Extra's POV: My Obsessive Villainous Fiancee Is The Game's Final Boss

Five minutes later, Lilith walked out of the gorge with a cute smile, the only sign of what had happened inside the fleck of blood on her cheek.

Ren knew she could've finished the whole thing under a minute, but he said nothing, letting her have her fun.

He knew just how much letting her have little enjoyment like this was helping keep the emotion drain of her Soul Dominion at bay.

If she used her Divine Gift too much, it'll strip her of her humanity and turn her into a Calamity. The third Great Calamity.

"Wait a minute." He muttered to himself as something occurred to him. Hadn't Nero all but confirmed that something was behind the Calamities?

The Calamities didn't spawn out of thin air to balance the cosmic checkbooks of fate and time or some nonsense like that. They had been engineered by an entity, which could be either the Three, or Yggdrasil.

Does that mean that Lilith's weekness had also been engineered?!

His eyes narrowed as he watched her walk towards him.

It wasn't out of the realm of possibility. After all, he hadn't ever heard of a Divine Gift outside of hers that had such a great drawback.

It was essentially in the name. It was a Divine Gift. Why would a gift from divinity turn one into a monster?

He'd attributed the flaw in her Gift to how powerful it was, but right now, he wasn't so sure it was a flaw that came with the Gift.

Just how close was he to whatever had engineered the Calamities?

The Ross family and their territory had literally been surrounded by Calamities.

Lilith Underwood, the third Great Calamity that he had been betrothed to.

The Red Plague, the first Minor Calamity and the Calamity that had ensured the destruction of the Ross family.

The Blightwood, the fifth Minor Calamity which was currently growing inside the Greythorne forest, a forest that the Ross family territory sits just outside of.

It wasn't a coincidence, but right now, he was seeing it all in a different light.

If Lilith's Divine Gift had been engineered to contain such a flaw and turn her into a Calamity, could the flaw be removed?

He turned back to look at Lilith just as she arrived in front of him.

She smiled sweetly, presenting the fragment to Ren like a child who had just finished a drawing.

"Here you go."

Ren looked from her outstretched hand to the pillar of light shooting from the fragment and into the air.

"I'm an idiot." He sighed.

Lilith tilted her head, a frown stealing upon her face. "What do you mean?"

He proceeded to explain what he had just thought about, presenting his hypothesis to Lilith.

He didn't care if he was giving her false hope. This was her Divine Gift. She deserved to know if there was the possibility of a way out of its restrictions.

When he was done, there was a huge smile on Lilith's face, but not for the reason he was thinking.

"You're an idiot." She smiled at him. "Is this what you're worried about when we're in the middle of a dangerous exam?"

By now, the pillar of light from the fragment had already faded away, but everyone in the vicinity already knew of their location.

She stepped closer to him, lifting herself on her toes to plant a kiss on his cheek. "You're so sweet." She said. "But let's focus on getting into Carthage first."

Ren blinked, before looking around him. They were standing right out in the open at the edge of the gorge for everyone to see.

"Oh." He turned back to her. "You're right. We can do this later."

She smiled at him, stretching her hand with the fragment once again. "Here."

Ren stared at the fragment for half a second before turning back to Lilith, his green eyes twinkling as he grinned at her.

"You can hold it for now." He said. "There's no reason for just me to hold on to all the fragments. That will be putting all our eggs in one basket."

If all the fragments were kept with him, they could just be stolen by another team and it'll just end up with them doing all the work, while the other team reaped the rewards.

Ren knew he wasn't omnipotent or the most powerful being around. Far from it. Even with his pseudo-immortality, he could still be ambushed and incapacitated, with the ambushers just taking the fragments of his body as he was regenerating and making a run for it.

There was no guarantee that he was the strongest person around.

"Okay." Lilith said happily, hiding the fragment wherever it was she kept things on her person. She was not aware of Ren's thoughts or reasoning.

To her, it just meant Ren was keeping something so valuable with her. Her heart kept beating with love and she vowed, for the tenth time that day, to keep Ren all to herself forever.

Unaware of Lilith's thoughts and the fact that he could be locked in a basement forever, Ren turned to her with a smile, extending a hand. "Shall we, my lady?"

Just then, the bushes around them rustled, and a team stepped out of the forest from their left side.

"Well, well, well." The leader of the team drawled, their tone filled with utter confidence. "What do we have here?"

Lilith turned to look at the team, glaring at them for ruining what could've been a romantic moment.

Before she could do anything about it, another team stepped out of the forest on their right side.

"Freeze!" The leader already had a bow notched and drawn, pointed straight at Ren's head. "Surrender your fragment to me. If you move, you die!"

Ren frowned at his words. "How can I surrender my fragment to you if I can't move?"

"Don't mov- Urk!" The leader was cut off mid sentence by a throwing knife sinking into his eye and into his brain.

Without waiting for what happened next, Ren grabbed Lilith before she could kill anyone else, and teleported out of there.