When The Villainess Died, The Male Lead Went Crazy - Chapter 69
Translator and Editor: Effe and Yonnee
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Chapter 69
The first thing Kylian checked when he woke up that morning was Anais. Anais was lying very defenselessly on the bed. It must have rained heavily the night before, the rain poured in from the window left ajar.
“Is it because of the rain?”
He knew that the reason she came to him was because of the rain.
Anais’s kindness. He wished that it was all his. He hated this tight feeling in his chest. Every beat of his heart brought about piercing pain, as though there was a long needle stuck inside it. The pain faded when Anais laughed and intensified when she looked at someone else.
When he saw Anais asleep, he felt the pain waning.
“Mmh…”
Anais tossed and turned her body with a low sound. Kylian suddenly remembered that she had come here so defenselessly. She was wearing only a very thin negligee.
Her skin was visible under the translucent white cloth. How much does she not… see him as a man.
He realized that she had never considered him a man. He frowned and left the room in resentment.
Kylian knew that his eighteenth birthday was coming soon.
No one celebrated his birthday or anything. Not even the imperial family. Even Duchy Percival doesn’t celebrate Kylian’s birthday.
The imperial family hasn’t sent him anything apart from his mother’s locket. There was a budget allocated to the princes, but even that was being kept by Duke Percival.
“How pathetic.”
He was sitting under a wisteria tree. The petals of the wisteria felt like Anais’s eye smile.
He also liked the scent of wisteria. There were many wisteria trees near the training ground, so he could smell this scent every time he sparred.
He suddenly remembered the necklace he was going to give to Anais. After the necklace got stolen, Kylian went back to the town square several times, but he couldn’t find the pickpocket.
He unknowingly touched his mother’s locket necklace that was hanging around his neck. He wanted to give Anais something special. The thought made him even more depressed. Then, tired from the blazing sun, he fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes again, the red sunset was sinking.
Realizing that it would be time for dinner soon, Kylian quickly headed to the main building. He loved mealtime. He doesn’t have much opportunity to talk with Anais at other times, but during mealtime it was different.
When Duke Percival was busy, the two of them ate alone.
Anais would always ask him questions kindly when they were alone. When Duke Percival was around she would say something harsh. But he knew Anais was paying attention to him.
He ran towards the main building.
“Kylian?”
“Ah…”
Kylian bumped into Anais at the door of the main building.
“I haven’t seen you all day.”
“…Yes.”
Anais casually removed the wisteria petals from his hair. At that moment, Kylian’s heart thumped again and it became difficult to breathe.
“Next time, tell me before you disappear. I’ve been looking for you for a while now.”
“…Yes.”
He was glad she went looking for him. Embarrassed that his chest was beating too fast it might get noticed, he squeezed the locket necklace swinging in front of his chest.
“Don’t stand at the door, come in. Anais.”
“Dad!”
Duke Percival glanced at Kylian and smiled kindly at his daughter.
“Dad, where have you been? I’ve been looking for you!”
“Were you looking for me? I went to the imperial library for a while because I’m looking for something.”
“Ah. Is it because of that?”
“Yes.”
Anais nodded as if she knew everything, then went in first with her father.
Kylian stood still and ran his fingertips through where Anais’s light touch lingered in his hair. His chest was still beating. Very hard.
That night.
Kylian thought it was strange that Duke Percival called him. He hated Kylian so much that he rarely looked at Kylian. However, since his daughter was interested in him, Duke Percival preferred to ignore him.
“Did you still have that necklace?”
“…It is my mother’s keepsake.”
“Give it to me.”
“But…”
Kylian couldn’t deny the Duke’s words. Although he was now close to adulthood, he was the fourteenth prince who even the emperor had forgotten about. His future was still uncertain. Above all, considering his three older brothers that had died here, it was all the more difficult to resist Duke Percival’s orders.
They died as if by accident, even though they had better mothers behind them. Kylian, who had no one on his side, was sure to die the moment the Duke hated him. Kylian removed the necklace from around his neck and tried to hand it to the Duke.
At that moment.
“Dad, what are you doing here with Kylian but not me?”
“Anais, what brings you here?”
“Dad, what are you talking about with Kylian but not with me?”
“That…”
Duke Percival was watching his daughter. It seemed that even the duke, who was good at lying, couldn’t easily make up a plausible excuse in front of his daughter.
“The Duke found my mother’s belongings.”
“Ah… Is that so?”
“Yes. He found it when I accidentally dropped it at the training grounds.”
“Ah. I see.”
Anais looked Kylian straight in the eyes, perhaps trying to gauge whether he was lying or not. Kylian faced her blue eyes.
Those eyes were breathtaking.
“Dad. Are you done with Kylian?”
“…Yes.”
Anais listened to him and took the locket necklace his father was holding as if she had made up her mind.
Then.
Crack!
“Anais?”
Duke Percival was surprised by her.
“Do you still have these?”
“Anais…”
Kylian also looked at her in confusion. Seeing the messed up locket necklace in her hand, Kylian couldn’t understand her.
“Follow me, Kylian.”
“…Yes.”
“Dad, I will take Kylian with me.”
“Alright…”
Duke Percival’s expression showed how surprised he was. The open mouth and round eyes.
Kylian was also surprised that his necklace was broken. But he couldn’t guess why she broke it in front of the Duke’s eyes.
It’s because of Duke Percival that she always bothered him. Although she was actually kind and caring. Kylian was no fool.
Anais led him for a while without talking, and headed for her room. In the meantime, he couldn’t stand it and said,
“Anais, why did you do that?”
Anais suddenly let go of the hand that was dragging him. He was anxious when she let go of his hand and tried to hold it again.
Anais spoke faster than that.
“I’m the only one in your family away. So let go of other lingering feelings.”
He felt as if the words she was saying came lodged in his chest. His anxiety, his low-level jealousy. She cared for him enough to be embarrassed by it.
“Kylian?”
Kylian bit his lip and stopped like that. Then, Anais stood in front of him. He was somehow despondent and wanted to look into her eyes.
After all, in her eyes, he didn’t seem like a man. The emotions reflected in her eyes are not love, but pity and sympathy. In fact, that alone was not enough for him.
“Be weak, but look like a flexible person.”
But then Anais would never see him as a man.
“Are you crying?”
Then what should he do?
“Do I really have a fated woman?”
“Yes.”
He frowned and stopped biting his lip and asked Anais. Then she answered him with a wry smile.
Kylian didn’t see it, but there was a moment her arm extended over his back and went out of reach.
“Do I really have something like that?”
“Of course.”
Kylian was glad she told him that. And he longed once more for his fated woman to be her.
But his expectations were soon shattered. Anais always seemed to be looking for something. Now it was two people, Lewarren and Lilith.
The first one she found was Lewarren. Coincidentally, that person was the one who stole the citrine necklace containing the dragon’s spirit, which Kylian had wanted to give to Anais.
So when the two met again, he could never say good words.
“Give me my necklace. You parasite.”
“Aren’t you from the royal family? You have a very noble mouth.”
One of the people Anais had caught was Lewarren. Kylian did not hide his true face even in Anais’ absence. Especially since he was just a petty thief, and he was the one who stole Anais’s necklace.
“Where is the necklace? If you say something nonsense about selling it, I will break your neck.”
“I couldn’t even sell it anyway.”
“…….”
Lewarren held his breath as he grabbed Kylian’s legs that had stomped on his chest.
“The spirit of the gold dragon.”
“…….”
“It was difficult to dispose of because it was something that could not be sold.”
As Kylian put his feet away, Lewarren took out a pouch containing the citrine necklace from his arms and handed it to him.
In fact, Lewarren was flustered when he was captured by Anais. He disposed of the stolen goods on the same day. That was Lewarren’s creed. But he couldn’t do that with the citrine necklace. It happened to be the only one that entered the capital, and it was very rare, so he knew that he would be caught the moment he sold it.
So it was even more surprising. He had never been caught before, and was suddenly caught by Young Duke Percival.
“If you catch my eyes one more time, I will kill you.”
“…….”
After checking the necklace, Kylian said a warning to him and then disappeared.
However, Kylian’s wish that no one else would intervene between him and Anais did not come true.
After some time, Anais picked up another person.
A woman this time.
“Kylian, this is Lilith.”
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