Book 8: Chapter 37
“Son, my son… I’m glad you’re okay. I’m so glad you’re okay.”
Vyvyan pulled me into her tight embrace while crying as she gently stroked my wound and kissed my cheeks. Luckily, Mom made it in time, or I really would’ve died. Vyvyan used magic to heal my wound. Besides feeling weak, I was now fine. I gripped Vyvyan’s clothes tightly and sobbed on her chest as a kid would. She tightly hugged me as though she was afraid that I’d disappear in the next instant.
Nier and Lucia sat down to one side and panted for oxygen as they looked over in my direction feeling somewhat jealous.
“Mom, I have to kill her…” I raised my head up. I wiped the tears at the corner of my eyes then looked at Vyvyan and seriously said, “She killed my Luna. She killed my only personal servant. I have to kill her! I must kill her!!”
“I understand, I understand. Son… Mommy understands… Mommy wants to kill her, too, but that woman still needs to ask her some things.”
I struggled to turn my head over to look at Mommy Elizabeth looking down at Alice, who was pinned to the ground and immobilised. In the face of ultimate power, not even Alice could break free of Vyvyan’s magic. She wasn’t dead yet. She desperately tried to raise her head. Despite her bleeding from her mouth and her limbs being pinned down, she glared at me with her gaze full of hatred and urges to charge over and kill me, the same way I looked at her and felt about her.
“Alice…”
Elizabeth crouched down to look at her with sadness in her eyes. She placed her hand gently on Alice’s head. She sighed and asked, “Why?”
“Because that brat… that shameless bastard has no right to succeed you as the ruler of your empire! You have been lied to for too long! You should be the heroic Empress on the frontlines as in the past, yet you want to give up your throne for a kid! That is not you! That is not what you wanted! You told us that you wanted an empire that would not fall, yet you want to hand the empire you gave up so much to establish to an ignorant brat?!”