I Abandoned the Male Lead Who Cheated with the Villainess - Chapter 181

Aiden had thought that once Novnie entered a human body, becoming a significantly lower being, and thus his possession, there would no longer be any resistance.

But to his surprise, when he simply reached out, a strong electrical shock burned his fingertips, mocking his expectations.

It seemed as though Novnie was rejecting him.

“Ha.”

Aiden let out a short laugh and glanced down at his charred fingertips. The burn marks, as if he had been electrocuted, began to heal quickly. Aiden could try touching the body Novnie inhabited multiple times, but it wasn’t the same girl.

“…”

A small, round pool of red began to form beneath the collapsed girl. It was clear that the explosion and strong repulsion from earlier had caused injuries severe enough for life to leak out of her.

“…This is insane.”

Aiden ran a hand through his black hair. He was growing increasingly frustrated.

‘It’s so close, yet so far.’

His anger was escalating. First, Aiden healed the body Novnie had inhabited. In truth, if that body decayed and rotted away, he wouldn’t mind too much.

‘The body can be replaced.’

But it was Novnie’s silence that started to trouble him. He needed to talk to Novnie, who resided in the girl’s body, to ease the growing unease in his chest.

“…Ha, haha.”

From a distance, after finishing treating the girl’s injuries, Aiden let out a hollow laugh. It wasn’t because he was still filled with unease despite becoming a god.

“…Is this it? Right now?”

Novnie’s body was returning to nature faster with every contact Aiden made. Aiden’s own body was burning, and the girl’s body was severely wounded, making it difficult for her to survive.

Yet, with Aiden’s power, healing was possible.

Despite being so close, despite finally pulling Novnie under his control, having brought the noble god down to the level of a human.

He still couldn’t touch her.

“Are you saying that I can do anything except for touching her?!”

Aiden shouted angrily. His power was no longer that of a mere human. With that single shout, the clouds in the sky split apart, as if torn by his roar.

Yet what was the point of this power? He couldn’t even touch the one he wanted most—Novnie.

“Ha… haha, ha…”

It felt like he was losing his mind. Aiden slumped against the wall, he realized that he was still in the dark, foul-smelling alley where the girl had died.

He had to move her first. Even though he couldn’t touch Novnie, he couldn’t leave her here.

He searched the girl’s memories and followed them to the house where she had been attacked by the thief. He laid her down in the middle of the messy house and sat down in a corner a little further away.

“…”

Some time passed.

The twilight and dawn repeated several times outside the broken window, yet the girl showed no sign of waking up.

In the meantime, Aiden had discovered that this place was in the Ortensia Republic. Judging by the thick accents of the people who passed by occasionally, it seemed like a quiet rural area.

“Ha…”

Aiden waited. He continued to wait for the girl with Novnie’s soul to wake up.

About a month passed.

“Hmm…”

At some point, when Aiden had thought the girl would remain forever unconscious, her eyelids fluttered slightly. A small sound, like a quiet sleep-talking murmur, came from her tiny body, which had remained silent up until now.

“…!”

Aiden, who had been sitting motionless for a long time, slowly began to stir, his body stiff as if waking from stone. His muscles ached, but his face was brighter than ever.

“Novn …!”

Aiden’s call went unfinished. The girl’s hair began to change, starting from the tips. In no time, the black hair transformed into a soft pink, resembling the blooming cherry blossoms—just like Novnie’s hair.

Aiden’s face brightened even more, and his once-dark green eyes now shone with hope.

‘Finally!’

The time that had passed must have been when Novnie’s soul was adjusting to the girl’s body. Now that the adjustment was complete, the girl had transformed to resemble Novnie more than ever.

Aiden crawled close to the girl, staying just far enough to avoid the repulsion that would arise between them. He waited once again, hoping for the girl to open her eyes and look at him with the same green eyes as Novnie’s.

— Aiden.

And call his name, which was erased from the world.

Finally, the girl’s eyes slowly opened. Her thick double eyelids and round, beautiful eyes resembled Novnie’s perfectly. Aiden thought that if Novnie were to return to her childhood, she would look just like this.

“…”

The girl took a slow breath. At that moment, Aiden’s eyes widened in astonishment.

His guess was right. The girl’s eyes were green. He wasn’t sure if they had always been that color or if they had changed, just like her hair, but it didn’t matter.

‘Look at me.’

The thought crossed his mind, and then, as if in response, the girl turned her gaze toward him. Her green irises reflected him perfectly.

In that instant, a chill ran through his entire body, followed by a shiver.

Novnie… saw me.

‘She saw me.’

Aiden trembled without realizing it. The joy rising from deep within him felt like a fulfillment of his soul. It was a happiness that wrapped his entire body in warmth. His mouth went dry.