Life Of A Nobody - as a Villain

"You have five minutes, after that I'm turning around and leaving." Rebecca said, glancing around the empty hallways, watching as Rio walked a little further and jumped over the lines of trees nearby, and disappeared from her view.

[Amy - Hey, where are you guys? Need any help?]

… … …

Rebecca read the message on her watch and didn't know what to say, so she just kept deleting whatever she typed and finally just closed the holographic screen and stood silently, leaning against the wall.

"What am I doing!!!" she said, and opened the world system's screen, where she could see a few notifications from her goddess.

[Selene says you should control him.]

[He's helpful to you, so stop wasting time and bind him before someone else finds him.]

[Indra's chuckles seeing your development. He asks you to not take the words of the idiot goddess to heart.]

[There's no need to rush in these matters, … . But… she's also right about someone taking him away. He has been busy with that other girl lately… But anyway don't think about it too much, you have us on your side.]

[Amphitrite asks you to follow your heart as is the nature of water.]

[Psyche abhors the schemes of everyone else's thinking. She just hopes you'll find your happiness with him.]

[....]

[....]

Reading the notifications from various gods all asking and saying the same thing in different words and emotions. She could guess they all had their own goals and thoughts for helping her, but still …

Rebecca didn't continue checking any more messages and ignored them all.

'Is he simply oblivious or does he just not care?' she thought and sighed to herself, as she pulled the star from her hairs and held it in her arms.

"Princess, what're you doing here?"

A voice awoke her from her thoughts, as she didn't even realize when a boy was standing in front of her.

"How are you, I heard you were poisoned that day at the auction?" Leon asked, but Rebecca seemed absentminded as she kept looking around trying to see if someone else came here or not.

"I'm fine, thanks." Rebecca said nonchalantly.

Seeing her anxiously looking around, Leon thought something and then smiled a little.

"Are you lost, or looking for someone, princess? I just saw your friends at the arcade playing games some time ago. Do you want me to show you the way?" He asked, staring at the beautiful princess in front of him.

"I'm fine, thanks." Rebecca said the same reply again without even thinking.

"Princess, I wanted to apologize for how I behaved back then at your birthday, I shouldn't have …" Leon, who wanted to apologize and sort things out with Rebecca about how he tried to ask her for something on her birthday, when he was just a kid then and didn't know any better, so he just thought to talk about it once.

But just when he mentioned the birthday, Rebecca interrupted him and stopped him. "I get it, I was at fault too. And it's been years since then, don't worry about it." She said, while silently cursing him for not getting the hint and leaving her alone.

Hearing that she didn't care about it, Leon breathed a sigh of relief as what he wanted to say next could possibly anger her.

He wanted to ask her if she still had that bracelet he gave her on her birthday, and tell her about the feeling he got from looking at the bracelet Rio bought. Because something told him that Rio knew that bracelet and didn't destroy it, but just acted like he did.

Since he couldn't guess why Rio would try to hide and act that way, he at least wanted to inform the princess as a good samaritan.

"Princess, there's something else that I wanted to say, you remember the bracelet at the auction.." Leon had just started speaking about the auction when he heard some rustling sounds, and noticed the same guy whom he wanted to talk about, appeared in front of him.

Rio looked at the frowning protagonist and frowned a little, but then a smirk came to his face as he probably guessed what was happening here.

Ignoring Leon who was talking to her all this time, Rebecca pushed him aside and walked up to Rio and glared at him. "Finally, do you know how long it's been? You should've told me it was gonna take a while."

Hearing her, Rio ignored Leon and looked at Rebecca and smiled. "If I told you the truth, would you be willing to wait."

"Idiot." Rebecca said and chose to ignore this guy. "You were saying something about the auction and bracelet …" She asked, looking at Leon, while Rio raised an eyebrow hearing it and glanced at Leon, only to see him looking at him keenly too.

'Does he know?' Rio thought, but then shook his head in dismissal. Both bracelets were safely stored in the system's inventory and after dealing with old grandpa, his trust in the system's skills had increased quite a lot.

'It should be the sixth sense of the protagonist, always smelling clues and finding treasures even faster than a dog's nose.' Rio thought and nodded his head as the system smiled in affirmation, confirming his theory.

"That.. I'll tell you about it later." Seeing Rio's reaction as Rebecca mentioned the bracelet, Leon was sure he knew something, that's why he decided to discuss this matter when he's alone with the princess and away from this guy, who for some reason always brought an unknown unsettling feeling in his heart.

"I'll see you both later." Leon wanted to turn around and leave, but stopped as he found Rio blocked his way.

Leon frowned while thinking what excuse he could use if Rio persisted on knowing what he wanted to say. But to his surprise, Rio didn't mention that point at all, he just pointed his hand at one side, and waited for his reaction.

Leon looked in the direction from where Rio just came from earlier and saw a notice written on a signboard.

[Students and staff below grade 3 clearance aren't allowed to tresspasss further.]

-"That area's offlimits for the students." Rio said.

"But you were just there." Leon couldn't help but say as this scene directly reminded him of when he was insulted at the auction gate. People stopping him while this guy could just pass through without any interruption.

"Cause I'm me. And you're _ who again?"

Rio said with a genuine expression like he really didn't know who he was. But that only made Leon even more angry, so much so that Rio could almost hear the grinding noise of his teeth.

"Let's go, Becca. We're already late." Rio said and grabbed her hand and walked away, not even sparing another glance at the grinding protagonist.

Insulted is what Leon felt at this moment, since the guy whom everyone in the world thought to be his challenge, didn't even know his name. Just goes to show how he didn't even care about him at all.

[Loki laughs saying you're way too weak compared to him. So stop dreaming.]

[Skuld says 'wake up to reality.']

[Hela laughs at the ignorant ant who thinks it can challenge her chosen.]

Leon read the couple of lines from the world system and felt even more annoyed. As he just turned around and walked away.

Ignoring the subtle feeling that he lost something again..