When the Villainess Died, the Male Lead Went Crazy - Chapter 82
After that, the people Lilith brought were the Lord of the Magic Tower and his subordinates.
Tower Lord Lionel spoke directly to Kylian. The Magic Tower had long hoped for permission to conduct experiments on humans, and this was nothing short of an opportunity for them.
“We need living people.”
“We shall wage war, then.”
Kylian regained his senses and swept through the battlefield. He recorded an undefeated strike, and the Tower Lord and the paladins following him easily expanded the Quipnos Empire by conquering the neighboring countries.
Kylian continued the war as the Tower Lord wished, the sake of the stone containing magic. The magic stone was completed three years after the Quipnos Empire began its war of conquest.
Through refining the prisoners of war to recharge the power of the magic stone, Anais’ breath finally returned.
“She’s breathing again!”
“Wife!”
However, it quickly withered away and returned to its frozen state.
“How did this happen?”
In his bewildered and desolate voice, Lionel quickly responded.
“It seems like there is not enough magic.”
“You need magic?”
“Ah….Yes!”
In that moment, Kylian spoke to Lionel.
“Save Anais.”
“But there isn’t enough magic.”
“Use the Magic Tower sages.”
“But…”
“Otherwise, your family will be the next sacrifice.”
Lionel looked at the Emperor in shock. However, Kylian’s golden eyes had already changed completely, no longer resembling those of a normal person.
In the end, the Tower Lord had to offer everything. In the end, his magic.
“I told you. There’s nothing as certain as the Tower Lord’s magic.”
The person who said that with a smile was the High Priest of death. The day he met the Tower Lord, he was another guest Lilith brought.
“Since she has started breathing again, it should be easier from now on.”
Kylian was quiet. Even with Lionel, who had been following him, lying like a corpse after having all his magic absorbed, this man was unfazed.
The right path for him no longer belonged to the living. The right path was for Anais to come back to life. That was the only thing. To rescue him from this hell.
“Tell me your wish. I will grant it all.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
* * *
 
Until this point, Kylian had not been able to stop taking the medicine. Every time he took Lilith’s medicine, it was as if his wife had come back to life and was speaking to him.
When he woke up after falling asleep, he saw the thing he most wanted: a living Anais right in front of him.
“Kylian.”
“Wife. It won’t be long before I can see you.”
Kylian smiled happily and caressed Anais’s cheek. It felt like his heart was beating again as she looked at him with a blush on her cheeks.
He was only alive when Anais was alive. She had to be there for him to feel like an ordinary person and to be able to smile.
“Do you think I’m wishing for this?”
“Yes.”
“What I’m wishing is for you to be happy with your destiny.”
“My destiny is you, Wife.”
Anais’ expression turned cold, as if she didn’t like his words. Kylian was taken aback by her expression, but he couldn’t back down on this matter.
“How pathetic.”
With those words, her platinum hair turned dull again, and her icy blue eyes looked like murky purple.
* * *
 
The High Priest of Death sighed as there was no progress in Anais’s revival due to Kylian’s condition.
“You must stop the medication.”
“Why?”
“Your strong will is also necessary for the magic. The will to save her.”
“Then…”
“It seems that the medication is causing interference right now.”
From that day on, Kylian had to quit taking the medication. The withdrawal symptoms were severe. On days when he didn’t take the medicine, Kylian had to endure the pain as if insects were crawling through his veins. But he was able to endure it.
“Ugh…”
He wiped the cheeks of Anais, who looked as if time had stopped for her. With each movement, he felt his muscles twitch and the blood flow increase. It felt like spiders were crawling inside his veins.
“Are you afraid of spiders?”
“Haha…”
The joy of being able to hear Anais’s voice again made him gladly endure even that. His hands trembled, and his body was so agonizingly itchy. Yet, he never scratched himself. If he were to scratch and leave scars, Anais might not recognize the changed him.
Four years had passed since Anais’s time had stopped.
He was afraid that she wouldn’t recognize him, as he had changed over these four years. Her time had frozen, holding onto the freshness of the year they got married. If Anais woke up, he intended to propose to her once more.
“Wife.”
His eyes with thread-like veins bursting out were only focused on her.
“My Wife. My Anais.”
He said it like an incantation. It felt like the words were flowing into his heart and being etched there. He was now even pleased with the pain.
* * *
 
“We need more sacrifices.”
The High Priest of Death was working steadily. Anais seemed to be gradually coming back to life with his methods. Therefore, he confidently demanded what was lacking.
“What do you need?”
“People with divine power.”
Kylian’s thoughts stopped the moment he heard those words. Since quitting the medication, he had regained his sanity. He couldn’t help but know that people with divine power included Lewarren and Lilith.
“Except for those two.”
“……”
“Use them all.”
“Yes.”
Kylian hoped that Lewarren and Lilith would not die. If Anais came back to life, she would look for them.
* * *
 
The paladins initially didn’t resist, but as the sacrifice to gain divine power continued, they began to resist. However, when Kylian confirmed with his own eyes that Anais’s vitality was returning, that she was moving her eyes and showing small movements like a person in a deep sleep, he did not think his actions were wrong.
“Have you truly gone insane?!”
The person who burst into the imperial palace in anger and grabbed Kylian by the collar was Lewarren.
“I said I wouldn’t kill you.”
“You crazy bastard! Do you really think Anais wants you to do this?”
“Maybe my wife doesn’t wish for it.”
“You!”
“But I do. And my wife wants me to be happy.”
Kylian didn’t know how Anais would react. But she was someone who would sacrifice her own life for his happiness.
“For me to be happy, Anais must be here. Without her, I can’t even live.”
“Snap out of it! It’s been over four years since Anais died! It’s time to let go of her!”
“Anais is breathing again, Lewarren.”
Lewarren trembled as if startled by the words. Kylian removed the hand, which had been gripping his collar, and continued speaking as it slipped weakly away.
“Now that her breath has returned, it won’t be long.”
“The dead go to the afterlife. To receive their next life.”
“I know.”
“Anais might have already reincarnated.”
“She hasn’t.”
“How do you know? Are you some sort of priest?”
Kylian felt it was time to reveal what he had hidden from him.
“The High Priest of Death is helping.”
“What?”
“The God of Death is helping in bringing Anais back to life.”
Since Anais’s death, all three of them had changed. Kylian had been completely broken, Lilith had also lost her expression and had become withdrawn. The only one who appeared unchanged was Lewarren.
In truth, Lewarren, too, upon learning of Anais’s death, locked himself in despair and had behaved differently from before. However, the reason he couldn’t let go of his senses was that he needed to care for his surroundings while the two of them couldn’t regain their composure.
“Do you believe in the God of Death?”
“No. I believe that the God of Death has something he wants from me.”
“What do you think that is, and why do you believe it so strongly? Do you know how many paladins have been sacrificed because of you?”
“I know.”
Kylian said flatly. In the now unified Quipnos Empire, most of the temples had disappeared. The rumor that the imperial family was capturing and killing those associated with the temples was initially regarded as a ghost story, but it had now become a clear reality.
However, as the existing temples were as corrupt as the imperial family, the empire’s people did not step forward to help them.
They believed in the emperor who unified the continent and elevated the nation’s name and gave them a chance to live a peaceful life.
Lewarren finally realized that it, too, had been calculated.
“If Anais knows that she survived through people’s sacrifices, she will want to die again.”
“You know, Lewarren.”
“….”
“Everyone changes.”
Kylian looked at him and spoke. Lewarren and him, who were once thought to be close friends, were now taking irreversibly different paths.
Their relationship, formed since his days as a priest, was, in fact, created by Anais for him.
“My wife did not predict that I would change like this.”
“Kylian.”
“My wife will change too. Just as I have.”
“Do you want Anais to change?”
“Whether my wife changes or not, I will always love her.”
Kylian met Lewarren’s gaze. Pitch-black pupils and long brown hair.
Since Anais’ disappearance, there has been no light anywhere.
Life was a series of sufferings, and Kylian’s desires were hardly fulfilled.
“Anais is not someone who changes easily.”
“If she knows that the people she trusted betrayed her and caused her death, she will change.”
“Anais knew she would die.”
“She probably also knows she will come back to life.”
“……”
Lewarren looked at Kylian with his mouth pursed. It was only then that Lewarren truly saw through Kylian.
During the time he was lost in sorrow and couldn’t properly come to Kylian, Kylian had changed so much that he could never go back.
“I would dedicate this world if it meant my wife could come back to life.”
Kylian was smiling, like a young child about to receive a birthday present. Lewarren found him so unfamiliar that he couldn’t say anything more.
.
.
In the end, the paladins perished, and even the priests were sacrificed.
Apart from the Priests of Death, only three priests survived externally. The Saint of the Goddess of Life and the High Priest of the Goddess of Destruction.
And the only one who drove his subordinates to death and fled, High Priest Raviel of the Temple of Life.
* * *
 
Waking up from his sleep, Kylian found it strange that he had pictured his wife even in his dreams.
“Is the bed uncomfortable?”
Kylian affectionately asked Anais, who was tossing and turning in his embrace. Even after returning to her original body, Anais still couldn’t say a word, which was frustrating.
She blushed at the touch of his chest against her skin.
“Wife.”
She was being held in Kylian’s arms, who was kissing his ear and smiling.
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