The Possessed Evil Woman Wreaks Havoc - Chapter 129

Anyway, this is bad. If the angels ran off, there’s a high chance they returned to their master.

Gabriel.

If Gabriel finds out that I’m in the Middle Realm…

I gently bit my lip.

It felt like Gabriel could come looking for me at any moment.

And even if not…

‘Grand Prayer Gathering.’

What if the archangel descending to the Middle Realm during the gathering turned out to be Gabriel?

Gabriel had never bothered to hide his hostility toward me. If he saw me again, who knows what could happen?

Considering that Lilith is in the Middle Realm right now…

I imagined Gabriel attacking me and me retaliating at the same time.

Lilith would obviously take my side, so it would be two against one.

Then the Grand Prayer Gathering would instantly become a bloodbath. A battle between the leader of the angels and the Demon King. And of course, I’d be stuck in the middle of it.

If something like that happened at the Grand Prayer Gathering, which countless nobles were set to attend…

I didn’t care what happened to the other nobles, but thinking about Gabby and the Duke being tossed around like paper made me hesitate a little.

Those humans were irritating, but they were still Isabella’s family. I couldn’t let them end up like that.

I definitely shouldn’t attend the Grand Prayer Gathering.

If the Duke kept forcing me to go, maybe I should just get rid of the whole event.

Well, since they said it was being moved up because of Princess Karolea, there was a simple solution.

If the princess didn’t express any intention to attend, the whole plan would naturally fall apart.

Lilith is on my side.

If I asked, she’d obviously agree.

But Jessie’s answer wasn’t what I expected.

“Um, Her Highness is currently out.”

“What?”

“She went to the temple. She said she’ll be spending the night there.”

What? Lilith is spending the night at the temple?

Lilith had more than twice the magical power I did. I only found divine power slightly irritating, but for her, the temple, full of divine energy, couldn’t possibly be a comfortable place.

I felt a strange unease. I knew Lilith had business in the Middle Realm besides coming to see me…

But my demonic instincts told me something was wrong.

I need to look into the real reason Lilith came to the Middle Realm again.

“I’m going to the temple right now.”

“Ah, miss! It’s too late to go now!”

Because Jessie insisted on stopping me, I ended up deciding to go to the temple the next morning.

***

Kayden’s morning routine was always the same.

When the morning sun rose, his eyes naturally opened.

Kayden got out of bed and tidied up the bedding.

He washed his face and changed into training clothes. Then he made his way toward the training grounds, a path he knew well.

The sun had risen, but it was still early morning.

On the way to the training ground was the temple garden.

The cries of grass bugs just waking from sleep and the chirping of passing birds could be heard. That’s how quiet the garden was.

Training that began before anyone else was awake.

It was a habit instilled in him ever since he first came to the temple long ago.

The High Priest had always said this to him:

“Your Highness must be more diligent and sincere than anyone else. Only then can you atone for the sin engraved upon your soul.”

Truthfully, Kayden still didn’t know what the High Priest meant by that sin.

Just that the High Priest always treated him like a sinner, and that the High Priest’s words were law.

That was all Kayden knew.

The High Priest’s training was harsh.

As a child, Kayden couldn’t understand the reason behind the torture disguised as discipline.

Especially the sin supposedly engraved on his soul, he couldn’t grasp it at all.

But over time, Kayden learned to give up.

He chose to empty his heart.

He decided to live without forming attachments, without seeking pleasure.

As he suppressed his senses one by one, the pain faded with them.

However…

Every so often, there was a woman who appeared in Kayden’s dreams.

Her hair burned redder than the sun. She was free-spirited, and that drew his attention.

Everything about her was uninhibited, and within that, an undeniable confidence.

She stood in stark contrast to Kayden, who lived only to follow orders.

Sometimes… she acted before thinking, but Kayden found even that charming.

In his dreams, the woman was bold with everyone, but not with him. She hesitated at times. And when she did, it brought him a strange sense of delight.

And then…

“With water all around like this… it’d be a disaster if I slipped and fell. You and I are both barely dressed, after all.”

“You’re speaking informally.”

“Ah. Oops.”

As he looked down at the woman who intentionally leaned into his arms while saying that…

The emotion he felt in that moment.

He had been indifferent to matters between men and women, and he never thought he was capable of feeling such things.

But whenever that woman appeared in his dreams…

Kayden would often forget that he had dedicated his life to the temple.

However, Kayden didn’t know who the woman was.

Even when he tried to call her name in the dream, all he heard was a ringing in his ears.

So he didn’t even know her name.

Sometimes, he thought about trying to find her, but every time, the shackles placed upon him held his steps.

After all, until the day he died, he had to live as a member of the temple, as the High Priest’s faithful servant.

He couldn’t recklessly drag an innocent person into his life.

Kayden slowly crossed the garden.

Then, he saw someone approaching him from a distance.

Kayden instantly recognized who it was.

It was Princess Karolea.

He had heard yesterday that the princess would be spending the night at the temple.

Perhaps she had stepped outside as soon as she woke up. She wore light clothing.

The moment she saw Kayden, the princess frowned.

It was not the face of someone merely annoyed at having their morning walk interrupted, but one clearly marked with contempt.

Kayden found the princess’s rather extreme reaction strange.

The princess strode up to Kayden.

And when she reached him—

“It’s been a while. Human.”

She said it as though spitting out filth.

Human?

It was a peculiar way of speaking. As if the princess herself was not human.

‘Is that how they speak in her kingdom?’

It was odd, but she was a valued guest of the temple. He couldn’t risk offending her by pointing out her tone.

More than that, something else she said bothered him.

The princess had just told Kayden it had been a while.

“Do you know me?”

“Of course I do. How could I forget such a worthless and despicable human?”

Setting aside the inexplicable hostility directed at him, Kayden said, still puzzled, “As far as I know, Your Highness and I have never met.”

There was no way he would forget someone as important as the princess.

At his words, the princess gave him a strange look and said, “You’ve lost your memory. Or perhaps you haven’t recovered it yet.”

Kayden couldn’t understand what she meant.

He had never lost his memory.

From early childhood until now, there was no gap in his memory.

He decided the princess was simply odd.

Normally, he would’ve ended the conversation and walked away by now.

But she was an important guest of the temple.

For the High Priest’s sake, it wouldn’t hurt to find out why she was looking at him with such hatred.

“May I ask why Your Highness despises me so?”

“…Should I call it a parent’s heart?”

“Pardon?”

She continued to speak in ways he couldn’t understand.

“When a dearly raised child brings home someone they like, and that someone turns out to be utterly worthless… wouldn’t any parent resent them?”

“……”

Was the princess truly insane?

Maybe his thoughts showed on his face, because the princess scowled.

“Enough. Just know this, you stole something very precious from me.”

Another unreasonable accusation.

Kayden wasn’t someone capable of stealing anything.

Thanks to the High Priest’s long training, most of his desires had been extinguished. There was no way he would act that way.