When The Villainess Died, The Male Lead Went Crazy - Chapter 65
Translator and Editor: Effe and Yonnee
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Chapter 65
In the eyes of the young Kylian, Anais was a little strange.
Even though she said she hated him, she took good care of him. On top of her actions, even her attitude was strange to him.
“Oh, I hate it. Why do I have to memorize so many types of forks and knives?”
“Hohoho. Our Anais is doing this again.”
“It’s just a slightly different shape, so should I use them separately?”
“Of course. Nobility should be like that.”
Kylian couldn’t understand Anais Percival’s behavior. He thought she must already know the use of tableware at meals. She used the tablewares for their exact purpose whenever she ate alone with Kylian when Duke Percival was absent.
But she would act like this every time when she ate with her father.
“I’ll just use this and this. I want to eat with just these two. Because these two are the prettiest.”
Tableware can be picked up and used sequentially, starting with the ones placed outside. It wasn’t difficult, and she used it in order every time. Even so, she would ask her father as if she didn’t know the order of tableware use.
Duke Percival was also strange. As though he had fully accepted that his daughter—who was admittedly a bit weird—really didn’t know it, he would repeat it every time from the beginning.
Kylian, who had never received affection from his parents, found the scene strange and unfamiliar. Unconditional affection of Duke Percival. Affection that Anais expects and wants from her father.
“Our Anais. Dad still wants Anais to be able to eat like a noble.”
“Then teach me. I forgot again.”
“Alright.”
Duke Percival, who had been cold like a blizzard in midwinter, was like an infinitely warm summer to Anais.
The kind of summer that makes the rainy season and typhoon for her sake.
“Ah. This doesn’t taste good. Mary.”
“Yes, Miss.”
“Give this to him. His looks delicious, so bring it here.”
Then Duke Percival looked at her face with a questioning look.
“Is it the same thing?”
“Yes. But I think mine is a bit burnt.”
She was saying the opposite. Anais’ was properly roasted veal, while Kylian’s was overcooked, almost burnt meat.
“Then tell them to bring a new one.”
“Please give Kylian a new one too.”
“…Understood.”
In the end, all three had to be given new food.
From that day on, the Duke stopped playing any tricks on Kylian’s food.
“Dad, I want to ask you something.”
“What?”
“I don’t like studying.”
“…What?”
Duke Pervical looked puzzled. Kylian unknowingly flinched at Duke Percival’s surprise. The duke was a person who showed kindness to his daughter and his daughter alone.
It meant that he could be the target of his dissatisfaction with her.
“Studying is so boring. And there is so much homework to do.”
“Anais.”
“I’m the only one who’s suffering like this.”
“…Anais. You can’t succeed me as the next duke if you don’t study. Didn’t you say you wanted to know everything about the world? To do that, you have to see, hear and learn a lot.”
Duke Percival wanted his daughter to receive the best possible education in a decent environment. So, even if she says no, he would appease her and educate her.
“So let him do it too. Because it’s so unfair that I’m the only one studying.”
“…What?”
“I want him to do it too. It’s unfair if I’m the only one studying.”
“The prince does not need to be educated.”
“The prince has a higher status than me, so why? So, I don’t need it too right?”
Duke Percival closed his mouth for a moment and sighed in surrender.
“No, you are right. My daughter can do whatever she wants.”
“Thank you, Dad!”
Duke Percival wiped his surprised chest and handed Anais the proper tableware.
“I want to learn politics from Dad.”
“Alright, Dad will spare time.”
“I want to learn Mervenian from Dad.”
“Yes. If my daughter wants it, she will.”
Kylian knew that the father and daughter’s conversation was mostly like this, but he was having a hard time adjusting. No one in the mansion was interested in him. He just knows that Anais Percival likes to bully him, but as if that’s not the case, she takes care of him tenderly.
That interest will come to an end one day when she gets tired of him.
He thought so and stroked the locket necklace that was tucked under his clothes without realizing it. The locket which his father, the Emperor, had given to his mother as a token. He tried to put it in a box and forget about it, but couldn’t forget the two lockets, and wore it.
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Afterwards, Duke Pervical gave him the same lessons as Anais. It was easy for him to acquire knowledge, and he memorized and applied everything he learned quickly.
But he was not blind, so he always pretended to be inferior to Anais.
However, at some point, Anais developed differently day by day to the point where he didn’t have to hide his abilities.
As for theories, applications, and conjuncture, Anais easily mastered beyond Kylian with ease. In the beginning, Kylian seemed to learn faster, but Anais was so good that she was praised as a prodigious genius.
But Kylian knew that she had worked hard and achieved more than her outward appearance of genius.
That Anais Percival who came to his room every morning to comfort him while he was asleep. It was like saying she didn’t sleep until dawn.
After learning from her tutors all day, she seemed to be reviewing and reapplying it in her room. And at dawn, she stopped by his room as he would suffer from nightmares, then would go back to her room and slept only when it’s already late.
The Anais, as observed by Kylian, seemed to be a friendly person compared to her notoriety, except for being sensitive in the morning.
Seeing how she pretends to be grumpy and even gives him a chance to learn the sword.
“Hey, you learn swordsmanship now too.”
“…Huh?”
“Because I don’t want my hands to be like this! You learn too!”
Kylian expected her to give him another spider if she refused. He wasn’t afraid of spiders. Why would he be afraid of a small creature?
It was only because Anais seemed more satisfied when he heard her order only when he pretended to be afraid of what she had given him.
“Promise me you won’t leave a spider in my room if I agree.”
Kylian had to continue that pretense as he accepted the wooden sword she handed him.
Swordsmanship worked surprisingly well for him. However, whenever he sparred with Anais, he deliberately pretended to have missed the wooden sword and acted as if he had completely lost.
“Uh…”
No, maybe even if he really sparred, he didn’t have the confidence to beat Anais. Because he didn’t want to see her get hurt by his own sword.
He thought it was stupid. Anais was worried to see her palms blistered while holding the sword, and he couldn’t help but watch her gasping during strength training.
He kept worrying about her even though he wasn’t in a position to worry about anyone.
Anais was someone that could never be called a warrior. She didn’t have natural talent in it, and she didn’t use her head or play tricks for the sake of winning. She was just someone who worked harder than anyone else to hold a sword.
“Ugh, my wrist hurts.”
“Miss.”
The maid Mary casually handed Anais some water. Anais glanced at Kylian and said.
“Get up soon. There’s still time.”
“I can’t.”
“What can’t you? Hurry, get up.”
“…….”
Kylian knew that whenever Anais had time, she practiced several times more alone.
“Let it slide today. I really can’t, Anais.”
“…Okay.”
So he really didn’t want to win over her. Because he was afraid that the attention she gave him would disappear.
At that moment, one of the knights watching the two called Anais by name.
“Miss Anais!”
“Ah, Sir Circe.”
“I’ll spar with you instead.”
“Great.”
Kylian looked at Anais’ back as she walked away, leaving him alone. She somehow seemed to blush and smile whenever she talked to the knight named Circe.
“…….”
Kylian was surprised that he was clenching his teeth, so he quickly loosened it. Because he doesn’t deserve to think of anyone that way.
He unknowingly clutched at the two locket necklaces that swayed on his chest. Without noticing Duke Percival, who was looking at him disapprovingly from afar.
Crack!
Kylian woke to the sound of something breaking.
“I wanted to destroy this disgusting thing you cherished from before.”
““Ah… Duke…”
Duke Pervical treated him terribly when he and Kylian were alone. He was treated as a prince in places where outsiders could see him, but it was the norm for people to treat as a non-existent person in the mansion.
“Why…”
Kylian saw his mother’s locket necklace smashed in his hand. The locket necklace was completely crumpled, as if the Duke had broken it with his grip. Unlike when he always wore it around his neck, should he say that it was fortunate that he put one around his neck and the other in a box this time.
Even so, Kylian felt like he realized that he was actually hanging one around his neck because he wanted to give one of the two to Anais. But now, he couldn’t give it to her anymore.
At that time, Anais entered Kylian’s room, calling the duke.
“Dad!”
Knowing that Anais Percival would be coming around this time, Kylian had never intentionally locked the door.
“Anais. What are you doing here?”
“I followed you because I wanted to see you!”
“Really…?”
Duke Pervical looked at the locket hanging around Kylian’s neck as if he was about to break that one as well, but when he realized that his daughter was next to him, he couldn’t move.
“Dad, I want to sleep in Dad’s room today!”
“Okay.”
“Oh, I hate walking.”
“Okay, Dad will carry you.”
Anais glanced at Kylian and met his eyes.
He couldn’t help but know that she was doing this for him.
“Please read the administrative theory book you read last time.”
“Yes, I will.”
Duke Pervical took his little daughter in his arms and went to his room. Kylian was left alone in his room, holding the broken locket in his hand.
He clutched it and curled himself up on the floor. Strangely, he couldn’t sleep at all. Maybe it’s because he knows that the person who will show up when he falls asleep won’t show up today. He curled up and closed his eyes.
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