Chapter 11
I couldn’t change the original story. Simply put, it means that no matter how hard I try, the original story has not changed. Occasionally, small things changed, but the biggest things in < Beneath the Water’s Shadow > did not change at all.
It certainly was before, when I had gotten shot to death instead of Kylian.
The first thing I did after I found out that I transmigrated into < Beneath the Water’s Shadow > was to try to change the original story. But no matter how hard I tried, it was to no avail.
What would happen to Kylian continued to appear in front of him like a gateway he had to go through.
There were quite a few things I did to prevent my father, Duke Percival, from noticing him. Father didn’t touch Kylian when I bullied him myself. What would happen to Kylian, if the Young Duke Percival, who did it and not Duke Percival himself?
For example, like this.
Duke Percival was meant to break the two locket pendants that Kylian’s mother left behind as a memento. It was also very tragic to do it in front of Kylian.
It was meant to happen anyway, so I just took them. In front of Kylian. Of course, I worked hard not to break them. To hide, or to draw attention to keep Duke Percival from paying any attention to it.
However, one of the two pendants was dealt with in a nonsensical way, like Duke Percival waking up at dawn and smashing it. He woke up all of a sudden in the morning and wanted to destroy it.
Before Duke Percival could reach out his hand, I smashed the one that was left. In front of Kylian.
“Anais, why did you do this?”
“Your family is me now. So, let go of your lingering feelings.”
It was a bad thing to touch a memento like that, but he wasn’t as sad as when Father broke the pendant. Rather, I was puzzled by him crying happily when I broke it.
So, I decided to cleverly change the original story. It was the same reason that I picked up Lilith and Lewarren and threw them into the temple. Because I tricked the original story, their flower path life was delayed.
So I even planned my death. I couldn’t even imagine that he wouldn’t want it.
“Anais is here now. in front of you.”
Then Kylian hugged the body in his arms tighter and said to Lewarren,
“Yes, she is here.”
I have to say I’m Anais, but these three people seem to be misunderstanding something I didn’t know about, so my mouth wouldn’t open.
That wasn’t the only part where I gave up knowing that I couldn’t change the original story. The relationship between these three people was put together like a puzzle so elaborate that there was no room for me to intervene. As if I was an outsider alone.
When Lilith had an emergency, the first person to run was Kylian. Kylian and Lewarren both eventually found Lilith when she was in danger and saved her.
And on the day we should go to greet the emperor as the Young Ducal couple, he was not with me.
“His Majesty is curious about your well-being.”
“He must be wondering about the well-being of the son-in-law of Duke Percival, not of my own.”
He answered and went to Lilith. He should have been with me for most of the day, but after finishing most of his work he went to Lilith.
Lilith is more precious than my life to Kylian. I’m the one who went into Lilith’s body.
Damn it. I have to say it properly and apologize, but my mouth couldn’t open even when I would go crazy alone with that thought. I must have done something terrible, but it was very difficult to speak out.
“It was clear that Anais had woken up earlier. I said it.”
“You must be mistaken. Are you still hallucinating?”
“I said I have stopped taking the medicine.”
I could barely guess what the medicine was. In the original story, Killian lived on painkillers after being shot by my father, Duke Percival.
The problem was that the place that provided the painkiller was the temple of hallucinations. So when he took painkillers, he would hallucinate. What he saw in the hallucination was varied. He would usually see what he wanted to see the most. In Kylian’s case, he must have seen me—out of hatred for his ex-wife who had died for him.
Divine power, which heals, was not omnipotent. Therefore, he cannot live if he was seriously injured. At first, the concept of healing was a little different. Not everything got better after the light came out. The healer absorbed the target’s wounds by casting divine power on the target to heal.
The priest of healing was for people who had the ability to absorb the injured part of the other person and heal it. Because the body of the priest of healing regenerates as if they were not human.
If Lewarren’s hand got broken, Lilith would absorb it and it would break hers. Then, the priests who received the blessing of the Goddess of Life will naturally heal as they wait. With very, unhuman resilience.
So, all kinds of healing would take time. They have to absorb it little by little and get better. It would have been great if everything was simply restored at once.
So it took a long time for Kylian to heal, even in the original story. Lilith slowly absorbed his injuries and healed them.
“And who knows if a servant is feeding you without you knowing it?”
“I don’t take any medicine. My stamina must not be compromised. A strong will is required for the spell to be successfully activated.”
“…Anais couldn’t have woken up with that body.”
That’s why I can’t say any more. With that tenacity, he will save me and then kill me again.
Even if I pretended to be okay and tried to think of something else, my body was already trembling.
“How are you sure, Lewarren?”
“Because…”
“That, I, I guess she’s not waking up because something is missing!”
Without realizing it, my words came out first. If I stay still like this, I think Lewarren will reveal my true identity.
Then, Lewarren looked at me bewilderedly. But even if he stared at me, what’s scary was still scary.
And it’s not that I’m not going to reveal it forever, I need to prepare my heart!
I struggled to laugh in cold sweat.
“What do you mean?”
It was the white snake-like man that cut off my words this time.
“We have everything the god of death wants us to have. The ceremony has already been successful several times, and as His Majesty said, the body has woken up several times.”
“Do you believe in this priest of death, Kylian?”
“At least I believe them more than you.”
So, to summarize, there was a good chance that the things I had dreamed of were actually a reality. I don’t know why it failed this time.
Then it would be better to stay here in moderation until I can get back to my body as much as possible. Because if I left it like this, Lewarren and I would be locked up in a cage too. They said that they needed divine power, it was clear that we would not be able to go outside.
So when I return to my body, I just have to die once as he wishes.
Kylian, if all you want is my death, then…
“I-It seems to me that there is something wrong with Lady Anais’ body. How did you preserve it?”
I spoke kindly to imitate Lilith’s tone as much as possible. With a friendly accent that the usual me wouldn’t have.
But these three. There must have been something completely wrong with my answer. When I spoke in that tone, Kylian’s expression became rotten, and Lewarren’s expression now made him look as though he was barely holding back his anger. Only the white snake responded favorably to this tone.
“So, is the Saint saying that there must have been a problem with the preservation?”
“Yes. Perhaps the god of death is different from our goddess of life. It seems that it was not properly preserved.”
“It makes sense.”
“Call the High Priest.”
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty. The High Priest used too much power last time and has not yet woken up.”
Killian’s expression turned cold again.
“Then come here.”
“Do, don’t do that, I…”
I shouldn’t have stepped out of bounds. Anyway, I will wake up with that body. If so, I thought it would be better to let him recover. I do not know how to use divine power. However, there was a time when I thought that learning it from Lewarren would be useful someday.
I don’t like to ask Lewarren, but I’ll do it if necessary.
“What are you going to do?”
“For now, I will restore the body by my own strength. And try again.”
“…….”
“Lilith.”
“Will you help me too, Lewarren?”
Lewarren was looking at me with a look that was uncertain of what I was thinking. I should explain it step by step. Of course, it’s very likely that he now thinks I’m a coward.
Besides, this Kylian. Kylian, who grabbed Lilith by the collars, gave orders casually to people, and mocked Lewarren coldly, was so unfamiliar to me.
The Kylian I knew was a person who couldn’t really kill a single bug, cries, and even though he hated me, he couldn’t even say the word ‘divorce’.
Above all else, he was the person who took care of me the day I got sick, even though he hated me so much.
It was clear that a lot of hatred remained within him. Besides, will Kylian survive even if I die again? Now that my pride is crumbling and I feel insulted, I would say that I am focused on saving myself, but what next?
No matter how much I thought I didn’t know what would happen next, in reality, it wouldn’t be.
What’s more, Kylian, my favorite character, Lewarren, who cared for me, and Lilith, who followed me like her own family, were intertwined.
It’s not the first time I’ve prepared for death. So for the second, I could do better. This time, I’ll finish without any mistakes, so that Kylian doesn’t go crazy like this.
At the very least, we were still legally married.
“You look confident, Saint.”
First of all, I’m well aware that it felt so wrong that he doesn’t even call Lilith by name.
“If Anais does not wake up at the next ceremony, I will sacrifice this life. Would you still agree?”
The warm golden eyes that seem far from cold are now looking at me so coldly.
Somehow, I answered unknowingly.
“Good.”
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