TAPGB - Chapter 145
The Abandoned Prince's Ghost Bride
Leah had made a decision and had no hesitation. She no longer had any mercy left.
She simply felt her mission to erase Leon from this world, and she was so thorough that she was intent on destroying his soul.
‘Ugh!’
Leone felt a sense of crisis as he saw his rapidly disappearing soul.
‘If I keep going like this, I’m really going to die.’
Leon has no intention of disappearing obediently. But how on earth is he supposed to stop her?
Kiiiiig!
Meanwhile, the soul disappeared again. Only the soul he had disposed of was already half gone.
Leon became anxious as he felt his breathing becoming increasingly difficult. While he was rolling his head wondering if there was any way to point it out, something very nice caught his eye.
Leon had a crooked smile on his lips.
***
Meanwhile, I had my expression erased from my face and was intent on getting rid of the spirits standing in my way.
My fierce force made the soul instinctively dodge away.
At that time, the scattered souls like smoke stopped and began to gather in one place.
Cool purple eyes stared at the point where the smoke gathered.
I thought he didn't have the power to cohere souls, but he didn't?
‘It might be the last struggle.’
Whatever it is, the fact remains that I has to deal with him.
My complexion did not change even once and I ran towards the point where the smoke was gathering.
The moment when I was about to insert a spear made of purple mana.
‘Are you saying it doesn’t matter what happens to this kid?’
A black soul in human form opened its chest.
‘...Leopold!’
Inside the black soul was Leopold's soul, which was blinking white.
Leon was delighted at my hesitant attitude. Thinking it was this time, he opened his mouth.
‘He rebelled a little while ago, but he was a dying boy from the beginning. He's been a part of me for a long time. If you want to save this guy, you better not come any closer.’
It's half a lie. Leopold is indeed dying, but he has not become a part of Leon.
All Leon did was surround Leopold's soul and make him look like a part of him.
However, if he doesn't do this, he won't be able to stop Leah's unstoppable actions.
The moment he saw Leah's darkened expression, he was convinced that he had gotten over it to some extent.
‘You really disappoint me until the very end.’
A grim expression appeared on Leah's dark face. At that moment, Leon felt something was wrong with her.
‘At least you shouldn’t have thought of using Leopold.’
Leon couldn't help but be taken aback by the ferocious purple mana blooming all over Leah's body.
‘Now, wait a minute! You don’t care what happens to this guy?!’
‘The only person I will deal with is you.’
Quagwang!
Several spears created around Leah were fired one by one with fierce force, creating holes in Leon's body, which had been held together with difficulty.
‘Kwaaaaaak!’
The hole was not filled again. It was only natural that it was destroyed.
Leon thought it couldn't go on like this, so he tried to use Leopold as a shield.
‘Ugh! Why...!’
The purple spear narrowly avoided Leopold and only aimed at Leon.
This was not a power she could use as she had not fully regained her memories. No, even if she regained Arya's memories, such enormous power is nonsense.
Leon, whose entire body had now become a hive, looked straight ahead with eyes filled with fear.
Leah had an indifferent face on her face, showing no emotion whatsoever.
It was as if he no longer meant anything to her.
Why can't his alternative self be loved by her?
She loves his ugly younger brother, the tactless red dragon, and even his descendants, but why does she only not care about him...?
‘What on earth makes me different from those guys!’
At Leon's shout, Leah raised her hand and stopped the relentless attack.
‘There was no one who loved and cherished you as much as I did! But why did you love Odell and not me!’
‘...’
A feeling of pity seeped into Leah's expressionless eyes.
‘I loved you too, Leon.’
An unaffected, calm tone.
Deep inside Leah's anger-filled emotions, she still felt regret and a very small feeling of affection for Leon.
Leon's eyes, clearly feeling Leah's feelings, wavered aimlessly.
‘Even though I didn’t love you as an opposite sex, I loved and cherished you just like Odell and Carcerine.’
So when she heard that he killed Odell, when he betrayed her and tried to take her by force.
Leah desperately wanted to deny and ignore reality. And she wanted to correct what was wrong, even if it meant fighting.
‘But it was too late for us to go back to normal.’
She lived an empty life for 300 years without knowing why she became a ghost.
If she hadn't met Caesar and Lucian along the way, she would have still been tied up in the mansion and wasted her time.
As Leah reflected on her life that had been tied to the mansion for 300 years, something about it suddenly occurred to her.
‘Aria, I brought you your favorite book.’
‘When I saw the lily, it reminded me of you.’
'Hang in there. I will definitely save you from there.'
The scene that comes to mind is: It is a fragment of her memory that she experienced but did not experience.
That period was probably a ghost period when her ego was not created.
It was not long after Leon's death that Leah was able to do thinking.
Only after making his first offering to keep Leah's soul alive did she become able to think.
When she was unable to think, Leon visited the empty mansion every day.
At that time, he firmly believed that Arya's seal would be lifted someday, and he stayed in the mansion so as not to feel empty.
However, as several decades passed and his life was running out, Leon grew tired of waiting for Arya.
‘...If you had chosen me, something like this wouldn’t have happened.’
That was the last day Leon visited the mansion.
Afterward, having been revived in his son's body, he no longer visited the mansion but entered and exited the basement through the underground tunnels only when necessary.
Therefore, Arya, who regained herself, never faced Leon.
Leon, who was alone in the mansion, seemed extremely lonely compared to the peaceful times when everyone was together.
But he stopped there.
What stands in front of her now is a stranger who has no trace of his past.
‘Now just disappear from my life.’
At the sight of Leah saying goodbye with her painful face, Leon felt that even a glimmer of hope was fading away into a handful of ashes.
Leon's spirit, which had lost the will to live, was unable to maintain its form and crumbled to nothing.
Even his upper body collapsed, and Leopold's soul contained within was separated from Leon.
Leon, who was left with only his face, looked at Leah.
‘...If I had supported the love between you and Odell, would things have been different by now?’
‘...’
‘No, if I were Odell, would we really have been in love?’
‘It’s just a meaningless imagination now.’
‘...Is it.'
Leon closed his eyes and opened them.
Leah's face was so expressionless that everyone who saw it felt disappointed.
Rather than complaining. At least give him a look of contempt. Even though she had negative feelings, he wanted to live forever in her memories.
‘Leah, you blame me, you hate me, you hate me your whole life, and...’
With his mouth gone, Leon could no longer convey his words to Leah.
She seemed to be trying hard to talk, but he couldn't reach Leah.
He soon disappeared, with only his eyes left, with Leon smiling at her like the mischievous boy he used to be.
Seeing Leon's soul disappear without even a trace in his pure white image, Leah opened her tightly clenched fists.
‘I won’t have anything to remember about you after today.’
She knew what Leon's intention was when he said those words to her.
No longer will she be caught in the shadow of Leon and wallowing in the past.
She will prepare to move forward into a bright future with those by her side.
Leah turned around without hesitation and approached Leopold's fallen soul.
‘...I’m alive.’
Although greatly weakened, he is alive. He just needs to be alive. Then he will be able to survive somehow.
‘Leopold, I will send you back to your family.’
Leah held Leopold's distraught soul dearly as she came out of his images.
At the end of the endless tunnel, a ray of light came.
***
“Leah!”
At the sound of someone calling to her, Leah opened her blurry eyes. What she saw right before her eyes was Lucian's tear-stained face.
Leah smiled brightly as she stroked Lucian's cheek. For a moment, Lucian's golden eyes shook.
“It’s all over now.”
“...”
“You don’t have to be anxious anymore.”
It was a simple statement without any additional explanation, but Lucian could tell what it meant without even having to say it.
Lucian tried to calm his quivering lips and hugged Leah with all his might. And he whispered lowly in a trembling voice.
“...Thank you, Leah.”
“Thank you for continuing to be by my side.”
The love for each other was melted in the body heat shared through the hug.
Soon the two touched each other's foreheads and kissed briefly.
“Umm...”
“Wow! Leah, you! You said it was all done!”
An unidentified groan was heard from the side, and Caesar was startled.
When she turned her head, Leopold was waking up.
When Caesar tried to use a white flame, asking if he had to deal with Leon again, Leah stopped him. A moment when Caesar is confused.
“This place...?”
Leopold said in a quiet voice. Lucian's eyes widened and he looked back at Leah. Leah smiled at the sight of him kissing her lips.
“Leon is no longer in this world. No one will bother Leopold anymore.”
Lucian bit his lip. He approached Leopold, his face contorted as if he were about to cry.
Leopold slowly closed his eyes and opened them repeatedly, as if he had not yet come to his senses.
Then, Lucian caught his sight and he started laughing.
It was a smile like bright sunlight. It was on a different level from what Leon used to do.
Before he knew it, tears fell from the corners of Lucian's eyes.
"Brother... Do you remember me?"
“... You're my younger brother.”
Lucian burst out laughing and helped Leopold up.
“Ugh... My shoulder hurts so much?”
Then, suddenly, Leopold groaned at the sharp pain he felt in his shoulder.
As he fumbled with his shoulder, his eyes widened when he saw the knife clearly embedded in his shoulder.
“Uh, uh... Ahhh! Knife, knives!”
The pain was painful, but seeing the knife stuck in his shoulder was a special shock.
Lucian, the sword's owner, became thoughtful for a moment and quickly calmed Leopold down. He had even Leah and Caesar attached to him in an instant, removing his sword and using healing magic.
While they were completely absorbed in treating Leopold.
"Your Majesty! Are you okay?!”
The tightly closed door burst open and Javier and Age came in.
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