I might hear her breathe a deep sigh.

She was exhausted.

I buried my face in my mom’s palm.

‘She wouldn’t have chosen simply anybody. There will need to have been a purpose why my mother was disenchanted.’

There was a sound of silence.

Alexid was proper. My dad and mom couldn’t have had a greater eye for folks than I.

However, it stored bothering me so there needed to be a purpose for my mom to really feel so sorry for Gerald.

My mom’s candy voice rang in my ears as she swept my hair and put me to sleep.

“Nevertheless it was a reduction, a minimum of. I wanted to search out Lulu a husband who might defend her.”

Mother, what’s Gerald hiding from me? I actually don’t know. Does he even love me now?

* * *

The story that just about received Louella into huge hassle was additionally informed by Gerald.

Teilon was working in Hwangseong, the capital metropolis of the nation. Town was overflowing with folks and the criminals had been capable of escape the guards.

Gerald seemed out the window with a nervous look on his face.

‘I really feel it on a regular basis.’

On this world, destiny was not on Gerald’s facet. In his first life, destiny brutally took Louella away from him. In his second life, he was the one which made her sick.

Gerald was at all times determined about every little thing as a result of he thought he might lose Louella at any second.

[That’s right]

Gerald raised his head. He was the one one with the braveness, when an unknown voice got here.

[Fate is not on your side]

It sounded just like the voice was scratching the ground. It was the identical voice he heard beneath the abyss.

[I’m going to test you constantly. I’ll take the thing most precious to you away from you. Will this be the end?]

Gerald clenched his tooth.

“Who’re you?”

[I’m Uroboros. The devil in your body, the god, the savior who will save you. Or lead to destruction.]

His voice broke right into a grinning smile.

Gerald’s pupils dilated.

Uroboros?

The bracelet wrapped round Gerald’s wrist was shining purple. It often was not revealed.

Gerald wrapped his hand across the sizzling bracelet.

[I can help you, Gerald]

A candy voice spilled out.

[I have the power to save you from this world’s tests.]

“You will need to need one thing from me,” Gerald replied coldly.

There was one thing too huge to fall for only a whisper.

Louella was Gerald’s every little thing.

[Let me go. Free me from the abyss.]

“It’s one thing I can’t do.”

[No, only you can do it. Gerald, the world wouldn’t even test you if you couldn’t. It’d let you live a normal life.]

Gerald’s lips quivered. He doesn’t perceive what the hell he was speaking about.

He was chosen by the world? He had by no means considered that earlier than.

He thought that the entire misfortunes that visited Gerald had been simply that, his misfortunes. Life was, in no way, a good factor.

[You’re the only one who can unseal it. This world must take away the most precious thing from you]

He needed to shout that he was simply spouting nonsense, however his mouth wouldn’t open.

Gerald seemed out in a daze.

The world was shortly passing Gerald by. Gerald missed Louella each time.

Once more, Louella was making ready to go away Gerald.

[Let me go and you leave with what’s most precious to you]

Uroboros was the worst monster on the planet. He was known as the king of monsters and was a snake. Or a dragon.

Uroboros invaded the world with the monsters who adopted him. Leander and Logan stepped as much as drive out the monsters and regain their mild.

They succeeded in regaining the sunshine with the royal household known as by God.

Uroboros was trapped within the abyss, and the unprocessed monsters turned Leander’s share.

This was the legend that was being informed.

[Haven’t you ever doubted it?]

The voice infused Gerald with suspicion.

[Why is the monster wave happening? Why couldn’t the people kill me.]

Gerald’s shoulder shook.

[The truth always hits the back of his head]

The voice died down.

[Think carefully. Before you lose everything]

Gerald dropped his hand from his chilly wrist. His fingertips had been shaking.

The carriage was nonetheless happening its method as if nothing had occurred. Louella was nonetheless wonderful.

He couldn’t let go of his ideas and be swayed like this. Gerald’s eyes shone coldly. If there’s something hidden, he thought that it was one thing he might discover out.

Gerald tapped on the carriage seat. He needed to meet somebody earlier than he went to see Louella.

“Let’s go to the academy.”

“Sure, my lord.”

Gerald closed his trembling eyes.

* * *

“Grandpa Roland.”

“Oh, Gerald! You requested me in the event you might go away the academy, however I believe you come right here extra typically. I heard you got here right here not too way back, proper?” Roland greeted Gerald. “Grandson.”

“I’ve a query.”

Realizing Gerald was unusually nervous, Roland despatched all of his secretaries away.

“What’s happening?”

Roland took off his glasses and sat on the couch.

Gerald bowed his head. He didn’t know what to speak about at first. His thoughts received twisted up in a random method.

“Gerald.” Roland touched Gerald’s tired-looking shoulder. “What’s happening, huh?”

“There was a giant conflict prior to now, and I perceive that an empire was established.”

“Sure.” Roland nodded.

It was a legendary story that everybody knew.

“And Logan was in control of guarding the door.”

“I do know he was.”

“Is there a secret behind it?”

Roland was probably the most educated man within the Empire.

Gerald knew this reply and believed that if there was one thing else he must know, Roland was the one reply.

Roland stared at Gerald with deep eyes. “Are you aware that historical past is at all times lower to the style of the victor? There’s a number of distorted info.”

Gerald nodded.

“So the recorded historical past is named the historical past of the victors. However Gerald. Historical past has losers, too. They’ve causes and circumstances.”

Roland rose from his seat and poured the tea on the tray himself. Roland gave Gerald a sizzling steaming tea, “Drink it. It can calm you down.”

Gerald wrapped the cup in his palm.

“There should be a narrative that you simply needed to listen to, proper, Gerald?” Roland laid his palms on his lap. “The place ought to I begin speaking?”

Roland’s voice sank. There was unbelievable stress on him as he was at all times smiling.

“…… It was the snake that was born out of chaos at first. It was a twin snake known as Uroboros.”

Gerald raised his head.

One in every of them was white sand and the opposite was black sand. That they had wings and later grew into an grownup, a dragon. Within the chaos, the twins grew bored and commenced to make different issues.”

Gerald thought that there could be a solution in Roland’s story.

“The black Uroboros created a person. A creature with information and intelligence. And the white Uroboros created monsters.”

Roland’s voice fell gently. Gerald blinked. Two snakes, flashing yellow eyes that appeared to mirror the darkish imaginative and prescient.

“White Uroboros was very jealous. And he was jealous of the issues that Black Uroboros created. Monsters had been boring and unintelligent. People, by comparability, had been grasping and sensible as a substitute. White Uroboros needed to have people that had been created by black magic.”

White Uroboros.

Gerald recalled a white dragon carved within the temple. Their historical past started with the worship of white dragons.

“Black Uroboros acknowledged his greed. And so they separated the world the place the 2 creatures lived. At first, everybody thought it was okay, however the black Uroboros watched people obtain civilization. He created new life varieties and co-existed with them.”

Gerald stared on the cooling cup. The liquid that painted the waves was crammed in. It appeared like a deep emotion in Gerald’s thoughts.

The presence of Uroboros, who threw a stone at it, was depicted within the liquid.

The white Uroboros left the randomly rising monsters unattended. He stopped loving the creatures he created. The white Uroboros, who was simply fed up, received bored with his creations once more and commenced to covet the world of black issues. The white Uroboros thought he ought to take away the black one.”

Gerald’s hand on the teacup slid down.

In order that began the Monster Wave. The white Uroboros started to covet the black Uroboros, and the conflict started. The monsters invaded the human world and the black Uroboros determined to guard them.”

Was it the white dragon or the black dragon that fell asleep within the ring?

Gerald closed his eyes tightly.