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00:00:01Elion, son of Apollo, was my fiancé, but he sent me to the Judgment Altar of Olympus with his own

00:00:08hands.

00:00:10And before the gods, he declared,

00:00:12She was the one responsible for leaving Seraphina, the saint of Delphi, trapped in an endless sleep.

00:00:20Everyone believed that I was a sinner consumed by jealousy toward the saint,

00:00:25but they did not know that I was the one truly chosen by the double oracle,

00:00:30and they knew even less that I, the woman sent to the Judgment Altar,

00:00:35had already been personally marked by Hades as his future queen.

00:00:39Before the white Judgment Altar of Olympus, the twelve Olympian gods sat high above the clouds.

00:00:45Priests, heroes, and city nobles packed the sacred steps.

00:00:48Every one of them was staring at me, as if they were waiting for me to bow my head and

00:00:52confess.

00:00:53And I knelt at the center of the altar.

00:00:56My wrists were pierced through by divine chains.

00:00:59Blood dripped from my fingertips, one drop after another.

00:01:04Elion stood before me.

00:01:06Three days ago, he had placed the sun ring on my finger and said,

00:01:10Lila, when the spring festival ends, I will marry you.

00:01:15But now there was only disgust in his eyes.

00:01:19My throat tasted of blood as I lifted my head to look at him.

00:01:24Don't let the loom of fate touch me.

00:01:27I stared at him.

00:01:29You will regret it.

00:01:30The crowd erupted at once.

00:01:33She still dares threaten the son of Apollo?

00:01:35An abandoned temple girl dares compare herself to Saint Serafina?

00:01:40The forbidden key was found on her, and the black mist clings to her.

00:01:44Who else could it be?

00:01:45Their voices pierced my ears like needles.

00:01:48I wanted to explain, but I could not.

00:01:50Serafina lay in a crystal coffin in Delphi.

00:01:53Her soul shattered and her eyes still closed.

00:01:56Every piece of evidence pointed to me, but if I spoke the real truth, Elion would die.

00:02:02He knew nothing.

00:02:04Elion stepped closer, gripped my chin, and forced me to look at the crystal coffin above

00:02:09the clouds.

00:02:10Inside the coffin, Serafina's silver hair spread around her face, black mist resting between

00:02:15her brows, fragile as a white lily stained by the abyss.

00:02:18Do you know how much pain she is in?

00:02:20His voice was trembling, but not for me.

00:02:22Lila, she once thought of you as her best friend.

00:02:26When I heard that, I suddenly let out a soft laugh, but Elion's face changed at once.

00:02:32What are you laughing at?

00:02:33I closed my eyes.

00:02:35I am laughing because you know nothing.

00:02:38The last triss of hesitation in his eyes, frozen over completely.

00:02:42Since you refuse to speak, let fate speak for you.

00:02:45At that moment, I felt as cold as if I had fallen into the river Stex.

00:02:50Elion, no.

00:02:51Now you're afraid?

00:02:52He looked down at me from above.

00:02:54I shook my head, my voice trembling.

00:02:56It isn't fear.

00:02:57What I feared was that once the loom of fate began to turn, the secrets I had buried would

00:03:02drag all of us into the abyss.

00:03:04But he had already turned away.

00:03:07Summon the three fates.

00:03:12Above the clouds, three ancient figures slowly appeared.

00:03:18Clothu held the spindle, Lacassus held the golden measure, and Atropus held the black shears.

00:03:23The moment they appeared, all of Olympias fell silent.

00:03:27Even the wind seemed afraid to breathe.

00:03:32The divine chains suddenly tightened.

00:03:36They ripped my pure white ceremonial brobe from shoulder to chest.

00:03:41The pale skin beneath my collarbone and the moon marks on my breast were fully exposed before every god.

00:03:52Pain surged through me in waves, and my vision darkened, but I still looked at Elion.

00:04:00One last time, I was almost begging him, do not touch my lifeline.

00:04:07For one moment, his eyes blurred with memory.

00:04:13Maybe he remembered the past.

00:04:15Maybe he remembered me saving an injured white deer at the foot of Mount Pernipassus.

00:04:21Maybe he remembered bandaging my fangs and smiling as he said,

00:04:30Lyra, you are too soft-hearted for someone raised in a temple.

00:04:33But that tendness lasted only a second.

00:04:36His face quickly turned cold again.

00:04:39Begin.

00:04:44Clotho lifted her hand, and invisible divine power stabbed into my chest.

00:04:51It was not the pain of flesh being cut open.

00:04:54It was something being dragged, by force, from the deepest part of my soul.

00:05:04I arched against the chains, unable to hold back my scream.

00:05:08A golden lifeline slowly rose from my heart.

00:05:12The entire crowd gasped.

00:05:14A golden lifeline?

00:05:16Only those blessed by a major god carry gold in their fate.

00:05:20Artemis favored her that much?

00:05:23Listening to their shock, I suddenly found it absurd.

00:05:26Once, they said I did not deserve the moon goddess's favor.

00:05:30Now that they saw my lifeline,

00:05:32they acted as if this was the first time they knew I had been chosen by a god.

00:05:36The moment my lifeline was pulled free,

00:05:39the memories I had sealed began to loosen.

00:05:41The forbidden temple of devai.

00:05:44The rift of Tartarus.

00:05:48Seraphina's bloodstained saint bracelet.

00:05:51And the solar blood oath on Elion's chest.

00:05:54The one he had forgotten.

00:05:59They could not see it.

00:06:01They absolutely could not see it now.

00:06:04I used the last of my strength to grab the lifeline.

00:06:08Stop.

00:06:09But Elion stepped forward

00:06:11and pressed my shoulder down with his own hand.

00:06:15Lyra, you brought this on yourself.

00:06:18If you are truly innocent,

00:06:21fate will clear your name.

00:06:23I looked at his face so close to mine

00:06:25and suddenly found it laughable.

00:06:27So he knew fate could clear a person's name.

00:06:30But before that,

00:06:31he had already sentenced me to death.

00:06:34The next moment,

00:06:35the loom of fate unfolded above Olympias.

00:06:38Golden light woven itself into a screen.

00:06:41The first memory appeared before for everyone.

00:06:48In the memory,

00:06:49it was the crystal sanctuary deep inside Delvai.

00:06:52Seraphina lay in a transparent crystal coffin.

00:06:55Her silver hair spread over her shoulders.

00:06:57Her face so pale,

00:06:59it almost blended into the coffin walls.

00:07:01Black mist spread from her heart,

00:07:03coiling around her wrists,

00:07:05throat,

00:07:05and brow.

00:07:07The oracle stone hovered above her head,

00:07:09bleeding out crimson gold words.

00:07:11Saint Seraphina,

00:07:13soul fractured,

00:07:14holy light severed,

00:07:15no hope of waking.

00:07:17The entire mountain fell silent.

00:07:19In the memory,

00:07:21Elian knelt before the coffin,

00:07:23gripping its edge with both hands,

00:07:25his voice hangy beyond recognition.

00:07:29Seraphina,

00:07:29open your eyes and look at me.

00:07:31But the girl inside the coffin did not move.

00:07:34The next moment,

00:07:34he turned and looked at me.

00:07:36At that time,

00:07:37I was covered in blood,

00:07:38black mist wrapped around my wrist,

00:07:40and the key to Delvai's forbidden temple

00:07:42was in my hand.

00:07:43Every piece of evidence was too clear.

00:07:45So clear that even I looked unforgivable.

00:07:49Lyra,

00:07:49was it you?

00:07:51Why?

00:07:52What did Seraphina ever do to you?

00:07:54The memory cut off.

00:07:59Olympus exploded at once.

00:08:01It really was her!

00:08:03The key was in her hand,

00:08:05and the black mist was on her body!

00:08:08A lowly moon priestess dared envy the chosen saint.

00:08:13I knelt on the white stone altar,

00:08:15still bleeding from the place where my lifeline had been pulled out.

00:08:18Every breath felt like a knife twisting inside my lungs.

00:08:23Elian stared at me.

00:08:26What do you have to say now?

00:08:28I raised my eyes to him and suddenly wanted to laugh.

00:08:31Haven't you already believed it?

00:08:33His throat moved.

00:08:35Tell me the truth,

00:08:36and I will believe you.

00:08:38For a moment,

00:08:39those words sent me into a daze.

00:08:42A long time ago,

00:08:43he had said the same thing.

00:08:45Under the Lael tree,

00:08:46my hands had been beaten bloody by the senior priestess.

00:08:50He had knelt in front of me and gently wiped away the blood.

00:08:54I asked,

00:08:56will you believe me?

00:08:58He placed the sun ring on my finger.

00:09:01I will always believe you.

00:09:03Even if all of Olympus stands against you,

00:09:06I will stand beside you.

00:09:10But in the present,

00:09:12Elian looked down at that ring as if it had stung his eyes.

00:09:16The next second,

00:09:17he seized my wrist and tore the ring from my finger.

00:09:19My skin split and blood rolled down my hand.

00:09:22The pain made my fingertips tremble,

00:09:24but he said coldly,

00:09:25Liar,

00:09:26you do not deserve to wear it.

00:09:29Then he turned and threw the blood-stained sun ring

00:09:32into the judgment briserie.

00:09:39The flames leaped high.

00:09:41My heart seemed to burn to ash with it.

00:09:47From this moment on,

00:09:48our engagement is over.

00:09:52Elian said those words with his back to me,

00:09:54his voice without the slightest tremor.

00:09:57So this is what your forever meant?

00:09:59His body stiffened for an instant,

00:10:01but he did not turn around.

00:10:03Trust is not for criminals.

00:10:05I closed my eyes and suddenly felt exhausted.

00:10:09The trial,

00:10:10the accusations,

00:10:12the pity and disgust raining down from above.

00:10:15They all thought I was the jealous one,

00:10:18but no one knew that the black mist on Serafina

00:10:20had never been meant for her in the first place.

00:10:25Just then,

00:10:26the golden flames in the judgment brassland

00:10:29suddenly turned black.

00:10:31The crowd cried out.

00:10:34Elian turned sharply.

00:10:35In the black fire,

00:10:36the sun ring had not been destroyed.

00:10:38Instead,

00:10:39it reflected the mark on my wrist.

00:10:41Dark purple bran lit up,

00:10:42its edges like a split open abyss.

00:10:44The mark of Tartarus,

00:10:45she really carries the brand of the abyss.

00:10:47Everyone's eyes changed at once.

00:10:49It was as if they,

00:10:49the little doubt had been burned away by that brand.

00:10:52Elian's face turned completely cold.

00:10:54He ordered a servant to bring a black silver cup.

00:10:57Inside it was a pool of dark, still water.

00:10:59The water of the stra...

00:11:00If I lied,

00:11:02my soul would split open on the spot.

00:11:04Elian held the cup to my lips with his own hand.

00:11:07Drink.

00:11:08I looked up at him.

00:11:09There was no mercy in his eyes,

00:11:11only the obsession to force a confession out of me.

00:11:14If you dare say to the strex that Serafina was not your victim,

00:11:17I will stop the loom.

00:11:18I smiled faintly.

00:11:19The cold liquid slid down my throat

00:11:21like countless blades of ice cutting into my soul.

00:11:28Pain made my whole body shake,

00:11:30but I still looked at him.

00:11:32He asked word by word.

00:11:34Did you hurt Serafina?

00:11:35If I said no,

00:11:36I could could clear my name.

00:11:38But I closed my eyes.

00:11:40I cannot say.

00:11:42The entire mountain went silent.

00:11:45The Strix did not punish me,

00:11:47but Elian laughed.

00:11:50You really know how to slip through an oath.

00:11:52He released me,

00:11:53his voice colder than the river water.

00:11:56Keep turning the loom of fate.

00:11:59When my lifeline was pulled again,

00:12:02the pain nearly made me faint.

00:12:05Above Olympus,

00:12:06the golden screen lit up once more.

00:12:09This time,

00:12:10the memory was not the sanctuary of Delphi,

00:12:12but the gates of the underworld at midnight.

00:12:14I wore a black cloak,

00:12:16and the mark of Tartarus on my wrist

00:12:18glowed faintly purple in the darkness.

00:12:20There was no moon in the sky.

00:12:22The path beneath my foot was paved with bones.

00:12:27The crowd inhaled sharply.

00:12:29The gates of the underworld?

00:12:30She actually went to the underworld!

00:12:32No wonder she carries the abyss brand!

00:12:34She was involved with the underworld all along!

00:12:36In the memory,

00:12:37I walked to a massive black iron gate and knelt.

00:12:41A deep,

00:12:42Solomon man voice

00:12:44came from behind the gate.

00:12:45The living may not trespass

00:12:47into the realm of the dead.

00:12:49Moon Priestess,

00:12:50what have you come here to seek?

00:12:51I asked the king of the underheld for a flame.

00:12:55Underwilled fire?

00:12:56That can burn a soul to nothing!

00:12:57What did she need it for?

00:12:59Was it to hurt St. Seraphina?

00:13:00Elion stared at the golden screen,

00:13:02his face pale.

00:13:04The black iron gate slowly opened.

00:13:06Behind it was not a field of bones,

00:13:08but a garden blooming with black pomegranate flowers.

00:13:10At the heart of the garden,

00:13:12a man sat on a dark throne.

00:13:13A silver crown rested over his black hair,

00:13:15and his eyes were like two bottomless wells.

00:13:17Hades,

00:13:18king of the underworld.

00:13:20Hades leaned down.

00:13:22His cold fingertip first rested

00:13:24against my faintly trembling throat.

00:13:26Then it slid slowly lower,

00:13:28through the sweat-dampened collar,

00:13:30and pressed lightly

00:13:31against the center of my collarbone.

00:13:33For a saint who may betray you,

00:13:35and for a man who may never believe you,

00:13:38you dare come to the underheld for fire.

00:13:41Liar,

00:13:42do you know how foolish you are?

00:13:46In the memory,

00:13:47I, Brianda,

00:13:48lifted my head.

00:13:49My face was pale,

00:13:51but I did not retreat.

00:13:53I only need her to live for seven days.

00:13:58Hades looked at me for a long time,

00:14:00then suddenly let out a faint laugh.

00:14:02The smile was smite,

00:14:04yet the cold mist of the underworld

00:14:05seemed to pause for a moment.

00:14:08Fine.

00:14:09But mercy is never free in the underworld.

00:14:12A moon priestess voice can summon moonlight

00:14:15and soothe the dead.

00:14:18If you give it to the underworld,

00:14:20you will never sing the sacred hymns again,

00:14:23and you will never become a high priestess.

00:14:27My heart clenched hard.

00:14:30That voice was the only thing I had left

00:14:32to prove the moon goddess

00:14:34had once acknowledged me.

00:14:36But when I thought of Seraphina

00:14:38in the crystal coffin,

00:14:39and of Elian suffering the blood oath's backlash

00:14:42if she died,

00:14:44I still closed my eyes.

00:14:46Are you willing to trade your voice

00:14:48for that girl's seven days of life?

00:14:51Yes.

00:14:54When those words fell,

00:14:56all of Olympus went silent for a moment.

00:14:58Are you willing to trade your voice

00:15:00for that girl's seven days of life?

00:15:02In the golden screen,

00:15:02I knelt before the black pomegranate flowers,

00:15:04my face pale as moonlight about to scatter.

00:15:07His gaze rests on me.

00:15:09There is no pity,

00:15:11only a clarity almost cruel in its calmness.

00:15:15In the memory,

00:15:16I lower my head and say nothing for a long time.

00:15:19On Olympus,

00:15:20some faces began to change.

00:15:22Did she go to the underworld

00:15:24to save Seraphina?

00:15:26If that is true,

00:15:28then the black mist on her.

00:15:29Before the sentence finished,

00:15:30someone immediately argued back.

00:15:32Who knows if this is just an act for us to see.

00:15:35The loom of fate shows memories,

00:15:37but not the schemes hidden in her heart.

00:15:38Those whispers stabbed into my ears like fine needles.

00:15:41I was already in so much pain I could barely kneel.

00:15:45My lifeline was still connected to my heart,

00:15:47and every tremor of the golden screen tore a new wound through my soul.

00:15:52But I still lifted my head to look at Elian.

00:15:55He was watching the memory too,

00:15:57his face pale,

00:15:58his eyes still held tightly shut against belief,

00:16:02as if he refused to let himself waver at all.

00:16:05The golden screen continued to turn.

00:16:07In the memory,

00:16:08I slowly raised my head.

00:16:09If I agree,

00:16:11will Seraphina wait?

00:16:12Hades said calmly.

00:16:13Only for seven more days.

00:16:15After seven days,

00:16:16if the black mist still holds her,

00:16:18even the underworld cannot save her.

00:16:20Seven days is enough.

00:16:21My voice in memory was very soft.

00:16:24Hades stood,

00:16:24and a blue underworld flame rose from his palm.

00:16:27The fire gave off no heat.

00:16:28It was cold enough to freeze the soul.

00:16:31Swallow it.

00:16:32It will burn away the voice you offer,

00:16:35and temporarily hold back the black,

00:16:37the mist on that girl.

00:16:39I reached out.

00:16:40The moment my fingertips touched the flame,

00:16:43pain bent my whole body forward.

00:16:46The underworld fire poured into my throat.

00:16:48In the memory,

00:16:49I opened my mouth,

00:16:50but no sound came out.

00:16:52Only blood slowly slid from my lips.

00:16:57Lila.

00:16:58Those who sacrifice themselves for others

00:17:01usually die badly.

00:17:05The whole crowd went silent again.

00:17:08This time,

00:17:10even the city nobles

00:17:11who had cursed me the loudest

00:17:12were briefly speechless.

00:17:14But the golden screen had not ended.

00:17:17In the memory,

00:17:18Hades suddenly took my wrist.

00:17:20His fingertips were cold,

00:17:23but his divine power moved like a dark current beneath the black river.

00:17:27Following my lifeline into the depths of my soul,

00:17:30the next instant,

00:17:31a faint trace of surprise crossed the underworld king's eyes.

00:17:36A golden lifeline.

00:17:38A golden lifeline.

00:17:40More than the moon goddess's blessing.

00:17:42I looked up at him.

00:17:44You can hear the dead, can't you?

00:17:46In the memory,

00:17:47I remained silent.

00:17:48But the silence itself was the answer.

00:17:51Hades lowered his eyes to me,

00:17:53and for the first time,

00:17:54he no longer spoke as if I was merely a living trespasser.

00:17:57Those who can hear the whispers of the dead

00:18:00become vengeful fire if they die under unjustice judgment.

00:18:04But there is no resentment in your lifeline.

00:18:07Only light.

00:18:09I did not understand what he meant,

00:18:11but Hades had already released my hand.

00:18:13A small black pomegranate mark silently appeared in my palm.

00:18:17If one day the sun abandons you,

00:18:20come to the underworld.

00:18:22This place takes in every soul with nowhere left to go.

00:18:26In the present,

00:18:27Elion suddenly looked at my palm.

00:18:29The black pomegranate mark was still there.

00:18:32The crowd erupted again.

00:18:34The mark of Hades!

00:18:36Hades personally marked her?

00:18:40So you had prepared a way out for yourself all along.

00:18:43I froze for a moment,

00:18:44then actually laughed.

00:18:45Even now,

00:18:46his first thought was still not that I had lost my voice to save Serafina,

00:18:50nor that the water of the stex had not punished me.

00:18:53It was that another man had left a mark in my palm.

00:18:58Elion, are you jealous?

00:18:59He looked as if he had been struck,

00:19:01and his face turned cold.

00:19:03I am simply disgusted.

00:19:05Someone who claims to love me

00:19:07accepted the underworld king's mark in secret.

00:19:10I looked at him and suddenly felt that even explaining was pointless.

00:19:17Continue.

00:19:20This time,

00:19:21I was the one who said it.

00:19:23The loom of fate continued to turn.

00:19:25The image on the golden screen was suddenly swallowed by chaotic red mist.

00:19:29The once clear garden of the underworld began to twist.

00:19:32The black pomegranate flowers withered one by one,

00:19:34and Hades' figure was torn into countless shadows.

00:19:37In the end,

00:19:37everyone only saw me queeling in the center of the garden,

00:19:40holding a flame of the underheld in both hands.

00:19:42As for how I carried the flame back to Delphi

00:19:44and used the price of my voice to suppress the black mist on Seraphina,

00:19:48none of it appeared.

00:19:49It was Eris.

00:19:51The power of the goddess of discord.

00:19:54She could even disturb the loom of fate for a moment.

00:19:58The crowd boiled over again.

00:20:00See?

00:20:01She accepted underworld fire!

00:20:03If she had no hidden scheme,

00:20:06how would a low priestess dare touch forbidden fire personally granted by Hades?

00:20:11No wonder she later entered Depsy's forbidden temple.

00:20:13She had coveted underworld magic all along.

00:20:16I looked anxiously at Elion.

00:20:19I wanted to tell him it was not like that.

00:20:21I wanted to tell him the image had been tampered with.

00:20:24I wanted to tell him Eris was inside this trial too.

00:20:28But I could not make a complete sound.

00:20:29The cold of the Strek still lingered in my throat

00:20:32and the pain of my lifeline being pulled tightened again and again.

00:20:37I could only shake my head desperately.

00:20:40Elion only laughed coldly.

00:20:41So that's how it was.

00:20:43He walked toward me step by step,

00:20:45every trace of doubt gone from his eyes,

00:20:48replaced by deeper cold.

00:20:51You coveted forbidden magic from the beginning.

00:20:54First you begged the underworld for fire,

00:20:56then stole the key to Delphi's forbidden temple

00:20:58and finally used the mist of Tartos to destroy Seraphina.

00:21:01Lila, I truly underestimated you.

00:21:04I stared at him, feeling something inside me split completely.

00:21:08No.

00:21:09My throat felt as if it had been burned open by underheld fire again,

00:21:13every word carrying blood.

00:21:14The image was disturbed.

00:21:16Elion, stop.

00:21:17It was the first time I had begged him since the trial began.

00:21:20Not for my life and not for my name,

00:21:23but because Eris had already made her move.

00:21:26If this continued,

00:21:27every memory released by the loom of fate could be torn apart,

00:21:30altered and taken out of context by the power of discord.

00:21:33And the thing I had hidden deepest would be forced out bit by bit.

00:21:37It could not be exposed now.

00:21:39At least not before there was a way to break it.

00:21:42I grabbed the hem of Elion's robe,

00:21:45my voice broken almost beyond hearing.

00:21:49Do not continue.

00:21:51You will die.

00:21:54Elion looked down at me,

00:21:55mockery rising in his eyes.

00:21:58To stop me from digging deeper,

00:22:00you can end.

00:22:01Even say something like that?

00:22:03He pried my fingers away one by one.

00:22:07Lyra,

00:22:09every word you say now only disgust me.

00:22:15He turned to the three fates.

00:22:20Continue.

00:22:22Cloth removed her finger.

00:22:24The golden lifeline was pulled tight with brutal force.

00:22:28My whole body jerked back,

00:22:30and my spine felt as if something had torn it open from between the bones.

00:22:34The pain came so suddenly I couldn't even scream.

00:22:37I only heard the entire crowd gasp.

00:22:40Then someone cried in terror.

00:22:41What is on her back?

00:22:42From the flesh pierced by the chains,

00:22:45my ruined moon wings suddenly forced themselves open.

00:22:50The thin ceremonial rope on my back was completely ripped by the wing bones.

00:22:55The white cabric shredded into strips and slid down my bare spine.

00:22:59A few soaked straps of cloth still clung to the silver wing bones.

00:23:03They swayed with my pain-arched body and barely covered any skin at all.

00:23:07They looked as if some terrifying power had burned them alive.

00:23:11The moment those ruined moon wings appeared,

00:23:14all of Olympias fell silent.

00:23:16Someone whispered, trembling.

00:23:19Moon wings?

00:23:23She was a moon-winged priestess?

00:23:25The Temple of Artemis may not produce moon-winged priestess in a hundred years.

00:23:29How could it be her?

00:23:31Listening to their gasps, I only found it absurd.

00:23:36When I had wings,

00:23:38they said my low birth had merely drawn the moon goddess's pity.

00:23:43When I lost them,

00:23:44they said it proved I had never deserved divine grace.

00:23:48Now that the loom of fate had forced those ruined wings out of my flesh,

00:23:52they finally remembered this had once been a blessing personally given by a goddess.

00:23:56Aelion froze as well.

00:23:58Of course he had seen my moon wings before.

00:24:01He used to sit on Mount Panauceus at night

00:24:03and watch me spread my silver wings as I patrolled the moonlit Temple of Artemis.

00:24:08Back then,

00:24:09he would tuck my windblown hair behind my ear and smile.

00:24:12Lyra,

00:24:12when you fly,

00:24:13you look like a dream the moon placed in the world.

00:24:16But later,

00:24:17I never spread my wings again.

00:24:19He asked once.

00:24:21I only said I had been injured,

00:24:23and he never asked again.

00:24:26So it was not that he did not know how to ask questions.

00:24:30He simply did not care when the answer had nothing to do with Seraphina.

00:24:37The loom of fate was still turning.

00:24:40On the golden screen,

00:24:42a new memory slowly unfolded.

00:24:45It was the labyrinth of Knossos three years ago.

00:24:49The night was heavy.

00:24:52A low,

00:24:53beastly roar came from deep inside the maze.

00:24:56Seraphina ran forward in a white temple dress,

00:24:59stumbling with every step.

00:25:01Behind her,

00:25:02the minotaur dragged a giant axe

00:25:04and came closer with every step.

00:25:06The bull-headed monster's eyes were blood-red,

00:25:10its breath burning hot.

00:25:13Each step shook the entire labyrinth.

00:25:23The minotaur?

00:25:25How did St. Seraphina end up in the labyrinth of Knossos?

00:25:29Didn't she say back then

00:25:30that someone lured her into the maze

00:25:32and almost got her killed?

00:25:34On the golden screen,

00:25:36Seraphina fell to the ground

00:25:38as the giant axe rose above her.

00:25:40Just when everyone thought she was about to die,

00:25:42silver light tore through the darkness.

00:25:44In the memory,

00:25:45I spread my full moon wings

00:25:47and dev'd from the maze wall,

00:25:48landing in front of Seraphina

00:25:50and opening a moon barrier with both hands.

00:25:52Do not be afraid.

00:25:53I will get you out.

00:25:56Back then,

00:25:57I still had my voice.

00:26:00Clear and steady.

00:26:03Filled with the soothing power

00:26:05unique to temple priestess.

00:26:07Seraphina hid behind me,

00:26:08crying so hard she could barely breathe.

00:26:11Lila,

00:26:11I am so scared.

00:26:13I do not know who tricked me into coming here.

00:26:15I really do not know.

00:26:17I did not look back.

00:26:18I only shielded her more tightly with my wings.

00:26:21It's alright.

00:26:22I am here.

00:26:23The minotaur charged with a roar

00:26:26and the moon barrier shattered

00:26:28inch by inch beneath its axe.

00:26:30In the memory,

00:26:31I grabbed Seraphina with one hand

00:26:33and pushed her toward the exit

00:26:34while drawing my priestess blade with the other

00:26:37and stabbing toward the monster's eye.

00:26:39But the monster was too fast.

00:26:41Its blood-red horn

00:26:42pierced straight through my moon wing.

00:26:44Silver feathers were instantly dyed red with blood.

00:26:48In the memory,

00:26:49pain drained the color from my face,

00:26:51but I clenched my teeth

00:26:52and did not retreat even half a step

00:26:54because Seraphina was behind me.

00:26:57When the minotaur charged again,

00:26:59its horn snapped my wingbone outright.

00:27:01The sharp crack echoed through the loom of fate

00:27:04across Olympus

00:27:05and on the judgment altar,

00:27:07my ruined wings convulsed with it.

00:27:09That old wound was torn open again by the lifeline

00:27:12and the pain nearly made me pass out.

00:27:15But in the memory,

00:27:16I only held Seraphina tight

00:27:17and blocked the monster's final charge

00:27:20with my broken wing.

00:27:22Silver moonlight burst open.

00:27:25The minotaur was briefly driven back

00:27:28by the power of the moon,

00:27:30dragging a nearly broken wing.

00:27:32I carried the unconscious Seraphina on my back

00:27:35and walked out of the maze step by step.

00:27:40Behind us was nothing but blood.

00:27:43It is my blood.

00:27:46No one in the crowd spoke anymore.

00:27:49The city nobles who had shouted the loudest earlier

00:27:52now looked deeply uncomfortable.

00:27:55She saved St. Seraphina?

00:28:00Not only saved her,

00:28:02she blocked the minotaur's horn with her moon wings.

00:28:07If Lyra truly envied Seraphina,

00:28:10why would she keep saving her?

00:28:13That quest fell into the silence

00:28:15like a stone into still water.

00:28:18The ripples were slight,

00:28:20but enough to make everyone wave for a moment.

00:28:24Elion's face turned even paler.

00:28:27He looked at the ruined wings on my back,

00:28:29his lips moving as if he wanted to say something.

00:28:31But under the gaze of the gods and nobles,

00:28:34he forced that late hesitation down again.

00:28:37The golden screen shifted again.

00:28:39In the memory,

00:28:40I was staying in a side chamber of Delphi's temple.

00:28:43My moon wings were wrapped in layer after layer

00:28:45of divine medicine,

00:28:46and god blood had almost soaked through the white bed.

00:28:49When Seraphina woke,

00:28:51the scent of medicine had not yet faded from the chamber.

00:28:55She opened her eyes,

00:28:56saw me covered in bandages,

00:28:58and immediately began to cry.

00:29:00Lyra, how did you get hurt like this?

00:29:03I pushed myself up against the bed frame,

00:29:06my voice horsky but gentle.

00:29:08Don't you remember?

00:29:11Sephina shook her head blankly,

00:29:14her shoulders shaking with sobs.

00:29:16I only remember someone telling me Elion was waiting in the maze.

00:29:20After that, I remember nothing.

00:29:22She grabbed my hand,

00:29:24tears falling one by one onto the back of it.

00:29:26Lyra,

00:29:27did I cause trouble for you again?

00:29:29Please don't tell Elion, alright?

00:29:31He is already exhausted because of the oracle.

00:29:34I don't want him to think I only know how to cause trouble.

00:29:37In the memory,

00:29:38I was silent for a long time.

00:29:41At that time,

00:29:42I had barely survived the minotaur's horn,

00:29:44and the wing bones on my back were so shattered

00:29:47that even the healing priests barely dared touch them.

00:29:50But looking at Seraphina's pale, frightened face,

00:29:53I still could not bring myself to blame her.

00:29:56Back then,

00:29:56I was too willing to believe in her fragility.

00:29:59I was too willing to believe

00:30:00she had only been spoiled by the oracle,

00:30:02that she was sometimes willed but not truly cruel.

00:30:05So even though every breath

00:30:07made my broken wings feel as if knives were cutting through them,

00:30:10I still buried that incident for her.

00:30:13I thought that if I protected her one more time,

00:30:15she would eventually become better.

00:30:18Only later did I understand.

00:30:21Some people's tears are not born from pain.

00:30:25They come because they know tears work best.

00:30:29In the memory,

00:30:30I finally nodded softly.

00:30:33All right.

00:30:34I won't tell him.

00:30:38The crowd fell silent again.

00:30:41She hid the truth for Seraphina even then.

00:30:45But why?

00:30:47That incident...

00:30:49Why did you never tell me?

00:30:51I raised my eyes to him.

00:30:53That question came far too late.

00:30:55So late that my voice,

00:30:57my wings,

00:30:58and my innocence

00:30:59had already been torn open once by his own hands.

00:31:02Because she said

00:31:03she did not remember.

00:31:05Elion's fingers trembled.

00:31:06She really was ill for a long time back then.

00:31:09When he said that,

00:31:10it sounded as if he was explaining for Seraphina

00:31:14and also clinging to his last reason to believe her.

00:31:17I looked at him and suddenly felt

00:31:19that even disappointment was unnecessary.

00:31:21So what?

00:31:22So if I saved her,

00:31:24it was what I should have done.

00:31:25If I stayed silent,

00:31:27I was guilty.

00:31:27If she did not remember,

00:31:28then she was innocent.

00:31:29Elion's face went pale.

00:31:32That is not what I meant.

00:31:34But whether he meant it or not

00:31:36no longer mattered.

00:31:39The loom of fate did not stop.

00:31:42On the golden screen,

00:31:44after I left the side chamber,

00:31:46Seraphina's tears slowly stopped.

00:31:49She sat on the bed

00:31:51and looked down at her palm.

00:31:53In it lay a silver feather

00:31:55that had fallen from my wing.

00:31:58The silver feather was still stained with blood.

00:32:01Moonlight still flowed faintly at its tip

00:32:04beneath her mingers.

00:32:05Seraphina looked at it for a long time.

00:32:08Then she slowly stroked the feather,

00:32:11her touch so gentle

00:32:12it almost looked like

00:32:13she was cherishing a rare treasure.

00:32:15But the next moment,

00:32:17she looked toward the direction I had left

00:32:19and the corner of her towth slowly curved.

00:32:21In those eyes which had just been read from rying,

00:32:24there was no confusion,

00:32:26no fear,

00:32:27only clarity,

00:32:28and jealousy she could not hide.

00:32:31The loom of fate

00:32:32enlarged Seraphina's smile above Olympus.

00:32:36Those who had defended her earlier

00:32:37seemed to have been seized by the throat,

00:32:40unable to speak a single word.

00:32:42Someone in the crowd whispered,

00:32:44She remembered.

00:32:45Saint Seraphina clearly remembered

00:32:47what happened in the maze.

00:32:49Then why did she lie to Lila?

00:32:52Elion stood before the judgment altar,

00:32:54his face frighteningly grim.

00:32:56The unfamiliar Seraphina on the golden creen

00:32:59made his throat move,

00:33:00but he did not spoke for a long time.

00:33:02I knew what he was thinking.

00:33:04He was thinking that this was only a Mr. Standing.

00:33:07Maybe Seraphina had just woken

00:33:08and was not fully conscious,

00:33:10and that was why she had shown such an expression.

00:33:13Or perhaps the girl he had protected since childhood

00:33:16could never look at her savior that way.

00:33:18But the loom of fate would not stop

00:33:21just because he refused to believe.

00:33:23The image on the golden screen shifted again.

00:33:26This time,

00:33:28it was the oracle tower of Durfai's temple.

00:33:30The night was deep.

00:33:32Priests knelt before Apollo's statue

00:33:34and golden holy fire burned quietly on the altar.

00:33:37Seraphina hid in the shadow behind the tower,

00:33:40clutching the silver feather

00:33:41that had fallen from my moon wing.

00:33:42She had originally came to seek an oracle,

00:33:45but as soon as she entered the tower,

00:33:47she heard the old high priest whisper,

00:33:49Apollo's true light did not fall on Seraphina.

00:33:53Another priest's expression changed sharply.

00:33:56But the city already worships her as the chosen saint.

00:33:59That is because she bears half a sun mark.

00:34:02The high priest sighed.

00:34:04But the oracle is truly seeking someone

00:34:06who can hear both the sun and the moon.

00:34:08The double oracle never chose Seraphina.

00:34:12It chose Lila,

00:34:13the moon-winged priestess of Artemis' temple.

00:34:17The crowd erupted once more.

00:34:22The double oracle?

00:34:24The one truly chosen by Apollo was not Seraphina.

00:34:27But Lyra?

00:34:28Then the chosen saint,

00:34:30worshipped by the city all these years, was...

00:34:32No one dared finish the sentence,

00:34:35because that would almost be admitting

00:34:37that all of Seraphina's glory had been built on a mistake.

00:34:40On the golden screen,

00:34:43Seraphina stood in the shadows,

00:34:45her face bloodless.

00:34:46She looked down at the silver feather in her pawn,

00:34:49her fingers tightened little by little,

00:34:52until the sharp quill pierced her palm

00:34:54and blood dripped between her fingers.

00:34:56But she seemed unable to feel the pain.

00:34:59She only stared at the golden holy fire on the altar and murmured,

00:35:02Why Lyra again?

00:35:04The moon-wings are hers.

00:35:06Elion loves her too.

00:35:07And now even the double oracle wants her?

00:35:10Her voice grew softer and softer,

00:35:12but twisted hatred slowly surfaced in her eyes.

00:35:15At that moment,

00:35:17even Elion froze,

00:35:18because the Seraphina on the golden screen

00:35:20looked nothing like the gentle,

00:35:22obedient saint in his memory.

00:35:23There was no grievance in her eyes,

00:35:26only resentment.

00:35:30Soon, the image changed again.

00:35:32It was the laurel grove at the foot of Mount Pandosis.

00:35:36Elion and I sat side by side beside a stream.

00:35:39He was bandaging the wounds on the back of my hand

00:35:42from the priesthood's divine rod.

00:35:44Sunset fell on his golden hair,

00:35:46making his eyes look gentle and bright.

00:35:49If anyone bullies you again,

00:35:51come to me.

00:35:53In the memory,

00:35:53I asked him with red eyes,

00:35:55What if the person hurting me is someone close to you?

00:35:58Elion tied the bandage for me

00:36:00and looked up with a smile.

00:36:03Then I will still stand on your side.

00:36:05Not far away,

00:36:07Seraphina stood quietly in the shadows of the trees.

00:36:10She watched Elion hold my hand.

00:36:12She watched him close place the sun ring on my finger.

00:36:16And she watched him whisper,

00:36:18I will always believe you.

00:36:20Her pretty face slowly darkened.

00:36:23She did not row in sheerant.

00:36:26She will eat a joint on so faintly rush out.

00:36:28And she did not cry.

00:36:31She only turned and left,

00:36:33her nails digging deep into her palm.

00:36:36Only then did everyone understand.

00:36:40The jealous one had never been me.

00:36:45It was Seraphina who envies me.

00:36:52She envied my moon wings.

00:36:55She envied my being chosen by the double oracle.

00:36:59And she envied that Elion had once given all his tenderness to me.

00:37:04But this truth came far too late.

00:37:07So late that the moon wings on my back had already broken.

00:37:10So late that my voice had long been given to the underguiled.

00:37:14So late that even the sun ring had already been thrown into the judgment borgia by Elion himself.

00:37:20On the golden screen,

00:37:22Seraphina ran all the way back to Delphi's forbidden temple.

00:37:25She knelt before the statue and cried for a long time.

00:37:29At first, her crying sounded like that of a pitiful girl abandoned by the gods.

00:37:33But by the end, her tears slowly stopped.

00:37:37Only an empty, venomous smile remained.

00:37:39If the oracle will not choose me,

00:37:41then I will make sure it can never choose anyone else.

00:37:44As soon as she said that,

00:37:45every candle in the temple went out.

00:37:48A thread of dark red mist spread from behind the statue.

00:37:51It gradually formed into the blurred shadow of a woman.

00:37:56Eryx, the goddess of discord.

00:37:58Her voice sounding as if it was squeezing out of countless cracks.

00:38:01Poor saint.

00:38:03You stand on an altar, worshipped by thousands.

00:38:07Yet you cannot even hear the true oracle.

00:38:10Seraphina lifted her head sharply,

00:38:13fear flashing in her eyes.

00:38:14But she did not retreat.

00:38:16Eris slowly circled her,

00:38:17her gaze falling on the silver feather in Seraphina's pawn.

00:38:21You want everything Lyra has.

00:38:23The moon goddess's blessing.

00:38:25The double oracle.

00:38:26The son of Apollo's love.

00:38:28And that lifeline favored by the gods.

00:38:31Seraphina clenched her teeth.

00:38:32Those should have been mine.

00:38:34Eris' smile deepened.

00:38:35Then take them.

00:38:36Plote Lyla's lifeline and let the mist of Tartarus coil around her soul.

00:38:41The double oracle will see her as unclean.

00:38:45Then you will be the only saint.

00:38:47Seraphina's breathing quicked.

00:38:49She clearly knew it was temptation.

00:38:52She also knew that bargaining with the goddess of discord would demand a price.

00:38:57But when she looked down at the silver feather in her hand,

00:39:00she still reached out.

00:39:03What do I have to do?

00:39:05Iris lifted her hand and a drop of dark red divine blood hovered in her palm.

00:39:11Simple.

00:39:12Make the person who trusts you most willingly swear a blood oath for you.

00:39:17When the memory reached this point,

00:39:20Illion's face changed completely because he appeared on the golden screen.

00:39:26It was the night after Delphi's spring festival.

00:39:30Seraphina sat on the long temple steps, pale and red-eyed, as if she had suffered a terrible

00:39:35grievance.

00:39:36Illion walked to her side in his solar robe, his voice gentle.

00:39:40Why are you sitting here alone?

00:39:42Seraphina looked up at him, and her tears fell at exactly the right moment.

00:39:47Illion, if someone hurts me one day, will you protect me?

00:39:50Illion frowned.

00:39:51Who would hurt you?

00:39:54Seraphina shook her head and only cried.

00:39:56The less she said, the more Illion pitied her.

00:39:59At last, he lifted his hand and touched her brow,

00:40:02using his solar blood to place a golden oath mark on her wrist.

00:40:06I swear in the name of Apollo's son, as long as I live,

00:40:10anyone who harms you will bear my solar blood oath first.

00:40:14If divine punishment falls on you, I will bear half the backlash for you.

00:40:19Seraphina lowered her head to look at the golden mark on her wrist,

00:40:22and a flash of triumph passed through her eyes.

00:40:25It was too quick.

00:40:27So quick that Illion back then did not see it.

00:40:30But now, the loom of fate showed it to everyone.

00:40:33I closed my eyes too.

00:40:36This was why I could not speak.

00:40:38It was not to protect Seraphina.

00:40:40It was because Seraphina had already tied her crimes to Illion's soul.

00:40:45If she were punished by a god, he would be wounded with her.

00:40:50If Apollo judged her guilty, his solar blood would burn with hers.

00:40:57The crowd was dead silent.

00:41:00Illion stood there, his face almost transparent with shock.

00:41:05He stared at the solar blood oath on the screen,

00:41:08as if he had been slapped awake from his self-deception.

00:41:11But the next instant, he shook his head sharply.

00:41:14Impossible!

00:41:15His voice trembled, but his stubbornness looked almost hypothetical.

00:41:18Seraphina would never hurt me.

00:41:20When he said that, the golden screen above Olympias still rested on that solar blood oath.

00:41:26In the memory, Seraphina lowered her head as the golden oath mark slowly sank into her flesh.

00:41:32She was crying so hard her shoulders trembled,

00:41:34yet from an angle Illion could not see, her lips curved faintly.

00:41:38The smile was slight, but clearer than any accusation.

00:41:42No one in the crowd spoke.

00:41:44Even the priests who had defended Seraphina earlier lowered their heads.

00:41:49But Illion seemed unable to see it.

00:41:51He stared at the golden screen, his face nearly transparent,

00:41:56but his eyes surged with desperate denial.

00:41:58This is not real.

00:42:02Illion snapped his head toward the three fates.

00:42:05She tampered with the loom of fate!

00:42:08Clothu held the spindle, her expression without the slightest ripple.

00:42:12The golden measure in Lacassus' hand glowed faintly.

00:42:15Atropos lowered her gaze to the lifeline extending from my heart,

00:42:19as if all of this was only a tiny ripple in countless fates.

00:42:24But Illion seemed to have seized his last piece of driftwood.

00:42:28Since she could go to the underworld for fire,

00:42:31she could also let Eris disturb the image.

00:42:33She carries the mark of Tartarus,

00:42:35understands forbidden magic,

00:42:37and can fool the sticks.

00:42:38Of course she can forge a memory to slander Seraphina!

00:42:43Yes, it must be that.

00:42:46By the end, it sounded as if he was trying to convince the gods,

00:42:50and also himself.

00:42:51Above the clouds, Apollo, who had remained silent,

00:42:55opened his eyes.

00:42:57Golden divine light fell from him,

00:43:00illuminating the entire judgment altar for a moment.

00:43:07His voice was not loud,

00:43:09but it carried the irresistible authority of a major god.

00:43:13The loom of fate cannot lie.

00:43:17Elion stiffened.

00:43:20Apollo looked down at his son.

00:43:23No anger in his eyes,

00:43:24only a disappointment almost cold.

00:43:27It can only show what has happened.

00:43:31How the viewer chooses to understand it

00:43:34is the viewer's own choice.

00:43:37After those words fell,

00:43:38the crowd grew even quieter.

00:43:40I suddenly wanted to laugh.

00:43:42Even Apollo understood,

00:43:43but his son refused to.

00:43:45Elion stood there,

00:43:47his fingers slowly tightening.

00:43:49After a long time,

00:43:51he said hoarsely,

00:43:53Father,

00:43:54she has deceived you too.

00:43:57The divine light in Apollo's eyes dartened,

00:44:00but Elion had already turned back to me,

00:44:02and that familiar disgust gathered in his eyes again.

00:44:07Lila,

00:44:08I admit you are better at acting than I imagined.

00:44:11You saved Serafina,

00:44:13hid the labyrinth incident for her,

00:44:14and even traded your voice for seven days of her life.

00:44:18All of that may be true,

00:44:19but it does not prove you did not hate her later.

00:44:23I stared at him.

00:44:25Every sentence he spoke

00:44:26felt as if he were digging out my past sacrifices

00:44:29and grinding them back into the mud.

00:44:32An abandoned child of low birth

00:44:34was taken in by Arthemas' temple,

00:44:36suddenly gained moon wings,

00:44:38suddenly became chosen by Laura,

00:44:40suddenly became chosen by the double oracle,

00:44:44and suddenly received my love.

00:44:47How could you not be afraid of losing it?

00:44:50Elion walked closer step by step,

00:44:52his voice growing harder.

00:44:56So you envied her.

00:44:57You saved her so everyone would think you were kind.

00:45:01You hid the truth so she would owe you.

00:45:06You came near me only to use the son of Apollo's status

00:45:09to wash away your low birth.

00:45:11Someone in the crowd drew a sharp breath.

00:45:13Those words were too cruel.

00:45:16So cruel that even those who had wanted to condemn me at once fell silent.

00:45:23But I only looked at Elion.

00:45:26I watched the man who once promised beneath the laurel tree

00:45:29that he would always believe me

00:45:30strip open my origin layer by layer before everyone.

00:45:34He turned the old wounds I least wanted to mention

00:45:37into evidence of my guilt.

00:45:38I was an abandoned child.

00:45:41That had never been a secret.

00:45:44When the priestesses of Artemis

00:45:46found me at the foot of the mountain,

00:45:48I was wrapped in a torn piece of cloth.

00:45:50There was no name beside me,

00:45:52and no token.

00:45:53Only a moon-white stone cracked by the cold.

00:45:57When I was little,

00:45:58the children in the temple would gather around me and laugh,

00:46:00calling me an unwanted bastard.

00:46:02They said the moon goddess gave me wings

00:46:05only because she pitted

00:46:06a dying little bird by the roadside.

00:46:09I truly cared once.

00:46:11So I worked harder than everyone.

00:46:14Before dawn,

00:46:15I practiced hymns beside the sacred spring,

00:46:18and at night I guarded the entire moon path

00:46:20of the temple alone.

00:46:22Even when senior priestess

00:46:24forced me to sneal in the snow,

00:46:26I refused to shed a single tear.

00:46:29After I met Elion,

00:46:31I once thought I no longer had to prove anything,

00:46:33because he had said,

00:46:35Lyra,

00:46:36you are not some abandoned girl

00:46:37someone picked up.

00:46:38You are the woman I want to marry.

00:46:41But it turned out he had always remembered.

00:46:44Not only remembered,

00:46:46he also believed

00:46:48that was the root of all my sins.

00:46:51I listened quietly

00:46:53and suddenly felt something inside me die halfway.

00:46:57Not love.

00:46:58Love had probably died earlier.

00:47:00It died when he threw the sun ring

00:47:01into the judgment brazerin.

00:47:03It died when he forced me

00:47:04to drink the water of the sticks.

00:47:06It died when he saw

00:47:07that I had traded my voice and wings

00:47:09for Serafina's life,

00:47:11yet still refused to believe me.

00:47:13What died now

00:47:13was the last bit of expectation

00:47:15I had once held for him.

00:47:16I lifted my head to look at him,

00:47:18my voice so soft

00:47:19the wind could almost scatter it.

00:47:20So from the very beginning,

00:47:22you thought I did not deserve to be loved.

00:47:25Didn't you?

00:47:26Elion froze.

00:47:27It was as if those words had pierced him

00:47:29and panic appeared in his eyes.

00:47:31I did not!

00:47:33I looked at him,

00:47:34my eyes too dry to shed tears.

00:47:36You did.

00:47:38You just did not say it

00:47:40when you still loved me.

00:47:43Now that you no longer love me,

00:47:45you think everything from my birth

00:47:47to every choice I made

00:47:48was vile from the start.

00:47:51Elion opened his mouth,

00:47:53but no words came out.

00:47:55I stopped looking at him.

00:47:59I no longer defended myself.

00:48:01A man who would rather explain

00:48:02my kindness as manipulatin',

00:48:04my silence as guilt,

00:48:05and my origin as sin.

00:48:07Even if the loom of fate

00:48:08cut my heart open for him to see,

00:48:09he would still think that heart was dirty.

00:48:11After a long time,

00:48:13Elion seemed to break free

00:48:14from those words

00:48:15and turned his pale face away.

00:48:17Continue the trial.

00:48:19The three fates raised their eyes together.

00:48:23This time,

00:48:24even Athropos frowned.

00:48:26The black shears in her hand

00:48:29trembled slightly,

00:48:30as if they had already smelled death.

00:48:34Son of Apollo.

00:48:36Athropos' voice was ancient and cold.

00:48:42More than half of her lifeline

00:48:44has already been pulled out.

00:48:46If we continue,

00:48:48her life will be cut

00:48:49before the next memory appears.

00:48:53The three fates never threatened anyone.

00:48:55They only stated the ending.

00:48:58Elion stood before the white judgment altar,

00:49:00his face almost bloodless.

00:49:02I thought he would at least stop for a moment,

00:49:04even if only because he did want me to die

00:49:06before the truth appeared.

00:49:08But after a long silence,

00:49:10he still said quietly,

00:49:12Continue.

00:49:13Atarapa lifted her eyes to him.

00:49:15For the first time,

00:49:16something almost like pity

00:49:18appeared in those ancient eyes.

00:49:20Son of Apollo.

00:49:21Once fate is pulled beyond the line,

00:49:23it gives nothing back.

00:49:25Elion's throat moved,

00:49:26his voice harmy.

00:49:27I only want the truth.

00:49:29Looking at him,

00:49:30even the pain suddenly felt far away.

00:49:33So he truly only wanted the truth.

00:49:36Even if that truth had to be bought with my life.

00:49:40Clathry moved her finger,

00:49:42and the golden lifeline tightened again.

00:49:44The pain felt like countless hands reaching to my chest,

00:49:47tearing open my heart,

00:49:49my soul,

00:49:50and every past I did not want anyone to see.

00:49:53The pain slammed me hard against the white stone altar.

00:49:57The ruined wings on my back were torn bloody by the divine chains,

00:50:01and blood poured from my throat.

00:50:04But the loom of fate did not stop.

00:50:07The golden screen lit up again.

00:50:08This time,

00:50:09the image showed the ancient well deep inside Delphi's temple.

00:50:13The well was called the Eye of the Oracle,

00:50:15said to lead straight down to the rift beneath the earth.

00:50:18Only a saint personally blessed by Apollo had the right to approach it.

00:50:22But in the memory,

00:50:23the night was deep,

00:50:24and there were no priests or guards beside the well.

00:50:27Only Seraphina knelt at the mouth of the well in a white ceremonial robe.

00:50:31The solar blood oath on her wrist glowed faintly.

00:50:33From the bottom of the well came the sound of Tartarus mist churling.

00:50:36Everyone held their breath.

00:50:38The deep well of Delphi?

00:50:40That is the forbidden place within the forbidden place.

00:50:43Why would Seraphina be there?

00:50:45Elion's face changed sharply.

00:50:47In the memory,

00:50:48Seraphina looked down at the black mist churning inside the well,

00:50:51her voice as light as a whisper to herself.

00:50:54As long as Lila is no longer pure,

00:50:56the double oracle will not choose her.

00:50:59As long as her lifeline is polluted,

00:51:01Elion will know I am the one who should stand beside him.

00:51:05Eris's low slaff came from the bottom of the well.

00:51:09Poor child.

00:51:10If you want everything she has,

00:51:12you must first give up something of your own.

00:51:15Seraphina's fingers trembled.

00:51:16What do you want?

00:51:19Half of your soul.

00:51:21Black mist crawled out from the well and wrapped around her ankle.

00:51:25Eris's voice was gentle to the point of cruelty.

00:51:29Give me half your soul,

00:51:31and I will open the Tartarus rift for you.

00:51:34The mist will devour you first,

00:51:36then use your body to contaminate the one who comes close.

00:51:39Everyone will believe you are the victim,

00:51:41and once Lila carries that abyss barned,

00:51:44she will never clear her name.

00:51:46Seraphina's face turned pale.

00:51:48She was clearly afraid,

00:51:49but she did not retreat.

00:51:51She looked down at the solar blood oath on her wrist and suddenly laughed.

00:51:58It does not matter.

00:52:00Elion will save me.

00:52:02As long as I become the victim,

00:52:04he will hate her.

00:52:04When those words fell,

00:52:06the entire crowd went silent.

00:52:08Elion looked as if something had struck him hard,

00:52:10and his body swayed,

00:52:11but the image on the golden screen continued.

00:52:14Seraphina cut her palm,

00:52:16and let her blood fall into the deep well.

00:52:19The black mist of Tartarus suddenly surged into the sky.

00:52:22It swallowed her like the mouth of a giant black beast.

00:52:25She collapsed in pain,

00:52:27her soul torn in half by force.

00:52:29Her scream echoed through the empty depths of the temple,

00:52:32but no one came to save her.

00:52:35Because this was what she had chosen.

00:52:40She had not been attacked.

00:52:43She had sacrificed herself.

00:52:47Just as the black mist was about to swallow her completely,

00:52:50I burst through the bronze doors outside the deep well.

00:52:53I had just returned from the underworld.

00:52:56My throat still burned from giving up my voice.

00:52:59The moon wings on my back had not yet healed.

00:53:02But the moment I saw the Tartarus rift open,

00:53:05I barely hesitated.

00:53:08I rushed straight to the well,

00:53:10cut my palm with my moon blade,

00:53:11and pressed my blood into the sealing array.

00:53:15Serafina, are you insane?

00:53:17My voice in the memory was rosy,

00:53:20almost unable to form full syllables.

00:53:24Serafina lifted her head from the black mist,

00:53:26half her face already covered in abyss marks,

00:53:29yet she still smiled with venom.

00:53:31I am insane?

00:53:33Laya, the insane one is clearly you.

00:53:37You are just an abandoned girl picked up by a temple.

00:53:41What gives you the right to have moon wings,

00:53:44hear the double oracle,

00:53:45and make Ilion look at you that way?

00:53:49Ilion seemed to come back to himself only then,

00:53:52and he jerked his head up.

00:53:54Hades?

00:53:55His voice was horsey,

00:53:57but a near-instinctive hostility appeared in his eyes.

00:54:00This is the judgment altar of Olympus,

00:54:03not the underworld.

00:54:04Hades gave him a faint glance.

00:54:06Just one glance.

00:54:09The solar blood oath on Ilion's chest shook violently,

00:54:13and pain turned his face white.

00:54:17A trial?

00:54:19The underhurled king laughed softly.

00:54:24You fed the victim's lifeline to the sinner's godhead

00:54:28and crowned a lie with your lover's trust.

00:54:31Son of Apollo,

00:54:32you call that justice?

00:54:34The crowd was dead silent.

00:54:36Ilion tried to stand,

00:54:37but the pressure of the underworld pinned him in place.

00:54:40Hades walked up the white stone altar step by step.

00:54:43Apollo did not stop him.

00:54:45Artemis did not stop him either.

00:54:46They all watched the king of the underwailed,

00:54:49who never stepped into Olympian disputes,

00:54:50bend down before me.

00:54:52He lifted his hand,

00:54:54his fin tip touching the black pomegranate mark in my palm.

00:54:57The moment the mark lit up,

00:54:59the lifeline almost drained from my chest

00:55:00briefly stopped falling apart,

00:55:02and then Hades reached out and caught my scattering soul.

00:55:06The last blood-stoked stracks of my ceremonial grobe

00:55:10quietly dissolved in the underworld fire.

00:55:13Only pale skin and the ruined moon wings remained.

00:55:16He drew me fully into his arms.

00:55:22His cold palm pressed against my bare spine.

00:55:27His fingertips slowly traced every scar

00:55:30left by the divine chains.

00:55:32I gave you that mark so you could come to the underworld

00:55:35when you had nowhere left to go.

00:55:37Not so these fools could bleed your lifeline dry.

00:55:42I wanted to laugh, but my throat was full of blood.

00:55:47I do not have the strength to walk.

00:55:51Hades looked at me, his voice lowering.

00:55:55Then don't.

00:55:59I will carry you.

00:56:03Elion finally panicked.

00:56:07He moved forward on his knees.

00:56:10No!

00:56:11She is my fiancé!

00:56:13Hades slowly turned his head.

00:56:15At that moment,

00:56:17it felt as if countless souls deep within the strex opened their eyes.

00:56:21She stopped being yours when you burned the engagement with your own hands.

00:56:25The moment you judged her,

00:56:27you lost the right to touch her.

00:56:29Elion's face stuffened.

00:56:30He looked at me as if he still wanted to come forward.

00:56:33But Hades lightly struck the ground with his seppler.

00:56:38Black underworld fire rose between him and I,

00:56:41drawing a line he could no longer cross.

00:56:45Once, Elion told me he would always stand by my side.

00:56:49Now, he could not even come near me,

00:56:52without being stopped by another god.

00:56:55The three fates looked at me together.

00:56:57The golden lifeline extending from my chest now had only a thin strand left.

00:57:03Clothru said softly,

00:57:04her lifeline has only one inch left.

00:57:07The last inch.

00:57:08When those three words fell,

00:57:10I felt as if I had awakened from a very deep dream.

00:57:13The noise around me became distant.

00:57:16Even Elion's breathing,

00:57:18suppressed to the point of breaking,

00:57:19became blurred behind an invisible veil of water.

00:57:23I looked down at my hand.

00:57:25My fingertips had begun to turn transparent.

00:57:27The cracks in the white stone altar

00:57:29could be faintly seen through my palm.

00:57:32Elion was blocked a few steps away by Underhell fire,

00:57:34unable to move forward and unwilling to step back.

00:57:37He knelt on the white stone ground,

00:57:39the solar blood oath on his chest still flickering.

00:57:43Lila.

00:57:44His voice trembled.

00:57:46I was wrong.

00:57:47When those three words left his mouth,

00:57:49there was no sound in the crowd.

00:57:51If it had been long ago,

00:57:52perhaps this apology would have made my eyes turn red.

00:57:55But at this moment,

00:57:56I only looked at him.

00:57:57My heart was as empty as a burned wasteland.

00:58:00Elion raised his hand toward his chest,

00:58:02a golden divine blade forming at his fingertips.

00:58:05I will give you my solar blood.

00:58:07I am the son of Apollo.

00:58:08My blood can mend your soul and extend your lifeline.

00:58:11If you are willing to live,

00:58:13I will cut out my heart's blood for you now.

00:58:15When the divine blade pierced his chest,

00:58:17golden god blood immediately poured out.

00:58:22His shoulder shook from the pain.

00:58:26But he stubbornly held the solar blood out to me.

00:58:30Lyra, please.

00:58:33Take it.

00:58:35I do not want my godhead.

00:58:38And I do not want the title of Apollo's son.

00:58:42I only want you alive.

00:58:44Looking at that hot golden blood,

00:58:46I suddenly remembered how he had once held the sun ring before me in the same way.

00:58:50Back then,

00:58:51the wind beneath the lepel tree was gentle.

00:58:53He said that from then on,

00:58:55half his glory would be mine.

00:58:57Now his blood was before me.

00:58:58But I no longer wanted it.

00:59:00I lifted my head.

00:59:01My voice so soft it almost scattered into the wind.

00:59:06Elion.

00:59:06He looked at me sharply,

00:59:08a humble hope lighting in his eyes.

00:59:10I said calmly,

00:59:11I do not want the sun anymore.

00:59:14When those words fell,

00:59:16Elion froze completely.

00:59:18Golden god blood dripped between his fingers

00:59:19and struck the white stone ground.

00:59:21Scatting tiny sparks of light.

00:59:23When you put me on the judgment altar,

00:59:24you said you only wanted the truth.

00:59:26When I begged you to stop the loom of fate,

00:59:28you said I was guilty.

00:59:29When I said you would die,

00:59:31you said I disgusted you.

00:59:33Now the truth is here, Elion.

00:59:36Are you satisfied?

00:59:37His lips trembled,

00:59:38as if those words had cut him open.

00:59:40Lyra, do not be like this.

00:59:42His eyes were red,

00:59:43and his voice was full of broken pleading.

00:59:45Curse me.

00:59:45Hate me.

00:59:46Do anything.

00:59:47But do not be this calm.

00:59:48Look at me.

00:59:49I will do anything you ask.

00:59:50I will kill Seraphina.

00:59:51Kneel before Artemis' temple to atone or give you my life.

00:59:54Lyra, please hate me.

00:59:56Smiled faintly.

00:59:57The smile was so light it felt strange even to me.

01:00:00Elion went still.

01:00:01I looked toward the distant sea of clouds,

01:00:03my voice soft but clearer than ever.

01:00:05I wanted to marry you,

01:00:07leave the temple,

01:00:08and open a small divination house by the sea.

01:00:11There would not need to be many priests there,

01:00:13or nobles coming to worship,

01:00:15only a window facing the tide,

01:00:16a laurel tree,

01:00:17and a few lamps that never went out at night.

01:00:19If wanderers could not find their way home,

01:00:22I would read their fate for them.

01:00:23If orphans were turned away by temples,

01:00:25I would take them in.

01:00:26And when the moon was full,

01:00:28I could sing sacred hymns for you.

01:00:30At this point, I paused.

01:00:31A bitter sweetness of blood rose in my throat,

01:00:33but I had no song left.

01:00:35Long ago in the underworld garden,

01:00:37I had given it away for Seraphina's seven days of life.

01:00:40But you made me understand.

01:00:42In your eyes,

01:00:44my love could always be judged,

01:00:46doubted,

01:00:47and sacrificed.

01:00:49Elion shook his head.

01:00:50His voice shattered beyond recognition.

01:00:53No!

01:00:54Lyra, that is not true!

01:00:55But he could say nothing else.

01:00:57Because every denial looked pale,

01:00:59and ridiculous before the loom of fate.

01:01:02I stopped looking at him.

01:01:03The last inch of my golden lifeline hung in the air.

01:01:07It was barely being held by Hades' underworld mark.

01:01:11But as the last will to live faded from my heart,

01:01:14it suddenly trembled.

01:01:16No one touched it.

01:01:17The three fates did not raise their hands.

01:01:19Atropos' shears did not fall.

01:01:21But under the eyes of every god,

01:01:23that lifeline still faded little by little,

01:01:26like a light no one was waiting for anymore.

01:01:28At last,

01:01:29it disappeared on its own.

01:01:31When the last inch of my lifeline vanished,

01:01:33all of Olympias darkened.

01:01:35There was no thunder,

01:01:36no divine punishment.

01:01:38Only every beam of divine light that had fallen on me

01:01:40lost its place at the same time.

01:01:42My body began to scatter from my fingertips

01:01:44into fine moon dust.

01:01:46The bloodstains on the white altar remained.

01:01:48The ruined moon wings remained.

01:01:52But the me,

01:01:53once chained by divine shackles,

01:01:56was slowly turning transparent.

01:02:00Elion lunged forward like a madman,

01:02:02but underwhelmed fire blocked him.

01:02:04Even as the flames burned his hands bloody,

01:02:07he still reached for me.

01:02:08But he caught nothing.

01:02:11His fingers passed through my wrist,

01:02:13touching only a scattering of fading light.

01:02:16Lyra!

01:02:18He screamed my name,

01:02:20his voice full of terror.

01:02:22But I could barely hear him anymore.

01:02:25Death did not hurt.

01:02:26At least it was much gentler

01:02:28than the loom of fate

01:02:29pulling out my lifeline.

01:02:31I only felt light,

01:02:33as if someone had finally

01:02:35loosened the hand around my throat

01:02:36after a long and absurd trial.

01:02:40Hades reached out

01:02:42and caught my scattering soul.

01:02:43His palm was cold,

01:02:45but steady.

01:02:46The one Olympus does not want.

01:02:48The underworld will take.

01:02:50As his words fell,

01:02:51the gates of the underheld opened completely.

01:02:53At the end of the black river,

01:02:54countless silver-white soul lamps lit up.

01:02:56Those lamps were not dazzling,

01:02:58but their light made the heart ache.

01:03:01Hades lifted my soul

01:03:02and turned towards the gates.

01:03:03Elion knelt on the white altar,

01:03:05watching helplessly

01:03:07as my figure was swallowed

01:03:08by black pomegranate flowers.

01:03:11He finally understood.

01:03:13I had not been stolen by the underworld.

01:03:17He had pushed me there

01:03:18with his own hands.

01:03:19When I opened my eyes again,

01:03:21I was already on the far bank of the sticks.

01:03:23A sea of black flowers

01:03:25stretched endlessly around me.

01:03:27Countless soul lamps drifted over the river.

01:03:29Hades stood before the bed,

01:03:30holding a silver-white lamp in his hand.

01:03:32Awake.

01:03:33I opened my mouth.

01:03:34No sound came out,

01:03:35but he seemed to know what I wanted to ask.

01:03:38The Lyra of the living world is dead,

01:03:41but the underworld can give you a second life.

01:03:45He leaned down

01:03:46and placed the lamp in my palm.

01:03:48From today on,

01:03:49you are no criminal of Olympus.

01:03:52You are the judge of the underworld.

01:03:59When the silver-white soul lamp

01:04:01entered my palm,

01:04:02the voice I had lost returned.

01:04:06But it was no longer the voice

01:04:08that could sing sacred hymns.

01:04:13It was a colder,

01:04:15deeper power

01:04:15that could not be disobeyed.

01:04:18Hades told me

01:04:19it was the judgment voice

01:04:20of the queen of the underpalled.

01:04:22Whoever I questioned,

01:04:24if they carried a lie in their heart,

01:04:26the black river would reveal the truth.

01:04:29From that day on,

01:04:30I began studying the laws

01:04:32of the underworld with Hades.

01:04:37I learned to hear the lies of the dead.

01:04:42I learned to recognize traps

01:04:44hidden inside divine contracts.

01:04:47I also learned to light lamps

01:04:48beside the black river

01:04:49and guide souls

01:04:51who had been misjudged,

01:04:52abandoned,

01:04:53or hooded by those closest to them.

01:04:55Hades was not a Lelian.

01:04:57When he saw that I was cold,

01:04:59he placed a black silver cloak

01:05:01over my shoulders.

01:05:04No promises.

01:05:06No judgment.

01:05:07He simply saw it

01:05:08and did it.

01:05:09Lord Hades,

01:05:10why did you save me?

01:05:12Hades looked at the black river,

01:05:14his voice calm.

01:05:15I did not save you.

01:05:16I brought back the queen

01:05:18who belongs to the underworld,

01:05:19to the seat that was always hers.

01:05:22I lifted my head sharply,

01:05:24but he had already turned away,

01:05:26leaving only one quiet sentence behind.

01:05:28Lyra,

01:05:29Olympus owes you a trial.

01:05:31It is time to pay it back.

01:05:35Seven days later,

01:05:37Olympus held court again.

01:05:40This time,

01:05:41the person at the center

01:05:43of the judgment altar

01:05:44was no longer me.

01:05:47It was Seraphina.

01:05:50After waking from the crystal coffin,

01:05:53Seraphina still tried to look fragile

01:05:55and innocent.

01:05:57Elian,

01:05:58I do not know what happened.

01:06:02Where is Lila?

01:06:04Is she still angry with me?

01:06:06Before she finished speaking,

01:06:07the gates of the underworld

01:06:08opened at the center of Olympus.

01:06:11Black pomegranate flowers

01:06:13bloomed all the way

01:06:14from the steps

01:06:14to the judgment steed.

01:06:18I stepped out

01:06:19from behind the gates

01:06:20in a black silver gown.

01:06:23As my hem swept

01:06:25across the white stone,

01:06:26every place stained by my blood

01:06:28burned with blue under hell fire.

01:06:31The crowd went dead silent.

01:06:34Lyra,

01:06:36didn't she die?

01:06:38The divine mark on her,

01:06:40that is Hades' mark.

01:06:42Hades walked beside me,

01:06:43his black royal rope

01:06:45intertwined with the silver threads

01:06:46of my gown,

01:06:48like night finally catching

01:06:49the moonlight abandoned

01:06:50by the sun.

01:06:51He personally helped me

01:06:52sit on the judgment seat,

01:06:54then stood behind me.

01:06:58Seraphina's face

01:06:59finally changed.

01:07:02I looked at her,

01:07:04my voice very soft,

01:07:06but the moment my voice fell,

01:07:08every holy flame on Olympus

01:07:09bowed low.

01:07:11Seraphina,

01:07:11in the name of the judge

01:07:13of the underheld,

01:07:14I ask you.

01:07:15Who opened the tartarus rift?

01:07:17Seraphina shook her head wildly.

01:07:19Not me.

01:07:20It was Lyra.

01:07:21She framed me.

01:07:23But the lamp of the black river

01:07:24had already lit.

01:07:26Her voice suddenly twisted,

01:07:29and the true answer

01:07:30was dragged

01:07:30from the depths of her soul.

01:07:34It was me.

01:07:37The crowd exploded.

01:07:44She covered her mouth,

01:07:46her eyes full of terror.

01:07:49But the judgment voice

01:07:51of the underworld queen

01:07:52would not stop.

01:07:54Who bargained with Eris?

01:07:57I did.

01:07:58Who used alien's trust

01:08:00as an offering?

01:08:05I did.

01:08:07Who framed me

01:08:08and sent me

01:08:09to the judgment altar?

01:08:11Seraphina trembled all over,

01:08:13tears mixing with cold sweat.

01:08:16I did.

01:08:17When the final word fell,

01:08:19the saint's golden bracelet

01:08:20on her wrist

01:08:21shattered inch by inch.

01:08:23Apollo's oracle

01:08:24fell from the sky

01:08:25and carved all her crimes

01:08:27into the sacred wall

01:08:28of Delphi.

01:08:29From then on,

01:08:31anyone who entered

01:08:31the temple to pray

01:08:32would see her sins first.

01:08:34The red mist of Eris

01:08:35screamed as it tried

01:08:36to flee from behind her.

01:08:38But Hades raised his hand

01:08:40and pressed it

01:08:40into underworld fire.

01:08:42For the first time,

01:08:43the goddess of discord

01:08:44and his laughter

01:08:44became a scream.

01:08:50Elion staggled toward me.

01:08:53Lyra.

01:08:54His eyes were red,

01:08:55as if he had finally

01:08:56found a chance to beg.

01:08:59I know I do not deserve it,

01:09:01but I am willing to spend

01:09:02the rest of my life atoning.

01:09:04Please come back.

01:09:05I looked down at him.

01:09:07I looked at the man

01:09:08I had once believed

01:09:09I could entrust

01:09:10with my whole life.

01:09:11I watched him standing there,

01:09:12battered and dim,

01:09:14with none of the pride

01:09:15of Apollo's sun left.

01:09:16But my heart

01:09:17did not move at all.

01:09:18I removed the last trace

01:09:20of the old solar vow

01:09:21from my palm.

01:09:22It was the mark

01:09:23left in my soul

01:09:24after the sun ring

01:09:24was burned.

01:09:25It had once hurt so much.

01:09:27Now it was as light

01:09:28as ash.

01:09:29I threw it into

01:09:30the underworld fire.

01:09:34Elion.

01:09:36I once loved you.

01:09:42Hope had just lit

01:09:43in his eyes.

01:09:50The next second,

01:09:51I took Hades' hand.

01:09:57But from today on,

01:09:59I am Hades' bride.

01:10:03The entire mountain

01:10:04fell silent.

01:10:06Hades looked down at me,

01:10:08and a faint smile

01:10:09finally appeared

01:10:09in his eyes.

01:10:10He raised his hand

01:10:12and gently placed

01:10:12a crown forged

01:10:13from black diamonds

01:10:14and silver bones

01:10:16of the stalks

01:10:16in my hair.

01:10:21Welcome home,

01:10:23my queen.

01:10:28Elion collapsed

01:10:29beneath the white stone altar.

01:10:34This time,

01:10:35no one looked at his pain.

01:10:38Later,

01:10:39the son of Apollo

01:10:39was stripped of his judgment power

01:10:41and punished

01:10:42at the fairy crossing

01:10:43of the sticks.

01:10:44Every day,

01:10:45he lit lamps

01:10:46for the souls

01:10:47who had been wrongly judged.

01:10:49One lamp,

01:10:50then another.

01:10:51With every lamp he lit,

01:10:53he would remember

01:10:53the blood I spilled

01:10:54on the judgment altar,

01:10:56remember how I had begged him

01:10:57to stop with a ruined voice,

01:10:59and remember the last thing

01:11:00I said while looking at him.

01:11:02I do not want the sun anymore,

01:11:04and I sat on the throne

01:11:05of the underworld.

01:11:07Black pomegranate flowers

01:11:09bloomed beneath my gown,

01:11:10and the soul lamp

01:11:12of the sticks

01:11:12burned forever in my palm.

01:11:15Hades stood beside me,

01:11:17his fingers locked with mine.

01:11:19From then on,

01:11:20the long nights

01:11:21of the underworld

01:11:22were no longer

01:11:23only silent.

01:11:25Every day,

01:11:27I still sat upon

01:11:28the judgment seat,

01:11:29listening to souls

01:11:30speak the truths

01:11:31they had never been able

01:11:32to say in life.

01:11:34Hades never made

01:11:36decisions for me.

01:11:37He would only

01:11:38stand behind me,

01:11:39and when I stayed

01:11:40silent too long,

01:11:42he would place

01:11:43a warm cup of

01:11:44stuck flower tea

01:11:45beside my hand.

01:11:46The first time

01:11:47I saw that cup of tea,

01:11:49I stared at it

01:11:49for a long while.

01:11:52Because on Olympias,

01:11:53no one had ever asked

01:11:54whether I was cold

01:11:55or tired

01:11:55on the judgment altar.

01:11:57Hades noticed

01:11:57my distraction,

01:11:58but he did not ask.

01:12:00If you do not like it,

01:12:01I will have them

01:12:03change it to

01:12:03laurel honey tomorrow.

01:12:05I held the cup

01:12:06and suddenly smiled.

01:12:08So the lord of the

01:12:09underworld remembers

01:12:10such small things.

01:12:12Nothing concerning you

01:12:13is small.

01:12:16Those words were soft,

01:12:18yet heavier than any

01:12:20vow.

01:12:23Later,

01:12:24a moonlit garden

01:12:25appeared in the palace

01:12:26of the underworld.

01:12:28There was no sun there,

01:12:29only black pomegranate trees,

01:12:31entwiled with

01:12:32silver moon vines.

01:12:34Hades said it was

01:12:35a place for me to rest.

01:12:37Does the underworld

01:12:38need a moon too?

01:12:39He brushed a fallen

01:12:40petal from my shoulder

01:12:41and answered

01:12:42with great seriousness.

01:12:44It did not before.

01:12:46It does now.

01:12:47His fingertips

01:12:48followed the shadow

01:12:49of the silver moon vines

01:12:50and slowly traced

01:12:51my half-open collar.

01:12:52They touched

01:12:53the cool skin beneath.

01:12:54He lowered his head,

01:12:56lips brushing

01:12:57against my ear.

01:12:58The nights of the underworld

01:12:59are long, my queen.

01:13:01How late

01:13:02do you want me

01:13:02to stay tonight?

01:13:04I did not answer.

01:13:05I simply leaned

01:13:06into his arms,

01:13:07feeling the warmth

01:13:07of his palm.

01:13:08In that moment,

01:13:09I finally understood.

01:13:10True devotion

01:13:10did not need to be

01:13:11displayed before everyone.

01:13:12It was being

01:13:13carefully cherished

01:13:13even where there

01:13:14was no audience.

01:13:15Sometimes after

01:13:16the trials ended,

01:13:17I would walk with him

01:13:17to the bank of the sticks.

01:13:19Countless soul lamps

01:13:20drifted across the river,

01:13:21like another sky of stars

01:13:22that would never go out.

01:13:23Hades would hold my hand

01:13:25and count them with me,

01:13:26one lamp after another.

01:13:28You are not much

01:13:29like the Hades

01:13:30in the stories.

01:13:32What am I like

01:13:34in the stories?

01:13:36Cold,

01:13:37cruel,

01:13:39and incapable

01:13:40of loving anyone.

01:13:46He was silent

01:13:47for a moment,

01:13:48then tightened

01:13:49his hold

01:13:50on my hand.

01:13:55They were only

01:13:56half right.

01:13:58I looked up at him.

01:14:01He said softly,

01:14:03I can be cold,

01:14:04but never to you.

01:14:08At that moment,

01:14:10the wind of the sticks

01:14:11brushed through my hair.

01:14:13I suddenly felt

01:14:14that I was no longer

01:14:15moonlight abandoned

01:14:17by someone else.

01:14:18I was the queen

01:14:19held safely

01:14:20in the hands of night.

01:14:21On the seventh day

01:14:22after our wedding,

01:14:24Hades took me

01:14:24to the highest tower

01:14:25of the underworld.

01:14:29From there,

01:14:30I could see

01:14:30the direction of Olympus

01:14:31and the sea of lamps

01:14:32at the end of the stike.

01:14:34In the distance,

01:14:35a lion was still

01:14:36lighting lamps

01:14:37at the ferry crossing.

01:14:39I looked only once,

01:14:41then turned my gaze away.

01:14:44Hades did not ask

01:14:45whether I was still sad.

01:14:49He only wrapped his cloak

01:14:50around my shoulders,

01:14:52shielding me

01:14:53from the cold wind

01:14:54atop the tower.

01:14:55I leaned closer to him

01:14:57and whispered,

01:14:58It no longer hurts.

01:15:01Hades lowered his head.

01:15:03He did not merely kiss

01:15:05the center of my forehead.

01:15:06Instead,

01:15:07he first took my lower lip

01:15:08between his.

01:15:09He kissed me slowly

01:15:11and deeply

01:15:11for a long time.

01:15:13Only then did he release me

01:15:15when my breathing

01:15:16had turned uneven.

01:15:17He rested his forehead

01:15:19against mine.

01:15:20From this day on,

01:15:21every pain of yours,

01:15:22every tremor of yours,

01:15:24belongs only to me.

01:15:26I looked at the quiet tenderness

01:15:28in his eyes

01:15:28and took his hand first.

01:15:31After the trial's end,

01:15:32will you still come here with me?

01:15:34His fingers slipped between mine,

01:15:37locking our hands together.

01:15:41As long as you wish it,

01:15:43I walk every road

01:15:44of the underworld with you.

01:15:45I smiled and asked,

01:15:46And if I want to sleep

01:15:47in the moonlit garden

01:15:48for an entire day?

01:15:49Hades looked at me,

01:15:50a faint smile

01:15:51appearing in his eyes.

01:15:52Then I will guard beside you

01:15:53and let no soul wake my queen.

01:15:55The underworld had no spring festival

01:15:57and no golden ring of the sun.

01:15:59But here,

01:16:00there were soul lamps lit for me,

01:16:01moon vines that never withered,

01:16:03and someone who would never send me

01:16:04to a judgment altar.

01:16:05I once thought the ending

01:16:07was revenge,

01:16:08coronation,

01:16:08and making everyone

01:16:10witness my innocence.

01:16:11Later,

01:16:12I learned that the true ending

01:16:13was someone still choosing

01:16:14to love me

01:16:15after all the dust had settled.

01:16:17So I tightened my hold

01:16:18on Hades' hand

01:16:19and walked with him

01:16:19back into the depths

01:16:20of the palace.

01:16:21Black pomegranate flowers

01:16:23bloomed at our feet,

01:16:24and the soul lamps

01:16:25of the stack

01:16:26stretched behind us

01:16:27like a sea of stars.

01:16:29From then on,

01:16:30I no longer looked up

01:16:32to any sun,

01:16:33because my night

01:16:34had already given me

01:16:35an eternal home.

01:16:36I think it was a great

01:16:41EspeciallyRIST,

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