I Am The Game's Villain

"What? Are you jealous, \'Lord\' Eric?" I asked with a snort.

"Why should I be?" Eric tilted his head, clearly trying to provoke me.

"What is this…place?" Milleia interrupted our quarrel and pointed at a skeleton—not at a lot of skeletons scattered on the ground everywhere. The sunlight from above was illuminating this bleak place. 

"I don\'t know either." Eric replied. "But it\'s easy to guess that a lot of people fought here."

Yeah, that\'s for sure.

I\'ve never seen so many skeletons in my life and judging by the really \'broken\' state of the skeletons, they fought really fiercely…

I approached one of them, leaning on a boulder and knelt down. He had leather armor and some clothes were visible and they were tainted from dried blood and dirt so I couldn\'t even try to recognize who they were but—if I had to guess, I would say that they had died several hundreds years ago.

Something…something is really bothering me but I don\'t know what.

\'Cleenah.\'

"?"

\'Hey, Cleenah.\' 

I called out to her again but she didn\'t answer again.

Was she tired or something?

\'Jarvis?\'

[Yes.]

Jarvis is here but Cleenah is not…

Whatever.

I stood up and followed Eric and Milleia. 

They were heading to a specific wall which had a huge crack on it. The crack was filled with vines, creepers and seemed to head to nowhere. Anyone would have ignored that but I and Eric knew that it was the destination to the Golden Grass.

Taking out a short sword, Eric started to cut away all the plants as he advanced further and further inside the crack. Milleia followed after him and I followed behind her. We didn\'t have to do anything since Eric was clearing the way for us. 

"K-Kya!" Milleia let out a cute scream when she saw a spider web sticking to her blue hair. A small spider was even climbing on her head as it owned the place.

"Calm down…" I sighed in exasperation, seeing Milleia\'s teary eyes and removed the spider before throwing it to Eric\'s head. 

[Do you want his death, like in the Game?]

\'He won\'t die from it.\'

"Ah! Something bit my neck!" Eric slapped his neck with a groan.

"Enough screaming like a little girl. We are in a hurry," I said, annoyed.

"S-Sir Nyrel…" Milleia was sure shocked by my condescending way of speaking to Eric. "Lord Eric is the Heir of a Duchy…you should be more polite." She whispered to me.

"I know, don\'t worry." I shrugged at her. He won\'t do anything and even if he tries, I will threaten him, now that I\'m convinced that he is a reincarnator like me.

He started with that displeasing letter so it was merely a payback.

"Eh? We reached a dead end…" Milleia said as Eric stopped advancing in front of a rocky wall. 

"No," Eric shook his head. "It\'s behind that." He said and channeled a huge amount of his mana in his right hand. "Protect yourselves."

"Y-Yes." Milleia nodded and immediately summoned several shimmering barriers to protect herself, me and even Eric.

Eric pulled out his fist and punched out. 

An astounding sound resounded and the wall cracked but it wasn\'t enough…so he pulled back his fist again to punch again. For a long minute, we could only hear the deafening sounds caused by Eric in the attempt to break the wall. It was sure sturdy.

Finally after another minute, the wall collapsed revealing a passage. A pleasurable blow of wind caressed our faces and it was really pleasing as we have been in that narrow place for a long time. One by one, we left the crack and stepped out.

"Woww…" Milleia let out a long sigh of admiration seeing her surroundings. The place had nothing special except its strange cleanliness. There were pebbles lying around but somehow the ground seemed spotless. More than that, what was eye-catching was the immense doors of stones in front of us. The doors also had nothing special, like runes or engravement but it was releasing an amazing and indescribable aura.

Behind it were the Golden Grasses.

Finally.

It seemed easier in the Game.

Anyway, how the hell did Eric know about that?

He must have really played the Game hard to find how to reach the place.

"Finally…" Eric let out a tired breath but he had a smile on his face. Even though he was reincarnated, he cares for his sister huh…

He probably has both the memories of his past life and current life just like me. 

Eric quickly walked to the doors and put both his hands to push them. "Hm?" A frown emerged on his face as he put even more strength but…still not. The doors didn\'t even make a sound and stood tall in front of us.

"Ah!" This time, he channeled his mana, and pushed the doors with inhuman strength. His feet started to slide because of him exercising too much strength in his hands.

What the hell is he doing?

"Are you that weak?" I snorted and pushed the doors next to him.

He is really embarrassing himself like that.

"Then do it!" Eric spat angrily.

I sneered at him. "Look and learn."

….

….

….

"Ah…ah…ah…fuck!" I cursed and slumped on the ground with a ragged breath. 

[Looks like, you also embarrassed yourself.]

Shaddap!

What\'s happening, for God\'s sake…

"I-It\'s…it\'s not possible!" Eric punched the ground helplessly. "They should have opened! Jayden did it…then why can I not…" His last words were barely audible but I was near him so I heard them clearly. He probably didn\'t care about my presence since he thought that I was just a random stranger but…unfortunately I was Edward and a reincarnator.

If before I wasn\'t convinced then now, I was hundred percent sure he was a reincarnator.

Like he said, in the Game, Jayden didn\'t even have to use mana to open the doors. 

No, wait. 

He didn\'t open them alone, if I remember.

"?" I turned to my left seeing Milleia walking to the doors. "Milleia…"

The latter seemed in trance as her light pink eyes were only looking at the door. 

It was Milleia.

Yeah.

Milleia and Jayden were the ones who opened the doors.

Milleia put her hands on the doors and the reaction was immediate. 

The doors shone in a bright golden light and started to open. It was a surreal sight, seeing Milleia with her fragile looking figure opening such immense doors made of stones.

I and Eric couldn\'t even open them but she succeeded.

Was that because she has Raphiel\'s bloodline?

It was the only reason coming into my mind.

But then does that mean that this place has somewhat a link with Raphiel?

I wasn\'t even aware of that…and judging from Eric\'s dumbfounded expression, he was also in ignorance. In the Game, Jayden and Milleia opened and there were no explanations or whatsoever about how they did open the doors.

As if the threads controlling her had been cut down, Milleia\'s eyes recovered clarity and she started to fall. I took a quick step and grabbed her shoulders to prevent her fall.

"S-Sir…Nyrel…What happened…?" Milleia muttered completely unaware of what she had done.

"..." I looked wordlessly at her glowing pink eyes. "Thanks to you, they are open."

Milleia followed my gaze and opened her eyes wide seeing what was on the other side of the doors. The sight was even more absurd as a huge chunk of ground, island or maybe from a kingdom was there, inside the great hall.

But what caught all our eyes were the small yet numerous shining golden ground. Obviously the ground was golden because of the grass from the same color recovering it.

It\'s really a beautiful sight.

I didn\'t believe in those holy things but right now, I felt like I was in a holy place. The air we were breathing was scarily pure, the same could be said for the mana in this place.

"T-They really exist…" Milleia\'s voice turned hoarse and tears fell from her eyes. "I-I can finally save my mother…"

"Wait." Eric stopped Milleia from rushing ahead.

"Lord Eric?"

"Of course, it won\'t be this easy," I said and took out my two short swords.

I and Eric were aware of the enemies guarding such a place. 

Now that I think about it, wasn\'t that nearly impossible without Jayden\'s or Milleia\'s presences?

I glanced at Eric.

This guy was really desperate to try to do this alone.

"W-What…!" Milleia exclaimed when she saw several humanoid figures coming out of the ground. The figures had no facial features except their irisless eyes.

"Hey!" Eric spoke to me. "You know how to fight?!"

Is he for real?

"You ask that, the one who nearly beat the hell out of you?"

"Enough! Listen for a minute! Those things are dangerous, don\'t underestimate them!" Eric, oblivious that I was already aware of that, warned me.

Anyway, I am grateful for his warning nonetheless.

"I know," I muttered and enhanced all my senses to the maximum and clenched both of my swords.