Chapter 211
Herix thought it was all over, but in truth, for Ivonne, this was just the beginning.
‘Now that I’m out of a human body, I understand more clearly. Aiden is no longer in this world.’
The thought she had been hesitant to believe turned out to be true. Aiden had crossed dimensions.
She had no idea what he was thinking, but it was clear he had forced Herix to do terrible things. She needed to figure out his intentions and stop him as soon as possible. There was no way she would let herself be manipulated by him any longer.
‘But where should I look for Aiden, who isn’t in this world? Which dimension is he in?’
She felt lost. At the same time, she felt a tinge of regret. She had wanted to show him her death. To make Aiden, who felt such possessiveness over her, understand that he could never possess her.
It would have been the most fitting revenge. It was a little disappointing that she couldn’t fulfill that.
While Ivonne was having such emotionless, transcendent thoughts, Isaac, caught in the dimensional barrier, could feel his body growing heavier as the power continued to drain from him.
‘Just as I thought. She’s trying to take my power back.’
Isaac had anticipated that as soon as Ivonne realized it was his doing, she would leave the human body, regain her power, and him. So he had set a trap, using it against her.
‘Go ahead, keep taking my power. Once the incomplete god’s power becomes whole, my masterpiece will be triggered.’
As the power drained, Isaac’s knees buckled. Wiping the cold sweat from his face, a manic, blissful smile lingered on his lips.
Before long, the magic circle that had been quiet began to glow.
A deep, resonant sound, like the reverberation of a soul, vibrated heavily. It had finally begun. Isaac’s sadistic smile grew even more intense.
‘They’ll think I’m crazy.’
Even Isaac himself thought he was crazy.
Who in the world would think of expelling the world’s god to another dimension in order to possess that very being?
The magic circle activated in an instant. Ivonne’s soul that has been forcibly transported, appeared. Her face, filled with horror at Isaac’s madness, was clear as she realized the trap she had fallen into, and at that moment, she was thrust into another dimension.
— It was a success.
“Ha-ha, ha-ha-ha!”
Isaac’s manic laughter spread like a nightmare through a world that had lost its god.
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- Everything is as the will of God
“Didn’t you miss me?”
The chilling voice wrapped around her ears, and in that moment, a flash of bright light blinked before her eyes.
Then, all her memories came rushing back.
Isaac, her ex-lover and sponsor, and Aiden. It all clicked together in an instant.
“I… wasn’t possessed.”
Ivonne mumbled.
“Because of you… I was cast out to another world, Novnie.”
Tears, now hardened as they flowed down her cheek, made her face feel tight.
“I understand everything now.”
There was no longer any need for Aiden’s hand to force her chin up. The repeated fury she had felt became her source of power.
Just moments ago, her eyes had been filled with tears, but now only a sharp, steely resolve remained. Aiden watched her, his gaze filled with the awe of an ecstatic audience.
‘Audience. Ah, yes. From the very beginning…’
Since the time in the other dimension, where she had believed herself to be in the ’modern world’ and Aiden had played the role of her boyfriend, his gaze had been like that of someone watching a puppet moved by others, not someone standing by her side.
The one Aiden had fervently loved was never Ivonne.
The last of her cold and bitter sobs escaped through her twisted lips. The one who had truly loved all of her was, in the end, only Herix.
Now standing up, Ivonne wiped away the hardened tears on her cheek. She shot Aiden with a piercing look.
“Did you enjoy it? How did it feel to finally kill me, the one who had forgotten the truth so many times and played into your hands?”
As all her memories returned, even the memories of the modern world, which had begun to fade, became vivid once more. The memory of being struck on the head by the boyfriend he had portrayed also resurfaced.
“You never planned to hide it from the beginning, did you? Judging by how you kept using different names.”
The name he used in the modern world was a variation of his original name. The sponsor’s name was Izak, derived from Isaac, and the name Lee Nakwon was taken from Aiden as well*.
“Then why did you erase the name Lee Nakwon right after you summoned me to this world…? I should rephrase my question. Yeah, I guess it was really amusing to you. How stupid and ridiculous was it, seeing me live on, completely unaware, while you fed me the lies?”
Her voice was filled with intense disgust and contempt. She trembled with humiliation, but it was fine. This would never happen again.
‘To Herix… I really did something terrible to him.’
She knew it was the best, the only choice, but it still felt so wrong. Now she understood all of Herix’s reactions in the beginning, reactions she hadn’t grasped before.
The reactions afterward… Yes, those were her fault, Ivonne’s fault for not truly coming back even after she had returned.
“But really, I never thought you’d crawl back into that body again. What, are you going to show me how you died in another man’s hands, thinking it’s revenge on me?”
[Nakwon 낙원 means paradise/eden as in Aiden’s name: Eden]
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