Chapter 20

"O-of course I do!" He answered while holding his breath. Charlie stared at her for a moment before starting to speak.

"I am a human who keeps reincarnating, on and on until this world perishes. A long time ago, 2000 years ago was a king of the most powerful dynasty. When I was born, the sky looked so bright as if it was shrouded by light from heaven. I became the king at a young age after my father died of a strange disease. Months before his death, his illness made him suffer so much. Seeing his misery started to make me worry, am I going to die like that? Why can't I live longer? I want to live for 500 or even 1000 years. I did various ways to make me live longer. A magician said that I should bathe in a tub filled with the blood of young people every full moon night, so I would grow old. I started doing that way, forcing people to sacrificed himself so I could bathe in their blood."

"You killed them?"

"I ask them to do it voluntarily, but if they don't want to, I will order my guards to cut off their heads and draw all the blood from their bodies until there is barely any left!"

"Ugh..." Sera felt nauseous, she really wanted to throw up. He didn't know how humans could be so cruel like this.

"Sounds pretty awful, doesn't it? But that's how it is, I don't want to keep it from you anymore!"

"How many people have to die because of your selfishness?"

"I don't know, I think thousands of people have done it because I've been doing it for five years and every full moon, I need the blood of 30 people to fill my pool!" Charlie said it with a calm reaction, as if he had no regrets at all for what he had done.

Sera was silent, her body was shaking. He could not imagine the fate of the people who had to become victims of his barbarity.

"But that doesn't seem to work enough to make my lifespan grow. I decided to sell my soul to the devil so he could give me strength and a long life. Of course, every agreement will inevitably require sacrifice. As a curse I receive, I will die and continue to be reincarnated. until this world perishes. But I found out too late that I would die from being killed by the person I was with so many times!" he said. Elen's mind immediately went to Keith and everything he had told her. He had no idea that Keith was actually telling the truth.

"You were killed by the same person? Does that mean someone else also sold his soul to the devil and forced him to accept the curse?"

"Yes, of course! It's just that at that time I didn't know that my grim reaper was none other than my most loyal and trusted soldier. A soldier who has dedicated his life to me. I can't believe that one day he will become my grim reaper!"

"H-how could that be? Wasn't he so loyal to you? How could he be the one to kill you?"

"It's all because no one in this world will be truly loyal. Loyalty, devotion, everything will fall because of one mistake!"

"Error?"

"Yes, that mistake is love! He snatched and took away the woman I loved more than anything. The one I hoped to help me get that woman to accept my love, turned into a disgusting parasite that made me swear I'd never forgive her. I'll go after them. even to the ends of the world and when I find them, there will be no chance for them to see the sun again!"

"Y-you killed them?"

"Hahaha...killing them is too easy and it will only bring them back together in the afterlife. I won't let that happen. I will make that bastard regret his decision. He must be willing to see his beloved wife beheaded after I sold her soul to the devil That way in the next life, he can return my love. But unfortunately I miscalculated, that bastard demanded revenge for his wife's death. He killed me and then committed suicide after selling his soul to the devil." Charlie's reaction showed that he didn't regret anything. It made Elen feel very sad and wonder, why can men go so far just to fulfill their ambitions?

"Are you happy with all that now, Charlie?"

"Happy huh? Have I ever been happy? It seems, that happiness will never come into my life!"

"If you're not happy, why do you keep insisting on it? Why can't you just let women go? Why?"

"That's because I don't want him to leave! Every time I look into his eyes, I wish that I was the only person he saw with those beautiful eyes. My heart hurts because I want him so much!"

"But he doesn't love you, he doesn't want you at all, Charlie! Why don't you get it too? Why don't you just give up? You've lived dozens of times without a chance your love will be reciprocated? It's been too long, Charlie! It's been too long! " Elen's tears streamed down her face. He felt a deep pain in his heart. She cried for Charlie, for her endless long wait, for the endless love she had.


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