The place where Elysia will die will soon be renewed.
<Sabiel, I am pregnant with your child.>
Those words were the trigger for a suggestion that had been planted in Sabiel’s head for a long time.
Elysia, who was pregnant with Sabiel’s child, was supposed to die at his hands, but now it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t have children.
Sonatek decided to get rid of Elysia even if he fixed the original story further.
“Won Yun-ji, if only I could cause you pain.”
Sonatek chuckled contently under the mask.
* * * * *
While Eleon and Elysia were gone, Lev looked at Mariela.
“By the way….”
Lev’s eyes sparkled with curiosity.
“My son’s eyes looking at Elysia were unusual. Are those two in a relationship?”
Mariela jumped up.
“No. It’s not like that.”
Now that Elysia’s memories had returned, there was no need for her daughter to treat Eleon like she used to.
Mariela denied it once without thinking about what happened next.
“There’s no need to be so serious. Dating is not a sin.”
Lev was quite a free spirit.
“When I saw them sitting next to each other, they seemed to match well. What do you think? If those two agree, let’s be in-laws.”
“It’s ridiculous. Elysia is a priestess of Hadunsha.”
“Ah, I see.”
Lev made a cold expression.
“Then why did Eleon look at Elysia like he was going to eat her? As if something was stuck.”
“That…. that.”
“I have never seen him look at someone with such persistence. As you know, he grew up lacking for nothing, so he’s not very greedy. I don’t know if it’s because he had it all, but he had never seen him regret it so much.”
When Mariela didn’t know what to say, Lev clapped.
“He’s all grown up, but I’m saying this because I’m in awe as his mother, so don’t think too much.”
“No. I understand, this topic also touches my heart. Even if I gave birth to her, when I watched her grow up, she became a different young lady, really different from what I thought.”
“How was Elysia?”
Mariela smiled sadly.
“That child… She was a child who never complained.”
* * * * *
It was too late for Lev to let Mariela go.
It wasn’t until well after midnight that Mariela, making her way to her designated bedroom, noticed a light coming through the crack in the door that Elysia was using.
Knock, knock.
She knocked lightly and felt a presence in the room.
“Mom. Are you done talking now?”
“Yes.”
Elysia stepped to the side so she could enter.
When she entered the room, she saw a candle placed on the windowsill and Hadunsha’s prayer book in front of it.
Although it was a facade for doctrines and prayers to propagate to the people, Elysia used it to meditate.
Seeing that, Mariela kindly asked, hiding her bitter feelings.
“Were you praying?”
“Yes.”
Mariela sighed.
「“That child… She was a child who never complained.”」
The pretty girl she gave birth to, who looked just like Mariela, was kind-hearted.
She was a girl who didn’t say she was sick even when she was in pain, and she didn’t cry even when she was sad.
Whenever Mariela was pessimistic about her situation, she was a tender and loving daughter who hugged her crying mother.
She always says that it’s fine. And trust her that she will be happy.
She was always grateful to Elysia for telling her that every time she got frustrated and wanted to give up.
There was no way she was going to be okay with the fate of a terrible death, but it was comforting that Elysia comforted her at least in words. She was the type of daughter who comforted her mother so that she could regain strength once more.
But she really didn’t want to know what Elysia was thinking about her tragic fate.
I was disqualified as a mother.
This is for you.
I’ll do anything to save you.
She didn’t know that her daughter’s soul was helplessly withering away.
「“I can change the original story.”」
Aren’t those Elysia’s true feelings?
Instead of running away, she might have wanted to fight the madman by even hitting a rock with an egg.
「“I love Eleon.”」
She was flustered hearing those shocking words, but…
「“I think I will be able to live in this world with these feelings.”」
Elysia at that time was surprisingly bright.
Interestingly, the brightest and most positive moment in Elysia’s life was when she was together with Eleon as the ‘fake Won Yun-ji’.
Mariela was Elysia’s mother.
Her daughter’s face, which was brightly flushed and excited, caught her eye.
“Are you really…… okay?”
“Yes.”
Elysia nodded at Mariela’s unexpected question.
“You won’t regret it?”
“Everything is going according to plan. I’m the only one who needs to come out of the original story.”
This time, Elysia tried to comfort herself instead of her mother.
“My memories of loving Eleon. That alone is enough for me.”
