The Strongest Daughter-In-Law Of The Black Lion Family [EN]: Chapter 158

#158.

‘I should be the one who’s sorry.’

I smiled bitterly, thinking of Ella, who had been blindly devoted to me. Meeting Eben Sev made everything clear.

There was nothing left to confirm. Now that I knew Eben Sev’s location, all that was left was to stab my sister’s heart.

As I turned to leave, Eben Sev asked sharply,

“Where are you going?”

“To my world.”

“So, you weren’t here after all. No wonder I couldn’t find you no matter how hard I looked.”

I didn’t feel it was worth responding to, and I was just about to leave my sister behind.

“Do you think I’ll let you go?”

Crack, crack.

She strained against the chains binding her arms and legs, as if trying to cling to me.

But it was not enough to break the chains imbued with the power of the Divine Beast.

She said with resentment in her eyes,

“I can’t be the only one suffering like this. It’s not fair!”

“You’re insane.”

“Yes, I am. It’s been years I couldn’t have endured without going crazy.”

Before I knew it, blood was pooling on Eben Sev’s arms and legs. Her obsession was so strong that I could feel her murderous intent.

But even if her hands and feet were torn off, she wouldn’t be able to take a single step from that place.

I smiled slyly, filled with all the malice I possessed.

“Don’t worry. I’ll find you first in that place.”

And I must kill her.

With that thought, I leisurely left the deep-sea cave.

It was a complicated path, but following Heathcliff’s instructions, I soon saw the exit.

‘It was as Heathcliff said. Eben Sev was there.’

I was glad I didn’t encounter her without preparation. I clutched the anti-severance agent in my inner pocket.

Then I headed to the door. Thanks to Eben Sev calling me here, I was able to come to Sarvan’s territory easily.

‘Thank you, sister. Thanks to you, I can leave comfortably.’

I muttered inwardly, knowing Eben Sev would foam at the mouth if she heard me, and stood before the door.

The pure white door still had ancient words inscribed on it.

[The Door That Reverses Everything]

Now I knew exactly what it meant to reverse.

It was indeed a fitting phrase for a door that transcends time.

I didn’t go out immediately but waited for someone in front of the door.

After some time, I saw Tebi coming from afar. She had done the task I had asked her to do before crossing the door.

“How did it go?”

― I did as you said. It was really there…….

Tebi said in a dazed voice.

“Thank you, Tebi.”

Only then relieved, I opened the door without hesitation.

My work here was all done.

It was time to return.

* * *

Meanwhile, Heathcliff was in a difficult situation due to the sudden appearance of the Butterfly gang.

The eyes of the masked woman were too familiar.

‘It was definitely Yanu.’

Ella seemed to recognize her at a glance and looked surprised.

Come to think of it, Heathcliff had never seen Yanu’s face.

She was always wearing a mask. He had only assumed it was due to the unique traditions of the priestess.

But now it seemed it was to hide her identity thoroughly.

What bewildered Heathcliff even more was Yanu’s actions.

Suddenly appearing, Yanu subdued Zerachiel with some kind of bell and disappeared with him, as if he had been the target from the beginning.

Immediately after, a silver-haired man attacked with the masked men, so Heathcliff couldn’t even think about following them.

As expected, as if trying to open their escape route, the silver-haired man retreated with the masked men after a certain amount of time.

He tried to chase after them, but Ella suddenly collapsed, so he couldn’t.

In the end, Heathcliff was barely catching his breath in that spot.

“What is going on?”

Until now, Ella and Heathcliff had been heading to the place where Eben Sev’s stone was, but they came here after receiving a distress signal from Chelsea.

But Chelsea was not there, and the Sarvan family head was hitting Eve, so he was very embarrassed.

‘Help my daughter!’

‘Did something dangerous happen to Chelsea?’

‘Ha, it was a trap. My daughter opened an invisible door and disappeared from here!’

Eve was very surprised and didn’t seem to have the ability to give a proper explanation.

In the meantime, the Sarvan family head was giggling and muttering about paradise and flowers, so while he was subduing him, the interrupters rushed in.

In the end, Eve, exhausted, had her human form released and was asleep with Ella in her beast form.

“That guy, he didn’t intend to kill me.”

Hearthcliff recalled the silver-haired man who had been attacking him intensively. There was a spell on the mask, so his face itself was blurry.

But the swordsmanship he used was so familiar that he couldn’t possibly not know it.

It was the swordsmanship that had been passed down through the Page family for generations. Moreover, he seemed to feel a faint pheromone of Page from him.

‘Was there a traitor inside?’

Well, with the Butterfly gang rampant in the North, it wouldn’t make sense if there weren’t any inside Page.

Such a huge thing was being carried out without him knowing in the place he belonged to. He didn’t know who it was, but as the young head of Page, he would definitely deal with that masked man.

With that determination, Heathcliff sat down on the floor and concentrated on his thoughts. Then, naturally, Zerachiel came to mind.

Immediately after Yanu shook the bell, Zerachiel headed towards Yanu as if possessed. Then, he knelt down obediently and kissed the back of her hand.

No matter how he looked at it, it was not a sane sight. It was impossible for him to have skinship [physical contact] with any female other than Chelsea.

‘His eyes were definitely red.’

The reason he thought he was out of his mind was also because of those red eyes.

Seeing his red eyes reminded him of Zakari, who had gone berserk at his wedding in the past.

The Javis become bloodthirsty when they fall into madness.

The moment he confirmed it with his own eyes was still a chilling memory.

Suddenly madness.

At that moment, his conversation with Chelsea flashed through his mind.

‘It’s a bit difficult now.’

‘Did you fight?’

‘It might be better to fight.’

At the time, he thought they had a marital fight. Now it seemed that his madness had started.

It was said that the direct line of Javis usually starts to go mad when they become adults. Only the direct line of Javis knew the timing.

Zerachiel became strange immediately after Yanu shook the bell.

No sound was heard from the bell. But Zerachiel covered his ears and groaned as if he could hear something.

Then his eyes turned red, and he was out of his mind.

‘That bell, I’ve definitely seen it before.’

Hearthcliff rummaged through his past memories. The red bell was somehow familiar. He was sure he was seeing it for the first time, but it was somehow unsettling.

Soon after, Heathcliff realized where he had seen the bell.

“Ha―!”

Hearthcliff, who let out a burst of laughter filled with anger, glared at the direction Yanu had disappeared with fierce eyes.

“It was you.”

He gritted his teeth with a resentful face.

The reason he didn’t recognize it at a glance was because it was the first thing for ‘the current him’.

In the past, in a timeline that doesn’t exist now, Heathcliff went to Nahaman to get Ella back.

And in the place he was guided to by Nahaman, it was Yanu, not Ella, who was waiting.

‘How did you get here…….’

‘Why? Are you surprised that I’m with Hebel’s priest? We were actually serving the same person.’

‘What?’

‘Now, it’s time to be quiet.’

There, Yanu used that red bell to brainwash him.

At the time, he had no choice but to be helpless. That bell had a strong power that could not be resisted.

After that, Heathcliff couldn’t do anything at his own will.

In the end, he signed a pheromone signature on the treaty to sell Ella to Hebel, and then he took charge of protecting Zerachiel, who was caught in madness.

And at some point, he seemed to have killed every beast he met.

At the time, his head was full of the thought that he had to kill all the beasts.