Chapter 242 (2/2)
“Then what now?” Muell’s eyes turned toward the room where the arrogant man was locked up.
The doorknob to that room was shaking disturbingly.
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While Muell wrote down all of Lenia’s words in front of the main staircase, and Noah and Kyle scoured the lab on the fourth floor, there was only a curious silence in room 319.
The faint sound of Lenia crying, someone muttering, and the bright voice of a young dragon seemed to be heard, but no one inside listened.
The man lying down with his eyes to the ceiling as if he’d died raised his upper body again after a long time. Leaning his cheek on the back of his hand, Adrian looked at his other self for a moment. Another Adrian Rossinell created through a destructive desire.
Having gained enough dragon power to conduct just one experiment, he had chosen himself without hesitation. It wasn’t that the experiment was lacking. Now wasn’t the time to ponder on ethical problems.
There was a wave of emotions he couldn’t handle; destructive feelings that ate himself little by little. Love wasn’t the only thing that has plagued him for a long time. In fact, what he felt for Eleonora wasn’t a form of love. It was the desire for genius and a sense of inferiority that coexisted as much as love did; crushed self-confidence; an emotional exchange that he longed for but could not eventually gain; a deep sense of betrayal.
He wished he’d cut out the things that’d driven him crazy for the past years. Or split them in half if he couldn’t drive them to one side completely. And now, the weight of losing was finally divided into two, with not even a mark to distinguish the real from the fake. Only the real Adrian knew which one was fake. However, there was no point in distinguishing who had been cut out and who did the cutting out.
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Since there will only be one person left anyway.
The two pairs of green eyes met in the middle, and a low voice fell between them.
“What do you think, Adrian?”
One was expressionless while the other smiled faintly.
“Who wants to stay?”