The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 105

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105.

Chapter 28. The Man I Dislike

“…Does that mean you like my face? Now of all times?”

Evren leaned his puzzled face closer at Lillian’s reaction.

“Then look at me from the front and admire it. It’s not like my face is hanging on that wall.”

“Oh my, look at the time! We should go meet that guy now, shouldn’t we?”

“….”

Evren still felt suspicious as he took Lillian’s hand.

But when he tried to intertwine his fingers between Lillian’s as usual, Lillian awkwardly pulled her hand back.

“Lilly?”

“Ah, let’s just hold hands without interlocking fingers.”

“Why?”

“The thing is.”

Lillian answered seriously.

“I think I’ve developed arthritis. Or maybe rheumatism.”

“….”

“My joints are aching.”

…At that age?

She’s even younger than that?

Evren narrowed his eyes but for now just held Lillian’s hand as they went down.

Suspicious.

Lately, it seemed like Lillian’s gaze was slightly avoiding him.

‘At first I thought it was because of the announcement ceremony, then later because she was sick…’

Looking back, even when Lillian was sick, she could look him straight in the eye just fine.

It was the same when she was bedridden before.

‘Now I see you only like, no, prefer easy things?’

But why is she acting like this now?

Ever since he kissed Lillian’s cheek, he had been constantly suffering from thirst.

He wanted to touch her more, wanted something more from Lillian.

But why does Lillian seem to be distancing herself from him instead?

He felt anxious.

“Come to think of it, Ren. Did you find Belliel?”

“Yeah. As a corpse.”

They had tracked Belliel using the power of annihilation, but he was already dead.

Lillian shook her head.

“How persistent.”

Soon the two reached the innermost part of the tower.

Caspian’s arms were chained to the wall, and his eyes were covered with a black blindfold.

Hearing Lillian’s voice, the bastard smiled faintly.

The mouth that wouldn’t budge even under torture and truth spells finally moved.

“Ah, my bride has come.”

Evren smiled while gritting his teeth.

“Bride my ass. Talking about another man’s fiancée.”

Once Lillian’s business was done, he’d have to kill him.

Not by annihilating him instantly, but in a very miserable and wretched way.

He’d get rid of that tongue first.

Caspian chuckled.

“…Why? You’re just a petty thief who stole and ran away with that woman.”

Stole Lillian? Then he must be quite the thief.

He’d received praise from someone he was going to kill.

Lillian shook her head and sighed.

“No more small talk is needed. We have a lot to discuss.”

Lillian commanded the guards.

“I need to examine the prisoner on behalf of the Temple. Please step outside this room for a moment.”

“What? But!”

“Ah. From now on, I must use the Temple’s sacred special torture technique, so it can’t be helped.”

“…!”

“Even knights trusted by the Imperial Palace would be cursed with blindness if outsiders were to see it…! So please step out for a moment.”

The guards glanced at Evren and Lillian before reluctantly leaving.

This way, what happened here wouldn’t leak to the Second Empress or Kail.

Evren nodded to the Shadows.

Meaning to go outside and prevent the guards from entering.

Soon only the three of them remained, and Lillian gave her command.

Lillian began pressuring Caspian with her controlling power.

“Now, speak.”

“Ugh…”

“I don’t need excuses about killing my parents. First question. Why did you have to seal my ability?”

“Haa… That’s… because I received a prophecy that you would be my bride.”

“Don’t beat around the bush, speak straight.”

“…Our House of Revenant.”

Caspian looked at Lillian with hazy eyes.

Evren made up his mind.

After the tongue, those eyes would be the next thing he’d annihilate.

“Once… we were the clan most beloved by the Creator God. We received the power of immortality…”

“…!”

“Haha, that was before the Five Families betrayed us.”

“What does that have to do with me-.”

But at that moment, Evren frowned.

Crack. Crack, crackle.

An unpleasant noise began to faintly echo.

Powers didn’t work inside this tower. It was because of the material used to build the tower, ‘Nightfall’.

Crack!

A fissure ran down from Caspian’s neckline.

And through the split flesh, black light burst out in an instant.

Heading straight toward Lillian.

“Lilly!”

“…!”

His body moved on its own.

By a hair’s breadth, he wrapped around Lillian, everything went dark…

And then…

…Evren opened his eyes in the darkness.

‘This place.’

He was trapped in the Tower of Seclusion.

Bound by all sorts of chains…

‘Lilly.’

And what about that bastard?

Just as he was about to look for Lily, he heard the guards whispering outside.

– The Crown Prince locked up here has completely lost his mind.

– Phew, that’s what I’m saying. Just think of how many people died in the capital alone-.

– He’ll probably be confined here until he rots, won’t he?

Confinement.

The moment he heard those words.

The memories of ‘this time’ began to completely devour his thoughts.

* * *

Evren looked up at the ceiling indifferently.

He was a prisoner confined in the Tower of Seclusion.

‘I went on a rampage.’

They said some humans died.

He closed his eyes again.

He knew he could leave anytime.

But there was no particular reason to leave.

So he might as well sleep here.

– Sob, hic… hic.

But then he heard the sound of a woman sniffling and crying outside.

His hand twitched.

‘That voice is.’

Lillian Tillard.

She was something like a maid to Iris Tillard.

‘So that woman knew how to cry too.’

She had desperately interfered with him at every auction, so he thought she had some venom in her.

“Noisy.”

He should chase her away.

Evren dragged his chains as he approached the wall.

He used his ability to make a fist-sized hole.

The Second Empress and Kail probably thought that if they stuck him here, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.

But even though he was restrained, this place was insufficient to suppress him.

Looking down below.

‘There she is.’

The pink-haired woman had come here and was crying quietly.

Since she was the future Countess Pavil, she probably had access to the Empress’s Palace and could come here.

But it was amusing that the only place to cry in the Imperial Palace was the tower where prisoners were confined.

Evren muttered.

“Stop crying already.”

He used his ability on the flowering tree near the woman.

Originally, he planned to drop the entire flower branch to scare her.

But because of ‘Nightfall,’ his power was reduced.

Instead of the branch falling, the flower stems disappeared, causing…

The petals to fall slowly like snow.

“…Ah.”

Flowers the same color as that woman’s hair fluttered down.

Lillian Tillard looked up and smiled brightly.

Seeing that sight, Evren unconsciously hesitated.

After watching the woman wrap the petals in her handkerchief and walk away.

“…”

Evren lay down again.

Because of that face, his throat felt queasy and his chest felt ticklish for no reason.

Just like a butterfly had entered on its own and was fluttering around inside.

The corners of his mouth rose on their own.

“Hmm.”

Why was he like this.

What was so special about a woman crying then laughing.

…Right. If she’s going to cry anyway, she should come here to cry.

After that, an S-class ability user’s hearing was used to follow the sound of Lillian Tillard’s crying.

A truly surprising number of humans spouted nonsense to that woman.

That supposedly great Iris Tillard. The rest of the Tillard Family, the Second Empress. The capital’s nobles.

Ah, and that worthless fiancé too. Because of that utterly worthless vermin…

That woman’s crying was so irritating. It was irritating that she cried over liking such things. It was irritating that she shed tears over what those things said.

Even when she wasn’t crying, it was irritating because she might cry.

So, so irritating…

I need to kill the things that keep making that woman cry first, or I won’t be able to live.

“Lillian Tillard…”

I need to get out of this tower.

‘I need to meet that woman first.’

I’ll kill them all, so stop crying.

Evren opened his eyes in the darkness.

And some time later.

Evren left the Tower of Seclusion as he had decided.

And he brought down the Imperial Palace first, where the things that made that woman cry were.

However, because of that choice, Lillian Tillard was dying, her body crushed under the debris.

The woman became completely unable to use her right leg afterward.

So.

So, for this woman to…

“I hate you.”

Saying that was completely natural.

Yet his heart cracked.

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