Villain: After I died, all the heroines cried themselves to sleep.

Rod is dead.

Luna stared blankly at the silent man before her.

He sat there quietly, like a fine sculpture.

Even at the very last moment of his life, he maintained the arrogance and demeanor he had in life.

"teacher……"

Luna's gaze gradually became unfocused and lost its direction.

She ultimately killed the person she loved most.

Why...?

The sword in his hand was so heavy.

Even now, Luna still finds it difficult to face the bloody truth that she killed her teacher.

Why did the sword in his hand move at the last moment?

Is it because of the hatred in my heart?

Driven by this impulse, she couldn't help but pierce her teacher's heart.

too frightening.

Luna felt an unprecedented fear within her.

She longed to abandon everything, to find a dark corner where no one knew her, and to retreat away from this terrible reality.

"teacher!"

A piercing scream forcibly dragged Luna back to reality.

A silver-haired woman intrudes into Luna and Rod's private world.

It's always been like this; they always interfere in her life with her teacher without thinking, ruining the beautiful times they spend together.

"Second place, what did you even do?!"

The silver-haired woman loudly berated Luna.

"I...I..."

Luna shuddered and released her grip on the sword as if trying to escape.

The silver-haired woman was filled with hatred for Luna, but she couldn't care less about that now.

She knelt on one knee in front of Rhodes, looked at the longsword stuck in his chest, and pursed her lips.

With a determined look, she pulled the longsword straight from Rhodes' chest, then immediately placed her hands on the gash in his chest and activated her innate ability.

A silvery-white light emanated from his hand and quickly enveloped Rhodes' body.

As the eerie light spread, ripples began to spread through the surrounding space and time.

Under the woman's tense and anxious gaze, the blood splattered around him flowed back along its original path and returned to Rhodes' body.

Even the fatal wound on Rhodes' chest was visibly regenerating.

In no time at all, the fatal wound in Rod's chest disappeared, as if he had never been hurt.

"Teacher, wake up!"

The silver-haired woman gently stroked Rod's cheek.

"..."

Unfortunately, Rhodes did not respond.

"Teacher, please stop pretending to be asleep, wake up..."

"Don't you always scold your students, asking how they can sleep so soundly at such a young age...?"

"Teacher, if you keep doing that, I'm going to kiss you..."

"I should have locked you up back then, so you wouldn't have left me on your own..."

"Teacher...teacher..."

"Don't leave me..."

Large tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.

The silver-haired woman was already sobbing uncontrollably.

He was Rhodes's prized student and also the top student in his grade.

She possesses the ability to reverse time and space, called "Time Reversal," which can restore everything to a specified point in time and space.

But the only thing that cannot be brought back is the life that has been lost.

She used this talent to save countless people in the past, but now she couldn't save her beloved teacher.

……

After the rainy night, Professor Rhodes vanished from the face of the earth in the Empire.

It was a week later that Professor Rhodes's disappearance was discovered.

The Empress sent her attendants to invite Professor Rhodes to the palace to teach Her Majesty, but they searched Professor Rhodes's residence and the academy's research labs but could not find him.

Realizing something was amiss, the attendants quickly informed Her Majesty the Queen, who then mobilized the entire nation to search for Professor Rhodes' whereabouts.

However, nothing was gained.

All that is known is that Professor Rhodes was last seen on his way home after the college graduation party.

Even the Imperial Academy Dean, known as the strongest in a thousand years, could not decipher Professor Rhodes's whereabouts after that rainy night.

Ultimately, everyone had to believe that Professor Rhodes had likely met with misfortune and was no longer alive.

Rumors are circulating in the palace that Her Majesty the Empress has become increasingly capricious lately, leaving her attendants on tenterhooks, fearing the Empress's wrath.

A new legend began to circulate in the academy: someone had heard a witch's faint sigh coming from the clock tower at midnight.

At the start of the new academic year, the position of professor has remained vacant, and no one has been able to fill the vacancy yet.

Professor Rhodes's research room was closed, and occasionally a woman's sobs could be heard coming from inside.

But everyone knows that Professor Rhodes' two star students, Angela, the top student in the class, and Luna, the second-ranked student, have already graduated from the college.

It is said that after Professor Rhodes disappeared, the two, deeply shocked, also went missing.

Do you know where those two are right now?

The golden generation of graduates gathered together to discuss their future strategies.

"The world has been in turmoil lately, with unprecedented demons appearing all over the world. According to my investigation, these demons are connected to an organization called the Advent Society."

"The Advent Society? That name sounds familiar."

"Of course I'm familiar with it. Don't you remember? Professor Rhodes is one of the members of the Advent Society. He even secretly introduced us to this organization before. In fact, it was thanks to that that I was able to escape this predicament and discover clues about the Advent Society."

"In that case, Professor Rhodes' disappearance might be related to the arrival of the new world."

"That's right, so I plan to invite Ange and Luna to investigate this organization together. Maybe we'll find something."

"Angie is nowhere to be found now. The last time I saw her, she was dragging a large suitcase away. As for Luna..."

"Aren't you Luna's best friend? Why are you hesitating?"

"Sigh... I'm taking care of her now. You'll see the details when I take you there..."

The group followed Luna's best friend to Luna's residence.

Pushing open the door and entering, the house was fairly clean and tidy, with the furniture and household items arranged neatly.

To be precise, it looked completely unused, devoid of any signs of life.

The group walked through the living room, went up the stairs, and arrived at a small attic.

My best friend knocked on the door, but as always, there was no answer.

Pushing open the door, you enter a cramped, dark little room with tightly closed windows, blocking out all outside light.

A young girl was curled up on a bed in the corner of the room, hugging her knees, her eyes vacant and lifeless.

Like a soulless doll.

It's almost like a dead person.

The group tried to communicate with Luna, but no matter what they said, they couldn't get a response from her, and eventually had no choice but to leave the attic disappointed.

Seeing Luna's current situation, everyone felt a lump in their throat.

"When did this situation begin?"

"That's how it was when I found her in Professor Rhodes's lab."

"Is it because Professor Rhodes has disappeared?"

"Maybe so. At first, I just kept crying there. Later, I cried all my tears, and now I'm like this, not eating or drinking, just sitting in a corner staring blankly."

"Isn't there any way to cheer Luna up?"

"Unless we find Professor Rhodes, otherwise... sigh..."

……

I messed everything up.

Luna stared blankly into the darkness and emptiness.

Just like the emptiness in her heart.

She killed Rhodes.

She killed the person she loved most.

The moment Rhodes died, her heart died with him.

Her life is forever frozen in the past.

Endless regret lingered in my heart.

At this moment, she was far removed from the bright future that Rod envisioned.

……

"I'm going to wake up the teacher, and you're nothing special. That's why I'm the top student and you're only second."

That night, after leaving those words, Ange took Rod's body and left.

He wouldn't even stoop to killing Luna.

It was as if letting her live was the best punishment for her.

Distraught, Luna hid in Rhodes's lab, crying incessantly under the desk.

Then, she unexpectedly discovered a hidden compartment.

The hidden compartment was opened and found to be filled with dust, indicating that it had not been opened for many years.

Inside were some sealed documents.

Luna curiously flipped through the documents and then discovered a fact that devastated her even more.

Those were documents related to the Advent Society, recording various intelligence information that Professor Rhodes had collected.

One of the research reports caught Luna's attention.

It was a proposal for human research, and the author was someone Luna knew very well.

Her parents.

Luku and Anna.

The subjects of the experiment were the couple's child.

Luna.

This brutal research project passed the Advent Council's review, but was ultimately not launched.

Because the two researchers encountered misfortune before the research project even started.

Professor Rhodes killed them.

"..."

The reasons why Professor Rhodes did this are unknown, but one thing is certain.

Luna's lifelong pursuit of revenge was meaningless.

Professor Rhodes saved her.

She killed him.

That's it.

So, Luna, devastated, completely shut herself off.

She is dead.