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Chapter 52
‘What did I do?’
Anais’s heel came off the ground as Kylian lifted her by the collar. She had to stand on her toes as if she was wearing high heels.
“Yes, how many times have I been fooled by that nice smiling face?”
‘

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Anais waited because she was frustrated that Kylian kept not talking to her properly. She thought that if she waited a little longer, he would tell her properly. Didn’t he deny that when he thought that there was a soul other than Lilith, he was at least quite nice to her.
His hostility toward her might be alleviated a little if the false accusations against her of trying to poison the High Priest of Death would be cleared.
Anais was getting impatient, but she was in no hurry, and she didn’t want to mess things up. Besides, seeing that he wanted to kill her but couldn’t really kill her—it was clear that even if he denied it, the side of himself that he used to show her still remained.
Even if he wasn’t a person who couldn’t even kill a spider, he would still be the person when he was grieved at the death of an innocent life.
“It seems more annoying because you don’t laugh.”
‘Let my voice come out.’
“Why should I?”
‘Don’t you want to hear my voice?’
“Why are you asking the obvious?”
Anais said this because she thought he would feel a little better if he had vented his anger this way. Because there were many people who would listen when they were asked for something when they were in a good mood.
But if it’s a relationship that refuses a favor even when they’re in a good mood, then they’re probably serious enemies. Although she already knew, Anais sighed.
‘Why is my voice annoying?’
“Because you always say useless things. And if you’re only going to lie anyway, there’s no reason to let it go, right?”
‘I didn’t lie.’
Anais hadn’t lied to him since she woke up in Lilith’s body, so she was furious when he said that. Even when she was in her own body, she was not one to lie.
“You are lying again. How shameless.”
He lowered his mouth from a twisted smile and glared at her completely. Anais looked straight at him, undeterred by his glare.
For some reason, Kylian felt strange because those eyes toward him were similar to those of someone he had seen before. It was a feeling of déjà vu whenever he ran into Lilith lately.
Kylian somehow seemed to see something conspicuous over the hateful purple eyes. It was as if something was shining from the inside of the pupil, something different from a reflection of light. Similar to the light he saw in Anais’ eyes only occasionally during her lifetime.
Kylian denied even that. Even so, he couldn’t be firm, so he sighed and released the magic tool from her neck.
“Huh?”
“What do you want to say, being so persistent?”
Kylian thought that this time she might really reflect and say she was wrong. Lilith, Lewarren and him were quite special. Even before his wife had died, the three of them would often meet to help each other or share their daily lives.
All of that changed after Anais died. Of course, thinking about the incomprehensible things Lilith did to him even before Anais died made him shudder.
“Do you think Lady Anais is lacking in something?”
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If only it wasn’t for what Lilith had said back then.
When Kylian recalled that time, he still wanted to kill Lilith. When he looked at his wife’s diary, he felt misery. But he did not rage, temporarily overshadowed by the hope that she would live again.
Now that his wife was back alive, things have changed. He didn’t want to lose Anais again like he once had. He felt like he could do anything for that.
He thought so and glared at Lilith. Then, the conspicuous light he had seen earlier shimmered like a sparkling jewel and shimmered into Kylian’s heart.
“Your Majesty, I am not Saintess Lilith.”
“
That again?”
“I don’t even want Your Majesty to be mine.”
“

.”
“But Your Majesty
”
Anais began to speak, thinking that this might be the last time.
“I want Your Majesty to accept Lady Anais’s death.”
“What?”
“Everyone dies. This is what Your Majesty also said. RIght?”
“I don’t remember.”
“Everyone dies. The wife and me. We will die someday.”
Those words were what he had said to her in the past when she was grieving the death of her subordinate on the battlefield. It must have been a comforting word from his point of view, but for Anais, it did not.
But now she seemed to have a little idea of how he meant it.
“Don’t you remember? When Alcad died.”
“

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“Didn’t Your Majesty say that?”
Alcad was an escort knight that Anais trusted. He was a reliable person who had been by her side during the war. From Kylian’s point of view, he was the most annoying person, so it was still clear.
“You know only one thing, but you don’t know the other.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Don’t you know who killed Alcad?”
“

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“I killed that bastard.”
“I beg your pardon?”
Alcad died in the battleground. Anais, who managed to recover his body and returned to the barracks, had to suffer from guilt for quite some time. So, even after the war, she made sure to find Alcad’s family and get the maximum reward.
“Didn’t you know that bastard was a Mervenian spy?”
“What
?”
“If I hadn’t killed that bastard then, it would have been my wife who died at the Battle of Denver Bridge.”
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Anais was dumbfounded and couldn’t understand what he was saying. But there was no reason for him to lie in this situation.
“The proof that he was a spy
”
“He was a person whose identity and background were not clear.”
“That is no proof.”
“If you don’t believe me, go visit the Imperial Archives. I will allow you to do that.”
“

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“But.”
Kylian hated talking to her. She makes him feel bad when she talks, but he keeps getting involved in talking with her. Even so, the way she looked straight at him and talked to him seemed to overlap with someone he knew, which made him feel strange. So it really felt like he had to deal with the saint right in front of his eyes this time. Even if his wife doesn’t notice her condition now because she has no memory, she will know if he is by her side.
Kylian didn’t want to know that the saint was conscious of the mannerisms and behavior that his wife had in her lifetime.
“If I am right, I will punish you.”
“

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“Do you agree?”
He intended to dispose of her as punishment. Besides, Alcad was also connected to Lilith. If she sees it, she will reflect and ask herself to be punished.
“You want to punish me.”
“Didn’t you say you were confident?”
Anais said, not intimidated by what he said. It was because she didn’t feel like losing.
“In the meantime, you would take off the necklace.”
“I will.”
Kylian replied readily and looked at Anais, who was keeping her mouth shut as if she had made up her mind on something. It was a familiar face. But the face he hated the most.
“You seem to have prepared quite thoroughly this time.”
“

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“If I’m right, I might twist your neck this time.”
“

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“If you don’t go and obediently admit your mistakes over the past few years and ask for forgiveness, you may be forgiven.”
As he said that, he looked at Anais.
“If Your Majesty really wanted to kill me, you wouldn’t have said that.”
“

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“Actually, that’s probably why Your Majesty doesn’t want to listen to me. Because my words go against Your Majesty’s conscience.”
Kylian looked at her coldly as she let out a small sigh and shrugged her shoulders, wondering if he was trying to deceive him by pretending to cry again. But she didn’t cry, and although her eyes were wet, her expression was still different from the Lilith he knew.
“You still haven’t reflected on yourself.”
“Your Majesty is the one who should reflect. Calling the priests of Death to the Imperial Palace just because of a woman? Offer all the priests of other gods as sacrifices?”
“Shut up.”
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“Your Majesty is someone who has already gone through a lot of wars. You know the pain of losing people around you. But why can’t you accept Lady Anais’s death?”
“Didn’t I tell you to shut up?”
“It can happen when someone close to you dies. It must be sad. I know.”
“

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“You can still let go.”
Kylian didn’t want to listen to her. But the eyes, those eyes, were too annoying to twist her neck. Those eyes that look at him as if they know him. It’s like the expression his wife used to show him before she died.
“Lady Anais
 Yes, let’s say she lost her memory. Still
 The Anais I know was not the kind of person who would tolerate offering sacrifices like that.”
“

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“Your Majesty knows that, don’t you? Accept it now. Lady Anais that you know doesn’t exist in this world.”
Kylian unknowingly clenched his fist and released it. And he felt that her face for saying that vile thing was abominable.
“My wife was like that before she met me.”
“
What?”
“She changed after she met me.”
In an instant, she remembered the atrocities she had committed before I met Kylian when she was possessed at the age of ten. Ruining neighboring countries over trivial matters, and using the Duke’s power to cause war.
“What is that
”
Anais was saddened that he thought so little of what she said with all her heart. But she couldn’t give up.
“Does Your Majesty think Her Majesty will change again?”
“It wasn’t long before the wife woke up. In time, she will come back to the way she was after meeting me.”
“Haa
 What if she doesn’t?”
“I will love her even if she doesn’t change.”
Anais felt like a bell was ringing in his head at the end of Kylian’s words. A very large bell was ringing, making her head spin.
“Looking at that aspect, how
”
He looked down at her coldly and then said to the guard captain who was behind him.
“Take her to Archivist Valdik.”
“

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Hearing Kylian say this, Anais pressed her lips together and said nothing.