Villain Hiring: Help! Author Wants Me Dead-Chapter 230: Redemption (6)

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I don't remember how long I sat there, from wanting to kill him myself for sabotaging Pixie to seeing both of them lose from my life because of the same being.

The world around me had gone completely silent.

The courtyard, once filled with screams and crashing magic, was nothing but broken stone and drifting dust. The air smelled of blood and burnt earth.

As for my hands…they wouldn't stop shaking.

Grandpa's hand was still in mine, cold now. His blood painted my palm, dark and sticky, drying under the crimson light of dusk.

The old man wasn't moving.

He wasn't breathing.

He wasn't anything anymore.

I stared at him, waiting for him to make one of his dumb jokes.

Waiting for him to groan and say, "Didn't I tell you not to get emotional, brat?"

Waiting for anything.

But he just lay there, still, quiet...and gone.

The Kalki was already far away, flying slowly as his body drifted with Pixie's in the sky.

Every mile it took away from us echoed in my chest like a heartbeat that wasn't mine.

My throat burned, but no words came out.

I wanted to scream.

I wanted to run towards them.

But my body refused to move.

"Grandpa…" I whispered, my voice breaking. "You can't-You said we'd make our little home complete all over again.

You promised…"

The wind howled through the cracks in the ruined courtyard, carrying the smell of blood and death. My heart beat louder and louder until it drowned everything else out.

And then something inside me…cracked.

It started as a faint pulse deep in my chest.

A small vibration, like a drumbeat beneath my ribs.

The ground around me trembled.

The air grew heavy, charged, like the sky before a storm.

The Kalki paused mid-flight and turned slightly, its red eyes narrowing.

"So," it murmured, its deep voice carrying across the estate.

"The heir awakens after his Grandfather's death? How cliche."

I didn't know what it meant but I didn't care.

All I could see was the sight of Grandpa's lifeless body beside me, his face calm, his eyes half-open, as if still watching over me even in death.

Something broke loose inside me.

All the grief, guilt, fear, pain, everything I'd held back...it exploded.

"GIVE HER BACK!" I roared.

The sound that came out of me wasn't human. It was raw, loud, and filled with a similar monstrosity that to the kalki.

The ground beneath started melting as I saw almost a faint pale hue of lavender coming out of my body.

I could feel something coursing through, something similar to the power that split personality had used.

The Kalki turned fully to face me now. "I see," it said slowly, its voice almost admiring. "So that means you're not gonna stop searching for her after this, are you?" It said, a wicked smile on it's face.

I stepped forward, my body screamed in pain, my legs barely holding me up, but I kept walking towards its figure in the air.

The monster tilted its head downwards. "You would challenge me? You who couldn't even crawl a moment ago?"

"Shut up," I said, my voice low and trembling. "You don't get to talk."

"I'll kill you," I whispered, my voice shaking not with fear, but with something else. "I don't care what you are, what you were, or what you lost. You took everything from me AND NOW I WILL TAKE EVERYTHING AWAY FROM YOU!!"

The Kalki's expression shifted, from pity to cold amusement. "Then come, boy. Show me what your grief is worth."

The Kalki towered above me, eyes blazing. "You burn bright, boy. But flames that bright never last long."

I barely lifted my hand, my body still struggling to move.

And then…I felt it.

A warmth on my shoulder, gentle and familiar.

I turned my head slightly, and for a heartbeat, I saw him.

Grandpa.

Standing behind me.

Not as flesh, but as shadow and light, his face calm.

"Not yet," I heard his voice whisper. "Not like this."

The obsidian blade came swinging down from the sky, but before it hit me, a burst of dark light erupted around me, sending the Kalki staggering backward. The courtyard shook, the sky above flashing between night and day.

I screamed, not from pain, but from everything as I realised that the people of our estate had long fled this estate to save themselves.

Everything I had lost.

Everything I couldn't protect had now abandoned me themselves.

The Kalki hovered back, the sword flying back into it's hand.

Its gaze softened.

"Enough," it said quietly. "I will not kill you, boy. I'll let you suffer in guilt instead."

It turned away, flying into the oblivion.

"Sleep," it said, its deep voice echoing. "And when next you wake…you'll understand why she must return."

And just like that—

It was gone, leaving nothing but silence.

I fell to my knees beside the body of the only man who'd ever truly believed in me.

I didn't cry this time.

No tears came.

Just emptiness.

My heartbeat slowed and my breathing steadied.

But somewhere deep inside...something else had awakened.

Not hope.

Not strength.

Something darker.

Something colder.

Something that whispered softly into the hollow of my chest:

"You will bring her back."

"You will make them pay."

And as the night finally swallowed the sky, I realized...

I was no longer the same Noah who'd once smiled under the sunlight.

That Noah had died beside Venus D. Romero.

What remained…was someone the world should fear.

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