The Story Is Not Over Yet - Chapter 178
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 178
But right now, Zagnac’s words were more important than that. Azela pulled his hand with an anxious face and urged him to speak quickly.
“What’s wrong, what does that mean?”
Could it be that she did something unnecessary that harmed him? At the thought, she took his hand and shook it to and fro with an anxious face.
“Obviously, I was disappearing.”
“…Yes.”
“It has stopped.”
“…What?”
Her eyes widened in surprise at Zagnac’s remark.
Has his extinction stopped? Did that mean the spell finally succeeded? Then, what about her? Was she only alive for a short while? When she groped her own body with a bewildered face, Azela could still clearly feel the touch under her fingertips, and her heart was beating well.
“Well then, what does it mean that my soul is strange?”
“…I can only feel half of your soul.”
“…What?”
“Your soul is faint.”
Zagnac’s surprised eyes and Azela’s bewildered gaze collided in the air. What on earth was going on?
“Furthermore… I can no longer use the devil’s power.”
After hearing his empty voice, neither Azela nor Zagnac said anything to each other. There was no one who could explain this situation, and they didn’t even know what would happen next. Still, one thing was important.
“Then… Zagnac, are you not going to disappear?”
“….”
“Your extinction… has it stopped?”
When she asked in a trembling voice, Zagnac nodded carefully, not knowing what to do with his shaking eyes.
“I’m not sure, but looking at the current situation, it seems like that…”
“….!”
The extinction has stopped.
Regardless of the side effects, Zagnac’s disappearance has stopped. That was enough. It was a spell done for that purpose in the first place, so that was enough.
“Zagnac!”
As Azela hugged his neck with a bright smile, the bewildered Zagnac was held into her arms.
“How are you today?”
“Are you okay today?”
“Are you feeling bad today?”
For several days, as soon as Azela opened her eyes in the morning, she grabbed Zagnac and asked him about his disappearance. It might be annoying, but he answered the question by nodding his head kindly several times.
“Yes, I’m fine.”
For a few days, his disappearance stopped.
They thought it was just a temporary side effect, but seeing as there was nothing noticeable for a few days, it seemed like that wasn’t the case.
They visited Livia for several days afterwards to make sure about this situation, but Livia, who collapsed that day, had not yet woken up. It was said that a doctor was stationed at the palace because she had a fever dozens of times.
“Is it possible that the side effects of this spell went to Her Highness?”
On the rattling carriage going back to the mansion without being able to see Livia’s face again today, Azela asked. Zagnac looked at her and shook his head.
“I don’t think so because it’s not usually received by the person who performed the spell. However, since it was her first time using magic properly, she was probably very tired. It would be best to visit her in a few days, Azela.”
“…Nothing will happen, right?”
“Don’t worry. I will watch along with you.”
She nodded rather worriedly. The carriage that left Livia’s palace did not return to the mansion. Following the familiar path, they arrived at Lane’s residence. Azela asked as she got out of the carriage, her eyes full of concern.
“Is Lane here?”
“She is.”
As Zagnac replied confidently and walked ahead, Azela followed behind with a distrustful look. Just as he was at the door and about to put his hand up to knock, the door opened.
“Don’t knock, the noise makes me feel bad.”
As soon as Lane came out from inside and saw Zagnac and Azela, she frowned. The tone of her voice suggested that she expected the two people to come here.
Seeing her figure, Zagnac shrugged his shoulders and looked at Azela before walking inside.
“Are you still alive?”
Lane said as she saw Azela trying to enter. It wasn’t a malicious statement. Azela, knowing that but couldn’t help but feel bad, frowned, tilted her head and shrugged her shoulders.
“As you see.”
She was surprised by Azela’s reaction, but she nodded for her to come inside. The interior had changed from before. The previous appearance had disappeared everywhere, and it looked like just an ordinary house.
“You somehow manage to survive every time.”
Lane, who was sitting on the other side of the sofa where Zagnac and Azela were sitting, crossed her legs. Then, she wrinkled her eyebrows as if she noticed something strange. Tiling her head back and forth, she opened her eyes wide and raised her finger to point at Azela.
“You’re… dying? No, you’re not. It’s not like you’re dying, but that doesn’t mean you’re alive… what?”
Lane’s gaze turned to Zagnac this time as she brushed her hair with a puzzled look.
“What are you again? Extinct? It’s not. However, this does not mean that the extinction has disappeared. What is going on?”
“That’s right.”
“No, before you.”
Lane, who was startled, grabbed Zagnac’s hand with a startled look and continued speaking with a serious face.
“Are you a devil?”
“Well. I came to you because I was curious about that as well.”
“You, you…”
“I now see this as just the inside of an ordinary house.”
Lane was startled by Zagnac’s words, and Azela tilted her head.
“Was it changed? It looks like an ordinary house to me, too.”
“No! It couldn’t have been like that!”
With Azela’s words, Lane screamed agitatedly by pointing her finger at one of the walls.
“You! You can’t see the passage leading to the cave?!”
“Yes.”
The two of them nodded their heads without hesitation. It was an illusion that could only be seen by the devil.
However, neither Zagnac nor Azela, the devil’s contractor, saw it.
Not knowing how to react, Lane sat down on the sofa. She sat down and picked up the bottle of alcohol next to her before taking a gulp.
“Something is strange right now? As you can see, I don’t know. My condition and Azela’s condition.”
Zagnac asked as he looked at Lane. Lane did not give much of an answer to his question.
Something strange? What did he mean by strange? What on earth? Azela looked back and forth between Zagnac and Lane with astonished eyes. Could it be that something was going wrong without her even realizing it?
She looked frightened.
“Yes. Even if it was wrong, it was terribly wrong.”
Lane frowned and looked at the two people in turn.
“The contract has been terminated.”
“….!”
“I don’t know if it was cut off or if it was fulfilled.”
“Well, what does that mean? Fulfilled?”
Answering Azela’s nervous question, Lane pressed her frowning forehead with her index finger.
“Literally. Zagnac does not disappear.”
“Lane, did the spell you told me work?”
When Azela asked in a hopeful voice, holding Zagnac’s hand tightly, Lane clicked her tongue and spoke as she saw their tightly held hands.
“If it was successful, contractor, you shouldn’t be here.”
“Then, why…”
“It’s simple.”
Finishing her words, she pointed his index finger at Zagnac.
“He’s not a devil anymore.”
“….!”
Azela looked at Zagnac with a surprised face. However, he looked rather calm, as if he had already expected it. She unconsciously grabbed Zagnac’s arm and gazed at Lane.
“What are you talking about? He’s not a devil anymore?”
“Literally. Since he is not the devil, you are no longer the devil’s contractor. Should we say the contract was neither fulfilled nor broken?”
“What is that…”
“That doesn’t mean you’re fully alive either.”
Lane frowned as she looked at Azela, then closed her mouth and tapped the table with her index finger. She seemed to be in deep trouble. It seemed like she, too, was trying to understand this situation.
While Lane was trying to come up with a conclusion to this situation, Zagnac and Azela patiently waited.
“Did you follow the book I gave you?”
“Yes. I definitely did that.”
“The Princess knows how to use ancient magic, though she has never really used magic before, right?”
“I don’t know exactly, but maybe.”
“Then, there is only one answer.”
“….”
“The spell failed.”
Azela’s expression changed with every word Lane spoke. She was filled with hope, and then she fell into despair.
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gosh she is half dead he is not a devil but not a human. don’t tell me he is now living wit half of her soul like are they sharing or smthg I am anxious now