IELNDMH - Chapter 136 < Forever With Cedric >

The first death was by Vincent Norman.
The man who is Cedric's cousin and the head of the Norman family.

On her first night of marriage, Rebecca was crying alone in the backyard, resenting Cedric for suddenly leaving her behind.

A blonde man came in front of her.

He was extremely kind, and thanks to him, she relaxed and poured out the sadness deep in her heart without even realizing it.

'I was abandoned even here. No one truly loves me.'

She expected the love from her husband, Cedric, that she had never received from her parents throughout her life.

Because if he had an imprint, he would only want and love her for the rest of his life.

But that dream was shattered on the first night of their honeymoon.

The unknown man, who looked at her with pity as she shed endless tears, eventually told her of Cedric's whereabouts.

‘I’ll show you the way to Mount Manakin. His Highness the Grand Duke will be there now.'

With the man's help, she headed straight to Mt. Manakin.

When she wandered down the mountain path and entered a cave, she finally saw Cedric.

A rough-looking man standing next to him... Vincent too.

There was an intimidating feeling between the two men that could not be interrupted.

Rebecca stayed hidden and watched them for a while.

Cedric left in a hurry as if he had urgent business to attend to, and Vincent wandered around as if he wanted to check the seal of 'something' one more time.

'I have to go after Cedric quickly, but why doesn't that man go and hold on?'

That impatience became poison.

She began to move little by little towards the entrance of the cave, and as she did so, a cool energy washed over her.

'What, she was a human woman?'

Vincent was giggling as if he was interested, and she even felt a sense of death for no reason.

She immediately ran away but was soon captured by Vincent's monsters.

After that, her heart was torn, and came to the world.

The wild monsters killed the woman without thinking twice and threw her body anywhere.

And that night, the old woman, who used black magic, found her.

The old woman felt the energy of 'Lillian's Heart' in her body, even if only slightly, and immediately brought her back.

When Rebecca first returned, she found it difficult to believe the words of the old woman who came to see her.

What a dirty, mean-looking old woman who has regressed her dead self.

However, since it was true that she had regressed, she did not believe the old woman's words and did not have the wherewithal to endure.

The old woman who visited her promised that she would obtain Cedric's imprint, even if it meant making her return several times, no, even if it meant switching her body with another woman.

'On this condition, please bring Lillian's heart to me and not to Duke Bold.'

Lillian's heart.

What is it that everyone is so excited about?

She wasn't interested in those items, but she wanted to use them in a way that would be helpful to her.

So she finally took the old woman's hand.

Instead of loving him, she decided to betray her father, who had abused her for a long time.

That's how her second life began.

In her life... Rebecca wish she hadn't gone to Mount Manakin.

But for some reason, the old woman insisted that she must go to Mount Manakin.

So, she went out to the same place at the same time as in her previous life and waited for Adrian.

So she stepped on the train again, and on that spot, she saw Lillian's heart with her own eyes.

She became possessed by the object created by the devil.

She collapsed on the spot from the shock of the encounter with Lillian's heart.

Fortunately, it was Cedric who first discovered her this time.

Thanks to that, her life was saved, but the relationship between the two deteriorated rapidly after that.

Moreover, as she became possessed by Lillian's heart, her mania gradually worsened.

The red jewel's voice continued to stir in her mind, telling her that she should be the only one by Cedric's side.

Later, after her death, the voice continued to seduce her and happy Cedric, saying it would help her change her future.

The obsession with engraving and the resulting mania naturally worsened.

But even she knew that.

'Right now, I can't change my relationship with Cedric, who hates me. If this continues, Cedric will be taken away by Lobelia again...'

Her nervousness made her chew her fingernails until blood oozed out.

And she made up her mind.

If she cannot win Cedric's love by repeating the regression, she decides to become 'Lobelia' to receive his love.

The old woman said that she needed some rituals and ingredients to enter Lobelia's body.

First, the most important thing is the sacrifice of others, her own sacrifice, and...

It was the soul of an innocent woman who came from another world.

It was the sacrifice of others that killed the half-blood demon and placed it on the altar, and it was her own sacrifice that was burned to death in the tower.

After completing the ritual, Rebecca returned and lived her third life.

Waiting for the last ingredient, the soul of an innocent person, to be summoned from another world.

The innocent soul enjoyed reading the old woman and the book she had created.

It may have seemed like a novel to the soul living in another world, but in fact, it was a biography of Rebecca's failed second life and one of the baits to attract innocent souls.

And by the time that foolish soul was immersed in that bloody biography.

Together with the old woman, she prepared the ritual for her final decoy in the same tower where she had died.

‘When did this happen? I didn't see any construction going on.'

Finally, the soul's voice rang loudly from the fountain placed on the altar.

That meant that the spirit and Rebecca's world were gradually becoming closer.

The spirit finally took the last bait, and the object it threw floated above the fake fountain.

An unidentifiable round lump of scrap metal with a number written on it.

The old woman said, placing it in her palm.

'Now that the road has been opened for things from that world to come here, everything is finally ready.'

Soon, the old woman's smiling lips revealed ugly black teeth.

‘The misfortune that that soul must experience will soon come. At that time, you can remember the words and actions that the soul shouts and do them in front of His Highness. That is the spell that changes two souls.'

It was indeed as the old woman said.

That foolish soul immediately faced the misfortune of ‘her husband’s infidelity.’

‘What, divorce? Okay, let's get divorced! You son of a bitch!'

She remembered the spirit's excited voice and the harsh sounds that followed.

Oops!

The old woman paused for a moment for the innocent soul, and Rebecca took advantage of that moment to return straight to the Mansion of Light.

And she deliberately created an argument with Cedric.

Since they were two people who were always at odds, the situation went as she intended.

Then suddenly, it occurred to her that this was her last life as Cedric's wife.

At the same time, damp sentiments were pushed hard towards her heart.

'If I had been a woman from a noble family other than the defeated Katsis, you would have believed my heart. Then the two of us... Wouldn't it have been this much?'

Even as she asked that Cedric's eyes were as cold as ice.

A self-deprecating smile flowed from her lips as she looked at him like that.

'...No matter how many times I turn around, as long as I am me, our ending will be the same.'

Little by little, the resentment that had been building up over many years began to burst out.

Why did we have to end up like this?

Why do I have to live a miserable life, longing for love all my life?

Why do I go this far and thirst for the affection of others?

What made me like this? What...

Those who don't really want love are melting into love, but why am I so thirsty?

Why doesn't it work?

Sad thoughts followed one after another.

To the point where Rebecca is overcome by evil.

‘But you will love me someday. Because you are my man chosen by heaven. And then you...'

Rebecca raised her tearful eyes towards Cedric and spoke through gritted teeth.

'You will regret this moment terribly.'

After hearing those words, Cedric began to become even more enraged.

The air between the two became even more heated, and she ended up slapping her husband in the face, declaring the divorce.

Just like ‘the soul’ did.

And when she opened her eyes again, she was inside Lobelia's body, just as she had wanted.

Lobelia's body was taken away and the voice from the wicked Lillian's heart continued to drive her crazy, but it didn't matter.

The important thing is to kill that innocent soul along with Rebecca's body and gain Cedric's imprint and love as 'Lobelia'.

Of course, after that, she would have to live with Lobelia's spirit for the rest of her life, but that was all she could bear.

All she could think about was to be with Cedric forever.

With only that single thought, she held on to her spirit, which was being torn apart by the sin of choosing evil.

Then she heard surprising news.

'That's right, I actually spent the night with Cedric, but...'

'I'll have to do more detailed tests, but in fact, it seems almost certain that I'm pregnant based on these symptoms alone.'

Cedric's imprint was already engraved on Rebecca's body.

That meant that Cedric's imprint could no longer be obtained from Lobelia's body.

So her long-held plans changed.

Of course, she was horrified at the thought of losing Cedric's attention to the unborn baby, but it was just a lump and she could get rid of it with her own hands after getting her body back.

“Yes, we are going to perform another ritual at the tower to change our bodies. And trap her soul in Lobelia's body instead of mine...”

A more sinister voice flowed from her lips.

“And I make Lobelia die in that tower. Then I will live happily ever after with Cedric, who knows nothing.”

When she said it out loud, the sudden change in plan felt even more plausible.

Smirk. 

It was at that moment when she finished thinking and the corners of her lips curled up in a sinister way.

“Lady, you are here.”

The study door opened, and an old woman walked in slowly.

“Were you satisfied with your first meeting with your father?”

“... Well, it wasn't bad. He was so happy to see me that he didn’t know what to do.”

Lobelia looked back at the old woman and said with an expressionless face.

Seeing that the old woman had naturally entered the study, it seemed that the residents of this mansion had already been brainwashed by the puppets.

As if to confirm that fact, the old woman spoke again.

“The situation outside has all been sorted out. Preparations for the ceremony at the tower have been completely completed.”

“...”

“Now, all we have to do is bring Rebecca’s body and the ‘soul’ within it to the altar, and all of our hard work will finally come to light.”

At the old woman’s harsh words, Lobelia’s eyes sparkled with madness once again.

The long-awaited moment has finally arrived.

A gloomy and eerie smile appeared on Lobelia's lips.

The same face as when she burned to death in the tower.

Her lips, which were grinning, soon parted.

“I need to go get my body back right now.”

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