When The Villainess Died, The Male Lead Went Crazy - Chapter 68
Translator and Editor: Effe and Yonnee
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Chapter 68
“Anais! Are you okay!”
Kylian groaned, and with his hand, he removed the pile of stones that had landed on her. He removed it so hastily that the fingertips of the gloves he was wearing were all worn out.
“Uhh…”
“Anais!”
“Stop calling me, my head hurts.”
When he removed all the stones, Anais, who was feeling better than expected, stood up.
“Ah… it hurts.”
“Are you okay?”
Kylian was watching to see if she was angry. But she didn’t look like that. Rather, she laughed as if she was happy to receive that counterattack.
“I need to build up my strength.”
“You have enough now.”
Anais stood up and ran his hand over the long cut on Kylian’s neck. He couldn’t tell if the blood flowed from him or Anais’ hand because of Anais’s stare on him.
“Kylian. It must hurt.”
Kylian felt that she was worried about him, which made him feel weird. Anyone could see that she was more hurt.
“You’d better go back, Anais.”
“I guess so. Can you carry me though?”
“All, right.”
Anais put on a slightly sad face when Kylian answered hesitantly.
In the end, Kylian headed to the duke’s mansion with Anais on his back. He was very aware of Anais because her light breathing was in his ear as Anais hugged his neck.
Anais must have been bothered by the continued silence, so suddenly she called to him.
“Kylian.”
“Yes.”
Anais stared at his wound, then suddenly asked.
“Do you believe in fate?”
“…I don’t know what you’re implying.”
Kylian believed in fate. It was fate that he came here, and it was fate that he got to meet Anais, who cared for him. He thought it was fate that he couldn’t even erase her from his eyes.
If Anais had not been in his life, it was no exaggeration to say that he would not know where it would lead—he was nothing without her in his life.
“Kylian, there’s a woman fated to be with you.”
“…….”
“She’s a very, very pretty. And she’s kind.”
Kylian laughed at those words. But he didn’t think she was wrong. There was no one prettier than Anais, and there was no one kinder to him than her.
“Later on, you will be very, very happy with your fated woman.”
“…I see.”
He hoped that the fated woman befitting him would be Anais. His heart was overwhelmed with just imagining a future with her. He completely forgot how he got back to the Duke’s residence.
It was only later that he learned that the wound on Anais’ left wrist that had occurred that day had been deliberately left untreated.
After Kylian became engaged to Anais, he received a considerable amount of money from Duke Percival in the name of a maintaining allowance. It was because Duke Percival managed all of the budget originally set for him by the imperial palace.
Kylian wasn’t very interested in money let alone managing it. His interest was only one, and that already preoccupied all of his interest.
So that was why. He bought something of his own will for the first time in his life.
“How about this?”
“That’s not good enough.”
Kylian was browsing at the jewelry store. Because he realized that he was a bad fiancé who never gave any gifts for his betrothed.
Anais gave him so many things that he couldn’t count them. He was worried that he might have realized too late that he could give her something. Because what he has received so far has been too much.
Kylian unconsciously touched the handle of the sword he was carrying on his back.
“Kyaah!”
“What’s wrong?”
“Ah… I thought the customer was about to draw the sword…”
“…….”
Kylian looked at the employee with an expressionless face. Then the employee got embarrassed and lowered her head. But that wasn’t the only reason she lowered her head.
Even at first glance, Kylian was a young man with a deep impression, and the clothes he was wearing were the uniform of the Duchy Percival’s knights.
“Are you looking for jewelry for your mother?”
“No.”
“Then the age group…”
“Eighteen. Female.”
“The relationship…”
“Wife.”
He could have said that she was his fiancée, but he dared to say that she was his wife. Because he had been wanting to call him that for a long time.
With that, the employee smiled like she was blowing steam and looked back.
“I’ll get some things over there.”
“Yes.”
Kylian touched the hilt of the sword again while the employee went back for a moment.
Someday, he wanted to call Anais his wife.
He thought so and smiled lightly.
“What do you think about this?”
What the employee showed him was a blue sapphire necklace.
“No.”
“What kind of jewelry does your wife like?”
“…….”
He was thinking of the precious metal Anais had used at the engagement. He remembered the earrings, necklaces and bracelets she used back then.
He didn’t know which of them she liked. Besides, the only thing that came to his mind was his fiance’s face as she smiled at him.
Things like jewelry were actually just accessories for her, they lost their shine and became a blur when standing next to her.
“How about giving a present similar to the color of the customer’s eyes?”
“…Gold must be boring.”
“There is something else that’s suitable other than gold.”
The employee went back in and came out with a black box. Then she carefully opened it and held it out in front of Kylian.
“Is this citrine?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t like cheap things.”
“Oh no, this is expensive! This is not artificially colored!”
“…….”
“It only comes from places where dragons used to live!”
Dragons were a race that remained only in legends. All of them had left this world, and even the last remaining dragon had long since become extinct.
Her words weren’t very reliable. Not even a trace of a living dragon has been found for centuries.
“Look closely inside here.”
Pretending to be tricked, Kylian listened to her and looked inside the jewel.
Then, he could see the subtle magic flowing inside.
“This…”
“Yes. It is golden because it contains the spirit of a gold dragon.”
“I’ll take this.”
Kylian spent one month’s worth of his allowance, but he didn’t regret it at all.
Returning to the mansion, he headed straight to the training ground to see Anais.
“This is Sir Alcad.”
“Nice to meet you, Sir Alcad.”
He saw three people shaking hands in the distance. One was Circe, the other was Alcad.
“The Young Duke likes talented people like you.”
“Really?”
“Yes. I like talented people.”
As Anais smiled and said, Alcad smiled brightly at her. There was something strange about him. Alcad was ashamed as if he was holding the hand of a woman who was not his superior.
Kylian saw that scene and turned around.
He didn’t go back to his room. Rather, it was because there were so many things that reminded him of Anais when he went to his room.
He headed out again with the necklace in his hand. When he came out to the square, people were hurrying somewhere. He was the only one sitting at the fountain, directionless.
Kylian was envious of Circe. He seemed to get along well with Anais, and he was trusted as Anais’ comrade.
There is only one thing that can be certain, that there is no feeling of love in Circe’s eyes looking at Anais. It was obvious. Because his eyes were markedly different from Kylian’s.
However, he could not be sure with the person named Alcad. He was looking at his fiancée as if he was really looking at a woman.
However, there was nothing he could do. She was interested in him because she thought he was a weak person who would not harm her. He was not one to be swept away by these low emotions.
Kylian thought so, and deliberately glared at the passer-by who hit him.
“Sorry.”
The man with long brown hair disappeared immediately with a short apology, and it was only after the man in front of him completely disappeared that Kylian realized that the necklace he bought for Anais had been stolen.
“Damn it.”
He did not know whether giving the necklace would make Anais happy. However, he couldn’t let it be taken like this, so he pursued the pickpocket.
He walked around the town square looking for a burly man with long hair and brown hair, but he missed the culprit because it was a common hair color in the town.
In the end, it was only after the night got dark that Kylian was returned to the Duke’s residence. Returning to the room, he was a little startled. He paused in his step as he opened the door.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m going to sleep here tonight.”
Now he knew why Anais was being mean to him. Still, he couldn’t afford to accept her today. Her expression as she shook hands with the man named Alcad was an expression he had never seen before. It was difficult to feign coldness in front of Anais.
Maybe Anais also shows a different expression to the person she loves? A look that Kylian would never know.
“Are you going to sleep there?”
“Yes.”
Then Anais was looking at him a little embarrassedly. Then she looked away and was tidying up the sheets on the bed.
“What are you doing?”
“I thought Kylian would be there.”
Anais gave a rough answer, then arranged the sheets and put her knees on the bed.
Kylian took off his coat and sat on the sofa pretending nothing was wrong. He was ashamed to see that the leather of the sofa was worn out, and the skin was peeling off every time he sat on it.
Her interest in him was sympathy. Pity. Sadness.
It was never love.
“My room is empty.”
“…….”
She deliberately pretended to laugh at Kylian’s glare. Then he frowned and avoided Anais’s gaze, but the resentment tinted his ears red.
“I really hate you.”
Kylian wanted to hide his feelings. It was like a wind that could never reach her.
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