Return of the Fallen Volume 10 Chapter 94
(After Sephra witnessed your disguise fall apart for that split second, she confirmed who and what you really were Kazuki. The suspicion from the very day she met you, the seed of doubt in her mind, it had fully grown and within a single week she had plotted both you and Kai’s demise.)
The memory flashed forward once more. Sephra who had grown to love both Kazuki and Kai, the two boys she had cared for as if they were her own for several years, that love completely vanished in a single instant. She felt waves of disgust within herself.
“Why…Why did Lin trick me? Is he already aware of what I’ve done? No, that can’t be the case. But how did the boy survive? How did Genzuko’s son live. His breath ended and his heart was destroyed, so then how.”
Sephra’s thoughts flashed and she recalled the compass around Kazuki’s neck and she began to put it together.
“Orberus. He was the one who gave that compass to Genzuko. It would not have been strange for him to leave a bit of power behind in it. Yes, Orberus is even crueler than I. He disowned Genzuko, this must be the reason he didn’t interfere when I killed him. In his eyes, I was probably even doing him a favor but then why did he bring the boy back to life. Does he actually care for his grandson…That shouldn’t be so, why else would he abandon him in this Lower Realm. Knowing Orberus’s character, he most likely brought the boy back just for his kicks.”
Sephra stood in her room and looked at a tall mirror. Seeing her own reflection, she felt anger. Many things within her mind began to unravel.
“This is what I’ve become. A mother to children I never wanted. A wife to a man that isn’t Genzuko. How did it come to this? Why can I not be happy? Genzuko betrayed me, I was forced to marry his weak stupid brother, and all this time I’ve been raising Kazuki as if he were my own. No doubt this was Orberus’s manipulation. Toying with me, messing with my life for all of these years. NO MORE!”
*BAM CHshhh*
Sephra punched the mirror in front of her, shattering it into thousands of tiny pieces.
The motherly expression she had crafted after many years had faded away and what replaced it was a cruel smile. She calmly sat down at her desk and picked up a small orb before recording a message within it. afterward, a golden beam of light descended for a split second before the crystal orb vanished into the light.
“You ruined me Orberus. Both of your sons ruined me. One ripped my heart out and the other made me care but it was all a fucking trick to get me to raise Kazuki. How will it feel if the boy that forced me to raise is killed by my own hands?”
The memory moved forward and Lin who was sitting at a table reading something suddenly received an urgent message and made his way to leave. The last thing he said to everyone before he left was how much he loved them. After that, he went back to the Higher Realm.
(The message of course was just a trick to get me back to the Higher Realm so that Sephra could kill you and Kai before I returned. Had I known…Had I known what she was planning? I would have ended her there and then.)
The memory flashed forward one final time.
Sephra already had Kai and Kazuki chained down to a few magic tables. She looked on at the confusion both Kai and Kazuki had. Fera stood next to her, excited for what was to come.
The memory played out just the same as it did in the past. Both Kai and Kauzki’s Mage cores were stolen from them and given to Fera.
(Later on, when I asked her why she took your cores, Sephra laughed before telling me it was another act of getting back. By taking the cores from you two who I loved and giving them to Fera, it would make Fera a constant reminder of Sephra’s hatred for me and my family. “Every time you look at your daughter you will have to live with the fact that your son’s downfall was because of your family’s betrayal and cruelty to me.” Those were her exact words before she was imprisoned in father’s home.)
After she killed Kai, she was just about to kill Kazuki. She had thrown her weapon and it rushed at Kazuki ready to pierce him just as she had pierced him when he was an infant. Just before she could kill him though, golden light filled the room.
The light wrapped completely around Kazuki and he was protected from Sephra’s power. The very next moment Kazuki was teleported away to Earth. As the golden light faded, what replaced it was Daisius.
He didn’t even glance at Fera and instead stared coldly at Sephra.
“Do you really think my brother would let you kill his grandson twice?”
Sephra knew she was no match for him but she was unafraid. If he made a move against her it would mean war between their two families. There was venom in her words as she spoke.
“And why not. He already let it happen once under his watch. What’s one more time. It’s the least he could let me do after lying and deceiving me all this time. He knew…he knew all along that Kazuki was Genzuko’s son and I…I raised him like he was mine all this time. Was the bastard laughing as he watched from on high. Why me? Why does your family treat me like this? All I ever did was love Genzuko, I even managed to love Lin and this is what I get. Deceitful fiendish scum, every single one of you.”
Daisius took a step forward, his power completely encompassing Sephra allowing her to not make a single move. He looked at her with absolute disgust.
“Hmph, Your love was weak and insignificant. Your love was so laughable that Genzuko never really even looked at you. In his eyes, you were no more than a little sister. Your love was not enough your love was pathetic and suffocating. So much so that Genzuko craved freedom and left. Your love was an illusion an unfulfilled obsession. My brother may be cruel but he is not fully to blame for my nephew leaving. Some of it lies with you. In the end, you couldn’t even let my nephew be happy. You searched for him like a mad dog sniffing the asses of anything that moves and when you found him, your jealousy drove him to death. Had you been a real woman, Genzuko would have stayed and not run off to a Lower Realm to have a child with a mortal woman. Everything that has befallen you, all of it, you deserved.”
Sephra collapsed to her knees and tears came pouring down her face. Fera tried to comfort her mother but Sephra slapped her in the face sending her crashing into a wall on the other side of the room.
Sephra’s expression twisted to that of rage.
“Don’t you dare touch me you filth. You are the same as them. You have Lin’s blood flowing through you. That same deceitful foul blood. You’ll betray me as well won’t you?”
Fera was shocked. Her mother had never hit her in her entire life.
“Mom?”
Sephra screamed at Fera.
“SHUT UP. DON’T CALL ME THAT< NEVER CALL ME THAT!”
Sephra had completely lost it. All she wanted now was for Orberus, Lin, and Kazuki to die. She needed them to die, her heart and soul screamed out for it. Meanwhile, Daisius just shook his head.
“If it were up to me, I would have killed you long ago. Genzuko, Kazuki, Fera, all of you would have died by my hands. Feel lucky that the decision does not lie in my hands. Now, come.”
Daisius curled his finger and Sephra’s body was forcibly lifted into the air and dragged over to him.
“Where are you taking me, let me go.”
“Silence. Orberus will take a look at your soul first hand and your parents will see what you have done. Once they know, they will be in the palm of his hands. You have really helped us out and you didn’t even realize it. Killing Genzuko, killing Kazuki and when things seemed to have settled, what happens when you find out Kazuki is still alive, you attempt to kill him again. You have truly played right into Orberus’s hands.”
Sephra was stunned. She had lost everything this day. She couldn’t help but look at her daughter and realize what had just happened.
“Fera.”
Before she could say another word, a golden beam of light once more descended to Gordonia and wrapped both Dasisus and her within it before the two vanished and the light faded away into nothingness.
The memory stopped there and Kazuki and Alutra left Lin’s soul world. Afterward, the three could only stare at one another in silence.
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