Volume 6 Chapter 58

Volume 6 + Chapter 58: Rebirth of The Monster

“Yes, it’s me~ The Succubus girl whom everyone loves and every flower blooms for~”

Eve heard the signature line.

Wasn’t there only one person who talked like that?

She looked up and saw a long-eared maid.

But this was no elf, it was a demon with heterochromatic eyes.

“Ella?”

“Mm-hmm. I spent some time recently sneaking into the elven palace, and I’ve come to find you.”

Ella cheerfully made a playful gesture.

Eve looked outside and noticed that the guards at the door seemed to have fallen into slumber, fast asleep.

Previously, she and Ella had been in a cooperative relationship.

Eve had used her status as an elven princess to provide convenience for Ella, allowing this Succubus girl to get close to Xia Yi and complete her revenge.

Judging by the outcome, the Succubus girl’s result could be described as… a crushing defeat?

At any rate, from Eve’s perspective, Ella had vanished without a word and had never reappeared.

She was somewhat puzzled as to why Ella would risk coming all the way to the elven palace in such a dangerous manner to find her.

“My, my, Eve, your current situation is really quite pitiful,” Ella said cheerfully. “I did a little digging and found out that you’ve become a puppet monarch. After ascending the throne, you were imprisoned here by a powerful minister.”

“Ella, did you come all this way at great risk just to mock me?” Eve asked.

“Are you angry?”

“Not at all.”

“I make fun of you like this, and you’re not angry?”

“Not angry at all.”

“Sure enough, you are a strange one. I feel like your emotional system is abnormal.”

Ella sighed.

“You should be angry about being imprisoned by a powerful minister and reduced to a puppet, shouldn’t you?”

“Mm… I’m not very angry either. Grandfather has passed away, so nothing really matters anymore.”

“Have you just completely given up? Or are you putting up a brave front like a certain little Silver Dragon?”

At the words “little Silver Dragon,” Eve immediately thought of Xia Yi.

“Xia Yi… likes to put up a brave front?” Eve asked curiously.

“Wow, what’s wrong with you?! The moment Xia Yi is mentioned, you suddenly show obvious interest, but just now you looked like you couldn’t care less about anything! Tell me, are you plotting something against my little Silver Dragon!”

“Ella, if this is just idle chatter, maybe you should stop. You’re likely to be discovered. I suggest you leave early.”

“You are utterly boring, Eve. I’ve met so many people, and you are the most uninteresting of them all.”

“Thank you.”

“I wasn’t complimenting you!” Ella truly did not want to continue this conversation. “Fine, Eve, I’ll be honest. I indeed did not come here to chat idly. I came to fulfill a promise.”

“Oh, you still remember that.”

“At least complain or get angry a little. Back then, I tricked you and ran off.”

“Are you the kind of person who would specially come back to fulfill a promise?” Eve questioned.

“No, because I have always had no conscience. But I was disciplined by Teacher Vear…”

Ella sounded very aggrieved.

Last time, she had gone to cause trouble for Xia Yi, only to run into Xia Lulu. She had been thoroughly taught a lesson, even her tail was pulled out, and it hurt for a long time, she even had to sleep with her bottom sticking up.

Later, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Unable to accept it, she went to find her teacher, Vear the legendary great Succubus. Hoping Vear would avenge her.

In the end, Vear did not simply take Ella’s one-sided account at face value. She forcibly entered her student’s dreams, peered into her memories, and discovered the truth that Ella had broken her promise.

Vear then gave Ella a thorough beating, making her cry out in pain.

She also scolded Ella severely, as a member of the demon race, how could she not abide by contracts and promises?

Thus, Vear demanded that Ella return to find Eve and fulfill the promise she had made.

This made Ella very angry. Vear herself had done plenty of bad things in the past, why had she never thought to make amends, yet insisted that Ella fulfill her promise? Such hypocrisy.

Ella secretly swore that one day, she would make Vear cough up a fortune in compensation!

But for now, she still had to obey Vear’s orders.

“Anyway, some troublesome things happened, and I have no choice but to come find you and complete the promise I made back then,” Ella said seriously. “What is your response?”

“Mm, very well,” Eve agreed.

“Close your eyes. Do not resist. I am about to enter your dream.”

Ella reached out her finger and touched Eve’s forehead, activating her ability as a Succubus.

Eve fell onto the sofa and drifted into sleep.

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“Sigh, what a troublesome task.”

Ella entered Eve’s dream and continuously dove deeper through the sea of consciousness.

Within the sea of consciousness were many memory bubbles, each containing fragments of Eve’s past.

For instance, a memory bubble that just drifted past Ella showed Eve and Xia Yi’s first meeting on the Pear Islands.

Ella’s task was to dodge the memory bubbles and keep diving deeper, without getting pulled into any memories and wasting too much time.

If she got caught up in them, it would consume a great deal of time and drain her own dream demon energy.

Fortunately, Ella was already quite a capable Succubus. These were minor issues, she could handle them.

The heterochromatic-eyed Succubus girl descended rapidly. The visibility in the sea of consciousness grew dimmer, and the memory bubbles became fewer and fewer.

Deep down lay memories that perhaps even the body’s owner had forgotten long ago.

Gurgle, gurgle.

Ella suddenly heard eerie sounds and was startled.

In the darkness of Eve’s sea of consciousness lurked unidentified dangers. Last time, she too had sensed this situation and retreated.

But this time…

“Grit my teeth and push through!”

Ella shook her head and plunged into the sea of consciousness shrouded entirely in darkness.

She encountered a transparent wall and could not go any deeper.

Behind the transparent wall churned dark memories and murky liquids.

The transparent wall was some kind of seal. What was sealed within were Eve’s separated consciousness and memories.

“This should be it. Just undo the seal and I’ll be done.”

Ella followed the transparent wall, searching for the center of the seal.

She found an inscription written in ancient elven script.

“This is… Probably done by the Elf King, right? Why would that guy seal his own granddaughter?”

Ella could not understand it.

Nevertheless, it might be someone else’s family matter, and she had no business with it. Since the Elf King was already dead, breaking the seal wouldn’t matter.

Better to finish quickly and clock out.

“Dream Domination · Creation!”

Ella activated her Succubus ability, creating a granite giant that charged violently against the seal.

The seal had already been quite fragile. Under the impact of the granite giant, it shattered, and the transparent wall was destroyed.

What Ella had not anticipated happened next. Countless waves of black mud surged forth, filling the entire sea of consciousness at an alarming speed.

“What’s going on? Why is Eve not quite like a normal elf? What are these things!!”

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“…”

Eve opened her eyes. She rose from the sofa.

She had awakened the sealed consciousness and retrieved the severed memories.

“Ha ha ha, ha ha ha, hahahaha…”

The gray-haired elf covered her face, laughing in near madness while tears of sorrow streamed down.

Extremely intense emotional fluctuations erupted within her.

She remembered.

She remembered everything: her past, her identity, and… what she must do.

“Grandfather was not wrong. I am, without a doubt, a monster.”

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