered. “I love you.”
Tears that I didn’t know who belonged to ran down my cheeks.
“I love you too.”
Damian laughed at my answer. “Lies.”
At the end of those words, our tear-soaked lips overlapped. Even though the salty taste mixed in through the gaps, it was so sweet that it made me tingle. It felt like someone was grabbing my heart and twisting it.
Eventually, our lips parted away. Damian’s wet eyelids slowly lifted, revealing his golden eyes. His eyes were opened in confusion as if trying to understand the situation. Still, I couldn’t sense his blind and absolute affection for me.
“Theresa?”
He called me Theresa.
“…Hi, Damian.”
And I sobbed.
* * *
Ozworld watched Theresa, who gradually lost her vitality but didn’t give up on Damian until the end. Theresa put Damian, who was becoming more and more crazy, to sleep, but she herself couldn’t sleep.
On that day, as if the lonely night had been too long, she went out under the moonlight and looked up blankly at the sky. She liked the moon and stars as much as she liked snow.
The sight of her quietly bathing in the moonlight was truly pitiful. She’s a timid, defensive, and foolish woman.
Theresa doesn’t know what kind of person she is. She seemed to think of herself as a fairly cold, objective, and unaffected person. However, it was just her defense mechanism. Because she has a devoted personality that gives everything to someone she loves, she is wary of falling in love with something.
It was still the same now. She could not push away the Squire family and the male protagonists, whom she thought she should keep her distance from, and ended up embracing them.
“She’s thinking about running away from that topic.”
That’s why it was fun to watch. He wanted to watch more. How much more she will break down.
[“…”]
Theresa didn’t even say a word to herself, as if she had forgotten that she was on air. No, she must have completely forgotten. Because Ozworld was intentionally controlling her sponsorship window from popping up.
However, the constellations were able to see each other’s sponsorship comments. They fought every day.
Theresa is too much. It’s Damian’s problem. I feel sorry for both. They get what they deserve. Just die again.
“Master.”
David came into the control room.
“We found the cause of the last time system error. As predicted, it was the work of antis. It looks like there’s a big shot over there.”
A big shot.
“Is it one of the chairmen?”
“It could be more than one. I’m still trying to figure out the exact thing.”
Ozworld chuckled. “I guess it was quite urgent. If they mess with the system, it will cost them a lot of coins. This error even served as good news for us, so I guess they were quite angry.”
After the Pantheon’s attention was drawn to this anomaly, Theresa fell into disrepair. All the channels in the top 50 had huge fandoms, so raising the ranking by just one rank was difficult. However, Theresa was different.
[BJ Villainess 39th ▴]
During her debut, she showed signs of rising 11 ranks in no time. She was currently breaking all of the Pantheon’s records. In fact, Theresa didn’t check her ranking, perhaps because she didn’t seem to care all about her own popularity.
“Tell Alpha to take a closer look at the situation. I was lucky this time, but it’ll be difficult if an error happens again.”
“I understand.”
David continued his report. “And just now, I received a message from Alpha telling me to prepare because the Channel Management Bureau will issue a harmful content warning to the BJ Villainess channel.”
“What’s the reason?”
“It’s encouraging disturbance within the Pantheon.”
The fight on the channel was also directly related to the atmosphere within Pantheon. That’s how big the channel’s influence was.
“It’s been quite a while since we got a harmful content warning, right?”
“Yes. In fact, it didn’t appear in the last revenge drama.”
It was a channel that generated enormous traffic and brought enormous wealth to the Pantheon, so the only thing they could do was give a warning.
“Even if broadcasting trends change, the constellations end up causing strife. This issue wasn’t about war or revenge.”
Love has enough destructive power. Ozworld thought Theresa was the proof of that. He knew that the bureau had deliberately promoted romance to boost the romance broadcast. However, it wasn’t a fundamental solution. Because as long as the broadcast existed and he continued to be the channel manager, he was confident that any trend would cause trouble.
David quietly listened to Ozworld’s words and had some doubts. But something has changed.
There was definitely a change that was hard to pinpoint yet, not from the Pantheon, but from Ozworld.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Master act so generously toward a mere BJ.
David unconsciously looked at Theresa on the screen. The scene quickly changed to show Theresa sobbing after kissing Damian.
“You must have quite liked Miss Theresa.”
David shuddered and quickly turned his head.” I’m sorry.”
Ozworld smiled mysteriously, and he also looked at the screen. He seemed to frown slightly.
“No. Miss Theresa is fun to watch. So I understand.”
He didn’t know if describing that scene with the word ‘fun’ was right. David glanced at Theresa again. “…I think I understand why the constellations infatuated with her.”
Even Damian, who was giving his mana to Theresa while holding her as she fell, seemed to have similar emotions. Thanks to this, Theresa’s pale face began to regain color.
The moment her pale pink lips turned slightly red, Ozworld opened his mouth. “Let’s restore the system.”
One day, we went sledding on a frozen lake. When we returned home, Damian asked, “I suppose they have winter there as well, right?”
One day, we went to the village square where the market was open and bought a lot of food. Damian asked, “Is ‘that’ Damian good at cooking? What have you tried?” When I told him I had an iced coffee, he responded, “It’s a strange world out there.”
One day, while walking, Damian asked, “What kind of place is Valhalla?” After hearing my explanation, he said, “‘That’ Damian seems to be excellent. Unlike me.”
And one day.
“Don’t love ‘that’ Damian.”
Damian vented the anxiety and hatred he endured.
“There’s only Damian. It’s me. I’m the only Damian you need to know and remember!”
Damian tried to forget reality and tried to force himself to be happy, but he despaired that he was a fake. When he repeatedly got angry, cried, and gave up, all I could do was offer comfort and apologize.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
I quickly became immersed in Damian’s despair and eventually forgot the real reality. So our days were mostly sad and sometimes happy.
Clink! The shards of glass that broke on the floor flew everywhere. Blood was oozing from the leg that had been scratched by the fragments.
I stared blankly at the scene and muttered. “…I guess I’ll have to buy a new one again.”
This has happened frequently these days. I felt sick to my stomach and vomited up everything I had eaten, so it seemed like my grip was weak.
After using magic to remove the shards, I went out into the living room, and Damian appeared holding an ointment. I get hurt once every two days, so he is already getting used to it.
Damian was applying ointment to the wound on my leg and suddenly looked out the window with a calm face. “It’s already spring.”
From the moment he realized that he was a fake, he poured too much affection into me or burst into hatred, causing a stir of emotion. Maybe that’s why seeing Damian like this felt unfamiliar.
Outside, as he said, flowers were already blooming after a cold winter that seemed like it would last forever.
“Since the weather is nice, shall we go out together and buy a new glass?”
At my suggestion, Damian looked again at my wound, checking if it was okay for me to walk, and nodded slowly. “Let’s do that. It’s been a while since we went on a date.”
I smiled with relief. Damian seemed to be in a good mood today.
We walked through the flower trees holding hands. The scenery was beautiful and peaceful without fluctuating emotions for a long time.
Stumble! But suddenly, my vision went black. As I stumbled and groaned from the overwhelming headache, I felt Damian hurriedly help me up.
“I’m fine.”
I’ve just been getting dizzy quite often these days. I smiled weakly to reassure him, whose forehead was wet with cold sweat. “I guess it’s because I didn’t eat breakfast.”
Damian didn’t laugh at my joke. He got down on one knee next to me, who was leaning against a tree, with a face that looked like he was about to cry.
“I’ll let you go.”
“…What?”
I was fine. I was really fine, but he was making up his mind to let me go.
“Thank you for being with me, Madam. I think it’s okay if I disappear now.”
“What’s wrong with you? There’s still time left.”
There was still summer, fall, and winter left until his birthday came.
Damian shook his head. “It’s dangerous if it goes any longer.”
“It’s not dangerous at all.”
“Since when you haven’t been able to eat?”
“…”
“How many days do you sleep more than two hours a day?”
Damian smiled painfully. “I know you keep vomiting out what you eat. You haven’t been able to sleep properly lately. I made Madam like that.”
“That’s not true.”
“It hurts more to see you getting thinner. I hate that more than disappearing.”
“Damian…”
I tried to cover his lips, but he easily grabbed my hand.
“I thought about what to say as my last greeting, but I can’t think of anything other than this.”
Damian pressed his forehead against me and whispered. “I love you.”
Tears that I didn’t know who belonged to ran down my cheeks.
“I love you too.”
Damian laughed at my answer. “Lies.”
At the end of those words, our tear-soaked lips overlapped. Even though the salty taste mixed in through the gaps, it was so sweet that it made me tingle. It felt like someone was grabbing my heart and twisting it.
Eventually, our lips parted away. Damian’s wet eyelids slowly lifted, revealing his golden eyes. His eyes were opened in confusion as if trying to understand the situation. Still, I couldn’t sense his blind and absolute affection for me.
“Theresa?”
He called me Theresa.
“…Hi, Damian.”
And I sobbed.
* * *
Ozworld watched Theresa, who gradually lost her vitality but didn’t give up on Damian until the end. Theresa put Damian, who was becoming more and more crazy, to sleep, but she herself couldn’t sleep.
On that day, as if the lonely night had been too long, she went out under the moonlight and looked up blankly at the sky. She liked the moon and stars as much as she liked snow.
The sight of her quietly bathing in the moonlight was truly pitiful. She’s a timid, defensive, and foolish woman.
Theresa doesn’t know what kind of person she is. She seemed to think of herself as a fairly cold, objective, and unaffected person. However, it was just her defense mechanism. Because she has a devoted personality that gives everything to someone she loves, she is wary of falling in love with something.
It was still the same now. She could not push away the Squire family and the male protagonists, whom she thought she should keep her distance from, and ended up embracing them.
“She’s thinking about running away from that topic.”
That’s why it was fun to watch. He wanted to watch more. How much more she will break down.
[“…”]
Theresa didn’t even say a word to herself, as if she had forgotten that she was on air. No, she must have completely forgotten. Because Ozworld was intentionally controlling her sponsorship window from popping up.
However, the constellations were able to see each other’s sponsorship comments. They fought every day.
Theresa is too much. It’s Damian’s problem. I feel sorry for both. They get what they deserve. Just die again.
“Master.”
David came into the control room.
“We found the cause of the last time system error. As predicted, it was the work of antis. It looks like there’s a big shot over there.”
A big shot.
“Is it one of the chairmen?”
“It could be more than one. I’m still trying to figure out the exact thing.”
Ozworld chuckled. “I guess it was quite urgent. If they mess with the system, it will cost them a lot of coins. This error even served as good news for us, so I guess they were quite angry.”
After the Pantheon’s attention was drawn to this anomaly, Theresa fell into disrepair. All the channels in the top 50 had huge fandoms, so raising the ranking by just one rank was difficult. However, Theresa was different.
[BJ Villainess 39th ▴]
During her debut, she showed signs of rising 11 ranks in no time. She was currently breaking all of the Pantheon’s records. In fact, Theresa didn’t check her ranking, perhaps because she didn’t seem to care all about her own popularity.
“Tell Alpha to take a closer look at the situation. I was lucky this time, but it’ll be difficult if an error happens again.”
“I understand.”
David continued his report. “And just now, I received a message from Alpha telling me to prepare because the Channel Management Bureau will issue a harmful content warning to the BJ Villainess channel.”
“What’s the reason?”
“It’s encouraging disturbance within the Pantheon.”
The fight on the channel was also directly related to the atmosphere within Pantheon. That’s how big the channel’s influence was.
“It’s been quite a while since we got a harmful content warning, right?”
“Yes. In fact, it didn’t appear in the last revenge drama.”
It was a channel that generated enormous traffic and brought enormous wealth to the Pantheon, so the only thing they could do was give a warning.
“Even if broadcasting trends change, the constellations end up causing strife. This issue wasn’t about war or revenge.”
Love has enough destructive power. Ozworld thought Theresa was the proof of that. He knew that the bureau had deliberately promoted romance to boost the romance broadcast. However, it wasn’t a fundamental solution. Because as long as the broadcast existed and he continued to be the channel manager, he was confident that any trend would cause trouble.
David quietly listened to Ozworld’s words and had some doubts. But something has changed.
There was definitely a change that was hard to pinpoint yet, not from the Pantheon, but from Ozworld.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Master act so generously toward a mere BJ.
David unconsciously looked at Theresa on the screen. The scene quickly changed to show Theresa sobbing after kissing Damian.
“You must have quite liked Miss Theresa.”
David shuddered and quickly turned his head.” I’m sorry.”
Ozworld smiled mysteriously, and he also looked at the screen. He seemed to frown slightly.
“No. Miss Theresa is fun to watch. So I understand.”
He didn’t know if describing that scene with the word ‘fun’ was right. David glanced at Theresa again. “…I think I understand why the constellations infatuated with her.”
Even Damian, who was giving his mana to Theresa while holding her as she fell, seemed to have similar emotions. Thanks to this, Theresa’s pale face began to regain color.
The moment her pale pink lips turned slightly red, Ozworld opened his mouth. “Let’s restore the system.”
