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No Mercy for the Divine EP Dark Fantasy, Fallen Goddess & Revenge Drama
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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
01:33of 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!
02:18Look 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.
03:01Everyone 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.
03:53Townspeople didn't understand anything about supernatural creatures.
03:57But 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 bloody little white behind.
04:12But now, seeing him bear his fangs at me, I finally understood.
04:17That wasn't.
04:19Fear.
04:19He 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!
04:40How 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,
05:40big sister who kept putting up with everything.
05:42Since you're so compassionate,
05:45then take both snakes home and raise them yourself.
05:48I can't take both snakes!
05:50My incubator isn't big enough too!
05:55No problem.
05:56They'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.
06:17Don'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.
06:32Has 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,
06:50he had watched me get mocked by every high school boy
06:52in 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,
07:00breathing hard.
07:05He was clearly at his weakest right now,
07:07and yet he still forced himself into...
07:10Human form for Emma.
07:12If he could shift into a human, though,
07:15it 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.
07:24I'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,
07:32like she was afraid I might look at him for too long.
07:36Since you said you didn't want him,
07:38and you wouldn't listen no matter what I said...
07:45Then,
07:46I 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,
07:55and if she dares take it back,
07:57this whole community will boycott her.
07:59Oh, 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,
08:20the 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...
08:30Into a holy light serpent.
08:32But after I got home,
08:33I stayed in my room doing practice problems.
08:36I didn't...
08:38Go see him even once.
08:40Finally,
08:41the 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,
08:53his 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.
09:10He'd taken it for...
09:11Granted.
09:13So the moment I stopped loving him,
09:16he probably felt like I was the one...
09:18Who had betrayed him.
09:21In my past life,
09:23I'd worked late nights at a fast food restaurant through rain.
09:27And shine,
09:28just to buy him special medicine.
09:30I'd thought we'd built something real.
09:32Between us.
09:38Late that night,
09:39I 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,
09:48if you feel guilty toward the second young lady,
09:52then 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.
10:37She 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?
10:55I 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,
11:04you really are an idiot.
11:08I had no intention of revealing myself to him.
11:11In this new life,
11:13my goal was
11:14a wider world,
11:16not on an ungrateful snake.
11:18I spent most of my time preparing for my AP exams
11:21and working on
11:22government program applications.
11:25Then,
11:25right before the Spring Equinox Ball,
11:29Emma
11:29barged into my room.
11:33This is the annual Spring Equinox Ball.
11:36If you don't go,
11:37maybe the goddess of spring won't bless you next year.
11:41Your big sister picked out a dress for you
11:43and threw away all those hoodies and ripped jeans you always wear.
11:46If you're going to a ball,
11:48you should dress like a princess.
11:50She shoved a garment bag into my hands.
11:53I'd been doing practice tests all night
11:55and 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,
12:12I was starving,
12:13so in the end I had no choice but to
12:15throw on that ridiculous thing
12:17and head out to find food.
12:19The moment I got to the community center
12:21where the ball was being held,
12:23I ran straight into Emma.
12:29Wrapped in a costume starry tool gown
12:31and surrounded by
12:32cheerleader girls.
12:34Oh my god!
12:35She doesn't seriously think
12:37that looks fashionable, does she?
12:40Ugly girls always try the hardest.
12:43Is she actually trying to steal the spotlight
12:46from our ball queen Emma dressed like that?
12:50She looks like a circus clown!
12:54She looks like a circus clown!
12:57LMO, the fabric for Emma's dress
12:58was woven by Lord Adrian
13:00with Elgin's secret art.
13:02That neon garbage bag she's wearing
13:04doesn'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.
13:23Emma, it's not your fault.
13:24Her taste is just that awful.
13:27Exactly!
13:28You even bought her new clothes.
13:30If you'd worn that same dress,
13:31you'd look like a Victoria's Secret supermodel!
13:35So stop blaming yourself.
13:39But I'm still her sister!
13:41How could I feel okay
13:42watching 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
13:55who 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,
14:01I'm sure your little scheme
14:02had something to do with it.
14:03Since your taste is supposedly so amazing,
14:05why 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,
14:21then 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.
14:45Just 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.
14:56Carrying magic,
14:57laced with fake-truth venom.
15:00What's wrong with neon green?
15:03I am smarter than Emma.
15:05I just want everyone to know
15:07she's just a pretty idiot!
15:09Let's see if the boys still keep orbiting around her
15:12after I dragged her name through the mud this time.
15:16One of Emma's best friends slapped me across the face on the spot.
15:19This was just your jealousy acting up!
15:21You should be grateful you even had something to wear!
15:24And you're still complaining?
15:25You 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,
15:43I saw Adrian pull Emma into the shelter of his broad chest.
15:47While I was recovering at the farm,
15:49Adrian came into my room carrying a
15:51potion.
15:52I knocked it over.
15:54He grabbed my chin and forced a pill into my mouth.
15:58If you spit it out,
15:59the 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,
16:15I hadn't said a single kind word to him.
16:18Get out.
16:21After the community ball,
16:23my reputation in town was completely ruined.
16:26Meanwhile,
16:27Emma only looked more radiant by the day under Adrian's.
16:30Magic.
16:31Then one day,
16:33Emma 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,
16:40you 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?
16:50I 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?
17:06Apologize.
17:08If you've got resentment,
17:09take 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
17:37for the Washington Youth Leadership Program.
17:40Not only will you receive a full Ivy League scholarship,
17:42but the governor will also meet with you personally in the capital.
17:46The youth leadership program?
17:48You 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.
18:14Throwing you away like trash isn't hard at all.
18:17Compared to the future waiting for me in Washington,
18:20your love is dirt cheap.
18:24In my past life,
18:26I turned down every boy who asked me out,
18:28just to stay.
18:29By his side when he was sick.
18:31And now I was crushing him under my heel this easily.
18:35His pride must have been shattered,
18:37but I had no intention of coddling him anymore.
18:40Emma tried to grab my clothes and demand an explanation,
18:43but I dodged.
18:44Her touch without hesitation.
18:46Watch yourself.
18:47Step back.
18:49This 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.
19:01Please 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 bullied me at the ball had gone deathly pale.
19:29If Sarah goes to Washington,
19:32she's not going to sit 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,
19:49I 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?
20:00I'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?
20:25For all these years,
20:26you've only ever used me as your doormat.
20:29You bullied me and gaslit me
20:31just 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,
20:42you'll have no one to step on to make yourself feel better.
20:45You can't stand the thought of the little sister
20:47you kept under your heel
20:49suddenly soaring higher than you ever could.
20:51Isn't that the truth?
20:52Take your pie and get out.
20:56Adrian walked in,
20:58grabbed my sleeve,
20:59and started scolding me.
21:01She's your sister.
21:03You shouldn't be this cruel.
21:05I took a box cutter
21:06and sliced right through the part of my sleeve he was.
21:09Holding.
21:11I never came after you for what you did to me
21:13with that fake truth venom
21:14and the way you humiliated me in public.
21:17I'd appreciate it if you stopped following me around
21:19like a creepy stalker.
21:21From today on,
21:22we go our separate ways.
21:24Don't disgust me again.
21:25I threw both of them out and slammed the door shut.
21:29After tonight,
21:30I'd finally be free of every last one of those rotten people.
21:34The next morning,
21:35I'd take a greyhound to the airport and be gone.
21:38But when I woke up the next morning,
21:40I found the doorknob sealed shut.
21:43Golden runes shimmered across the windows,
21:45a barrier cast by a high god.
21:47A flash of holy light cut through the room
21:50and Adrian appeared out of nowhere.
21:56It was you?
21:58If I don't leave today,
22:00I'll miss my reporting deadline.
22:01That means defying a federal order.
22:04Are 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
22:14to make politicians in Washington change their minds?
22:16If I say it,
22:18I 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
22:29over your disgusting little love story?
22:32Do you have any idea
22:34how many all-nighters I pulled
22:36in that miserable library?
22:37I'm sorry, but...
22:39she saved my life.
22:42Adrian!
22:43I was the one who dragged you back from death
22:45at Crystal Cove.
22:46Don't you remember?
22:48You'd been hit by a dark magic curse
22:50who couldn't even hold your original form.
22:53You were barely breathing.
22:55I hid you in that abandoned cabin
22:57and took care of you for a whole month
22:59before I finally left.
23:01You really would do anything
23:03to get to Washington, wouldn't you?
23:04You'd even make up a lie like that.
23:07I may be fooled by human trickery,
23:09but I will never mistake the person
23:10who saved my life.
23:12You can insult me all you want,
23:14but you have no right
23:15to steal your sister's credit.
23:18You...
23:22I'm sorry,
23:23but I can't let Emma be upset.
23:25You'll just have to stay inside this barrier
23:27for a few days
23:28and miss your reporting deadline.
23:31A flash of holy light
23:32and Adrian was gone.
23:35I hurled the glass from the desk
23:37straight at the wall,
23:38but there was nothing I could do.
23:41I was only human.
23:43I had no magic.
23:45I...
23:46couldn't break a holy barrier like this.
23:51Adrian,
23:52if it weren't for your magic,
23:53I really don't know how I would've...
23:55Stop, Sarah.
23:57Thank you, my hero.
23:59I searched the room
24:00for a way to break the barrier
24:02until I finally collapsed
24:03onto the bed,
24:05completely exhausted.
24:07Sometime in the middle of the night,
24:09I woke to a bone-chilling cold against
24:11my skin.
24:13By the moonlight,
24:14I saw the room was filled
24:16with countless black snakes.
24:18They'd slipped through the barrier
24:19from the shadows,
24:20and one was already slithering
24:22up the bed leg toward me.
24:26AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
24:26Why?
24:27All I wanted was to change my life
24:29with my education.
24:30Why is everything trying to stop me?
24:33When Adrian had put up the barrier
24:35around my room to keep Emma from,
24:37being disturbed,
24:38he'd added a silencing spell too.
24:41No matter how hard I screamed in,
24:44there,
24:44nobody outside could hear a thing.
24:47At that very moment,
24:49Adrian was sitting on the couch
24:51in the living room,
24:52with his eyes closed.
24:54Then the guest room door opened,
24:56and Emma stepped out in an
24:57absurdly thin silk nightgown.
25:00There's thunder outside.
25:02I'm scared.
25:04This
25:04isn't proper.
25:07Ah!
25:08If you don't hold me,
25:10I'm really going to get so scared.
25:12My heart stops.
25:12I'm so scared of thunder.
25:14Ah!
25:15Emma burrowed into Adrian's arms.
25:17Adrian scooped her up
25:19and carried her back to the princess bed.
25:22He dropped to one knee
25:23and slipped off Emma's fuzzy slippers.
25:25We're too perfect.
25:27Back then,
25:28when I went to gather herbs
25:30from the lake bed to save him,
25:32I slipped in the freezing water
25:34and split the sole of my foot
25:35open on a jagged rock so.
25:37Badly the wound went nearly to the bone.
25:40An injury like that
25:41would have left a permanent scar
25:42on the bottom of my foot.
25:45Adrian stared at the bottoms
25:46of Emma's feet.
25:48They were as smooth as a
25:49baby skin
25:51without even the slightest callous.
25:53He dropped Emma's shoes,
25:55turned,
25:56and rushed out of the room.
25:57Then he ran
25:59to my door
26:00and tore down the barrier.
26:03Sarah?
26:04When he saw what was inside the room,
26:06the mighty Lord Adrian froze.
26:09Completely.
26:10I stumbled through the windbreak,
26:12gasping for breath,
26:13and looked back.
26:14The town was completely out of sight.
26:17Thank God,
26:18when the snakes had surrounded
26:20me,
26:21I'd noticed the old,
26:23broken vent in the attic ceiling.
26:25The holy light barrier hadn't
26:27covered that blind spot.
26:30Sometimes,
26:31the beat-up old farmhouse
26:32had its perks.
26:33I stumbled past the windbreak grove,
26:36gasping for breath.
26:37When I looked
26:38back,
26:40the town had already vanished
26:41completely from sight.
26:43Luckily,
26:44in the middle of
26:45being surrounded
26:46by all those snakes,
26:48I noticed that the attic vent
26:49had rotted and
26:50cracked open.
26:52The holy barrier
26:53hadn't covered that blind spot.
26:55Sometimes an old
26:57farmhouse being run down
26:58had its advantages too.
27:00After a long,
27:01grueling journey,
27:02I finally made it
27:04to Washington, D.C.
27:05I walked into the
27:07Grand Capital Office building
27:09to report for the program,
27:10only to be hit with a
27:12devastating bombshell.
27:14Didn't you check your email?
27:16Your spot in the program
27:17has been revoked
27:18on an emergency basis.
27:22Sir,
27:23my paper was personally approved
27:25and recommended by the governor.
27:26How could my place
27:27possibly be revoked
27:28for no reason?
27:29That decision came from above.
27:31We're just following procedure.
27:33There's nothing more
27:34we can tell you.
27:37But...
27:38But...
27:39Hey!
27:40Wait!
27:41I turned around.
27:43Adrian was standing
27:44on the corner of Pennsylvania
27:46Avenue in a trench coat.
27:49Every pedestrian
27:49and secret service agent
27:51on the street froze,
27:53stunned speechless
27:53by the inhumanly beautiful man
27:55who'd appeared out of nowhere.
27:57He looked so far above
27:59the mortal world
27:59that even the politicians
28:01at the center of power
28:02seemed like sewer rats
28:04standing in front of him.
28:06Hey!
28:06Miss!
28:07Where do you think
28:08you're going?
28:09Get back here!
28:10Are you insane?
28:11That's the Holy Light's serpent!
28:13Seeing me storm
28:14straight toward him,
28:15the official rushed
28:16to stop me,
28:17but I
28:18shoved him aside
28:19in one motion.
28:20I slapped Adrian hard
28:22across that perfect face.
28:24The whole street
28:25went dead silent.
28:26People looked like
28:27their eyes were about
28:28to fall right out
28:29of their heads.
28:30The official even started
28:32making the sign
28:32of the cross on his chest,
28:34like he expected
28:35divine fire to rain down
28:37at any second.
28:38Then I slapped him again.
28:41Is that all
28:42your higher dimensional
28:42power is good for?
28:44Crushing a poor girl
28:45who's just trying
28:45to change her life
28:46with an education?
28:50Before the third slap
28:51could land,
28:52he caught my wrist.
28:54I'm so sorry.
28:56I finally understand
28:57what you were trying
28:58to tell me before.
28:59I was blind.
29:01I mistook you for Emma,
29:02and Emma for you.
29:11He'd gone back
29:12and figured out the truth
29:14about the scar on my foot.
29:15He'd realized
29:16he'd used his godlike power
29:18to or to manipulate Congress
29:20just to fulfill Emma's wish
29:22and crush my chance
29:22at a better life.
29:25I'll apply again next year
29:27to an Ivy League law school.
29:28And if you really know
29:30you were wrong,
29:31then take your cheap
29:32little sense of holiness
29:33and crawl back to heaven.
29:35Stop meddling
29:36in how the human world works.
29:38I boarded the Greyhound bus
29:39back home
29:40while everyone stared
29:41at me like I was insane.
29:42But leaving had been easy.
29:44Going back was hard.
29:46There'd been extreme hurricane weather
29:48for two weeks straight.
29:50The town had flooded,
29:52turned into a swamp.
29:53I trudged through the muddy road
29:55in my rain boots.
29:57Adrian followed behind me,
29:59silently using his magic
30:00to push the floodwaters
30:01away from my path.
30:02I brushed him off every time.
30:05Finally made it back
30:06to the high ground of the farm
30:07when Emma suddenly lunged out
30:09from under the porch roof.
30:11Adrian!
30:12Where did you go?
30:13You just disappeared
30:14all of a sudden,
30:15and you even took the barrier down.
30:17I was so scared.
30:19Do you have any idea
30:20how worried I was
30:21when I couldn't get through to you?
30:23But Adrian pushed Emma away.
30:26Enough.
30:27I know now that I mistook
30:29the wrong person.
30:30I'll leave you a trust fund
30:31and some Wall Street stock
30:33as compensation.
30:34Just pretend
30:35you never took me in.
30:40What are you saying?
30:42Adrian didn't answer.
30:44He only looked at me in pain
30:45as I trudged toward the house alone,
30:48covered in mud
30:48and carrying my own luggage.
30:50Emma understood
30:51something instantly.
30:54Please,
30:55just let me explain.
30:57Adrian coldly shook her off.
30:59Emma fell into the mud,
31:01her bare feet exposed.
31:03Adrian hesitated,
31:05but in the end
31:05he still bent down
31:06and lifted her foot,
31:08staring at the ugly scar
31:09on the sole one
31:10that was now suddenly
31:11clearly visible.
31:12This scar?
31:14Why wasn't it there before?
31:17I've had it for a long time.
31:19I got it back then
31:20when I was trying
31:21to save a little snake
31:23and sliced my foot open
31:24on sharp rocks
31:25at the bottom of the lake.
31:27I only got cosmetic laser treatment
31:29because I was afraid
31:30you'd think my foot
31:31was ugly.
31:32But now,
31:33just to prove it to you,
31:35I paid to have
31:36the scar tattooed back on.
31:38Adrian's frown deepened.
31:40If that was really true,
31:41then what about the conclusion
31:43he had come to that night?
31:44Had he really wronged Emma after all?
31:47Was I really...
31:49too rash?
31:50I stood on the front steps,
31:51watching.
31:52If something as cheap
31:54as a silicoed scar patch
31:55can fool you,
31:56then honestly,
31:57you should just fall
31:58from heaven already.
32:00Sarah,
32:01what is that supposed to mean?
32:03Are you saying I'm lying?
32:04But why would I lie?
32:06Back then,
32:07he was just an ordinary pet snake.
32:09What could I possibly
32:11have gained from saving him?
32:13I'm not some sort of prophet.
32:19Adrian's expression
32:20only grew more conflicted.
32:22He had never told Emma
32:23the details of how he was injured
32:25at the bottom of Crystal Cove,
32:27and yet everything she described
32:28matched perfectly.
32:30Because in my previous life,
32:32I had sometimes mumbled
32:33the 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
32:43has collapsed!
32:44The mayor's shrill warning cry
32:46came from the distance.
32:47Isn't this the same
32:48catastrophic flood
32:49that destroyed the whole town
32:50in my last life?
32:51But that disaster
32:53didn't happen
32:53until five years later.
32:55How did my rebirth
32:56cause the butterfly effect
32:58to make it happen this early?
32:59As I watched the mudslide
33:01and towering floodwaters
33:02come crashing
33:03and like the end of the world,
33:04I instinctively turned
33:05to the only god level
33:06being here
33:07who could possibly
33:07stop a natural disaster.
33:09Stop the flood!
33:11Adrian snatched Emma
33:12into his arms,
33:13transformed into
33:14a holy light serpent
33:15blazing with blinding radiance,
33:17and soared into the sky.
33:18Curled up in Adrian's arms,
33:20Emma looked down at me
33:21from above
33:22while I stood there in despair.
33:23The same thing all over again.
33:28When disaster struck,
33:29his first instinct
33:30was still to protect
33:31that fake woman
33:32and let the whole town
33:33be swallowed by the flood.
33:35I was reborn!
33:36I studied my ass off!
33:38I fought back
33:38against the bullies
33:39and in the end
33:40am I still just going
33:41to get crushed
33:42like an ant
33:42by these so-called
33:43higher beings?
33:45Why?
33:46A terrifying burst
33:47of dark power
33:48suddenly erupted
33:49from my body.
33:50Hard, obsidian black scales
33:52spread across my skin
33:53and massive black dragon wings
33:55tore through flesh
33:56and unfurled
33:56from my back,
33:57spreading wide.
34:01Then a shot of dragon
34:02and the depths
34:03of hell shot
34:03into the sky
34:04and blasted the storm
34:05into my skin.
34:08evil.
34:08It's the aura
34:09of an abyss demon.
34:14You're
34:15an abysmal demon.
34:17Memories of my last life
34:18as the abyssal lord
34:19descending into the mortal world
34:21for a trial game
34:21flooding back
34:22like a tidal wave.
34:23You're allowed
34:24to steal your memories
34:25and come to human world
34:26for a little life experience,
34:28but I'm not allowed
34:29to take a vacation.
34:31Here as the demon queen
34:32of the abyss,
34:34this little emotional trial
34:35arranged by heaven
34:36is seriously disgusting.
34:38I shifted back
34:39into human form,
34:40but the massive black wing
34:41stayed spread behind me
34:43and my dark red eyes
34:44blazed with lethal danger.
34:46In the next instant,
34:47I slammed into Adrian's
34:49serpent body
34:49at supersonic speed.
34:51The impact was so violent
34:53that it lost his grip
34:54on her.
34:54And she screamed
34:55as she crunched straight down
34:57toward the raging blood below.
35:02Adrian instantly
35:03cast light magic
35:04and a long vine
35:05of holy radiance
35:06shot out to wrap
35:07around Emma's waist.
35:08But just then,
35:10a massive black serpent
35:11from the underworld
35:12burst out of the water,
35:13trailing scorching fire
35:15and smashed the holy vine
35:16to pieces.
35:18Brother.
35:19Marcus!
35:20Marcus!
35:21My black knight!
35:22Save me!
35:23The infernal black serpent
35:25transformed the dare
35:26into a handsome man
35:27in a black trench coat.
35:28He didn't even glance
35:30at Emma.
35:31He flew straight to my side
35:32and dropped to one knee
35:33in the dare.
35:35Your majesty,
35:36my queen,
35:36I have failed to protect you.
35:40Brother!
35:42Adrian dug down
35:43and swept him
35:43back into his arms,
35:45wrapping her in a shield
35:46of holy light
35:46to keep the flood out.
35:48Marcus had originally
35:49been a high-ranking
35:51angel of heaven,
35:52but he'd grown sick
35:53of Adrian's hypocrisy
35:54and fallen from grace
35:56long ago.
35:57He'd become the commander
35:58of my abyss legion.
36:00Brother,
36:01how could you betray God
36:03and side with evil?
36:05That's the abysmal demon race,
36:07the very embodiment
36:09of darkness.
36:10Evil?
36:10Then let me ask you this,
36:11you so-called symbol
36:12of absolute righteousness.
36:14I'm the so-called evil demon
36:15you all hate,
36:16and I just regained
36:16my memories.
36:17And yet even I used my magic
36:19to protect these innocent people.
36:21So why is it that you,
36:22a representative of heaven
36:24who claims to stand
36:25for love and salvation
36:27can only see one selfish woman?
36:32My claw pointed straight
36:34at Emma,
36:35who was trembling
36:35in Adrian's arms.
36:37Whether they came from heaven
36:39or the abyss,
36:40higher dimensional beings
36:41had to seal away
36:42their memories
36:43every few hundred years
36:44and descend into
36:45the mortal world
36:45as humans,
36:46living through birth,
36:47aging,
36:48sickness,
36:49and death
36:49to stabilize
36:50their godhood
36:51or their demonhood.
36:52I just hadn't expected
36:54that I,
36:54the lord of the abyss,
36:56and Adrian would end up
36:57dropped into the very same
36:58little American town.
36:59And there was Marcus,
37:01my most loyal subordinate.
37:03He'd sensed my aura
37:04the night he'd awakened
37:06in the thunderstorm.
37:07Those black snakes
37:08filling the room
37:09that night were never there
37:10to hurt me
37:10or to avenge Emma.
37:11The swarm of black snakes
37:13moved around me
37:14without any intent
37:15to attack.
37:16Marcus had only been
37:17using shadow creatures
37:18to confirm who I was.
37:20Emma looked toward Marcus
37:21with tears in her eyes.
37:27Marcus,
37:28have you forgotten
37:29that I was the one
37:30who saved you back then?
37:32How could you side
37:33with demons?
37:36So you think I'm a demon
37:37for not saving a liar
37:39like you?
37:41Some people are rotten
37:43to the core.
37:43They were never worth saving.
37:47Adrian's gaze dropped
37:48to Emma's foot.
37:50Your foot?
37:52Why is it-
37:53The fake scar patch
37:54on Emma's foot
37:55had started peeling away.
37:57You!
37:58You faked the scar
37:59to trick me!
38:01Yes!
38:02I knew you only got close to me
38:04because you thought
38:04I was the one
38:05you had always loved.
38:07But what we had
38:08at the farm
38:08wasn't fake!
38:09If you found out
38:10Sarah was the one
38:11who saved you,
38:12how was I supposed
38:12to keep you?
38:13Sarah has a full scholarship,
38:15a bright future,
38:16and now she even
38:17has Marcus!
38:18But I have nothing
38:19except my looks!
38:20You're all I have!
38:22Shut up.
38:24I drew a sword
38:25from the void,
38:26its blade burning
38:27with black hellfire,
38:28and stood suspended
38:29in the sky.
38:30Since both
38:31the great archangel
38:32and I have finished
38:33this god-awful mortal trial
38:35and recovered
38:35and recovered
38:36our true forms,
38:37then this lying human
38:39gets handed over to me
38:40to be judged
38:41by the laws of the abyss.
38:44Adrian,
38:45put away your messiah complex
38:47and move.
38:48Otherwise,
38:49I'm declaring war.
38:52She may be guilty,
38:53but the laws of heaven
38:55do not allow demons
38:56to pass judgment
38:56on mortals.
38:57I'm taking her with me.
38:59The laws of heaven
39:00protect mortals?
39:01Then where were those laws
39:03when Lord Adrian
39:04used fake truth venom
39:05for her sake
39:06and destroyed me in public,
39:07locked me up
39:08in a holy barrier,
39:09and even tamped
39:10with congression appointments
39:11to ruin my future?
39:13That so-called
39:14sparen is nothing
39:15but a pediful excuse
39:16for protecting your own.
39:18Sacred law?
39:19Good versus evil?
39:20You're nothing but a fool
39:22blinded by a pretty face
39:23and your own pathetic desires.
39:25You're a high archangel
39:26who's lived
39:27for tens of thousands
39:28of years,
39:28and yet you still
39:29got played by Emma's
39:30cheap little tricks
39:31and a fake silicone scar patch.
39:33It's not that you
39:34didn't know she was lying.
39:35You just pretended
39:36not to see it
39:37to feed your stupid
39:37savior complex.
39:39You let your personal
39:40feelings blind you.
39:41You abused your divine power
39:42against an innocent person,
39:44and how do you dare
39:44call yourself an archangel?
39:46You think you're fit
39:47to speak for God's will?
39:48We clashed violently
39:49in the sky.
39:53When the Holy Shield
39:54was on the verge
39:55of shattering,
39:56Adrian didn't hesitate.
39:58To save himself,
39:59he shoved Emma
40:00straight toward Marcus's
40:01shadow scythe
40:02as a human shield.
40:03I forcibly pulled back
40:04my attack,
40:05and Emma plummeted
40:07from the sky.
40:08So this was what
40:09these so-called
40:09higher beings
40:10really were like.
40:11The person they claimed
40:13to love was nothing
40:14more than a shield
40:15to them.
40:15I saw the light camp
40:17for what it really was,
40:18once and for all.
40:19My black flame sword
40:20pierced straight
40:21through Adrian's chest
40:22with unstoppable force,
40:24shattering the core
40:25of his godhood.
40:25You actually dare
40:28kill a god of heaven?
40:29Go preach your
40:30grand moral principles
40:31to Satan in hell.
40:34Adrian fell into the water
40:35and vanished
40:36without a trace.
40:37Down below,
40:38the townspeople
40:39and the National Guard
40:40dropped to their
40:41knees in the mud,
40:43raising their hands
40:44toward me in the sky
40:45as they shouted,
40:46The true god
40:46who saved us
40:47from the apocalypse!
40:48I was no god.
40:50I was the ruler
40:51of the abyss.
40:52Adrian is dead.
40:54One of heaven's
40:55highest seats
40:56is empty now.
40:57That was the power
40:58you wanted most once.
40:59Are you going to
41:00take it back?
41:01My faith left heaven
41:03long ago.
41:04All I want now
41:05is to follow
41:06your majesty forever.
41:08Suit yourself.
41:10But before that,
41:11we're making a trip
41:12to Washington, D.C.
41:13That governor owes me
41:15an Ivy League
41:16law school offer
41:17and it's about time
41:18he repaid it
41:18with his soul.
41:21I'll see you next time.
41:23I'll see you next time.
41:24I'll see you next time.
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