CH 10

I’ve never seen him smile so innocently.

The Kylian I knew would, most of the time, avert his gaze from me, or if our eyes ever met, his expression would always be so stern. That’s why here, as he was smiling brightly now, I couldn’t take my eyes away from him. Then he spoke again in that sweet voice.

“Anais will wake up soon.”

“Are you still saying that?”

“…Lewarren?”

As soon as he heard Lewarren’s voice, maybe he understood it right away. Kylian erased his smile. Unknowingly, I looked towards Lewarren who had a serious expression as he pulled the black robe’s hood back. He has a familiar grimacing expression, but it seemed that there was a strangely deep anger.

From Lewarren’s point of view, it was understandable. Kylian destroyed the temple Lewarren was in and also destroyed other temples, leaving only Lilith and Lewarren alive.

Regardless of what Kylian intended, it was obvious for the victim to feel that it was an insult.

I realized while thinking about Lewarren’s plight. That Kylian hates me for a similar reason.

The person he hates the most saved him and died. He couldn’t be thankful for that.

Thinking about it that way, my heart started pounding again. Even if I did something out of my own good intentions, it would be nothing but an insult to the person receiving that act.

“What is that hair color?”

“Are you going to talk about hair color in this situation?”

“Since it’s such an ugly color, are you intentionally showing it?”

At Kylian’s mocking retort, Lewarren glanced at me, then turned his gaze back to Kylian. I looked at Kylian, who was sitting on the floor, sneaking away from Lewarren’s gaze. It was clear that Kylian was holding my body.

The hands of the slumped body were full of traces of practicing swordsmanship for a long time, though the back of those hands were beautiful. Calluses were deeply embedded on their palms, and my arms had fine muscles apparent on them. In addition, it was obvious from the clearly visible long scar on my left wrist.

“Let’s switch in a while.”

“Yeah, please wait.”

After agreeing with Lewarren’s words, the white snake guy released me, so I stood close to Lewarren. Somehow, Kylian’s condition was strange. Although he was hostile to me, I think he was still on friendly terms to Lewarren and Lilith.

It seems that he had no friendly relations with anyone else now.

“Why did you call me?”

As Kylian looked at me, I asked why he was looking for Lilith. Then he slowly lowered my body to the floor, and when I looked closely, my clothes looked exactly like the dresses worn by the women who had been woven together like strung up fish.

With a snapping sound, the white snake guy flicked his hand, and the chandelier around lit up.

“Oh…?”

I couldn’t help but be confused. When the light was only dimly lit around the magic circle, it was difficult to see our surroundings, but when the light was turned on completely, there was a horrendous sight that made me unable to open my mouth.

Then I realized that all the women were wearing the same clothes. When the lights were on, there were more women on the floor than before, all wearing the same dress. Even the women here had their eyes half-opened, but they were all convulsing, showing they weren’t dead.

Platinum blonde with purple eyes.

The same features as my old body. They were gathering people with similar appearances as me, had them wear the same clothes, and were doing something here.

“You’re really crazy, are you? You have bad tastes.”

Unlike me who didn’t say anything in shock, Lewarren didn’t seem to be particularly surprised.

“They say it is better to draw power when the appearance is similar.”

Killian was still smiling. He didn’t usually smile as often before.

“Do you even need to do this? You can’t bring the dead back to life. How are you going to revive a body that is already dead?”

“I can save her. Unlike all of you who lied to me, the god of death can really save Anais.”

“I lied?”

“Phileal.”

“Yes.”

It seems that the white snake guy’s name was Phileal. As he beckoned, the other priests surrounded me and Lewarren.

“If what you said to me was true, you shouldn’t say no this time.”

“What?”

“Right? Lilith Isadora.”

It seemed like he had grown taller. Even when I think about how tall Lilith and I were, looking up at him makes my neck hurt.

“Let’s talk for a moment, Kylian.”

Recalling that Lilith and Kylian talked casually to each other, I kept talking casually too, but somehow, strangely, my throat was choked as if my voice was not coming out.

“I have warned you not to call me by name.”

“Ugh!”

Kylian, who suddenly approached me, grabbed me by the collar and looked down at me with an overbearing look. The clothes caught in the shoulder were completely wrinkled, and even though I was caught from over the clothes, it looked like I was going to be dragged away by how tightly he was grabbing me.

“Even if you revive her body, Anais won’t come back.”

Kylian’s expression changed even colder and he glared at Lewarren.

“How do you know?”

“I am also a bishop. Do you think the god of destruction taught me nothing?”

“I will see that for myself. I think I’ll need your divine power as well, and you came just in time.”

“There is nothing you need to see. Anais’ soul is already somewhere else.”

“I can call her wherever her soul is.”

Only then did I understand. That the terrible dreams I had might actually be real.

I must have been in and out of two bodies at the same time. But for some reason, my body on the floor now had platinum blonde hair.

But why was it blue in my dream? So in the end, was that just a dream?

“Your bastard-like personality is still the same.”

Kylian let go of the hand that was holding my shoulder. Then he walked back into the magic circle and said,

“Look closely. Wouldn’t it be nice if your close friend got revived?”

“When did Anais ask you to bring her back to life?”

“…….”

“How long are you going to do such a pathetic thing, Kylian?”

Lewarren grabbed his arm and growled in anger.

“Pathetic? If she didn’t want me to do something like this, then she should have just let me die. She was the one who told me to continue living this miserable life.”

“Do you think that Anais saved you to see you like this?”

“I don’t know that. It’s something I’ll have to ask after bringing her back to life.”

“What if Anais is already alive?”

As Kylian shook off Lewarren’s hand, Lewarren stumbled for a moment. I didn’t know before, but when the two of them stood together, it seemed that Kylian looked taller than he really was.

What Lewarren wanted from me was to apologize to Kylian and return to the underworld.

But in this situation, it seemed to be of no use. Besides, he said himself that Kylian was crazy, but I didn’t expect it to be this much. Shouldn’t we just rather wait and let me die one more time after he revived me in my original body? So that way his anger will go away?

If he was so miserable because I died instead of him, it wasn’t that we couldn’t grant his wish.

Of course, I had to admit that my mouth didn’t open easily because I was scared. In a common sense, there are so many women in the same outfit as me, and seeing my ex-husband whose eyes have overturned trying to revive my dead body and kill me again, how can I be normal as usual?

I was just pretending to be okay, but in reality my mouth wouldn’t open out of fear, and my palms were getting clammy with sweat.

“Let’s, let’s save her.”

“What? Are you crazy?”

“Let’s save her. If that’s your wish, let’s save her and do whatever you want, Kylian— Your Majesty.”

I hastily added ‘Your Majesty’ at the end as he told me not to call him by only his name. Then, as my brows knitted together while I stared at him, he hugged my original body again and said,

“Bring her.”

“Yes.”

It was thanks to the divine power that we came in disguised as a priest of death, but now it was dizzying to think that divine power would be extracted like this. But when I return to my original body for a while, I must tell him.

I’m sorry for saving you. Don’t be miserable.

But I don’t know what I did wrong. I shouldn’t say that one.

“Lilith.”

“Huh?”

Lewarren looked at me with a serious expression, so I habitually wiped my eyes. Perhaps because Lilith was originally a crybaby, this body also seemed to cry easily. Because in my original body, I didn’t cry about almost anything.

In fear, I grabbed Lewarren’s sleeve and stood as I was told. He let out a small sigh as to whether he would comply with my wishes.

“Then let’s start the ceremony .”

“Yes.”

The priests I had seen in the prayer room came in. They seem to have squeezed out their strength there and then come here again. Everyone held hands and surrounded the large magic circle where Kylian was. Me and Lewarren stood near Kylian, watched by Phileal.

“Дом самый лучший!”

“Дом самый лучший”

“Дом самый лучший”

The priests of death were holding hands and chanting strange incantations like a folk song again. I couldn’t understand what they were saying, but I couldn’t even try and think about it.

I felt the power draining from my body. The divine power will be refilled again after using it anyway. So Lewarren will take care of Lilith’s body. All I have to do after getting back to my original body is to tell Kylian to get a hold of himself together as he so desperately wants.

I wish he’d just kill me right away.

“Дом самый лучший!”

The surroundings darkened as all the light had disappeared in an instant. Then all the lights in all directions were turned on at once, and my head was pounding because of the stark change of light.

The surroundings brightened up again. Then I looked around the brightened space.

“Huh?”

A lot of energy was drained from my body, but this time my body didn’t change. Was it a dream too?

“Look. Didn’t I say it was useless?”

“Nonsense. Obviously before…”

Kylian muttered to himself, and Lewaren said, looking at him who looked confused.

“Anais is here now. in front of you.”

Then Kylian hugged my body tighter and said to Lewarren,