I Abandoned the Male Lead Who Cheated with the Villainess - Chapter 194

“You must be shocked.”

“….”

“And scared, at the same time.”

“….”

“The order Father gave you was to kill me, but since I’m still alive, he’ll punish you when he finds out.”

Blood poured from the back of Herix’s hand. It was far more than the number of droplets that had slid down his hair and neck.

“Do you still want to kill me?”

“….”

“Yes, I thought so. It’s the only way you can live.”

Aiden growled at Herix, who said nothing. He spoke through clenched teeth.

“Selfish brat.”

The words echoed in his head.

He had only wanted to live, but was it selfish to want that? Is living a selfish thing when it’s taken at the cost of another’s life? Should he have just died, then? Should he have died quietly, unnoticed, as a beast?

He didn’t know anymore.

Herix’s eyelids drooped halfway.

“You’re an idiot. What’s the difference between you and a beast?”

Aiden’s harsh words continued. It was as if he had memorized a whole catalog of curses just for this moment.

Though Aiden was a man who had once been a prince, his words were so vulgar they were unrecognizable. Yet, there was an undeniable air of elegance that clung to him.

“You’re like this because you let yourself be swayed. If it were me, I’d kneel.”

A small smirk twisted one side of Aiden’s lips. It was a command disguised as a suggestion. But Herix didn’t kneel.

The only ones who could command him now were no longer Arnold or Aiden. Seeing this, Aiden’s irritation grew.

“Are you pretending to be the Crown Prince? Don’t you have any humility left for a dead ghost?”

The pressure of the sword’s blade against his hand intensified. If it had been anyone else, they would have screamed or fallen over immediately.

But Aiden felt even more unsettled by the way Herix remained composed.

The will to confront Herix vanished entirely. The hatred from their childhood resurfaced, he was worried that he would really kill him. but rather than kill him, Aiden now only wanted to thoroughly use Herix.

As he sheathed his sword, he spoke.

“Kill Blitzen.”

“…What?”

A low voice finally responded. Aiden looked at Herix, who was staring at him in shock. He then put the bloodied blade back in the scabbard. Herix’s mouth fell open as if hearing something unimaginable.

At the same time, Aiden saw the gleam of an unexpected ‘solution’ in his eyes.

‘…Ha.’

Aiden was astonished.

He knew what Herix had done in this room earlier. The disgusting, repulsive desire that had stirred in the air was something he didn’t want to linger on.

But he couldn’t afford to make the same mistake he had ten years ago when he infiltrated Blitzen’s dream and manipulated him before falling asleep himself for a long time.

‘If I start getting involved with Ivonne, I’ll lose my strength. I need to conserve it.’

But when faced with Herix, a wave of nausea surged inside him.

Herix loved Ivonne, just as Aiden longed for Novnie.

It was disgustingly revolting, that he felt the urge to vomit. Damn the brothers, damn the bloodline, damn fate. Perhaps everything was so perfectly aligned that even these things couldn’t go astray!

“Kill him. Then Ivonne won’t be someone else’s wife.”

With those words, Aiden swiftly left Herix’s room, almost running away. He had plenty of things to say to lure the fool out.

But it was so revolting that he felt like he might vomit the moment he opened his mouth.

As he left the imperial palace, Aiden looked back. To the god he had become, it was easy to see what Herix was doing now.

“….”

Herix was lost in thought, holding his lower body. But Aiden knew.

‘It’s done.’

Herix would kill Blitzen. He would do it because he loved Ivonne.

And because he, too, was Arnold’s son and Aiden’s brother.

‘Fool.’

Killing Blitzen was nothing to Aiden. But he didn’t want to dirty his hands with it. After a long time, Aiden felt a sense of satisfaction.

For the first time since becoming Isaac, he smiled a common, carefree smile. His true intentions were as follows.

‘Ivonne loves Blitzen. I can’t let Ivonne make me her enemy.’

He had already stolen Novnie’s power and even shattered his own body. In a broad sense, he had betrayed Novnie. He didn’t want to be hated by Novnie any more than necessary.

And even though he knew Ivonne was just a shell, wasn’t it Novnie who moved to that body?

If by any chance Novnie woke up and learned that Aiden had killed Blitzen, she might become enraged. So Isaac intended to use Herix, just as Arnold had used him. A scapegoat, a cursed person.

Returning to his residence, Isaac roughly ran his hand through his hair and threw himself onto the couch.

Herix was already twenty, his body fully grown. Isaac, aware of him, had also made his body into that of an adult. But this body was something he had ‘created,’ not grown into.

‘I… ended up imitating growth.’

A feeling of nausea surged. He had become a god, but there was not a single advantage to it. He had lost Novnie, and also lost the human concept of time.

So, the constant comparisons frustrated him. Herix’s massive body, hard to imagine he had spent his childhood in a basement. His mature aura, covered in blood, carried a maturity beyond his years.

He didn’t want to admit it, but Herix had truly grown into a very attractive man.

‘But I’m still the fifteen-year-old kid at heart as I originally was.’