"Back safe and sound," Theos murmured with a small smile on his lips.
Being next to an almighty being in the same room wasn't as pleasant as some people think... if anyone thought it was pleasant at all.
Touching his left eye, which was still glowing brightly, Theos couldn't help but laugh, giggling to his heart's content.
'Not everyone can make fun of a being that can destroy galaxies' Theos thought, laughing even harder.
Slowly, his laughter faded, and he lay back on the comfortable bed, still marveling at all that had happened in such a short time.
'Luckily, I read the whole novel. Otherwise, I would not have taken revenge in such a short time... take advantage of the weakness that misfortune cannot harm its recipient if the recipient has made a contract with it,' Theos thought and opened his palm.
From this palm, particles of darkness gathered, forming a sphere with a liquid texture that trembled every second.
"Negative energy..."
In the novel, negative energy is the most powerful and largest source of power until the end, it is like a kind of negative mana.
This negative energy is born from the negative thoughts, emotions, and feelings of one or more beings, be they dead, living, or even gods.
The more miserable the people in the world, the more powerful he becomes.
A sinister smile slowly crept across Theos' face, unable to hide his malice and greed.
' The world itself is rotten... So what if I rot even more? It will only be for the greater good... My power.'
Like Ark's lust for power, Theos was no saint, no voice of righteousness. He always saw his benefit and always prioritized the strengthening of power.
If he had to kill half the world to increase his power by at least 10%, he would do it, but neither Ark nor the original Theos would do anything without seeing the consequences.
*Tock* *Tock*
The constant knocking on the door caused Theos' thoughts to completely collapse, and he quickly recovered by removing the ball of darkness.
He stood up quickly, approached the door, and changed his expression to a more casual one before opening it.
"..."
*Badumb*
Theos gasped as he saw the young woman before him.
She was a beauty with shiny light brown hair that fell like a waterfall to her waist, big honey eyes that still contained innocence and tenderness, extremely fair and flawless skin, and a beautiful face with thin eyebrows and red lips.
As if that weren't enough, her body, though not yet fully developed, had an hourglass figure with a slim waist, shapely cleavage, and, most impressively, perfect buttocks and legs.
Her plump, long, jade-white legs were so beautiful that any man would drool just looking at them.
Her buttocks, firm and perky, could be molded into any shape like a deadly spell. Still, she tried to hide them with a loose-fitting suit, but it was impossible not to notice her blessed features.
To add to her charm, the young woman had a light blush on her cheeks, which, combined with the maid's outfit she was wearing, gave her an even more seductive and charming aura. Although the outfit was neither tight nor short, it was still extremely charming.
Theos' throat suddenly went dry and his heart threatened to burst out of his chest.
The original Theos was never one to be charmed by the sight of a woman, let alone Ark, who has spent his entire life trying to improve his economic situation.
Neither of them should react this way, so... why is their reaction so exaggerated? Quite simply...
'Wife...', remembering the future in the novel, Theos was shocked.
In the future, the woman before him, a lowly servant, a commoner without a family, would become his only wife in his entire life.
A woman who loved him with all his soul, who stood by him through thick and thin, even when he was corrupt and did not know who he was. At the end of the novel, she reminds him of this for his own sake. .... Even an ending as miserable as Theo's turned out to be happy and pleasant, as he was in eternal rest next to the person he loved the most.
Tears threatened to spill from Theos' eyes, but he held them back as best he could. It would be embarrassing for your future wife to see you crying at your first meeting, wouldn't it?
"Fallen?" Alice called out, moving a little closer to him with a worried face.
"Yes?"
"Your eyes are red and glassy," she said, pointing at Theo's eyes.
'Shit, please don't cry, I beg you' Theos tried to control his own body; inside, he had an inner war.
On the outside, however, he remained his usual self: an impassive face and a cold look. But in the next second, Alice's eyes opened wide in surprise.
*Fall*
Only one tear fell, from Theos' left eye. His expressionless face showed no change as if it were a river without current or an ocean without waves or movement.
Though he was extremely handsome, anyone watching this chilling and disturbing scene would have thought that Theos' face was the embodiment of a cold killer: anyone would have had a face pale with fear and would have run away from Theos, among infinite other things.
But Alice, instead...
She embraced him, her body pressed against him, feeling a mutual warmth.
The two remained like that, while Theos' left eye cried uncontrollably, full of sadness, and the right one showed total coldness.
Seconds passed...
Then minutes passed.
Sadness in his heart, a piece of his soul shattered in infinite melancholy, his tears gradually diminishing.
Alice, although much smaller than Theos, managed to caress his head with such softness and tenderness that his soul trembled.
He remembered how every night she would caress his head with such gentleness that even his twisted heart, full of bitterness and frustration, managed to be happy and warm.
He responded not with words, but with his body, raising his arms to return the embrace with gentleness, as if afraid to hurt her... as if she were his most precious treasure.
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