Villain of my own novel

Chapter 45 44. Curse In Disguise.

?Isha blushed for being called cute because it was genuine.

Isha has a curse-like blessing which made her be wary of every human. When she awakened her so-called "blessing" at the age of three, she told everyone around her about it.

It was a good blessing at first, but it didn't take long for it to be considered a curse, because she could see people's emotions like colours around them, which caused her to isolate herself from people.

She didn't know what all those colours meant at first, but it didn't take long for her to understand each one and what it meant. The more she learned, the more she started to close herself off.

The colour of everyone's emotions around her became increasingly darker and more apparent to her. The more conspicuous it became, the more cynical and indifferent she became.

Soon, every human she came into contact with made her feel nauseated, further isolating her until she discovered that the colours of children were bright, and the children became her safe haven.

After enrolling in the academy, her colours darkened and she ignored everyone coldly without even batting an eye, earning her the moniker 'the ice queen'.

Slowly but steadily, the more isolated she felt, the more colours she couldn't see, which made no sense to her at first because it didn't make much of a difference, until she realised that getting hurt by knowing how everyone else felt is harder than getting hurt by not knowing and completely closed her off...

Or so she thought.

She met Eshwar, a white-haired handsome young man whose colours were visible very clearly and very brightly in a world where everything appeared dark to her and where emotion's colour had turned darker for everyone except children. She was surprised at first, but she assumed it would fade quickly, but that theory was quickly proven incorrect.

For the first time since she was three, she was wrong, which made her extremely happy.

Eshwar's emotions were always visible on his face, even if he tried to hide them; something in his face gave it away very easily, and Isha found it even easier because even after the colour darkened, she could read what the other was thinking simply by looking at their face.

She was curious as to why he was different, so she agreed to a one-year contract with him. Her curiosity was satisfied the very next day, when she realized he was simply too simple-minded and didn't even try to hide his thoughts.

She would feel better and more herself just by being near Eshwar. He'd say what he was thinking or just show it on his face, but she didn't make any physical contact with him because she was afraid her nausea would ruin everything, and Eshwar didn't try to make any physical contact with her either, which made her happy and bitter at the same time.

After meeting Eshwar, she experienced many emotions she had never experienced before; each emotion felt like a new colour was added to her cold and grey heart.

Recently, when Core had asked if Isha was Eshwar's girlfriend and he answered with a 'not yet,' her feelings which were starting to develop had become a bit more apparent, and that emotion was the most precious and annoying emotion she had ever felt because it made her feel besotted, insecure, and afraid all at the same time.

Now that he had called her cute, which seemed to have come out of nowhere, she blushed violently.

"Katline, Vinny, Katharine and Violet." Eshwar called out.

Eshwar seemed to like Katline differently than he seemed to like Isha, which made her feel insecure and jealous of Katline. She couldn't figure out what was different, and the difference that she couldn't figure out made her feel more insecure.

"I want you guys to go with Isha and don't help anybody until they are crippled or half dead." Eshwar said as he looked them over his shoulder.

".... Huh?" Isha asked in disbelief, thought if he found her unreliable.

"…. Because I know how to recognize 'the strong' and 'the talented'." Said Eshwar looking Violet.

His voice jolted Isha awake from her reverie, she turned to face Eshwar whose eyes were brimming with mana and seemed to be a bit annoyed.

'Light red....'

"...." no one dared to utter a single word looking at his eyes.

"Eshwar... Your eyes." Isha pointed out.

"Huh? Oh, sorry....." he said as he calmed down.

"Am I unreliable?" Isha mumbled in reverie.

"Huh? You? Why did think so?" Eshwar asked, puzzled.

'Light yellow, he is seriously surprised...'

"...." Isha didn't say anything and looked at Katline from the corner of her eyes.

"Oh! Them? No, I mean...." He leaned in towards Isha, which surprised her, but she didn't run away from him.

".... It gets annoying to bring out someone who is crippled." Eshwar whispered near her ear.

When she felt Eshwar's breath near her ear, she got butterflies in her stomach. She blushed in embarrassment because that was all it took to give her butterflies, but she didn't hate it.

"Ahem...." Katharine cleared her throat and grinned at Isha who was blushing.

"Uhm-mm." Isha cleared her throat and pondered about what Eshwar said.

'I didn't even consider how I would react if something happened and others were too afraid to move.'

"...." Isha nodded.

Eshwar approached Vinny, who was standing behind him, and his eyes gradually began to glow bright orange, brimming with mana. He placed his hand on Vinny's shoulder, who flinched, and Eshwar leaned in close to Vinny's ear, whispering something that only Isha could hear....

"Look after them....." Eshwar whispered to Vinny who nodded slightly.

Eshwar walked back with a bright smile.

'dark orange with strokes of dark pink, he is worried and irritated...'

"... What's wrong?" Isha asked, curiously.

"Hm? Nothing.... I'm getting a bad feeling about something..... I don't know what but I didn't like it, not even a bit of it...." Eshwar grumbled looking at somebody behind Isha.

Isha followed his line of sight and noticed Stuart looked at Isha lustfully, but the colours around everyone else had darkened, but she still understood what he was thinking, but she couldn't give a f**k what he thought...

Isha turned back to face Eshwar, noticing him glaring at Stuart and his pupils were slowly but surely turning into small vertical slits....

She wasn't scared even for a second, and everything about Eshwar felt normal to her; she felt very happy and comfortable when looking into his eyes, and in the back of her mind, she was missing those eyes, but...

"Eshwar...." Isha called out calmly and stopped it from completing.

"Huh? Oh...." Eshwar's eyes returned to normal.

"It is completed! Miss Isha." Stuart called out with a smile.

"You, you, you,........ and finally you." Eshwar pointed at 10 students who came forward after they have been pointed at.

"You guys will be protected but I want you guys to look after yourselves, so you will have to get stronger by yourselves and that's the reason why I'm bringing you guys into a gate, so good luck!" Eshwar gave an encouraging speech to all the students with a bright smile.