When the Villainess Died, the Male Lead Went Crazy

from the other.

“If you’re pulling my leg…”

“I swear to the god of death that I won’t lie to you for a day.”

“What’s the price?”

“All the power I’ve been given.”

I was skeptical that he was going to pay such a big price for just a lie, so I stared at him and he smiled like a fool again.
I thought it might be a survival strategy.
Whenever he smiled like that, my doubts kept disappearing.

“Good.”

I reached out again near the High Priest’s face, and he grabbed the back of my hand and pressed my hand down to the cheek.
The power was transmitted slowly again, and then to the High Priest in the direction he was leading.

I seemed to have used more than half of the divine power I had accumulated in my heart, so I was getting dizzy.
The nosebleeds I spilled because of this person earlier were not cleaned properly and were only wiped with my shoulder, leaving a mark on the black robe.
It was the same with Phileal.
I took a closer look at the clear traces left behind, and thought that his condition was serious, so I let go of my hand.

“Can’t you do more?”

“I think I’m going to faint.”

“Then there is no helping it.”

He let go of my hand, and then the power stopped draining out of me.
As I slowly stood upright to catch my breath, I felt the divine power slowly build up in my heart again.

It seems like I can’t do anything today other than rest.

“My head is spinning,” I murmured.

“Thank you for healing me.”

It felt like the floor was shaking as I tried to stand.

“Ugh…”

I thought I was having another nosebleed, so I wiped it with the back of my hand, and my vision turned black.

 

 

* * *

 

 

I fell asleep and originally expected to wake up with my own body, but what happened?

It was the room I was assigned to in the Empress’s Palace.
Even though it was the saint’s body, it seemed that if half of my power was exploited all at once, so of course I would faint.

“Lewarren?”

“…….”

Lewarren was looking down with a pitying look.
I must have been on the bed, but I was so tired that I couldn’t figure out anything.

Ah, damn.
I had a pile of questions to ask Phileal.
I had no choice but to ask Lewarren again.

“Why do you three hate each other?”

“…….”

“No matter how much I think about it, I don’t understand.
I don’t understand why he believed the priests of death, no matter what they said.”

Lewarren was soaking the cloth with water from a nearby water basin.
I wondered if the water was rippling, and then I heard the sound of flowing water.
Then he folded the white cloth flat and placed it on my forehead.

It was okay because the temperature was neither cold nor hot.
Don’t you usually put something cold on when you have a fever?

“You said it before.
You’re tired of building personal relationships.”

“Huh.”

“It’s the same.”

“How do you know when I say that? I am not Zisis.”

Then Lewarren closed his mouth straight and let out a sigh, and stood up and continued.

“Did you really think that Kylian could not kill a single bug?”

“…Yes.”

“Even when he was Young Duke Percival’s husband, he was a sword master.
Then?”

“It was the same back then.
Killian was afraid of spiders.
I mean, if I gave a spider as a joke, he freaked out and ran away.
He could have cut it with a dagger instead, but no.”

“…….”

I tormented him with spiders until a few days before I died.
A few days before the coup, the house was more sensitive, so I played more pranks on purpose.

“Listen well.”

“…….”

“Kylian Cypnos was not the kind of person you think he is.
And if he had never been able to catch spiders in the first place, he wouldn’t have been crowned emperor and killed so many ministers and nobles.
And no matter what the priests of death say, he has listened to me.”

“…….”

“When he first tried to save you, Lilith and I tried to convince Kylian every day.”

It was obvious I had a fever.
Because my vision was blurry and my eyes were hot.

“But nothing worked.
He knew he couldn’t save you, so then he tried to die… .”

“What?”

“After barely stopping him, I left him to Lilith until he came to his senses, and then he went crazy and attacked the temple.”

Did he feel insulted enough to commit suicide?[1] Come to think of it, I think I heard it vaguely from their conversation.
I just couldn’t do it because I didn’t have the strength to react in a big way now.

“We tried to convince Kylian without fighting back.
All the temples in the capital were destroyed, and the number gradually decreased, even the temples on the outskirts were destroyed.
I believed that he would soon be alright until he exploited his power.”

“…….”

“But most of the paladins also died, and the priests and bishops were about to be annihilated.”

“…….”

“Anais.”

“…What.”

“Maybe the Kylian you knew didn’t exist in the first place.
He may be the person he is now and he desperately needs you.”

His voice was so damp, that it didn’t seem like Lewarren’s talking.
My breathing became more and more even, and even though I had no intention of falling asleep, I melted into sleep.

 

 

When I fell asleep, I immediately saw Kylian’s bright yellow eyes, confirming that I had really returned to the body I had longed for.

“Anias.”

Really, why did this happen?

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[1] t/n: i think at this point i had enough of anais’ denseness ugh
e/n: …same lol