Chapter 1003 [Observation] The light he saw as salvation was not dead after all.
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Asa pulled the knife out of his chest without any expression.
The blood on the knife vanished like flames upon contact with air.
Asa was fiddling with the knife, about to stab himself in the chest again, when there was a knock on the door, followed by Hoshino Tsukasa's voice.
"Manager, someone wants to see you."
Asa paused, then lazily lifted his eyelids. "Who?"
"They are from the church."
"not see."
Asa casually gripped the hilt of his sword, once again pointing it at his chest, but before he could plunge it in, Gaius's voice rang out from outside:
"Master, they say they have something to give you."
Asa frowned, the pain in his chest making him extremely irritable. He suddenly threw the knife, and with a clang, the vase shattered.
He took a deep breath, suppressing his anger, and said in a low voice, "Bring them here."
Asa wiped away the wounds and bloodstains on his chest and stared blankly toward the doorway.
Soon, the door was pushed open, and two men followed Gaius to Asa.
One white, one black; one gentle, one cold.
Asa glanced at them and said bluntly, "Take the things out."
R smiled slightly and glanced at him. "Don't you want to calm down first?"
Asa glanced at him silently.
R stepped forward and placed her hand on his shoulder.
Although Asa did make some moves during this time, they were all easily neutralized by R. Asa was like a harmless little snake cub in front of him.
Asa: "..."
The pain in his chest suddenly subsided, and Asa stopped moving, his eyes fixed on R.
He felt somewhat familiar, but he was definitely not the high priest.
The manic-depressive mood that arises from pain also disappears once the pain subsides.
After R released him, Asa leaned back slightly, glancing at Gaius.
Gaius, understanding perfectly, moved a chair and placed it opposite Asa.
After R and X sat down, Asa ignored X and looked at R, saying quietly, "So what is it that you want to give me?"
R produced a milky-white crystal and tossed it to Asa.
Asa caught the crystal and glanced at R in surprise.
He glanced at it briefly and discovered that the crystal carried the aura of a high priest.
Asa remained silent for a few seconds, then pressed his thumb against the crystal. A letter floated out, and holding it, he fell silent again, making no further movement with his hands.
"Open it and take a look?" R said softly with a smile.
Asa glanced up at him and opened the envelope.
Upon seeing the first line of text, he suddenly tightened his grip on the letter, instantly crumpling it.
After reading the letter, which contained only a few sentences, Asa's hands trembled slightly, but he looked calmly at R, his voice also trembling slightly, "So... he's not dead?"
"No." R smiled slightly and shook his head.
Asa gritted his teeth slightly, his gray eyes darkening. He clenched his hands, but they still trembled uncontrollably.
"……Why?"
Asa's eyes reddened slightly as she asked through gritted teeth, "I can understand him forgetting to hand over the letter, but all these years have passed, and he hasn't come to see me even once... Why? Is he too lazy to come? Has he forgotten? Or am I not important to him, so he doesn't care?"
"..." R opened his mouth slightly, trying to comfort the poor little thing whose heart had been broken by her husband.
Asa lowered her head, her hands trembling as she crumpled the letter into a ball, her voice filled with despair and confusion, "Then what about everything I've done all these years?"
He gripped the crumpled paper tightly, his knuckles turning slightly white, and bright red liquid seeped from between his fingers, dripping down his skin.
X silently turned to meet R's gaze: What should we do?
R gave a slight, helpless twitch at the corner of his mouth.
After a moment, Asa's low, monotonous voice rang out, "Gaius, see the guest out."
Gaius sensed that something was wrong with his master, but he should indeed send the two guests away first.
"Please come with me, you two."
X got up with R and left with Gaius.
As the door closed, Gaius's worried gaze fell on Asa through the gradually narrowing gap.
On the way to escort the two to the outside of the castle, he asked Hoshino Tsukasa to keep an eye on his master.
After the door was completely closed, the paper ball, which was completely soaked in blood, fell from Asa's hand, but his hand, which had no wounds, was still dripping blood.
After a moment, he raised his head, his face expressionless, his pupils as dark as an abyss.
He was on the verge of a breakdown.
Suddenly, someone came to tell him that the light he had always regarded as his salvation had not died...
I just don't want to see him.
He's just been forgotten...
Asa's trembling hand covered his empty chest, which suddenly felt so heavy that he couldn't breathe. He gasped for breath, and his vision blurred.
He left the room barefoot and walked toward the back of the castle.
Blood dripped down the path, like tiny flowers withering on the ground.
Behind the castle is another garden—or rather, a sea of flowers.
Asa walked into the sea of flowers with a blank expression, stopped in the center, and then slowly sat down, his whole body almost submerged in the flowers.
He lowered his head, covered his face with his hands, and his loose hair almost covered half of his body.
The bright red ends of her hair lay on the ground, gradually becoming sticky, like blood.
Asa remained motionless, like a statue.
Soon, a pool of blood appeared around him, and the blood seemed to have a life of its own, wriggling and spreading outwards.
Centered on him, all the flowers touched by his blood withered.
Hoshino Tsukasa, who had been chasing after the blood, saw a patch of withered flowers in the center of the flower field and immediately ran over. When he saw Asa, he called out in a flustered voice, "Manager!"
He moved closer to Asa, but as soon as he stepped onto the blood-covered ground, a hissing sound of corrosion came from beneath his feet.
Hoshino Tsukasa didn't care; what he wanted to do now was wake Asa up.
As he approached Asa, the red-haired people in the underground laboratory suddenly froze, then went limp and collapsed one after another.
"Manager!"
Hoshino Tsukasa reached out and gently shook Asa's shoulder.
In that short time, half of his body was covered in sticky blood, as if he had been parasitized, but the hissing sound of corrosion continued to ring out.
Hoshino Tsukasa's face remained pale and even turned bluish-black.
His hand, upon touching Asa, was instantly corroded, exposing his bare bones to the air.
No matter how much he called out or shook, Asa did not respond at all.
He had completely lost consciousness.
Hoshino Tsukasa also collapsed, his vision turning crimson before he lost consciousness.
He was completely covered in blood.
"..."
Everyone felt a mix of emotions.
You could say Assa is hateful, but he's actually quite pitiful; you could say he's pitiful, but he truly is.
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