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LONG LIVE THE DEAD - FULL EP 2026
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00:00Burn her! Burn her! Burn her!
00:03My name is Leia.
00:0424 hours ago, I was New York's top forensic pathologist,
00:08calmly cutting open the chest of a powerful man.
00:11Now I'm bound with rough ropes to the cursed execution platform,
00:15my feet surrounded by grease-soaked firewood.
00:17The witch!
00:18You're in my assault!
00:20Those eyes of yours that can see spirits are the mark of Satan!
00:25But I don't struggle.
00:26I'm just waiting.
00:28Behind these fanatical rioters stands an army they cannot see.
00:32Hundreds upon thousands of resentful ghosts.
00:39Since you wish to do God's will,
00:41why don't you first ask the Saison if she approves?
00:45The air reeks of cheap grease and pine.
00:48Lilla, those cursed purple eyes of yours can see Satan's illusions!
00:52Only fire can cleanse your sins!
00:56My name is Leia, not Leela.
00:58As the top forensic pathologist of the 21st century,
01:02I have dissected thousands of corpses and heard countless last words from the dead.
01:08I transmigrated to this backward medieval era,
01:10becoming Lila, the illegitimate daughter of a noble count,
01:15branded a cursed star for her purple eyes,
01:18pushed to death by her own father.
01:21I found my eyes had mutated.
01:23I can not only discern wounds clearly,
01:27I can also see the lingering victims who haven't yet departed.
01:31Valerie, are you sure you want to light the fire?
01:34Silence! The witch is casting a curse!
01:36A curse?
01:37Sister Cecile is right behind you, Archbishop.
01:39She's wearing an emerald silk dress,
01:41but her throat is charred black,
01:42marks from concentrated strong alkali corrosion.
01:44Didn't she keep grabbing your left hand when you made her drink that cup of holy water?
01:49Silence! The witch is casting a curse!
01:54Archbishop, does your left hand still hurt?
01:58You're lying! Start the fire! Now!
02:02Why so nervous?
02:03I sweep my gaze over the unsettled believers in the square.
02:06Do you want to know where the saint's heart is?
02:10It never went to heaven.
02:11No one breathes.
02:13It's hidden behind the secret door inside the confessional at the Archbishop's residence.
02:17I can see the empty cavity in Cecile's chest as clearly as if I had opened it myself.
02:24He cut out her heart,
02:27simply because he believed it would prolong his life.
02:31Suspicious eyes turned toward Valerius.
02:34He's the real servant of darkness.
02:37Not me.
02:39Burn her! Burn her now!
02:47The wind stops.
02:50I owe you one.
02:51Command me.
02:53Now is the time.
02:54If you want him in hell,
02:56lend me your hands.
02:57The sky blackens at once.
02:59Clouds swallow the sun.
03:01The flames at my feet go out.
03:02Then flare back to life in a strange blue fire.
03:06They do not burn me.
03:07They only eat through the ropes.
03:09Valerius suddenly starts convulsing.
03:11His left arm jerks up against his will.
03:13The old scratches split open again,
03:16blackening as they tear wider.
03:17The cross slipped from his fingers and clattered to the ground.
03:21He lets out a scream that does not sound human.
03:24Then he looked behind him in terror.
03:25A black shape thickens in the air as though ink has been poured over glass.
03:30Cecile takes form.
03:31Her neck is scorched black.
03:33Her body is half-burned.
03:34Tears still stain her face.
03:36Stepping onto the loosened rope and rising to my full height on the execution platform.
03:43Now, I get to judge you.
03:47I had only been in this world a short time.
03:50But I had already seen enough.
03:52I knew exactly where power came from in a crowd like this.
03:55Build a line.
03:57Name a common enemy.
03:59At that moment, Valerius' left hand.
04:01The one covered in claw marks.
04:04Who's crushing his own throat.
04:06He hangs half in the air.
04:08Kicked up by the saint's dead grip.
04:10His legs thrashing.
04:12The square sinks into a silence so heavy it feels like stone.
04:17Fear ripples through the people.
04:19But so does doubt.
04:21Marquis de Moray, who was sent to supervise the execution.
04:25Everyone, do not be fooled by this witch's tricks.
04:29Even if Valerius is guilty, the church should judge him.
04:33You expect us to trust the word of a demon-eyes girl?
04:36Your visions prove nothing.
04:40The dead don't invent tricks.
04:42They only tell the truth people buried.
04:44Take your eldest son, for example.
04:46The one who vanished three years ago.
04:49Valerius told you he died on pilgrimage, didn't he?
04:51The Marquis goes rigid.
04:53His sword shakes.
04:56But your son is right behind you.
05:00He says he saw Valerius torturing a novice inside the confessional, so Valerius silenced him.
05:06He was never buried in holy ground.
05:09He was chopped into pieces and hidden under the old laurel tree in the church garden.
05:15That's impossible.
05:17Cecile.
05:18Show him.
05:20Her shadow stretches across the ground like spilled tar.
05:23Then tears toward the cathedral in a shrieking room.
05:26The Marquis runs after it.
05:28So do the townsfolk.
05:34When they come back, the Marquis is staggering.
05:38In his hands is a sealed gold vessel.
05:41Inside it is a shriveled heart.
05:43That is the end of fate.
05:44The square erupts.
05:47Kill him!
05:48Burn the Karis Eater!
05:51Tear him apart!
05:54The mob swallows Valerius blood.
05:59I stand on the stake and watch the Archbishop die.
06:03The trial has only just begun.
06:07Leela!
06:09You... you're alive!
06:11Thank God!
06:13She is the adopted daughter who entered the convent with me.
06:17She is also the one who drugged my food,
06:20deepened the unnatural color of my eyes,
06:22and pointed at me in front of the church and cried witch.
06:25Leela!
06:28Bella!
06:29Don't expect me to forgive you like before.
06:31I'm not the old Lila.
06:33Not that saintly little fool.
06:35What are you saying?
06:37I was worried about you.
06:39I never thought they were really bad.
06:40I looked at the looming shadow behind her.
06:43The wreath was furiously tearing at Belly's hair.
06:46Bella knew nothing of it,
06:47only busy putting on her act of sisterly affection.
06:50And in that instant, another truth falls into place.
06:54Next month is the coronation.
06:56The prince's bride, the future queen,
06:59was supposed to be me, the only marriageable daughter of the house.
07:03She was trying to take my place.
07:05At this moment, heavy hooves crash against the stones outside the square.
07:11The crowd carts.
07:12Two lavish carriages roll in beneath the protection of mounted knights.
07:16The royal crest and the holy sigil are carved into both.
07:21The doors open.
07:22Two women step down.
07:30The woman on the left is my elder sister, Cassandra.
07:34She sees good and evil as clearly as color,
07:36and turns morality itself into force.
07:39That power made her the royal court's cleanest blade.
07:42The woman on the right is my second sister, Secure.
07:45She can see the end date on every life.
07:48She steals years from the condemned and gives them to dying nobles.
07:51That is how she built her influence.
07:54You should not be alive.
08:01You should not be alive.
08:03Your countdown reset.
08:05A forbidden force rewrote your fate.
08:10As the daughters of the woman who once married into this house,
08:14we should have been house storm pressed pride.
08:18Only I was packed off to a convent whilst still a child.
08:22Then sent to die on a pyre.
08:25Liar!
08:26The king is watching this miracle!
08:28You're an anomaly.
08:29And anomalies make powerful people nervous.
08:32Come with us. Quietly.
08:34I do not trust them.
08:35Not after they stood by while I was condemned.
08:38In light of what you have shown here,
08:40and the unrest caused by your eyes,
08:42you are stripped of the Stormcrest name.
08:45Effective immediately, you are to be exiled to Blackstone Culp.
08:51Blackstone Keep is a death sentence.
08:54People say even rats go mad there.
08:57I'll go.
09:06I'm coming.
09:07I'm coming.
09:08I am being thrown into a ruin full of dead things.
09:12To them, it is exile.
09:14To me, it might be a door.
09:19Because in this world,
09:21power may wear the mask of virtue or time,
09:24but under both lies the same foundation.
09:28Bones.
09:29And if what I hold is really tied to death,
09:32then a fortress full of corpses may be the best place in the world for me to begin.
09:40The moment I tried to pick up the chest again,
09:42that same agony came flooding back.
09:49The road to Blackstone Keep is lined with nameless graves.
09:53As the carriage moves north,
09:55the city gives way to empty land,
09:57then to scrub,
09:59then to sand.
10:01The farther they went,
10:02the more uneasy the guards looked.
10:05Cecile sits across from me now,
10:07no longer flickering in and out like before.
10:10In life, she was all softness and worship.
10:13In death,
10:14something colder has settled into her bones.
10:17Lady Lyra,
10:19that guard's soul was fading away.
10:22Three hours from now,
10:23he'll freeze to death out here.
10:28I can see more than ghosts.
10:31I can see death itself.
10:33Now these eyes seem determined to drag me past time itself.
10:37I see the dead.
10:39I see the wounds that killed them.
10:42I hear their whispers.
10:45Sometimes I see the memory of the moment they died.
10:50I raise my hand and touch the scorched hollow of Cecile's throat.
10:58And I see electric shock-like sensation swept through me in an instant.
11:04Then her injury closes.
11:07The charred wound zips itself shut under a pulse of violet light.
11:12Lady Lyra,
11:15you can restore us.
11:17You can restore us!
11:25It may just be muscle memory.
11:27A doctor sees damage and wants to cut, fix, stitch, understand.
11:32And apparently, I could also mend souls now.
11:38I called these little surprises luck.
11:41The carriage rolled to a stop in front of Blackstone Keep's rusted iron gate.
11:50This wasn't an old castle.
11:54This was a giant morgue.
11:58The moment I stepped into the Great Hall, they came for me.
12:02My brain screamed.
12:04My eyes wept blood from the strain.
12:07I ordered.
12:08My voice cold.
12:10Back off!
12:10They didn't listen.
12:11Spirits with no shape and no sense.
12:14Just raw, hungry instinct.
12:15Suddenly, a gust of wind scattered them.
12:18Don't bother begging them like that.
12:21It's useless.
12:22Beneath the shattered stained glass window.
12:25Half hidden in shadow.
12:27Sat a man.
12:28Like he'd been waiting for me all along.
12:42Who are you?
12:44A failure.
12:46My body was stolen.
12:47My soul though?
12:49It just won't die.
12:50Leela moaned.
12:51Take a good look.
12:52Blackstone Keep isn't a castle.
12:54It's the Empire's soul alchemist's factory.
12:57They haul souls here.
12:58From commoners, from criminals.
13:00Grind them to dust.
13:01And refine the purest life force.
13:03Then they ship it to the capital.
13:05Following his lead, my violet eyes began to pulse wildly.
13:09Visions flooded my sight.
13:11Overlapping.
13:13Chaotic.
13:14They were the collective memories of the dead.
13:16So you're a harvested battery too.
13:20I'm a battery they'll never drain.
13:23They chopped up my body, but my soul was too hard to chew.
13:27Listen.
13:28The Arcan isn't ripping out saint's hearts to extend his own life.
13:31He's just a supplier.
13:33The real customer is the king.
13:35And the one swinging the blade?
13:36That's your sister.
13:38Why are you telling me all this?
13:39Your mother asked me to.
13:41She told me to wait for you here.
13:43Lila.
13:44See your power for what it is.
13:46You can read how the dead died.
13:47You can mend their wounds.
13:49But that's just the beginning.
13:51Next week, the king's sickly son is taking a new bride.
13:55Another sacrifice.
13:57The king needs a top grade spare part to keep himself alive.
14:01Guess who they've chosen as the next offering.
14:04Bella thought she'd stolen a fortune from me.
14:07Who knew she'd actually stolen a death sentence?
14:11What's your name?
14:13Alaric.
14:14Deep under Blackstone Keep, there's something your mother left before she died.
14:18I've kept it safe for you, for decades.
14:21With that, you'll get closer to the truth.
14:25I followed the spiral staircase down.
14:28The underground didn't smell of rot like I'd expected.
14:32Instead, there was a sharp, chemical scent.
14:36Something like formaldehyde.
14:38At the bottom of the stairs lay a precision laboratory.
14:41In the center, on a stone table, sat a heavy iron chest.
14:47The moment I touched the chest, my violet pupils erupted with shattered images.
14:51I saw my mother.
14:54She hadn't died from postpartum weakness.
14:56She had been down in this dungeon, frantically recording something.
15:00She wasn't a victim.
15:02She was a key node in this whole immortality experiment.
15:06Connecting it with what Alaric had told me,
15:08the current king wasn't the first beneficiary of this immortality scheme.
15:12They had used Blackstone Keep to drain life force.
15:14But when the keep stopped working, they needed a replacement.
15:17And my mother, she might have been that replacement.
15:20The moment I tried to pick up the chest again, that same agony came flooding back.
15:31Lady Mondae left a magic mark behind.
15:34It was meant cement to someone from her world.
15:37Someone like her.
15:39To end all of this.
15:44Now, can you tell me your real name?
15:57my name is lyra i'm a medical examiner cecil stood behind me
16:05her voice was no longer ethereal lady lyra i can feel the wind now she pulled a long
16:13sword from her hollow chest looking just as shocked as i felt i'm going to use this blade
16:20to carve out that old immortal's heart
16:25only the one who picks up this blade is worthy of pureness back then the king ripped out my
16:31heart trying to turn me into the purest battery for blackstone keep your mother used that open
16:36heart moment to secretly stitch part of my soul into the keep's foundation she saved my
16:41consciousness but trapped me here unable to leave she was a brilliant stitcher she did
16:48all of this so the immortality fast would end with my generation and she must have had her
16:53reasons for saving me will you come with me alaic lyra if you want to take me with you you'll
17:01have to use that blade stitch my ghost into your shadow from then on your life will be my
17:12his cold weightless body fast green and embrace then dissolved into swirling black smoke that
17:19shrank into my shadow
17:24let's go getting away the scalpel
17:29after the coronation banquet in the imperial capital bella wearing a pure white wedding dress
17:35held the hand of the king's most beloved third prince i hid in the shadow of the huge stone
17:40pillar in the banquet hall and the shadow under my feet stirred restlessly as if echoing the
17:44undercurrent surging in my heart my second sister sophia appeared behind me without warning her tone
17:50trembling imperceptibly and her eyes were filled with unprecedented anxiety it turned out that bella had been a
17:56pawn from the very beginning used to carry a cruel exchange of vitality the king would use sophia's
18:01hand and transfer bella's vitality to the third prince it was never lila i was leia after three years
18:07of protection it was now my turn to come back and clean up this mess with my own hands
18:14the banquet reaches its peak leila lifts the golden cup with shaking excitement the prince does the same
18:20i object i step out of the shadows at once the glamour around the nobility peels away in my sight
18:27the beautiful faces wrinkle collapse rot under their silk and velvet i see patchwork flesh and old
18:33sutures and stolen years barely held together seal materializes in the center of the hall
18:38curse dead white face all of it appears before the assembled lords and ladies for a heartbeat no one
18:44moves then someone screams the same the same is back the hall explodes into planning
18:50cecile raises her sword and starts chatting to the crowd every thrust lands in the transplanted heart
18:56walk toward them slowly my violet eyes burning today is where we came to kill that witch
19:02the king roars by slamming the hand on the table the royal guard searches forward my shadow erupts
19:08black blades raise across the floor spearing a huge soldier in his own shadow bodies crumble and weather
19:14away before they can escape half a power rises from the darkness and wraps one spectral hand around the
19:20prince's throat bella drops to the floor stunned i crouch in front of her and then i smile thanks for
19:26dying in my place she jerks back finally recognizing the danger why are you still alive you bitch catch her
19:33wrist and wrench her upright then i turn toward the king your majesty is this the heart
19:38you wanted do you even know what she is she's not lady monday's true daughter king does not panic
19:44not even a little he is staring at the scalpel in my hand beneath the obsession once the hidden
19:50mother array beneath the floor ignites the modern scalpel in my hand lets out a shrill metallic crack
19:55then it rips free of my grip it does not fly toward the king it does not fly toward the
20:01prince
20:01it shoots straight across the hall and buries itself in sophia's chest
20:07for one second everything stops the silver flash the wet sound of impact sophia looking down at the
20:14blade sticking out of her chest i reach her as she falls at a glance it looks fatal but i
20:20am a doctor
20:20before i am anything else something is wrong there is no arterial spray and my breath catches the blade
20:27is not in her heart it is embedded in a black growth at that exact moment the king lets out
20:32a
20:32monstrous scream one whole side of his face shrivels before our eyes collapsing into dried rot now i get
20:39it i say gripping the scalpel the blade didn't attack her it cut out the parasite sophia cocks up black
20:45blood and dried blood and dry to the wrist our lives were tied to the king when we were children
20:49she
20:50whispers mother made a deal cecile returns at a ride sword for me lady lyra the noble said that
20:58stolen ears are snapping back all at once did you do this the truth lands the pieces and they're all
21:03at
21:03once sophia is one half of the king's living life and cassandra is the other my mother used her
21:09daughters as thorns hidden inside the king's body at my call my shadow boils move i drag sophia with me
21:16cecile shields us alaric wraps us in black force and sends us crashing through the palace windows
21:21and down into the freezing mode below north of the capital stands the holy court that is cassandra's
21:29domain unlike the banquet hall this place is clean to the point of madness with a bleeding sophia in my
21:35arms cassandra is already seated at the judgment bench beside her stands high pontiff julian he
21:41smiles with his eyes lowered a holy white aura blazing above him so bright it almost hurts to look at
21:47my child julian says stepping down from the dais i have waited for you i feel it at once the
21:53pressure
21:53heavy enough to crush thought cassandra says nothing she does not stop him that tells me everything i need
22:00to know sophia broke the link too early the truth is leaking julian needs me dead before the room
22:06catches up all those crimes he says softly the archbishop the broken marriage the chaos in the
22:13palace such evil death is the only thing that can cleanse your soul he raises his hand white light
22:19gathers in his palm dense and vicious enough to shred the mind before he can strike my shadow spills across
22:25the floor of the movement a scaled hand punches up from the darkness and catches the holy light
22:30barehanded the light vanishes into shadow the hand is scorched to pieces for the effort but enough julian
22:37he says voice low and filthy with contempt the pontiff sees his face prince alaric he shrieks impossible
22:44your soul should still be trapped
22:48my pulse stutters alaric's identity is bigger than i ever guessed he is the king's brother the prince the
22:55crown should have gone to lyra alaric says without looking back protect your sister he draws a massive
23:01black sword cecile steps in front of me and sophia julian does not attack alaric head on he comes for
23:08me cecile takes the blow instead white heat tears part of her form away but she keeps the strike from
23:13hitting sophia too i hurl the scalpel the blade slices straight through the holy white ring above julian's
23:19head and in the instant that false halo breaks cassandra's world breaks with it she does not see radiant
23:25virtue anymore she sees faces hundreds of them all the people she condemned all the scraps of goodness
23:31stripped from them and packed into julian's proud of life the dead crowd the room with their grief my
23:37shadow breaks them in some become wind around aloe some pardon his armor some sharpen the sword in his hand
23:44the rest gather behind me farmers with pitchforks men with candlesticks have a raven with split skulls
23:51and phantom horses cassandra presses bloody fingers to her eyes no she whispers no that can't be true
23:58you're indispensable i tell her coldly mother didn't surrender she planted blades sophia was time
24:05you were morality and i the doors blow open the king enters with half his face rotten and bella in
24:12one
24:12hand like a butcher carrying meat lyra he rasps give me the knife or i cut out what your mother
24:18hid inside
24:18your sister he claws open his robe a black smoking heartbeats in his chest then he squeezes it
24:25cassandra drops to her knees her gown strange violet light pulses from her abdomen in the exact shape of
24:31the array beneath blackstone king and before anyone can hear it the king dances hand in julian's back and
24:37reaches for cassandra the king's fingers tear through flesh julian's blood pours into the glowing array on
24:45the floor the whole hall shakes no cassandra gasps mother's plan cannot end here then to my shock she
24:53grabs him not to escape to hold him still lyra she screams now at the same instant aleric steps fully
25:01out of
25:01my shadow he is taller than before more solid more terrifying his black sword slams across the king's
25:07claws and stops them cold my dear brother the king misses his one good i glittery agree 40 years and
25:15you're still a fool father wanted to give you the throne said your soul could not rot so i took
25:20your heart
25:21i turned you into the cleanest battery i can't hide and now look at you now kingdom no body not
25:27even
25:28a proper life what gives you the right to stand in my way allard does not cringe the ground under
25:33the
25:33throne still remembers your true title his eyes cut toward me i understand at once the dead were bringing
25:41me too their grief turns not just into mourning into vengeance for honor for innocence for what was
25:49stolen i clench my jaw and get ready to move aleric drives his sword through the king's chest i can
25:55hold him for three minutes he roars three minutes that is all i grabbed cassandra's arm and force myself
26:02to focus cassandra leaned against the stone pillar coughing up blood violently from the shock of the
26:09king's heart yet she stubbornly shook her head i am guilty i have to stay here the king ignoring his
26:16arm that was spurting black blood lowered his head and tore at something i could see it was a fresh
26:21heart leia now aleric roared the wind around him turned into countless black chains tightly binding
26:27the king's enormous misshapen body his withered left face slowly recovered even growing younger
26:33madness blazed in his eyes and his voice warped and stretched you think i have no feeling you're as
26:39naive as we were decades ago bella's heart should not have rivaled the scenes with the king's body
26:44swelled his severed arm went through face after face surged into his test and countless soul fragments
26:50on the ground were sucked into him some of the undead beside me were ground directly into dust i was
26:56not one of the undead but blood kept seeping from my eyes nevertheless i struggled against the wind
27:02toward the king cassandra took my hand her tattered robe clapped loudly in the gale and a white light
27:07shielded me from applying shards of souls the undead around aleric were constantly being drawn
27:12away by the king fighting back the urge to vomit blood i saw him turn his head and shout at
27:17me
27:17remember what i told you
27:19so the souls together you have to command me aleric drove his grace sword into his chest
27:25as a forensic doctor i knew this race he was fighting dead all too well
27:38the blade tip precisely avoided all vital points on cassandra neatly severing the self-destruct
27:43pack stitched inside her cassandra let out a low groan as i tore the purple core straight out of
27:47her body and held it high above my head the core drew the undead energy that had flooded into the
27:52king's body swirling back toward it cassandra struggled to straighten up i used the blade to
27:56stitch and mend the scattering undead forces around us then hurled the scalpel it pierced the purple
28:02core and drove straight into aleric's back his body stretched and twisted violently in the center
28:07of the hall devoured by nether fire until nothing remained but a murky shadow with his mother's heart
28:12everything was already too late the king's body disintegrated into act he turned his head
28:18half his handsome face was eaten away by ghostly blue flames bringing purple light flickering
28:23alternate hands his features twisted with an eternal madness that i've never seen before
28:28behind his hunched silhouette he placed the bloodstained crown steadily upon his own head
28:33i snapped open my purple eyes piercing heels convinced me and at last saw the true nature of
28:39the heart and all of my scalpel touched it a built-in self-destruct rune would detonate instantly
28:44erasing all souls sown within it just then aleric completely consumed by the heart let out a beastly
28:50growl and swung his great sword horizontally at me i do not stand there waiting for love to save me
28:57i throw myself sideways behind a broken stone pillar and wrench the scalpel back into my hand
29:03i have to kill him i whisper my voice does not shake do i love him maybe but that isn't
29:10the point
29:10what matters is this if i don't cut that heart out now he will become worse than the king ever
29:15was
29:16he drives his sword into the floor to keep from moving most of his face is gone to blue flame
29:21now
29:21his hand shakes on the hilt lyra kill me i move fast i rush straight into his arms he is
29:30too locked in
29:31pain to stop me the scalpel flashes i drive it toward the glowing core in his chest aleric smiles then
29:38instead of stopping me he grabs my wrist and forces the blade deeper into himself boom the blast throws me
29:44backward as i black out i see him dissolve not into ash into light that i murmur to myself in
29:51the last
29:52moment before unconsciousness takes me is the worst gruff rejection i've ever seen
29:59when i wake the war is over the king is gone the immortality system is gone everyone who lived off
30:06stolen years begins aging naturally or dying naturally at last later in the imperial archives i discover the
30:13final piece bella really was lady monday's daughter just not by the earl she was the child of an affair
30:19that was why the king could still use her heart shared blood is useful even when it is not perfect
30:26i return to blackstone keep the dead come with me my sisters walk beside me when we pass through the
30:32stormcrest lands my father kneels and offers me his staff as if submission might by forgiveness i look at
30:38them and feel nothing i take only what my mother left behind then i begin searching for aleric the dead
30:45help me collect every scrap they can find but his fragments are too small too scattered even my violet
30:51eyes can barely hold on to them so i go back to blackstone keep what are you trying to do
30:56sophia asks
30:58weekly rebuild him his body turned to ash his soul shattered you'd be stitching emptiness
31:05as long as even one trace of him still exists in the world's field i say without looking up i
31:10can
31:10recreate him
31:14this was an unprecedented full organ reconstruction surgery aleric once told me that mother had kept
31:20a fragment of his soul i dragged my broken body back to the underground laboratory of blackstone
31:25fortress point 40 years ago in that deal mother had traded her own heart for it carving it into the
31:30ground ruins of the laboratory as the core that summoned me across time and space among mother's
31:34belongings i found a letter written in modern english unfolding it i stared at the familiar modern
31:40handwriting i am the beginning of this tragedy and you night are its end aleric's body was ground to
31:46dust by the king 40 years ago i thought a heart for a heart was an equal exchange yet it
31:51was nothing but
31:52the king's life the king had never kept his promise to release mother's daughters of sandra and sophia
31:57instead control them for his own purposes after her heart was cut out the mother died with bitter
32:02computer her soul fragments numbered in this ancient castle searching day and night until she finally
32:08created the great summer traveler from another world her third daughter born out of wedlock in
32:13how long they sent to akanda my dear child i'm sorry to meet her in this way her handwriting was
32:19struggled hastily as if written in extreme urgency these were her final words and she revealed the
32:24method of resurrect lila's heart must have stopped beating before you arrived from the moment you opened
32:29your eyes you have been living off the life force within aleric's heart i looked at the shattered
32:34spirit and his fragments piled on the operating table my eyes glowing with the divine desperate resolve
32:39if you are willing to give half your lifespan to rebuild his circulatory system he will live he is
32:44a capable ruler i lay beside the operating table gripping the scalpel tightly this was the ultimate
32:50surgery with no assistance needed i sliced open my own chest out of precision i cut out half of my
32:56own
32:56heart being violent shimmering with the radiance of underworld fire
33:03those soul fragments were drawn to the heart in my hand aleric's eyes snapped open and in those emerald
33:08green pupils my haggard yet triumphant face was reflected he sat up staring blankly at his own
33:14hands his memories seemed frozen in the moment he had driven my blade into his body only when he saw
33:20me
33:20pale but smiling did he believe in disbelief and hold me into a fierce embrace a real tangible embrace
33:26with a heartbeat breath and the warmth of my body i can actually hold you now layla his voice was
33:32force trembling at the end you have given me new life a week later the imperial capital changed dynasties
33:39i looked down over the entire realm restored to life then turned to smile at aleric in his eyes
33:45i saw a flood of emotion i glanced back at the city's inhabitants humans and undead alike all looking
33:51up at me in reverence in this world the nature of power was no longer to take but to protect
33:56long live the dead i whispered softly aleric took my hand and kissed my fingertips
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