The Story Is Not Over Yet - Chapter 161
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 161
“…No.”
Zagnac murmured softly. As he murmured, Lane smiled with her red lips.
“Now, Azela.”
She uttered with a warm smile like the afternoon sun.
“Die.”
“….!”
With her words, Zagnac hurriedly looked at Azela as she turned her head, and their eyes met. Azela smiled and raised her sword high in the sky.
For a moment, her fingers twitched. In that short period of less than a second, she remembered many things she had done with him…. and the last thing that came to her mind was the moment when he first offered her a contract.
‘Am I regretting that moment right now?’
Seeing him leap towards her, Azela stabbed her own heart with her sword hard.
‘Nothing is a waste for you… even if it’s my death.’
Stab.
“Kyaaak!”
Along with an eerie sound, screams filled the party hall. Raising her sword high in the sky, Azela gazed at Zagnac running towards her and, without hesitation, plunged her sword into her chest, and blood spurted out.
What kind of interesting conversation would happen this time? All the people who were watching with faces full of anticipation started screaming and running out of the party hall.
“…Too shallow.”
Looking at the sword stuck in her chest, Lane murmured softly.
As if to prove her words, Azela was still standing. Putting a sword in her chest wasn’t as easy as she thought. She obviously aimed right at the heart, but her hand wasn’t as strong as when she was cutting people.
“Uugh.”
Azela frowned, gripping the handle of the sword with both hands and thrusting it into her heart. When the sword was pushed inside little by little, along with the pain of the flesh tearing, Zagnac, who had come to her side, grabbed her hands and shoulders and seized the handle of the sword.
“…You are crazy.”
Contrary to his determined voice, his hand was trembling violently.
Breathing heavily, Azela looked at him with a frown. His hardened face was full of surprise and anger. His trembling hand tried to touch the hilt of the sword, but he lowered his hand in the air. The wound could be bigger if he pulled it wrong.
“You…”
He called out to her and closed his lips together. Even though he had many things he wanted to say, the words couldn’t get out of his mouth because he knew that Azela’s choices were for his sake. He couldn’t be angry with her.
It was he who made her take that choice.
Feeling his own incompetence, Zagnac clenched his fists. His distraught anger was directed at Lane.
“I must have warned you not to mind, Lane.”
As he took off his robe and laid it on the floor, he carefully laid Azela on it. Livia, looking at the situation with an astonished face, told her own handmaid at the side to call a doctor before hurrying over to help her.
“I also tried not to care, but I told you then…”
“….”
“I didn’t go. It was your contractor who came to see me to find a way to stop your annihilation.”
She then gazed down at Azela, who lay on the marble floor, gasping and bleeding. One chance, she had said.
That opportunity was gone, so there was no way to save Zagnac anymore.
“…Not here. Call the doctor.”
“My handmaid went to call. He will be coming here now.”
“You hold on to it… please.”
As he pulled Livia’s hand, making her hold the sword steady, she nodded at Zagnac’s request. Only after he confirmed it did he slowly stand up. There were only a few mesmerized people left who couldn’t get out of the party.
“…So.”
“You made Azela like that?”
“Zagnac.”
“Lane, you dare.”
“I said so. Humans die anyway, even if you save your contractor here and now…”
Lane couldn’t speak anymore.
It was because Zagnac had stepped forward, swiftly covering her mouth with the palm of his hand. Half of his face was not human.
Resembling a horned beast, tendrils of black smoke surrounded him, akin to a dark cloud. Silencing her, he forcefully seized her left arm, effortlessly ripping it from her body with his bare hands, leaving it whole and intact.
“KYAAK!”
Those who remained at the party once again screamed at the unbelievably grotesque sight. Among them, there were people who passed out from the unbearable shock. However, Lane, the person involved, simply looked down at her torn left arm.
Raising her right arm, she roughly slashed Zagnac’s hand that was covering her mouth and spoke.
“What’s wrong? You know it doesn’t matter if this arm or something gets ripped off. Don’t be human.”
“Shut up because I’m holding back from wanting to rip your throat out.”
“Ha, Zagnac.”
“If you don’t shut up, I will shove your left arm down your throat.”
He really meant it.
As she beheld him, who gradually lost his human form and transformed into a devilish form, Lane tightly sealed her lips.
It was clear that he harbored genuine intentions of ending her life. A cold sweat formed on her forehead, marking the first instance since her transformation into a devil that she experienced such intense trepidation.
“Duke Ferial!”
As Zagnac grabbed her right arm, Livia, who had been watching the whole situation, hurriedly called for him.
“Are you going to keep doing that? Miss Vellista doesn’t look good, so it’s better to do first aid yourself than wait for the doctor to come! There is nothing here! We need to move her to a place where we can give first aid right away!”
Livia shouted, picking up some unknown shoe from the floor and tossing it on his back. Zagnac stopped and turned his head. His face now had a human shape, only the right eye.
“Azela…”
The small voice called her name. When he let go of her arm, Lane picked up her left arm that had fallen to the ground and turned around calmly.
“Since it failed anyway, there is no second chance for your contractor. You’re not going to let her die, are you?”
“….”
“I really won’t care anymore.”
Soon, she moved to the entrance of the party hall. Every time she walked, the people left at the party stood back in aghast.
Lane stopped at the entrance and turned to look at Zagnac.
“…Your contractor has failed.”
“….”
“You will be annihilated.”
There was sadness in her eyes. It was the same when she sent the dwarf before. Zagnac probably wouldn’t even allow her to steal Azela’s soul either.
“Goodbye, Zagnac.”
She whispered in her sad voice and left the party.
Several rumors spread.
The first rumor that spread was about Livia. When word spread that Livia was, in fact, a monster, she was grounded. Those who usually tried to use her to gain power or wealth were appalled by the story and sprinkled salt on themselves.
‘Did Miss Vellista’s wounds heal well?’
Of course, Livia could lightly kill the knights guarding the front of her palace, but she had to injure more than half of the innocent knights in the palace, so she didn’t do that.
The second rumor spread was about the Todd family.
As it became widely known that Sylvia, Countess Todd, had insulted the Princess, nobles began to shun the Todd family.
The imperial court tried to punish the Countess for contempt. Even though the Countess was in danger of being punished, Daniel was numb. He was like a madman. Every day he drank, and when he drank, he saw Azela. He sometimes called for her into the air and had a conversation with her.
“…So, Countess Todd was punished with a fine.”
It was a relatively light punishment.
The problem was that the Todd family did not have the money to pay the fine. Due to Sylvia’s frequent spending, they were short of money and eventually had to sell their assets. They were unable to set foot in the Capital and had to return to the outskirts, losing everything they had.
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