Thought It Was ‘The End’, Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 88

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Chapter 16. The Blade Below the Neck (4)

Her neck was grabbed and her legs lifted off the ground.

Edelaine pathetically lost her grip on Kaitlyn and crashed miserably into the wall. Her entire body ached as if it were breaking apart.

It was Harrison.

He threw Edelaine aside and checked on Kaitlyn who had collapsed on the floor. Kaitlyn, who had coughed up a handful of blood, screamed with eyes that had turned red like a demon’s.

“Kill that bitch, Harrison!”

“No. Calm down.”

“How can I calm down! That bitch tried to kill me!”

Harrison assessed the situation with a composed expression.

Genevieve was being held by a sailor who was pressing down on her from behind. She had also been beaten and looked terrible, but she was in better condition than Edelaine. Only after he confirmed Edelaine crouched on the floor gasping for breath did he turn his gaze back to Kaitlyn.

Though her forehead was cut and bleeding, Kaitlyn was relatively fine.

“You’re not dead.”

“Are you saying I should have died?”

“Regain your reason, Kaitlyn. You can only live if those two people stay alive.”

“Look carefully, Harrison. Does it seem like I’m doing this because I want to live?”

Kaitlyn bit her lips.

The life that remained for Kaitlyn now had no meaning whatsoever. She had been robbed of everything she possessed. It had all vanished futilely.

Everything she thought she held in her hands had been grains of sand.

Grains of sand that Keith had given her.

In truth, from the moment Keith disappeared, Kaitlyn had lost one wing. One cannot fly with just one wing. She hadn’t known that.

The wretchedness of realizing that the pride of thinking she had obtained everything through her own abilities was a delusion.

Harrison and Mia had made her realize that Kaitlyn had possessed nothing at all.

Only her beloved other half had possessed everything.

She screamed.

“Does it look like I want to live!”

“Your wishes don’t matter.”

“Harrison….”

“I can’t lose you too.”

“Now, of all times?”

“….”

“If you wanted to save me, you shouldn’t have cooperated with me.”

Kaitlyn sneered coldly.

“You cooperated obediently when I tried to poison that woman, but now you say the Saint can’t be killed.”

Kaitlyn shook off Harrison who was gripping her arm and ground her teeth fiercely. The kneeling Saint didn’t even glance at Harrison and only stared at the fallen Edelaine. Harrison also didn’t look toward the Saint.

That attitude of acting as if he had no emotions was telling the truth.

“Why, did you develop feelings for the woman you lived so intimately with?”

“….”

“The blood of a traitor doesn’t go anywhere. You don’t know, Harrison. What it’s like for me, having lost my other half.”

“I understand that you’re sad about losing Keith, Kaitlyn. But.”

“You understand?”

Kaitlyn bent over and laughed loudly as if she had heard the most ridiculous joke.

Then she suddenly stopped laughing and glared at Harrison with a serious expression.

“Don’t make me laugh. You don’t understand. Keith died because of that woman. Do you even know what that means?”

“….”

“Keith! Your benefactor! That woman killed him!”

Edelaine, who had been listening, couldn’t help but let out a hollow laugh.

Anyone hearing this would think someone had stabbed a knife into an innocent person’s belly. Whenever this man Keith had been killed by Genevieve, as far as Edelaine knew, Genevieve wasn’t someone who would kill the innocent, and even if there was guilt, she was a child who lacked the passion to directly kill someone and harbor such resentment.

She was already dying from pain, and now having to listen to nonsense made her feel like she was going completely insane.

Edelaine tried to make eye contact with Genevieve. But Genevieve kept her head down, only looking at the ground.

Harrison just quietly listened to Kaitlyn’s resentful screams.

“Keith died because of that woman, and you! What did you do?”

“….”

“You were still by that woman’s side, laughing perfectly fine. Did you think I wouldn’t know?”

“….”

“On this land where I came directly to kill Keith’s enemy, what I saw was you clinging to that woman’s side, worshipping her as if she were a god. Do you understand?”

Even with Keith’s killer right in front of him, Harrison didn’t hate her, let alone resent her.

No matter how much he was deceiving the Saint and pretending to love her.

Kaitlyn had known Harrison since they were very young. He was a person without expressions, but precisely because of that, his eyes spoke the most. Harrison wasn’t acting.

Those eyes looking at the Saint, looking at his wife.

They contained reverence, admiration, and love that he had never shown even to her in childhood.

Those were the eyes Kaitlyn had so desperately wanted but had never received.

How could she trust a ‘tool’ who dared to love a woman who should rightfully be hated?

“You fell into delusion while pretending to be husband and wife, that’s why Keith couldn’t trust you, Harrison.”

“….”

“Of course he didn’t use you even though he had you. Because you’re a traitor’s son.”

“If I had betrayed, you wouldn’t have been able to be here in the first place.”

“….”

“If you’re done talking, step aside. I need to confine those two people. You should also go to the cabin and clean up your blood.”

Harrison didn’t even deny it. Kaitlyn snorted.

“It’s not over.”

“Kaitlyn.”

Kaitlyn staggered toward Edelaine.

Edelaine barely lifted her face to the shadow cast before her. If she got kicked in the stomach one more time, she might really faint this time. Even now it was precarious.

However, instead of kicking Edelaine, Kaitlyn looked down at her writhing form like looking at an insect and said.

“Do you want to live?”

“….”

Ah, she wanted to spit.

Edelaine regretted that she should have spat first before kicking that woman in the stomach.

‘Of course I want to live…. Everything I do is because I want to live.’

More than anyone else in this world, Edelaine was probably the person who most feared death and had the strongest desire for life.

But during the five years of hiding, Edelaine had learned.

Just being alive might be no different from being dead.

Just breathing couldn’t be called truly living.

Yes, Edelaine wanted to live. She wanted to live more than anyone.

She wanted to live happily.

Kaitlyn looked down at Edelaine’s blazing eyes and said.

“Harrison is right. I should become cold-hearted.”

Harrison sighed. Kaitlyn wasn’t cold-hearted at all.

“Thinking about it carefully, there’s no reason to kill you too. Looking at you reminds me of that damn Princess Mia, so I tried to kill you to torment the Saint as well…. But rather than killing you, it would be better to use you as bargaining material.”

“….”

“But then my anger won’t be relieved.”

She was pretending to be noble, but what she wanted was childish revenge. A strange resentment flickered in the woman’s cruelly shining eyes.

A person who has lost everything has nothing to fear.

Edelaine tried to guess how this woman who had crashed into her like a runaway locomotive had become so broken.

The power to control people might destroy the practitioner more than the subject.

Since it would have felt like everything living in the world was submitting to her, she would have easily become arrogant as if she had become a god.

She would have thought nothing failed to go according to her will.

What was inside other people’s heads wouldn’t even have been a consideration.

In a world where people didn’t look like people, that woman had lived reigning alone like a god.

People cannot live alone.

She doesn’t even know something like that.

“Kill the Saint with your own hands. Then I’ll let you live.”

That’s probably why she’s making such a trashy proposal so smugly.

Edelaine let out a hollow laugh and muttered quietly.

“You’re fucking despicable…”

“What?”

And when Kaitlyn’s face came close, she spat bloody saliva at her.

“I’d rather die than do it, you crazy bitch.”

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