Favored by the Family That Will Become the Strongest! - Chapter 75

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“…What are you talking about?”
“About Rothwell’s contemptible methods. Taking the lives of people you care for hostage and manipulating others with them.”
In that instant, Cain felt a chill run down his spine. His anxiety deepened by the fact that he didn’t know what Ability the other person possessed.
Still, he didn’t think Diena could do anything to him. Even having left the family and awakened her Ability, it hadn’t been long.
‘A newly awakened Ability User would be clumsy with their power.’
It was likely she hadn’t even properly learned to use her Ability yet.
But there was one thing Cain hadn’t anticipated at all. The fact that Diena had come back from the future to the past.
Diena smiled faintly and spoke.
“You think you can beat me because I’m a newly awakened Ability User, because my control over my power is clumsy. That’s what you’re thinking, isn’t it?”
Shock flickered across Cain’s face.
He staggered backward in alarm. Diena had seen through his thoughts with startling precision.
“Your thoughts are transparent. You’re really quite ordinary and one-dimensional, except for your Ability.”
“Hey, hey, Diena. Why are you acting so frightening? You were never like this.”
Cain moved his hands cautiously. Rather than fight her immediately, he’d chosen to flee.
He would go back and tell Father everything. Then, by any means necessary, he had to tell him that Diena in House Cardian must be dealt with.
A crack split open.
Space opened for his escape. Cain hurled himself forward in an instant. If he could just get outside, he could immediately move to a safe location.
But just as he was about to break through.
A burning sensation like a heated awl stabbing relentlessly at his temples began ripping through his mind.
“Gaaaaah-!”
The crack vanished instantly. Trembling at the eerie pain, Cain’s body shook violently. The darkness within him suddenly amplified. He felt as though his entire body was being torn to shreds.
“Krrgh!”
Cain’s back bent as his body convulsed. And even amid this, a thought crossed his mind.
This was like—
‘Being hit by Father’s Ability?’
Darkness Amplification.
His father’s Ability.
A tremendous power that could strike terror into all Ability Users. The way it suddenly amplified one’s own darkness to paralyze any movement felt similar to what he was experiencing now.
Diena slowly approached him.
Cough-cough— Cain’s eyes flew open wide as he gasped.
Right now, Diena was trampling his hand beneath her foot. What flashed through his mind was the face of Diena as she had always looked at him within the family.
A foolish, vacant expression. Behind it, an obvious hunger for affection laid bare.
How pathetically weak she had seemed, actually believing them to be family from the heart.
And now that Diena had changed like this?
“You should have kept a low profile. Then you wouldn’t have ended up like this before my eyes. Ah, but it probably doesn’t matter. You would have caught my attention one way or another. Right?”
Cain spoke words that might move her, acting almost on pure instinct.
“You, you. Is it okay to do this to f, family?”
“Family?”
At Cain’s words, Diena let out a hollow laugh. And spoke.
“You do love that word.”
A pure white light burst from her hand. The moment it touched him, the heavy lead weight pressing down on Cain’s entire body dissolved like a mirage.
He gasped in shock and lifted his head.
Cain retreated, his face drained of all color.
“You, you, that’s…”
“What Ability is it, you’re asking?”
“Khh.”
“It’s the Purification Ability. It can purify the darkness of Ability Users, or transfer it to others. It’s a step above Uncle’s Ability, wouldn’t you say?”
Unable to comprehend Diena’s words, Cain curled in on himself.
Once purified, powerful darkness now settled into his body. The abrupt, overwhelming pain dealt him an even greater blow.
Diena used the Purification Ability on his body again. Cain felt acute terror. Diena was healing him, then torturing him again—repeating the cycle.
Diena gripped Cain’s shoulder forcefully. Her grip was stronger than expected. Darkness began to blossom from her hand.
Gaaaaah-!
It’s said that pain beyond a certain threshold devours even the scream itself. Cain swallowed the cry that tried to escape his throat, uttering only bestial groans and whimpers instead.
Yet Diena’s face remained expressionless as she watched.
“Aren’t you curious why I’m telling you all this? You won’t remember it.”
Cain looked up at her with eyes full of dread.
“So I hope you remember it in your body, at least.”
“…What are you…”
“This is a dream now, but it will become reality later.”
Cain couldn’t understand what she meant. Surely he would remember.
He had to convey this to Father no matter what. If he didn’t, something terrible would happen.
Everything they’d prepared thus far, their entire future—could crumble to dust.
‘I won’t forget. I’ve never lost a memory from a dream.’
Cain ground his teeth together.
Once he woke from this Ability, he would immediately warn Father about the danger Diena posed. And he would repay her for the humiliation he’d suffered today. He swore to it.
“See you next time, Cain.”
With those words came darkness.
The memory cut off.
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Rothwell Castle.
A man’s scream tore through the air.
“Aaaaaaah! Ahhh!”
Cain’s eyes opened slowly, wracked with terrible pain.
Tears poured down.
Tears streamed endlessly from his eyes, and something hot flowed from his nose and ears. Cain gripped his nose with his hand.
Bright red blood.
The troubling part was that he had just woken from sleep.
With frantic hands, Cain rang the bell positioned at one corner of his bed. The servants who entered his room screamed.
“Kyaaah-! Young master!”
“Fetch the lord at once!”
At the sudden commotion, Balthasar entered Cain’s room, adjusting his robe.
Romie and Edelin followed behind him, their faces alarmed. Seeing Cain curled in on himself and sobbing, Edelin rushed toward him with an urgent expression and held him in her arms.
“C-Cain! What on earth is happening! Romie, use your Ability at once. Cain seems to be hurt.”
Cain exhaled in ragged gasps.
Romie poured her Healing Ability into his body in a panic. But Cain’s condition showed no improvement.
It was then that Balthasar spoke to the butler.
“Bring the Divine Side Effect Suppressant.”
The butler hurried away on urgent feet.
Edelin looked up at Balthasar with a puzzled expression and asked.
“A s-suppressant? Why would that be needed now?”

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