I Became The Villain The Hero Is Obsessed With

Chapter 419

419 – The Farewell We Can’t Return To

It had been a long time.

At last, I had made it this far.

Kwaaang

“Cough…”

Standing alone on the ruined ground under the devastated battlefield.

Dududududududu

And there I was, clenching my teeth, blocking the divine power rays of the sun god pouring onto my body with all my strength.

Using the sticky black power that surged beneath my feet, I prevented the sun rays, which had already penetrated my body, from passing any further.

Stained by the black power, hemorrhaging the same-colored blood. Staring up at the sun god who keeps firing energy at me, teeth gritted.

Even as I struggled not to retreat, when I grasped the beam piercing my stomach with my hand soaked in darkness…

…the sun god overhead, with silver hair fluttering in the orange sky, dressed in white robes.

Suddenly looking at me with squinting eyes upon my sudden intrusion, still using his energy wave with a wicked smile, he shrieked at me in crazed tones.

“hahahahaha!!! hahahaha, no. Who’s this? …Isn’t this one of the damned apostles of the stars? hahahahaha!!”

“Cough… hahahahaha. Hello, I’m Egoistic.”

“Yeah, yeah… I know you well. You’re the one who has thwarted all my plans, aren’t you?”

His smile sent shivers down my spine as he spoke…

…But his smile had something cringe-worthy about it, as it was filled not with pleasure but with pure hatred.

After all, it’s only natural, right? He’s trying to kill me and is still laughing while firing a sun death beam.

Finally, regardless of whether I had such impious thoughts, the sun god seemed to enjoy himself.

“Yeah, yeah… I planned to kill you right away next. Thank you for coming early, child of the stars.”

“And so, like this.”

Saying that, he clenched his hand that had been stretching towards me and spoke.

“Die.”

Pakwaaang

“Cough…”

Weiiiiiiing- Kwaaang-

The intense sun’s destructive beam, along with an enormous light, struck even more violently piercing my body.

Even while being constantly pushed back by it, I used the black energies enveloping my body to block it till the end.

Along with that, an enormous festival of light sparked as my black power and his grey power collided.

At that moment, when blood was flowing from my mouth, my ears were ringing, and my vision was blurred.

From the back, a cracking voice came.

“…Egoistic, my…feet. Stop, stop…”

Despite its near-collapsing tone, in that moist voice.

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With a strained smile, I replied to Stardust, who was lying behind me trying desperately to get up.

“..Don’t worry, cough. Ha, hahahahaha. Don’t worry, Stardust.”

I have a plan.

With that thought, I continued.

“…Hmm.”

Towards the sun god in front of me, who was slowly appearing bewildered as I was still blocking his destruction beam.

Relentlessly absorbing the continuous energy wave.

Still maintaining a smile, he spoke while black blood flowed from the side of his mouth.

“Hey. God of the sun, Helios. Whatever, you.”

“…hahahaha. You, huh. So, you finally went mad?”

“Yeah. That’s right. I am mad. But, you. …Do you know why I have been stubbornly enduring… continuing to live till now?”

Because of you.

“It’s you…. trying to get rid of you from this world, all that… hardship I… endured. Damn it.”

“…You sure talk a lot. So, what about it?”

Amid enduring attack after attack, with a pained expression, he exerts more strength on his words.

While looking at the Sun God like that.

He pulled up the corners of his mouth with difficulty, spitting out his words.

“So what.”

“…I’m telling you, I’m going to get rid of you here with my own hands now.”

Now is the time.

As I spat out those words.

Zzzzzzzzztt-

The ray gun of the Sun God I was holding and blocking, I began to push hard against it.

And instantly, black sticky strands are caught on that ray.

‘Heh…’

Of course.

At the same time, I could feel it.

My life energy, being sucked out rapidly into this black starlight.

…However, because I’ve already made up my mind.

I didn’t feel anything to fear, anymore.

“…Ha. You, what the hell are you up to…!”

Starlight strands, eerie and black, rising through the pure solar energy beam that the Sun God was shooting at me.

I pulled away from the solar rays, startled by the spider web-like strands ferociously chasing me. But it was already too late.

Whhoooosh

Whoooooosh

These dark energies were like a huge black spider’s web, like many black hands, completely surrounding the Sun God.

Not letting him break free, like some god’s spirit.

“What’s this… Let go! Damn it, power like ghost of the past…Argggggghhhhh!!”

Having given up attacking me, he was focused on trying to tear off the power of the black star that clung to his body.

While doing so, I clenched my teeth continuously. Pouring all the strength from my body. The power of the black star. …The third power that I finally awakened at the end.

Risking my life to attack, I kept pouring out the power of this black star onto him.

“aaah!!!”

Brrroooooom

“Argggggghh!! Such, insect like guys… I am!!! A creator of heaven and earth, the ruler of the universe, Helios, being knocked down by… power… of… a dead god…”

He was causing an explosion, trying to shake off the black powers surrounding him with unbelievably profane words, as intense as my desperate attack.

…However. Somehow. Gradually, his power visibly started to drain, and.

Finally.

“How dare you!!! How dare you!!! To me, the creator of this world, you mere creations!!! To… protect you… mere creations…cough. Protect…you… dare!!!”

“Do you think this world will remain intact just because I won’t lay a hand on it!!! Anyway…you guys…will self-destroy..'”

“Damn… curse it. To really annihilate me, I…”

“Ah…”

Grrr

Finally.

As if cleaving the body of the sun god, deep darkness seeped in and soon, white lights burst out of his body like a flashbang about to explode.

…Sooner than later, the sun god, who realized his end was near.

Not looking at me, the one who directly vanquished him, or Stardus.

He blankly stared up at the sky as the sun began to set.

In his last moment, he just muttered this quietly.

“Ciders, why…”

Like this.

Swoooooooooooooooooooooosh

Crashhhhh

Along with an explosion sound, which I couldn’t witness before.

With an explosion of a massive light, which was so bright that it illuminated the world, the god, the creator of this world, the sun god, burst and disappeared.

So finally.

…The long battle with the sun god came to an end.

Finally, having gone through every story in the original work. Managed to conquer the last enemy.

So…

“Cough….”

Thump thump thump thump thump thump

Now, it’s finally the end.

Collapsed.

“Huh… cough… coughhhhh.”

Thud.

The land that is ruined due to the battle.

I, kneeling down and sitting on the ground, vomited a load of black blood from within me.

As if I was vomiting out all the blood in my body. Continuously.

…hahahaha. Damn. There seems to be no blood left to come out because there’s already a hole in my stomach.

And then.

“Huff… Egoistic, no… Egoistic. Egoistic!”

Thump.

Finally regained consciousness, I suppose.

When I was about to vomit out all the black blood from me and collapse.

Then, from behind me, was someone barely running toward me.

At that moment, I felt my head touch a soft somewhere.

“Hah, hah, Stardus…”

“No. Egoistic… No…”

…Perhaps, leaning on her body somewhere.

What I saw as I barely opened my fevered eyes were Stardust’s eyes staring at me, streaming tears and filled with disbelief.

…Yes. Perhaps, she, with her keen intuition, could sense it.

That right now, I was in an irrecoverable state.

I had dedicated everything to unleash the power of the stars at the last moment, and my physical form was on the brink of extinction.

That’s why, she would have such an expression on her face.

“Ha Ha… Cough.”

“Don’t…say anything… no… it’s not true. It’s…not…”

Now, the sun had completely dropped, the orange sky too, was nearly gone.

On the shattered plain, feeling the chilly night air… I slowly felt the ebbing of my life. I looked up at Stardust looking down at me.

Come to think of it, it seems like we’ve been in a similar situation before.

Back then, Stardust had collapsed, and I had reassured her that she would be okay.

It was probably just after the first act of terror, during the train terror attack.

‘”You did well, Stardust. In a way that I couldn’t have even imagined. Who would have thought you could save everyone like that, I never would have guessed. You’re victorious. I’ll be going now, so rest.”‘

‘…Ha Ha. How many years has it been since then?’

Absorbed in thoughts fading in and out of consciousness while lying in Stardust’s arms, I…

Soon after, gazing up at the waxing sky, I unknowingly reminisced about the past years.

Nearly 10 years since I dropped into this world.

Tenaciously, I’ve come this far.

I finally managed to protect Stardust and the world, even defeating the final boss.

…In fact.

When I was asked if I had a great life in this world? I was skeptical.

After being forcibly brought into this world by a deity, living in a state of nearly giving up. But I dashed to this point for Stardust, my favorite, rather than for the world I hadn’t been born into.

But, even so. In the process.

Meeting various characters like Seoeun, Subin, Hayul, Chayun, Isulah, Sehee, Eunwol, Jazoung, Death Knight, Ariel, Katana, Luciaopung, Atlas, Celest and others…

And then.

[Mangostick! Mangostick! Mangostick! Mangostick!]

‘Ha…’

…Somehow, while watching those who liked me excessively and forcing a smile.

Because of them.

Eventually, having developed an attachment to this world was undeniable.

By the time I reached that thought.

…then I finally saw the EgoStream members on the partially broken screen.

[Wow. Finally, finally, that sh*tty rain stopped!!! We won, right? We did win, right? Yay! Where’s Dain!! We have to have a toast!]

Sehee, purely overjoyed now that the invasion finally ended after the sun-god disappeared. Although I couldn’t see her well through the nearly broken, flickering screen. Fortunately, she hadn’t heard about me just yet.

And though the rest of the screens were broken, I could see Seoeun’s.

[Hah…hah…finally over!!! Oppa, are you watching? Oppa? …Hang on.]

After joyfully jumping around inside another robot, and looking at something and her expression hardening.

[Oppa, no. Can’t. Oppa? Please hold on. What’s this.]

…And the moment her eyes met with the camera filming her as she shifted her gaze, looking distraught.

Pop.

At last, the screen completely turned off.

‘….’

Everyone, without me, will be… able to cope, right?

…Yes. Surely, they’ll go on well. After all, they have each other. Maybe by holding and comforting each other, they’d forget about someone like me soon and they’d live full lives. Yes. It’s certain. They’re all young after all.

So, our Ego Stream is… done…

‘…..’

…Yes. My eyes keep closing, it seems.

I have not even said my goodbyes yet. Ha ha… It can’t be helped.

What were we talking about… I see.

And, most importantly…

“…Ha ha. M, Mister Stardash…”

My hero. My archenemy.

The goal of my life, her.

Stardas, Shinharu.

Thanks to her, I was able to get here.

Thanks to her, I could experience the joy of life in another world.

So.

“No… Please… Why… Why, heuk, it can’t be…”

Please don’t make that face.

Even if I leave, if it’s the person I know… If she’s the person who has courageously powered through every crisis and despair… surely, she will be able to get up again and live happily even after I leave.

Yes. It should definitely be so.

I could now leave with no regrets.

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“….”

Perhaps. This is my end.

Being who I was, who knew everything about this world… I knew.

That there would be no way for me to come back.

That this truly was, in essence, my last farewell.

“No…”

“….St.”

Stardash. Haru.

I meant to convey this last message but it seems impossible.