World’s Strongest Became the Game’s Weakest Villain

It turns out, Glasses was the one who had come to the capital from Apollon that wanted to meet me.

The same glasses who I had beaten down like a rat and forced into subordination. The glasses from Dark Moon Bandits. And this hotel was theirs as well.

"Are you the owner of this place?" the lady asked.

"Ah? Yes? Yes... Who might you—"

"I'll get to the point. You won't trade any information that I do not allow. All your findings will first be reported to the Acacia duchy. Is that clear?"

They were also selling information?

Glasses, dumbfounded, turned his gaze toward me.

I scowled and shook my head from side to side. Don't listen to her, bastard.

The list I had taken from this rat didn't mention this branch. If I had known, I would have taken my information from here.

"And, who might you be?"

Seeing me shake my head, glasses spoke to the lady.

Titania, who had been quiet due to the lady was now pulling my hair fiercely. She had questions but didn't want to word them.

The lady turned toward me and I nodded fervently. I couldn't tell her I was the owner of this place now.

"Hey, asshole. My lady said something to you."

"YOUR LADY!?"

Glasses slammed his hands on the table and stood up. The lady and the employee who was still in the room flinched.

"Wasn't it that maid... then him? Ah! Ah..."

Glasses suddenly stepped away from the table and knelt in front of the lady.

The employee, startled, hissed at Glasses and he forced her down as well.

The lady stepped back and came toward me at their antics.

"Lady Dark Moon! Your orders shall be fulfilled."

This rebellious fuck sure knew how to suck up to people!

"What's going on?" the lady asked me. Titania harrumphed and nodded, I didn't introduce her to glasses after all.

"It seems that guy is expressing his servitude?" I answered in a whisper. The lady's veil fluttered as she turned toward the kneeling pair of glasses.

The sly bastard nodded and smiled, pointing at the chair as if saying it belonged to her.

"That settles it..."

Though her words were still cold, I had a feeling that she was surprised.

I wondered what she was thinking.

I glared toward glasses again and shook my head, trying to tell him not to mention us but he only showed me a thumbs up.

'Go with your girl and leave the bandits to me!' he mouthed. Fucker was always as selfish.

This bastard had a severe misunderstanding. Seeing no chance to correct it, I shook my head.

The lady nodded.

"I'll expect good things from you," she told glasses and turned away. "Girl, show us out."

With that, the employee stood up and took the lead as I followed behind the lady.

Glasses tried to sneakily reach out to me, so I kicked him in the face and walked away.

The bastard was kneeling till we were gone, though in the end, he was kneeling out of pain.

I urgently needed to find some time and come back here.

***

That settled most of what was on the lady's agenda today.

The sun had started to set by the time we visited a few places for some reports and the sky turned dark when we reached the castle in the second district again.

Not a single person came out to greet her.

There was no point in her denying it anymore. That even glasses didn't know of a person famous for wearing veils was not possible. As much of a bastard he was, he was competent as hell. Him losing his memories was more believable.

What was he doing here in the first place?

"Toss Luther away," the lady said as we neared the entrance of the mansion.

I snapped my fingers and the chains threw Luther on a shrub near the door. Then, I followed the lady up the estate.

On our way, we met with a young maid who didn't notice the lady but only me.

"You," the lady suddenly called out.

The maid flinched and started bowing repeatedly when she saw the lady as if she had just noticed her.

Was her existence getting blurred too?

"Get me something to eat."

"Y-yes, my lady!"

Then, the lady pointed at me.

"Get something for him too. And water."

"Yes, my lady."

The maid dashed away and the lady continued walking.

I stared at her back for a few seconds. She didn't have to.

I had enough in my spatial dimension.

My feet kicked off and followed behind the lady. We passed through the stairs and the passageways and eventually reached her room.

The lady opened the door and I stood next to her gate. She curtly nodded and walked inside.

Not long after, I saw a maid wandering around with a cart of food.

She forgot which room belonged to the lady, huh?

I walked over to the maid.

"Hey, I'll take it."

"Ah! No, it's alright."

"The lady is tired," I said. "Let me handle it."

"Then..."

The maid handed me the cart and bowed before walking away.

"She seems confused," Titania muttered and yawned while resting on my head.

"You hungry?" I asked, rolling the cart toward the room.

"I already ate~ I am just sleepy now."

"Haha, go sleep then."

I stopped in front of the door and knocked. "My lady, it's me."

"Come in."

I opened the door and dragged the cart inside.

A beautiful room. Furnishings of rosewood filled the lilac room as the moonlight dripped in from the windows. A bed large enough to fit three of me only occupied a small part of the room.

Near the windows, sitting near an intricate table with gold engravings was the lady. Her purple dress was slightly disheveled while her veil seemed a layer thinner than usual.

I dragged the cart next to her and bowed.

"Take your food with you," she said. "And go to your room."

"I can't do that, my lady."

The lady turned toward me. She was as cold as ever as she gazed at me, the frigidness in her actions could freeze over a mountain.

"Get out. Do as I tell you to."

I bowed again and walked away. The lady was staring at me, too busy to notice that I didn't take anything along.

I closed the door behind me and stood next to the wall.

A sigh left my lips as I covered my eyes. The sigh developed into a yawn that made me lean on the wall.

I was getting tired.

Thinking of it now, I hadn't slept once this month.

The first night, I drank till I couldn't speak. The second, I was 'punished' the entire night, and the third was spent standing here.

"What's with you?" Titania suddenly posed.

I stopped.

"What?" I asked, suppressing another yawn.

Titania hummed and yawned as well. She stretched her body on my head.

"You were looking at her and smiling the entire day."

"Hm, I wasn't. And what about it?"

"I don't like it."

"What...? You're reading too much into it."

"Humph!"

Titania suddenly scoffed and turned away. She closed her eyes and went straight to sleep.

I placed a hand on my eyes and sighed again.

Smiling, huh? I guess I was too tired.

A while passed like that, Titania started snoring.

The few sounds that leaked into the place were gone. It was probably past midnight.

I was a light sleeper, even the smallest hint of a threat would wake me up.

It shouldn't have been a problem to sleep a bit, since I was standing guard the entire time.

I closed my eyes and rested my head on the wall.

Everyone had probably gone to sleep anyway.

The world around me started fading.

My senses shrunk from the edges of the estate, growing smaller and smaller as I cut things off from my consciousness.

The floor, the lady's room.

The lady's room...

My eyes shot open at once. I heightened my senses in a single go and focused on the lady's room.

There was no one inside.

In a single go, I kicked her door open.

The curtains fluttered as a breeze came in from the windows. And no one was inside the room.

The lady was gone.

My eyes widened in surprise as I increased the range of my perception even further.

I had let my guard down thinking I was sleepy.

How. Why.

Then, I remembered something.

I didn't call off that damn kidnapping.