When the Villainess Died, the Male Lead Went Crazy

Anais looked at the Empress. The Empress was still laughing—leisurely, as if those words were nothing.

“Is it so. Let’s try it, Your Majesty.”

“You don’t have to, Wife. You are most definitely my wife, so what test do you need?”

“Hohoho. You trust me like this.”

Seemingly satisfied with Kylian’s words, she stroked his cheek again. He stayed that way because he liked being in his wife’s hands for the first time in a while, even though he was unfamiliar with the condition, where he couldn’t think rationally. It was something Anais couldn’t even dream of in the past.

“Your Majesty! Don’t you know the bad energy I feel from that fake!”

“The God of Death and the God of Life always hated each other’s energy. But it’s like using the same divine power.”

“You are fake!”

“But is the High Priest really real?”

“What?”

The Empress looked at his face in disgust and then said, Kylian was unfamiliar with the expression Anais was making and shut his mouth.

“I wonder if that is the real High Priest of the Goddess of Life.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Captain Lacey understood her words at once and drew his sword.

“Are you crazy? What are you doing!”

“Try it, Captain.”

“Yes.”

The Captain swung his sword and stabbed High Priest Raviel in the abdomen.

“Ugh… !”

Lacey didn’t care and put the bloodied sword back into the scabbard.

“Are you crazy!”

Anais shouted, unable to stand it any longer.

“What are you doing!”

“I told you. It was a test to see if the High Priest himself was a fake or not.”

“What kind of test is this! You’re only venting your anger!”

Anais immediately ran out and headed to the High Priest. She hurriedly approached, forgetting that she couldn’t even use her own divine power, and reached out her hand to the High Priest lying on the floor.

“Don’t touch me!”

“Ack… !”

Seeing ‘Lilith’ approaching, he opened his eyes and pushed her down. Anais fell behind and fell on her hips.

“Abominable wench!”

“…….”

Anais knew that Lilith originally had a bad relationship with High Priest Raviel. She didn’t know that it would be strong enough to refuse help even though he was so cornered.

“It’s because of you that I was brought here!”

“What are you….”

Raviel stood up as his eyes, which had burst blood vessels, turned white again. After all, his body had enormous divine power, so he was recovering quickly, perhaps because he was overflowing with energy.

His body had only the trace of the sword going through it. Then it went on without leaving a trace. The traces that remained were only the torn clothes.

“A thing like you should have died the first time you were kidnapped… !”

“I guess we’ll have to do more tests to find out. Captain.”

“Yes.”

“Uh-ugh…!”

The High Priest’s body, which had fallen back to the floor, was greatly shaken by Captain Lacey. Anais bit her lip. Then she turned to the Empress.

“Why did you bring the High Priest here?”

“You said it earlier. You told me not to use the sacrifice I bought. So I came to find a substitute.”

“…….”

“And it seems you don’t like this either. Do you not remember how he acted towards you?”

“…I don’t.”

“Oh my goodness.”

The Empress covered her mouth with her hand as if she was really surprised. Kylian looked at the Empress’ expression and Anais’ expression alternately, then fell into confusion.

“Your Majesty the Empress. The people you have spoken of are at the door of the audience chamber. Shall I ask them to come in?”

“Yes.”

The knight who asked for the Empress’s permission glanced at the saint and the High Priest of Goddess Julias, who were slumped on the floor, and then walked past them and headed for the door.

“You really don’t remember, so I’ll tell you.”

There was no way the Empress would do something like this for Anais. More than anything, the expression on her face like she was worried about Anais was having so much fun doing this.

“Lilith, when you got kidnapped as a child.”

“…….”

“Who do you think had a hand in that?”

“No way…”

“Yes. It’s him. The reason you were sold like a slave.”

The High Priest seemed unable to speak yet. He wanted to say something, but his mouth was still full of blood, and his tongue couldn’t regenerate.

“After you were born, he thought your position in the temple would be in danger, so he sent you away.”

“I beg your pardon…?”

“Then you were kidnapped again.”

“…….”

“Then the culprit is the same.”

Anais thought that the ringleaders who kidnapped her and Lilith were all dead. But what does this mean?

“But Duke Percival killed all the ringleaders then.”

“That guy was an exception. He left it for a while to kill after the coup.”

With the Empress saying that, Anais realized that the Empress didn’t really know about this from reading the diary.

This was something Anais hadn’t written down in her diary because she didn’t want to recall it. Besides, she didn’t know about the ringleader.

“So that’s why I’m taking revenge. Revenge for both you and I.”

“…….”

“You’re grateful, aren’t you?”

Anais was confused. That he sold Lilith twice all for the sake of his position in the temple. And how the hell did the Empress know this?

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“You didn’t answer again.”

Anais raised her head and looked at the Empress. The Empress’s expression softened. As she stared at it, she heard footsteps behind her.

“Greetings to Your Majesties, Emperor and Empress.”

It was the High Priest of Death. And next to him stood Phileal and Leviathan.

“Welcome, High Priest of Death.”

“What is it, Your Majesty?”

“They are accusing me of being a fake. I called you to speak in front of Your Majesty.”

The High Priest of Death looked at Anais and looked at High Priest Raviel, who was lying on his stomach next to her, trembling and covering his mouth with his hand.

“I swear to the God of Death, she is the real Anais.”

“Then why is High Priest Raviel lying in front of me and the Empress?”

Kylian remained silent before asking. He also felt a sense of discrepancy from time to time. She was definitely Anais, but not like the Anais he knew. The constant feeling of incongruity came to the fore the moment High Priest Raviel shouted that Anais was a fake in front of him.

His heart still beats loudly at the mere mention of her name, but ever since the Empress woke up, seeing her face made Kylian feel like he was looking at someone else.

“That person has lied a lot since before. Doesn’t Your Majesty know? Just as you almost lost Lady Anais before, it must be to confuse Your Majesty this time.”

“…….”

Kylian was confused by the High Priest of Death speaking to him as if to warn him. He was the one who cut off his lifespan to save Kylian’s wife. Why would he lie?

Shaaa—

The sound of rain hitting the blue stained glass of the audience room filled the silence.

It’s raining. The terrible rain that fell on the day his wife died. He began to lose his temper again when it rained. Even if his wife was acting differently from before, it’s because she didn’t have her memories. He had already suffered too much to be distant again just because of useless doubts.

“Your Majesty.”

“Yes, Wife.”

“I want to bring that power to me here.”

“It would be better to do it in the bedroom than in the audience chamber.”

“I want to do it here.”

“…All right.”

Kylian wanted to do anything his wife asked for. There was nothing he couldn’t listen to. He held the Empress’s hand without catching his breath for a moment.

“What’s wrong?”

“Wife, wait… your hand….”

His heart throbbed painfully. The nightmares of when his wife left him seemed to come back to him.

“You look pale, Your Majesty.”

“Wife. Can you please hold my hand?”

“…….”

The Empress stared at Kylian, who was pale and was pleading with him.

“I’m really sorry, Your Majesty, but I don’t want to.”

“…I’m sorry. I made an embarrassing request in front of everyone.”

He clenched his fists and had to calm himself down. He looked at the Empress and unknowingly turned his gaze to Anais in Lilith’s body. He was reassured when, oddly enough, her eyes met his.

“Your Majesty, go to your bedroom and rest. I’m going to hold the ceremony here.”

“…No. I will be here too.”

Kylian belatedly came to his senses when he heard the Empress’s voice and answered.

“Alright then.”

Kylian couldn’t possibly separate himself from his wife. His insecurity paralyzed his reason, and his unresolved regret kept blinding him.

“Your Majesty! You will regret it! Don’t be fooled by what that fake says!”

“You still haven’t come to your senses.”

“I can see it! Other people may not know, but how can I, the High Priest of the Temple of Life, not know! The soul in that body is fake! You’re not the real Anais!”

Phileal frowned as he heard that. He then lifted Anais from the floor. She was raised by him so she suddenly jumped to her feet.

Anais’s eyes, which Phileal looked at, were directed to High Priest Raviel.

“Your Majesty, trust me! Where is High Priest Lewarren! He would see it! That High Priest of Death is lying!”

“No, even the High Priest of Destruction confirmed my identity.”

“Impossible!”

“If you shut your mouth well, I will be willing to let you live, but why are you playing with your mouth like this?”

The Empress scowled, displeased and glared at Raphiel.

“You are not Lady Anais!”

“Then who am I?”

“You…!”

“Your Majesty. Look at that. That liar is up to something else. He has been running around and selling off his comrades with pathetic lies to survive, and he seems to be doing it again.”

“No!”

Raphiel shouted in injustice.

“Your Majesty! I’ll bring the real Anais into that body! Give me a chance!”

He knew for sure that if he was deprived of his energy and divine power, he would continue his life as long as he was alive. Like a mummy. Raviel did not want to live like that. How has he endured so far?

“Then, what if something went wrong with Her Majesty?”

“High Priest Mephist. Are you even afraid? Seeing the High Priest of Death even pretend to care about others? Oh, right. You priests of Death always have such good manners, indeed.”

“…….”

If it was another temple, they would doubt that the priest of Death was doing that. To be concerned about another’s welfare.

“I will show you right now!”

After saying that, Raviel stretched out his bloodied arm toward the Empress. Then he gathered all of his purifying power and unleashed it on her.

Suddenly, a large light filled the inside of the audience chamber. Anais, who was in Lilith’s body, collapsed, staring at the ceiling.

When she blinked her eyes a few times, the first thing she could see was Lilith’s limp body, hugged by Phileal.

“Wife!”

Kylian was right next to her.