204. The Burning Cross
“How many times has this been, Calysia?”
Reina asked.
“1,412 times.”
“…”
“I promise there won’t be a 1,413th time. This is the last time. There will be no more so-called cages.”
“Hahahaha…”
Calysia shook her head, crying. Her tears fell on Reina’s cheek…
“You can’t change anything. As long as the reincarnation doesn’t stop, I will always be like this.”
“We’ll meet again next time, and the time after that… but this is also good.”
Calysia chuckled wryly, touching Reina’s face.
“This time you plan to sacrifice yourself. Next time, I will completely eliminate this possibility. I will let you live happily and ignorantly forever. I will give you the best ending. We have a promise…”
“I miss you so much.”
“Committing suicide with that dagger will only alleviate some of the pain.”
“There are still many ways.”
“Calysia, my Dragon Mark isn’t at level 100 yet.”
“I’ve tried, you won’t break through to level 100, it’s simply impossible… I even suspect that the Dragon Mark and reincarnation are contradictory, but only in this way can I hold you in the palm of my hand,” Calysia’s tears flowed more freely.
“Then why can’t it be this time?”
The pattern on her neck began to shimmer. It was the mark of the Dragon Mark and the God-Binding Collar. The Dragon Marks on her belly, chest, and forehead all began to emit a purplish-red light.
She opened her mouth, her little pink tongue peeking out.
“Reina?”
“Calysia.”
“Little Cal… I’m your slave, why did you forget…”
“Please punish me.”
“How could I…”
“Please punish me, turn me into a despicable slave, turn me into a wretched beast, let me be your domestic animal under your skirt for all eternity, a slave at your mercy.”
“Reina?”
“Ah… ha…”
Reina’s body went limp.
This was the only possibility… If this was the last chance, she had to start trying. Even if she could never go back to the past, even if she became unlike herself, it didn’t matter, because she no longer had any possibility of doing anything to hurt the woman before her, so she might as well…
Calysia’s heart was too soft.
She had never completely let Reina fall from the very beginning. The feelings she had cultivated had gradually made her fall into a web of love, even forgetting herself. But during this period, she didn’t even dare to kill me to switch the [reincarnation].
Each time, she had a chance to change my way of thinking from the subconscious, but she held onto hope… until now, Reina suddenly remembered the so-called “goddess’s fall,” which was probably the world’s reincarnation after Calysia’s attempt, but unfortunately, the reincarnation didn’t end.
Was this a dead end?
No…
It was just that I wasn’t mentally prepared.
The level of the Dragon Mark had always been upgraded because I had fallen in love with Calysia.
“What’s there to fall for…”
But at the very end, please let me fall.
“Reina…”
It seemed that Calysia still couldn’t bring herself to do it.
Then she had to give her a little push.
Behind her dragon wings, a pair of pure white wings actually unfolded. A cross appeared at the bottom of her eyes, and her entire body emitted a holy radiance.
“I’ve recovered all my memories. Now I am a god.”
Reina’s voice was cold.
“…Reina?”
“That’s a meaningless name. You should call me Goddess.”
“Calysia, although I haven’t commented on you in the past, now, before the reincarnation ends, I want to tell you the truth.”
The tears on Reina’s face hadn’t disappeared. Under the holy light, they were like two drops of molten gold.
She said, imitating her past self:
“I am very dissatisfied with you, Calysia.”
“The countless reincarnations are meaningless. You are an incompetent failure. You have long since lost everything, trapped in a cage and unable to do anything. Your every action exposes your arrogance and obsession.”
“Don’t say any more… Reina…” Calysia’s body trembled.
Yes, even if she knew I was provoking her, she would still be saddened by these words. After all, her mind was full of me.
I was such an ungrateful person, a demon who made Calysia bear everything in every reincarnation, a sinner who sacrificed this dragon for my own survival. Now, it was time to bear all of this.
“I never cared about you. To this day, I have never truly loved you.”
“Don’t say it…”
“Even if I don’t have memories, I will still use you, from Wood Village to the Dragon King’s Palace, to Eisentapha, to the God Slaying Society. You are my tool.”
“Don’t say it!!”
Calysia’s strength grew, and Reina suddenly felt pain… She hadn’t been on guard against Calysia at all.
“Ah…”
“Reina, don’t force me… You know how much I like you. I’ve already prepared magic for you, I just haven’t used it all this time… don’t hurt me.” A purple light appeared on her body.
“I just want to hurt you,” Reina said, pretending to be righteous.
“What do you really want?”
“What do I need? Heh, I just need to scold you in this reincarnation, and then in the next reincarnation, I’ll forget everything, and you’ll remember, and at that time you can do anything to me… hahaha.”
“Reina…”
With a terrifying shockwave, Calysia used her full strength.
Calysia stood up, and Reina also intended to get up from the ground.
But her hands were suddenly wrapped in chains and fiercely pulled to the ground. She could only sit down in a duck-like posture, her slender ankles also bound by purple chains, as if she had become a prisoner bound to the ground.
“Boom—”
A pillar appeared beneath her, rising from the ground, and then unfolding. Reina’s bound legs and feet were finally lifted high. When she came to her senses, Reina discovered that she was being bound to a cross by chains.
Her waist, hands, and feet were all locked by chains, and her neck was no exception. The entire cross was held up by a pillar formed by the coiling tentacles of a deep-sea monster, lifting her weak body, which had been completely drained of strength, into the air.
Twenty-eight chains connected the stone pillar to the ground, like a sacrificial altar for a ritual.
Reina suddenly felt all her strength being sucked away.
“Small fry Master♡”
She said softly, but any more struggling was useless.
Purple flames traveled along the chains to the cross, and Reina began to be burned by this magic power. Her mind suddenly went blank. If she had no way to counter it, even a completely pure goddess would be forcefully turned into a vassal by this move.
“Ahhh…”
Calysia was serious. The chains tightened a little, and the slight feeling of suffocation made Reina completely lose the thought of resisting, her instincts beginning to submit.
Calysia looked at Reina’s eyes with some reluctance, clearly hesitating.
But as if remembering something, Calysia used all her magic power, and Reina on the cross was engulfed in flames.
