22 Chapter 20: Her 17th Birthday 2 (2/2)
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”You all failed as soon as you were hired to kill Ivery” Luther took the gun from the assassin's hand and pulled the trigger
The gun fired and the bullet shot through the assassin's head.
Ivery waved both of her hands and released the magic clones and they all turned into golden pink mist clouds and disappeared.
Everyone in the room applauded Ivery's victory.
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The promise she made to Luther was one specific thing...something difficult when faced in the midst of battle...
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”Never kill anyone with your own hands...”
Luther did not want to corrupt Ivery's mind with murdering people...he knows all too well that his mind is beyond unstable...and what killing too many people does to a person. You cannot go back to sanity once you take multiple lives, it's even difficult enough to stay sane from even taking a single life..
Once she kills, she'll keep doing it..again and again..and then she'll change for the worst and she will no longer be the Ivery he knows, she'll become cold...and ruthless like him...he didn't want that.
He didn't want her to be like him, he needs someone who can balance him...keep him from fully flipping into the dark side...she's the light in his dark and bloody world...she's his purifier, she keeps his mind together, without her all of these years...he would've been beyond hope, slaughtering everyone and anyone that breathed...that's what being a constant murderer does to you...it makes you lose almost all reason, all hope for redemption is lost.
If his only light...started flickering so much that it soon became dull...he'd fall deeper into the pits of darkness, lost forever...to madness. The dullness of the light is a sign it needs to be changed...if you leave it long enough..it'll blow out..and it's permanently damaged..
She'd never come back from killing people...
So he told her...
”Do whatever you can to weaken your opponents, if I'm there I'll make the kill, If I'm not there I'll be there soon to make the kill, I do not want you to bloody your hands...my hands are already spilling with endless blood” Luther caressed Ivery's cheek
”I don't want to kill either...I'd forever have a guilty conscience” Ivery touched his hand on her cheek
”I don't feel guilty...but killing as many people as I have...takes a toll on the mind, I already know I'm far past insanity...there's nowhere else to go for someone like me to go but to insanity” Luther said
”You don't casually act insane though” Ivery said back
”I am...the things that run through my mind...it'll be sickening to you” Luther looked sad
”The slightest bit of irritation, anger, and displeasure can easily flip a switch for me...and I can't help myself...”
”I don't care, you'll always be the most important person to me, no matter how insane you are or how insane you get” Ivery touched both of his cheeks and brought his head down closer to her
”You're all I need” Luther pressed his lips gently against hers
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”The party is over!” Ivery shouted and walked up the stairs
She was done, her birthday party was ruined. She wasn't in the mood anymore...
Everyone understood, they did not blame her...they all bowed and took their leave.
Luther walked up the stairs, following where Ivery went.
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”Well that was a mess” Loki stepped out of a golden pink mist cloud
Ivery sat on her bed and laid down. Tired from today..
”I didn't think Xia would come after me like she did today..” Ivery said
”Well she thought you killed her mother after all” Loki licked the back of his paw
”It probably was more than that to her...I took everything she ever wanted, I technically stole her fiance and I took her position as the strongest princess in the Lilith Kingdom, is it all really fair to her who was rightfully born in this world..” Ivery said
”Is that so?” A voice said in her ear
She turned around and Luther instantly sealed a kiss on her lips.
”You certainly stole me, and I'm yours” Luther smiled
”Luther...can I talk to you..about something that has been bothering me” Ivery blushed and sat up
”What is it?” Luther asked
”I'm...getting too attached to this world..and to you..” Ivery looked down
”What do you mean?” Luther knew where she was going with this
”After I change Inanna's fate...I'll be sent back to my world..and Inanna will get her body back, what will you do after that happens...?” Ivery asked
”I've told you before, I never met Inanna, meaning I didn't fall in love with her, if you were to leave...I could never love her, I won't love her, if it's not you...everyone else is nonexistent”
”By the time I'm probably sent back...we'd be married...maybe with children” Ivery held back her tears
”Ivery...do you want to go back to your world...to your family?” Luther asked, already knowing everything about her situation
”I don't! I don't miss anyone there! No one in that world cares for me! There's nothing there for me! Yet I have to leave the only world that has everyone I care about! I don't want to go back..it was as good as hell there!” Ivery burst into tears
Luther pulled Ivery close to him and wrapped his arms around her...holding her tight as she cried.
”I'm sure Hecate wouldn't mind if I told you early...” Luther rubbed her head
”Told me what?” Ivery sniffed
”The truth is...you're stuck here in this world...forever...that was the price you paid for getting access to your infinite attribute early, it sounds almost like a curse that you can never leave this world after all...but overall it means that this body is completely yours..” Luther said to her
”W..What? Really?” Ivery looked up at him with teary eyes
”Then what about Inanna's soul?” Ivery asked
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”She was reborn when she had died, I sent her soul for reincarnation...into the family of a duke...in this world...and I'm sure you are very well acquainted with her” Hecate's voice sounded out in the room
”What do you mean?” Ivery looked up at Hecate who hovered above the floor
”I'm sure you are familiar with her new name...” Hecate smiled
”Her new name? I know Inanna's reincarnation?” Ivery asked
”Her name is now Beatrice Garciel”
”....” Ivery was speechless
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