I will not die a Villainess's death

Elysia's brain decided it wanted to go on a break today. It felt muddled and clouded with a layer of arousal.

'I hate getting drugged. I tried building resistance against them so many times but it's a bust every time I try'

When the Head Priest had offered Elysia a way out of her certain death, he had made sure she had all the necessary training for her intended purpose. That had included training Elysia to resist magic and drugs to a certain extent.

But no matter how much Elysia had tried to build up an immunity, the best she had been able to do was to resist their impulse after the initial shock had passed.

'I should be able to start moving around soon. Am I being held in a dungeon right now? The surface feels too soft to be a dungeon floor.'

Elysia felt beneath her body, only for her hand to sink into the surface.

If she had to guess, she would say that she was lying on top of a mattress right now. The softness beneath her hand was too familiar to be something else.

'The room doesn't have enough light for me to see where I am. I can't even make out the basic shapes around me.'

Either her captor knew about Elysia's handicap or they had gotten extremely lucky by turning the light in Elysia's room at such a low setting.

Elysia was sure she would have been able to get out of this room if she could make out anything around her.

'I cannot access my magic either. Whatever drugs that man gave me were sure strong. I guess that confirms the identity of my kidnapper.'

The drugs that suppressed magic were rare and only a handful of people were able to access them.

There should only be one person in Kelvin town who was capable of pulling this feat and that was the mayor of the town. Only he had enough money and power to influence the town to not come out at night and buy such expensive drugs.

'Although, something still doesn't feel right. These drugs are not long-lasting. I should have started to feel my magic coming back by now.'

Elysia's magic was too strong for the drugs to last more than a few minutes in her system. This was a fact most kidnappers found out only after they had messed up with her.

But this person had taken precautions against her.

"Don't make your situation worse by struggling against your binds. Even someone like you who has the power to go against the world's will would not be able to get out. Besides, the more you ignore the drugs in your body, the worse it will get for you."

Elysia's struggles ceased as soon as the cool voice reached her ears. The speaker sounded like he was close but Elysia could not feel anyone around her.

It caused her struggling to get worse and something wrapped around her body, tightening instantly.

"I told you to not struggle. I don't want to hurt a poor soul like you unnecessarily since you are in the same boat as me but I won't sit back and see you tarnishing my plans we well."

Elysia's body could not move. The invisible bindings were rubbing against places on her body that made Elysia's body heat up.

'The drug mixed in the fig is still affecting me but I cannot give in to it. I just need to bide my time and wait for Lord Sorias to come for me.'

Normally, Elysia would not count on anyone else to save her. It would cause too much trouble for the other party.

But things were different with Lord Sorias. He was Elysia's familiar and he had a responsibility toward her.

"Good, that's it. You need to calm down or you will end up hurting yourself. I don't want Lord Sorias to rip me a new one for harming his master so I won't harm you. So please sit here and not cause any trouble for me." f𝗿𝗲e𝒘e𝚋ｎ૦𝘃𝙚𝑙.com

The man finally entered Elysia's vision range and she had to blink her eyes to make sure she was not seeing wrong.

The man had the same brown hair and purple eyes as Sara which eliminated any doubt about them being related.

But there was a pair of translucent fox ears on the man's tall head. The reminded Elysia of Sara's pair.

'Is this man possessed? I wish I could access my magic to check for sure.'

"Why are you going after Sara? Do you want to kill her? Use her blood for something? Why are you possessing that body?"

The man looked shocked for a second before his breath calmed down. Various emotions surged through the man's eyes before they settled on a combination of cold indifference.

"You have no right now know, nor is there a need for you to know. You might have gotten yourself involved with my case accidentally but that doesn't give you the right to know what I want to do to my daughter."

'So it is a case like this. The mayor is possessed by the lingering spirit of a beast.'

Cases of possession were not as uncommon as people believed them to be. 1/10 people in this world were possessed by one spirit or another.

Usually, a possession happened when a lingering spirit was unable to pass on and has unfulfilled desires. But they did not have enough power to take someone over which caused a lingering effect.

Most people could go through their whole life being possessed by a spirit and never even realize it.

'But this spirit is too strong. He must have a really strong lingering desire.' pan(da-n0vel.c)om

Desire gave strength to a possessed spirit. But most spirits did not have an anchor to keep them sane. It was a testament to this spirit's mental strength that he managed to hold on to his sanity for so long.

"What is keeping you in 'this world' for so long? Is it revenge? But you are possessing the body of the man who killed your loved one. So why do you want to involve Sara in your revenge plan? It doesn't make much sense, right?"

Elysia could just not understand this situation. Things were spiraling out of control and the simple case was getting more and more complicated by the second.

"Don't think too hard. If you are that curious then I might as well tell you why I am doing what I am. It's not like I have a lot of time left."

"The simple reason I decided to take over this man and take Sara away is that I want to throw a wrench in destiny's plan. The world is a cruel master, making people suffer for things they never did."

"I refuse to be his tool a second time around. Whatever future 'this world' has planned for, I will not allow it to happen. And to achieve that, I need to take Sara away. My wife was a huge devotee of the gods and she could see things others could not."

"She told me that Sara was special. Despite being born a beast, she had the blessing of 'this world' on her side. I wanted to believe her but then she left me behind. The world has it out for people like us. We are not meant to be happy."

"And if we are not meant to be happy, then why would I allow the people 'this world' favor to be happy? We all should be equally miserable."

The more Elysia heard the man speak, the more she was convinced that he had lost his marbles.

Elysia did understand his initial reasoning since they were not so different from her own. Elysia wanted to prevent her death and this man wanted to change the future by adding a variable.

But the paths they had taken toward the end were too different. If Sara did end up missing from the future, then an important key piece would go missing from the puzzle that was the future.

'Its' dangerous. What this man is planning is madness. Such a big change would end up causing a disaster.'

Elysia had tried to change the future once when she was little and it had ended up causing more death and destruction. The feeling of her powers going out of control on that day was still vivid in Elysia's mind.

"Do you think this is the right thing to do? We can try to change the future all we want but the world would try to set it right. In the end, it would create even more death and destruction in its wake. It's better to make smaller changes and work toward the bigger picture."

Elysia tried to reason with the man but she could see that her words were falling on deaf ears.

"You are right. My decision to make such an abrupt change would cause a lot of death and destruction. But why should I care? None of these people are my adorable wife so they can all die."

"I thought that you would understand my reasoning and fears since we are in the same boat but we could not be more different."

The man seemed exhausted all of a sudden and so was Elysia. Her mind was already a mess and now the drugs were finally picking up in intensity.

Elysia's body was getting hotter but she could still ignore it for now.

"Don't worry, I will not kill Sara since she is my adorable daughter. But everyone else is a fair game for me. I will watch this world burn when the time comes and the gods will cry the same tears we all did when they burned down our home."

Elysia was sure that there was a story behind this man's pain and suffering. His words about 'the world' and 'destiny' were also similar to Sara's and Lord Sorias's.

'These people know something I don't. I need to know more about my situation before the real trouble starts for me.'

Elysia was left in the room alone with her thoughts after that. It was a prime opportunity for her to escape but Elysia found it difficult to move.

But she could make out the key to the room lying in front of her in the drawer. The room came into focus and everything looked sharp and right.

'My vision! It's back? B-But how?'

Elysia blinked her eyes, her vision coming to her clear and without delay. It seemed like she had recovered from her curse.

"The drug is blocking all magic inside me. So it affects even the curse on my eyes? I need to make use of this opportunity and right now."

Elysia walked toward the drawer, her body dragging itself to do her bidding. It was a difficult process but Elysia managed to make her way there and pick up the key.

Elysia made it outside the door before her body gave way and fell to the ground. Her breath was labored and hard, her body heating up as a result of the drug she had.

"Ohhhhh, look who we have here. So you did manage to escape from your room after all. You should have stayed in there and you would have been safe. Now, your life and your body are free for me to take."

It was the man from before, the one who had captured Elysia and she felt annoyed to see him.

'Fuck this shit. I no longer care to be a prim and proper lady.'

Elysia took the opportunity and managed to jump the man with a knife. The lifeless body of that man fell to the ground in front of Elysia and she threw the bloody knife away.

"You bitch. I am done being nice to you." The man stood up again, his body having no heartbeat.

Elysia had forgotten but the man had been dead since the start.