KFBRV Pt 2 Ch 79

Huh?

Taking in that sight, a scream pierced her body instantly. The scream acted as a heavy pressure rather than a mere sound. She couldn't maintain her sanity.

M-my soul is torn apart!

His emotions overwhelmed her. A despair plummeting to the very bottom consumed her mind.

[Karl] "How can you abandon me? Look at me. Don't abandon me. Please? Have some pity on me."

The sobbing Karl spoke only those words. However, his unspoken emotions wedged directly into Odette's soul.

Even after living through two aeons and willingly dying for you, do you still find me disgusting?

Can you never, ever like me? Do I hold not even a single ounce of beauty or worth in your eyes?

I know I am terrible. I know I lack any qualities you could like. Before regaining my past memories, I trapped you in the shackles of time and treated you recklessly. I acted like the worst monster toward you.

But you tried to erase me from your life. Please consider that effort.

If you grant me just a tiny bit of mercy. I will never do anything you hate again. I will do whatever you want.

His emotions crashed over her like a pitch-black tsunami.

[Karl] "I didn't want to be born this way either. I didn't want to be born as an existence you would hate."

Her mind buzzed loudly, forcibly resonating with his heart. An endless thirst that would never find satisfaction plagued her. A maddening emotion boiled inside and surged upward.

Gag.

A sudden urge forced its way up, prompting Odette to cover her mouth. Opening her hand, she found pitch-black ink smeared across her palm.

The pitch-black liquid flowing from Karl's eyes had erupted from her own stomach. It proved she resonated with the evil god right now. It proved this sickeningly passionate emotion belonged entirely to Karl.

So, you want me...... like this?

I wish for you. I wish for you. I wish for you. I wish for you. I wish for you.

This terrifying craving threatened to crush her body. No sane person could harbor a love like this.

Odette panted as her organs burned.

Contrary to his words of not wanting much, the resonating heart brimmed with greed.

Overwhelmed by that greed, she shuddered in disgust. Yet, an emotion bloomed deep inside her heart.

Ridiculously...... it was relief.

The reality of someone wanting her this much brought peace. His unyielding obsession, binding him so tightly that he could never abandon her, brought immense relief.

The love she gave never returned. Having received zero reciprocation since childhood, this rule cemented itself as absolute truth in her mind. She instinctively doubted love and constantly questioned its permanence. To her, the word love acted as a synonym for an inevitable abandonment.

But an emotion like this...... An emotion that carved into her entire body.

The pitch-black liquid continued to pour endlessly from Karl's eyes. Observing him, she spoke.

[Odette] "Kar......l."

The pressure of the resonance remained immense. She barely managed to voice the word, making Karl gaze at her carefully.

He stood as the god himself, yet he stared at Odette with pure worship. He acted like an insignificant being begging for mercy and grace from the supreme entity before him.

Karl carried deep shame in front of Odette. He cowed before a vulgar orphan girl devoid of charm, an insignificant girl suited only to act as a toy.

[Odette] "Karl......?"

She faced him and called his name again. The red eyes continued to look up at her.

Odette always considered Karl a variable. An entity capable of betraying her or playing a game of tug-of-war at any moment. But his blindness, his obsession, his fanaticism. The resonating emotion informed Odette of the truth.

Karl acted coldly and mysteriously toward Odette solely because he lacked his past memories. The current Karl—burdened with memories of killing her and regretting it, of blaming himself for an eternity after failing to revive her—could never become a variable.

He inevitably loved her in every timeline and arranged everything to die for her. To him, the option to betray her didn't exist.

[Odette] "I...... don't hate you."

He presented a target requiring no calculations or walking on eggshells.

She spoke with pure honesty for the first time.

[Odette] "I don't consider you a terrible disaster, Karl."

Saying that, she reached out and stroked the back of his hand soothingly.

[Karl] "......Lies."

He argued with a choked voice, but contrary to his denial, the resonance gradually subsided. Breathing became much easier in an instant.

[Odette] "I...... didn't hate you. I feared you. I expected you to betray me at the end. You beheaded me in my past life."

Guilt flooded Karl's eyes at her words. His face twisted in agony, resembling a sinner thrown back into hell. Her heart constricted in response.

[Odette] "So, naturally, I assumed you would hate me at the very end. Because I...... I possess nothing worthy of love."

Her throat choked up at the end of her sentence.

The Count and Countess had repeated those exact words to Odette endlessly. She no longer loved them and ceased to view them as family. However, the terrible words that ruled her since childhood didn't just disappear.

Those verbal abuses remained tangled inside her. They settled deep in her heart, turning into voices that gnawed at her soul.

In the end, everyone will realize I am a worthless existence. They might like me now, but they will abandon me once they know the real me.

So don't get caught like a fool. Don't expose yourself. Everyone will hate you.

Karl pulled her into an embrace. Only after landing in his arms did she realize she shook violently while uttering those simple words.

[Karl] "That is impossible. You are...... something beyond lovely. You are love itself to me."

[Odette] "......"

[Karl] "Throughout the suffocatingly long time, I thought of you. I thought and thought about what this emotion could be. But in the end...... in the end, it was love. How could I ever consider you unlovely?"

[Odette] "......"

[Karl] "Do you know how hard I tried not to love you? If I didn't love you, I could have died easily. If I just stopped loving you, I could have escaped into death. Aeons of time proved useless. I couldn't stop loving you...... through those damn aeons...... How can you say you lack lovely qualities? Your unbearably lovely nature caused this entire situation."

He choked on his words.

That love rendered him helpless for aeons, and her denial of it inflicted agonizing pain upon him.

[Karl] "I love you. You remain the only lovely thing in my entire life. An idiot who endured two aeons just for your smile stands right here. How can you say such things?"

His words solidified Odette's certainty. Karl gifted her another life and a regression at the end of eternity. During the resonance, his heart had thrown a screaming question at her.

Can you never, ever like me? Do I hold not even a single ounce of beauty or worth in your eyes?

She finally held the answer to that question.

[Odette] "Karl, I already like you."

She registered the truth only after speaking the words. Stripped of all worry and anxiety, this statement formed her purest sincerity.

It obviously fell short of Karl's passionate and destructive emotions. She could never call it love. But she cherished him. She cherished the child shunned by his parents at birth, the boy manipulated and used as a mere tool by his father, and the man who broke down two years ago, believing he had lost the children.

Odette recalled the moment she shot herself in the head to fake her death. In that moment, watching Karl scream and collapse brought her comfort. Watching him struggle desperately, wishing for her survival, offered immense solace.

She harbored nothing but hostility toward the other male leads, yet she carried sympathy and guilt solely for Karl. Could these feelings blossom into something more special?

[Odette] "And I will grow to love you someday."

Saying that, she hugged him back.

Odette would never love him with the same intensity he loved her. Ultimately, she would love his perfect devotion more than Karl himself. She would love the foolish worship that pushed him to love her and endure aeons, even in a past life where the world forced him to despise her.

[Odette] "If I ever love someone again, I want that person to be you."

She always remained the weak one in matters of love. She crumbled easily and let others drag her along. However, that wouldn't happen with Karl. He would never leave her in a vulnerable position. Not Karl, who had already broken down and waited for her endlessly.

She carefully revealed the fragile sincerity she had locked away due to past wounds. She wanted to receive love, and she wanted to give love. Therefore, she prayed with all her heart. She prayed she would fall in love with him, too.

[Odette] "So...... can you help me? I want to survive and leave this place together with you and all the other Transcendents."

She no longer commanded Karl. Whether she issued an order or a request, she knew he would never reject her words.

[Odette] "Gift me a future where I fall in love with you."

She knew they no longer needed power struggles or games of tug-of-war.

Karl wrapped his arms tightly around her back. His sobs echoed through the space.

Odette made the request, yet Karl wept with pure joy, receiving her words as the ultimate gift.

Finally saved from the abyss of despair, he kissed the back of his master's hand.

[Karl] "Understood. Whatever you command."

And finally, the ringing resonance vanished entirely.

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