Jennings Family, at the staircase entrance.
Magnolia Hearne and Five-Colored looked anxiously at the suddenly disappeared Samuel Chalrs and Althea.
However, it seed that in a re instant, a different presence appeared before them.
This presence was pure and powerful, and as it manifested, spiritual energy quickly spread outward from the Jennings Family villa, centering on her.
Upstairs, Luca Jennings felt a gentle breeze pass by, refreshing him instantly.
This feeling was reminiscent of when Scarlett Jennings had once set up a Spirit Gathering Array at the Jennings Family villa, with spiritual energy sweeping through, but this ti, the spiritual energy was even purer and clearer.
Realizing sothing, Luca Jennings suddenly walked out of the study.
When he reached the third-floor staircase entrance, Donovan Jennings had already arrived ahead of him.
It was then that Lucas Jennings and his brothers, who had been taken into the domain by Althea, along with Emily Hearne, reappeared at the staircase entrance.
What was once a spacious stair corridor suddenly felt crowded with people.
Kingston Jennings and the others appeared a bit bewildered, but at this mont neither Donovan nor Magnolia Hearne paid them any attention.
Because as they reappeared, a space rift seed to have torn open at the spot where Althea had disappeared.
Dense spiritual energy spilled out from the rift, shining brightly, causing everyone’s spirits to be lifted.
Emily Hearne’s divine soul trembled, and as she looked into the rift, a hint of contemplation flashed in her eyes.
Before she could explore further, Scarlett Jennings erged slowly from the space rift, pulling Samuel Chalrs along.
Upon closer inspection, one could glimpse another world of lush green grass through the space rift, and vaguely, ten tails seed to dance behind Scarlett.
However, as she stepped out of the domain, the massive ten tails transford into specks of spiritual light, disappearing behind her along with the domain.
The appearance remained just as when she had disappeared earlier, yet with just one look, Magnolia Hearne and others easily recognized that the person before them was no longer Ten-tailed Althea.
She was Scarlett.
Their true daughter.
"Scarlett!"
Magnolia Hearne cried out urgently, instinctively rushing forward to embrace her.
Donovan and Luca Jennings quickly approached as well.
Upon eting Scarlett’s sowhat bewildered yet clear eyes, their hearts felt a heavy weight lift.
Indeed, this was Scarlett.
She had finally returned.
Kingston and his brothers obviously realized this too, feeling a surge of excitent, especially Lucas Jennings.
"Sis! You finally ca back! You have no idea what that person who took over your body did to !"
Scarlett Jennings blinked.
She had just woken from slumber and indeed felt that her divine soul now contained so inherited power.
She assud it was from developing ten tails.
Unaware of the events that had occurred the day Althea supplanted her consciousness.
After listening to everything, a somber notion settled in her gaze, and she looked at Lucas and the others, asking,
"So when I pulled you into the domain, you each entered different mirages?"
"Yes!"
Lucas Jennings responded eagerly, speaking quickly about the events within the mirage.
Inside the mirage felt nearly the sa as reality; after waking, Scarlett Jennings still appeared as Althea.
But this version of Althea was several tis more formidable than Scarlett Jennings.
No need for mantras or spells, able to transform space with a re wave of the hand.
In the mirage, Lucas Jennings was tossed into the air by Althea with her tail and then stably caught, and Althea even gave him a piece of fox fur.
With that piece of fox fur, Lucas Jennings automatically gained a group of ghost demon followers.
These followers showed him utmost respect, moving as one at his command.
Lucas Jennings, with his followers, dealt with the hooligans harassing girls outside the school and resolved the haunting incident within the school, earning imnse gratitude from the teachers and the principal.
Even his father started to see him as a source of pride, saying he would inherit his sister’s path and beco an impressive Master.
It was then that Althea with Scarlett’s face reappeared, asking him,
"Am I being a better sister to you than Scarlett Jennings was?"
"If you could choose again, who would you choose as your sister?"
At that mont, Lucas Jennings nearly blurted out his choice.
Yet in a flash, he rembered the image of Scarlett Jennings quickly running toward him, hands forming mantras, during the ti he was chased by ghost silk in the abandoned school building.
Her cold, disdainful eyes.
Her squinting, threatening deanor.
Lucas Jennings always knew that his initial attitude towards her was very poor.
He also knew that Scarlett Jennings wouldn’t bother with him if it weren’t for the slight familial connection spanning two generations.
As siblings along the way, how they got along today was a result of his thick-skinned initiative.
She might treat him better than the other cousins, but nowhere near as favorably as Brother Donovan.
To her, he permanently remained a part of the dark history.
If he could choose again, could that dark history be erased completely?
Would his sister treat him as closely as she did Brother Donovan?
Such thoughts only flashed briefly in his mind before he firmly dismissed them.
Dark history remains.
He acknowledged his past actions.
This sister, he definitely recognized!
Though she had never shown him closeness, and the talismans she sold him were mostly Clear Heart and Study Talismans to help him focus on his studies.
She even deliberately summoned a mischievous sprite to make him lose gas when staying up late and scared him out of his wits by erging from the computer...
But he liked Scarlett Jennings just like this.
He only wanted Scarlett Jennings to be his sister like this.
"Sis, I was completely firm in choosing you, without any hesitation!
I didn’t even spare a glance at the one trying to replace you."
Lucas Jennings wore a look of being exceptionally aware, urging her to praise him.
Scarlett Jennings looked at him for a mont, simply nodded, "Understood."
Lucas Jennings: ...
Alright, his sister was indeed still so cold on the outside but warm within~
Despite the different dreams each experienced in the domain, everyone faced choices between their inner desires represented by others or things versus Scarlett Jennings.
Like Lucas Jennings, they all chose Scarlett Jennings.
And because of their choice, Scarlett Jennings accelerated the "awakening" process.
These choices were likely what Althea referred to as... "faith."
Scarlett Jennings was sowhat surprised.
Donovan and Lucas may be excused, though she had grown closer over the past three years with Adam and Chase, she never considered them as intimately companionable.
Especially Chase Jennings.
In these three years, he had been thrown from being the pride of the Jennings Family into Braxton Weaver’s care, enduring his oppressive training from online store work to company work, intentionally as punishnt, though disheartening, she doubted he held no resentnt.
His choice of her was surprising.
Seeing Scarlett Jennings fixated on him, Chase Jennings’s scalp tingled,
"Why are you staring at ? It’s not the first ti I’ve encountered such a mirage, I’m not dumb!"
If he chose wrong, once outside the mirage, Scarlett might settle scores with him afterward, what then?
He’d rather be a turtle like Second Uncle for a few days than be a cleaning robot!
Adam Jennings, although not directly stared at by Scarlett, felt anxious during his choice too; if it hadn’t been for Benedict Beast reminding him, he possibly... might have chosen incorrectly.
"Good thing we all rembered what Hannah Hearne said."
Scarlett Jennings paused at his words, instinctively asking,
"What did Hannah say?"
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