The Villainous Me Turned the Losers into Blackened Bosses-Chapter 203 - The Trap

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“So, Little Will~ are we still heading to Zymart Town? After all… the guards said they’d notify the capital if they found any clues. Treya is likely there. Zymart Town is quite close to the capital.”

“The enemy shouldn’t be… wait, Demon Castle… right… there’s still that matter…”

Will pulled his hood lower, as if trying to hide his growing incoherence.

Shuna watched as Will seemed to spiral into a state of overwhelming confusion, his mind clearly struggling to process the flood of information.

She was familiar with this feeling.

When too much information comes at you all at once, it’s easy to fall into a cycle of “analyzing the data → discovering new information → analyzing again → discovering more,” endlessly exhausting your brain without actually reaching any concrete conclusions.

But…

Seeing Will like this gave Shuna a rare sense of him truly “living” in the moment.

He wasn’t some omniscient, all-knowing observer who always had clarity. He was just as prone to being lost in the chaos of the present as anyone else.

She had tried many ways to get him to show this side of himself, but who would’ve thought that a single missing person notice from a princess would make him so “alive”?

Although she couldn’t understand what kind of information in such an ordinary notice could throw Will into such disarray…

She knew that if she let him continue like this, he’d never find his way out of this mental maze.

What he needed most right now was…

To calm down.

“Little Will, sorry about this. Bear with me for a moment.”

“?”

Will only had time to see Shuna step closer, pressing her forehead gently against his.

It was like the gesture a mother might use to check her child’s temperature. Shuna, acting as the mature and caring senior, was offering her support to her troubled junior.

Though, perhaps her “care” was a bit too intense.

Will felt a chill from Shuna’s forehead, colder than anything he had experienced even in Moonlit Ice Extreme.

In that instant, his nerves jolted, and he found himself “calm”—albeit through a very physical method.

“Shuna?”

It seemed she had used her ice armor ability on her forehead, then lightly bumped it against his to force him to cool down.

“Cold, isn’t it? Feeling calmer now?”

Through his slightly unfocused vision, Will looked into Shuna’s black eyes.

It felt like she was staring straight into his soul.

And their faces were… so close…

“I think… I think I’m better now. No… don’t get so close.”

Will instinctively reached out to push her away, his hand initially aiming for her chest before realizing that, as a woman, Shuna’s chest was… quite substantial. Embarrassed, he redirected his hand to her toned waist, pushing her back gently.

“Alright, then tell me—what’s going on? Don’t worry, I’m here to listen.”

“Well, it’s like this. Let me explain step by step, and don’t panic.”

“Don’t worry, I’m a professional. No matter how terrifying it is, I won’t panic.”

“First, Princess Treya is my fiancé in name.”

“Uh-huh. That’s public knowledge—every street, every magazine, every newspaper has covered it. Not exactly a secret.”

“Second, uh… you remember what Leah is like, right?”

Shuna’s hands, which had been crossed over her chest, dropped slightly. She glanced at the burn scars on her arm. Thanks to the “old witch’s” magic, her wounds were healing quickly, and the scars weren’t too severe. They’d likely be gone in two or three weeks.

Still, scars carried memories. She nodded.

“Hehe… actually, Leah is someone I trained.”

Will scratched his head sheepishly, his tone carrying a hint of pride.

“…?”

“That’s right. I taught her everything—how to act when she likes someone, how to be assertive, and even how to push the boundaries of legality. All of it was my doing.”

“???”

Shuna couldn’t hold back, crossing her arms again.

“So… so, Princess Treya is in a similar situation. As you can see, she wrote this kind of notice, and she’s looking for me… which means… maybe… possibly… her mental state isn’t very stable?”

“What do you mean by ‘not very stable’?”

“Uh, kind of like Leah when you met her… you know, the ‘I can’t live without you’ kind of state?”

“…You sound oddly proud of that.”

Shuna rubbed her forehead.

This was the first time Will had openly talked about his “grand achievements.”

After all…

Shuna was someone he trusted.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have shared even subtle hints about the “fate” from the original story.

Now, she was the only person besides himself who knew both the “fate” and his plans.

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Shuna stayed silent for a moment, processing the information. Then she scratched her head and said:

“Is this one of the Hysterm family’s infamous eccentricities? You’re living up to the reputation.”

“You… you’ve misunderstood something.”

“Turning perfectly normal girls into lunatics who chase you across the world—that’s your hobby, isn’t it, Will?”

“You’ve definitely misunderstood!”

“I can’t think of any other reason for you to do this.”

“Actually, it’s… it’s an unintended consequence of me trying to resist the prophecy in my dreams… It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this.”

“Relax, I’m just joking. Whatever you say, I believe you.”

Shuna paused, then switched to a more teacher-like tone, as if guiding him through his thoughts—

“So, based on what you’re saying, you know this princess very well. What does this missing person notice mean? Does it show that she’s desperate to find you?”

“That’s…”

Will was about to say that Treya couldn’t handle pressure well and was likely desperate for him to return to her side.

But he hesitated.

Something didn’t feel… right.

Wait.

The problem was with this “missing person notice.”

From the moment he saw it, he had subconsciously placed Treya in the same category as “another Leah.”

But…

He seemed to have overlooked something…

It was Shuna who reminded him.

For Shuna, without knowing the full story, there was no reason to assume Treya’s missing person notice was the result of “yandere behavior.”

And this should have been the same for Will.

If he stepped back from his initial assumption—that Treya’s messy handwriting and the notice were signs of her turning yandere and wanting to drag him back…

Will’s mind suddenly cleared.

He lifted his head, his eyes brightening.

“This is a trap.”

“A trap? So she’s not madly in love with you, searching for you with a broken heart?”

“Definitely not! Absolutely not! Because… because this kind of missing person notice wouldn’t speed up finding me at all!”