Chapter 591 Taking a glimpse of 'his' hell [1]
"What a pitiful child."
My vision returned to what it was prior to the visions after the demon took his hand from lissa's head.
I didn't know exactly how long had passed, but during the ti where I was looking through lissa's mories, it felt as if years had passed by...of course, I knew that it was only my imagination.
Thud—!
During the ti that my vision returned, lissa fell to the ground on both knees. Her complexion looked rather pale as what seed to be tears flowed down the sides of her eyes.
I couldn't bla her.
Relieving what she was desperately trying to hide and forget, and knowing that the closest people she knew were also watching her deepest secrets...
'Shit.'
I could tell exactly what she was feeling.
Lowering his body, the demon stood at eye level with her.
Patting her head, he gently spoke to her.
"Your life is truly hard. You wanted to make your father proud throughout your entire childhood, but no matter what you did, he never satisfied you."
"Even when you excelled in a different field, he ignored you and only cared about your achievents in the combat field...yet, you had no talent for it, but you knew this..."
"Of course, you knew this. You're a smart child after all, am I right?"
lissa's body trembled as the demon's gentle words echoed throughout. Slowly, she started to nod her head.
'Don't respond to him!'
I shouted inside of my head as I tried to move, and open my mouth, but it all proved to be fruitless.
I couldn't activate any of my skills, nor feel my mana.
I was desperate.
lissa may not be aware at the mont, but the demon was definitely using so sort of skill at the mont. A skill that would severely weaken her mind the more she listened to him or spoke to him.
"Even though you trained for twelve hours every day, to the point of exhaustion, as a way to finally show your father the results of your achievents, he completely disregarded your achievents and treated you like trash...all because you couldn't take the first spot."
Extending his hand, the demon patted lissa on the back.
"When your father dismissed you after you placed second, that was the turning point of your life, wasn't it? You stopped caring about him, or about anyone else's opinion, right? You felt free when you stopped caring, right? ...and why do you treat everyone so harshly? Is it because you don't trust anyone but yourself?"
With each question that the demon asked, the paler lissa's complexion beca, and it wasn't long before her eyes started to lose so clarity.
'Oh no.'
I instantly beca alard when I saw this.
This pattern...
It was the sa pattern that resulted in the creation of contractees. After thoroughly exposing the secrets and breaking their minds, demons used this exact scenario to convince their victims to sign a contract with them.
'Not good.'
Despite my best efforts, nothing changed and I remained in the sa spot, shouting inside of my mind as I tried to struggle even harder.
"You look like soone prideful at a first glance, but in a way, that's just yourself trying to distance others from you so that you don't get hurt again, right? It's a pitiful life, the one that you live in."
The demon's eyes flashed with pity as he continued to pat lissa on the back. Over ti, her complexion worsened, and it wasn't long before her eyes beca hollow and she lost her expression.
'Shit.'
I inwardly cursed inside of my mind when I saw this.
"How about you just gi—Oops."
Halfway through his sentence, the demon finally took notice of lissa's condition and the smile on his face widened.
"It looks like I overdid things a little bit. I'm not supposed to break you just yet. His majesty might get mad at if I do that."
Standing up and no longer paying any attention to lissa, the demon calmly patted his clothes.
Then, once he confird that there was no dust on his clothes, he turned to glance at lissa one last ti.
"While I feel that your father's thods are harsh, he wasn't exactly wrong about you being talentless. It's a pity that I'm tempted to make you sign a contract with , but you're simply untalented from my likes, plus..."
The demon's head suddenly turned and it was then that my eyes t with his.
"After looking through your mories, I've co to find quite a nice gem over here. One that I am very interested in making a contract with."
Calmly taking a couple of steps toward , the demon soon reached where I was standing and stopped right before .
Calmly analyzing my body, I was able to catch a glimpse of a strange twinkle in his eyes. While he analyzed my body with his eyes, I felt the back of my skin crawl.
"You're quite young, yet you seem to be extrely strong for soone your age. Not bad, not bad."
The more he looked, the more he seed to be satisfied with .
Taking his eyes away from , he then turned his head and his eyes lingered on Liam's and Kevin's bodies for a bit.
"These other two seem to also be quite the talent. It's quite hard to choose between the three of you…so, how about we continue our little ga?"
Turning his head to once again face my direction, the smile on his face beca even more sinister and his hand raised toward my head.
'No!'
Staring at the enlargening shadow cast by the hand slowly approaching hand, from the corner of my eyes I stared at the others who were else looking at .
My heart started to beat faster as deep anxiety started to perate my body.
'Not my mories!'
I started to panic when I realized that the others would also see my mories.
'I can't let that happen!'
Anything but that!
The thought of all the things I had been trying to hide being revealed to them terrified to the core.
Imagining how they would react to what I did in the past and everything that happened to made my skin crawl. Especially after they would find out the truth about my life at the Lock, and how I viewed them in the past.
But I was helpless at the mont.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't resist the demon's hand as it soon reached out for my head and grasped it tightly.
"Sleep tight."
Everything when dark after that.
***
'Is it happening again?'
As Kevin walked past a paved driveway toward an area surrounded by iron gates and fences, he passed a small wooden chapel.
Just like before, with lissa, he could not control his body as it slowly headed toward the back of the chapel.
'...Are these Ren's mories?'
Recalling what had happened before, and how the last mory he had was the demon grasping Ren's head, Kevin could make out what was going on at the mont. He felt a burning rage rush from deep within him as he thought of what the demon was doing.
'Bastard.'
Kevin's anger grew as he rembered lissa's state a few seconds ago.
Rembering her helpless and broken state...Kevin felt his emotions run wild. He called it a ga, but this felt like no ga to Kevin at all.
'Eh?'
In the midst of his rage, Kevin suddenly found his mind turning blank as his body moved past the chapel and he was able to catch a glimpse of what lay behind it.
Cars lining the road, a black hearse, pallbearers carrying what seed to be three different caskets, mourners seated in chairs or standing in a clump, a religious leader praying or reading passages of scripture, fresh flower arrangents, and several people dressed in black standing with their heads lowered.
'A graveyard?'
The sight left Kevin in a state of confusion, as the body continued to move forward.
Approaching the graveyard, Ren's movents were rather slow and unhurried. He seed to be rather relaxed at the mont, as though the scene in the distance had nothing to do with him.
He was acting drastically different from the people in the distance who were mourning and crying.
'They look sowhat familiar...'
Kevin couldn't quite make out the features of the individuals in the distance, but as he paid attention to them, he felt that they were quite familiar to him. Rather, extrely familiar...
Unfortunately, he was unable to get a proper look at them as Ren's body moved toward where three carved headstones stood.
'...What's going on?'
It was at that mont that Kevin suddenly felt a heartwrenching pain engulf his entire being as Ren's feet ca to a sudden stop and he grasped his chest with his hand. Soon his body started to tremble uncontrollably.
"N..not now."
Ren's voice echoed out as he took a step forward.
"Haaa..."
Each step that Ren took felt as though a piece of his entire heart was being ripped into pieces. It was suffocating.
The closer he got to the headstones, the harder it beca for him to walk.
"Haaa...Haaa..."
As his breathing got harder, so did his vision, which beca increasingly misty.
Staring at the tombstones in the distance, Kevin found that Ren's whole body was trembling.
He was becoming increasingly unable to bear the pain inside of his heart with each step he took as he had to force himself to stop several tis...
'...What is this pain?'
Feeling the pain that Ren was going through, Kevin didn't know how to react. The pain hurt more than anything he had ever felt in his life.
Kevin felt an undefinable type of pain drain away at everything he knew as Ren's trembling body stopped in front of the headstones.
Right as he stopped in front of the headstones, Ren's body knelt on the ground and Kevin was finally able to see what was written on them. His heart stopped soon after.
'H...how...?
Imprinted on the gravestones were three nas.
[Samantha Dover] [Donald Dover] [Nola Dover]
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