CHAPTER 510: EPILOGUE 1 (1/2)
“Don’t lie to me…” Nicole pleaded as she looked at Mo Ke’s eyes, meeting his sincerity with her desperate tears.
Seeing her react so strongly to his words, he was immediately overcome with a sense of helplessness and sadness. However, he still swallowed his grief and said, “I’m not.”
“Just stop…” Nicole was not to be deterred, pleading with him once more.
“I am really your little Ke. I’m not lying to you!”
In order to emphasize this point, Mo Ke even called out her nickname for him. It was a special nickname the two of them shared alone. Because of how similar their names sounded in this world, Roscar would often just refer to them as his son or daughter in order to avoid making a mistake. Only the two of them would ever use little Ke.
(TL: not going to bother checking. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.)
The moment that name left his lips, Nicole weeped even harder than before. Yet amidst her tears and tumultuous emotions, there was a glint of coldness in her eyes.
“Thank you…” As she said that, she returned back to her usual unfeeling self. Her eyes were still red from crying, but they now only held hatred within them.
“Nicole… what are you thanking me for?” Mo Ke asked while smiling quiveringly. He simply couldn’t fathom why she was looking at him with such a foreign look. He had never intended to open up to her so soon, but she had forced his hand early. In light of that, it was wiser to come clean sooner rather than later.
He had originally thought that his admission would be met with a passionate hug from her. After all, their relationship was a special one. If he was being bold, he would even say that they were familiar enough to kiss. Unfortunately, she didn’t seem to share this vision.
Yet while Mo Ke might not have understood what was happening to Nicole, that didn’t mean the she-Devil hiding within him did not. After all, she was a Devil King that had almost realised her divinity. A teenage girl’s heart was but a trifling matter to see through. She could tell that the coldness in the girl’s eyes was because she had come to a terrifying decision. Even so, she also felt that an Overlord-class was rushing towards them right now with a bunch of other experts. In all likelihood, those were the Demon Hunters Nicole mentioned.
Suddenly, she couldn’t help but be struck with how helpless she was right now. Both her and Mo Ke had completely lost the initiative at this point, but she had no way of regaining it. After all, she couldn’t control Mo Ke’s body while he was still fully against that.
(TL: what the heck does “she felt like a medicine pill” even mean? I know what the author is trying to express, but who even uses that expression?)
“Little brother, there’s an Overlord-class and a bunch of experts heading this way. They should be that girl’s — DUCK!”
Yet before he could even process what was happening, he felt a searing pain in his chest, in a location dangerously close to his heart. Purple blood began to ooze out from his chest, drenching his clothes in an instant.
I was stabbed?! By Nicole?! Mo Ke realised too late.
The shock of what had happened was too much for Mo Ke to bear. The sword to his chest not only pierced his flesh, but he felt a strange mix of elements rushing into his body as well. It was as if his body had been torn in half. One half felt like it was being burned on a stake while the other felt like it had been thrown into a freezing hell… That was the Fire and Ice combination of Nicole’s Epic-grade weapon!
Yet in spite of the pain, Mo Ke still smiled woodenly, dumbfounded as blood started leaking from the corners of his mouth. All he could do was smile wryly at the girl stabbing him right now.
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Nicole’s eyes were consumed with hatred right now. Hatred for the person standing before her. It was this person who ate her younger brother’s soul, and ended up mixing its own identity with his.
Even though the person in front of her didn’t exactly match the description the Demon Hunters’ Guild gave her, everything else fit; from the way she searched for her to the way she claimed to be Mo Ke. Not only that, she even resembled the way her younger brother acted… No. She was practically a carbon-copy of him! All that only served to convince her that this was the Devil who ate her younger brother and took over his identity.
“Cough… Why… Why would you… Cough… I’m Mo Ke…”
With every cough of blood, his body relived the searing pain of that sword stabbing into him.