Chapter 401: Episode 107: Let us Love (4)
“170 tis.”
The exact number he had forgotten ca out of her mouth.
“That’s the number of tis you attacked my mother and the leaders of our race in front of my eyes.”
To be exact, it was a number he didn’t even rember. From one point, death beca nothing but an act of repetition which he didn’t bother rembering.
“169 tis… That’s the number of tis you died. Out of those you killed yourself 36 tis.”
But among the iterations that he had thoughtlessly skimd through was a victim who had clearly observed the process of his regression.
“37 – the number of tis my mother almost died.”
Embedding an explosive amount of hatred and hostility into her eyes, she glared at Yu Jitae.
“I’m a dragon. I don’t forget but that’s different for you.
“You don’t rember anything, do you…?”
She started gasping for breath. Sealing her mouth shut, she clenched her small hands into fists and closed her eyes to withstand the dense fog of hatred.
Huk, huk, kuhk…
After sohow collecting her breath, she opened her eyes again.
“…That’s always how it is for the assailant.”
Would this be how it feels for his brain to lt away? Yu Jitae was feeling that sothing had already gone irreversibly wrong.
He still didn’t think his actions were wrong even at this point. He had done it out of necessity but that did not change the fact that the child of the dragon he had killed was cursing in front of him.
While he was clenching his teeth and stopping his breath at the face of the unbelievable reality,
She continued speaking.
“It was very strange.
“Back then, we were already in a very vulnerable state because of the strife with other sovereigns and there were fights happening between us. My mother moved the entire world into a visible place with Conceptualisation, and shaped it into a human palace. It was to avoid their eyes.”
The girl still rembered ‘that day’.
After several short gasps, her eyes turned blurry as they gazed into the distant past.
“That day was the sa as every other day–
“After a strict education and training, I was complaining to my mum. ‘It’s too stressful. It’s too painful,’ because my ribs were all shattered and dangling. I cursed her, ‘Why did you give birth to if you were going to do this’…
“But she suddenly got up in a hurry. I beca more mad because I thought she was trying to hit , but no. My mum led and my sister sowhere hand in hand and I was surprised. It was my first ti seeing her look so frightened…
“That was when sothing exploded outside the palace. Back then, we were preparing for a war against other sovereigns and there were about 20 black dragons protecting the palace.”
Her gaze turned blurry. All those unforgettable monts ca back to her as complete mories.
“I heard screams outside.
“The palace was shaking from loud explosions. My mum shouted and sent soone off.
“My sister started to cry so I hugged her.
“Soone died outside.
“To sothing extrely dangerous.”
Yu Jitae knew who that ‘sothing’ was without even needing to hear it from her. Even though mories of those monts were hazy, he could still rember what he himself had done.
“My mum pushed and my sister to the [Non-Providential World] behind the throne. There was an alternate dinsion opened beforehand. Because my sister belonged to the Providential World, she was tied to the tiline but I wasn’t.
“Mum said to .”
mory transferration unique to the black race flooded unedited mories into his head.
– Stay here. Do not ever co out.
Lugiathan’s expression tainted with fear,
– Mum will be alright. So never co out. Okay?
And her endlessly quivering voice was vividly conveyed to him.
“My mum then covered the dinsion with a veil. She didn’t know how great her daughter was. She didn’t expect to rip that veil.”
She continued while gazing into Yu Jitae’s eyes.
“…A man carrying a sword ca into the palace.”
Seemingly with a lump in her throat, she started off slow. Through the tear in the veil, the light purple eyes of the small girl saw sothing she shouldn’t have.
“Mum was attacked by that man.
“All my uncles and aunties were being killed by the man but my mum retaliated fiercely. She was still the head of a dragon race. So in the end, the conceptualised palace crumbled and the man was bisected.
“It was quite shocking to . Because all of my precious uncles and aunties had been killed.
“But, that wasn’t the end.”
The mont the man died, the world regressed to its original point in ti.
“Soon, the world flipped upside down.
“My aunties and uncles ca back to life.
“The shattered building rebuilt itself.
“…And the man ca back carrying a sword.”
Unfortunately, the ti she entered the Non-Providential World was too close to the man’s assault. That specific point in ti when the girl entered the Non-Providential World – [Primal Ti] – beca the starting point of her perception of the regression, and she was forced to watch the man constantly break through the palace.
“Next, mum lost her legs.
“After that, she struggled in pain from a stab to her stomach.
“And later, the fight ended with her arms amputated.
“…Ti flew back and my mum repeatedly returned to the mum I knew.
“But without even skipping a single ti,”
She bit her lips.
“That man ca to kill my mum.”
One ti, she had to crawl with her legs cut off.
One ti, she bled from her dug-out eyes as she cried in pain.
And one ti, her heart was gouged out as she was stuck in a corner, being stabbed on repeat for a few hours.
As ti repeated 170 tis,
There was one baby dragon who had to watch all that happen without ever turning away from it.
“Mum didn’t die when she was decapitated, and didn’t die even when her heart was stabbed. It was because the source of her life was in fact embedded in a different part of her body.
“Can you guess where that was…?”
She gave a wide smile despite the lancholic look on her face. When the crushed fang was revealed by the smile, Yu Jitae was frozen stiff.
“Mum died… and the man left…
“But I stayed there crying…
“After a few years, I ca out of the shelter and woke up my sister who was still unconscious.
“The mont I left the Non-Providential World, my world was included inside the destined Providence. In other words, my mother’s death was decided the very mont I returned to the palace. It couldn’t be helped. I couldn’t stay in that tiny and suffocating prison all my life.
“So mum was forever dead.
“My sister lost her mind because of the sudden reality that she had to face and tried to stop her heart to die. I had to make sure she wouldn’t die.
“I was young, but back then, I was quite calm.
“Crouching there together with my sister, we thought about what to do while looking at mother’s corpse.
“How should we take revenge? We asked each other…”
She erased the smile from her mouth.
“Before coming up with a detailed plan.
“I recalled all of your 170 deaths to collect your information.
“You were very arrogant back then. You didn’t even try to hide your emotions or mories. Maybe that was because you were going to keep on regressing anyway?
“Thanks to that, I got the information I needed, but it was difficult…”
She giggled.
“Our plan for revenge was difficult from the get-go.
“The first obstacle was that you were too strong.
“You were too strong, and too great. I saw from your mory fragnts that you had killed sovereigns several tis… Even though I learned a lot of amazing spells, I had no idea how I was supposed to kill you. I realised I would not be able to create any risk to your life in the first place, because no matter how strong I beca, it would be impossible for to overwhelm you to death.
“That wasn’t the only problem. The second obstacle, was that funnily enough, you were wishing for death.
“Later I realised that too was because of dragons, but so what? That didn’t matter in the slightest. What was important was that you, who I wanted to kill, wanted to die.
“Even if I do fully kill you, that is nothing but achieving your objective in your stead. Is listening to the opponent’s request a revenge? I didn’t think so at least.
“So killing you was aningless.”
Lifting her hands, she showed off her palms.
“Then what should I do to take revenge against you?
“It’s hard even when you think about it right?
“But, when I calmly pondered about it, I did find a thod.”
With a gaze surging with sin and a set of movents filled with hatred, she continued with an assured voice.
“Because you wanted to die, I had to make you want to live.
“And because I couldn’t kill you even when you wanted to live, I simply had to take what you considered precious.
“Fortunately, I was like my mother and could drag out a strong emotion from others. That is including love.”
She used one of her hands to caress her own cheeks, while using her other hand to grab and knead her breasts.
“For that, I had to give my body,
“To my nesis who killed my mother…”
Biting her lips, she continued.
“Although that was distressing, I was still willing to do it…
“My mum was everything to . She was the world. Using my body to take revenge on the one who destroyed my world was nothing.
“But, that wasn’t the end either. Sohow, you could look at the depths of soone’s feelings and I realised that was because of those fickle eyes of yours. Everything would be over the mont you realised I was Lugiathan’s daughter, right?
“In order to deceive you, I had to deceive myself first.
“You know a black dragon’s ability is to manipulate and convey mories, yes? So I killed my personality and sealed it and likewise, I also locked my sister’s personality and the mories of her childhood.
“I said to her.
“I will go bewitch my nesis first.
“You co when it’s ti, and hand the key.”
She sneered before raising the tip of the ballista and pointing it at Gyeoul’s head again.
Making a person who desired death want to live, and in the end taking everything precious from him. That was the revenge plan of the young baby dragon.
“It wasn’t easy.”
Yu Jitae didn’t reply. He felt like he was going insane, and he therefore had no idea what he was supposed to say, nor what expression he was supposed to wear.
If there was hell, this would be it. At the very end of his long drop, he at last realised that his soul was dumped and completely crushed at the bottom of the abyss.
He was powerless.
He couldn’t say anything.
anwhile, she tilted her head and observed his expression like a scientist watching the change of a test subject.
“…So, how do you feel?”
A slightly brighter expression appeared on her face as she glanced through him. She whispered with a soft voice.
“Do you want to live now?”
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