Author: Byuon

Chapter 126

 

“Who are you?”

“Helios?”

Lenia blinked with a puzzled expression.

“It’s me, your Lenia.”

A plaintive voice escaped her dry lips.

Her complexion, which was not white and transparent, was as pale as if she was about to collapse.

Helios, holding the sword handle, pointed the sword at Lenia.

“What did you do with Lena?”

“What are you talking about? I am Lenia Evelyn.”

Even though the sharp tip of the sword was pointing at her, Lenia approached him without hesitation.

Helios clapped his arms behind his back and shouted, fearing that he would pierce her neck.

“Don’t come close!”

Lenia stopped at the ferocious shout. She looked sad, as if she’s saying ‘how could you not recognize me?’

“Helios, have you forgotten me already?”

She whimpered, a trickle of water running down her cheek.

Helios opened his mouth, looking directly at her with resentful eyes.

“Cut the crap. Do you think I won’t recognize Lena?”

The corners of her lips, which had been weeping sadly, rose. A bizarre smile spread across her innocent face. Red lips slowly opened.

“Why don’t you believe me? I am Lenia, your beloved Lenia Evelyn.”

A murky voice came out of Lenia’s mouth. A strange but familiar voice.

Without realizing it, his breathing became difficult. Helios had to bite his tongue to keep from gasping for air.

What is that.

The true identity of that person pretending to be Lenia while wearing Lenia’s body.

“…….”

Swing–

Helios quietly fixed his sword and clenched it. It was close enough to reach with his arms outstretched. But he couldn’t move.

‘If that’s Lena’s body…’

Lenia would get hurt. He couldn’t risk that.

As he hesitated, the woman came at him again, the pointed tip of his sword digging into her delicate flesh, and Helios quickly put it away.

「Helios Anthemion.」

She stroked his cheek with a cold, damp hand and pressed her face to mine.

“Look Carefully. It’s me. Your true wife, who gave birth to your child.”

She reeked of fishy odor, or something far worse. It was the stench I’d smelled all along the western border.

“If you don’t believe me, stab me with that sword.”

“……”

“What are you hesitating about? If you stab me, you’ll know if I’m the real Lenia or not.”

“…….”

“Why, can’t you do it?”

A mocking eyes looks at him. Then she pulled him into her arms like a lover embracing his beloved. The hand that had touched his cheek gently wrapped around his neck. Then she embraced him as if she had embraced her beloved lover.

Helios meekly surrendered himself to her and quickly looked behind her back.

His hopes were shattered instantly.

It was Lenia.

The hair that had been cut off and the scars on her back that could be seen through the tattered of her clothes, all belonged to her.

The exact circumstances were unknown, but one thing was clear. At this rate, Lenia is in danger.

Helios, who had pushed her away, said in a suppressed voice.

“Put Lena back in her place right now.”

“Do you think that bitch is still alive? pitiful.”

The other woman’s shadow fell over him, it was eyes gray instead of emerald.

Helios’s eyes lit up. He grabbed Lenia’s body with one hand.

“He,Helios… This body… ”

“Enough with the jokes. When I still say it nicely, Lena… ugh!”

A sharp iron stabbed him in the side. Barely holding back the mind-numbing pain, Helios quickly twisted his body and swung the sword he was holding.

“Ugh!”

A desperate scream echoed through the cave. Marquess Melks, who had his chest cut wide, glared at Helios, pouring out blood.

“Hel-Helios… you think you can kill my daughter… and get away with it… ugh!”

With his hands faster than his eyes, Marquis Melks could not speak and fell to the floor. His body twitched violently before stopping.

Helios pulled out the sword stuck in his side and threw it on the floor, looking away.

Charlet Melks, who was freed after being held by Helios, sat on the floor of the cave, watching the dead Marquis.

Helios said coldly.

“Get out of Lena’s body, Charlet Melks.”

“Why me?”

After confirming her father’s death, Charlet Melks looked up at Helios and smiled brightly. It was a terrifyingly innocent smile.

“Now, all those who stand in our way are gone.”

“…….”

“All I need is for you to love me.”

“Don’t be ridiculous.”

Helios yelled through clenched teeth. A cold sweat trickled down the nape of his neck as he wondered if the Marquis stab wound was deeper than he’d thought.

“Lenia Evelyn will never come back. So think of me as Lenia Evelyn and love me.”

“Charlet Melks!”

“If you don’t like it, kill me.”

Charlet Melks, whose expression changed in an instant, picked up a dagger lying on the floor and pointed it to her neck.

As Helios reflexively strikes her hand, Charlet Melks takes the blade without hesitation.

“Don’t touch me. If you come closer, I’ll stab her in the neck.”

Red blood gushed out of Lenia’s neck. But Charlet Melks didn’t blink an eye at him.

“Put away the sword, Helios.”

Charlet Melks said, still holding the sword to her neck. He lowered his sword to the floor reluctantly.

“Stand back.”

Helios swallowed his anger and took a few steps back.

With a bright smile, Charlet Melks got up and kicked the sword with all her might. The sound of scratching on the rough stone floor roared against the walls of the cave.

Helios, seeing the sword rolling in the distance, clasped his empty hand.

“Ugh….”

It was then that a soft moan was heard.

Escal, who was lying on the floor, raised his eyelids. Escal looked slowly through the dark cave before raising his body.

Where am I?

“Escalium.”

A familiar voice pierced into Escal’s ear as he recalled the last memory.

“… Mom?”

Looking at the place where the sound was heard, Escal’s eyes widened. Charlet Melks smiled mischievously and moved her mouth.

“Yes, it’s mom. My poor son.”

Mom? is that mom?

Confusion filled Escal’s face.

The face, strangely clear in the darkness, was clearly the face of the mother he loved. But the voice was different.

‘Get that out of my sight! Because I don’t even want to see you!’

‘Whether the child starves or not has nothing to do with me!’

‘If you cry out loud one more time, I’ll kick you out!’

She’s my mother, but not a mother.

Fear engraved to the bone swept over the child. Escal stared at Charlotte Melks with Lenia’s face in terrified eyes.

“Escalium, come to your mother.”

“Don’t come, Escal!”

Helios shouted sharply. Charlet Melks, who was looking at Escal, turned to Helios.

“Come here, my sweetheart.”

As she spoke leisurely, she grabbed the sword that was touching her neck with both hands and pointed it at Helios.

“Now, you choose.”

“…….”

“Do you want to die, or do you want me to kill her?”

Blood stood in Helios’ hands. It’s a question he doesn’t even need to think about. But it didn’t come out of his mouth easily.

If I said I would die, would she really kill me?

If I could do it with my life, I would do it a hundred times, but I couldn’t trust Charlet Melks.

“Do you not want to die?”

Charlet Melks, who waited for an answer, sarcastically smiled.

“Then I must decide. By killing this woman.”

“No!”

Simultaneously with Helios’ urgent cry, Charlet Melks raised her sword. The point of the sword was about to pierce Lenia’s heart.

Suddenly, the hand stopped.

“Ugh…!”

Charlotte Melks flinched in surprise. Her hand did not move with all her might, as if she had been caught by someone.

“For something that hasn’t been born yet!”

She twisted her body as she muttered something. Helios, who saw it, took a cautious step toward her, Charlotte Melks cried out like a monster.

“Don’t come near me!”

The arm that was floating in the air moved slightly toward the heart.

“How dare you, how dare you do something like this…!”

Her face flushed red as if she were fighting a fierce battle with someone. In response, her body, lying in her coffin, began pouring out a black mist.

A black mist obscuring the vision and a terrible stench filled the cave. Escal, who was standing next to the coffin, noticed that the mist was coming out of the coffin.

Escal looked into the coffin and covered his mouth.

Inside the coffin lay the mummified, desiccated body of Charlet Melks. From the heart of her corpse, a black mist poured nonstop.

‘This is it.’

Escal looked around quickly, picked up Helios’ sword, which had fallen not far away, and returned to the side of the coffin.

“Escalium, what are you doing to your mother!”

A tearing voice echoed through the cave. The child’s shoulders twitched at the hateful voice.

‘You can do it.’

She’s not my ‘real’ mother.

I only have one mom.

I must save her.

With both hands holding a long and heavy sword for the child to lift, Escal made up his mind and raised the sword.

The moment when he put all his might into the heart of Charlet Melks.

“Aah!”

The corpse of Charlet Melks, engulfed in a black mist with a desperate scream, burned up in an instant.

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