“What the hell is wrong with you, bunny! Come to your senses, please!”
Ryan shouted with a pale face. He was afraid.
I'm sure you're scared because I quickly rewinded time to Alex's death and didn't do anything. Of course.
“Yes, wait... wait, wait...”
I barely managed to say anything and turned around.
I saw Merchen, who had lost consciousness.
What if we turn back time?
Ratan forgets me again.
Unless I deliberately rip off Merchen's neck and pull out Ratan, I'll have to wait for a situation where I can tame him again.
Until Ratan pops out again.
I don't know when or where that situation will occur.
In preparation for that time, I brought him here to Belzer, the best place to subdue Ratan while hiding his true identity.
Who knows, all that effort might be in vain when an unexpected incident breaks out?
Even if you're lucky enough to get a chance at Belzer, there's a chance you'll die and have no choice but to rewind time again.
So, if we think about it calmly...
I can't turn back time now.
“Vania!”
Ryan grabbed my shoulder and shook me as I sat there blankly.
"Wake up. What's wrong with you? Are you going to kill the kid? Hurry up. Hurry up."
"Dad..."
"Oh, it's okay. Nothing happened. Just pretend it never happened."
I woke up slowly.
Alex appeared.
My brother, dead, with a peaceful expression, as if he were asleep.
“Sister, I’m fine.”
Before my regression, Alex was a brave man.
Of course, it was just a show of bravery.
“This might be of some help to the family.”
Are you really satisfied with your power?
I didn't like it.
I thought that if it were that kind of ability, it would be better not to have it at all.
“I want anything, too, Sister. Anything...”
You said so now.
And I, who cannot help but be weak towards you, was also prepared for the possibility that I might have to tell you my secret at any moment.
I didn't know that day would come so quickly.
"Dad."
“Vania, please...”
Ryan said pleadingly.
It was painful. I felt like a monster, capable of saving my beloved child but not doing so.
“Hug Alex.”
"...What?"
“Let’s take him home.”
I said weakly.
Ryan looked at me with an expression of incomprehension.
"Alec won't die. Don't ask any questions, just do as I say. Please..."
Ryan returned home with Alex's body in his arms.
When Nanny Emma and Butler Ralph learned that the demon had appeared and that Alex was not at home, they were almost crying like crazy.
The two were about to go out to find Alex, but the mercenaries Jack, Rudy, and Revan, who were guarding the mansion, were trying to stop them.
"Don't worry. Alex's fine. He was just startled and fainted for a moment."
Ryan said so.
He stopped the two men from looking at Alex's face and said that he needed medical attention.
He went to Alex's room, telling them not to let anyone in, and lay him on the bed.
His body feels cold.
The muscles were already stiff.
He's definitely dead. There's no way to save him other than by regressing.
Still, Vania doesn't sense time. Ryan felt like he was going crazy, but he decided to trust Vania.
Wasn't it Vania who would mourn Alex's death more than anyone else? If there had been no other solution, she would have simply passed the time without a second thought.
“Please guard the room. No one is allowed in here for three days.”
Vania weakly pulled a chair over and sat down next to Alex's bed.
And he speaks with empty eyes.
"Please speed up the mercenary recruitment process. Don't let Emma and Ralph know Alex is dead. They might collapse from shock."
“Vania.”
“Wait. Just, just wait, Dad...”
Vania immediately grabbed Alex's hand and sobbed.
"Sorry..."
While writhing in pain.
“This sister is really sorry...”
“I’m sorry. I’m embarrassed.”
Max, who had been leading the Cerberus mercenaries while Ryan and Kali were absent, knelt down.
The fact that Alex was dead was known to all the mercenaries, and they were all shocked.
“...It’s okay.”
It wasn't their fault. Ryan thought it was largely his own complacency.
Haven't you given orders to all mercenaries to exterminate wild beasts these past few days?
It happened while they were chasing wild beasts in the mountains as usual.
Rather, the mercenaries responded as quickly and perfectly as possible upon discovering Ratan. There was no need to blame them.
Ratan appeared out of nowhere in the forest...
How could anyone have predicted this? None of the mercenaries knew exactly what was happening.
They said they didn't even know Alex was nearby, and just went to subdue him as soon as he saw the enlarged Ratan.
"Now that you know everything, keep your secrets strictly. And please take good care of the Prince."
Everyone learned of Ratan's true identity hidden inside Merchen and even witnessed Vania's supernatural powers.
In fact, there was no need to worry about keeping secrets, as they were Cerberus who had gathered together and risked their lives to bring down Wassenberg...
“Everyone feels a great sense of guilt over the young master’s death.”
That was the problem.
Two days after Alex's death.
Ryan wiped his face at Kali's report.
Everyone was still in shock.
And...
“Ryan, let’s talk.”
After waking up, Merchen, who had been locked in her room, called Ryan.
I left Merhen alone on purpose without asking her what was going on because she must have been upset too…
“Are you really that heartbroken? It was my fault.”
The evening has become dark.
Merchen, who came out into the backyard, looked better than Ryan had expected.
"I apologize. A few words can't make up for Alex's death."
“...It’s not your fault.”
“No, it was my fault. And I know it's really shameless, but I have a favor to ask of you.”
Merchen looked back at Ryan.
“It is said that your power is to take human life in an instant.”
What was this idiot trying to say? Ryan gritted his teeth.
“Please kill me.”
“Please.”
Only then did Merchen's face, which had seemed calm, become completely crumpled.
Tears welled up in his eyes, distorted by the pain he could not bear, and veins bulged on the back of his hand as he clutched his chest as if tearing it.
“I just walked to Farnese... I now realize how foolish and selfish that was.”
Tears flowed without stopping.
"Even though I knew the monster inside me was killing innocent people... I... continued to survive, driven by my own selfishness. Unable to believe the reality I faced... I foolishly ran away..."
“Merchen.”
“Ah, Alex, I... I made the one who had become attached to me like that... And only then did I realize. Like an idiot...”
“...”
"I have to bear all the sins of this monster. I'll change again at any moment, and who knows who will die next. So please, Ryan..."
Merchen collapsed. He held onto Ryan's trousers and struggled to raise his head, sobbing.
“Please... ugh. Please kill me... Please...”
“...”
The reason why Vania didn't sense time.
It was to not erase the time spent taming Ratan, and that was to 'save' Merchen.
But how can I kill him?
"It's okay. It's not your fault, so don't cry and don't ask me to kill you. It was all a choice I made to save you."
Ryan sat down and hugged the sobbing Merchen.
"Furthermore..."
Ryan kept thinking about Vania, who was locked in the room with Alex, and had a vague idea.
“Alex isn’t dead.”
Not sensing time... was the best way to save both Alex and Merchen.
“...Alex won’t die.”
Ryan said that, looking up at Alex's room on the third floor.
Dead.
...Alex thought.
Because the feeling of being out of breath was vivid.
The world after death was a strange place.
He floated endlessly through a pure white world filled only with light, with nothing else.
Then he realized instinctively.
As all the other brothers who have manifested this ability have said, 'instinctively.'
I'm dead, but...
You're not dead.
Immortal Blood
When he opened my eyes, he saw the ceiling of a familiar room.
He knew he didn't just lose consciousness for a moment and then come back. He clearly 'died' and then 'came back to life.'
That was precisely the power he had been longing to have.
“...”
Alex slowly turned his head.
“Hello, Alex. Did you sleep well?”
Vania, who had been by his side the whole time, appeared with wet eyes and haggard cheeks.
“Sister...”
“Yeah, Alex.”
She said with a bright smile, her eyes filled with tears.
“Welcome back.”
Ryan shouted with a pale face. He was afraid.
I'm sure you're scared because I quickly rewinded time to Alex's death and didn't do anything. Of course.
“Yes, wait... wait, wait...”
I barely managed to say anything and turned around.
I saw Merchen, who had lost consciousness.
What if we turn back time?
Ratan forgets me again.
Unless I deliberately rip off Merchen's neck and pull out Ratan, I'll have to wait for a situation where I can tame him again.
Until Ratan pops out again.
I don't know when or where that situation will occur.
In preparation for that time, I brought him here to Belzer, the best place to subdue Ratan while hiding his true identity.
Who knows, all that effort might be in vain when an unexpected incident breaks out?
Even if you're lucky enough to get a chance at Belzer, there's a chance you'll die and have no choice but to rewind time again.
So, if we think about it calmly...
I can't turn back time now.
“Vania!”
Ryan grabbed my shoulder and shook me as I sat there blankly.
"Wake up. What's wrong with you? Are you going to kill the kid? Hurry up. Hurry up."
"Dad..."
"Oh, it's okay. Nothing happened. Just pretend it never happened."
I woke up slowly.
Alex appeared.
My brother, dead, with a peaceful expression, as if he were asleep.
“Sister, I’m fine.”
Before my regression, Alex was a brave man.
Of course, it was just a show of bravery.
“This might be of some help to the family.”
Are you really satisfied with your power?
I didn't like it.
I thought that if it were that kind of ability, it would be better not to have it at all.
“I want anything, too, Sister. Anything...”
You said so now.
And I, who cannot help but be weak towards you, was also prepared for the possibility that I might have to tell you my secret at any moment.
I didn't know that day would come so quickly.
"Dad."
“Vania, please...”
Ryan said pleadingly.
It was painful. I felt like a monster, capable of saving my beloved child but not doing so.
“Hug Alex.”
"...What?"
“Let’s take him home.”
I said weakly.
Ryan looked at me with an expression of incomprehension.
"Alec won't die. Don't ask any questions, just do as I say. Please..."
***
Ryan returned home with Alex's body in his arms.
When Nanny Emma and Butler Ralph learned that the demon had appeared and that Alex was not at home, they were almost crying like crazy.
The two were about to go out to find Alex, but the mercenaries Jack, Rudy, and Revan, who were guarding the mansion, were trying to stop them.
"Don't worry. Alex's fine. He was just startled and fainted for a moment."
Ryan said so.
He stopped the two men from looking at Alex's face and said that he needed medical attention.
He went to Alex's room, telling them not to let anyone in, and lay him on the bed.
His body feels cold.
The muscles were already stiff.
He's definitely dead. There's no way to save him other than by regressing.
Still, Vania doesn't sense time. Ryan felt like he was going crazy, but he decided to trust Vania.
Wasn't it Vania who would mourn Alex's death more than anyone else? If there had been no other solution, she would have simply passed the time without a second thought.
“Please guard the room. No one is allowed in here for three days.”
Vania weakly pulled a chair over and sat down next to Alex's bed.
And he speaks with empty eyes.
"Please speed up the mercenary recruitment process. Don't let Emma and Ralph know Alex is dead. They might collapse from shock."
“Vania.”
“Wait. Just, just wait, Dad...”
Vania immediately grabbed Alex's hand and sobbed.
"Sorry..."
While writhing in pain.
“This sister is really sorry...”
***
“I’m sorry. I’m embarrassed.”
Max, who had been leading the Cerberus mercenaries while Ryan and Kali were absent, knelt down.
The fact that Alex was dead was known to all the mercenaries, and they were all shocked.
“...It’s okay.”
It wasn't their fault. Ryan thought it was largely his own complacency.
Haven't you given orders to all mercenaries to exterminate wild beasts these past few days?
It happened while they were chasing wild beasts in the mountains as usual.
Rather, the mercenaries responded as quickly and perfectly as possible upon discovering Ratan. There was no need to blame them.
Ratan appeared out of nowhere in the forest...
How could anyone have predicted this? None of the mercenaries knew exactly what was happening.
They said they didn't even know Alex was nearby, and just went to subdue him as soon as he saw the enlarged Ratan.
"Now that you know everything, keep your secrets strictly. And please take good care of the Prince."
Everyone learned of Ratan's true identity hidden inside Merchen and even witnessed Vania's supernatural powers.
In fact, there was no need to worry about keeping secrets, as they were Cerberus who had gathered together and risked their lives to bring down Wassenberg...
“Everyone feels a great sense of guilt over the young master’s death.”
That was the problem.
Two days after Alex's death.
Ryan wiped his face at Kali's report.
Everyone was still in shock.
And...
“Ryan, let’s talk.”
After waking up, Merchen, who had been locked in her room, called Ryan.
I left Merhen alone on purpose without asking her what was going on because she must have been upset too…
“Are you really that heartbroken? It was my fault.”
The evening has become dark.
Merchen, who came out into the backyard, looked better than Ryan had expected.
"I apologize. A few words can't make up for Alex's death."
“...It’s not your fault.”
“No, it was my fault. And I know it's really shameless, but I have a favor to ask of you.”
Merchen looked back at Ryan.
“It is said that your power is to take human life in an instant.”
What was this idiot trying to say? Ryan gritted his teeth.
“Please kill me.”
“Oh, I knew you'd spout some bullshit.”
Only then did Merchen's face, which had seemed calm, become completely crumpled.
Tears welled up in his eyes, distorted by the pain he could not bear, and veins bulged on the back of his hand as he clutched his chest as if tearing it.
“I just walked to Farnese... I now realize how foolish and selfish that was.”
Tears flowed without stopping.
"Even though I knew the monster inside me was killing innocent people... I... continued to survive, driven by my own selfishness. Unable to believe the reality I faced... I foolishly ran away..."
“Merchen.”
“Ah, Alex, I... I made the one who had become attached to me like that... And only then did I realize. Like an idiot...”
“...”
"I have to bear all the sins of this monster. I'll change again at any moment, and who knows who will die next. So please, Ryan..."
Merchen collapsed. He held onto Ryan's trousers and struggled to raise his head, sobbing.
“Please... ugh. Please kill me... Please...”
“...”
Thump, thump. The relentless pounding on his chest was heartbreaking. Yet Ryan could do nothing to help.
It was to not erase the time spent taming Ratan, and that was to 'save' Merchen.
But how can I kill him?
"It's okay. It's not your fault, so don't cry and don't ask me to kill you. It was all a choice I made to save you."
Ryan sat down and hugged the sobbing Merchen.
"Furthermore..."
Ryan kept thinking about Vania, who was locked in the room with Alex, and had a vague idea.
“Alex isn’t dead.”
Not sensing time... was the best way to save both Alex and Merchen.
“...Alex won’t die.”
Ryan said that, looking up at Alex's room on the third floor.
***
Dead.
...Alex thought.
Because the feeling of being out of breath was vivid.
The world after death was a strange place.
He floated endlessly through a pure white world filled only with light, with nothing else.
Then he realized instinctively.
As all the other brothers who have manifested this ability have said, 'instinctively.'
I'm dead, but...
You're not dead.
Immortal Blood
When he opened my eyes, he saw the ceiling of a familiar room.
He knew he didn't just lose consciousness for a moment and then come back. He clearly 'died' and then 'came back to life.'
That was precisely the power he had been longing to have.
“...”
Alex slowly turned his head.
“Hello, Alex. Did you sleep well?”
Vania, who had been by his side the whole time, appeared with wet eyes and haggard cheeks.
“Sister...”
“Yeah, Alex.”
She said with a bright smile, her eyes filled with tears.
“Welcome back.”
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