Taming The Villainesses novel Chapter 413

The closer I got, the more the light streaming from the window wrapped around my body with vivid intensity.

When I finally reached it and looked outside, the familiar sight beyond that glass window made my mind feel like it was waking up.

Yes, I know this place.

This was the place I was originally supposed to be. The old swing creaking in the playground. The children playing in the dirt and the teachers watching over them.

Especially that reddish sunset in the distance—it looked pretty amazing even to me. Yes, this window showed the sunset more beautifully than any place I knew.

That’s why I would always bring over a chair at sunset and sit in front of this window to watch it.

No—no, that’s not quite right.

I told everyone it was to watch the sunset, but honestly, I never cared much about the sunset itself.

My eyes were always fixed on the fence, the rusted front gate, and that corner far beyond.

I was waiting for the person who had left me here to one day return around that corner. I waited every day for that familiar figure to appear from there and wave at me.

“Yeah... I was always watching that window.”

One by one, memories came back. Memories of waiting for someone. But I couldn’t remember a single thing about their face or what they looked like.

Who was I even waiting for?

Then a voice echoed in my ear.

━Go to them yourself. Beyond the window. Just as you originally wished to do.

Beyond the window. Yes, I remember now. At some point, I stopped sitting by the window. But I was always ready to go past it.

I wanted to go search myself.

For the mother who left me behind.

Not just waiting—I had tried to find her myself. I asked around, searched here and there, and thought I had finally narrowed down her location—

Then one day, my whole world changed.

Back then, I might’ve believed there was no cause-and-effect between the two, that I’d just gotten caught in someone’s twisted prank. But now, I think I understand a little more.

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“No matter the time or place, the person I was waiting for... was always just one.”

I was told to go beyond the window.

I wanted to reach that faraway corner. So I reached out to unlock the window and open it, but perhaps because it had rusted over, it wouldn’t open easily.

While I was struggling with the creaking frame, something cold touched my face. As I slowly opened my eyes, a figure flickered faintly in my blurred vision.

Something cold and wet pressed to my forehead—was it a damp towel?

“Mom...?”

“Why the hell would I be your mom.”

The gruff voice jolted me awake. As my eyes opened wider, the blur sharpened, and I finally recognized the person in front of me.

“Lady Elga.”

“Yeah. You coming to your senses now?”

“What... happened?”

“Hell if I know. One moment there was that floating feeling, and the next thing I knew, we were in your office. Then you just collapsed and wouldn’t wake up.”

So that’s what happened.

Was that just a dream, then?

While I was still halfway dazed, Elga slapped the cold towel straight onto my forehead. Maybe it had been sitting in ice water—my head cleared in an instant.

“Hhhiieek...!”

“Hhhiieek my ass. That’s why I said don’t step on an incomplete magic circle. And it wasn’t my opinion—it was Leonoa in my belly who said not to.”

“Leonoa did?”

“Yeah. This little rascal kicks me whenever she thinks something bad’s about to happen.”

Kicking her belly? Could she already feel fetal movement? It seemed a bit early for that. Or maybe Elga was just saying that.

Still, it was true that I had lost consciousness because of the incomplete magic circle.

There must’ve been an unknown flaw in the spatial teleportation spell, and the resulting mana backlash must’ve overloaded my brain—causing me to black out like a power outage.

If I’d stayed conscious, the overloaded mana might’ve burned out a few of my neural mana circuits. I’d be suffering from serious headaches right now.

So then—

Was that window just a dream? It felt too vivid to be just a dream.

I asked,

“How long... was I out?”

“Dunno. About an hour, maybe?”

Not that long.

I sat up.

Elga caught my shoulder.

“Hey, just stay lying down a bit longer.”

“I’m fine. It’s just a little sleep deprivation. Nothing serious.”

Shff.

I slipped my feet into warm, fuzzy slippers and slowly approached the window. Thanks to the pouring rain outside, it was hard to tell whether it was night or day.

Elga said,

“It’s raining like there’s a hole in the sky. I wonder if we can even go through with the wedding like this. Shouldn’t we delay it?”

Her words made me recall something—wasn’t there that saying? That only one day would be perfectly clear and peaceful after heavy rain.

So I slowly shook my head.

“It’ll clear up.”

***

━Yip yip!

Something tickled my face, and I slowly opened my eyes. My eyelids lifted so lightly, even I was surprised.

“What the...”

I sat up in bed and twisted my body this way and that. My body was in the best shape it had ever been.

“Nice.”

━Yip yip!

“You feel good too, huh?”