The Antagonist's Full Moon

17. Antagonist

"To be honest, I was very angry. But, if I were in your position, I wouldn't have expected to be able to enter my own world. I just don't want to spend my energy getting mad at something that can't be changed."

Frode smiled, he glanced at the past. "You are the one who made me go bankrupt, but have you forgotten that you also caused me to rise from the brink? I thought all this was fate, whether it be you or the God of this world."

"Ah, yes ... ." Dean was at a loss for words. In fact, his help to Frode was only so that he would not be alone in this world. Dean needs someone he can tell to go to the market to buy this and that, because he can't go alone.

Dean never thought Frode was more than the man he could use here.

Now, Dean was stunned, that he was considered not only as a friend, but a savior. God's Helms. Frode's statement just made him feel so guilty.

"I'm sorry, I'm" Dean said. Frode raised his eyebrows and asked, "For what?"

"For everything that makes you miserable" replied Dean. "I promise I'll make a resolution to your life story later, after I make it home to my home world."

"Do you know how to get home?" ask Frode.

"I don't know if it will work or not. In the story, Haldir uses this way to go to another universe."

Dean explains about the portal of a sacred temple at the top of the Nautabu mountain range and the ancient mantra bestowed by Goddess Lileath. Dean also told me about Liv Themaris and the girl's important role in her journey. Frode listened carefully.

"Ah, Themaris' second daughter?" ask Frode to make sure.

"You know him?"

Frode nodded. "He was famous for his black skin all over the body."

"Yes, he's the one" Dean said. "But I haven't been able to convince Liv to come with me."

"Hmmm ... ." Frode thought too. Then the old man said, "You have to make him believe you, just like you did for me. You must reveal before him, something only you know, as the creator of this world."

Something only I know about? Dean thought for a moment. Her mind was glaring at whatever she could remember about Liv Themaris. Poor elf girl, because Dean made her that way.

Does this girl have things that no one else knows, other than me?

Dean's eyes suddenly opened. The man remembered something. Only Liv and herself know.

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The next morning, Liv was so shocked. When he had just opened his eyes, it had appeared Dean – the stranger last night – was sitting cross-legged on the floor of the room, leaning against the wall. The man was wearing a black cloth, covering his head. Both of his feet were wearing cheap leather sandals that were dirty full of dirt. Dean seemed to be waiting for Liv to wake up from her sleep.

"You! How did you come here?!" Liv turned her eyes towards the window. The shotgun had opened, but Liv remembered that she had put it on when she returned from the lake last night.

"I went in from the window" said Dean casually, tidying up his hood. Frode had bought a new cloth as a replacement that had been lost last night, as a result of being chased by the elf trio. Frode also bought new leather sandals of the same poor quality as before. It's better than having to be barefoot.

Liv was again surprised, it should be only the girl who knew how to open the window from the outside. "Ba-ba-how can it be?!"

No way, he really is a God?! Liv looked at Dean with a horrified look. The girl still could not believe it. But Dean was not out of his mind. The man began to do something unexpected.

Dean cleared his throat for a moment, then said sentences by sentence, just like what Liv had written to her mother in the diary.

"Mother, I'm insulted again ... I don't know how to. Why was I born to be insulted? What wrong? Why didn't I just leave? Why--"

"Stop!!" liv shouted, cutting Dean's speech. Liv flips her sleeping pillow.

Is it possible that this man managed to take my diary and memorize it? ask Liv inwardly. He is so suspicious at the moment.

However, it is not proven. His diary was still in its original place, behind the girl's sleeping pillow. Dean never took that thing at all.

"It's not just your diary. I even know what happened in the past, on the day of your birth. Olrun Themaris hated you so much, because you were the cause of your mother's death."

"No! I'm not the cause! I don't want my mother to die either. But ... but I ... ." Liv started shedding tears. The story told by his father about the death of his mother comes to mind again.

Dean saw the tears. Inwardly, he began to rejoice and said, Liv Themaris has already begun to believe!

Dean didn't care about the girl's tears. He was just thinking about how Liv would believe and go with him on a journey to the portal of the sacred temple.

"I wrote it like that. The black fog inside your body is lifeless. In addition to protecting yourself, the fog will suck the magic energy of anyone who has a match with your body. Your magic energy matches your mother's, who has dark-element offspring. Therefore, the black fog sucked your mother's magic energy until she was gone" Dean explained.

Liv looked stunned at all Dean's remarks. The girl had not been able to process all of this reality in her brain so quickly. Again, Dean doesn't care. He continued to release the facts that happened in the past, even the future that Liv Themaris would go through.

"What you need to know again, you're an antagonist. Later, you will be killed at the hands of Haldir. You want to know your story until you die?" ask Dean. Liv didn't answer anything at all.

Dean continued even though the girl did not give any response. "So you will fall in love with Haldir, the benevolent prince who has been the closest person to you. The prince will fall in love with you too. But do you know what's going to happen?"

Dean continued to tell, that due to the insistence of many parties about the king who must be married, finally Haldir was ready to find a life partner. After the war, Haldir intended to propose Liv. However, since the name Liv gave Haldir when they first met was "Melian", Haldir never sought Liv's name. Haldir finally meets the real Melian.

"You know, your face is exactly the same as your brother, just different in skin color? Haldir can't tell you apart. Once Haldir and Melian meet, they fall in love at first sight.

Moreover, your sister is indeed a very beautiful and kind person. Of course, such a charm could charm Haldir's heart quickly.

Then, you who know it certainly do not accept it. You intend to take revenge on Haldir and Melian, as well as all the people who once insulted you."

Up here, Liv's eyes on Dean grew more frightened. It wasn't that Dean could figure out the contents of his diary, but that the girl was afraid that just what Dean said would really happen in the future.

Dean stepped slowly towards Liv. The girl fell silent, her hands clinging to each other tightly, because she was so afraid. Dean managed to get closer to Liv whose height was only up to the young man's neck.

The human man looked at the elf girl fixedly. "You can guess what happens next?"

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