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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.
12:02My brain screamed.
12:04My eyes wept blood from the stream.
12:07I ordered.
12:08My voice cold.
12:09Back off!
12:10They didn't listen.
12:11Spirits with no shape and no sense.
12:13Just raw, hungry insects.
12:15Suddenly a gust of wind scattered them.
12:18Don't bother begging them like that. It's useless.
12:22Beneath the shattered stained glass window, half hidden in shadow,
12:27sat a man, like he'd been waiting for me all along.
12:42Who are you?
12:44A failure. My body was stolen.
12:47My soul though? It just won't die.
12:50Leela moaned, take a good look.
12:52Blackstone Keep isn't a castle.
12:54It's the Empire's soul alchemist's factory.
12:56They haul souls here, from commoners from criminals, grind 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. Chaotic.
13:13They 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, the Archon isn't ripping out Saintus' hearts to extend his own life.
13:31He's just a supplier.
13:33The real customer is the King.
13:34And the one swinging the blade? That's your sister.
13:38Why are you telling me all this?
13:39Your mother asked me to.
13:40She told me to wait for you here.
13:43Leela, see your power for what it is.
13:45You can read how the dead died.
13:47You can mend their wounds.
13:49But that's just the beginning.
13:50Next week, the King's sickly son is taking a new bride.
13:54Another 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.
14:06Who 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.
14:52I 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?
15:18She 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 to 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.
16:02Cecil stood behind me.
16:05Her voice was no longer ethereal.
16:08Lady Lyra.
16:09I can feel the wind now.
16:12She pulled a long sword 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.
16:44She 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.
17:12From then on, his weightless body passed me and in my embrace.
17:16Then itlawed into swirling black smoke that shrank into my shadow.
17:24Let's go, putting away the scalpel.
17:29After the coronation banquet in the Impyrial 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 head 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 level 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
18:27the beautiful faces wrinkle collapse rot under their silk and velvet i see patchwork flesh and
18:32old sutures and stolen years barely held together seal materializes in the center of the hall
18:38her 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 the seal raises
18:51her sword and starts turning to the crowd every thrust lands in the transplanted heart walk toward them
18:57slowly on violet eyes burning today is for retainer kill that witch the king lords slamming a hand on the
19:04table
19:04the royal guard searches forward my shadow the rocks black blades raise across the floor
19:10sparing each soldier through his own shadow bodies crumble and weather away before they leave the screen
19:16half of hour rises from the darkness and wraps one spectral hand around the prince's throat
19:20bella drops to the floor stunned i crouch in front of her and then i smile thanks for dying in
19:26my place
19:27she jerks back finally recognizing the danger why are you still alive you bitch catch her wrist and
19:33wrench her upright then i turn toward the king your majesty is this the heart you wanted do you even
19:39know what she is she's not lady mondas true daughter king does not panic not even a little he is
19:46staring at
19:46the scalpel in my hand to be the exception once the hidden mother array beneath the floor ignites
19:52the modern scalpel in my hand lets out a strong metallic crack then it rips free of my grip it
19:57does not fly
19:58toward the king it does not fly toward the prince it shoots straight across the hall and buries itself in
20:04sofia's chest for one second everything stops the silver flash the wet sound of impact sofia looking down at the
20:14blade
20:15sticking out of her chest i reach her as she falls at a glance it looks fatal but i am
20:20a doctor before i am anything else
20:22something is wrong there is no arterial spray and my breath catches the blade is not in her heart it
20:28is embedded in a black throat
20:30at that exact moment the king lets out a monstrous scream one whole side of his face shrivels before our
20:35eyes collapsing into dried rot now i get it i say gripping the scalpel the blade didn't attack her it
20:42cut
20:43out the parasite sofia coughs up black blood and grabs my wrist our lives were tied to the king when
20:48we were
20:49choking she whispers mother made it feel cecile returns in a run sword for people lady lyra
20:56the nobles are dying and stolen ears are snapping back all at once did you do this the truth
21:02lies in pieces and they're all at once sofia is one half of the king's living room and casanza is
21:07the other
21:08my mother used her daughters as thorns with me inside the king's body at my call my shadow boils move
21:14i drag sofia with me cecile shields us alaric wraps us in black force and sends us crashing through the
21:21palace windows and down into the freezing mode below north of the capital stands the holy court
21:28that is cassandra's domain unlike the banquet hall this place is clean to the point of madness with a
21:34bleeding sofia in my arms cassandra is already seated at the judgment bench beside her stands high pontic
21:40julian he smiles with his eyes lowered a holy white aura blazing above him so bright it almost hurts to
21:46look at my child julian says stepping down from the dais i have waited for you i feel it at
21:52once the
21:53pressure heavy enough to crush thought cassandra says nothing she does not stop him that tells me
21:59everything i need to know sofia broke the link too early the truth is leaking julian needs me dead before
22:06the room catches 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 new hand a scaled hand punches up from the darkness and catches the holy light barehanded
22:31the light vanishes into shadow the hand is scorched pieces for the effort but enough julian he says
22:37voice low and filthy with contempt the pontiff sees his face prince aleric he shrieks impossible your soul
22:45should still be trapped my pulse stutters aleric's identity is bigger than i ever guessed he is the king's
22:53brother the prince the crown should have gone to lyra aleric says without looking back protect your
22:59sister he draws a massive black sword cecile steps in front of me and sofia julian does not attack aleric
23:06head on he comes for me cecile takes the blow instead white heat tears part of her form away
23:12but she keeps the strike from hitting sofia 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 with it
23:23she does not see radiant virtue anymore she sees faces hundreds of them all the people she condemned
23:30all the scraps of goodness stripped from them and packed into julian's crown of life
23:34the dead crowd the room with their grief my shadow breaks them in some become wind around aleric
23:40some pardon his armor some sharpen the sword in his hand the rest gather behind me farmers with pitchwords
23:47hands 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 mother
24:01didn't surrender she planted blades sofia was time you were morality and i the doors blow open the king
24:10enters with half his face rotten and bella in one hand like a butcher carrying meat lyra he rasps give
24:16me
24:16the knife or i cut out what your mother hid inside your sister he claws open his robe a black
24:21smoking
24:22heartbeats in his chest then he squeezes it sandra drops to her knees her gown strange violet light pulses
24:29from her abdomen in the exact shape of the oregano blackstone king and before anyone if you knew
24:34the king chants his hand and julian's back and reaches for cassandra
24:40the king's fingers tear through flesh julian's blood pours into the glowing array on the floor
24:45the whole hall shakes no cassandra gasps mother's plan cannot end here then to my shock she grabs him
24:53not to escape to hold him still lyra she screams now at the same instant aleric steps fully out of
25:01my
25:01shadow 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 hisses his one good eye glittery three
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
25:20took your heart i turned you into the cleanest battery and now look at you now kingdom no body
25:27not even proper life what gives you the right to stand in my way aleric does not flinch ground under
25:33the
25:33throne still remembers your true title his eyes cut toward me i understand at once
25:40the dead behind me do too their grief turns not just into mourning into vengeance for honor for
25:48innocence for what was stolen i clench my jaw and get ready to move aleric drives his sword through
25:54the king's chest i can hold him for three minutes he roars three minutes that is all i grab cassandra's
26:00arm and force myself to focus cassandra leaned against the stone pillar coughing up blood violently
26:08from the shock of the king's heart yet she stubbornly shook her head i am guilty i have to stay
26:14here the
26:14king ignoring his arm that was spurting black blood lowered his head and tore at something i could see it
26:20was a fresh heart leia now aleric roared the wind around him turned into countless black chains tightly
26:27binding the king's enormous misshapen body his withered left face slowly recovered even growing
26:33younger madness blazed in his eyes and his voice warped and stretched you think i have no consistency
26:38you're as naive as you were decades ago bella's heart should not have rivaled the streets yet the king's body
26:44swelled his severed arm went through face after face surged in his chest 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
26:55not one of the undead but blood kept seeping from my eyes nevertheless i struggled against the wind
27:01toward the king cassandra took my hand her tattered robe flapped loudly in the gale and a white light
27:07shielded me from applying shards of souls the undead around aleric were constantly being drawn away by the
27:13king fighting back the urge to vomit blood i saw him turn his head and shout at me remember what
27:18i
27:18told you before so the souls together you have to command them aleric drove his raid sword into his chest
27:24as a forensic doctor knew this race he was right and done all too well cassandra helped him i stabbed
27:31his
27:31cell phone back under him and you were cracked roping abdomen
27:38the blade tip precisely avoided all vital points on cassandra neatly severing the self-discipline
27:43struck packed stitched inside her cassandra let out a low groan as i tore the purple core straight
27:47out of her body and held it high above my head the core drew the undead energy that had flooded
27:51into
27:51the king'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 held the scalpel it pierced the purple core
28:02and drove straight into aleric's back his body stretched and twisted violently in the center of
28:07the hall devoured by nether fire until nothing remained but a murky shadow because mother's
28:12heart everything 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 in his pupils his features twisted with maternal madness that i've never seen before behind
28:28his hunch silhouette and placed the bloodstained crown steadily upon his own hand entrance i snapped
28:34open my purple eyes piercing through his condensed heart and at last saw the true nature of the heart
28:39in the moment that a scalpel touched the built-in self-destruct rune would detonate instantly erasing
28:44all souls sown within it just then aleric completely consumed by the heart let out a beastly growl and swung
28:51his greatsword horizontally at me i do not stand there waiting for love to save me i throw myself sideways
28:58behind a broken stone pillar and wrench the scalpel back into my hand i have to kill him
29:04i whisper my voice does not shake do i love him maybe but that isn't the point what matters is
29:11this
29:12if i don't cut that heart out now he will become worse than the king ever was he drives his
29:17sword into
29:17the floor to keep from moving most of his face is gone to blue flame now his hand shakes on
29:22the hilt 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 flashes
29:33i drive it toward the glowing core in his chest aleric smiles then instead of stopping me he grabs
29:39my wrist and forces the blade deeper into himself boom the blast throws me backward as i black out
29:46i 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 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
30:25i returned to blackstone keep the dead come with me my sisters walk beside me when we pass through
30:32the stormcrest lands my father kneels and offers me his staff as if submission might by forgiveness
30:37i look at them and feel nothing i take only what my mother left behind then i begin searching for
30:43aleric
30:44the dead help me collect every scrap they can find but his fragments are too small too scattered even my
30:50violet eyes can barely hold on to them so i go back to blackstone keep what are you trying to
30:56do
30:56sophia asks weekly 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
31:24fortress 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
31:45dust by the king 40 years ago i thought a heart for a heart was an equal exchange yet it
31:51was nothing but
31:51the king's life the king had never kept his promise to release mother's daughter to sandra and sophia
31:56instead control them for his own purposes after her heart was cut out mother died with bitter pain
32:03her soul fragments numbered in this ancient castle searching day and night until she finally created
32:08the great to summon a traveler from another world her third daughter one out of wedlock in calvon
32:13was sent to a convent my dear child i am sorry to mention in this way her handwriting was
32:18scribbled pastely 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
32:29opened your eyes you have been living off the life force within aleric's heart i looked at the
32:33shattered 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
32:47gripping the scalpel tightly this was the ultimate surgery with no assistance needed i sliced open my
32:53own chest out of precision i cut out half of my own heart beat violently shimmering with the radiance of
32:59underworld 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 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
33:26with a heartbeat 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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