Chapter 41
The fake Anais, who constantly needed the divine power that was in Lilith’s body, seemed to have adapted to her body, and the cycle of going to her was getting longer.
Thanks to that, the real Anais got out of prison and had to be her handmaid.
“I am God’s servant, not Your Majesty’s servant.”
“Whenever you open your mouth, you say unnecessary things.”
The fake laughed at Anais and gestured. Then, the red-haired captain of the guard took the cloth enchanted with the silence magic that had been untied from Anais for a while and covered Anais’s mouth.
“I know very well that you adore His Majesty. But what to do? His Majesty loves only me.”
The fake mocked her, but Anais wasn’t too upset about it. She would soon die anyway, all she wanted was for Kylian to come to his senses and stop this farce.
And to wake up Lilith who was asleep inside her, to regain her original destiny, to become a saint and to live well together with Kylian.
“You must be resentful.”
The empress slapped Anais’ cheek. However, the empress did not seem to know how strong she was. She slapped Anais on the cheek indifferently, but Anais turned her head each time. It was tingling
“Change into a handmaid’s uniform and come.”
“…….”
“If you say that you are a servant of God and will not be able to serve as my servant…”
Anais glared at the empress. Then, perhaps the empress was pleased, she stood clutching her hair and said,
“Then I have no choice but to use the living sacrifices to protect my health.”
Amused by Anais, who opened her eyes wide in surprise, the empress removed her hand from her.
“Bring out a handmaid’s uniform.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Anais was kicked out of Kylian’s bedroom.
The empress’s palace, where she originally stayed, was cleared out again, and was assigned to the fake. However, Kylian did not want his wife to live in the empress’ palace, so she shared his room. He strongly wanted Anais to share the same room with him because he was concerned about Anais’ body, who might collapse at any moment.
Even if she said that, it was only because he had to have Anais’ body in his room in order to call the priests of death to perform the spell at any time.
“Hah!”
Anais, whose mouth was itching from the stuffiness, was finally relieved when the guardsman released the cloth that was covering her mouth. Her hands were tied behind her back.
“Are you really going to follow someone like that?”
“…….”
“Hey, Guard Captain.”
“…….”
“Is this really what a loyal subject would do?”
“…….”
“Guard Captain?”
No matter what Anais said, the guard captain had no intention of answering. Like a white snake, she was someone who burrowed into people’s minds and manipulated them. The saint tricked even the second-bishop Phileal into her side.
Then the guard captain knew very well that it would be wise not to speak at all.
“If you are a loyal subject, you should remonstrate if your master makes an unrighteous choice.”
“…….”
“How can you be loyal if you blindly obey what you are told to do?”
“…….”
The guard captain thought that Lilith Isadora would be a difficult opponent. It was a fact that only he knew as he had sworn allegiance to Kylian with his own mouth, but seeing that she was trying to provoke him, the fact came out so well.
“That’s enough, Saintess.”
“…….”
Anais didn’t listen to him even though he threatened her, so he thought he couldn’t help it.
“Please change and come.”
With the guard captain’s instruction, the guardsman standing next to her handed her the handmaid’s uniform. They were thinking that wearing a handmaid’s uniform would be more humiliating than wearing the robe of the priest of death.
“I’m a commoner after all, but don’t you think I shouldn’t wear the handmaid’s clothes?”
“…….”
“I’d rather keep wearing my priest uniform.”
“…….”
The knights were glaring at her without saying a word, as if telling her to hurry into the small room. Anais sighed and took the clothes and went inside her.
Click.
She immediately heard the door lock and thought that they would not open it unless she changed her clothes as they wished.
The interior was shabby. It was such an ordinary place that she wondered if there was a place like this in the imperial palace. A little bit of a damp smell lingered, like mold had grown and then been wiped off.
She took off the simple priest uniform she was wearing. After that, she put on the handmaid’s outfit that was slightly more fancy than that. A little different from a regular maid’s outfit, at least a little noble.
Anais didn’t really dislike this kind of dress. Rather, she liked it. But there were many times when she had to show her duties as a Young Duke, and because she had to establish her position as a knight, she was only more often in a tailcoat or a suit.
She only liked that it was moderately neat and sophisticated, rather than jeweled and severely curly and laced.
She didn’t like the clothes worn by the fake empress at all, so it seemed pretty embarrassing for her to have to stick next to the fake empress.
But Anais couldn’t do much in the current situation. For some reason, Lewarren was lying, and he accused her of being the culprit who tried to kill the High Priest. Phileal, who believed in her, was suspected of a relationship with her and couldn’t even be close now.
Kylian didn’t know what happened to Lilith, but he said back in the day that he was tricked when Lilith acted as Anais.
Because he said she pretended to be Anais while giving Kylian painkillers from the Temple of Morphis. From that alone, it was clear to her that Lilith had done something very wrong. But if she thought of what Kylian has done…
To destroy the temple and pull out the World Tree of the sages of the magic tower, it could have been an unavoidable choice to stop such an insane Kylian.
[ “I can do anything to make Lady Anais happy.” ]
Suddenly, she remembered the words Lilith had said while crying. The Lilith she knew was not the kind of person who would do that to Kylian for the sake of her own greed.
Besides, she was the one who forcibly put her own soul to sleep in order to summon Anais.
But the circumstances made her think that the soul, now in Anais’ own body, belonged to Lilith. Then, what about the tyranny, rudeness, and ignorant behavior that she had just seen now? Even if Lilith were to lose her memory, there was a tendency in people.
There was no way that good Lilith would act like this. Then, even if she has a common fear of pigeons, she may not be Lilith, but Anais’ original personality, as she originally assumed.
Knock, knock.
“Not yet?”
“I’m almost done. Wait a minute.”
Anais put her thoughts behind for a moment and stared into the mirror. She looked quite majestic and strong when she made this expression with a natural face.
Probably because of Lilith’s body, which gave off a mild impression and droopy eyebrows, she looked like a cat even when she’s staring so terribly,
“Oh.”
Anais sighed and opened the door first. Then the guard captain handed her a round piece of iron.
“What is this?”
“Did you not hear? The Empress doesn’t like hearing you to talk.”
“Ah.”
Anais looked at the ring-like collar around her neck. However, it was thinner than normal restraints and looked like a necklace. Wearing it will shut out her voice. She tried to resist for a while, but then resigned herself to accepting it, as it seemed that her current body wouldn’t be able to do it.
“Know that you are lucky.”
“…….”
“The other ones are for sinners, so just wearing them would have attracted attention.”
Anais looked at the guard captain in silence as she wore the collar, which had only a thin silver rim. Then she tried to say ‘ahh’ to see if her voice came out. But no sound came out.
“Then go.”
“…….”
Anais did not let her feet step easily. When she got back to Kylian’s bedroom, the guard captain knocked on the door.
Knock. knock.
“I’ve come with the Saintess, sire.”
“Come in.”
He opened the door and went in, and Anais followed. Leviathan was standing there with him. However, since he hated the daytime, he was wearing his hood deeply. It was easy to know who he was, just from the occasional glimpse of his red eyes and black hair.
However, he was even wearing stuffy gloves today.
“It suits you well.”
“…….”
It was clear that she was mocking. Anais looked at the splendidly decorated fake and she involuntarily laughed.
Colorful is good. But not too flashy, or it just looks dead, like her clothes were used as an ornament for her. Because it was as if she had sunk into her clothes. Anais sighed and looked at her toes.
Slap!
The one who slapped the cheek was the empress’ handmaid.
“How dare you not answer when Her Majesty speaks?”
“…….”
Anais, who turned her head from being hit on the cheek, glared again, wondering if the handmaid didn’t know that she couldn’t speak because of the magic tool hanging from her neck.
“How dare you stare at me?”
Slap!
“Just try glaring with such eyes again.”
“…….”
“Beg Her Majesty for forgiveness when you make a mistake!”
Anais finally remembered who she was, whose name she at first couldn’t remember. The handmaid’s name is Lucy Lombert. She was a marchioness, and her husband had died during the last revolution. Looking at it, it was clear that she was the fake closest maid, because the scarf around her neck was different from the others.
“You’re still not speaking!”
Slap!
As she tried to slap Anais again, someone stopped her by grabbing her hand.
“Chief priest.”
“…….”
He didn’t answer and pointed his finger at the magic tool hanging around Anais’ neck. The empress, who had been watching her handmaid beat Anais, smiled happily, as if realizing what was hanging around her Anais’ neck.
“Ah. That. There was something like that?”
She smiled brightly and held out her hand. Then she ordered the handmaid behind her with a gesture.
“Heal my handmaid’s hand.”
Although the empress’ order was absurd, Anais decided not to resist. Leviathan was approaching to make her use her powers.
Anais knew at that moment that the priest approaching her was not Leviathan. A deeply worn hood, unmatched black hair that looked like it had been changed, and trembling red eyes that clearly held concern for her.
It was Phileal.
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