Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 345
Chapter 345
“Hey, hiding behind your size isn’t going to help!”
“Urrgh—”
“No way it isn’t! Just look at my eyes.”
As she pressed the bear for answers, a fluffy orange cat jumped onto her lap and whispered,
“Meow.”
“Oh… so the bear has eaten someone coming out of the temple before.”
Well, that makes sense. As a top predator in the food chain, it’s only natural.
Even though she thought that way, Elaina started to move away from the bear.
The bear began to dig at the ground in disappointment, but she didn’t have the energy to pay attention to it.
But that wasn’t all.
“Meow.”
The cat’s soft paw pointed toward the wolf.
“Hey, you too?”
It also pointed at the lion.
“Meow.”
“How many have you eaten?”
It seemed these carnivores treated the temple like a buffet where food appeared regularly.
Elaina shook her head in disbelief at the cat’s endless gossip.
“Meow meow.”
“So it looks like most of the people offered as sacrifices have made it out of the temple.”
“Go out the back door. Your survival depends on your own choices.”
So that’s why he said that.
Elaina felt a deep sense of relief that her ancestor wasn’t a cannibal.
Even if he had neglected the fact that going into the forest meant being eaten by wild beasts.
At least he could say he wasn’t directly staining his own hands.
“Hmm? Then what does the ancestor eat?”
Does he go to a separate restaurant or something?
But if he doesn’t eat humans, couldn’t he just stop the sacrifices?
Though, the villagers who offer up living people don’t seem normal either…
“I don’t know.”
If you don’t know, just ask! After all, hiding won’t bring answers. She wouldn’t be living in the forest forever.
Elaina was a very busy person.
‘I need to figure out where everyone else is, and I have to take the kids back to the original timeline.’
Seeing that Luca hadn’t flown to her location yet, there must be some restrictions on him.
Surely someone like him wouldn’t get seriously hurt. At least, she hoped not.
“So I can’t just stay in the forest.”
Elaina murmured and suddenly sprang to her feet.
She intended to leave the forest.
At that moment, the wolf that had been circling around her and spotted her first let out a small whimper.
“Stop following me.”
“Arf!”
“To your pack… Oh. You don’t have a place to go back to.”
The wolf had been chased away from its pack after suffering a severe injury as a pup.
Now recovered and healthy, it was growing stronger to defeat the leader of the pack that had banished it for revenge.
“Fine. Do whatever you want, follow me or not.”
Softening her stance, Elaina sighed and waved her hand dismissively. The wolf wagged its tail vigorously, seemingly satisfied with her response.
“Well then, shall we head to the temple?”
It was the fifth day since Elaina had made the forest her home.
“…Is it dead?”
Elaina mumbled as she looked at Noah, who was asleep on the throne.
He looked just as he had five days ago.
Even his lazy, propped-up posture hadn’t changed.
If his chest hadn’t been slowly rising and falling, she would have thought he had frozen into a statue.
‘Surely he hasn’t been like this for five days straight.’
After a moment’s hesitation, she placed her hand in front of his face and waved it around.
Tap—
At that moment, he grasped her wrist.
So he wasn’t dead, after all.
‘Then was he really just sleeping?’
Unable to hide her disbelief, Noah whispered in a low voice.
“That’s surprising.”
“What is?”
As soon as she replied, his partially closed gaze narrowed even further.
“Both the fact that you’re alive and that you’ve returned.”
Does that mean he expected her to die?
What kind of person…
‘Ah, he’s my ancestor.’
How fitting for the progenitor of the Valentines.
Elaina sighed and poured out what she had collected in the folds of her skirt onto his clothing.
It was the fruit the squirrels had diligently gathered.
His once plain white garment began to take on a colorful pattern as the juice from the fruit soaked into the fabric.
“…What is this?”
His gaze followed her curiously.
“You haven’t eaten anything.”
“…”
“Aren’t you hungry?”
“Not really.”
Noah looked indifferently at the pile of berries on his thigh and picked up a raspberry.
He didn’t seem to be doing it to eat. Instead, he stared at it as if observing something unfamiliar.
“Are you not going to eat it?”
“I don’t need to.”
After all that effort to bring it!
Elaina shrugged and plopped down on the floor in front of the chair he was sitting in.
Although he was someone who had threatened her life…
‘Maybe it’s because he’s my ancestor, or maybe it’s because he resembles Dad.’
Or perhaps it was because she had heard that he had sent back everyone the village had sacrificed.
Once she grasped the situation to some extent, an internal sense of closeness began to grow.
Leaning her back against Noah’s leg without hesitation, she felt him flinch slightly.
Elaina asked casually.
“So why do the villagers offer sacrifices to you?”
Especially when he didn’t seem to need any food.
From the way sacrifices were chased away from the temple, it didn’t look like it was something he wanted at all.
Surprisingly, Noah answered her readily.
“It’s due to humanity’s primal desires.”
Primal desires.
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