Ch171 - He made you like this, right?! (2/2)
“I said many more things before saying that it was for his sake. Did Your Highness the Crown Prince ignore them all?” Xue Ling curved his lips, “Or did you think that poisoning by someone who has nothing to do with me would make me angry enough to kill you?”
Kent had nothing to say. In fact, Oliver’s intention to kill him had never changed. At first, he didn’t care. Later, he didn’t think that Oliver would be able to make a move against him. Frankly speaking, he never took the matter of killing Oliver’s parents seriously. After all, they weren’t human beings, they were just two demonic beasts. To him, killing two demonic beasts was no big deal at all. Instead, they should be grateful that they were valuable, and flattered that he had taken the time to catch them.
“Enough. Ivan, make your choice. Will you kill Kent and clear out all the accounts? Since you’ve given me such a curse, then it makes sense for us to reach a day where you pick up your sword and help me do what I can no longer do.” There was a beautiful smile on his lips. It made his entire face curve and had a kind of attractive charm. “Come on, Ivan, let me see whether you believe that your Kent is more important, or yourself?”
Ivan’s face was pale. He looked at Kent and retreated from his embrace, step by step.
Kent coaxed him and said, “Don’t believe him, Ivan. We can definitely still find a way to get rid of your poison without them.” He looked at Xi, the man who had been standing silently beside Xue Ling from the beginning. He had just noticed that in Xue Ling’s words, Xue Ling himself had no ability to dispel the poison. What he had said was that he would have this man do it for him.
“Your Excellency, I am a Prince of this country – the Crown Prince. I can give you anything you want, so could you please dispel the poison in my lover? Whatever Oliver is giving you, I can give you double!” Kent acted like a desperate person who was chaotically, anxiously rushing to find a doctor.
Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.
However, Xi barely even gave him a glance. He bowed his head and kissed Xue Ling’s forehead, saying, “When will everything be settled? What would you like to eat tonight?”
Xue Ling laughed, hugged his neck, then looked up at Kent and said, “What do you want to do? Buy him? Perhaps you could consider selling your body, but he might not necessarily want it~”
Ivan looked at the intimacy between two and asked Xue Ling, “Oliver, is that your new contractor? It’s because of him that you become what you are today, right? The Oliver that used to treat me so well, so gently… He would absolutely never be like this. It was him, wasn’t it?! He made you like this, right?!” The more he questioned, the more hysterical he seemed.
Xue Ling sneered then spoke coldly, “When I broke the contract with you back then, I made it very clear that we would only speak about forgiveness after I have killed your lover. We no longer have any relationship between us. Now, all you have to do is follow my words and do what I want you to do. As long as you do so, perhaps I can even consider forgiving you.”
He tossed a knife onto the ground and said, “Take this. It should be white going in, and red coming out. Be good, you’ll soon be able to live on. Don’t wait for me to lose patience; he’ll still die, but you… we don’t know what you’ll become~”
Ivan shivered. His expression was very strange; even if he had ten more brains, he would never have thought that he would come to this point one day. He didn’t know exactly why these things happened, but he had already run out of time.
His hair and eye color were darkening at a speed visible to the naked eye. Darkness was eroding the light elements in his body step by step and soon, his body would completely turn into a cradle for the darkness. He would become a devil, a wild being unable to live in the sunshine, banished to the boundless darkness.
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Kent looked at Ivan for a long time and finally said, “Ivan, you know, I can’t die…” He gave Ivan a slightly evasive look. Now that things had reached this point, he had no way to righteously and solemnly tell Ivan to kill him. “I still have my country, my people… My mother and my friends… But Ivan, you only have me…” The meaning underneath his words was, could you die for me instead?
Ivan stared at him, stunned. In fact, according to his personality, if Kent told him loudly that he was willing to die for him and asked him to quickly kill him, perhaps he would cry and stab himself instead so that he could die a better death.
But Kent spoke like this.
If Ivan was the same Ivan from before who had not yet entered the Demonic Beast Forest, had not been betrayed, and stayed true to his Holy Saint heart instead of deceiving himself, he might really have thought about these things and died instead of Kent, but now Ivan had changed. He trusted Kent before, but Kent had taken off his own mask and spoken to him like this.
Ivan looked at him and said slowly, “Kent, even if I don’t make a move against you, you’re still going to die…” Xue Ling never said that he would give up killing Kent if Ivan died. He had always said the same thing; as long as Kent died, Ivan could live. He didn’t say the rest, but Ivan understood.
He now understood what Oliver had said to him in the Demonic Beast Forest. He knew how painful it was to die from losing the power of light bit by bit. He also understood how it felt to betray relatives, and even the people he valued most.
Ivan’s heart was filled with mixed feelings as he picked the knife up from the ground and looked at Kent, but the question from his mouth was directed towards Xue Ling, “If I kill him, will it end everything between us?”
“Yes.” As long as Kent and his mother died, all the wishes that the original owner of this body had would be fulfilled. After doing all this, as well as thoroughly changing Ivan’s character, Xue Ling could be completely certain that the story would no longer go back to the original plot line, so he could leave and probably never have to come back.
“Good.” Ivan’s reply was very soft. He stepped up to Kent, reached out, and touched Kent’s face.
“Kent, close your eyes. I promise you, soon, it won’t hurt at all.” He smiled the same way he had when Kent first met him, his smile very pure, very lovely. “Your country, and Her Highness Murphy, all that is yours, I will take care of for you… If I were to do it, it definitely won’t hurt very much. But if it was him, I can’t think of how he would torture you… This is for your sake, Kent.”
His eyebrows were bent from his smile and the curve of his mouth took on a delicate, strange edge. “So, Kent, go die.”
Ivan’s eyes were filled with the dizzying color of blood. Kent watched on in astonishment as it happened; his body wasn’t under his control, and he had no way to stop Ivan’s movements…
He had no idea that Ivan would really do it, and stab his heart with the knife. Red blood spurted onto Ivan’s face, and the awareness in his eyes slowly collapsed…
Kent’s last glimpse of life was seeing Ivan lose his mind, retreat a few steps, and fall into a pool of his blood.
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A shrill scream rang through the palace that night.