The Villainess in the Romance Fantasy Is Strange

100. epilogue (complete)

One morning in August, a sunny weekend morning.

Leah and I, who separated a few years ago, woke up and prepared breakfast together as usual.

Standing side by side in the kitchen, they laugh and joke around with each other. They put side dishes made with seasonal vegetables in their mouths. When their eyes meet, they kiss on the cheek. When the mood strikes, they lightly kiss.

… … While being so intimate, a switch was pressed for a moment and I almost became serious, but I barely held myself back. I washed up first and sent Leah to the bathroom.

“… … Phew.”

I don’t know when the kids will wake up, so I can’t show them a strict attitude right from the morning breeze.

I sat down at the table and placed two cups of freshly brewed coffee in front of me and across from me. Leah’s was a sweet cafe mocha, mine was a bitter black coffee.

Squeak-.

─Hey, are you in the kitchen?

“Yeah, I prepared some coffee too.”

─Oh, really? Thank you~.

There was a commotion coming from the bathroom, and soon Leah appeared. She had just finished showering and was drying her hair with a towel as she approached me. Her hair, soaking wet, looked even more beautiful today.

“Eung, it smells good… … I love you, honey.”

“… … .”

When Leah looked at me with a bright smile, I thought for a moment that the goddess of beauty had descended before my eyes.

It’s been several years since she gave birth to twins, but her beauty remains the same. As expected, she is the most beautiful woman in the empire, acknowledged by everyone.

As I was tapping the handle of my poor coffee cup and marveling at Leah’s beauty, I suddenly remembered something I had forgotten.

“Leah, come to think of it. I forgot to ask you before… … .”

“Yeah, what is it?”

“Do you know the novel ‘How to Tame an Obsessive Maniac’?”

“… … How to tame an obsessive male protagonist?”

Leah frowned slightly as if trying to recall memories and slurped down her coffee.

After swallowing it once or twice, he opened his eyes wide as if he had remembered something late.

“Yeah, I know because I saw it. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the details… … How do you know about that novel?”

Of course I could not help but know. Because I added a few emoticons to the comment section of that piece and was reincarnated into this world.

I wonder if the expression reincarnation is really the right one. Now that I have lived here longer than I have in 21st century Korea, the choice of words is meaningless.

I nodded coolly.

“Didn’t I tell you? I commented on that novel and that’s how I met Leah.”

“Oh, really? The West also left a comment and came here?”

“Right. Leah did that too?”

“Yeah, right? I was also there. … … Wow, that’s amazing. I guess there really is no such thing as coincidence in this world.”

Nana and Rihanna are both Korean, and I had a vague idea because they both recalled their pasts one day due to a coincidental incident. But after asking them this question, my doubts were resolved.

As she said, there are no coincidences in this world, and we were reincarnated because we left a comment on some strange novel.

“What did the West comment?”

“Me? I guess I didn’t leave any comments.”

If my memory serves me right, I remember that at the time, the ending of the novel ‘How to Tame an Obsessive Male Lead’ was so absurd that the comments section was ablaze.

When readers pointed out the development, they would make strange excuses, such as that the information given through the female protagonist’s first-person perspective was not 100% reliable, and that the interpretation was different from the author’s intention.

The reader who was even angrier at that criticized the writer, and the writer got angry and responded by saying, “If you want to be nagged, you write it yourself.” And I was watching all of this in real time.

“At that time, there was someone who said that he could write better than the author even if he wrote it himself. That person and the author were fighting so hard that I added an emoticon of a dog shaking.”

“……uh?”

I started a new life in this world because I was guilty of using an emoticon.

‘… … Still, whatever.’

Since I started a new life in this world and was able to meet Leah, I don’t resent that unknown gentleman or anything. But apart from that, I’m curious about him.

What was the real identity of the human who sent me and Leah to another world? A god of this world? A goddess? Or an unknown being in a realm beyond human understanding?

Well, it wasn’t a problem that could be answered by worrying about it now. In fact, I didn’t really care whether that gentleman was a god or not.

“This is just my guess, but maybe I was dragged into this world instead of that person?”

I didn’t care what happened as long as I could be with my loving family, so I chuckled and took a sip of my coffee.

“… … .”

And then I glanced at the front, and for some reason, Leah’s lips, sitting across from me, were wide open.

“Why? The coffee doesn’t suit your taste?”

“Huh? Oh, no. That’s not it… … .”

He seemed to hesitate strangely, then lowered his gaze and muttered softly.

“That person who commented that he could write better than the author. Maybe it was me… … ?”

“… … Huh?”

“That’s right, I was really angry when I saw the latest episode back then. I was really into the female protagonist, and when I heard that the male protagonist cheated on her, I got all worked up. I swore at him, pouring out all my emotions. I’m better at writing than you, if you’re going to write like that, then just throw the writer away… … .”

“……uh?”

“… … But, I think there was someone who commented with the emoticon that the West just mentioned. No, there definitely was. It was the emoticon of a brown puppy shaking its body, right?”

“Uh, yeah. I guess that’s right… … .”

As I nodded my head hesitantly, Leah looked up at me with a truly apologetic expression.

“I, I’m sorry. I think the West came here because of me… … .”

“… … .”

Leah’s sudden confession of truth.

I’d probably be lying if I said I wasn’t surprised… … but I wasn’t angry because I had already vaguely expected it.

No, I wasn’t angry, but rather I found it funny. I thought maybe this was fate, and how many coincidences had to coincide for us to meet here like this. Thinking about it again, it was amazing.

I put down my coffee cup, reached out, and placed my hand on the back of Leah’s hand.

“Leah, it’s okay. What do you have to be sorry about? You didn’t send me to this world, so if you think about it, we’re both victims.”

“Are you, are you really okay… …?”

“Yeah, are you really okay? I’m fine.”

I felt like if I just said this, it would be less sincere, so I decided to show it with actions.

I leaned my upper body towards Leah, grabbed her chin gently, and kissed her lightly.

“Look, does it look okay?”

“……huh.”

Then Leah’s cheeks turned bright red. She looked startled and avoided my gaze, perhaps embarrassed by my surprise kiss. I smiled happily at how cute she looked, making it hard to believe she was a mother of two.

“Leah, can I kiss you one more time?”

“Yeah. It’s okay, but isn’t it time to wake up the kids soon… … ?”

“So what if we wake up? It’s not like we’re doing anything weird.”

Since the kids were in dreamland anyway, I had nothing to worry about, so I just muttered without thinking about what would happen next.

Leah seemed to hesitate for a moment at my words, then nodded shyly.

“Well, then. It’ll only be for a little while, okay… … ?”

“Yeah, I will.”

I must have gotten permission. This time, I got up from my chair and walked over to Leah’s seat.

As we sat down at a table for four, Leah looked up at me, shyly but cautiously.

“Leah.”

“huh?”

“love you.”

“… … Yeah, I love you too.”

After whispering sweet nothings at close range, they kiss again with their lips touching.

When I wrapped my right hand around Leah’s waist and pulled her tightly, she whined as if she had been waiting for me and hugged the back of my neck.

“Huh… … .”

Perhaps because I had just finished showering, the faint scent of Leah’s body wafted out of me felt sweeter than anything else in the world.

Perhaps because I had smelled her unique body scent so much, my body automatically reacted and I whispered in her ear.

“… … Leah.”

“Yeah, why… … ?”

“We, just… … .”

The moment I was about to say, let’s go into the bedroom.

─Squeak, crack!

“… …Mom, I’m hungry.”

“Me too, I’m hungry too!”

The door to the children’s small room opened wide, and the twins jumped out at the same time and started whining.

Leah and I, who had been standing right next to each other, hastily separated and greeted the children with an awkward smile.

“Yeah, right. Our Frida. Are you hungry? Should I give you some food?”

“… …Aaron. What did Dad tell you to do first when you woke up in the morning?”

“That’s right. Good night.”

Aaron, the older twin and born just 30 seconds apart, bowed his head. Following Aaron, Frida also bowed her belly button.

“Good night, Dad, Mom.”

“Yeah, did you both sleep well? Did you feel uncomfortable anywhere or anything strange?”

“Yes, Frida and I slept well.”

“Me too. But Mom, what were you and Dad doing just now?”

“Oh, huh? What were you doing?”

On the twin side, Frida, who always insisted that ‘the brother who was born 30 seconds apart is not my brother-!’, suddenly stretched out her arms and pretended to hug my neck.

“Like this, like this. Mom put her arms around Dad’s neck and laughed and… … .”

“Frida, I told you before, right? You just pretend not to see that. If you ask specifically about the things that a couple should do, it will be difficult for Dad and Mom.”

“Oh, is that so? If I ask you something like this, will Mom and Dad be in trouble?”

“Oh, this is difficult. So from now on, even if you see it, pretend you didn’t see it.”

“Okay, I got it. From now on, I’ll just pretend not to know.”

“… … .”

“… … Uh, ahem.”

I was momentarily speechless at the twins’ response that was more mature than any adult’s.

Leah and I cleared our throats and looked away, then jumped up from our seats to prepare breakfast.

“Aaron, Frieda. Are you hungry? Just wait, Dad and Mom will prepare breakfast.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“What’s for breakfast this morning, Mom?”

“Yeah, it’s a traditional dish that I often ate in my mother’s hometown. You’ll be surprised if you try it.”

Today’s breakfast menu is stir-fried pork with a special sauce that Leah and I have been researching together for several years, a seasoning that tastes very similar to gochujang. I guarantee that our children will experience a new world they have never experienced before.

Leah confidently declared as she walked towards the kitchen counter, and I tried to follow her.

“Dad, I found an old book in your study.”

But, Aaron stopped me with his words.

When I turned around to look at something, Aaron was handing me a notebook with a very familiar cover.

“I didn’t look at the contents because it seemed like Dad’s book. What is this?”

A diary and personal notebook that I used more than ten years ago.

This notebook was once called the ‘original notebook’.

After I married Leah, I thought I wouldn’t need it, so I left it alone, and when I moved out, I put it away somewhere and completely forgot about it. I wonder where I found this.

After accepting the notebook that Aaron offered, I roughly opened it to the middle of the page.

[May 17, 434 Imperial Calendar.]

[The villainess in the romance novel is strange.]

… … .

[January 4, Imperial Calendar 444.]

[Last weekend, I finally had my first night with Leah… … .]

“… … .”

It contains all the information that I had painstakingly organized in the distant past.

‘… …What about the villainess.’

How can such a good girl be a villain? I laughed inwardly and closed the book.

“dad?”

“Yeah. This is probably the diary that Dad has been writing since the day he first met Mom… … .”

“Huh? Really? This is the diary that Dad and Mom have been writing since the day they first met?”

“Why? Are you curious?”

“Yes, I’m curious. Can you show me?”

“… … That won’t do. It would be too embarrassing for Dad.”

I closed the notebook and placed my hand on Aaron’s head.

“Instead, I’ll make you a delicious breakfast. Isn’t that more fun than reading your diary?”

“Oh, I miss you… … . Okay. Let’s eat.”

He seemed to be answering obediently, but his eyes were not those of someone who was giving up. Aaron was like his mother, and once he got hooked on something, he would continue to show a strange obsession, so I had to hide this notebook somewhere.

“Why are you standing there, sir? Sit down and let’s eat.”

“Yeah, I got it.”

“Okay, here you go, sir.”

Leah, wearing an apron, put the food down on the table and looked at the notebook in my hand.

It’s a strange gaze.

“West, what is that?”

“Oh, this? That’s, um… … .”

“This is the diary that Dad has been writing since he first met Mom!”

“… … Oh my, really?”

Leah asks me with just her eyes if what Aaron said is true.

Since I couldn’t say no since everything would be revealed if I unfolded it, I had no choice but to affirm it.

“Oh, that’s right. It’s a really old diary. It’s a keepsake for me, so I keep it to myself… … .”

“Then, you can eat dinner with me later and watch it together.”

“… … .”

In fairy tales, after marriage, it all ends with ‘the two of them lived happily ever after’, but our lives are not like that.

Getting married and starting a family is just the first step.

To achieve a happy ending, you have to constantly work hard throughout your life with the person you love.

So, for the sake of my future married life, I don’t think Leah should find out about all the stuff written in the diary…

When I couldn’t answer right away, Leah smiled.

“Why, is there anything strange written there? It’s not like that, is it?”

“Um, that’s… …. Leah? Well, that.”

“West.”

“Uh, why?”

“After eating, don’t go anywhere and just sit on the bed.”

“……yes.”

After all, it seems like Leah is the villainess in the romance novel… … .

──Complete.