Villain of my own novel

From then on, except for Eshwar saying something about Isha being the female main lead, Charlie being the male main lead, Frostine being a side character, and Eshwar himself being the villain, he said nothing.

"Even if you say all that, haven't all your actions till now been "antihero"-like?" Isha asked.

"Well, I can't force myself to be a villain if you can't see me as such." Eshwar replied with a shrug.

"Okay, enough bullsh*t; explain." Isha demanded.

"You have an extremely strong soul." Eshwar said and stopped with that, speaking nothing more.

"What?" Isha, the person in question, asked with a deep frown on her face.

"If you can, then explain it properly; if not, then I'll leave." Isha said this in irritation, but she had no intention of doing anything she just said.

"Fuuuu..." With a sharp exhale, Eshwar glanced at Isha and looked at her with a serious, expressionless expression on his face.

'Wh-what?' Isha thought inwardly, unable to voice her question.

"You have an extremely strong "soul," an omnipotent soul." Eshwar said that except for adding a few more words, nothing in his words made any real sense.

"Eshwar. My love. darling. Soulmate. Honey. Honey bun. Baby. Babe. Muffin. Cutie pie. I do not know much about souls, so explain in baby mode." Isha spoke with a cold smile on her face.

"M-muffin? Honey bun? Cutie pie? Soulmate? Lovers are calling themselves that?" Eshwar mumbled with a strange look on his face.

"I don't know; explain!" She exclaimed, burning with a bright blush.

"O-okay!" Eshwar nodded, even though he was clearly flustered by the nicknames Isha called him with. While Frostine enjoyed herself, watching the annoyingly great combination of a couple in front of her, she was slightly sad that she didn't bring any popcorn.

From then on, Eshwar, with his basic and bad naming sense, named Isha's soul an "omnipotent soul." Since both Frostine and Isha didn't know what it really was, they kept quiet, allowing him to explain further.

And with a story-like format, he began: Isha's inherent trait, just like the few royals who received such traits in the lost past, Isha too had one: the "Omnipotent Soul." Due to which the fates of those around her also changed, according to the emotions she had about them, which she could determine through her "cursed" eyes, the only one Isha favoured in all her life before she met Eshwar was Frostine, and due to her being exposed to such a strong soul for a long time, her soul was covered entirely with Isha's soul power, due to which Frostine's soul, too, gained an inherent trait, "Retain," the effects of which were her being able to retain the parts of her memories that she "remembers."

Which was the reason she retained her memories even though she went through a full cycle of rebirth; after her rebirth, the effects of her trait weakened since she was not exposed to Isha's omnipotent soul. And finally, in a life-threatening situation where Frostine had absolutely no idea if she could survive, she subconsciously used the power of Isha's soul, which covered the entirety of her own, in her breath as she fell into the crack, and due to Eshwar being in the range of her breath and being the only one having a strong enough will and a strong enough soul to survive against such a breath, Eshwar's soul involuntarily clashed against Frostine's release of excessively gained Isha's soul power and he gained the trait of "Regression," or the"Clock of Fate."

"I have a collection of the male main lead's memories too. In his memories, he knows of his fate. Charlie's reason for existence, his fate, had also tied his fate to a woman who was created to be his. "His" woman would appear in front of him as the soon-to-be wife of the emperor, Charlie's father. Charlie's father, the emperor, was a person who lusted after Charlie's fated woman and forcibly married her, and Charlie, the chosen one, would kill the emperor and take away his fated woman, who, due to her traumatic experience with Charlie's father, doesn't love him. Only later, after years pass and they spend time together, does she finally accept him." Eshwar said, and though Frostine frowned in confusion upon hearing his explanation, Isha understood it entirely.

'I....I was fated to be forcefully married to the Emperor?" That disgusting lust monster?' Isha thought inwardly and shuddered slightly.

(AN: Mentioned in ch 78: Broken Reminiscence (2))

"The final boss he had to defeat is called "Fateless."" Eshwar said while pointing his index finger at himself.

"You have no strings of fate connected to you...." Isha mumbled under her breath, yet in an audible voice.

"Right...." Eshwar nodded in agreement.

"Next, let's have a round of Q&A." Eshwar said, and after a few minutes of pondering and silence over their lives, they opened their mouths, voicing their questions.

"Why....the fallen?" Isha asked, slightly shaken up by the revelation.

"Your curse, it was also an ability that you got due to your teait. "Celestial Hex," it was a curse that bends the divine laws according to the will of the caster, which was the reason the gods "related and unrelated" to "our" incident were "thrown" out of the divine realm. "Related and unrelated," because you didn't really know your targets specifically, nor did you really try to control or consider the power output of your soul when you called that curse." Eshwar explained, but Isha didn't react to any of his words as she continued to ponder.

She had expected Eshwar to regress, but since she didn't know if he would be able to ascend to godhood, she had brought the gods down to the ground so that he would hunt them down. Because she knew him well enough to know that he would do absolutely anything to hunt down those responsible for her death, she thought of helping him even a bit, and if she was still alive after his regression, she too would be able to exert revenge. And though he continued to regress after her death, he did exactly what she thought he would: he hunted down all the gods, related or unrelated to those who were the reason for her death.

"Why did Eshwar, a part of yours, get headaches from time to time? And why did it lessen whenever I was with him?" Isha asked again.

"Because I was trying to alter or influence his mind-set or mentality according to my wishes, it eased whenever you were with him because I lived every moment I spent with you, even though I couldn't physically, instead of altering his mind-set." Eshwar replied with a shrug.

"Why is that woman, Seol So-Young, here?" Frostine asked.

Glancing at her, "Because she was influenced by the strong lump mana, you. She was exposed to a strong flow of mana, due to you being next to her. The involuntarily conducted mana circulation of your body is constantly purifying your mana, and the wastage is constantly oozing through a being with mana. And exactly when her body was used to the subtle amount of mana you oozed, you "used" "mana" to seal her memories." Eshwar spoke with an apathetic expression on his face.

"Due to her sealed memories being strongly concentrated on me, she had visions and dreams about my other half's life in the world I created which she used to write novels with. And on a certain day, she stuffed herself with a tonne of cupcakes and choked on them, due to which the subtle, feeble amount of mana that had accumulated in her exploded out and killed her. And since her subconscious mind was connected to my existence, she transmigrated into the world I lived in." Eshwar explained.

"I.... apologise?" Frostine spoke with a confused look on her face.

"Why did Frostine go through a rebirth only in this life?" Isha asked.

"Because of me. Because of me, the planet Antinoüs was stuck in a time loop due to my constant train of regressions. Which was also the reason she didn't instantly find out that the world she was reborn into was her own planet, in which she lived once." Eshwar explained.

After another few minutes of silence, they took everything in and reluctantly accepted the facts.

"Since there are no more mysteries left, I'll make it so that my other half learns the entire truth too; please focus on the things that are coming up in the future." Eshwar said as he walked towards Isha.

BA-THUMP

'Wha-what? Why is he coming here?' Isha thought as her heartbeat sped up.

"Frostine, close your eyes and ears." Eshwar commanded, to which shockingly, she complied with a smirk and turned her back on them.

"W-why? What're you about to do?" Isha asked, backing away.

"From when did my Isha begin to talk informally?" Eshwar asked as he continued to walk towards her.

"St-stop! Your other half should know that; no, you should know that." She said as her words became slightly formal again.

"Well, I'll take care of him soon enough. Hah. I can't believe he did such a thing to my cute, innocent, and beautiful Isha." Eshwar said as he walked to Isha, who was backed up against the wall.

"Pl-please stop...." She mumbled with her hands placed on Eshwar's chest.

"Really?" Eshwar asked in a teasing tone and took a step back, but Isha, who had her arms on his chest, clenched Eshwar's clothes and stopped him from backing away too much.

"I....I don't know." Isha mumbled, looking down at his legs.

"Hm?" He hummed questioningly and stopped only when he was right in front of her, looking straight at her slightly leaning figure.

"I feel like I'm cheating on you, with you." She said.

"I love you." Eshwar proposed, ignoring her words.

"....." Her clench on his clothes tightened as she slightly pushed him back, only to pull him closer by the next instance.

"I just wanted to let you know. I didn't think you would be troubled enough to cry." Eshwar said and took a step back, noticing the tears falling from her eyes.

"No! That's not it!" She roared and glanced at him with tear-filled eyes as she pulled him closer. Their faces were now only an inch away from each other's due to Isha's pull.

"...." Looking into each other's eyes, their breathing mingled as their heartbeats that sounded louder than the war drums began to form a strange rhythm. Eshwar's head subconsciously leaned right as he brought his face closer to her, as something slightly bright flashed next to them, and in a second that felt like eternity, their lips finally touched each other's, as

"Whoaaa...."

Exactly, a "whoaaa" exclamation was heard next to them(?),

"!!!" Isha pushed Eshwar back when she glanced at the blur of Frostine, who was looking at them with child-like twinkles filling her curious gaze.

THUMP

Ignoring Eshwar, who had just fallen butt first on the ground, "What was that? A kiss? Why was it so slow?" Frostine asked curiously.

"Because it feels different, better, with the tension and mood slowly building up....Mmphf!" Eshwar, who was answering Frostine's clueless, curious questions, was forced to stop when Isha crouched down and gave him a light peck before bolting out of the room, dragging along Frostine.

'Why are you even answering her childlike questions?'

"Haaaa...." And Eshwar melted with a deep sigh.