The Charming Villain Just Wants To Be A Salted Fish - Chapter 20.5

But as soon as she said that, the fire brushed past Sean’s dragon tail and collided with one side of the abandoned church.

The petite girl stood on the top corner of the other side of the building and smiled awkwardly. “Sorry, it’s my first time practicing it.”

Joyce, Sean, and Long Aotian: “…”

The teenager sitting next to the girl pulled her cheek and looked indifferently at the frightened vampires and python, who was completely unaware of whether these two were enemies or friends. He said with a soft chuckle, “Aretha is amazing. She has done so well for her first time. Try again.”

Joyce, Sean, and Long Aotian: “…”

Joyce felt that this person was a nutjob. ·̩̩̥͙＊*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀᴀɴꜱʟᴀᴛᴏʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴏɴ ꜰᴏxᴀʜᴏʟɪᴄ.ᴄᴏᴍ ˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚＊·̩̩̥͙

Aren’t they fighting the biggest boss right now?! Why are these two “reinforcements” so careless?! Why did it seem like they are not dealing with an S-level boss but a small soldier who they can easily attack?!

“O-okay…” Aretha’s face flushed with a touch of embarrassment. She quickly chanted the spell again and got into a fight with the python.

Aretha was probably a little nervous because it was her first combat, and a few moves failed to do any real damage to the python.

Joyce looked at how weak she looked and rubbed her temples. “God of Light, is a boss at this level really meant for the first lesson in magic training?!”

“No.” Cassinio looked at Aretha’s cautious movements, his eyes carried a soft happiness. “I’m not an instructor now, I’m just a weak academy student who needs to be protected.”

Joyce, Sean, and Long Aotian: “…”

She knew it… She shouldn’t have expected anything from this damn otome manga.

While they were talking, Aretha, a beginner in magic, was gradually defeated by the python. Although she avoided most of its attacks, she was still knocked away by the python’s tail whip.

With amusement in his eyes, Cassinio jumped up and caught the girl who was falling down in the air.

“The game is over.”

As he spoke, he put Aretha to one side and leapt toward the python that was opening its mouth.  Seeing this, Sean let Joyce and Long Aotian down and joined the fight with him.

They soon subdued the python and the black mage. Once Joyce saw that there was a definite conclusion, she supported the frail Long Aotian up, said goodbye to Aretha and left.

“Are we leaving like this?” Long Aotian asked, perplexed.

“Yeah,” Joyce replied without a second thought.  “It’s finished now, so let’s go home to the farm.”

“…”

“But… don’t you have anything to say to Sean?”

Joyce paused. “No.”

“But I do.”

The familiar voice behind Joyce made her freeze.

Long Aotian limped away, giving them space.

Joyce thought for a moment, then looked back calmly at the person behind her. “Your Majesty should know that these things had nothing to do with the vampires.”

“Mhm.”

“Then can we move back to the castle?”

Sean nodded then shook his head.

Joyce was confused.

“My queen, it would be better to come back to the palace with me.”

Joyce didn’t expect him to say this, her face turned completely red.

“What queen? Who is your queen?” She looked away. “Your queen is Princess Isabella…”

“It’s you.”

“Princess Isabella likes you. She is the female lead. You should…”

“You still haven’t explained what a male lead and a female lead is. Why do you think I should like her? And…” Sean frowned as he continued “…why do you think… Princess Isabella likes me? She has been sent back to Sedan.”

“What?!” Joyce’s eyes widened.

Sean said coldly, “I’m thinking of sending Long Aotian with her.”

“???”

“That way, there will be no one else. It’ll just be the two of us, my queen.”

“What queen!” Joyce blushed and retorted angrily. “I haven’t forgiven you, nor have I agreed to be your queen.”

Sean bit the tip of his finger and whispered something to make things more difficult, “But that’s not what you said that day, when you were very passionate…”

Joyce’s face was so red that she was about to explode. She was about to block Sean’s mouth, but then she saw an attractive drop of blood on his lip.

Now, she was on the verge of collapsing.

?!

Joyce clenched her teeth and put one hand to the wall. She tried to control her steps, but her body honestly gravitated towards him—she looked bashfully at Sean, who was looking back at her in place before turning away stubbornly as her mind gradually fell apart.

Did she really have such a weak willpower?!

Was she really addicted to beauty and blood?!

It was clear that she was resisting, but Sean took a step closer and gently held her cheek. “I’ve said before, there is a price for drinking my blood.”

“Wha-what price?!”

His voice was low and slow, exuding a tenderness unlike the past, “If you drink dragon blood, you will become the bride of the dragon.”

Saying so, he leaned over and kissed her on the lips.

(The End)

“Why are you… so strange today?” Joyce looked at him suspiciously. The more she looked at him, the more she felt that something was wrong.

Sean’s complexion changed and he awkwardly said, “Cassinio said…”

“What did he say?”

“When you coax a girl when she’s angry—”

……

Cassinio’s eyes had a light smile in it. “Don’t be ashamed.”