Chapter 144: Dead..
Two weeks had passed in the forest, and as Lilia moved over the dry branches, she realized something had changed about her. Unlike humans, she didn’t get tired like she used to. She didn’t feel hungry either. It was as if this form gave her all the sustenance she needed to keep going—after all, she was already dead.
Sometimes, she felt incredibly lonely. No wonder this place was called the Land of Boredom. A sigh escaped her lips as she murmured softly,
"Oh, my love... I wonder what you’re doing now... Am I already buried?" She wondered. In fact, if she had the chance, she would say his name once more.
Zethan.
The name forbidden in this land. A name that could not be said.
She had just been saying "love" to call him—and that was enough.
The thought lingered deeply in her mind. Given that she was now in ghost form—already dead—she couldn’t help but wonder if her body had been buried. But wouldn’t she know? Especially when the time came for people to visit her grave and speak to her—those few precious moments when spirits were allowed to listen?
She knew ghosts weren’t supposed to feel emotions. But why... why did her body always feel heavy whenever she thought about Zethan? Why did her heart beat a little faster, even now?
Over the past few days, she had tried her best to piece together what was truly happening.
What puzzled her most was how her older self had ended up here in the Land of the Dead. Everything felt too overwhelming—especially considering she had never believed any of this was real when she was alive. Back when she was human, she used to dismiss stories like these, even when she read about them in books. Vampires, ghosts, spirits—they were all just tales to her. She never imagined she’d actually meet one, let alone marry one. A vampire.
And now... now she was one of them. A ghost. Dead.