I’m a Villainess but So Popular

Episode 54

Translator : Missme

Editor : Aru

“There was such a thing………?”

Cassius asked back with a serious look.

Looking at him like that, I nodded.

“Yes, I don’t know what’s wrong with this left eye… Anyway, that’s what happened.”

While I was clearing my voice for a moment, Cassius turned his eyes and held his chin with a slight frown between his eyes. As if he has something to think about.

“By the way.”

“Yeah.”

But Cassius looked right at me and listened to me when I opened my mouth again.

“The other day, when the monster came in……”

As the subject came up, Cassius opened his eyes wide and nodded his head in astonishment.

“Huh. At that time?”

“The monster swallowed me, and then he went after my eyes.”

“You mean the left eye?”

“Yes, it’s weird no matter how much I think about it.”

Saying so, I rubbed my left eye with my hand and said in a low voice.

“I was wondering if there was something to do with the monsters aiming for my left eye and the weirdness of my left eye when I used a lot of magic.”

“……so you came to ask me.”

I turned my head toward Cassius and answered back to him.

“You said you could see magic. Do you have any……I was wondering if you could see anything.”

I didn’t know it would help if I found out anything.

After trying blue flame magic in front of Eugene, I tried blue flame magic again, but fortunately, there was no such an abnormal phenomenon.

Even so, I was anxious.

I really liked magic, and I wanted to keep using it here. But if the abnormalities like last time continue, I may not be able to use it in the future.

I may not be able to defend myself properly when I have to use magic that consumes a lot of mana in a hurry like the last time I encountered a monster.

To avoid such worst-case scenarios, I had to find out the cause of this phenomenon.

“Um…”

“Do you see anything? Something that might have to do with what I’ve been through.….”

Cassius narrowed his forehead slightly, as if in trouble.

I looked at him like that, and Cassius soon sighed small.

“I think I know why, actually. Not perfectly known, but maybe.”

“What?”

When I asked in amazement, Cassius looked at me with a slightly worried look and answered.

“Yes. I think I know why.”

“You can figure that out so easily?”

“Uh…… I think I know. But, um….”

Cassius blurted the end of his words by saying so.

Seeing him hesitate, I couldn’t be patient anymore.

“Why, is it hard to tell?”

“Oh, I think you need to know, so I’m gonna tell you–”

Then he looked around once. As if looking for someone around.

“Wait a minute.”

Cassius laid his voice low and bounced his finger.

At the same time, a transparent shroud resembling a giant bubble rose out of the air and rolled me and Cassius round.

The tent, which was shaking like a haze, soon disappeared without a trace, until Cassius opened his mouth.

“This content, I’m sure it’ll bother you when others find out.”

Looking at his golden eyes like that, I was a little surprised inside.

‘No, is it enough to cast anti-eavesdropping magic on it?’

“Yerine, you asked me if I could see anything, right?”

Cassius said, with his fingers around his mouth.

“Yes, I did…?”

“Well, the truth is, there’s quite a lot insight.”

“What?”

When I asked back, Cassius replied in a calm voice, sweeping his dark hair with his hands.

“I’ll explain first about your eyes. The mana of a normal person is floating around the arm or head, by the way.”

When I heard the explanation, I tilted my head and said.

“Yes, but why?”

“Usually after using magic, I see mana diminishing. Then I can see that the mana is slowly generated in the person’s body. But you’re, you’re very different.”

Cassius looked at me and talked to me. And his two golden eyes, looking at my left eye.

“Your mana is concentrated around your left eye. An abnormally large amount of mana.”

“What?”

Unusual. How many does that mean?

“Cassius, what do you mean, abnormally many? Last time it was obvious–”

In the moonlight and my darkroom, Cassius had clearly said that my mana did not deviate from an abnormal range.

But what does this mean?

As I opened my eyes wide and looked at Cassius, Cassius hesitated and slowly opened his mouth.

“I’m sorry. I lied to you because I shouldn’t have told you this and you might be nervous. But after hearing about what had happened, I thought you should know.”

“Well, my magic…….”

“Actually, I’m not sure if it’s in an abnormal category. But for sure, you have the most mana among the people I’ve ever seen. It also surpasses the mana of the Imperial family.”

I can’t believe it.

Although some aristocrats may have slightly more mana than the royal family, it has been treated as a very rare case.

It was a tremendous thing to say that it had more magic than the royal family that formed the root and the foundation of magic.

But it’s not just the amount of mana of the royal family, but it’s also a great leap.

‘Is it wrong that my body can’t stand it?’

The other day, I heard that a nobleman took away the mana of another nobleman, but eventually died because his body couldn’t get a large amount of mana.

I didn’t know that my body would collapse if the amount of mana suddenly increased in an abnormal number of mana.

“And that’s not all. Others have mana coming from the whole body, and you’re getting an overwhelming amount from your left eye.”

It meant that the left eye was generating mana.

That’s why my eyes hurt every time I use too much magic.

“Well, does this happen because of the mana in my left eye?”

“Well, that’s true, but I think it’s because of the speed with which mana occurs.”

“Speed?”

“Yeah.”

Cassius nodded and spoke.

“Usually, when people run out of magic, they recover the insufficient amount with the naturally generated magic. It usually takes a day to recover the amount of magic before using magic.”

“So I’m not like that?”

“As soon as you run out of magic, you regenerate mana several times that of the used mana. The speed of recovery is too fast. More than that, your eyes seem to generate magical power even when you are not using magic.”

At that time, the sight of the ability test before admission passed my mind.

In the end, I recalled the mana meter which broke since it couldn’t withstand the mana.

‘So that time…….’

“Even after you use massive magic, the rate at which magic is generated in your eyes is much faster than before. After using magic that consumes a lot of magic, the rate of occurrence will increase as much, so it is not unreasonable to cause abnormalities in the eyes.”

“So that’s why……….”

Saying so, I rubbed my finger around the left eye.

I still vividly remember the feeling that my left eye heated up on the day when I used magic too hard.

It was fine now, but the feeling kept coming up and rubbing the corners of my eyes unconsciously.

“Then the monster at that time noticed that the mana was regenerated in my eye.”

“Now that I think about it, I think so.”

“Was it really thinking of pulling it out?”

I asked, holding my left eye with one hand in a chilling feeling.

When Cassius saw it, he looked troubled, but could not say no.

“If that’s right, those monsters, they’re coming after the mana.”

When Cassius heard it, he opened his eyes wide and muttered blankly, as if something had passed his mind.

“At that time, we were the only one who those monsters encountered….”

“It’s probably because no one in the Academy has as much mana as the royal family and seven heirs.”

I glanced at him and added.

“We were gathered in one place, so if they aimed to take away the mana, we would have been a good target.”

“……”

“Cassius?”

Turning to the side, Cassius was staring down at the ground, biting his nails unbecomingly. Such a serious look on his face, so I inadvertently shut my mouth as I tried to talk to him.

‘What is it? Anything in your mind?’

But Cassius hadn’t opened his mouth for a long time, only biting his nails.

In the end, I couldn’t stand it and broke his silence.

“Cassius? Is there a problem? Or something that came to mind….”

Only then did Cassius erase his expression and mutter with a blank face, as if he had heard my voice.

“Ah.”

Looking back at me, he asked me again, groping whether he had grasped the situation.

“Oh, what, what did you say? I didn’t hear you, Yerine.”

“I was wondering if there was a problem. You just looked so serious.”

“Oh… just.”

Cassius scratched his cheek awkwardly and gave no clear answer.

“Why? Can’t you let me know?”

“No, it’s not like that, but…….”

Then he sighed heavily and clapped his fingers in his hands.

“Just, scared.”

His face, calmly bringing up the word, was not frightened. It’s a feeling of loneliness and despondency. There was a deeper layer of such feeling on his face.

“I’m not sure, but I thought someone might be after you.”

“Me?”

“Yeah.”

And he looked up at the sky and spit out in a soft voice.

“Just a little, I’m upset.”

Cassius was staring fiercely at the cloudless clear sky with golden eyes.

“Why doesn’t everyone leave you alone?”

“………”

I couldn’t bring up anything in front of Cassius who said so.

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