I Got Reincarnated as the Villain and Saved the World, but After the Ending I Was Betrayed and Exiled. I Just Wanted a Peaceful Life in the Frontier, but for Some Reason My Former Companions Started Chasing Me with Yandere Eyes… - 67

Chapter 67: 

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“More importantly, Phantom-sama… What do you think of me?”

I gathered my resolve and spoke to Phantom-sama. As for the love potion… It was something that temporarily heightened existing affection along with emotional uplift. In other words, if the affection was low to begin with, its effect would also be weak.

My true nature had already been exposed, and I knew Phantom-sama’s feelings leaned toward Tia, the one who first acknowledged him after his exile. But… I didn’t want to lose him.

I had fallen in love with him… I had worked desperately to become a saint so that I could reunite with him, only to find Henrietta already by his side. I suppressed my feelings as we traveled to defeat the Demon Lord. Then, when I tried to heal him after he had been cast out and wounded, Tia was already there. If I just kept watching, those two would surely end up together.

That… I hated that. What I hated most was letting it end without doing anything.

So… Even if only for now, I wanted him to love me. Even if it was only by the potion’s power, I thought I would be happy if he loved me.

Thinking that, I listened intently for the words that spilled from Phantom-sama’s lips.

“I like you, Ceres.”

“Fufufu, I feel the same. Phantom-sama… So we’re of one heart.”

He stared at me with his face bright red. Satisfied by his words, I nodded, and while enduring my embarrassment, I gazed intently at him. I knew it wasn’t his true feelings, so there was a touch of emptiness in his words, but I ignored it and embraced him.

His well-trained chest, his manly scent unique to men… It made my head spin and my chest burn hot.

“Fufu, Phantom-sama is so honest today… Being stared at by men I didn’t care about was unpleasant, but if it’s you getting excited… Ah, I couldn’t ask for a better feeling than this.”

When I felt his hardened arousal pressing around my navel, I couldn’t help but get excited as well. I hugged him more tightly and pressed my ample chest against him.

From here on… He is going to make me a woman. 

Just thinking that made all the things I had suppressed nearly impossible to hold back.

“Of course I’m excited. Ceres, you’re attractive.”

“Ufufu, thank you. I’m far from the ideal saintess, but right now I’ll show you I can be your ideal woman. If Phantom-sama wishes, I’ll grant any lewd request you want…”

“That’s not true. Ceres is the ideal saintess.”

“…No, that’s not right. Phantom-sama already knows my true nature, don’t you? I’m nothing more than a two-faced woman.”

“That’s wrong…Because Ceres tried so hard to be the ideal saintess.”

His firm denial surprised me, and Phantom-sama continued, gazing straight into my eyes.

“When we first met, you always made such a complicated expression every time people called you a saintess. I still remember it.”

“You remembered that moment…?”

“Of course I did. Walking through town together, taking those strolls with you while you looked so happy… Those are my happy memories too.”

He remembered those days just as dearly, and hearing the joy in his smiling voice made my chest burn again.

“I don’t know everything that happened afterward. But every time I heard your name, everyone would praise you as wonderful, as the ideal saintess. You chose with your own will to become a saintess and achieved it. I think that’s amazing.”

“That is…”

Faced with his gaze, full of straightforward respect, I couldn’t help but avert my eyes. Because the truth was, I hadn’t become a saintess for anyone else. If he realized I had aimed to become a certified saintess just so I could be with him, he would surely pull away from him.

“I’m not that kind of person. You… You know I’m a bit deceitful, don’t you? I’m just a fake saintess.”

“Yeah, I know. And that’s exactly why I think it’s amazing. Ceres is human, with flaws and contradictions. And still, you worked so hard to be called the ideal saintess. If you want to call that a fake, then I’d say a fake is even more amazing than the real thing. Besides… I liked the Ceres who fought against the Demon Lord, but I like the Ceres in front of me now even more, because it feels like you’re speaking your true feelings.”

With his unclouded smile, he said that, and I felt like I would lose my mind from the mix of embarrassment and happiness. Well, of course. After all, he told me he liked me, not as the saint I pretended to be for his approval, but as my true self.

Even if the potion was amplifying his affection, the fact that he liked this me—the real me—was genuine…

“N-nn… Aah… Uuh…”

My feelings—everything I had suppressed—overflowed, and I could no longer face Phantom-sama directly. Just having him near made me so happy that sex became the furthest thing from my mind.

And just as I instinctively pulled back, the door swung open, almost as if timed to the moment.

“Damn church, using such complicated magic… But against a genius like me, it’s nothing!”

“Ceres… I may not have the right to say this, but that love potion really isn’t a good idea.”

Elena and Henrietta said something, but I no longer cared. Ah, it was no use. I really, truly loved Phantom-sama. The love potion’s effects weren’t eternal. My plan had been to force a relationship, bear his child, and then hide away somewhere.

But the truth was, I wanted him. I wanted him to make me his. So, I resolved to keep pursuing him. There was just one problem. Would I ever be able to speak to him properly again? Honestly, I was confused at myself too. I had fallen so deeply in love with him that just looking at his face was enough to leave my head foggy with love.

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