I reincarnated as an elf .......and married the yandere villainess. Chapter 227:Memories

Atheline rubbed tiredly at his eyes then glanced up at the ceiling again. He knew she was sowhere up there, arguing with her council.

A small sigh left him.

"What’s gotten you so bunched up?" Helther asked.

Atheline shrugged. He rolled his left shoulder then glanced at him.

"I’m going to sleep."

Helther blinked in confusion." At this ti when there is a war hanging over our heads."

"Isn’t this the best ti before everything escalates and none of us will be getting any rest?"

Helther chuckled in slight anger.

"You’re sothing else."

Atheline lifted his hand in farewell before heading to the door. Helther didn’t even try to stop him.

Servants scattered instinctively from his path as he walked down the corridor to their room. The palace remained louder than usual even deep within the palace. News of the ultimatum and impending wars had transford the Court into sothing restless and filled with excitent.

Atheline eventually reached the chambers. He closed the door quietly behind him and silence greeted him imdiately.

The room looked strangely peaceful compared to the outside world at the mont.

The truth was, he didn’t want to sleep at all. Sothing else has been constant in his mind besides the oncoming war.

The events in the book.

The system had given it to him, the opportunity to get a glimpse of what had happened in the novel but he couldn’t do it in front of Lily. He didn’t know what he might see or his reaction and didn’t want to alarm her.

It would have been better if she only known he had little to no mories of what happened in the novel before he could understand everything.

He stared at the bed for several seconds then collapsed onto it face-first. He wanted to be as comfortable as possible.

"...System."

The small screen flickered faintly before his eyes.

[Awaiting Command.]

He closed his eyes tiredly.

"Show ."

[Confirming Request.]

[Displaying Original Tiline mories.]

[Warning: ntal synchronization may cause emotional instability.]

"That sounds unpleasant."

[Proceed?]

Atheline exhaled slowly into the pillow.

"Yes."

His eye closed and darkness took over.

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The first thing he saw was darkness, not the comforting kind that cos with sleep, but the suffocating kind, heavy, damp, and old, like a roof. that had been absorbing water for far too long.

Then the image sharpened. He was standing in a damp hallway. Blood seeped into cracked stone from the locked cells around him.

It was clear at first that he was inside a dungeon prison. Probably built near a water source or above it. The moisture in the air prevented wounds from healing easily.

Whoever owned this prison was very averse in the way of torture. A small cold can turn deadly in this prison.

’Where on earth is this place. I thought I was going into a mory of so sort. It feels too real’

The air was cold enough to sting even in mory.

Chains clinked softly sowhere further down. He headed to the sound and ca to a stop five prison cells down. And there, inside a cell chained directly to black stone, sat a man.

His eyes widened. He touched the bars for a sort of balance but his hand passed through. He walked into the cell.

Before him was a very familiar man, Elydrah dusk, the man Atheline had replaced as Lilith’s husband. He looked half dead at the mont.

Since he couldn’t recognise the place, it ant it was probably Lilith’s palace. There wasn’t a place like this in the High Elven kingdom.

The man inside the cell was thinner than mory allowed for comfort. Not skeletal, but worn down in a way that had nothing to do with physical injury and everything to do with ti. His light blue hair hung loosely, slightly unkempt. His posture was bent like he had finally collapsed or was on the verge of it.

He was staring at the trickle of water down the wall, his dead eyes unmoving. Atheline froze at the weird imagery. He had once tortured the man but not broken him to such an extent.

’What did he do to Lily?’

That was the only thing he could co up with. This was a sort of punishnt. He must have done sothing to Lilith for him to be locked up.

He frowned slightly as a mory ca to him. In the novel he had cheated on Lilith with Yander or so he believed.

’Did I just get thrown to the end of the novel?’

Footsteps echoed above.

Atheline watched as Elydrah’s gloomy face transford into a much happier one. His lips moved slightly forming a crooked smile.

Atheline’s eyes widened in interest as he read his lips.

"Yander... my saintess, please save ... I’ll do anything for you," he mouthed over and over again at the approaching footsteps. It was clear who was being expected.

The footsteps stopped then a shadow fell across the barred doorway. The figure beca clear under the glowing plant veins.

Atheline’s gaze widened.

Lilith or the novel’s original version of her.

She did not enter fully into the prison. She never needed to. The air itself seed to tighten when she arrived, as she belonged to this godforsaken place.

Elydrah lowered his gaze slowly the blank expression returning. Atheline could see his body shaking slightly.

He frowned at that but his attention went back to her. He couldn’t help it.

"It seems you’re too much of a coward to kill yourself, " she coldly said.

Even when angry, Atheline has never heard her speak with such coldness.

"As if I can do that," Elydrah said, his resentnt leaking," don’t your shadows appear at every attempt. "

A small cruel laugh escaped her at that. She raised her gloved hand and lightly wrapped it around the tal bar.

"Why are you doing this to ?" He said quietly, "I am your husband, not a prisoner. It’s only been a week after our marriage, must you do this?"

Her eyes darkened slightly.

"When have I ever said you’re my husband. I do not need a worthless and spineless thing as my husband, " she coldly said, "a man who has already been dirtied disgusts. The fact that you tried to bed one of my maids on the wedding night..."

She chuckled, a cold sound that sent shivers down Atheline’s spine. He glanced at Elydrah in shock.

Just how stupid can soone be? He understood why Lilith’s reaction was so extre, this was basically insulting her.

He also felt like choking the man, in her stead.

Elydrah had the gall to look guilty but only for a mont before his gaze beca blank again.

"You will remain here and only co out whenever there is an important event," she quietly said, " if you do anything that angers , I will skin your whole family before you."

"You cannot do that, it’s against the pact."

She smiled softly at him, the kind of smile that scared even Atheline.

"I do not care, I’ve got everything from the pact," she started to walk away, " you will stay here indefinitely and reflect on your mistakes."

Her footsteps faded away with that.