KFBRV Ch 135
- Mar 19
- 6 min read
[Odette] "You said your three years of contempt ended easily. So wouldn't an affection of that level end even more lightly?"
[Zion] "Albrecht, rather than insulting someone's sincerity, just say you hate me. Then I wouldn't be this angry."
[Odette] "There is no need to erase an oath made in God's name for a fleeting emotion—"
[Zion] "Odette."
He interrupted her with a sweet voice. Before she could even realize what it was, his purple eyes instantly shone with a deep golden hue.
[The mind of the 'Owner of the Necklace' has been caught in Zion's 'Brainwashing'.]
Without even a moment to resist, her brain was ransacked in an instant.
This crazy bastard. Haphazardly again...
His lips moved as if saying something, but she couldn't hear any sound. A distant feeling like floating in a zero-gravity space.
When she regained her senses, she was sitting on the floor with a hazy consciousness.
[Zion's 'Brainwashing' has been lifted.]
Seeing the status window before her eyes, she was filled with rage.
This damned bastard.
Zion, still holding her shoulders as if binding her, was kneeling on one knee opposite her.
However, since a hazy feeling remained in her entire body, she could only manage to glare at him.
He offered a twisted smile toward her.
[Zion] "Phew. So why make such a trivial matter tiring? Albrecht."
Judging by the relief in his purple eyes, it seemed he had successfully erased the Purifier's oath while her memory was cut off.
A hot aura wafted from him, who was covered in cold sweat. As if he had made a strenuous effort not to ruin her mind.
[Caution! Due to the side effects of 'Brainwashing', you may temporarily confuse memory and reality.]
You leave side effects in the midst of that? This son of a bitch.
[Zion] "Don't speak of leaving so carelessly again. It's a goal that won't even be achieved, and it only ruins my mood. It's not like you don't know what kind of existence a Transcendent is, right?"
[Odette] "......"
[Zion] "You are so fragile that there's no guarantee the brainwashing will finish without a mistake every time. So let's not fight, Albrecht."
Mad obsession undulated in his eyes, which had returned to purple before she knew it. He seemed very satisfied with this situation.
[Zion] "I will do well so I won't be hated."
He let go of the hands gripping her tightly and gently swept her hair back.
A light smile and an affectionate voice. Despite threatening her, the way he acted as if he were courting her was utterly disgusting.
It was the moment she tried to twist her powerless body to escape from him.
When the sound of glass shattering, crash—, was heard from the window.
Odette, barely turning her head, widened her eyes. Because a glaive was flying at a tremendous speed, aiming precisely for Zion's neck.
[Viktor] "You son of a bitch. Take your hands off my darling's hair."
Along with Viktor's malice-filled voice.
Whoosh—.
The glaive flew in an instant with the momentum to pierce through anything. Zion snatched the flying blade with his bare hand.
[Zion] "Vulgar enough to cause a commotion regardless of who is present. This is why street trash..."
Even as blood poured from the wound, revealing his bone, he merely clicked his tongue lightly, tsk.
While the wound healed, the red-haired man entered the room through the window the glaive had just flown through.
Why is that human here, too?
Viktor's appearance alone was already bewildering enough, but then a low, serious voice reached her.
[Johan] "Odette, are you okay? Were you startled?"
It was Johan. With the appearance of the two, she could easily guess.
Not just Zion, but those two humans as well... attached someone to me.
A hollow laugh threatened to burst from her lips in despair.
If it's like this, what on earth has changed from my past life?
Only their Loathing had changed to 0; they still tracked her down arbitrarily wherever she went. And they interfered with every plan she made.
Other than not trying to kill her, wasn't this the same as the pursuit in her past life?
If things don't go their way, they use their abilities on me, and attach people to investigate me. Barge into my space arbitrarily.
Why did no one ask for her permission? Why did they hinder her as if it were natural?
What she wanted in this life was not love, but minimum respect. Was even that an undeserved luxury for her?
Look at what Zion had just done. Claiming he liked her while arbitrarily ransacking her mind—
What's the point of struggling so hard not to become Ferdinand's doll? In the end, these monsters are trying to make me their doll!
It was that moment. The sound of raindrops falling outside the window, tap, tap—, was heard.
Soon, that sound changed into the sound of heavy rain, swaaaaa—. Simultaneously, a blurry afterimage floated before her eyes.
The afterimage of these three men she encountered in her past life.
[Caution! Due to the side effects of 'Brainwashing', you may temporarily confuse memory and reality.]
Only then did she realize the exact meaning of the warning. That confusion meant "the events in memory and reality appear tangled."
Damn it. Of all things, the Count decorated this place to look similar to the interior of the townhouse—
Pouring rain, a villa resembling the Count's estate, three Transcendents. Odette kneeling.
It was excessively similar to the moment in her past life when she was hiding in the secret passage of the Count's estate and was almost caught by these three.
Because of that, the memories of her past life and this very moment appeared mixed in her eyes.
Viktor approached her, whose body still had no strength.
[Viktor] "Darling, I was worried."
Although relief and worry were mixed on his face, the face she saw overlapped with an expression full of hatred, disillusionment, and mockery.
[Odette] "...Worried?"
She, still slightly hazy, scoffed at the word. Pfft.
[Odette] "Ah, I see. Of course, the Colonel would be. I left while having a high fever, didn't I? Me suffering and groaning would have been a good spectacle, so how worried were you that you might miss that entertaining sight?"
At that cynical sarcasm, his striding steps halted.
[Odette] "From someone who described the sight of my death as a famous scene that can only be seen once."
[Viktor] "Darling, that's—"
[Odette] "Don't call me by that damned name!"
[Viktor] "Goodbye. Darling."
[Odette] "Because every time I hear it, I feel disgusted and shudder."
Since the last word she heard when she died was "darling," she had found that word terrible all along.
No, was it only that word terrible? To her, their very existence was always terrible.
[Johan] "Odette."
Johan, who had stepped back to observe the situation, called her in a cautious voice.
[Johan] "We truly came because we were worried about you. Because you looked very sick when you left. You seem to still have a fever now."
Over his calm voice, another voice of his echoed.
[Johan] "Right. You were this kind of human. Always."
[Odette] "Why? You hated and despised me so much. Why are you worrying now, of all times?"
At those words, Johan clamped his mouth shut in guilt.
Viktor was uncharacteristically restless at Odette's never-before-seen appearance.
Zion merely looked down quietly at her with sunken eyes.
As they closed their mouths as if lost for words, only the sound of rain could be heard in the room.
At that moment, with a ding sound, a status window appeared before her eyes.
[Charlotte will soon appear before the male leads.]
[In 10 minutes, the male leads' Loathing will increase by 61 times.]
What... did you say?
Her face turned pale at the incredibly sudden notification.
[With Charlotte's appearance, the scheduled payout of the special reward is advanced!]
[Result of the special reward settlement from the previous quest: Exceeded Fame by 500 / Remaining time 2 days]
[Special Reward: 'Shackles of Time' (4 items)]
[Shackles of Time: You can prevent the designated target's actions for 1,000 hours. (Based on a normal adult male/subject to variation depending on the target's physical and mental strength)]
Why, suddenly? This makes no sense. I already checked the remaining time with the dagger. There were definitely three days left just a moment ago.
She hurriedly opened the inventory window.
[The scheduled use date of Invisible Sincerity (Dagger) has changed.]
[Invisible Sincerity (Dagger)]
[Dagger to cut out the invisible in 10 minutes, 'below the Meursault Cliff'.]
However, like a lie, the text saying 10 minutes occupied the place of three days on the status window.
But that wasn't the end of it. Ding, another status window notification rang.
[♡ Quest Triggered ♡]
[Quest Content: Awaken Karl]
[Time Limit: 10 minutes]
[Originally, 100 days remain until Karl's awakening. However, an intense emotional disturbance can advance his awakening.]
[Cause an intense emotional disturbance within the 10 minutes before Charlotte arrives to advance Karl's awakening time♥]
[Reward: Restoration of the 'Affection' function of the Status Window]
[Penalty: Karl's Loathing increases by 40]
[The quest is automatically accepted.]
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