The Story Is Not Over Yet - Chapter 174
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 174
“Your… Highness.”
“Put it down first and let’s talk. What are you doing now, Mrs. Ferial?”
“I can’t live without Zagnac anyway. Drinking alcohol, taking medicine, and enduring like that day after day… I’ll die.”
“…Ha.”
“Even if I die here or die then, nothing will change for me. So please, help me so that I can live comfortably.”
Azela’s voice was filled with so much despair that she couldn’t bear to say her refusal. In the end, after Livia nodded, Azela eventually lowered the dagger she had pointed at her throat.
As she lowered the dagger, Livia stepped in front of her and raised her hand.
Slap!
Her hand hit Azela’s left cheek hard. It was so intense that her cheeks were swollen red in an instant. Livia, who slapped Azela’s cheek, hugged her tightly with a weeping face.
“I don’t want you to die, Azela!”
“….”
“Why are you not thinking of me? Why are people so reckless?! Why are people like this…”
Only know nothing but love!
Livia swallowed the words along with her crying and instead held Azela in her arms as hard as she could. Azela’s eyes widened in surprise as she was held in her arms, but then she closed them. As her vision grew dark, she could smell her body.
…Perhaps because of that, she was quite relieved.
Azela raised her hand and took Livia’s arm.
“Help me, please. Please let me be of help to him.”
“…Do you think Duke Ferial will like it?”
“I don’t care if he likes it or not. It’s okay to curse at me for being selfish… I am selfish enough.”
“Ha.”
Livia sighed before turning her gaze to the book on the table and nodding her head.
“I will try.”
“….!”
“Is it just a matter of draining your soul? Tell me exactly what you are asking of me.”
“Take my soul and put it into Duke Ferial.”
“…Ha.”
She wasn’t willing to do it. To take the soul of Azela, someone she liked, and put it into Zagnac, a devil… It seemed like offering a sacrifice to the devil, but since she had already said she would, she couldn’t refuse.
“If you do that, will you Duke Ferial live?”
“…Maybe.”
“Maybe?”
“I’ve never actually tried it, so I can’t guarantee it unconditionally.”
Livia furrowed her eyebrows. Was Azela betting her own life on that little possibility that she was neither sure of? She did not understand and did not want to understand.
“Do you believe that?”
“What?”
“Maybe Lord Ferial made up a lie to eat your soul.”
Disappearing, dying and living by eating souls. She naturally thought that all of this might actually be something that the devil made up to covet human souls. Otherwise, there would be no way all the stories would fit together like this.
“That’s not it. I’m sure.”
“…Who gave you this book?”
“It’s…”
“Is it Duke Ferial?”
“No, not Zagnac but a trusted existence gave it to me.”
A trusted existence gave her a very old book—a book that humans couldn’t even get. The one who gave this to Azela and tried to feed Zagnac her soul.
“…It must be the same devil as Lord Ferial.”
Even though she was surprised by Livia’s reasoning, she couldn’t deny that so Azela hesitated for a moment before nodding her head.
As expected, the devils.
Livia clicked her tongue. In the end, it was no different than giving this book to Azela to force her to sacrifice. Livia, with a disapproving look, was about to comment, but she was stopped by the look in Azela’s eyes that had found hope.
“Yes, let’s do it, Mrs. Ferial.”
In the end, it was Azela’s life. She had no right to say anything more about it.
“Then, let’s begin.”
Livia spoke, opening the book. As she opened the book, Azela asked her.
“Can you do it right now?”
“I have no control over ancient magic. I’m just following the instructions in this book anyway. So either now or later, it doesn’t matter. I don’t mind doing it later if you want, but.”
“But?”
“Perhaps you’ll change your mind later.”
Azela shook her head.
She hadn’t said goodbye to Zagnac yet. She only said that she was going and would come back. Still, if the magic succeeded here, she couldn’t go back. Just as she had waited endlessly for Zagnac, who had left her, this time, it would be him.
But…
‘…If he’s still alive.’
She was satisfied with that, too.
Azela nodded her head. If she saw Zagnac for no reason, her heart that wanted to be with him may reveal everything. The desire to live without even knowing it may cling to him.
Livia sighed as Azela made a grim face.
“I can’t say for sure whether it will be successful or not. It may fail, and I don’t know what side effects it might have. Are you okay, though?”
“Yes.”
She really intended to do it. Livia closed her lips and gestured to Daran, who was next to her, to go outside. Even though she glanced at the two with a worried face, Daran eventually took a reluctant step outside.
“Ah, Daran.”
Daran, who was about to leave, was stopped by Livia, and she stopped and turned her head.
“Go out and don’t let anyone in.”
“Understood.”
As she left the parlor with a confused face, then came the sound of Daran going outside and dismissing all the knights and handmaids waiting near the parlor room.
Hearing the footsteps receding, Livia took a deep breath.
“Let me read it first.”
“Yes.”
Livia opened the book.
As Livia ran her eyes through the page she had opened for her, Azela stared out the window quietly. The day was good. The birds were chirping, and it was not a bad day.
Today, when the breeze blew, Azela would die.
“Princess.”
“…Yes, I have read almost all of them.”
“Can I leave a letter?”
Livia’s eyes froze while she was reading.
She didn’t say much and only stood up and walked over to her desk and fetched a straight piece of paper and a pen. Then, after placing it in front of Azela, Livia moved to her desk so she could take the time to write.
After confirming that Livia had turned her attention to the book, Azela took up the pen.
‘What should I write?’
It was a letter for Zagnac, who would be left alone after she disappeared. Even though she had a lot of things she wanted to say, when she tried to write a letter, she couldn’t arrange it. As the pen rolled over the paper for a long time, the wet ink dripped and smeared.
Watching the ink pulsating and smearing on the white paper, Azela began to write.
[ ‘Are you surprised?’ ]
The first sentence started with ‘Are you surprised?’. It was a letter for the one who remained behind, and she did not want Zagnac to feel guilty about her. Those who left were gone, so those who remained had to live those long years without sorrow.
The writing that filled the paper was representative of Azela’s heart.
“…Please deliver this to Zagnac when he comes.”
“Do you think he will come for me?”
“He will. After I’m gone, he doesn’t have many people to ask.”
Azela carefully folded the letter and handed it to her. Livia, standing up from the desk, took her letter and put it on her desk.
“Is it a will?”
“Maybe, to put in a bad way.”
Seeing that Azela laughed even at her sarcasm, Livia sighed and sat opposite her.
“Alright, let’s start.”
“Yes.”
“As I said before, I am not certain of the success, and even if you succeed, I don’t know what side effects it might have. If you die, Lord Ferial may die too. Is that okay?”
“Yes, I’m okay.”
It’s okay.
It was crazy. Livia bit her lip hard.
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