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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!
00:18Purify the soul!
00:20Those eyes of yours that can see spirits are the mark of Satan!
00:24But I don't struggle.
00:26I'm just waiting, behind these fanatical rioters.
00:30And an army they cannot see.
00:32Hundreds upon thousands of resentful ghosts.
00:38Since you wish to do God's will,
00:41why don't you first ask the Seizend if she approves?
00:45The air reeks of cheap grease and pine.
00:48Lila, those cursed purple eyes of yours can see Satan's illusions!
00:52Only fire can cleanse your sins!
00:54Hmph.
00:56My name is Leia, not Leila.
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.
01:07I transmigrated to this backward medieval era,
01:10becoming Leila, the illegitimate daughter of a noble count,
01:15branded a cursed star for her purple eyes,
01:18pushed to death by her own father.
01:20I found my eyes had mutated.
01:23I can not only discern wounds clearly,
01:26I can also see the lingering victims,
01:30who 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,
01:40but 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?
01:48Silence! 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.
02:12It'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,
02:26simply because he believed it would prolong his life.
02:31Suspicious eyes turn toward Valerius.
02:34He's the real servant of darkness, not me.
02:39Burn her! Burn her now!
02:47The wind stops.
02:50I owe you one.
02:51Command me.
02:52Now 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.
03:00The flames at my feet go out,
03:02then flare back to light 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.
03:20He 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,
03:49but I had already seen enough.
03:52I knew exactly where power came from in a crowd like this.
03:55Build a line.
03:56Name a common enemy.
03:58At that moment, Valerius' left hand,
04:01the one covered in claw marks,
04:03keeps 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.
04:24Everyone, 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.
04:39The 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.
04:56I bet your son is right behind you.
04:59He says he saw Valerius torturing a novice inside the confessional,
05:04so 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, show him.
05:19Her 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.
05:37In his hands is a sealed gold vessel.
05:40Inside it is a shriveled heart.
05:43That is the end of fate.
05:44The square erupts.
05:46Kill him!
05:48Burn the Karis eater!
05:51Tear him apart!
05:54The mom swallows Valerius blood.
05:59I stand on the stake and watch the Archbishop die.
06:02The trial has only just begun.
06:07Leela!
06:09You'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,
06:19deepened the unnatural color of my eyes,
06:22and pointed at me in front of the church and cried witch.
06:25Leela!
06:27Bella!
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,
06:52another truth falls into place.
06:53Next month is the coronation.
06:56The prince's bride,
06:57the future queen,
06:59was supposed to be me,
07:00the only marriageable daughter of the house.
07:03She was trying to take my place.
07:05At this moment,
07:07heavy hooves crash against the stones outside the square.
07:10The 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.
07:20The 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, Sophia.
07:45She can see the end date on every life.
07:47She 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,
08:14you 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.
08:33Quietly.
08:33I 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,
08:46you are to be exiled to Blackstone Culp.
08:51Blackstone Keep is a death sentence.
08:54People say even rats go mad there.
08:56I'll go.
08:59Cassandra rules the capital through morality.
09:02Sofia rules the empire through lifestamp.
09:06And I...
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, power 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, that same agony came flooding back.
09:49The road to Blackstone Keep is lined with nameless graves.
09:53As the carriage moves north, the city gives way to empty land.
09:57Then to scrub.
09:59Then to sand.
10:01The farther they went, the more uneasy the gods looked.
10:05Cecile sits across from me now, no longer flickering in and out like before.
10:10In life, she was all softness and worship.
10:13In death, something colder has settled into her bones.
10:17Lady Lyra, that god's soul was fading away.
10:21Three hours from now, he'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.
10:58An icy electric shock-like sensation swept through me in an instant.
11:04Then her injury closes.
11:06The charred wound zips itself shut under a pulse of violet light.
11:12Lady Lyra,
11:15you can restore us.
11:18You 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 Cape'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.
12:07As the
12:10They didn't listen. Spirits with no shape and no sense. Just a raw, hungry instinct. Suddenly a gust of wind
12:17scattered them.
12:18Don't bother begging them like that. It's useless.
12:22Beneath the shattered stained glass window, half hidden in shadow, sat a man. Like he'd been waiting for me all
12:29along.
12:42Who are you? A failure. My body was stolen. My soul though? It just won't die. Leela moaned. Take a
12:51good look. Blackstone Keep isn't a castle. It's the Empire's soul alchemist's factory.
12:57They haul souls here. From commoners from criminals, grind them to dust, and refine the purest life force. Then they
13:03ship it to the capital.
13:05Following his lead, my violet eyes began to pulse wildly. Visions flooded my sight. Overlapping. Chaotic. They were the collective
13:15memories of the dead.
13:16So you're a harvested battery too.
13:20I'm a battery they'll never drain. They chopped up my body, but my soul was too hard to chew.
13:27Listen. The Archon isn't ripping out Saintus' hearts to extend his own life. He's just a supplier. The real customer
13:33is the King. And the one swinging the blade? That's your sister.
13:38Why are you telling me all this?
13:39Your mother asked me to. She told me to wait for you here.
13:43Leela, see your power for what it is. You can read how the dead died. You can mend their wounds.
13:49But that's just the beginning. Next week, the King's sickly son is taking a new bride. Another sacrifice.
13:57The King needs a top grade spare part to keep himself alive. Guess who they've chosen as the next offering?
14:04Bella thought she'd stolen a fortune from me. Who knew she'd actually stolen a death sentence?
14:11What's your name?
14:13Alaric. Deep under Blackstone Keep, there's something your mother left before she died. I've kept it safe for you, for
14:20decades. With that, you'll get closer to the truth.
14:25I followed the spiral staircase down. The underground didn't smell of rot like I'd expected. Instead, there was a sharp,
14:34chemical scent. Something like formaldehyde. At the bottom of the stairs lay a precision laboratory. In the center, on a
14:43stone table, sat a heavy iron chest.
14:47The moment I touched the chest, my violet pupils erupted with shattered images. I saw my mother. She hadn't died
14:55from postpartum weakness. She had been down in this dungeon, frantically recording something. She wasn't a victim. She was a
15:02key node in this whole immortality experiment.
15:06Connecting it with what Alaric had told me, the current king wasn't the first beneficiary of this immortality scheme. They
15:12had used Blackstone Keep to drain life force. But when the keep stopped working, they needed a replacement. And my
15:18mother? She might have been that replacement.
15:20The moment. The moment I tried to pick up the chest again, that same agony came flooding back.
15:31Lady Mondae left a magic mark behind. It was meant cement to someone from her world. Someone like her, to
15:39end all of this.
15:43Now, can you tell me your real name?
15:57My name is Lyra. I'm a medical examiner.
16:02Cecil stood behind me. Her voice was no longer ethereal.
16:07Lady Lyra. I can feel the wind now.
16:12She pulled a longsword from her hollow chest, looking just as shocked as I felt.
16:18I'm going to use this blade to carve out that old immortal's heart.
16:25Only the one who picks up this blade is worthy of pureness.
16:29Back then, the king ripped out my heart, trying to turn me into the purest battery for Blackstone Keep.
16:34Your mother used that open heart moment to secretly stitch part of my soul into the Keep's foundation.
16:40She saved my consciousness, but trapped me here, unable to leave.
16:45She was a brilliant stitcher.
16:47She did all of this so the immortality fast would end with my generation.
16:52And she must have had her reasons for saving me.
16:55Will you come with me, Alaric?
16:57Lyra.
16:59If you want to take me with you, you'll have to use that blade.
17:03Stitch my ghost into your shadow.
17:05From then on, your life will be my anchor.
17:07Move.
17:12daughters
17:18Say
17:23Which, if you can read that?οΏ½οΏ½?
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
17:39pillar 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
17:55bella had been a pawn from the very beginning used to carry a cruel exchange of vitality the king
18:00would use sophia's hand to transfer bella's vitality to the third prince it was never lila i was leia
18:06after three years of protection it was now my turn to come back and clean up this mess with my
18:11own hands
18:14the banquet reaches its peak lego lifts the golden cup with shaking excitement the prince does the
18:20same i object i step out of the shadows at once the glamour around the nobility peels away in my
18:26sight the 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 saint the saint is back the hall explodes into panic cecile raises her
18:51sword and starts treading through the crowd every thrust lands in the transplanted heart walk toward them
18:57slowly my violet eyes burning today is for retainer kill that witch the king roars slamming a hand on the
19:04table
19:04the royal guard circles forward my shadow derives black blades raise across the floor sparing each soldier
19:11through his own shadow bodies crumble and weather away before they keep his feet half of hour rises from the
19:17darkness and wraps one spectral hand around the prince's throat bella drops to the floor stunned i crouch in
19:23front of her and then i smile thanks for dying in my place she jerks back finally recognizing the danger
19:29why are you still alive you bitch catch her wrist and wrench her upright then i turn toward the king
19:36your majesty is this the heart you wanted do you even know what she is she's not lady monda's true
19:42daughter king does not panic not even a little he is staring at the scalpel in my hand
19:49once the hidden mother array beneath the floor ignites the modern scalpel in my hand lets out a strong
19:54metallic crack then it rips free of my grip it does not fly toward the king
19:59it does not fly toward the prince it shoots straight across the hall and buries itself in sofia's chest
20:07for one second everything stops the silver flash the wet sound of impact sofia 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 is
20:27not in her heart it is embedded in a black growth at that exact moment the king lets out a
20:32monstrous scream
20:33one whole side of his face shrivels before our eyes collapsing into dried rot now i get it i say
20:39gripping the scalpel the blade didn't attack her it cut out the parasite sofia coughs up black blood and
20:46grabbed my wrist our lives were tied to the king when we were choking she whispers
20:50the mother made a deal cecile returns in a run sword for king lady lyra nobles are dying and stolen
20:58ears are snapping back all at once did you do this the truth lies in pieces and they're all at
21:03once
21:04it's sofia is one half of the king's living room and cassandra is the other my mother used her
21:09daughters as thorns within her inside the king's body at my call my shadow boils move i drag sofia
21:16with me cecile 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 sofia in my
21:35arms cassandra is already seated at the judgment bench beside her stands high pontic julian he smiles
21:42with his eyes lowered a holy white aura blazing above him so bright it almost hurts to look at my
21:47child
21:47julian says stepping down from the dais i have waited for you i feel it at once the pressure heavy
21:54enough to
21:54crush thought cassandra says nothing she does not stop him that tells me everything i need to know
22:00sofia broke the link too early the truth is leaking julian needs me dead before the room catches up
22:07all those crimes he says softly the archbishop the broken marriage the chaos in the palace such evil
22:14death is the only thing that can cleanse your soul he raises his hand white light gathers in his palm
22:20dense and vicious enough to shred the mind before he can strike my shadow spills across the floor
22:26a scaled hand punches up from the darkness and catches the holy light barehanded the light
22:31vanishes into shadow the hand is scorched pieces for the effort but enough julian he says voice low
22:38and filthy with contempt the pontiff sees his face prince alaric and he shrieks impossible your soul
22:45should still be trapped my pulse stutters alaric's identity is bigger than i ever guessed he is the
22:53king's brother the prince the crown should have gone to lyra alaric says without looking back protect
22:59your sister he draws a massive black sword cecile steps in front of me and sophia julian does not attack
23:06alaric head-on he comes for me cecile takes the blow instead white heat tears part of her form away
23:12but
23:12she keeps the strike from hitting sophia too i hurl the scalpel the blade slices straight through the
23:17holy white ring above julian's head and in the instant that false halo breaks sandra's world breaks
23:23with it she does not see radiant virtue anymore she sees faces hundreds of them all the people she
23:29condemned all the scraps of goodness stripped from them and packed into julian's crown of life the dead
23:34crowd the room with their grief my shadow breaks them in some become wind around alivet some pardon his
23:41armor some sharpen the sword in his hand the rest gather behind me farmers with pitchwords
23:47demands with candlesticks have a ring with split skulls and phantom horses cassandra presses bloody
23:53fingers to her eyes no she whispers no that can't be true you're indispensable i tell her coldly
24:01mother didn't surrender she planted blades sophia was time you were morality and i the doors blow open
24:09the king enters with half his face rotten and bella in one hand like a butcher carrying meat
24:14lyra he rasps give me the knife or i cut out what your mother hid inside your sister
24:19he claws open his robe a black smoking heartbeat from his chest then he squeezes it
24:24cassandra drops to her knees through her gown strange violet light pulses from her abdomen in the exact
24:30shape of the oregano blackstone king and before anyone if you knew the king chances hand in julian's
24:36bag and reaches for cassandra the king's fingers tear through flesh julian's blood pours into the
24:44glowing array on the floor the whole hall shakes no cassandra gasps mother's plan cannot end here then to my
24:52shock she grabs him not to escape to hold him still lyra she screams now at the same instant aleric
25:00steps fully out of my shadow he is taller than before more solid more terrifying his black sword slams
25:06across the king's claws and stops them cold my dear brother the king hisses his one good eye glittering
25:1340 years and you're still a fool father wanted to give you the throne said your soul could not rot
25:19so i took your heart i turned you into the cleanest battery
25:23and now look at you now kingdom no body not even proper life what gives you the right to stand
25:30in my
25:30way aleric does not cringe ground under the throne still remembers your true title
25:36usurper his eyes cut toward me i understand at once the dead could bring them to too
25:42their 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
25:55him for three minutes he roars three minutes that is all i grab cassandra's arm and force myself to focus
26:05cassandra leaned against the stone pillar coughing up blood violently from the shock of the king's heart
26:10yet she stubbornly shook her head i am guilty i have to stay here the king ignoring his arm that
26:16was spurting black blood lowered his head and tore at something i could see it was a fresh heart
26:21leia now aleric roared the wind around him turned into countless black chains tightly binding the king's
26:28enormous misshapen body his withered left face slowly recovered even growing younger madness blazed in his
26:34eyes and his voice warped and stretched you think i have no consistency you're as naive as you were
26:40decades ago bella's heart should not have rivaled his face yet the king's body swelled his severed arm
26:46face after face surged in his chest and countless soul fragments on the ground were sucked into him
26:51some of the undead beside me were ground directly into dust i was not one of the undead but blood
26:57kept
26:57seeping from my eyes nevertheless i struggled against the wind toward the king cassandra took my hand her
27:04tattered robe flapped loudly in the gale and the white light shielded me from applying shards of souls
27:09the undead around aleric were constantly being drawn away by the king fighting back the urge to vomit
27:24blood the blade tip precisely avoided all vital points on cassandra neatly severing the self-destruct
27:43packed 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 of
28:07the hall devoured by netherfire until nothing remained but a murky shadow because mother's heart
28:12everything was already too late the king's body disintegrated in black he turned his head
28:18half his handsome face was eaten away by ghostly blue flames bringing in purple light flickering
28:23alternately on his pupils his features twisted with an eternal madness that i've never seen before
28:28behind his hunch silhouette he placed the bloodstained crown steadily upon his own hand entrance
28:34i snapped open my purple eyes piercing through his condensed form and at last saw the true nature of the
28:39heart and the moment his scalpel touched the 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 greatsword horizontally at me i do not stand there wasted for love to save me i
28:57throw
28:57myself sideways behind a broken stone pillar and wrench the scalpel back into my hand i have to kill him
29:04i
29:05whisper my voice does not shake do i love him maybe but that isn't the point what matters is this
29:12if i
29:12don't cut that heart out now he will become worse than the king ever was he drives his sword into
29:17the
29:17floor to keep from moving most of his face is gone to blue flame now his hand shakes on the
29:22hilt lyra
29:25kill me i move fast i rush straight into his arms he is too locked in pain to stop me
29:32the scalpel
29:32flashes i drive it toward the glowing core in his chest aleric smiles then instead of stopping me
29:39he grabs my wrist and forces the blade deeper into himself boom the blast throws me backward as i black
29:45out i see him dissolve not into ash into light that i murmur to myself in the last moment before
29:52unconsciousness takes me is the worst growth 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
30:06off stolen years begins aging naturally or dying naturally at last later in the imperial archives
30:12i discover the final piece bella really was lady mondes daughter just not by the earl she was the child
30:18of an affair that was why the king could still use her heart shared blood is useful even when it
30:24is not
30:24perfect i returned to blackstone keep the dead come with me my sisters walk beside me when we
30:32pass through the stormcrest lands my father kneels and offers me his staff as if submission might by
30:37forgiveness i look at them and feel nothing i take only what my mother left behind then i begin
30:43searching for aleric the dead help me collect every scrap they can find but his fragments are too small
30:49too scattered even my violet eyes can barely hold on to them so i go back to blackstone keep what
30:55are
30:55you trying to do sophia asks weekly rebuild him his body turned to ash his soul shattered you'd be
31:03stitching emptiness as long as even one trace of him still exists in the world's field i say without
31:09looking up i can recreate him this was an unprecedented full organ reconstruction surgery aleric once told
31:19me that mother had kept a fragment of his soul i dragged my broken body back to the underground
31:23laboratory of blackstone fortress point 40 years ago in that deal mother had traded her own heart
31:28for it carving it into the ground ruins of the laboratory as the core that summoned me across time
31:33and space among mother's belongings i found a letter written in modern english unfolding it i stared at
31:39the familiar modern handwriting i am the beginning of this tragedy and you night are its end aleric's
31:45body was ground to dust by the king 40 years ago i thought a heart for a heart was an
31:49equal exchange
31:50yet it was nothing but the king's life the king had never kept his promise to release mother's daughter
31:55cassandra and sophia instead controlling for his own purposes after her heart was cut out
32:01the mother died with bitter pain her soul fragments occurred in this ancient castle searching day and
32:07night until she finally created the story to summon a traveler from another world her third daughter
32:11one out of wedlock in california was sent to a convent my dear child i am sorry to mention in
32:17this way
32:17her handwriting was scribbled pastily as if written in extreme urgency these were her final words and she
32:23revealed the method of resurrect lila's heart must have stopped beating before you arrived from the
32:28moment you opened your eyes you have been living off the life force within aleric's heart i looked
32:33at the shattered spirit and his fragments piled on the operating table my eyes glowing with a divine
32:38desperate resolve if you are willing to give half your lifespan to rebuild his circulatory system
32:43he will live he is a capable ruler i lay beside the operating table gripping the scalpel tightly this
32:49was the ultimate surgery no assisted needed i sliced open my own chest out of precision i cut out half
32:55of my own heart beat violently 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
33:08emerald green pupils my haggard yet triumphant face was reflected he sat up staring blankly at his own hands
33:14his memory seemed frozen in the moment he had driven my blade into his body only when he saw me
33:20pale but smiling did he blink in disbelief and pull me into a fierce embrace a real tangible embrace with
33:26a heartbeat the breath and the warmth of my body i can actually hold you now leila his voice was
33:32hoarse 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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