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00:00My sister and I found two little snakes in the woods.
00:03The black one was strong and powerful.
00:07The moment it saw my sister, it coiled itself around her wrist.
00:15Only the little white snake was left, barely clinging to life.
00:19I took pity on it, so I brought it back to the farm and kept it in a temperature-controlled
00:25glass tank,
00:26taking care of it as best I could.
00:30The black snake awakened its evolution ability in the first year.
00:34It shifted into a tall, stunningly handsome man and doted on my sister endlessly.
00:42I was the only one working two jobs in town every day to support myself and my weak little white
00:48snake.
00:49All the boys in town shunned me for carrying a snake around everywhere.
00:57Just throw that white snake back into the woods, and we'll take you to prom.
01:02Exactly. It's just a snake. Get rid of it, and you can stop working that extra job.
01:07You'd only have to take care of yourself.
01:17Even if you stay an ordinary snake for the rest of your life, I will never abandon you.
01:21I chose to take you in, so I'm seeing it through.
01:26But during that once-in-a-century hurricane, the sickly white snake that had spent ten years on the verge
01:32of death-awakened divine power overnight and shifted into a holy light serpent.
01:44I fought for my life in the flood, but he only protected my sister.
01:50So that was it. The one he loved at first sight was my sister, and he had known how to
01:57evolve.
02:01When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the very day my sister and I found those two
02:12little snakes in the woods.
02:14Come quickly!
02:17Look at this little white snake! Its scales are glowing!
02:23One day, it is definitely going to awaken into a holy light serpent and worship the ground you walk on.
02:33The one Mrs. Johnson from the next block found ten years ago was just like this one.
02:37When it awaked its divine power, it moved her straight into a mansion in Beverly Hills!
02:42So, Sarah, when you end up rich and powerful someday, don't forget your big sister.
02:48Emma placed the little white snake in my palm.
02:53But a few townspeople, passing by, immediately tried to stop her.
02:59Emma, you're too kind.
03:00Everyone knows white spirit snakes are far more likely to awaken divine power than black ones.
03:06Sarah isn't half as gentle or caring as you are, and she's nowhere near as beautiful either.
03:11No matter how you look at it, you're the one who deserve it.
03:14It's okay.
03:16I'm the older sister.
03:18Looking after my little sister is what I'm supposed to do.
03:36Anyone who looked carefully could tell the white snake was on its last breath.
03:40The black snake, on the other hand, had bright, alert eyes, and its dark scales.
03:47Even glinted a dark gold magical sheen in the sunlight.
03:52Townspeople didn't understand anything about supernatural creatures.
03:56But my sister did.
03:58She knew perfectly well that shadow-type snakes had the strongest life force and were the ones most likely to
04:05complete their evolution.
04:07In my previous life, I couldn't bear to leave the bloodied little white behind.
04:12But now, seeing him bear his fangs at me, I finally understood.
04:17That wasn't fear.
04:20He just hated me.
04:22In that case, I'll let him have his way.
04:25I gave him what he wanted and...
04:31Toss the little white snake straight onto a moss-covered rock.
04:38Sarah!
04:39Sarah!
04:40Sarah!
04:40How could you do that?
04:43It's still a living creature!
04:47Nature is all about survival of the fittest.
04:50If he's meant to die here today, that's just Darwin's law.
04:53You're heartless!
04:54Are you really just going to stand there and watch that little white snake die right in front of you?
04:59The townspeople stared at me with disgust and contempt.
05:05She's seriously a sociopath.
05:06It's not just us judging a book by its cover, but Emma is beautiful.
05:10And she's got a heart of gold like a real angel.
05:13Exactly!
05:13Then look at the younger sister, not an ounce of charm.
05:15Figures her heart's rotten too.
05:21Emma's eyes reddened as she told them not to say things like that.
05:25But all it did was make people sympathize with her even more.
05:31She was always like this, aiming the knife at me with one hand,
05:34while playing the wounded peacemaker with the other,
05:38pretending to be the long-suffering, big sister who kept putting up with everything.
05:43Since you're so compassionate, then take both snakes home and raise them yourself.
05:48I can't take both snakes! My incubator isn't big enough too!
05:55No problem. They're both yours.
05:57And when he turns into a holy light serpent someday,
06:00I'll gladly come along and enjoy the good life with you.
06:06Your sister just doesn't have the luck for something like this.
06:10A creature blessed by God clearly belongs with you.
06:14Emma, stop worrying about that ungrateful brat. Don't give it to her.
06:19But the vet bills...
06:21Suddenly, a blinding burst of holy light flashed out.
06:25The little white snake vanished.
06:28And in his place stood a handsome man dressed in white.
06:31Has he already turned into an adult?
06:34I had always thought he only learned to take human form after I brought
06:38him back to the farm and nursed him through it.
06:41I never imagined he could do it from...
06:44The very start.
06:48All those years, he had watched me get mocked by every high school boy.
06:53In town for carrying around a snake that couldn't evolve.
06:56And he never said a word.
06:58I looked at him as he stood there, breathing hard.
07:05He was clearly at his weakest right now, and yet he still forced himself into...
07:10Human form for Emma.
07:12If he could shift into a human, though, it meant he wasn't far from...
07:17Evolving into the holy light serpent.
07:21It doesn't matter how much it costs to heal him.
07:23I'll pay for it.
07:26The townspeople were too stunned by how beautiful he was to say a word.
07:30Emma stepped in front of him at once, like she was afraid I might look at him for too long.
07:36Since you said you didn't want him, and you wouldn't listen no matter what I said...
07:45Then, I guess I have no choice but to take him back with me.
07:51Emma, you don't need to explain yourself.
07:53She said you could have him, and if she dares take it back, this whole community will boycott her.
07:58Oh, come on.
08:01Sarah isn't that kind of person.
08:04The white snake looked at me through the crowd.
08:07There was something complicated in his gaze far too complicated for...
08:11Someone looking at me for the first time.
08:15I understood instantly.
08:17He had been reborn, too.
08:19After I left, the whole town started saying I had thrown away the chance of...
08:24A lifetime.
08:25Not a single person doubted that the white snake would one day awaken...
08:29Into a holy light serpent.
08:32But after I got home, I stayed in my room doing practice problems.
08:36I didn't...
08:37Go see him even once.
08:40Finally, the next time we brushed past each other in the kitchen,
08:44Someone...
08:44Suddenly grabbed my wrist tightly.
08:50The young man the white snake had become stared at me, his sea blue eyes.
08:54Filled with confusion and maybe a little dissatisfaction, too.
08:58I pried his hand off my wrist.
09:00Cursed at him on the way.
09:02And turned around.
09:03To go back to my room.
09:06Maybe I had spoiled him for so long in my last life.
09:09He'd taken it for...
09:11Granted.
09:13So the moment I stopped loving him, he probably felt like I was the one...
09:17Who had betrayed him.
09:21In my past life.
09:23I'd worked late nights at a fast food restaurant through rain.
09:27And shine, just to buy him special medicine.
09:30I thought we'd built something real.
09:32Between us.
09:38Late that night, I got thirsty and went to the kitchen for some ice water.
09:42That was when I heard whispers coming from the guest room at the end of the hall.
09:47Master Adrian, if you feel guilty toward the second young lady...
09:53Then perhaps...
09:54You could become her shadow guardian instead.
09:58If God has granted me a second chance,
10:00Then of course I have to make up for my regrets.
10:05But didn't your elder brother choose the eldest miss first?
10:12So what?
10:13I was born in this life for her and her alone.
10:17Nothing will stop me from standing at her side.
10:20Not even my brother will make me back down.
10:24May I be so bold as to ask, my lord?
10:29Why are you so devoted to an ordinary human girl?
10:33I will never forget what happened at Crystal Cove.
10:36She pulled me out of that freezing lake with her own hands.
10:41And stayed with me in an abandoned cabin for an entire month.
10:45Crystal Cove?
10:46Wasn't that the place where I had once gone camping alone?
10:49And saved a little white snake?
10:54I had stayed with him for a whole month before returning to town,
10:58And I...
10:59Had never told a single person about it.
11:03Adrian, you really are an idiot.
11:08I had no intention of revealing myself to him.
11:11In this new life, my goal was...
11:14A wider world, not on an ungrateful snake.
11:18I spent most of my time preparing for my AP exams and working on...
11:22Government program applications.
11:24Then, right before the Spring Equinox Ball...
11:28Emma barged into my room.
11:33This is the annual Spring Equinox Ball.
11:36If you don't go, maybe the goddess of spring won't bless you next year.
11:41Your big sister picked out a dress for you and threw away all those hoodies and ripped jeans you always
11:46wear.
11:46If you're going to a ball, you should dress like a princess.
11:50She shoved a garment bag into my hands.
11:53I'd been doing practice tests all night and only opened the bag when it was...
11:58Dark.
11:59Inside was a poofy dress in violent Barbie pink and neon green.
12:03I went to look for my simple black dress.
12:06Only to find my closet completely empty.
12:10After studying all day, I was starving.
12:13So in the end I had no choice but to...
12:15Throw on that ridiculous thing and head out to find food.
12:19The moment I got to the community center where the ball was being held,
12:23I ran straight into Emma.
12:28Wrapped in a custom starry tulle gown and surrounded by...
12:32Cheerleader girls.
12:33Oh my god!
12:35She doesn't seriously think that looks fashionable, does she?
12:40Ugly girls always try the hardest.
12:43Is she actually trying to steal the spotlight from our ball queen Emma dressed like that?
12:49She looks like a circus clown!
12:54She looks like a circus clown!
12:56LMO, the fabric for Emma's dress was woven by Lord Adrian with Elgin's secret art.
13:02That neon garbage bag she's wearing doesn't even deserve to be in the same room.
13:08Guys, stop it!
13:13Sarah, how could you come out dressed like that?
13:18This is my fault.
13:20I should have helped you style it better.
13:22Emma, it's not your fault.
13:24Her taste is just that awful.
13:26Exactly!
13:28You even bought her new clothes.
13:30If you'd worn that same dress, you'd look like a Victoria's Secret supermodel!
13:35So stop blaming yourself.
13:38But I'm still her sister.
13:41How could I feel okay watching everyone laugh at her?
13:49Are you done with your Oscar-winning performance?
13:52You were just saying I have terrible taste, right?
13:54Then why don't you tell everyone who threw away all the clothes in my closet?
13:57That Elvin Starlight gown does look nice ice on you.
14:00Even if Adrian gave it to you, I'm sure your little scheme had something to do with it.
14:03Since your taste is supposedly so amazing, why did you deliberately buy me this piece of trash?
14:12Are you accusing me?
14:14Stop acting like the victim.
14:16Aren't you tired of this little act every single day?
14:19If you're really innocent, then take everyone to your trunk right now,
14:23and let's see whether my clothes are locked inside.
14:26It doesn't matter where the clothes are!
14:28It doesn't matter where the clothes are!
14:31You're destroying our sisterhood by saying this!
14:41We can talk after we check.
14:44Just as I was about to push open the community center doors,
14:49a sudden, burning pain shot through my wrist.
14:52Two tiny red marks appeared snake-fong marks.
14:56Carrie magic, laced with fake-truth venom.
15:00What's wrong with neon green?
15:02I am smarter than Emma.
15:05I just want everyone to know she's just a pretty idiot!
15:09Let's see if the boys still keep orbiting around her
15:12after I drag her name through the mud this time.
15:15One of Emma's best friends slapped me across the face on the spot.
15:19I knew this was just your jealousy acting up!
15:21You should be grateful you even had something to wear!
15:24And you're still complaining?
15:26You don't deserve to be Emma's sister!
15:28There were too many of them.
15:30All I could do was turn around and run into the night.
15:42Before I left, I saw Adrian pull Emma into the shelter of his broad chest.
15:47While I was recovering at the farm, Adrian came into my room carrying a... potion.
15:53I knocked it over.
15:54He grabbed my chin and forced a pill into my mouth.
15:58If you spit it out, the venom will damage your nerves.
16:01You'll die.
16:02I swallowed the antidote.
16:05Do you really have nothing to say to me?
16:08I closed my eyes and said nothing.
16:10He had to have known I'd been reborn too.
16:13Since the day we'd come back, I hadn't said a single kind word to him.
16:18Get out.
16:21After the community ball, my reputation in town was completely ruined.
16:26Meanwhile, Emma only looked more radiant by the day under Adrian's.
16:30Magic.
16:31Then one day, Emma came to find me.
16:34I know you're bitter.
16:36But you have to accept that you're just ordinary.
16:38At the end of the day, you were the one who had that public meltdown at the ball.
16:42You can't keep coveting things that don't belong to you.
16:45Adrian loves me.
16:47There's nothing you can do about it.
16:49Understand?
16:49I wanted nothing more to do with her.
16:52So I pushed past her and tried to leave.
16:55She immediately faked a stumble and fell right into Adrian's arms the moment.
17:00He walked in.
17:02I was just trying to be nice to you.
17:04Why are you always so hostile?
17:07Apologize.
17:07If you've got resentment, take it out on me.
17:10Love can't be forced.
17:12Choosing her was my decision.
17:14It had nothing to do with her.
17:16There's no need for you to act indifferent in front of me while going after her behind my back.
17:20The roar of engines sounded outside.
17:23Two black SUVs pulled up and several officials in suits stepped out carrying documents.
17:31Congratulations, Ms. Sarah Johnson.
17:33Your federal policy analysis paper has been personally selected by the governor for the Washington Youth Leadership Program.
17:39Not only will you receive a full Ivy League scholarship, but the governor will also meet with you personally in
17:44the capital.
17:46The Youth Leadership Program?
17:48You... you couldn't even get a date to the dance!
17:52How could you possibly pass a federal selection like that?
17:56The governor opened a special independent application track last month.
18:00But I guess you were too busy flirting with every boy in town to notice academic news like that.
18:09But Adrian, you were wrong.
18:11You were never my goal.
18:13Throwing you away like trash isn't hard at all.
18:17Compared to the future waiting for me in Washington, your love is dirt cheap.
18:24In my past life, I turned down every boy who asked me out, just to stay, by his side when
18:30he was sick.
18:31And now I was crushing him under my heel this easily.
18:35His pride must have been shattered, but I had no intention of coddling him anymore.
18:40Emma tried to grab my clothes and demand an explanation, but I dodged.
18:44Her touch without hesitation.
18:46Watch yourself.
18:47Step back!
18:48This young woman was personally selected by the governor.
18:52She isn't someone a small town nobody like you gets to grab whenever you want.
18:58One of the officials placed a black card in my hand.
19:02Please make sure to report to Washington, D.C. next month.
19:05All lodging, meals, and travel expenses will be covered by the federal government.
19:10Mrs. Sarah, your paper has already made waves all over Capitol Hill.
19:15When you're powerful and influential in politics one day,
19:19don't forget who handed you the this offer.
19:22The onlookers stood with their mouths hanging open.
19:25The girls, who'd, bullied me at the ball had gone deathly pale.
19:30If Sarah goes to Washington, she's not gonna sid the FBI on our taxes or something, right?
19:36We bullied her like crazy before!
19:38She's definitely going to get revenge on us!
19:47A few hours later, I was packing my things when Emma came to find me,
19:52carrying a plate of baked apple pie.
19:56Sarah, are you blaming me for being too hard on you all these years?
19:59I'll change!
20:01I promise I will!
20:03Just don't leave me here alone in this town, okay?
20:07Okay?
20:08Do you really think I stayed up all night writing that paper
20:11and got into this program just to get away from you?
20:17But before Mom and Dad died,
20:19they told us we had to rely on each other as sisters!
20:22Have you ever actually taken care of me?
20:24For all these years, you've only ever used me as your doormat.
20:29You bullied me and gaslit me just to make yourself feel like a queen.
20:35You're not afraid of losing me.
20:37You're scared that once I'm gone,
20:38you won't have an ugly little duckling to stand next to anymore.
20:41And more than that, you'll have no one to step on to make yourself feel better.
20:45You can't stand the thought of the little sister you kept under your heels
20:48suddenly soaring higher than you ever could.
20:51Isn't that the truth?
20:52Take your pie and get out!
20:56Adrian walked in, grabbed my sleeve, and started scolding me.
21:01She's your sister.
21:03You shouldn't be this cruel.
21:05I took a box cutter and sliced right through the part of my sleeve he was.
21:09Holding.
21:10I never came after you for what you did to me with that fake truth venom
21:14and the way you humiliated me in public.
21:17I'd appreciate it if you stopped following me around like a creepy stalker.
21:21From today on, we go our separate ways.
21:24Don't disgust me again.
21:26I threw both of them out and slammed the door shut.
21:29After tonight, I'd finally be free of every last one of those rotten people.
21:33The next morning, I'd take a greyhound to the airport and be gone.
21:37But when I woke up the next morning, I found the doorknob sealed shut.
21:43Golden runes shimmered across the windows of barrier cast by a high god.
21:47A flash of holy light cut through the room and Adrian appeared out of nowhere.
21:56It was you?
21:58If I don't leave today, I'll miss my reporting deadline.
22:01That means defying a federal order.
22:03Are you trying to ruin my life?
22:07I won't let anything happen to you.
22:10Who the hell do you think you are?
22:12You think a little magic is enough to make politicians in Washington change their minds?
22:16If I say it, I mean it.
22:22You've completely lost it!
22:24Did Emma tell you to put up this barrier?
22:27What gives you the right to destroy my future over your disgusting little love story?
22:32Do you have any idea how many all-nighters I pulled in that miserable library?
22:37I'm sorry, but she saved my life.
22:42Adrian!
22:43I was the one who dragged you back from death at Crystal Cove!
22:46Don't you remember?
22:48You'd been hit by a dark magic curse who couldn't even hold your original form.
22:52You were barely breathing.
22:55I hid you in that abandoned cabin and took care of you for a whole month before I finally left!
23:01You really would do anything to get to Washington, wouldn't you?
23:04You'd even make up a lie like that.
23:06I may be fooled by human trickery, but I will never mistake the person who saved my life.
23:12You can insult me all you want, but you have no right to steal your sister's credit.
23:18You?
23:21I'm sorry, but I can't let Emma be upset.
23:25You'll just have to stay inside this barrier for a few days and miss your reporting deadline.
23:31A flash of holy light, and Adrian was gone.
23:34I hurled the glass from the desk, straight at the wall, but there was nothing I could do.
23:41I was only human.
23:43I had no magic.
23:45I couldn't break a holy barrier like this.
23:51Adrian, if it weren't for your magic, I really don't know how I would've...
23:55Stopped Sarah.
23:56Thank you, my hero.
23:59I searched the room for a way to break the barrier, until I finally collapsed.
24:04Onto the bed, completely exhausted.
24:07Sometime in the middle of the night, I woke to a bone-chilling cold against...
24:11My skin.
24:12By the moonlight, I saw the room was filled with countless black snakes.
24:17They'd slipped through the barrier from the shadows, and one was already slithering.
24:22Up the bed leg toward me.
24:24Ah!
24:26Why?
24:27All I wanted was to change my life with my education!
24:30Why is everything trying to stop me?
24:32When Adrian had put up the barrier around my room to keep Emma from, being disturbed, he'd added a silencing
24:40spell too.
24:41No matter how hard I screamed in, there, nobody outside could hear a thing.
24:47At that very moment, Adrian was sitting on the couch in the living room, with his eyes closed.
24:53Then the guest room door opened, and Emma stepped out in an absurdly thin silk nightgown.
25:00There's thunder outside.
25:02I'm scared.
25:04This isn't proper.
25:07Ah!
25:08If you don't hold me, I'm really going to get so scared.
25:11My heart stops.
25:12I'm so scared of thunder.
25:14Ah!
25:14Emma burrowed into Adrian's arms.
25:17Adrian scooped her up and carried her back to the princess bed.
25:22He dropped to one knee and slipped off Emma's fuzzy slippers.
25:25We're too perfect.
25:27Back then, when I went to gather herbs from the lake bed to save him, I slipped in the freezing
25:33water and split the sole of my foot open on a jagged rock so badly the wound went nearly to
25:39the bone.
25:39An injury like that would have left a permanent scar on the bottom of my foot.
25:45Adrian stared at the bottoms of Emma's feet.
25:48They were as smooth as a baby skin without even the slightest callus.
25:53He dropped Emma's shoes, turned, and rushed out of the room.
25:57Then he ran to my door and tore down the barrier.
26:03Sarah?
26:04When he saw what was inside the room, the mighty Lord Adrian froze.
26:09I stumbled through the windbreak, gasping for breath, and looked back.
26:15The town was completely out of sight.
26:17Thank God, when the snakes had surrounded me, I'd noticed the old, broken vent in the attic ceiling.
26:25The holy light barrier hadn't covered that blind spot.
26:30Sometimes, a beat-up old farmhouse had its perks.
26:33I stumbled past the windbreak grove, gasping for breath.
26:37When I looked back, the town had already vanished completely from sight.
26:43Luckily, in the middle of being surrounded by all those snakes, I noticed that the attic vent had rotted and
26:50cracked open.
26:51The holy barrier hadn't covered that blind spot.
26:55Sometimes an old, farmhouse being run down had its advantages, too.
27:00After a long, grueling journey, I finally made it to Washington, D.C.
27:05I walked into the Grand Capital Office building to report for the program, only to be hit with a devastating
27:13bombshell.
27:14Didn't you check your email?
27:16Your spot in the program has been revoked on an emergency basis.
27:22Sir, my paper was personally approved and recommended by the governor.
27:26How could my place possibly be revoked for no reason?
27:29That decision came from above.
27:31We're just following procedure.
27:33There's nothing more we can tell you.
27:37But, but, hey, wait!
27:41I turned around.
27:43Adrian was standing on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue in a trench coat.
27:48Every pedestrian and secret service agent on the street froze,
27:53stunned speechless by the inhumanly beautiful man who'd appeared out of nowhere.
27:56He looked so far above the mortal world that even the politicians at the
28:01center of power seemed like sewer rats standing in front of him.
28:05Hey, miss!
28:07Where do you think you're going?
28:08Get back here!
28:10Are you insane?
28:11That's the holy light's serpent!
28:13Seeing me storm straight toward him, the official rushed to stop me,
28:17but I shoved him aside in one motion.
28:20I slapped Adrian hard across that perfect face.
28:24The whole street went dead silent.
28:26People looked like their eyes were about to fall right out of their heads.
28:30The official even started making the sign of the cross on his chest,
28:34like he expected divine fire to rain down at any second.
28:38Then I slapped him again.
28:41Is that all your higher dimensional power is good for?
28:44Crushing a poor girl who's just trying to change her life with an education?
28:50Before the third slap could land, he caught my wrist.
28:54I'm so sorry.
28:56I finally understand what you were trying to tell me before.
28:59I was blind.
29:01I mistook you for Emma, and Emma for you.
29:11He'd gone back and figured out the truth about the scar on my foot.
29:15He'd realized he'd used his godlike power to, or to manipulate Congress,
29:20just to fulfill Emma's wish and crush my chance at a better life.
29:25I'll apply again next year to an Ivy League law school.
29:28And if you really know you were wrong,
29:31then take your cheap little sense of holiness and crawl back to heaven.
29:35Stop meddling in how the human world works.
29:37I boarded the Greyhound bus back home while everyone stared at me like I was insane.
29:42But leaving had been easy.
29:45Going back was hard.
29:46There'd been extreme hurricane weather for two weeks straight.
29:50The town had flooded, turned into a swung.
29:53I trudged through the muddy road in my rain boots.
29:56Adrian followed behind me,
29:58silently using his magic to push the floodwaters away from my path.
30:02I brushed him off every time.
30:04Finally made it back to the high ground of the farm,
30:07when Emma suddenly lunged out from under the porch roof.
30:11Adrian! Where did you go?
30:13You just disappeared all of a sudden,
30:15and you even took the barrier down.
30:17I was so scared.
30:19Do you have any idea how worried I was when I couldn't get through to you?
30:23But Adrian pushed Emma away.
30:26Enough.
30:27I know now that I mistook the wrong person.
30:30I'll leave you a trust fund and some Wall Street stock as compensation.
30:34Just pretend you never took me in.
30:41What are you saying?
30:42Adrian didn't answer.
30:43He only looked at me in pain as I trudged toward the house alone,
30:47covered in mud and carrying my own luggage.
30:50Emma understood something instantly.
30:54Please, just let me explain.
30:57Adrian coldly shook her off.
30:59Emma fell into the mud, her bare feet exposed.
31:03Adrian hesitated, but in the end he still bent down and lifted her foot,
31:08staring at the ugly scar on the sole one that was now suddenly clearly visible.
31:12Huh?
31:13The scar.
31:14Why wasn't it there before?
31:16I've had it for a long time.
31:19I got it back then,
31:20when I was trying to save a little snake
31:22and sliced my foot open on sharp rocks at the bottom of the lake.
31:26I only got cosmetic laser treatment because I was afraid you'd think my foot was ugly.
31:32But now, just to prove it to you, I paid to have the scar tattooed back on.
31:38Adrian's frown deepened.
31:40If that was really true, then what about the conclusion he had come to that night?
31:44Had he really wronged Emma after all?
31:47Was I really too rash?
31:50I stood on the front steps, watching.
31:52If something as cheap as a silicoed scar patch can fool you,
31:56then honestly, you should just fall from heaven already.
32:00Sarah, what is that supposed to mean?
32:02Are you saying I'm lying?
32:04But why would I lie?
32:06Back then, he was just an ordinary pet snake.
32:09What could I possibly have gained from saving him?
32:12I'm not some sort of prophet.
32:19Adrian's expression only grew more conflicted.
32:22He had never told Emma the details of how he was injured at the bottom of Crystal Cove.
32:27And yet, everything she described matched perfectly.
32:30Because in my previous life,
32:32I had sometimes mumbled the whole story in my sleep,
32:35and she had overheard every word.
32:37I knew he was wavering again.
32:39No!
32:41Run!
32:41The dam upstream has collapsed!
32:44The mayor's shrill warning cry came from the distance.
32:47Isn't this the same catastrophic flood that destroyed the whole town in my last life?
32:51But that disaster didn't happen until five years later.
32:55How did my rebirth cause the butterfly effect to make it happen this early?
32:59As I watched the mudslide and towering floodwaters come crashing in like the end of the world,
33:04I instinctively turned to the only god-level being here who could possibly stop a natural disaster.
33:09Stop the flood!
33:10Adrian snatched Emma into his arms,
33:13transformed into a holy light serpent blazing with blinding radiance,
33:16and soared into the sky.
33:18Curled up in Adrian's arms,
33:20Emma looked down at me from above while I stood there in despair.
33:23The same thing all over again.
33:27When disaster struck, his first instinct was still to protect that fake woman and let the whole town be swallowed
33:34by the flood.
33:34I was reborn, I studied my ass off, I fought back against the bullies, and in the end am I
33:40still just gonna get crushed like an ant by these so-called higher beings?
33:45Why?!
33:46A terrifying burst of dark power suddenly erupted from my body.
33:50Hard.
33:51Obsidian black scales spread across my skin, and massive black dragon wings tore through flesh and unfurled from my back,
33:57spreading wide.
34:00Then a shadow trap, and the depths of hell shot into the sky and blasted the storm.
34:07Evil!
34:08It's the aura of an abyss demon!
34:14You're an abysmal demon.
34:17Memories of my last life as the abyssal lord descending into the mortal world for a trial game flooding back
34:22like a tidal wave.
34:23You're allowed to seal your memories and come to human world for a little life experience, but I'm not allowed
34:29to take a vacation here as the demon queen of the abyss?
34:33This little emotional trial arranged by heaven is seriously disgusting.
34:38I shifted back into human form, but the massive black wing stayed spread behind me, and my dark red eyes
34:44blazed with lethal danger.
34:45In the next instant, I slammed into Adrienne's serpent body at supersonic speed.
34:51The impact was so violent, I lost his grip on her, and she screamed as she crunched straight down toward
34:57the raging blood below her.
35:02Adrienne instantly cast light magic, and a long vine of holy radiance shot out to wrap around Emma's waist.
35:08But just then, a massive black serpent from the underworld burst out of the water, trailing scorching salt fire, and
35:15smashed the holy vine to pieces.
35:17Brother.
35:19Marcus! Marcus! My black knight! Save me!
35:23The infernal black serpent transformed the dare into a handsome man in a black trench coat.
35:28He didn't even glance at Emma. He flew straight to my side and dropped to one knee in the dare.
35:34Your majesty, my queen. I have failed to protect you.
35:40Brother!
35:41Adrienne dumped down her and swept him back into his arms, wrapping her in a shield of holy light to
35:47keep the flood out.
35:48Marcus had originally been a high-ranking angel of heaven, but he'd grown sick of Adrienne's hypocrisy and fallen from
35:55grace long ago.
35:56He'd become the commander of my abyss legion.
35:59Brother, how could you betray God and side with evil?
36:05That's the abysmal demon race, the very embodiment of darkness.
36:10Evil? Then let me ask you this, you so-called symbol of absolute righteousness.
36:13I'm the so-called evil demon you all hate, and I just regained my memories.
36:17And yet even I used my magic to protect these innocent people.
36:20So why is it that you, a representative of heaven who claims to stand for love and salvation, can only
36:27see one selfish woman?
36:32My claw pointed straight at Emma, who was trembling in Adrienne's arms.
36:37Whether they came from heaven or the abyss, higher dimensional beings had to seal away their memories every few hundred
36:43years and descend into the mortal world as humans, living through birth, aging, sickness, and death to stabilize their godhood
36:51or their demonhood.
36:52I just hadn't expected that I, the lord of the abyss, and Adrienne would end up dropped into the very
36:58same little American town.
36:59And there was Marcus, my most loyal subordinate.
37:03He'd sensed my aura the night he'd awakened in the thunderstorm.
37:07Those black snakes filling the room that night were never there to hurt me or to avenge Emma.
37:11The swarm of black snakes moved around me without any intent to attack.
37:15Marcus had only been using shadow creatures to confirm who I was.
37:20Emma looked toward Marcus with tears in her eyes.
37:27Marcus, have you forgotten that I was the one who saved you back then?
37:32How could you side with demons?
37:36So you think I'm a demon for not saving a liar like you?
37:41Some people are rotten to the core. They were never worth saving.
37:46Adrian's gaze dropped to Emma's foot.
37:50Your foot? Why is it-
37:52The fake scar patch on Emma's foot had started peeling away.
37:57You! You faked the scar to trick me!
38:01Yes! I knew you only got close to me because you thought I was the one you had always loved!
38:07But what we had at the farm wasn't fake!
38:09If you found out Sarah was the one who saved you, how was I supposed to keep you?
38:13Sarah has a full scholarship, a bright future, and now she even has Marcus!
38:17But I have nothing except my looks! You're all I have!
38:22Shut up.
38:23I drew a sword from the void, its blade burning with black hellfire, and stood suspended in the sky.
38:29Since both the great archangel and I have finished this god-awful mortal trial and recovered our true forms,
38:37then, this lying human gets handed over to me to be judged by the laws of the abyss.
38:44Adrian, put away your messiah complex and move. Otherwise, I'm declaring war.
38:52She may be guilty, but the laws of heaven do not allow demons to pass judgment on mortals.
38:57I'm taking her with me.
38:59The laws of heaven protect mortals?
39:01Then where were those laws when Lord Adrian used fake truth venom for her sake and destroyed me in public,
39:07locked me up in a holy barrier, and even tamped with congression appointments to ruin my future?
39:13That so-called sparen is nothing but a pediful excuse for protecting your own.
39:18Sacred law? Good versus evil?
39:20You're nothing but a fool blinded by a pretty face and your own pathetic desires.
39:25You're a high archangel who's lived for tens of thousands of years,
39:28and yet you still got played by Emma's cheap little tricks and a fake silicone scar patch.
39:33It's not that you didn't know she was lying.
39:35You just pretended not to see it to feed your stupid savior complex.
39:39You let your personal feelings blind you.
39:41You abused your divine power against an innocent person,
39:43and how do you dare call yourself an archangel?
39:46You think you're fit to speak for God's will?
39:48We clashed violently in the sky.
39:53When the holy shield was on the verge of shattering, Adrian didn't hesitate.
39:58To save himself, he shoved Emma straight toward Marcus's shadow scythe as a human shield.
40:03I forcibly pulled back my attack, and Emma plummeted from the sky.
40:07So this was what these so-called higher beings really were like.
40:11The person they claimed to love was nothing more than a shield to them.
40:15I saw the light camp for what it really was, once and for all.
40:19My black flame sword pierced straight through Adrian's chest with unstoppable force,
40:24shattering the core of his godhood.
40:25You...
40:26You actually dare kill a god of heaven?
40:29Go preach your grand moral principles to Satan in hell.
40:34Adrian fell into the water and vanished without a trace.
40:37Down below, the townspeople and the National Guard dropped to there.
40:41Knees in the mud, raising their hands toward me in the sky as they shouted,
40:46The true god who saved us from the apocalypse!
40:48I was no god. I was the ruler of the abyss.
40:52Adrian is dead. One of heaven's highest seats is empty now.
40:57That was the power you wanted most once.
40:59Are you going to take that back?
41:01My faith left heaven long ago.
41:04All I want now is to follow your majesty forever.
41:08Suit yourself.
41:10But before that we're making a trip to Washington D.C.
41:13That governor owes me an Ivy League law school offer.
41:17And it's about time he repaid it with his soul.
41:20Quite soon.
41:22That's a great deal.
41:23I've been to work with y'all.
41:24So, I hope I'm not going to be in the next episode.
41:24I'll send you a text from the book home as you did a minute.
41:24I'm ready.
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