The Villain Can't Lose

"I'm sorry!"

Yelling in a high-pitched voice, the maid begged while on her knees, "I...I will never do it again, plea-please don't hurt me!"

"Shut up!" I growled, "you will learn your lesson, and you will do exactly as I tell you to or else..." I threatened.

"Or what?" She asked in a trembling voice while trying to bite her nails.

"Or you will die!" I laughed aloud and then continued, "we've been through this already, you little bitch! Now, shut up and listen carefully," I leaned closer to her.

Maybe I was a little out of my own character and might have gone too far, but she bullied Nari as if she was the owner of this place.

Bullying was present in this era as well, 'I guess no one can escape it...' I thought as I glanced at the hidden wooden door underneath the red blood-like roses.

"There, open it for me!" I could feel how my voice raised on its own this time.

I was getting out of character and knew that I needed to chill, but the rage that was thundering within me just couldn't calm down now.

The maid nodded her head and pushed the door open, 'I wonder if anyone could hear us?' I thought as I looked around the garden.

"Get inside, now!" I yelled at her again, feeling how the wrinkles on my forehead formed together, 'gosh, I really am starting to become Rowen...' I squeezed my eyes trying to calm myself down a bit.

Nothing would come out good from this kind of behaviour, it would only make me take bad decisions instead. I needed to relax.

I looked back at the maid whose face was filled with fear and worry, "don't disappoint me, now!"

"A-are you sure?" She asked timidly.

"Yes, I'm positive, now hurry up!" I snapped taking a glance at the pathway.

After that, she gave me another glance before running inside.

I heard the sound of the door closing behind her as she ran into the darkness, "come out here!" I yelled, this time much louder than before.

I waited for a few seconds to see if she would appear, but she didn't, "God damn it!" I clenched my fist, feeling how the pressure rose within me, her sudden reaction seemed to have pissed me off.

I didn't mean for her to run on her own but lead the way for me... 'I guess this was my own fault for not informing her what she had to do exactly,' taking a deep breath, I also followed into the darkness after her.

As I entered the dark cellar, I felt my mind spinning, 'did I really enter the correct place?' I wondered.

And pretty I soon realised that the walls were covered with different and old coloured paintings. I tried to focus on them but I couldn't see much because of the poor lighting.

pαndα,noνɐ1,сoМ 'I guess this is the best place to hide away if there is such a thing as a hiding place,' I thought to myself as I looked around the room, 'but I doubt that Hector would ever go down here with the maids.' I shook my head removing the unnecessary thoughts and focused back, "now where is she?" I mumbled.

The rotting mould and cold stones were just one of the few smells that disturbed my senses. And the further I walked, the more I could smell faeces and urine, 'this is disgusting!' placing my fingers on my nose, I tried blocking the nasty scent that surrounded this place.

"AHHH"

A strange moan came from the depth of the room, and it immediately began to awaken my uneasiness.

It felt like someone was banging the iron bars with rattling chains, "there are more people besides me and the maid?" I mumbled as even talking had become difficult due to the terrible sounds that echoed in the room.

This was definitely not a good sign at all.

I was thinking about whether I should get further in or not when I heard a voice ask me.

I felt how my heart began rising more fast than usual, forcing me to take deeper breaths. Inhaling and exhaling air made my hands sweaty. I felt how the fingers that were placed on my nose were shaking together.

"How did you find it?" A sudden voice made me flinch.

I slowly turned around to see that the voice belonged to a man, followed by that, the sound of heavy footsteps was heard as well, "is that you, Rowen?" Serenu's voice welcomed my ears and I immediately turned around.

I exhaled one more time, almost feeling relieved…

"Serenu!" I raised both of my eyebrows taking a step back, "what are you doing here?" I leaned to the side to see what was behind him.

There were stairs that led to some kind of dungeons, 'how deep could this place really be?' I wondered to myself and examined the wet and old stairs that seemed slippery.

Serenu didn't answer anything and just kept staring at me with his eyes wide open.

"…."

The dripping of the falling water drops from the ceiling was the only thing that I could hear right now as this situation had turned really awkward, 'what should I say to kill this silence and to ask what he was doing here by himself?'

But before I could come to an answer, he asked me.

"Young master, I thought with what happened last time, you wouldn't want to come here again?" He lowered his eyebrows as he spoke slowly.

I wasn't sure what he really meant by this "LAST TIME" but I knew that I had to play it cool right now, "the maid, I came to teach her a lesson but she ran away, find her for me, Serenu." I ordered while slowly removing my fingers from my nose.

"Understood." Giving a bow, he walked past me, probably to go to find her.

His footsteps were so loud that they could easily be heard from quite a distance, I'm sure that everyone in the dungeons would hear him coming.

I took a deep breath and then exhaled, 'I need to keep calm, I can't let my anger out in front of him now,' I tried my best to calm myself down.

'As for that maid, I must get her alone for a moment so that I can try and control my powers.' I thought.

I watched as Serenu disappeared behind the broken door of the dungeon, "this place really needs renovation..." I sighed taking a look around the place.

It was empty and dark, only a few of the candles were burning to help someone see better and other than that, nothing else.

Broken iron bars were placed on the ground, rotting in the ground as if they belonged there forever.

While I looked around, I noticed something on the floor, I squatted down and picked up a small piece of paper, 'it has a drawing on it.'

I looked at it carefully, it was a sketch of a woman with long blonde hair and blue eyes. The drawing itself wasn't anything special when compared to the arts that were performed in my previous world.

"Who is she?" I moved my head closer to see it better.

I really didn't remember anyone that depicted her description while reading the book.

It couldn't be Rowen's mother, as she had dark blue hair like his sister Irene, "strange..." I mumbled and folded the drawing in half before placing it into my pocket. I had to examine it later.

And by that time I heard the loud footsteps again.

It didn't need me to use much of my mind to know who it was.

"Master!" Serenu greeted me from behind.

As I turned around, I saw that the maid who ran away was being dragged here by her hair.

Her whole body was bruised and cut all over while her clothes were ripped apart, and her hair was messed up. She was struggling with every single step she made.

She tried to scream for help, but I silenced her before she could even try to open her mouth, "I will practice something on you."